Weekly News-Jan-24-2024
This week was filled with big stories. It was hard to pick just ten so we had to increase it just a little.
Here are our top 5 stories of the week.
#1 – President Trump’s Executive Order Ends CBDC Plans, Promotes Digital Asset Ecosystem
President Trump is making good on his campaign promises pertaining to crypto by banning the development of central bank digital currencies (CBDC) in the U.S. and promoting decentralized digital assets and dollar-backed stablecoins instead. Read full article >
#2 – Trump Unveils $500 Billion “Stargate” AI Project, in Line With WEF Agenda
By | The New American
As world leaders and corporate titans convened at the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, to chart the future of artificial intelligence, President Donald Trump made a headline-grabbing announcement back home. With his signature bravado, Trump revealed a $500 billion initiative, aptly named “Stargate,” to construct a sprawling AI infrastructure in the United States.
The timing couldn’t have been more on the nose, as the WEF’s 2025 agenda is heavily focused on the expansion of AI-driven global systems.
The Stargate initiative promises to create 100,000 jobs “almost immediately” and ensure the United States remains competitive in the AI race. Trump, flanked by OpenAI’s Sam Altman, SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son, and Oracle’s Larry Ellison, declared, “This is the greatest AI infrastructure project by far in history.” Read full article >
#2 (tie) – AI CEO Says Trump Stargate Partnership Could Lead to Personalized mRNA Cancer Vaccines
By Calvin Freiberger | LifeSite News
On his second day back in the White House, President Donald Trump hosted three of the top artificial intelligence (AI) executives in the nation to tout a $500 billion partnership, dubbed Stargate, to build AI data centers across the United States, during which Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison suggested AI could be used to rapidly develop new mRNA-based vaccines personalized for individual patients. Read full article >
#3 – Trump Exits WHO & Paris Climate Agreement.
By Paul Dragu | The New American
President Donald Trump has once again pulled the United States out of the UN World Health Organization (WHO) and the Paris climate agreement. And this time, Joe Biden is nowhere around to ruin everything.
Included in Trump’s avalanche of Day 1 executive orders are two that serve as minor yet welcome sticks in the spokes of the wheels of encroaching globalism. Read full article >
#4 – Trump Pardons Nearly All J6 Defendants in Sweeping Executive Order
By Cassie B | Natural News
President Donald Trump issued sweeping pardons to nearly all individuals charged in connection with the January 6, 2021, Capitol incident. The pardons, which went into effect immediately, were signed on his first day back in office, fulfilling a campaign promise to address what he called the “grave injustice” faced by the so-called “J6 hostages.” The decision has drawn sharp criticism from Democrats while being celebrated by Trump’s supporters as a long-overdue act of justice. Read full article >
#5 – Biden Preemptively Pardons Fauci
By Will Jones | The Daily Skeptic
President Joe Biden on Monday issued a preemptive pardon to Dr. Anthony Fauci, among other potential Trump targets, though claimed it should not be “misconstrued as an admission of guilt.” Read full article >
#5 (tie) – Joe Biden Issues Last-minute Family Pardon
By RT News
Outgoing US President Joe Biden used his last moments in office to roll out a blanket pardon for members of his family, effectively shielding them from potential repercussions they could face under Donald Trump.” Read full article >
Here are our top 5 most underreported or most bizarre stories of the week.
#1 – Bill Gates “Impressed” With Trump’s Interest in His “Global Health” Agenda
By Veronika Kyrylenko | The New American
Image: screenshot
Notorious billionaire Bill Gates, Microsoft co-founder and global vaccine zealot, shared his thoughts on a recent dinner with President-elect Donald Trump during an interview with The Wall Street Journal. Reflecting on the three-hour meeting, Gates expressed admiration for Trump’s interest in global health initiatives, describing the conversation as “quite intriguing.” Read full article >
#2 – From Manhattan Project to IT Upgrade: DOGE and the Federal Overhaul That Wasn’t
By | The New American
Billed as the ultimate solution to federal inefficiency, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was proclaimed with promises as bold as they were grandiose. From President Donald Trump’s campaign trail rhetoric to Elon Musk’s $2 trillion cost-cutting pledge, DOGE was supposed to herald a new era of smaller government and fiscal discipline.
Yet, as the ink dried on the executive order establishing DOGE — now USDS, which stands for the U.S. Department of Government Efficiency Service — those ambitious promises seem to have evaporated. Read full article >
#3 – Israel Launched A “Counterterrorist” Operation In Gaza
By Mac Slavo | SHTF Plan
Israel has launched a new “large-scale and significant” military operation in the West Bank, targeting the Palestinian city of Jenin. The “counterterrorist” operation in Gaza comes just days after West Jerusalem reached a ceasefire agreement with the terrorist organization Hamas.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced the military operation on Tuesday. Dubbed “Iron Wall,” it is intended to “eradicate terrorism” in the area, Netanyahu said in a statement. Read full article >
#4 – China’s DeepSeek Bombshell Rocks Trump’s $500B AI Boondoggle
By Mike Whitney | Lew Rockwell
The future of humanity is being decided as we speak. And it is not being decided on a battlefield in Eastern Europe, or the Middle East or the Taiwan Strait, but in the data centers and research facilities where technology experts create “the physical and virtual infrastructure to power the next generation of Artificial Intelligence.” This is a full-blown, scorched-earth free-for-all that has already racked up a number of casualties though you wouldn’t know it from reading the headlines which typically ignore recent ‘cataclysmic’ developments. But when President Trump announced the launching of a $500 billion AI infrastructure project (Stargate) on Tuesday just hours after China had released its DeepSeek R1—which “outperforms its rivals in advanced coding, math, and general knowledge capabilities”—it became painfully obvious that the battle for the future ‘is on’ in a big way. And this is not a battle that either side can afford to lose. Read full article >
#5 – 1 in 7 Global Christians Faces ‘High-level’ Persecution: Open Doors Report
| Religion News Service
(Image courtesy of Open Doors)
Driven by Islamic extremism, authoritarian regimes and war, high-level persecution and discrimination impacted 380 million Christians around the world in 2024, according to the annual World Watch List report by the evangelical nonprofit Open Doors released Wednesday (Jan. 15).
The World Watch List ranks the 50 countries where Christians experienced the most persecution and discrimination. Read full article >
