Volume 27, Number 3 – 02/01/2024
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Future Facts from Think Links:
Did you know that…
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EMBRACING 21ST CENTURY SPIRITUALITY
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Saturday, February 17th, 2024, 10:00 – 5:00 ET
in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia
or via LIVESTREAM!
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Annual Premium members receive a 10% discount
automatically at check out.
Be sure you are logged in to receive the discount!
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You are part of a much greater reality than the objective world we experience with our physical senses. As a soul in a human body, you have access to insights, guidance, and the awareness that you are so very loved. You have the natural ability to connect with those who exist beyond this physical dimension. It is your birthright to enjoy peace, happiness, and a sense of connection with all of creation.
Spend the day with former Navy Commander and aide to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs-turned-evidential medium Suzanne Giesemann as she takes you through The 3 E’s of Awakened Living™.
She will:
(1) Educate you about your multidimensional nature and use this
Awareness to …
(2) Experience Higher Consciousness yourself. You will then have the
opportunity to personally …
(3) Engage higher beings such as loved ones who have passed.
Enjoy the perfect balance of evidential stories, theory, and proven practical exercises to live “The Awakened Way®”–consciously connected and divinely guided moment to moment.
Join us February 17, 2024, as Suzanne Giesemann takes you through the 3 E’s of Awakened Living™. Be with us IN PERSON or via LIVESTREAM – and if you can’t be with us on the 17th you may watch the replay at your convenience.
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Have no doubts and have no fears
For these do hold you back
It’s only from a lack of faith
That you experience true lack
For what is faith, but knowing
That goes beyond belief
A deep inner conviction
That always brings relief
So many sit and worry
That they have not enough
That what they want won’t come to them,
That life is always tough.
It’s those who set aside the worry,
Those who banish all the doubt,
Who find that resting in the Truth
Does bring their dreams about.
By Suzanne Giesemann
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Join us February 17th, 2024, In Person or via Livestream!
Coolfont Resort, 3621 Cold Run Valley Road, Berkeley Springs, WV
10:00 – 5:00 ET
All tickets include access to the replay for six months, following the original event.
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Suzanne Giesemann is a teacher of personal transformation, an author, and a medium who has been recognized on the Watkins’ list of the 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People. A former Navy Commander with a master’s degree in National Security Affairs, she served as a commanding officer and aide to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. She now shares “The Awakened Way®”, a path to living a consciously connected and divinely guided life.
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She has authored 13 books, 6 best-selling Hemi-Sync recordings, and YouTube videos reaching millions of viewers. She produces the Daily Way inspirational messages, “The Awakened Way®” app, and hosts the top ranking Messages of Hope podcast. She leads classes, workshops, and retreats, and serves as faculty with The Shift Network and Humanity’s Team. She is a member of the Evolutionary Leaders Circle, a group of thought leaders from diverse disciplines who help support a global shift in consciousness.
Suzanne is known for her joyful, down-to-earth style of making deep spiritual concepts easy to understand. She laces her teaching with evidence-filled stories of the greater reality and practical tools that produce the personal experience of our multidimensional nature. Her messages bring hope and healing that go straight to the heart.
For more about Suzanne and her work, please visit www.SuzanneGiesemann.com.
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An AI hallucination is when a large language model (LLM) generates false information.
LLMs are AI models that power chatbots, such as ChatGPT and Google Bard. Hallucinations can be deviations from external facts, contextual logic or both. Hallucinations often appear plausible because LLMs are designed to produce fluent, coherent text. They occur because LLMs have no understanding of the underlying reality that language describes. LLMs use statistics to generate language that is grammatically and semantically correct within the context of the prompt.owever, hallucinations do not always appear plausible. Sometimes they can be clearly nonsensical. There is no clear way to determine the exact causes of hallucinations on a case-by-case basis. Read the implications and risks here.
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OpenAI quietly deleted language expressly prohibiting the use of its technology for military purposes from its usage policy, which seeks to dictate how powerful and immensely popular tools like ChatGPT can be used.
Up until January 10, OpenAI’s “usage policies” pageOpens in a new tab included a ban on “activity that has high risk of physical harm, including,” specifically, “weapons development” and “military and warfare.” That plainly worded prohibition against military applications would seemingly rule out any official, and extremely lucrative, use by the Department of Defense or any other state military. The new policyOpens in a new tab retains an injunction not to “use our service to harm yourself or others” and gives “develop or use weapons” as an example, but the blanket ban on “military and warfare” use has vanished.
The unannounced redaction is part of a major rewrite of the policy page, which the company said was intended to make the document “clearer” and “more readable,” and which includes many other substantial language and formatting changes. More here.
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Any university lecturer will tell you that luring students to a morning lecture is an uphill struggle. But even the most hungover fresher would surely be enticed by a physics lesson from Albert Einstein or a design masterclass from Coco Chanel.
This could soon be the reality for British students, as some universities start to beam in guest lecturers from around the globe using the same holographic technology that is used to bring dead or retired singers back to the stage. More here.
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not merely a technological breakthrough; it has the potential to be a catalyst for positive change, driving innovation and addressing some of the world’s most pressing challenges. In the era of “AI for Good,” harnessing the power of artificial intelligence is becoming synonymous with advancing humanity and fostering sustainable development. Read more here.
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Atomic scientists recently updated the Doomsday Clock to reflect the imminent danger facing the planet. On Jan. 23, they reset it at 90 seconds to midnight for the second year in a row, matching the closest to the hour it has ever been. Midnight on the Doomsday Clock represents an “apocalyptic” state. This means the 90-second mark is classified as “a moment of historic danger.”
The Doomsday Clock is a design that warns the public about how close humanity is to destroying the world with dangerous technologies. As a metaphor, the Doomsday Clock is a reminder of the many threats humanity must address if people are to survive on the planet. Read more here.
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CORONA VIRUS – (COVID-19)
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CDC documents show that all the way back in May of 2021, the CDC had actually drafted a full alert regarding myocarditis, but for some reason, they never sent the alert out. Watch here.
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For the past four years, we have been witnessing the implementation of a criminal plan of world depopulation, achieved through the creation of a false pandemic and imposition of her false vaccine, which you now know to be a biological weapon of mass destruction, designed with the aim of destroying the immune system of the entire population, causing sterility and the onset of deadly diseases.
Many of our friends and acquaintances have died or been severely damaged by the adverse effects of these experimental gene serums. Many have discovered too late that they have been the victims of a global plan with a single script and a single direction. More here.
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Studies suggest it triggers psychiatric disorders, as well as autism in unborn babies. Yet doctors have been hoodwinked into hawking this as a boon for your health.
- According to the CDC, about 36,000 Americans die from influenza each year. But this includes deaths from both influenza and secondary pneumonia. When separated out, flu deaths do not number in the tens of thousands,
- A 2004 slide presentation reveals CDC “recipe” for maximizing vaccine uptake is to use media to promote alarm by predicting … read more here, (subscription wall)
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Epidemiologically, appropriately prescribed, prescription drugs are the fourth leading cause of death, tied with stroke at about 2,460 deaths each week in the United States. About 330,000 patients die each year from prescription drugs in the United States and Europe. They [the drugs] cause an epidemic of about 20 times more hospitalizations [6.6 million annually], as well as falls, road accidents, and [annually] about 80 million medically minor problems such as pains, discomforts, and dysfunctions that hobble productivity or the ability to care for others. Deaths and adverse effects from overmedication, errors, and self-medication would increase these figures. Read Donald Light ‘s findings on how much routine medical damage to human life, prior to the “pandemic,” was eventually mislabeled “COVID”. Connect the inevitable hidden dots and read more here.
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What a cowardly act it was. A national broadcaster, dedicated to what should be fearless reporting, cowed by the intemperate bellyaching of a lobby concerned about coverage of the Israel-Gaza war. The investigation by The Age newspaper was revealing in showing that the dismissal of broadcaster Antoinette Lattouf last December 20 was the nasty fruit of a campaign waged against the corporation’s management. This included its chair, Ita Buttrose, and managing director David Anderson. More here.
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Americans list food prices as their top economic concern, and they increasingly want the government to do something about it, a new YouGov/Motherboard poll finds. For a blueprint, perhaps it’s time to look at France.
Earlier this month, the French supermarket giant Carrefour placed signs throughout its stores informing customers that it no longer planned to sell PepsiCo products of any sort. That meant no Cheetos, Doritos, or Quaker cereals—and certainly no Pepsi or 7-Up. The reason, Carrefour said, was the food giant’s “unacceptable” price increases. Read more here.
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Researchers have demonstrated a robot that grows like a vine in response to stimuli such as light and pressure. The machine named FiloBot, has a head that prints its own body by melting and extruding plastic, which then solidifies as it cools. The robot’s head is connected to a base by a thin hose, through which it receives a fresh supply of plastic from a spool. FiloBot’s growth rate is slow, its body elongates by just a few millimetres each minute. More here.
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New 3D-printable material could enable cheaper, less toxic manufacturing processes for next-gen OLED televisions, smartphones, light fixtures, and wearable devices. More here.
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GENETICS / HEALTH TECHNOLOGY / BIOTECHNOLOGY
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In a very specific experiment, Oreo cookies were shown to outperform traditional cholesterol medication in lowering cholesterol.
Nicholas Norwitz, a Harvard medical student who holds a doctorate in metabolism and nutrition from the University of Oxford, has explored uncharted territory in cholesterol management through an innovative experiment. More here.
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ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES / CLIMATE
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A simple mean hemispheric temperature model has been constructed in the form of a differential equation which is a function of three independent variables: carbon dioxide content of the air, volcanic ejecta and anthropogenic particulate pollution. This model appears to simulate the behavior of Northern Hemisphere mean temperatures as well as they are known and gives a different pattern of behavior for the Southern Hemisphere. More here.
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The video, “CO2, The Gas of Life,” features a lecture given at the Summit Old Guard Meeting in New Jersey, October 3, 2023, by William Happer, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of physics at Princeton University and former scientific adviser to the Bush and Trump administrations.
The topic: carbon dioxide (CO2), commonly mischaracterized as a harmful waste product of respiration and a pollutant that is disrupting the planetary climate. As explained by Happer in this lecture, CO2 is actually an essential gas necessary for life. Moreover, its impact on Earth’s temperatures is negligible, and will remain negligible even if the current concentration in the atmosphere were to double. Watch here.
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Ben Davidson holds the non-mainstream views that the Sun plays a role in earthquake processes, that electrical activity on Earth can help you predict where earthquakes will occur and that “Climate Change” is massively flawed due to improper accounting of solar forcing.
Davidson, aka Suspicious0bservers has been publishing fascinating, catastrophist videos for the better part of two decades. Catastrophism is the idea that Earth has been affected in the distant past by sudden, short-lived, violent events that were sometimes worldwide in scope. Watch here.
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Traditionalist and modernist architecture are both mass-produced, industrial and international. Is there an alternative?
Resources, technology and energy use can no longer be taken for granted. Read more here.
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The tiny home sums it all up when it comes to the American love of the single-family home. A literally diminished reality matches up to an ever-diminishing dream of the all-American style of homeownership. Read more here.
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Germany fully bought into the green energy transition, but its economy is now showing serious signs of weakness as a prolonged energy crisis runs its course.
The country is aiming to have its energy supply and demand reach “net-zero” emissions by 2050, relying on sources like wind, solar and hydrogen fuels after former Prime Minister Angela Merkel decided in 2011 to eventually shutter the country’s nuclear power plant fleet. Despite the German government’s regulatory and spending blitz to usher in the green transition, the country is not on track to meet its climate goals, but its decision to rely on intermittent green energy generation has contributed to an ongoing energy crisis that is crippling its economy. More here.
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The nation’s largest solar energy and storage project came online in California last week, offering 875 megawatt-hours of solar capacity, and 3 gigawatt-hours of storage.
Partially located on Edwards Air Force Base grounds in Kern County, California, the Edwards & Sanborn Solar + Energy Storage project is expected to provide the California grid with enough renewable energy to power 233,000 homes. Read more here.
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Nitrogen 2000 is a 45 minute documentary on the Dutch Farmer struggle of 2019-23. 70% of Holland is owned by small cattle farmers and since 2019, the Dutch government has been advocating a 50% forced buy out of their land. Watch here.
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Agricultural workers in several European countries say that green policies and taxes are eating into their profits, with farmers calling for more government subsidies.
Farmer protests have sprung up in France, Germany and Romania ahead of the 2024 European Parliament election in June. The farmers’ demands vary in general, but they are all suffering from environmental reforms and need more government subsidies to offset their losses. Read more here.
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SECURITY & THE FUTURE OF WARFARE
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“All the universities in Gaza have been damaged or destroyed,” said one international relations expert.
The Israel Defense Forces’ detonation of more than 300 mines planted at Israa University in Gaza on Wednesday provided the latest evidence that Israel’s objective in its bombardment of the enclave is not self-defense, rights advocates said. “This is not self-defense,” said Chris Hazzard, an Irish member of the United Kingdom’s Parliament. “This is not counter-insurgency. This is ethnic-cleansing.” More here.
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Three American servicemembers were killed early on Jan. 28 in a drone attack on a small U.S. base in Jordan, the Biden administration said in a statement. At least two dozen other troops were injured in the incident, according to U.S. officials.
Iranian-backed groups have carried out a number of attacks American forces across the Middle East since the start of the Israel–Hamas conflict in Gaza, and those troops appear to be the first deaths connected to such attacks, the White House and military officials confirmed. President Joe Biden vowed to hold the perpetrators to account; so far, no organization or government has claimed responsibility. Read more here.
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Near the Ukrainian city of Avdiivka, a boxy robot zips along the rocky, cracked road. Snaking from side to side, the robot—a four-wheeled machine, around knee height—carries cargo and ammunition for Russian troops. However, it’s being watched. Hovering above the road, tracking the movements of the robot, is a Ukrainian drone. Suddenly, another drone smashes into the robot, blowing it to pieces. Read more here.
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During the last two months or so, the media have been deluged with fury over the Houthi—de facto rulers of Yemen—either capturing or bombing ships outside Yemeni coasts headed toward Israel.
The Houthis’ actions were provoked by Israel’s ethnic cleansing in Gaza and the Israeli occupation of the southern coastal parts of Yemen, and has now culminated in an illegal attack against Yemen by the U.S. and UK. Read more here.
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Tasked with ensuring public safety and national security, the US military and intelligence sectors receive billions upon billions of taxpayer dollars each year. They present themselves as the good guys on a mission to make the world a better place and stop corrupt governments across the globe. Yet too often, many national security decisions aren’t in the best interests of American society or global populations. More here.
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According to the FBI, you may be an anti-government extremist if you’ve:
a) purchased a Bible or other religious materials,
b) used terms like “MAGA” and “Trump,”
c) shopped at Dick’s Sporting Goods, Cabela’s, or Bass Pro Shops,
d) purchased tickets to travel by bus, cars, or plane,
e) all of the above.
In fact, if you selected any of those options in recent years, you’re probably already on a government watchlist. That’s how broadly the government’s net is being cast in its pursuit of domestic extremists. Read more here.
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Imagine if Iran, Syria, Lebanon, or Turkey – fully backed, armed and diplomatically protected by Russia and China – had the will and the wherewithal to bomb Tel Aviv for three months, day and night, murder tens of thousands of Israelis, maim countless more and make millions homeless, and turn the city into a heap of uninhabitable rubble, like Gaza today.
Just imagine it for a few seconds: Iran and its allies deliberately targeting populated parts of Tel Aviv, hospitals, synagogues, schools, universities, libraries – or indeed any populated place – to ensure maximum civilian casualties. They would tell the world they were just looking for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his war cabinet. Ask yourself what the US, UK, EU, Canada, Australia and Germany in particular would do within 24 hours of the onslaught of this fictional scenario.
Now come back to reality, and consider the fact that since 7 October (and for decades before that date), Tel Aviv’s western allies have not only witnessed what Israel has done to the Palestinian people, but have also provided it with military equipment, bombs, munitions and diplomatic coverage, while American media outlets have offered ideological justifications for the slaughter and genocide of Palestinians. Read more here.
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The State of Israel can butcher thousands of innocents but New Zealand would not lift a finger to provide support to its victims. IDF soldiers can gun down old men and women waving white flags, shell lines of refugees queuing for aid and deprive hospitals of power and medicine – and all New Zealand does is a collective shrug. When, however, Yemen’s Houthis disrupt the passage of frozen meat, pizza bases and iPhones through the Red Sea, suddenly New Zealand goes on the warpath. We have declared war on Ansar Allah (the Houthis) and sent a strike force of six men and a dinghy to join Operation Prosperity Guardian, led by the USA. More here.
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LIFESTYLE / SOCIAL TRENDS & VALUES
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Next week, executives from some of the biggest social media firms will be called before the US Congress to answer questions about their “failure to protect” children who use their platforms.
Matthew P Bergman’s firm has filed cases against Snap, TikTok and others, with a novel argument – that the products are harmful by design. Read more here.
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When Augustin Lignier built a photo booth for rats, he was really trying to point the lens at humanity.
The French artist trained two pet store rodents to take selfies in exchange for sweet treats. But over time, he says, they started doing it purely for the pleasure. He says it’s not unlike the way people engage with social media, at first for the likes, but eventually just to trigger a flood of feel-good chemicals in our brains. Read more here.
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Legislators in the Florida House of Representatives approved what could be the strictest regulation on social media and kids in the country. Florida House Bill 1 would prohibit children under the age of 16 from using most social media platforms, regardless of parental approval.
The social media platforms the bill would target include any site that tracks user activity, allows children to upload content or uses addictive features designed to cause compulsive use. Read more here.
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CONTACT & THE EXPLORATION OF SPACE
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The Pentagon’s “lack of a comprehensive, coordinated approach to address” Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) “may pose a threat to military forces and national security,” the Defense Department’s inspector general (DoD OIG) stated publicly for the first time on Thursday. UAP is the Pentagon’s new term art for UFOs.
In an unclassified version of a classified report delivered to Congress in August, the OIG said the Pentagon “has no overarching UAP policy and, as a result, it lacks assurance that national security and flight safety threats to the United States from UAP have been identified and mitigated.” Read more here.
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A UFO whistleblower shared new details of a Tardis-like craft in government possession during a secret meeting in New York City. Decorated former Air Force intelligence officer David Grusch claims his sources worked on a 40-foot UAP that ‘was the size of a football field’ when they stepped inside, according to an attendee at the event.
The object could manipulate both space and time and use and could harness enough energy to power 70,000 homes a year, the source said. Guests included officials from the FBI, CIA, Department of Homeland Security, tech entrepreneurs and Wall Street ‘bigwigs.’ Read more here.
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STATISTICS / DEMOGRAPHICS
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China may begin a campaign of forced pregnancy, ordering young couples to get married and have more babies if the demographic challenges become more serious, according to Steven Mosher, president of the Population Research Institute.
Data from China’s National Statistics Bureau, released on Jan. 17, show that just 9.02 million babies were born last year—the seventh straight year that number has fallen. It has now hit the lowest level since the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) seized control of China in 1949. More here.
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A record-breaking number of illegal immigrants crossed the U.S.-Mexico border last month, according to data released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), as the border crisis continues to rage with no end in sight.
A stunning 371,036 individuals were caught entering the United States illegally in December, the data shows, breaking the previous record of 341,392 set in August 2023. Encounters along the southwest land border also set a new record, hitting 302,034, per other data released by CBP on Jan. 26. More here.
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ECONOMY / FINANCE / BUSINESS
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The Internal Revenue Service says it collected $482 million from wealthy tax cheats last year, in a continuing effort to step up their enforcement.
The IRS released their year-end progress report this month, saying they will continue to audit large corporations, high-income individuals, and complex partnerships who are not paying their fair share of U.S. taxes. Read more here.
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Oil prices rose on Monday following a drone attack on U.S. forces in Jordan, heightening concerns about supply disruptions in the Middle East.
Houthi rebels intensified their assaults on vessels in the Red Sea, targeting a fuel tanker operated by Trafigura. The potential for an expanded conflict increased as Russian refined product exports were expected to decline due to refineries undergoing repairs after drone attacks. Brent crude futures increased by 0.4% to $83.84 per barrel, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude rose by 0.4% to $78.35 per barrel. The drone strike on U.S. troops in Jordan raised fears of a broader conflict in the oil-rich Middle East. Read more here.
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Ed Dowd predicts a stock market crash sometime between May and August, amid a growing awareness of the harms of the jab, which will make for a powder keg that he thinks is going to upend the medical establishment, the political establishment, the money establishment and the media establishment, which has censored all of this information. More here.
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Last week, in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, state troopers and investigators executed a search warrant on the farm of Amos Miller. Miller has been producing fresh unadulterated dairy products and grass-fed beef for 40 years. He does not sell to the public. Rather, he sells only to folks who join his club because they want pure raw dairy products, not pasteurized and not chemically treated, as the state commands.
The members of Miller’s club believe that they own their own bodies and that they — and not the government — can decide what they should ingest. Miller has never been successfully sued or credibly charged with harming anyone. He remains without the products the state stole from him, and he remains uncharged with any wrongdoing. The state has prohibited his club members from acquiring the products for which they have already paid. More here,
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FOR WHAT IT’S WORTH – articles off the beaten track which may – or may not – have predictive value.
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The tunnels beneath Chabad headquarters in Brooklyn were immediately filled in with cement insuring that there would be no investigation to conflict with the nonsensical cover-story that they were recently dug in response to the COVID lockdowns. In today’s pop-culture it is speculated that they are related to child sex trafficking, which is indeed a horrific problem with the human race, but there seems to be something more to these tunnels. Tunnels leading underground are one of Earth’s greatest mysteries and can be found all over the world and all throughout history. Read more here.
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At the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), an 11-year-old boy from Morocco is hearing the world for the very first time thanks to a revolutionary new genetic therapy that has cured his deafness.
While the gene involved is quite rare, the milestone represents a breakthrough in the treatment of patients around the world with hearing loss caused by dozens of different genetic mutations and marks another innovative move for gene and cell therapy in a new area of medicine. Read more here.
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In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator.
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The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people’s children.
~ Marian Wright Edelman ~
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A special thanks to all of you who have sent us interesting links in the past. If you see something we should know about, do send it along – thanks.
johnp@arlingtoninstitute.org
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