Here Lies The Motive: AI Leaders' Cunning Plan Exposed

StanChart CEO Scrambles Into Damage Control After "Lower-Value Human Capital" Comment Triggers Backlash Standard Chartered CEO Bill Winters and his team spent Wednesday in damage-control mode after the head of the London-based international bank told investors on Tuesday that artificial intelligence would be used to replace "lower-value human capital," sparking a backlash online. "Many of you will have seen media coverage following the Investor Event in Hong Kong, particularly the reporting around automation, AI, and workforce changes," Winters wrote in an internal memo to employees on Wednesday that was seen...

Will The Iran War Trigger A Dollar Crisis? The oil spike has moderated and markets are mellow for the time being, but could the long-term economic consequences of this war just be getting started? U.S. allies have shown a lackluster response after President Trump’s request for assistance in reopening the Strait of Hormuz — a corridor carrying roughly 20% of global oil supply — and this may spell a trend of what’s to come. What happens when oil-producing Gulf states have had enough of our/Israel’s foreign policy machinations and, as a...

Zombie Home Foreclosure Numbers Increase In 38 US States Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The number of residential zombie foreclosures in the second quarter of 2026 marginally increased from the previous quarter, with such foreclosures rising in the District of Columbia and 38 out of the 50 U.S. states, real estate analytics company ATTOM said in a May 21 statement. Homes in Huntington Beach, Calif., on July 12, 2024. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times "Out of the country's 104.9 million residential properties, 245,376 were in the foreclosure process in...