Weekly News-Oct-25-2024
Here are our top 5 stories of the week.
#1 – “The Risks Are Building To The Downside”: IMF Cuts Global Growth Forecast After Warning Global Debt To Hit $100 Trillion
by Tyler Durden | Zero Hedge
The International Monetary Fund lowered its global growth forecast for next year and warned of accelerating risks from surging debt, to global wars to trade protectionism, even as it credited central banks for taming inflation without sending nations into recession.
In its World Economic Outlook report published on Tuesday morning, the IMF forecast global output will expand 3.2%, 0.1 percentage point slower than a July estimate It left the projection for this year unchanged at 3.2%. Read full article >
#2 – Have We Ever Seen A Time When 4 Major Global Wars Are All Percolating Simultaneously?
We have reached a moment in history that none of us will forget. We are literally standing on the precipice of the unthinkable, and most people don’t even realize it. Of course horrific wars have a way of erupting when most people are not expecting them. Hardly anyone expected a global war to erupt in 1914, but then tens of millions of precious souls died over the next four years. Hardly anyone expected a global war to erupt in 1939, but then tens of millions of precious souls died over the next six years. This time around, what is happening should be glaringly obvious to everyone. Read full article >
#3 – Bill Gates to Stand Trial in Netherlands in COVID Vaccine Injury Lawsuit
By Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D. | Children’s Health Defense
A Netherlands court last week ruled that Bill Gates can stand trial in the Netherlands, in a case involving seven people injured by COVID-19 vaccines.
According to Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf, the seven “corona skeptics” sued Gateslast year, along with former Dutch prime minister and newly appointed NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, and “several members” of the Dutch government’s COVID-19 “Outbreak Management Team.” Read full article >
#4 – Israeli Ministers Call For Expulsion Of Palestinians At ‘Resettle Gaza’ Conference
by Tyler Durden | Zero Hedge
On Monday, Israeli Knesset members and senior government ministers attended a conference on re-establishing Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip that was held in southern Israel near the Gaza border.
The conference, titled “Preparing to Resettle Gaza,” was organized by the Israeli settler organization Nachala and members of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party. Read full article >
#5 – Federal Agencies Ordered to Use ‘Most powerful’ AI Systems in First-ever National Security Memo on AI
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The U.S. National Security Council released on Thursday its first-ever memo on artificial intelligence (AI), ordering federal agencies to use the “most powerful” AI systems while balancing the risks associated with the new technology.
The National Security Memorandum (NSM) details the U.S. approach to harnessing the power of AI for national security and foreign policy purposes “to ensure that America leads the way in seizing the promise and managing the risks of AI,” senior administration officials said. Read full article >
Here are our top 5 most underreported or most bizarre stories of the week.
#1 – Media Declares Trump Or Harris Will Be The ‘Bird Flu Pandemic President,’ As Human Cases Rise And Feds Fund MRNA Vaccine Creation
By | Winepress News
Western media is once again sounding-off warning that a bird flu pandemic is in the wake, with reports that there are now dozens of human cases of bird flu in at least six U.S. states, with some outlets claiming whoever the next President to be elected will have to deal with this soon, and perhaps bring a return to Covid-style measures of control.
This purported issue has quietly found its way onto the homepage of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) website. Read full article >
#2 – The Militarized Response to Eliminate Vaccine Hesitancy
By Barbara Loe Fisher | NVIC.org
Public opinion surveys and polls all say the same thing. More Americans are doubtful that getting vaccinated over and over and over again is a reliable way to stay healthy. Especially since the extreme response by governments to the World Health Organization’s coronavirus pandemic declaration in 2020, more adults have lost trust in doctors and public health officials. Some have either personally experienced a COVID-19 shot reaction or know someone who has died suddenly or is suffering with chronic poor health problems after getting the shot. Others can’t forget being fired from their job or being denied medical care or a school education for refusing to get a COVID shot, while others are still unable to access social media accounts that were suspended for simply talking about COVID shot reactions. And now, just about everybody knows that mRNA COVID shots don’t prevent infection and transmission of the disease. Read full article >
#3 – Kamala Harris Vows No Religious Exemptions to Medical Personnel for Abortions
By Monica Showalter | American Thinker
For Kamala Harris, abortion until the day of birth is her marquee position. She views it as her vote-getter, and she brings it up wherever she goes.
But it’s not just that she has a callous disregard for human life.
Now she’s gone herself one better, telling a television interviewer that health care professionals will not have any sort of choice in whether they will perform abortions or not. Read full article >
#4 – Family of Christian Soldier Who Died Fighting for Israel in Gaza Told to Remove Cross From Headstone
By Chris Menahan | Information Liberation
The family of a Christian soldier who died fighting for Israel in Gaza has been given an ultimatum by the Israeli Defense Ministry demanding they remove the cross from his headstone at the Haifa military cemetery or have his body dug up and buried elsewhere. The IDF’s Chief Rabbi ruled that the “holiness” of the cemetery is being harmed by the cross. Read full article >
#5 – 20% Of Households Making Over $150,000 Live Paycheck-To-Paycheck
By Mike Shedlock | Mishtalk
Bank of America has an interesting report on who’s living paycheck to paycheck (PTP). It’s not just the poor. Blame the Fed.
