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World Brief with Zach McCormick

Zach McCormick

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1:27

Warfare Forever Changed: Carrier-launched Drones...

World Brief with Zach McCormick ·

2025/06/02

Send us a text Warfare Just Changed Forever Over the weekend the Ukraine used off-the-shelf drones hidden in semi-truck trailers to strike Russian Nuclear-capable bombers deep inside Russia. The operation, code-named “Spider’s Web” used drones that cost less than $500 each to destroy $100 million aircraft and according to initial reports destroyed or disabled as many as 41 airframes. This could constitute as much as a third of Russias entire airborne “nuclear triad” meaning it’s a hug...

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1:26

Lost American Nuclear Powered Ice Base Found in...

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2025/05/16

Send us a text Lost Secret Nuclear US Icebase in Greenland Is there a lost American nuclear-powered ice-base hidden in Greenland? Yes. But the reactor isn’t there anymore. Camp Century as it was known, had been frozen in time until it was recently rediscovered by NASA during a high altitude radar survey of the region. Like something out of an adventure novel, Camp Century was built in 1959 under the cover story that it would be used for non-military research. In ...

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1:06

Florida: Pay Taxes in Gold & Silver

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2025/05/12

Send us a text Florida Gold Rush? Florida is set to recognize gold and silver as currency that can be used to pay taxes. Committee Substitute Bill 999 is making its way through the Florida legislature and, if passed would recognize gold and silver as legal tender. That means the shiny stuff could be used to pay taxes and, if a seller is willing, for common household items as well. The bill also creates the framework for depositories - facilities that hold the precious ...

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0:47

Coinbase Ad Attacks Fed During NBA Playoffs

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2025/05/06

Send us a text Did Coinbase just attack the Federal Reserve? Oh yeah. Big time. The crypto clearinghouse Coinbase just published an ad attacking the Federal Reserves policy of “printing” money while touting the benefit of Bitcoin (which has a set number of units). It’s unclear what prompted this attack on the US central bank but it’s mostly accurate and it showed in graphic detail just how much money the Fed actually “creates” at the click of a button. Of course the Fed does...

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1:27

Debt Jubilee

World Brief with Zach McCormick ·

2025/04/23

Send us a text Debt Jubilee What if ALL debts were forgiven and everyone just started over? It sounds crazy but it’s actually been done before - a lot - every 50 years in some cases. And it’s exactly what it sounds like - ALL debts are forgiven (in modern terms that’s mortgages, car loans, student loans, credit cards, medical - EVERYTHING). There are even examples of properties being GIVEN BACK to the former owners after jubilee. Critics call it socialism but a d...

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1:17

Food Dyes Banned?

World Brief with Zach McCormick ·

2025/04/23

Send us a text It was just announced that the FDA will be phasing out eight petroleum-based food dyes by next year. Citrus Red No. 2 and Orange B are going to have their authorizations pulled in the next few weeks while the FDA is asking for voluntary cooperation in removing Green No. 3, Red No. 40, Yellow No. 5, Yellow No. 6, Blue No. 1, and Blue No. 2 from the food supply. This js something that Europe has already had in place for a while now and really the only shocking thing...

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1:05

Crypto is Over-hyped

World Brief with Zach McCormick ·

2025/04/22

Send us a text Is Crypto is over-hyped? Yes. It’s just a ledger that’s distributed to lots of other users and essentially password protected. But a ledger is nothing new - you can find them chiseled onto stone tablets going back millennia. What’s more, at least bitcoin is all public so you don’t even get true privacy from it. But cryptography makes it secure! Maybe for now…until it’s not. Remember the Titanic was billed as being “unsinkable”. The bottom line is that if man made it...

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1:29

Why Does It Matter Who Is Pope?

World Brief with Zach McCormick ·

2025/04/21

Send us a text Why does it matter who is Pope? In short? Everyday life. The Pope - the head of the Catholic Church- is the spiritual leader of nearly 1.5 billion people worldwide, controls a centuries-old (mostly cash) financial network, has final say over the massive real estate holdings (including within the City of London and elsewhere) and has ready access to heads of state (most of whom come to see HIM in Rome). In other words the Pope - one ma...

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1:29

Have You Been Eating "Gene Edited" Food?

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2025/04/15

Send us a text Have you been eating genetically modified food without knowing it? Could be. So-called “gene edited” (GE) foods don’t have to be labeled in more than 20 countries including the US, UK, Canada, Japan and Australia and that means, you could’ve eaten GE products without realizing. But is that really a bad thing? Supporters of “GE foods” are quick to point out that there’s a big difference between “Genetically MODIFIED Organisms” (GMO’s) and Gene EDITED ones. ...

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Luxury Brands Exposed?

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2025/04/14

Send us a text Where was your luxury purse actually made? Recent allegations suggest that many luxury brand labels such as Chanel, Gucci, Louis Vitton and others are making their products, (or most of them) in China and not in the country listed on the tag. To some this comes as a shock because we’re not talking about “knock offs” - these are the authentic name brand goods and some have retail prices in the tens of thousands of dollars. The purses are frequently crafted from...

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Insurance Foreclosure Landmine?

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2025/04/09

Send us a text Is America about to step on an “Insurance foreclosure land mine”. Seems like it. As if it wasn’t bad enough that no one can afford to buy a decent home, a new threat is looming. “ Insurance foreclosures”. Insurance costs are skyrocketing and homeowners (who already had to stretch to pay their mortgage) can’t afford these sky high premiums so they’re simply not paying them. But here’s the catch, Most mortgage notes have a clause that allows the bank to get a policy o...

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1:24

Tariffs: Who Wins?

World Brief with Zach McCormick ·

2025/04/07

Send us a text Tariffs: Who Wins? If things go well, working class Americans who need more high-paying jobs . For context, a tariff is a tax on things that are imported into the country. They’re designed to incentivize companies to build factories here in the US and make US-made goods competitive. Right now, nearly everything in stores is imported but it wasn’t always this way. Not long ago, it was a tariff-based system of trade that paid the bills and made the U...

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0:59

Did England Betray US & Poach the Ukraine Minerals...

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2025/04/07

Send us a text Did England just take the Ukraine mineral rights deal out from under the US's nose? Pt. 1/3

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Did England Betray US & Poach the Ukraine Minerals...

World Brief with Zach McCormick ·

2025/04/07

Send us a text Did England just betray the US and poach the Ukraine minerals deal? Pt. 3/3

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Did England Betray US & Poach the Ukraine Minerals...

World Brief with Zach McCormick ·

2025/04/07

Send us a text Did England just betray US & poach the Ukraine minerals deal? Pt 2/3

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1:25

Renting our Rain?

World Brief with Zach McCormick ·

2025/03/24

Send us a text Recent developments in cloud seeding technology suggest “yes”. The question arose because Florida (which ironically gets more rain than most), wants to ban cloud seeding and all “weather modification”. Proponents of the technology oppose the ban saying the tech is now highly advanced, harmless and even important for national security. So what is it? Cloud seeding , (AKA Precipitation enhancement”) is a term for sending small particles, (salts or silver iodide), into the...

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1:28

Should American Presidents Use Autopens?

World Brief with Zach McCormick ·

2025/03/18

Send us a text Yesterday President Trump announced that presidential pardons issued by former President Biden were invalid because they had been signed using an autopen. Critics immediately rejected the claim but others have pointed out that the US Constitution is silent on this subject. While this particular issue will undoubtedly cause considerable debate going forward, perhaps, the bigger question is whether presidents should even be allowed to use an autopen. After all, an American Pres...

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1:30

Magic Money Computer Printing Trillions

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2025/03/17

Send us a text US Government computers have been making money “out of thin air” and paying out “trillions” of dollars worth of this “magic money” for who knows what. At least, that is what DOGE Chief Elon Musk reported during an appearance on SenatorTed Cruz’s podcast earlier today. While both Elon and Senator Cruz seemed shocked by this finding the reality is that the Federal Reserve has been doing this for a while now under the code-name “Fedtrade”. The Fed won’t disclose everythi...

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1:16

Banker Takeover?

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2025/03/11

Send us a text Former Bank of England (and Canada) head Mark Carney has recently been elected to lead Canada's Liberal Party and is poised to take over as PM from Justin Trudeau just after Trudeau had a spat with his finance minister Chrystia Freeland. Turns out, Freeland and Carney may friends and some are wondering whether this heralds a shift away from the tradition in high finance of staying out of politics (officially).

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1:18

Gold Flying into US Vaults

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2025/02/18

Send us a text So much gold has been flowing into US vaults that the Bank of England has been unable to honor physical withdrawal requests in real time (whereas before requests could be honored in as little as 2 days, depositors now have to wait as long as 8 weeks to get their hands on the shiny stuff). What's going on here?

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