- ‘TECHNICALLY, THE U.S. IS BANKRUPT, but that’s just a word. Latest guesstimate of (unofficial) federal debt is $136 Trillion and rising around 9% annually, versus Treasury reporting Assets around $6 Trillion… either way, it’s an insolvent position, and even more bizarre, for the 29th year in a row, the federal government auditor attaches a ‘disclaimer’ to financials… [PETER ST ONGE]
- AMERICA IS PLAYING WHACK-A-MOLE as underground infrastructure is decades past service lives, with sewer lines increasingly backing up into home basements & buildings… EPA now estimates up to 75 thousand overflow incidents yearly from aging pipes… CDC reports over 7 million are annually affected by waterborne pathogens from overflow — like the 250 million gallons of sewage which leaked into the Potomac River already this year. Repair estimates are projected above $500 Trillion, if Congress gets around to it. [EPOCH TIMES]
- MUSIC IS GOOD FOR THE BRAIN, according to numerous observational studies, most recently of ten thousand over-70 listeners with nearly 40% showing relatively lower risk of cognitive decline. Other studies have reported; (1) musicians training before age 7 with a larger neural bridge between the brain’s two hemispheres; (2) that learning an instrument improves children’s 2nd-language acquisition & non-verbal reasoning; (3) that music training later in life is linked to slower age-related decline; (4) that professional musicians have more grey matter… [ECONOMIST]
- AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES, ROBOTAXIS, AND ELECTRIC VERTICAL AIRCRAFT are about to reinvent real estate and urban design in ways that are currently unimaginable to most. A brilliant analysis from Peter Diamandis. https://metatrends.substack.com/p/robotaxies-and-flying-cars-will-reinvent
- THOUGHTS FOR THE WEEK: Nearly 10% of newborns in the U.S. are from unauthorized immigrants – some 320,000, including illegals and from over 500 firms in China alone which coordinate CCP members to come here solely to deliver ‘anchor baby’ voters. Pew Research forecasts up to a million new voters by 2030 already qualified by loopholes in the 14th Amendment related to ‘Birthright Citizenship’…
- The latest slang term used by Gen Z and Gen Alpha to compare how a person outclasses or outshines another in looks, physique or life status is “mogging,”…
- In Asian countries where some six million unexploded landmines remain after wars, over 100 African ‘Pouched Rats’ are trained to sniff out explosive compounds like TNT… One star rat, who has cleared over 1.5 million square feet… was just honored with a statue in Cambodia – where over 60,000 people have been killed or wounded. [1440 DIGEST]
- When is enough political BS enough?
