Weekly News-April-18-2024
Here are our top 5 stories of the week.
#1 – The Days May be Numbered for the U.S. Dollar’s Role as the Global Reserve Currency
By Joseph Adinolfi | MarketWatch
Volatility that gripped global markets over the past two weeks may be subsiding, at least for now.
But some on Wall Street say that President Donald Trump’s aggressive approach to rolling out his tariff agenda might trigger lasting consequence for U.S. markets. Specifically, the dollar’s status as a reliable “safe haven” has been tarnished, and its role as the de facto global reserve currency has been looking increasingly uncertain. Read full article >
#2 – Trump ‘Waved Off’ Israeli Proposal for Joint Attack on Iran: Report
US President Donald Trump recently rejected an Israeli proposal for a joint attack on Iran, according to a report released by the New York Times (NYT) on 16 April.
“Israel had planned to strike Iranian nuclear sites as soon as next month but was waved off by President Trump in recent weeks in favor of negotiating a deal with Tehran to limit its nuclear program,” anonymous US officials and other informed sources told NYT.
Trump had spent months deliberating internally over whether to pursue negotiations or to join Israel in an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities, according to the report. Read full article >
#3 – Trump Admin ‘Approves’ Visit of Israeli Official Too Extreme Even for the Zionist Lobby
Jewish supremacist Itamar Ben-Gvir is to conduct an unofficial visit to the U.S. next week, with the Trump administration tacitly approving the presence of the Israeli national security minister whose past terrorist background, including praise for terrorist Meir Kahane, saw the Biden administration consider sanctioning him.
As the Times of Israel reports:
“National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir is slated to visit the United States … a source familiar with the matter tells the Times of Israel. Read full article >
#4 – Congressional Panel Charts Path to Biosecurity State
By Veronika Kyrylenko | The New American
The National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology (NSCEB) has issued a stark warning: The United States is at risk of falling behind China in the critical field of biotechnology. In its final report to Congress, the bipartisan commission, staffed with the national security insiders, calls for a comprehensive national strategy and a minimum investment of $15 billion over the next five years, ostensibly to bolster U.S. leadership in biotech.
The 2025 final report of the NSCEB opens not with a warning, but with a prophecy:
We stand at the edge of a new industrial revolution, one that depends on our ability to engineer biology. Emerging biotechnology, coupled with artificial intelligence, will transform everything from the way we defend and build our nation to how we nourish and provide care for Americans.
#5 – Trump’s FDA, USDA, CDC Are Orchestrating the Next Pandemic with the WHO
By Jon Fleetwood | Substack
In line with this website’s January 2024 prediction, President Donald J. Trump’s FDA USDA, and CDC, along with the World Health Organization, are continuing to orchestrate a coming bird flu pandemic.
… On Thursday, it was announced that Arcturus Therapeutics was granted “Fast Track Designation” from Trump’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for a self-amplifying mRNA (sa-mRNA) H5N1 bird flu vaccine called ARCT-2304. Read full article >
Here are our top 5 most underreported or most bizarre stories of the week.
#1 – CIA To Unleash ‘Finely Tuned Machine’ To Destroy Mexican Cartels
By Tyler Durden | Zero Hedge
It was only a matter of time until the CIA became involved in the Trump administration’s war on Mexican drug cartels. According, and is formulating a ‘finely tuned machine’ to help disrupt one of the deadliest criminal networks in the world.
Specifically, the CIA is establishing the Americas Counternarcotics Mission Center, combining its counternarcotics and Western Hemisphere teams to enable faster, more effective collaboration, CIA Deputy Director Michael Ellis (formerly Rumble general counsel) told Breitbart, adding that the mission is to become a “finely tuned machine” to dismantle cartels, labeled foreign terrorists by the Trump administration. Read full article >
#2 – WHO Member States Agree on Draft of ‘Pandemic Treaty’ That Could Be Adopted in May
By Andreas Wailzer | LifeSite News
Representatives of WHO member states have agreed on a draft of the “pandemic accord” that is scheduled to be voted on next month.
“The nations of the world made history in Geneva today,” Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the WHO, said after the member states agreed on the draft of the pandemic treaty on Wednesday. Read full article >
#3 – Foreclosure Wave Hits U.
By Ramon Tomey | Natural News
Amid persistently high interest rates and economic strain, foreclosure filings surged in the first quarter of 2025, marking a sharp reversal after three consecutive quarters of decline.
According to a report by ATTOM, a leading real estate data firm, the month of March alone saw 35,890 filings – an 11 percent monthly increase. A total of 93,953 U.S. properties faced foreclosure filings between January and March – also an 11 percent increase from the previous quarter. Read full article >
#4 – Drugged Into Oblivion: More Than 60 Percent Of U.
By Michael Snyder | The Economic Collapse Blog
Americans watch more television than anyone else in the world, and as we watch television we are constantly being bombarded by commercials from pharmaceutical companies. As I discussed in a previous article, pharmaceutical companies spend more than 15 billion dollars on television advertising each year. The reason they do this is because it works. We are the most drugged nation in the history of the world, and the pharmaceutical companies are absolutely swimming in cash.
According to polling that was conducted by KFF, a whopping 61 percent of all U.S. adults admit that they are currently taking at least one pharmaceutical drug. Read full article >
#5 – U.
By | SHTF Plan
United States President Donald Trump has said that the ruling class has weapons nobody knows about. Allegedly, among those weapons is the U.S.’s ability to manipulate space and time.
The U.S. rulers possess technology that can “manipulate” and “bend time and space,” White House innovation czar Michael Kratsios has claimed. Krastsios emphasized President Donald Trump’s ambition to usher in a new “golden age of America,” which includes fostering scientific research and the application of cutting-edge technologies. According to further comments made by Kratsios, the U.S. can emerge as a global leader by making “smart choices” regarding public funding and deregulating innovation. Read full article >
