A combination of strong trends in precious metals prices and growing anxiety over the nation’s economic future has driven many Americans to invest in physical precious metals. Central banks are quietly buying as much as possible to protect their vast assets so why shouldn’t average Americans do the same with their wealth and retirement? The surge in interest has sparked precious metals companies both new and old to scramble for a piece of the pie. But as Jonathan Rose, CEO of Genesis Gold Group, recently noted during an interview, buying gold and silver is not like buying other commodities. “The prices being charged for precious metals, especially for self-directed IRAs, can range from reasonable all the way to absolutely bonkers,” he said. “It’s very sad whenever I see the details of deals Americans were pressured into making because I know they were ripped off by predatory gold companies.” In the world of numismatic precious metals investments, there are many companies that charge triple-digit margin percentages to drive insane profits. The gap between wholesale and retail can be so great that “unburying” clients of “Big Gold” companies can be nearly impossible. Genesis Gold Group is a faith-driven precious metals company. As such, they operate transparently and with integrity when they help Americans roll over or transfer their retirement accounts into a Genesis Gold IRA. “There are certain signs I tell people to watch for if they’re engaging with any precious metals company,” Rose said. “The biggest alarm bell is when companies offer ‘free’ silver in exchange for their purchases. ‘Free’ silver offers are a sure sign the company is dramatically overcharging for their metals.” Another differentiator with Genesis Gold Group versus other companies is in the metals mix. Companies tend to stuff the bars and coins with the highest profit margins into their gold IRAs. Genesis Gold Group works very closely with their clients to put together the best metals mix for their individual situations. That often means a combination of bullion, numismatics, and utility metals that allows their clients the flexibility they’ll need in the future. “We spend a ton of effort making sure our clients have all the information they need to make an informed decision,” Rose said. “An educated client is the best client which is why we take time to fill any knowledge gaps before the relationship begins.” The company offers a free, definitive gold guide that walks potential clients through the unique process Genesis Gold Group has crafted over the years. Arguably the most important attribute that differentiates Genesis Gold Group from “Big Gold” companies is the speed in which their clients can receive their physical metals through distributions or account changes. It can take weeks or even months for the vast majority of precious metals companies to move metals from IRA depositories to their clients. “We are very proud that we can get metals in the hands of our customers in just a few days when they close their accounts or take distributions,” Rose said. “That’s particularly appealing to our clients considering the state of affairs in America. “If and when turmoil hits, we want those who have trusted Genesis Gold Group to take possession of their metals quickly when they need it most.” Reach out to Genesis Gold Group today to receive the Definitive Gold Guide and learn more about the safe haven of physical precious metals. ALSO…HAVE YOU SEEN THIS? “Wealth In Your Wallet”: New Prepper Bar Disrupts Gold and Silver Industry (Note: Thank you for supporting American businesses like the one presenting a sponsored message in this article and working with them through the links in this article which benefit WLTReport. We appreciate your support and the opportunity to tell you about Genesis Gold!  The information provided by WLTReport or any related communications is for generalized generalized informational purposes only and should not be considered as personal financial advice. We do not provide personalized investment, financial, or legal advice.)  RELATED: Costco Gold Selling Out Within Hours... Last week I told you that Costco would begin selling gold. They have, and they can't keep it in stock. Selling out within hours! As you know, I'm a big fan of gold and I've been telling you about it here for a while... I was on this before Costco, which is why so many people love and trust our reporting...because we beat the MSM and now we're beating the big retailers like Costco! By the way, keep reading and I can get you connected with someone who has MUCH BETTER prices than Costco for gold and silver... But first, the news: Costco, $COST, is selling one-ounce gold bars and they are selling out within a few hours, per CNBC. — unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) September 27, 2023 Costco is apparently selling gold bars that consumers are snapping up at a record pace. https://t.co/BVMASNZ4An — Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) September 29, 2023 From Breitbart: Costco is apparently selling gold bars that consumers are snapping up at a record pace. On Wednesday, CNBC described the gold bars as one-ounce gold PAMP Suisse Lady Fortuna Veriscan bars. They were reportedly being sold for approximately $1,900, the outlet said. Costco’s chief financial officer, Richard Galanti, said Tuesday during the company’s quarterly earnings call that the bars were selling fast. “I’ve gotten a couple of calls that people have seen online that we’ve been selling 1 ounce gold bars. Yes, but when we load them on the site, they’re typically gone within a few hours, and we limit two per member,” he commented. When Breitbart News searched the Costco website Thursday morning, the company had listed the gold bars as a “Member Only Item,” and buyers must sign into their accounts to view the price: And from ZeroHedge: Just think about this for a moment: people are buying gold from Costco. This tells us that the average American has grown so weary of our government's reckless spending and the Fed's irresponsible monetary policy that they literally want to fill their shopping cart — online or in person — with something they know is real money. From People: The retail giant has recently been selling 1 oz. bars of authentic 24-karat gold from South African mining company Rand Refinery and Swiss precious metal supplier PAMP Suisse on their website for $1,949.99 and $1,979.99, respectively, according to Insider. According to the product details on Costco’s page, Rand Refinery’s gold bars are individually stamped with a unique serial number and arrive in a sealed black assay card, while PAMP Suisse’s gold bars are individually “controlled, registered, and secured” within CertiPAMP packaging with an official Assay Certificate and a digital certificate accessed with a QR Code. Both items are non-refundable, provide air shipping via UPS and currently have a 4.9 out of 5 average rating on the company’s website, with one member writing on Rand Refinery’s gold bar customer rating that it was a “beautiful piece of gold” and “brand new.” It's an incredible commentary on the average American citizen. Americans are literally choosing to transact U.S. dollars for gold. Now keep reading for our original report and for a place to get gold and silver with better pricing that Costco: Costco To Begin Selling Gold I love it when we beat the big players to the table. We take great pride in our reporting and I love to see when that reporting is confirmed like what just happened here. For the past few months we've been telling you that it might be time to look into Gold and Silver. You know, "God's Money". Since the beginning of time, that has been the only enduring sound money. So it made sense, especially as they print the U.S. Dollar into oblivion. When you can just print trillions of new Dollars whenever you want, it doesn't take an economist to realize that soon the Dollars in your pocket have less value. They're literally "worth less" and in the future may even be entirely "worthless". But Gold and Silver have always endured. We've been telling you over and over and what just happened this week? Now Costco is telling you. In addition to selling you 18 bottles of ketchup and a 32-pack of Mac-and-Cheese, Costco will now be selling GOLD. Simple question, and again it doesn't take an economist to figure this out: What do you think all that increased Demand is going to do to the price of Gold? Yup. Looks like Costco is joining the gold trade. In time we may see a run for gold bars where lineups out the door at Costco not for groceries but for gold. #gold #costco pic.twitter.com/JGstjxdilL — Mario Stifano (@Mario_Stifano) September 6, 2023 This is a bit technical, but it shows just how well Gold has done recently: While $GOLD prices may be falling, it's important to remember that gold has held up extremely well considering the rise in real yields on treasuries. Once real yields inevitably fall, gold prices can be expected to soar. pic.twitter.com/3q7TKPIZTi — GOLY ETF Fan | Stocks & Gold (@GOLY_ETF) August 27, 2023 Many are saying the Costco pricing is "not great" on Gold: Costco getting a piece of the action! #Gold Can't complain about Costco's service however the premium on their 1 OZ Gold Offer is STEEP! Check the link in the comments to get the best hookup on your Precious Metals! pic.twitter.com/p9bM8hrmzF — Zach Rector (@ZachRector7) September 10, 2023 From The Daily Mail: Bulk-buy retailer Costco starts selling GOLD worth up to £24,500 in its supermarkets - but shoppers are warned to be wary because of violent price fluctuations Bulk-buy specialist Costco is now offering bars of gold for up to £24,500 a time Experts warned people could be getting a poor deal after swings in gold market The price of gold has risen 28 per cent in past 12 months, but it's a volatile market It's not an item likely to be on the weekly shopping lists of many households – but one supermarket giant has started selling gold bullion alongside its everyday groceries. Bulk-buy specialist Costco, more normally known for its ‘pile-’em-high, sell-’em-cheap’ philosophy, is now offering bars of the precious metal for up to £24,500 a time. But experts last night warned shoppers they could be getting a poor deal, particularly after violent swings in the gold market this year. While the company’s mark-up on gold is up to seven per cent on the market rate, it is also selling silver bars at a whopping 28 per cent premium. Many investors have been turning to what they see as the security of gold this year, amid huge uncertainties in the world economy caused by Covid-19, international tensions and political discord in America. But while the price of gold has risen by 28 per cent in the past 12 months to almost $1,900 (£1,469) an ounce, it is a volatile market, declining by more than six per cent in the past two months alone. On September 24, Costco’s 100g bar was on sale for £4,939.99, when the market price for that much gold was £4,619.70 – equal to a seven per cent mark-up in store. Now, take this and remember what Andy Schectman just told us.... Have you seen this? Gold and Silver: "No one wants to sell at these make believe prices" I've been telling you for a long time now that Gold and Silver are vastly undervalued. I'm not a financial advisor and I can't tell you what to do, but I can look at historical data and I can easily see that the current price of Gold and Silver makes no sense unless....it's being manipulated. Now who would want to do that? And the more important question: will it go on forever, or do the manipulators eventually release the stretched rubber band and ride an explosion up? I've you've been paying attention in life, you know the answer. You know these crooks on Wall Street manipulate things down, then they load their boats, then they manipulate them up into a bubble. Where are we in that process right now for commodities like Gold and Silver? Right exactly where I placed that star up above. = You Are Here The Big Boys are loading their boats. But that's not just my opinion. I'm a nobody. Listen to Andy Schectman who is an expert on these things and he lays it out PERFECTLY in two minutes. Here's my rough paraphrase: "A concerted effort by the very powerful to use the suppression of commodities (gold, silver, but also a long list of all other commodities)...these countries are not complaining about suppressed low prices yet because they're accumulating!  But once it becomes obvious that the availability of these commodities is very scarce and no one wants to sell at these "make believe prices" then the public says "OMG, what have we been missing?"  And maybe that all happens in concert with a breakdown of the banking system, then the public says "give it to me now" and that's when you'll see the circuit breakers be put into affect.  But at that point it's too late." Oh my! It's so much better to listen to him explain it in his own words. It's just 2 minutes long. Watch here (as presented by my friend the Digital Asset Investor): Comex 589 pic.twitter.com/uPzrOGXhZ5 — Digital Asset Investor (@digitalassetbuy) September 11, 2023 But it's not just Andy either. It's this latest interview over at SGT Report. Sean does such a great job over there of interviewing people on topics the MSM doesn't want you to see, and his latest is called "$1,000 Silver -- Seriously, Stop Laughing". There's actually a lot of history that goes into that quote and this was a great discussion by four very smart individuals. Watch here: I've been sounding the alarm for a while now... Have you taken action? As always, there's one thing I always say and it's never been proven wrong:  Watch what they DO, not what they SAY. Who is "they"? The same people Andy Schectman was talking about. Big Governments. Central Banks all over the world. Big Business. What are they doing? They are LOADING THEIR BOATS with as much Gold and Silver as they can find and they're laughing all the way to the bank because they're buying at what Andy says are "make believe prices". Are you? After the Great Financial Crash of 2008, I made a decision. From that point forward, I would simply do what the Big Boys were doing. I would simply watch what they're doing and copy it. Oh, and if they had Jim Cramer telling people the OPPOSITE (i.e. Cramer says Gold is a loser, but the Central Banks are buying with both fists) that was usually the perfect confirmation I needed. So that's been my strategy since 2008 and it's worked very well for me. Here's more.... Here's Why Banks Are Buying Up All of the Gold I've got Jordan Peterson and Peter Schiff in a fascinating conversation about the Value of Gold. And it's not just some academic debate. This could very soon be one of the most important things in your world when the U.S. Dollar crashes and gets its value cut in half....or worse. These guys know what they're talking about and this short 8 minute clip is definitely worth your time to watch. I always say this: don't listen to what the "Elites" tell you....watch what they are DOING. And what are they doing? Stacking gold and silver. As much as they can get their hands on. Look, I hope I'm wrong but I think we're in for a massive event that is going to destroy bank accounts and destroy the U.S. Dollar. So what happens to YOU when that happens? Watch this and then scroll down for how I can help you stay safe right now.... Watch: For those who can't listen, here's the transcript (and then scroll down for what YOU can do right now!  That's the most important thing!): One of the reasons that people are so arrogant particularly in America that the dollar status is not in jeopardy and so that we can keep on running these huge deficits we can create keep on creating inflation and the world's got no choice right but to stick with the dollar because are they going to go to the euro are they going to go to the Yen you know the pound I mean they're winning B I agree all of those currencies also have problems and so do you really want to switch from one flawed fiat currency to another even if those other Fiat currencies may be less flawed than the dollar right do you really want to make that shift I don't think that that's what's going to happen what everybody is missing is that there is an alternative to the dollar that doesn't involve another fiat currency and that's gold that is real money everybody forgets that for thousands of years gold was money it was money because it worked now over the course of time uh we had paper currencies that would rise and fall I mean hundreds of years ago they were paper currencies that are now worthless and you don't even know their names you know they come and go but gold has has stayed you know gold works as money and so I think what these central banks are going to do is as they get out of dollars they will just increase their Holdings of gold gold will be the monetary anchor gold will be the reserve monetary asset just the way it was before the dollar it wasn't the British pound I mean the British pound was a dominant currency but gold was what everybody owned the British back to pounds do you see any do you see any evidence that some of these alternate currencies are starting to back their currency claims with gold oh yeah you can what's happening on the central banks are now buying more gold than they've bought in in in decades especially a lot of the uh you know the Emerging Market countries not even maybe so much the United States isn't buying any gold and maybe you know some of the more mature uh countries but a lot of other countries that had predominantly held dollars and then to a lower degree Euros or Yen or pounds these countries are increasingly buying gold that's why gold is at a record high I mean Gold's around two thousand dollars an ounce but in terms of just about every other currency on the planet gold has been hitting all-time record highs uh and again that's not really gold going up that's all these Fiat currencies going down but what are the reasons that countries would want gold as opposed to the dollar is the US government doesn't have any control over it you know gold is an asset that's not also somebody else's liability and nobody could create it you have to mine it no one country you know has the advantage so you know why would you want to take away uh that that privilege that the United States has and just bestow it on somebody else who is going to abuse it the same way I mean the United States abused that privilege that we had and we we we exported all this inflation to the world we took advantage of the this the position that we were in uh so why would you want to put another nation in in a position to similarly take advantage of the world it's much better to go back to to honest money and again even when we were on Bretton Woods before you know 1971 and we were on the dollar standard it was because the dollar was backed by gold again if you held dollars you held gold that's where the saying came from the dollar is as good as gold in fact the legal definition of a dollar is a is a weight of gold that's what a dollar is dollars are gold the the the paper currency that circulated Federal Reserve notes are not dollars they are notes of the Federal Reserve initially the those Federal Reserve notes were payable in dollars the dollars were the gold that the Federal Reserve notes paid because if you think about what a note is a note is a promise to pay something a Federal Reserve Note is supposed to pay something well what did it pay it paid gold it paid dollars today Federal Reserve notes pay nothing their ious nothing the Federal Reserve is not obligated to give you anything I mean if you have a ten dollar bill okay so people people might object and they and they have that well gold is just another arbitrary standard of value it has some intrinsic worth it's useful for jewelry it's useful for certain industrial applications but it's just another psychologically valuable currency without any intrinsic value and so it shouldn't be a repository of value in principle that's any more stable than let's say a well-managed or even a badly managed fiat currency and so what do you what do you why is it that gold has proved itself let's say over centuries or Millennia as a storehouse of value what is it about gold intrinsically let's say that seems to have given it that edge the idea that gold doesn't have any intrinsic value is just pure nonsense it's obviously politicians have a vested interest in in trying to diminish gold as a monetary alternative to the Fiat system and even now you have a lot out of cryptocurrency enthusiasts who say the same thing well you know gold has no value because they want to justify something like Bitcoin which also has no value and say well gold worked as money and it has no value so so Bitcoin could work well it's not true that gold has no value gold is the most valuable the most useful metal on the periodic table gold became money because it was such a valuable commodity but gold has a lot of properties that make it uniquely qualified to be money more so than than other Commodities that's why gold was so successful over the centuries as money because people preferred to use it as money it wasn't governments that decided gold is going to be money the people decided that gold was going to be money and once the people decided that gold was going to be money if you were a king you know well you would tax people in Gold because if you wanted to pay your soldiers to protect you your soldiers wanted gold right so it was the money created in the free market and it beat out all other forms of money because gold you know a gold coin uh all they're all all the same you could melt gold down and you can make it into coins uh it's fungible it's portable it's divisible but the other aspect of goal that is the key you can save gold because if I have an ounce of gold in 100 years in a thousand years it's exactly the same it doesn't lose any of its properties and in fact even if I take my gold and I make you know I make a ring out of it or I I use it to make a watch right you can melt this ring down and you get your gold back and it's exactly the way it was you could do something else with it there's really no other metal you can keep using it over and over and over again I mean they fill teeth with gold if you find somebody buried in the ground you know you could take their fillings and you know the Gold's still there you know there treasure ships from the 1400s 1500s they sink if they recover the wreckage the only thing that's still there is the goal it's an it looks exactly the way it looked when the sink when the ship sank 500 years ago so from a point of savings because money has to satisfy three primary conditions two of them are a unit of account an immediate exchange but the third one is the store value and that's important because it's also makes it possible to do loans that I can borrow money you can lend money and you can be repaid and you know that the money that you're going to get repaid is going to retain its value and so that's something that gold that gold does better than than other metals but the value of gold even if I'm not using my gold today as a metal let's say I have gold stored in a safe and you say well you know you're not using it for anything that's true but I'm preserving the future use of that gold somebody in the future is going to need that gold and so I'm storing it right now because you know there are more uses for gold that are discovered all the time because of its very unique properties I'm sure in a hundred years or a thousand years there will be more uses for gold than there are now So, what can YOU do to protect yourself? To protect your family? To stay safe? Simple: you need to get some #Gold or #Silver in your own possession. It's called "physical" gold and silver. Not paper traded garbage on the stock exchanges that isn't backed by anything. Don't touch that stuff. I have two special hook-ups for you. Both involve PHYSICAL gold and silver. Because if you do NOTHING else, make sure you own "physical" gold and silver, not paper contracts. The paper contracts (like stock ticker SLV and GLD) could very well go POOF one day and disappear or go to zero, because they're not actually backed by the gold and silver they claim to represent. It's a massive game of musical chairs out there and when the music stops (and I think it will stop soon...) people who only own paper might find themselves owning something not worth the paper it's literally written on. And I know you'll never forget it if I give you this GIF so....Let's Get Physical: Now...WHERE do you get physical gold and silver and how do you know it's real and safe? And that you're getting the best price? Oh, and how about personal one-on-one real customer service? You know, like you were some Big Wig millionaire at Goldman Sachs who could just call their personal banker and get help? That's what I'm about to tell you.   I have two killer connections for you... The first is for purchasing gold and silver bullion. That means bulk bars. That's the cheapest and most economical way to do it, to stretch your dollar into as much gold and silver as possible. The website is called WLT Precious Metals and when you see my logo in the top left-hand corner, you'll know you're in the right place. You'll get a personal phone call with Ira Bershatsky (or someone on his team) and they will work with you free of charge for as long as needed to answer any questions you have and get you taken care of. How about that! You don't see that much anymore, but Ira and his team pride themselves on good old-fashioned real customers service: No sales pitch, just real, actual help. And the best prices you will find. Here's the only disclaimer I will give you: because they do pride themselves on dedicated service, it might take a few days before you get a phone call back.  Just be patient. Good things come to those who wait! You can contact Ira and WLT Precious Metals here. Ok, that was #1. Now I want to tell you about option #2. An equally great company, I am so happy to be working with these guys. This next company is called Genesis Gold and this is for people who want to purchase real physical gold or silver in their IRAs (Investment Retirement Accounts). You know what the beauty of that is? TAX FREE baby! I'm not a tax advisor, but that's a general oversimplification. Never pay more taxes than you are legally required to pay. And that's why I love getting gold and silver in my IRA (and why I hold a large chunk in an IRA myself!). There's so much to love about Genesis Gold, starting with the fact they are proudly and un-ashamedly Christina! They call it "Faith-Driven Stewardship" and they put it right on the homepage of their website along with a quote from Ezekiel: Wealth Preservation With Gold & Silver – The Genesis Gold IRA By your wisdom and your understanding you have made wealth for yourself, and have gathered Gold and Silver into your treasuries – EZEKIEL 28:4 Genesis Gold Group believes the Bible gives clues on how man-made currencies (paper money) represent instability, and a lack of virtue and encourages living wastefully in excess. Conflicts have beleaguered us since the dawn of civilization, and they can all be encapsulated into one battle. The battle is between currency, man-made paper, and gold and silver — the two precious metals found in our Earth’s crust, sent to us by our Lord to use as money. Man-made currency always leads nations down the path to increased war, greed, and ultimate collapse. History has shown that abandoning gold and silver has always been a bad idea. Gold and Silver enforce discipline, nurture self-constraint, self-reliance, and balance, and lead to confidence, a restrained government, and a more stable foreign policy. Genesis Gold Group believes in empowering faith-driven stewardship with Gold & Silver are an integral part of a balanced portfolio. Protecting your finances with precious metals has never been more crucial during these trying times. With a combined 50-plus years in the precious metals industry, let your Genesis gold and silver experts guide you through the simplicity of asset protection and growth with our Genesis Gold IRA. Sincerely, Genesis Gold Group Empowering Faith-Driven Stewardship Oh....and they're VERY good at what they do. You also get physical gold and silver with Genesis, believe it or not!  The gold and silver is purchased for you (in whatever combination of coins and bars you prefer, a picture taken and sent to you, and then stored safely in a vault for you! I love what these guys are doing. Here's more on why gold and silver in your IRA are so powerful: You can contact Genesis Gold here. They are also very backed up with record demand, so you may have to wait a bit, but someone WILL get in touch with you for personal customer service and assistance! Tell 'em Noah sent ya! Oh, and did you know Genesis is recommended by SUPERMAN himself? It's true. Superman himself, Clark Kent -- Dean Cain -- came on my show a few weeks ago and we broke it all down: Watch here: Stay safe! Make sure you can weather the storm when it hits! Because the storm always hits eventually, doesn't it? As for me and my house, we will be ready.

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The bond between humans and dogs goes way back. Still, it seems we’re always finding new evidence that proves just how special this bond truly is — both for us humans and our animal friends. There are numerous ways our dogs express their love for us, and one of the sweetest ways takes place in the viral video below. This special moment was shared by a pregnant woman named Heaven Leigh. In the video, we see Heaven and her dog relaxing together. Her dog, Rosie, looks oh-so cozy as she snuggles up against Mom’s belly. Then, something amazing happens: The baby kicks! Best of all, it’s clear Rosie feels it, too She expresses this by letting out emotional whines, all while wagging her tail. As Heaven explains, this seems to be her dog’s way of crying! @heavenly06241127 Now we’re both crying. She switched to straddling my belly to feel the kicks and was wagging her tail with each one #pregnant #kick #baby #pregnancy #dogsoftiktok #love #fyp ♬ come into my arms – november ultra But don’t worry, these aren’t cries of sadness. On the contrary, little Rosie couldn’t be happier about the new addition to their family. Not only can this be seen in her happy tail wags, but it’s also clear in the way she can’t get enough of feeling the baby kick. Truly, dogs are too precious for words! Sweet Dog Gets Emotional When She Feels Mom’s Baby Kick for the First Time “Now we’re both crying,” Heaven shares in the caption of her video. “She switched to straddling my belly to feel the kicks and was wagging her tail with each one.” “Oh she loves her tiny hooman already,” someone writes in the comments, with another adding, “Now [we’re] ALL crying.” “The purest, kindest, most undeserved love on the planet comes from dogs,” someone else points out. You can find the source of this story’s featured image here! The post Precious: Dog Feels Baby Kick In Mom’s Belly & Has Sweetest Reaction appeared first on InspireMore.

Coldplay, formed in 1996 at University College London, quickly rose to fame with their debut album Parachutes in 2000. The band consists of lead vocalist and pianist Chris Martin, guitarist Jonny Buckland, bassist Guy Berryman, and drummer Will Champion. Known for their melodic pop rock, Coldplay has released nine studio albums, achieving worldwide fame and numerous awards, including seven Grammy Awards. Their music has consistently topped charts globally, making them one of the best-selling music artists. Coldplay’s sound has evolved over the years, incorporating various styles including alternative rock, pop, and electronic. Chris Martin Chris Martin, the lead vocalist and The post Complete List Of Coldplay Band Members appeared first on ClassicRockHistory.com.

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Millions of people will visit the USA's various national parks this summer. But as temperatures continue to rise, visitors are being urged to consider the risks of extreme heat; it is not only a threat to their health, but makes rescue missions more dangerous too.To say Death Valley is a hot place would be a hell of an understatement (pun intended). It is both the hottest place on Earth and the driest in North America. In summer, temperatures often tip over 49°C (120°F), and that’s in the shade!And yet the startlingly beautiful, if not hideously hot, national park is also a hot spot for tourists and avid hikers. Every year, park rangers in Death Valley have to respond to overheated visitors multiple times a week during the summer months. That’s becoming a predictable routine, but in recent years the extreme heatwaves have also led to a number of deaths annually, The Atlantic reports.Heat exhaustion and heatstroke are a big concern. When our bodies overheat, especially in hot conditions when we are exerting ourselves (such as hiking in summer heat), heat exhaustion can kick in. The symptoms vary, but can include nausea, headaches, heavy sweating, low blood pressure, muscle cramps, fatigue, cool and moist skin with goose bumps despite being in the heat, and even fainting.But if immediate action is not taken to seek medical aid and to cool off when this occurs, then things can get much worse. Heatstroke is the most serious form of heat injury. It can occur if your body temperature rises to 40°C (104°F) or higher. If untreated, heatstroke can lead to brain damage and also injury to your kidneys and muscles. It can also kill.This situation is bad enough in easy to reach locations, but for hikers who may experience issues out in the wilds of the USA’s national parks, it is even more troubling. For instance, the average summer temperatures at Death Valley impact air density. As temperatures rise, air expands and its density decreases. Essentially this means the air becomes too thin for helicopters to take off and to fly safely.When this happens, rescuers have to search by foot, which can also put them at risk from the same heat. So while they may want to do their utmost the help save struggling hikers, park managers also have to protect their teams' health too, especially if a lengthy search-and-rescue mission could result in more casualties.And the situation is likely to only get worse as the effects of climate change bring with them more frequent and increasingly severe heatwaves.Anyone visiting the parks this year should prepare for the hot weather and consult the National Park Service’s website for advice and updates on local conditions. Pack for heat, including the right food and plenty of water to stay hydrated, make sure you plan your routes and, above all, stop as soon as you start to experience heat-related issues.[H/T: The Atlantic]The content of this article is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of qualified health providers with questions you may have regarding medical conditions. 

The stuff that makes up animals, planets, and stars is just a small part of the matter scientists believe is out there. Five-sixths of all matter in the universe is believed to be an invisible substance known as dark matter. We do not know what it is because it doesn’t interact with light, only with gravity and with the weak nuclear force.That force is responsible for nuclear decay, and in the case of dark matter, it might lead the substance to annihilate. This process is expected to release ionizing radiation: light that can strip electrons from their molecules – and that's where Jupiter as a dark matter detector comes in.One of the most common ions in the universe is the trihydrogen cation (H3+). That is a molecule made of three hydrogen atoms that have lost one electron. Now imagine you have a large reservoir of hydrogen, massive enough to interact with the elusive dark matter: You could theoretically measure the amount of trihydrogen cations and work out the properties of dark matter."We point out that dark matter (DM) can produce an additional source of H3+ in planetary atmospheres," the study authors wrote in a paper on the topic. "This will be produced if DM scatters and is captured by planets, and consequently annihilates, producing ionizing radiation."The scientists, Carlos Blanco of Princeton University and Stockholm University, and Rebecca Leane of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University, looked at six hours' worth of data on Jupiter, three hours on either side of the planet's midnight. The data was collected by the Cassini mission as it passed by the night side of the planet in 2000Jupiter has a lot of hydrogen. It is very massive, the second heaviest object in the solar system. By looking at the night side, they looked at the portion hidden from the Sun. Sunlight can create these intriguing ions, so the approach reduces that contribution. The team found a signal – there is a certain amount of H3+  in the atmosphere of Jupiter’s nightside.Now, this doesn’t immediately mean that the signal is all caused by dark matter – it could be dark matter or other sources could cause it. But they can constrain some of the properties of the substance.The researchers believe that future observations might do even better. The European Space Agency’s JUICE mission can collect more sensitive measurements when it gets to Jupiter in the 2030s. It might also be possible to see the signal from more massive planets closer to the center of the Milky Way, where there’s more dark matter.A paper discussing the result is published in the journal Physical Review Letters.

The Left can’t stand that anyone would think Hunter Biden becoming a convicted felon waters down their talking point that Trump is a convicted felon. They worked hard to inflate some accounting entries for legal expenses into felonies. It’s much less serious in their minds that a crack addict lied about being an addict on a gun-purchase form so he was able to buy a gun that was later thrown in a trash can near a school. After Hunter Biden was found guilty of three felonies, Democrats tried to argue that having a “convicted felon” in both presidential families meant the Biden Justice Department wasn’t partisan or “weaponized.” Then the weaponizing began. Before the first presidential debate in Atlanta, the Democratic National Committee bought five billboards saying (in all capital letters) “Donald, welcome to Atlanta for the first time since becoming a convicted felon. Congrats – or whatever.” The Biden-Harris campaign also came out with a shameless ad slamming Trump with a litany of all the Democrat-prosecutor greatest hits: 34 felonies from Alvin Bragg, civil fraud from Letitia James, and department-store “sexual assault” in the nebulous E. Jean Carroll case. The Biden-Harris announcer proclaimed the race was a contrast “between a convicted criminal who’s only out for himself and a president who’s fighting for your family.” Biden’s for lowering health care costs, and making corporations “pay their fair share.” This partisan messaging was enhanced on MSNBC’s “Inside with Jen Psaki,” where the former White House press secretary touted this “very powerful” ad with a “very significant” budget.  She pressed deputy campaign manager Quentin Fulks to provide a “fiery” spin from Biden and all his spokespeople, all the time. The pro-Biden media will find this to be eminently factual and unobjectionable. They won't question the Democrats any more than Psaki would. No one’s going to ask how all this "convicted felon" messaging clashes with Hunter Biden, who can be defined as “only out for himself,” except for enriching his family with millions from dubious foreign sources in China and Russia and elsewhere. They also claim Hunter Biden is "not running for office" and never took a White House job like Ivanka Trump, so you can't connect the father and son somehow. On the morning of the CNN debate, CNN's screen graphic implied any attack on Hunter is unduly personal: "Biden prepared for Trump to attack his family." It's painted as rude to bring up Hunter Biden. It was never rude to attack Trump's sons and daughters. But earlier that morning, CNN host Kasie Hunt asked Biden campaign co-chair Cedric Richmond if Biden would throw the "convicted felon" tag at Trump on stage. He said, hey, "if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it's a duck. He's a convicted felon, and that's just who he is. And, by the way, he's a twice-impeached convicted felon. And so, it wasn't Joe Biden that did that. It was 12 American patriots who served as jurors that found him guilty, unanimously, on 34 counts." Their shamelessness extends to the forthcoming tax evasion trial for Hunter Biden in California. Unlike the gun case, this trial will deal with Hunter Biden's financial exploitation of his father's name when he was vice president. The gun case didn't connect to Joe Biden. The tax case clearly does. Democrats don't worry about how their "welcome, convicted felon" billboards might age. They count on a servile media to cry "no evidence" and "without evidence" about the Biden scandals from now until November.

Geoffrey Hinton made headlines for telling the BBC that artificial intelligence is an “extinction-level threat” to humanity. Hinton is no alarmist — he’s popularly dubbed the "godfather of AI" for creating the neural network technology that makes artificial intelligence possible. If anyone has authority to speak on the subject, it's him — and the world took notice when he did.In May of 2023, Hinton quit his decade-long career at Google to speak openly about what he believes are the existential dangers AI poses to us "inferior" carbon intelligences. Moreover, ChatGPT’s debut in November of 2022, just half a year earlier, had already sparked a global reaction of equal fascination and trepidation to what felt like our first encounter with an elusive technology that had now welcomed itself into our lives, whether we were ready for it or not.AI conjures up predictions of an Orwellian-like digital dystopia, one in which several oligarchs and AI overlords subject the masses to a totalitarian-like enslavement. There have been many calls for regulation over AI’s development to mitigate this risk, but to what extent would it be effective?Ironically, artificial intelligence was not elusive at all before November 2022; it had embedded itself into our lives long before ChatGPT made it en vogue. People were already unknowingly using AI whenever they opened their smartphone with facial recognition, edited a paper with Grammarly, or chatted with Siri, Alexa, or another digital assistant. Apple or Google Maps are constantly learning your daily routines through AI to predict your movements and improve your daily commute. Every time someone clicks on a webpage with an ad, AI learns more about his or her behaviors and preferences, which is information that is sold to third-party ad agencies. We’ve been engaging with AI for years and haven’t batted an eye until now.ChatGPT’s debut has become the impetus for the sudden global concern about AI. What is so distinct about this chatbot as opposed to other iterations of AI we have been engaging with for years that has inspired this newfound fascination and concern? Perhaps ChatGPT reveals what has been hiding silently in our daily encounters with AI: its potential or, as many would argue, its inevitability to surpass human intelligence.Prior to ChatGPT, our interactions with artificial intelligence were limited to "narrow AI," also known as “artificial narrow intelligence” (ANI), which is a program restricted to a single, particular purpose. Facial recognition doesn't have another purpose or capacity beyond its single task. The same applies to Apple Maps, Google's search algorithm, and other forms of commonplace artificial intelligence. ChatGPT gave the world its first glimpse into artificial general intelligence (AGI), AI that can seemingly take on a mind of its own. The objective behind AGI is to create machines that can reason and think with human-like capacity — and then surpass that capacity. Though chatbots similar to ChatGPT technically fall under the ANI umbrella, ChatGPT’s human-like, thoughtful responses, coupled with its superhuman capacity for speed and accuracy, are laying the foundation for AGI’s emergence. Reputable scientists with diverse personal and political views are divided over AGI’s limits.For example, the pioneering web developer Marc Andreessen says that AI cannot go beyond the goals that it is programmed with: [AI] is math—code—computers built by people, owned by people, controlled by people. The idea that it will at some point develop a mind of its own and decide that it has motivations that lead it to try to kill us is a superstitious hand wave.Conversely, Lord Rees, the former U.K. Astronomer Royal and a former president of the Royal Society, believes that humans will be a mere speck on evolutionary history, which will, he predicts, be dominated by a post-human era facilitated by AGI’s debut: Abstract thinking by biological brains has underpinned the emergence of all culture and science. But this activity—spanning tens of millennia at most—will be a brief precursor to the more powerful intellect of the inorganic, post-human era. So in the far future, it won’t be the minds of humans but those of machines that will most fully understand the cosmos.Elon Musk and a group of the world’s leading AI experts published an open letter calling for an immediate pause on AI development, anticipating Lord Rees’ predictions rather than Andreessen’s. Musk didn’t wait long to ignore his own call to action with the debut of X’s new chatbot Grok, which has similar capabilities to ChatGPT, along with Google’s Gemini and Microsoft’s new AI chatbot integrated with Bing’s search engine. Ray Kurzweil, trans-humanist futurist and Google’s head of development, famously predicted in 2005 that we would reach singularity by 2045, the point when AI technology would surpass human intelligence, forcing us to decide whether to integrate with it or be naturally selected out of evolution’s trajectory. Was he correct? The proof of these varying predictions will be in the pudding, which is being concocted in our current cultural moment. However, ChatGPT has brought timeless ethical questions in new clothing to the forefront of widespread debate. What does it mean to be human, and, as Glenn Beck poignantly asked in an op-ed, will AI rebel against its creator like we rebelled against ours? The fact that we are asking these questions on a popular scale is indicative that we are now in a new era of technology, one that strikes at deeply philosophical questions whose answers will set the tone for not only how we understand the nature of AI but moreover, how we grapple with our own nature. Living life without fearHow, then, should we mitigate the risk of our worst fears surrounding AI becoming a reality? Will we, its current master, inevitably become its slave?The latter fear often conjures up predictions of an Orwellian-like digital dystopia, one in which several oligarchs and AI overlords subject the masses to a totalitarian-like enslavement. There have been many calls for regulation over AI’s development to mitigate this risk, but to what extent would it be effective? The government will hold all the reins to AI’s power if directed toward private companies. If directed toward the government, tech moguls can just as easily become oligarchs as their rivals in the government. In either scenario, those at risk of AI’s enslavement have very little power to control their fate. However, one can argue that we have already dipped our toes into a Huxleyan-like enslavement, in which we have traded seemingly menial yet deeply human acts for the convenience technology serves on a digital platter. An Orwellian-like AI takeover won’t happen overnight. It will begin with surrendering the creative act of writing for an immediately generated paper “written” by an AI chatbot. It will progress when we forego the difficulty of forging meaningful human relationships with AI “partners” that will always be there for you, never challenge you, and constantly affirm you. An Orwellian future isn’t so unimaginable if we have already surrendered our freedom to AI on our own accord. Avoiding this Huxleyan-type of enslavement — the enslavement to AI’s convenience — requires falling deeply in love with being human. We may not be in charge of regulating the public and private roles in AI’s development, but we are responsible for determining its role in our daily lives. This is our most potent means of keeping AI in check: by choosing to labor in creativity, enduring the inconveniences and hardships of forging human relationships, and desiring things that ought to be worked for outside our immediate grasp. In short, we must work on being human and delighting in the fulfillment that emerges from this labor. Convenience is the gateway to voluntary enslavement. Our humanity is the cost of such a transaction and the anecdote.

Less investment, less entrepreneurship, lower incomes, and higher taxes affect many more than just ‘the rich.’