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Daily News Digest - Summary for July 30, 2024

Daily News Digest - Summary for July 30, 2024
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FLASHBACK: Sheldon Adelson Gave Trump and Republicans Over $424 Million Since 2016

The billionaire casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, who has died aged 87, spent hundreds of millions of dollars in later life as Republican kingmaker

Sheldon Adelson

By Brendan Cole

The billionaire casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, who has died aged 87, spent hundreds of millions of dollars in later life as Republican kingmaker—and President Donald Trump was a key beneficiary of this largesse.

Adelson, who died of complications related to treatment for non-Hodgkins lymphoma, had an estimated worth of around $35 billion, according to Forbes.

This gave him and his wife Miriam plenty of scope to hand vast sums of money to GOP campaigns and causes through super PACs.

The Adelsons became the biggest individual donors in American history in 2012 when they gave over $90 million to the unsuccessful Republican campaign to beat President Barack Obama…

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AI supercharges data center energy use – straining the grid and slowing sustainability efforts

The artificial intelligence boom has had such a profound effect on big tech companies that their energy consumption

by Ayse Coskun

The artificial intelligence boom has had such a profound effect on big tech companies that their energy consumption, and with it their carbon emissions, have surged.

The spectacular success of large language models such as ChatGPT has helped fuel this growth in energy demand. At 2.9 watt-hours per ChatGPT request, AI queries require about 10 times the electricity of traditional Google queries, according to the Electric Power Research Institute, a nonprofit research firm. Emerging AI capabilities such as audio and video generation are likely to add to this energy demand…

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'Horrifying' Israeli strike on girls' school in Gaza kills at least 30

Khadija Girls' School had a field hospital within the complex and was sheltering over 4,000 displaced Palestinians

Palestinians react following a deadly Israeli strike on a school in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza on 27 July 2024 (Mohammed al-Hajjar/MEE)

By Abubaker Abed and Mohammed al-Hajjar in Deir al-Balah, occupied Palestine.

Israeli air strikes on a girls' school in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza, killed at least 30 people and wounded over 100 on Saturday, the Palestinian health ministry said.

Khadija Girls' School was sheltering over 4,000 displaced Palestinians, according to civil defence officials in the enclave. A field hospital was also operating inside the school complex.

“I am so lucky to have survived,” Fadel Keshko, a 22-year-old man who was staying in the school with his sick grandmother and nephew, told Middle East Eye…

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Canada’s “Worst Decline in 40 Years”

Canada’s standard of living is on track for its worst decline in 40 years, according to a new study by Canada’s Fraser Institute.

Canada's "Worst Decline in 40 Years"

By Peter St Onge

Canada’s standard of living is on track for its worst decline in 40 years, according to a new study by Canada’s Fraser Institute. 

The study compared the three worst periods of decline in Canada in the last 40 years – the 1989 recession, the 2008 global financial crisis, and this post-pandemic era. 

They found that, unlike the previous recessions, Canada is not recovering this time. Something broke. 

In fact, according to the Financial Post, since 2019 Canada’s had the worst growth out of 50 developed economies. Inflation-adjusted Canadian wages have been flat since 2016…

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Planetary Regime: The Globalists' Blueprint in Their Own Words

So, we already know about the technocrats' plan for global depopulation. Now, how about their political action plan?

by The Corbett Report

Earlier this year I wrote about "The Globalist's SECRET Message!"

If you read that editorial, you'll know the "secret" message turns out to be remarkably open and shockingly frank: "There are too many useless eaters out there and it's time to get rid of them!" (SPOILER: You are, in the globalists' estimation, just such a "useless eater.")

So, we already know about the technocrats' plan for global depopulation. Now, how about their political action plan? How is it that these enemies of humanity propose to organize the polities of the world as they send us to the slaughter pen?…

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Suppressing Silver Prices Has Been Official U.S. Policy Since 1965

In the July 18 edition of Gold Newsletter, editor and publisher Brien Lundin wrote about the failure of silver prices to keep up with gold prices.

by Chris Powell

In the July 18 edition of Gold Newsletter, editor and publisher Brien Lundin wrote about the failure of silver prices to keep up with gold prices. "I'm not the kind of conspiracy buff that many of my friends in the industry are," Lundin wrote, "but it's hard to look at silver and not see some hidden hands at work (especially considering who holds so much of the metal in both physical and paper forms while acting as custodian for the biggest silver exchange-traded fund)."…

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Evening Protests Explode In Venezuela As Opposition Crowds Descend On Caracas, Head To Presidential Palace

Summary: While things were somewhat calm through much of the daylight hours on the streets of Caracas

By tyler Durden

Summary: While things were somewhat calm through much of the daylight hours on the streets of Caracas, tensions are now at boiling point and full-blown confrontations with police as thousands of opposition supporters have been literally walking, some from rural areas, to the Presidential Palace. BBC and CNN are confirming that Maduro's security services have fired tear gas and rubber bullets against outraged demonstrators who believe Sunday's election was stolen. Some US members of Congress have added their voice, urging the White House not to recognize the results of a Maduro victory…

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