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Zach McCormick

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1:29

Wikipedia Dethroned?

World Brief with Zach McCormick ·

2025/10/28

Send us a text Did Wikipedia just get dethroned? Maybe, Grokipedia has just launched as a direct competitor to the original online, open source encyclopedia, but only time will tell if it kicks Wikipedia off its pedestal. Elon Musk has touted Grokipedia for seeking “the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth”. To accomplish this, Grokipedia will purportedly use its AI namesake to act as a gatekeeper and will tell you if it will allow you to publish an entry. Not everyone...

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1:28

Did Amazon Crash the Internet?

World Brief with Zach McCormick ·

2025/10/21

Send us a text Did Amazon’s web servers just take out a massive chunk of the internet? Yes, and this isn’t an exaggeration. On October 20, 2025 a major outage in Amazon’s web server business (known as “AWS”), caused nearly every major online service to fail or malfunction. Major names like Snapchat, Signal, WhatsApp, Lloyds of London, the Bank of Scotland, Venmo, Coinbase, Roblox, Fortnite, Hulu and Spotify (to name just a few) all reportedly experienced major malfunctions and dis...

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Silver Squeeze on iPhones?

World Brief with Zach McCormick ·

2025/10/15

Send us a text Is the Silver Squeeze going to jack up iPhone prices? Probably, and it wouldn’t just be smartphones that see a jump. So what’s going on? Basically people are suddenly afraid that real silver is running out. This affects electronics because silver is used in just about every electronic device we use. If the price of silver goes up then so too will the electronics that use it. But why now? The organization, (the London Bullion Market Association or “LBMA”) that ...

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1:17

French Government Collapsing & Implications for Rest...

World Brief with Zach McCormick ·

2025/10/06

Send us a text After only 27 days on the job, French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu has just announced his resignation. But it’s the reason why that has many so concerned. That’s because the French government (led by the embattled French President Emanuel Macron), promised its people far more than it could ever deliver and now it can’t pay the bill. This has led to hundreds of thousands of workers to go on strike as government subsidized pensions, jobs, housing and holidays are all on...

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1:28

86 Million Bank Accounts Frozen Over Biometrics?

World Brief with Zach McCormick ·

2025/09/29

Send us a text Last week the Vietnamese Central Bank closed 86 Million bank accounts for, among other things, not turning over biometric data. Is this a sign of things to come? For the deep dive head over to the substack at WorldBriefZMC

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1:30

Digital ID Now Mandatory in UK?

World Brief with Zach McCormick ·

2025/09/25

Send us a text Will the UK force citizens to get digital IDs? Probably. Reports suggest that Prime Minister Starmer will announce Friday that every single adult in the UK must get a digital ID. There have been some suggestions that the scheme WON’T be mandatory in the literal sense - but that one will be required to access the internet, housing, employment, banking, transportation or any other essential service. In other words “mandatory”. Though the final details aren...

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1:06

Are People Becoming Allergic to Red Meat?

World Brief with Zach McCormick ·

2025/09/22

Send us a text Are people becoming allergic to red meat? Yes, it’s called “Alpha- Gal Syndrome” (AGS) causes people to become violently ill when red meat including beef, pork and lamb are consumed. The affliction is purportedly spread by “lone star ticks” and there is no cure. Listen to this episode to find out more and for the deep dive head over to our substack at WorldbriefZMC.

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1:11

British Cops Arrest Man for - Allegedly - Calling...

World Brief with Zach McCormick ·

2025/09/08

Send us a text Is it illegal to call someone a “muppet” in England? Yes, yesterday a man was arrested by British police for, allegedly, calling someone a “muppet”. For more, take a look at our Substack at WorldBriefZMC.

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1:22

What's the Real Reason for the Cracker Barrel Rebrand...

World Brief with Zach McCormick ·

2025/08/26

Send us a text What’s the real reason for the backlash to the Cracker Barrel Rebrand? It’s not what you may think -- it might be fatigue from non-stop corporate authoritarianism. Take a listen and tell us what you think. For a deep dive and a comment on Cracker Barrel’s last PR stunt (the ‘great syrup debacle’), take a look at our Substack at WorldBriefZMC and be sure to subscribe and vote in the poll — link in the bio.

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1:25

BlackRock Takes Over WEF

World Brief with Zach McCormick ·

2025/08/18

Send us a text In a quiet announcement released on Friday, the World Economic Forum(“WEF”), announced that its CEO, Larry Fink, has taken over as interim “co-chair” of the infamous organization. Deep dive on Substack at WorldBriefZMC.

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Echoes of Nero: LA Wildfire Land Grab

World Brief with Zach McCormick ·

2025/08/15

Send us a text Is there a connection between the Roman Emperor Nero and the LA Wildfires? Yes. Nero infamously “fiddled” while Rome burned to the ground and then took the land and built a palace on it. Now, something similar may be happening to some victims of the LA wildfires. California law was changed this year to allow the local government to use public funds to buy up the homes and land of the victims of the 2025 LA Fires and we discuss the similarities. Head to our substack for the Deep...

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0:51

News Flash: Monday August 11, 2025 - Flooding,...

World Brief with Zach McCormick ·

2025/08/11

Send us a text Its August 11, 2025 this is your News Flash Once in a thousand years floods in Wisconsin, explosion at chemical plant in Pennsylvania, tropical storm Erin in the Atlantic target east coast. If you know anything about these events please leave a comment below.

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Hiking Banned in Canada

World Brief with Zach McCormick ·

2025/08/11

Send us a text Is it illegal to hike on public land? Yes, in parts of Eastern Canada. In Nova Scotia - which shares a border with Maine- it is now a criminal offense to hike, camp or drive through the woods on “Crown Land” (public property), from August 5 and October 15, 2025. Violators may be fined as much as $25,000 for violations of the proclamation and at least one man has already been ticketed. The new law applies to some privately owned land as well. At least two...

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1:30

Universal ID v. Illegal Immigration

World Brief with Zach McCormick ·

2025/08/04

Send us a text Could a “Digital ID” stop illegal immigration? Yes, if you’re in the UK or so it has been claimed. According to the British think tank Labour Together, that’s precisely what the “Britcard” would do. The organization, whose ideas have been echoed by British Prime Minister Kier Starmer, thinks that a digital ID that ties everything from citizenship status to health and finance records together is just what the UK needs.

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1:26

ID Required to Watch Youtube?

World Brief with Zach McCormick ·

2025/08/01

Send us a text Will you need ID to watch videos on YouTube? Yes, even in the US, starting August 13th, 2025, if the AI thinks you’re under 18 you might have to provide an ID for full access. In a move that mirrors the ID verification laws that have recently taken effect in the UK and EU countries, YouTube has announced that it will use AI to determine whether a viewer is 18 or older (purportedly based upon viewing habits). If the AI works as advertised then adult users won’t even know...

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1:28

Extradited 4 Free Speech?

World Brief with Zach McCormick ·

2025/07/28

Send us a text If you’re in the US, could you be arrested for violating a foreign country’s online speech laws? Yes at least in theory. Through a process called extradition, a foreign country (like the UK for example), could decide that you’ve violated their new “Online Safety Act” (OSA), and have you arrested in the US. What’s more, under the terms of the treaty, the UK could have your assets seized too. Fortunately, the chance of this happening is still pretty low but wi...

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1:27

The American Home Buying System is Broken

World Brief with Zach McCormick ·

2025/07/22

Send us a text If you ask this question: "Is the American home buying system normal?" Objectively, the answer is "no". For the most part, the current system — which revolves around 30 year mortgages — was created by central banks to conceal their inflationary policies and make property seem affordable — the old “who cares what the price is if the payments are low?” trick (a ploy that may be familiar to anyone who has shopped at an auto dealership). Sure there have been 'shiny baub...

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Wifi Tracking Your Movements In-home?

World Brief with Zach McCormick ·

2025/06/30

Send us a text Xfinity (whose parent company is Comcast), now offers a service called “WiFi Motion” which allows users (in select areas) to monitor motion inside their home using nothing more than the WiFi signals. Functioning like radar, the system depends upon special internet routers which have new high-performance processors. These powerful chips have the capacity to use AI and machine learning to analyze how the WiFi signals interact when an object moves through them an...

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1:29

War & Pizza? How Restaurant Traffic Can Predict...

World Brief with Zach McCormick ·

2025/06/17

Send us a text Can wait times at pizza restaurants predict war? Yes but only in certain locations and at certain times of the day. For example a popular account on X called the “Pentagon Pizza Report” follows real-time customer traffic numbers at the restaurants around the Pentagon (the “nerve center” for the American military) and these numbers seem to correlate to heightened states of military activity at those nearby government installations. The theory is that, when crisis ari...

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Riot Incorporated: Who's Making Money Off Riots?

World Brief with Zach McCormick ·

2025/06/10

Send us a text “Professional agitators” definitely get paid for stirring up trouble but it’s not clear who’s actually paying THEM. Following apparent top-level security briefings on the subject, President Trump branded the 2025 LA Anti-ICE riots as being fueled by “agitators”. While some dismissed these claims, they appear to have been corroborated by LAPD Chief of Police Jim McDonnell in a press interview where he acknowledged that there are people in the crowd “who do this all t...

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