“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.” — Voltaire (1694-1778)

A government that claims the authority to kill persons after they have been subdued, disarmed, tried, convicted and confined in prison has made a startling claim about the nature of political power. It claims not merely the authority to protect the innocent from violence, but the authority to inflict violence when no immediate threat exists.

It claims that the taking of human life, which it rightly condemns when committed by private individuals, somehow becomes morally permissible when committed by government agents. This is the fundamental contradiction of the death penalty: Government killing the helpless protects the living.

The Declaration of Independence offers a radically different understanding of government. All human beings possess natural rights, and governments are instituted to protect those rights. Government’s just powers derive solely from the consent of the governed. Government is not the owner of our lives. It is our creature, established to protect rights that precede its existence. Its authority is limited, and it cannot legitimately claim powers that the people whom it governs do not themselves possess.

Individuals possess a natural right to defend themselves against an unlawful attack. They may use necessary and proportionate force to repel an aggressor. Because the people possess that right, they can delegate it to the government, including to a military for defensive purposes. Government’s legitimate authority to wage defensive war is a moral and legal derivation of the people’s preexisting right of self-preservation.

But what right does an individual possess to kill a defeated enemy who has surrendered, is disarmed and locked in a jail cell? What right does a private person possess to execute a prisoner who no longer presents an immediate threat? None. The right of self-defense does not include the right to kill a helpless captive as retribution for a past offense.

And if the people do not possess that right, how can they delegate it to government? The principle is straightforward: Government cannot legitimately acquire, through the consent of the governed, a power that the governed themselves do not possess.

Confinement protects society. Execution reveals the state’s claim to omnipotence.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s plans to have a convicted defendant executed publicly and livestream the killing represent a particularly repulsive vision of state power. If implemented, such a spectacle would not demonstrate the strength of American civilization. It would advertise its moral depravity. It would turn the deliberate destruction of a human being into political entertainment, with the machinery of government serving as producer and promoter.

There is something profoundly disturbing about officials who would turn a human death into a public performance. What lesson would such a livestream teach? That the state is entitled to kill, that its violence deserves an audience, and that adults and children should watch with approval as the life of a powerless, wheelchair-bound prisoner is extinguished by military sharpshooters? That the proper response to wrongdoing is not the restraint of power but the celebration of its most lethal expression?

This is a cruel and unusual descent into barbarism, a glorification of government killing and an invitation to cultivate a culture of fear and death. Civilization advances when it restrains violence, even in response to terrible crimes. Barbarism advances when violence becomes an instrument of public spectacle and collective gratification.

The military’s involvement makes the proposal still more grotesque. The Department of Defense exists to defend the country against external threats, not to transform the execution of prisoners into a propaganda production. The armed forces should not be reduced to stagehands for a political morality play in which the government celebrates its power over a captive’s life.

A free society should be especially suspicious when government seeks to dramatize its capacity to kill. The Framers understood that all government power must be confined and limited, not worshiped. Publicly celebrated executions would encourage the opposite attitude: Reverence for the state’s ability to destroy rather than respect for its obligation to protect.

A government that wishes to demonstrate moral seriousness should protect the innocent, prosecute crime fairly, provide due process and confine dangerous offenders securely. Life imprisonment incapacitates a murderer without requiring society to pretend that killing is an act of healing. It also leaves open the possibility of correcting a wrongful conviction.

None of this diminishes the suffering of murder victims or their families. Their losses are profound, and their endless grief deserves compassion rather than political exploitation. But the state does not honor victims by imitating the violence that destroyed them. It honors them by establishing a system of justice that refuses to confuse vengeance with virtue.

The values underlying both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution reject a government with unlimited authority. The Framers established a limited government whose legitimacy depends on what was actually consented to by the governed. Consent is not a blank check, and a democratic majority cannot make every exercise of government power morally legitimate simply by funding it.

The death penalty transforms the government from the protector of life into its deliberate destroyer, then asks the public to call the destruction justice. A publicly streamed execution would take that contradiction to its obscene extreme, turning death into spectacle and state violence into pornographic entertainment.

A free people should reject this culture of death.

The measure of a civilized government is not how efficiently it kills a helpless prisoner, or how many spectators it can gather to watch. It is how faithfully it restrains its own power, even when anger, fear and the demand for vengeance make restraint politically inconvenient.

Government exists to protect our natural rights, not to become the final and unquestionable arbiter of who deserves to live. When the state claims that its right to kill is inherent and righteous, it demands a submission that no free people should grant.

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The European Commission has adopted a new standard requiring cellphones to be tested for radiation while touching the body — which is how people actually carry and use cellphones: in a pocket or against the skin. Meanwhile, a new study shows children’s brains absorb radiation at a higher rate than adults.

The European Commission has adopted a new standard requiring cellphones to be tested for radiation while touching the body — which is how people actually carry and use cellphones: in a pocket or against the skin.

Until now, phones were tested at a distance of 5 millimeters (mm) — about 0.2 inches — from the body. The new rule sets that distance at zero.

In what Environmental Health Sciences called a “world first,” the commission published the change on Sept. 7 in the Official Journal of the European Union, according to a press release from the France-based wireless radiation watchdog group Phonegate Alert.

However, the change won’t take effect until March 7, 2028, to give manufacturers time to transition.

Dr. Marc Arazi, Phonegate Alert’s founder and president, told The Defender the change is a “historic victory for European consumer protection and the culmination of nearly 10 years of campaigning against cellphone radiation testing protocols that failed to reflect real-world conditions of use.”

But Arazi also criticized the European Commission for giving telecommunication companies 18 months to transition to the new standard. “Why give manufacturers another 18 months when regulators have known about this problem for years?” he asked.

In 2020, France filed a formal objection against the European standard (EN 50566:2017) that allowed cellphones to be tested at 5 mm distance from the body.

Arazi told The Defender that in December 2025, the commission wrote to him, confirming that France’s objection had triggered the discussions that led to the commission’s decision last month to require testing at a distance of 0 mm. The Defender reviewed the letter, which Arazi requested not be made public.

76% of cellphones exceeded radiation limit when held next to skin

For years, Phonegate Alert has been fighting to force regulators to change the distance used when testing cellphones, Arazi said.

“Our whistleblowing and advocacy played a decisive role in bringing about this victory and compelled French health and political authorities to take action at the European Commission.”

France has a strong post-market surveillance program for cellphones, according to Environmental Health Sciences. The French National Frequency Agency (ANFR) buys cellphones on the market and independently tests their radiofrequency (RF) emissions to determine if they violate the EU’s limit.

Cellphone radiation is tested by measuring what’s called the specific absorption rate (SAR), which calculates how much RF radiation human tissue absorbs.

The European SAR limit is 2 watts/kilogram, according to Phonegate Alert’s press release. As of 2019, ANFR data showed that 76% of all cellphones on the European market exceeded that limit when touching the body.

Over the years, many cellphones also failed to meet the regulatory limit when held 5 mm from the body. As of Aug. 3, the ANFR had identified 65 cellphone models that were withdrawn from the market or had their SAR emission updated via software due to exceeding regulatory limits, according to Phonegate Alert.

For example, France in 2023 temporarily banned Apple’s iPhone 12 for emitting RF radiation levels above the legal limit.

‘The United States needs to catch up’

Miriam Eckenfels, director of the Children Health Defense (CHD) Electromagnetic Radiation (EMR) & Wireless Program, called the European Commission’s decision a “positive step” and encouraged U.S. policymakers and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), which oversees cellphone radiation testing, to follow suit.

Theodora Scarato, director of the Wireless and EMF Program for Environmental Health Sciences, agreed. She wrote in a statement:

“The United States needs to catch up with the rest of the world on this. For years manufacturers could choose what distance they radiation test their phones at.

“Now the FCC is signaling a shift with interim guidance that restricts the distance to 5 mm. However, companies can still choose the older guidance and hotspot radiation tests can use up to 10 mm.”

The FCC’s regulatory limit for cellphone radiation is an SAR of 1.6 watts per kilogram. But the agency’s own cellphone radiation test results — which Scarato obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request — show a cellphone that meets the limit when tested at a manufacturer’s chosen distance can exceed that limit when tested closer to the body, Scarato said.

The FCC refused to make its own testing results public, she added.

In a Jan. 12 letter to Congress, Scarato urged lawmakers to question the FCC on its lack of transparency and enforcement of cellphone radiation safety limits.

Children absorb more wireless radiation than adults, new study shows

The European Commission’s decision follows on the heels of a new study, published Sept. 2 in Physics in Medicine & Biology, showing children are especially vulnerable to cellphone radiation.

The study used 550 computer simulations to compare how much wireless radiation child and adult body models absorbed across 15 RF frequencies spanning 5G and anticipated 6G wireless technologies.

The authors found that child models’ whole-body radiation absorption rates were 1.5-1.9 times higher, at frequencies below 6 gigahertz, than the rates for adult models.

At higher frequencies, the child models absorbed more radiation in their brains compared to adult models.

The findings align with a 2018 study that found children can absorb up to 30 times more RF radiation in their hippocampus and 10 times more in the bone marrow of their skull compared to adults.

The authors of the new study also found that simulated 5G frequencies caused beamforming — which occurs when 5G RF signals form a narrow, directed beam. Beamforming created wireless radiation “hotspots” in the body.

At some frequencies, the hotspots exceeded absorption limits in both child and adult models, even though the radiation reaching the skin was within the regulatory limit.

HHS needs to hear from the public by next week

Eckenfels said the new study highlights how much still needs to be addressed. “We are rolling out technology with higher and higher frequencies, having very limited data on the health impacts — especially when it comes to children.”

Now is the time to speak out, she said. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is seeking public input through Oct. 21 on the possible harmful effects of RF radiation on human health and the environment.

CHD created an action alert that walks people through how to submit a comment to HHS.

The FCC is also seeking public input through Oct. 22 as it responds to a 2021 federal court order requiring the agency to address evidence and concerns about the adverse effects of wireless radiation on human health and the environment.

The court order also required the FCC to provide a reasoned explanation for its decision to retain cellphone testing procedures that allow for a separation distance. CHD created another action alert for how to submit a comment to the FCC.

Related articles in The Defender

• ‘Children Are Uniquely Vulnerable’: Read CHD CEO Mary Holland’s Comment to HHS on Wireless Radiation
• Kids Need Greater Protection From Wireless Radiation, Scientists Say
• Court Gives FCC 30 Days to Respond to CHD Petition on Wireless Harms

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This article was written by Brandon Smith and originally published at Birch Gold Group

The young do not think about getting old, and this is to the greatest benefit of governments which spend and inflate younger generations out of any future subsidies they might one day come to rely on. For most people in Gen Z, though, there is at least a tacit acknowledgment that they are paying into a system that might not be there for them when they retire. However, their only point of reference is usually the rantings of their socialist college professors or a mob of crazed activists on TikTok.

So, naturally, the only solution they can come up with is MORE power for government, more taxation, more communism and more redistribution of wealth. In other words, give more control and more cash over to the state which already misspent their money.

The idea of pillaging the wealth of others as a shortcut to security for a single generation is not new. This plan is doomed to fail, as it has failed in nearly every socialist system with a population larger than around 10 million people.

Even in “market-capitalist welfare states” that are often cited as “successful” like Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland, the ability to continue retirement funding at a rate which provides a livable wage is only possible if the retiring population is much smaller than the working population.

Across the west at present, the larger Baby Boomer generation is aging completely out of the labor pool and these systems are being depleted rapidly. The demographic squeeze is tightening and in the US, those special Treasury securities are now being redeemed – Social Security is set to decline starting in 2034.

Current SS reserves are at $2.56 trillion. These reserve funds are being depleted every year by a spending deficit. The deficit is not fixed and fluctuates wildly, but the overall trend shows it is clearly growing. In 2025 the shortfall was $160 billion (that’s the amount of extra money the government has to tax or borrow in order to fully cover the costs of Social Security beyond normal revenues). That deficit is projected to rise to $393 billion by 2033.

As these reserves disappear due to deficits, eventually social security payments will be reduced as a consequence.

By the time I am old enough to collect, Social Security payments will be cut by 22% (accounting for steady inflation). By the time Gen Z is old enough to collect, their SS payments will shrink by 35% with inflation included. The fund does not necessarily implode but the benefits will becomes more and more useless over time.

At bottom, the fund will be dead because it will no longer be able to adapt to inflation. Costs will continue to rise and SS will shrink exponentially. Relying on the system for retirement would be impossible. This is also assuming there is not an economic crisis event in the future which completely derails government funding for SS much sooner.

This brings up a lot of questions…

Is Social Security actually a necessary program? In the US there are currently 71 million beneficiaries of SS and out of that group around 14 million depend entirely on SS checks as their only source of income. An even larger portion of the population needs these checks as supplemental income.

In other words, the program could be scrapped, but it would be devastating to a large percentage of the public. I would argue that if the government is going to operate as an economic backstop for any group, then the elderly should be that group. Anyone who has cared for an elderly relative understands that we will all one day hit an age-wall that prevents us from generating incoming on the fly. We’ll either be wealthy and flush with savings and assets, or we will be dependent on the charity of others.

Is Social Security the answer? No, not as it stands now. Many Americans believe that SS is like a savings account where their money is held until they meet the conditions of retirement. This is false. Others might consider it an insurance program, but this is also debatable. Social Security is managed more like a subsidy than a savings account or insurance. The money you paid into the system over your lifetime is long gone.

Public anger is rising among younger generations because they have to pay into subsidies that they have no expectation of benefiting from in the future. Marxist NGOs and activists take advantage of the angst and try to convince people to adopt bigger government and socialist wealth redistribution as the answer to all their problems. This will lead to calamity for the country.

So what is the solution? The vast majority of people would prefer to know that they will be taken care of in their old age. How do we ensure that the elderly are provided for without continually crushing the economy with debt? Let’s go through a list of solutions…

Fundamentally Change The Way We Look At Aging And Family

Before 1935 there was no such thing as Social Security, so how did people aging out of the workforce survive? They largely relied on family to help take care of them. For hundreds of years this was the norm in the western world. At the turn of the century around 70% of elderly people lived with their children or other family members, but this practice declined rapidly from the 1920s onward.

This is why the Social Security program was popularized in the first place; far too many older Americans no longer had a family safety net and so they jumped onboard the SS train in response. This is not to say that kids should be “required” to take care of their parents, but the principle should be encouraged.

And, if you think about it, this might also help to encourage better parenting practices and more respect for the nuclear family. Who would want to be a deadbeat parent when their kids will one day be the people they rely on most in old age? Who would want to abort their children when those children are their future safety net? Who would want to get a divorce and break up their family at the risk of being destitute when they hit their twilight years?

Yes, this sounds rather mercenary, but it’s foolish to discount selfish incentives as a means to keep civilization functioning. Many people don’t need incentives to do the right thing, but many other people DO.

Returning to the old tradition of caring for relatives as a family or tribe would help to prevent mass destitution and suffering of older Americans should Social Security and other programs fail. This doesn’t save SS, but it does make the public less dependent on the program.

At-Home Work For The Elderly

The knee-jerk reaction from many people (especially Baby Boomers) on the idea of delaying retirement is anger and outrage. I agree, to a point. These people worked their whole lives, raised families, struggled through national and global crisis events, and made it through to the other side. At 67 years old, they probably deserve a rest.

That said, life is not necessarily fair and expecting the government to be there for you is not exactly the best plan. In order for a safety net to exist for the most desperate people, those who are cognizant and functional might need to adapt. Also, there are many older Americans who would like to earn an income and keep busy but they have aged out of the normal labor pool.

With more older Americans staying in the workforce longer, Social Security deficits could be balanced and the funds could continue to flow for decades to come. For the first time in human history, senior citizens have access to digital jobs and at-home work. It’s possible for many older people to function in these fields with proper training programs (and maybe tax incentives for companies that hire the elderly).

I would rather have elderly Americans taking on such work and making money at home than corporations importing a bunch of third world migrants through H-1B visa programs.

Investment Of Social Security Into Appreciating Assets (Stocks And Commodities)

This is another idea that creates deep divides among voters, with the primary question being: What happens to Social Security if there’s a market crash and assets plummet in value?

But look at it this way – Over the past decade, if SS savings parked in treasuries were invested in gold and silver instead, the fund would currently have an extra $7 trillion. That would add another 12+ years to the lifespan of those savings. Investment in equities on the Dow Jones would have yielded an extra $8 trillion.

This is only a portion of SS funds and the gains would be undeniable. Is it gambling with the future, and with taxpayer money? Yes, in a way. But risks can be mitigated by diversifying between treasuries and other assets. I would argue that if we don’t take radical measures like this, social security is certain to fail, so what do we have to lose?

End Early Draws On Social Security

This is one of the uglier options available, which is to stop all early drawdowns by people ages 62-66 who take SS. They already get a 30% penalty, and ending early draw would slow the drain of funds for much older people.

Cut Funding For The Top 20% Of Earners

Is this punishing people for being successful? Yes. But denying social security for the top 20% of American earners with extensive savings and assets would save $500 billion per year. This would eliminate the current deficit and any future deficits for many years to come.

If someone can live comfortably without SS after retirement, then maybe they should forgo the monthly checks so that SS can exist for others who are not so well off. Again, this is not fair, and I’m not saying I agree with the measure on principle, but if we’re talking about survival of the program, this is an obvious strategy.

Increase Fertility Rates And Population Growth

Across the board, not just in the west but in the majority of countries around the world, fertility rates are dropping and populations are growing older. Without enough young people filling the workforce the elderly subset will greatly outweigh the available tax base. In other words, too many hands waiting for too little cash.

This incoming crisis has led to some nefarious people justifying some horrific options. For example, multicultural progressives use the fertility decline as an excuse for mass immigration from the third world. Hey, that’s millions of new taxpayers to help support retirement funds, right? Except that these migrants destroy welfare structures and collapse funding even faster.

Other leftist governments (like Canada) are increasingly suggesting government assisted suicide as a way to reduce the elderly population and solve welfare (and healthcare) deficit problems. This is, of course, monstrous and immoral, but fears over debt collapse will lure some people into supporting many otherwise unpalatable evils.

How do we increase population naturally? The only sure way is to increase individual wealth. How do we do that? That’s the question of the ages. Socialism is certainly not the answer – No socialist system has ever actually increased the wealth of the middle class without turning to free market means, and even then they tend to stifle productivity and entrepreneurship. If there’s a cap on success, individual wealth will fail. This is a fact.

Is There A Better Way?

A lot of people are going to question if Social Security is even worth saving. After all, there has to be a better way. I’m not saying it is or is not worth it, that’s a topic for a separate article. The only question here is, CAN Social Security be saved? The answer is yes, given the above measures along with reduced government spending.

The secondary question is – Do we have time? Only if there’s not a debilitating crisis that prevents more conservative action. A new inflationary event or a monetary crash would create much bigger worries than whether or not SS will remain intact for another couple decades.

The best overall option is to not rely on SS in the first place. Investing wisely in ones own future and family while preparing for economic disruptions is the only way to ensure your later years are not an exercise in penny pinching misery.

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The dollar buys less today than it did a year ago, a decade ago, a generation ago. That slide is the predictable result of endless printing and borrowing. Dr. Ron Paul believes the FED has the answer. But they’re keeping it to themselves. Fortunately, a new financial chart has publicly exposed their secret moves. See it for yourself HERE.

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US President Donald Trump and Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu draft plans to launch another attack on Iran – as oil prices continue to rise once again. In this episode of The Target Mint Press News’ Robert Inlakesh looks at the developments that have put a stranglehold on the US in the Persian Gulf and why Yemen has been bombing Saudi airports.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has managed to re-assert its dominance over the Strait of Hormuz, releasing footage demonstrating that it has mined the territory and is striking vessels that are violating its blockade at an unprecedented rate. Video evidence of a ship being struck by a mine has sent shockwaves through the oil market, as the US had previously claimed to have de-mined the strategic water way.

Meanwhile, Yemen’s Ansarallah-led government in Sana’a has been delivering enormous blows to Saudi Arabia’s infrastructure. A major international incident stole the headlines this weekend, when on October 10, a Yemeni missile inflicted a mass casualty event at Riyadh’s main international airport.

At least 13 people were killed in the Yemeni missile strike, which also injured a further 307. The attack on Terminal 3 of King Khalid International Airport drew condemnation from the UN and World Leaders around the globe. Officials in Riyadh then used the incident in order to lionise their ongoing war effort against Yemen and paint themselves as the victim.

In this Monday’s show, Inlakesh takes a critical look at the events as they unfolded and the inverted reality portrayed by the corporate media. The ceasefire between Saudi Arabia and Yemen was broken by Saudi Airstrikes on Sana’a International Airport, a key detail that has been left out of the discussion.

On March 26, 2015, Saudi Arabia began launching strikes against Yemen, one of the first targets struck was Sana’a Intl. Airport, the largest airport in the nation’s Capital City. The initial attack on the airport and neighbouring residential area resulted in over 30 civilian deaths. Over the next decade, Saudi fighter jets would go on to strike Yemeni airports over 227 times, none of which received wall-to-wall coverage like the latest event.

This edition of The Target looks at the history behind what is unfolding today, as well as the current context. Saudi Arabia decided to launch 1,000 strikes, using 100 aircraft, at the beginning of October, triggering the Yemeni Armed Forces to impose a no-fly zone over Saudi territory. The decision was a move to impose a counter aerial blockade, in response to closure of Yemeni airspace that has been forced upon the nation since 2015, even during a man made famine.

As this has all been happening, a group of Israeli students were on a hike near the border of occupied southern Lebanon. One of the Israelis picked up a cluster munition and placed it in their bag, before it exploded, killing at least one and injuring 24 others. Never letting a massacre go to waste, the Israeli media and leadership seized on the opportunity to blame Hezbollah for the event, instead of the decision of teachers to direct students to hike in a war zone.

Election season is in full effect, both in Israel and the United States, meaning that the rhetoric and tensions couldn’t possibly be higher, all as Iran and its allies wait with their fingers on the trigger.

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Ledger was contacted about tampered hardware wallets risks months before its latest security crisis, with former Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpelès questioning its response.

French hardware wallet maker Ledger received multiple reports of malicious hardware implants months before its latest security crisis, according to Mark Karpelès, former CEO of the collapsed Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox.

Karpelès told Cointelegraph he was aware of at least two people who contacted Ledger about tampered devices dating back to December 2025. Karpelès said he hasn’t encountered any public warning Ledger issued in response.

Joe Grand, a security researcher, told Cointelegraph he alerted Ledger on March 4, 2026, about a malicious implant in a Nano X purchased through online marketplace Lazada Thailand in August 2025.

Grand said Ledger acknowledged his findings and said it was investigating internally, but he criticized the company for not proactively warning customers about the threat.

Ledger’s ongoing security crisis surfaced Oct. 9, when crypto losses were reported involving wallets sold through CryptoBilis, a reseller authorized in Southeast Asia. Ledger has confirmed that one affected device contained an unauthorized implant.

Ledger declined to comment when asked about its handling of Grand’s disclosure, and referred Cointelegraph to its public statements on X.

“Maybe Ledger not responding to a single event of an implant found on a Ledger purchased from a shady dealer is normal,” Karpelès said. He added: 

However the increasing number of reports they must have received, and the increasing quality/technology used should have alerted them enough to act, and at least remind customers to be careful.”

Marketplace listings expose reseller verification gaps

In a presentation shared with Cointelegraph, Grand identified the seller of the tampered Ledger as “LedgerXXX” on Lazada. At the time of writing, LedgerXXX is not listed as an authorized reseller in Thailand, though Lazada’s Ledger storefront is.

Cointelegraph sought clarification from both Grand and Ledger on the seller’s identity and authorization status when the device was purchased.

OneKey’s head of sales, Archie, told Cointelegraph that marketplaces such as Lazada host numerous independent sellers, making it difficult for customers to distinguish authorized stores from other listings.

Following the recent incidents, OneKey removed its reseller listings pending stricter checks, saying manufacturers must take responsibility for protecting customers rather than relying solely on buyers to identify trustworthy sellers.

Unauthorized wallet sales still raise security concerns

Grand’s findings were not limited to Ledger. In August 2026, he also alerted Trezor about tampered Trezor One and Model T wallets purchased from unauthorized sellers on TikTok and Facebook.

Trezor told Cointelegraph that counterfeit wallets occasionally appear through unauthorized sellers, as it had warned in 2022 about modified devices sold on Russian marketplaces. The company said that its recent claim of no evidence of compromised devices applied only to new wallets sold through authorized resellers.

Related: Trezor reduces resellers as a ‘preventative step’ amid Ledger tampering reports

Still, Trezor said it treats reports involving unauthorized sellers as early warnings and uses researchers’ findings to improve security checks.

“What changes the picture is a new technique, or a first case coming through an authorised channel,” Trezor said. “Either one means the problem has moved closer to ordinary buyers, and that’s when we’d move fastest, including warning customers directly.”

Magazine: Scammer Loses $4.8M Stored On Tampered Ledgers: Asia Express

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Story at-a-glance

• Over half of Americans now live with neurological disorders, which significantly impact disability levels and quality of life. Tension headaches, migraines, stroke, and Alzheimer’s are major contributors
• Neurological burden varies by region, with Southern states experiencing worse outcomes. Thanks in part to medical advances, age-adjusted death rates have fallen, but years lived with disability have risen as people live longer
• Direct health care spending on brain-related disorders worldwide reached $1.7 trillion in 2019, with stroke and dementia the most expensive. High-income countries spend disproportionately more while lower-income nations face severe resource shortages
• Aging populations and rising care costs strain health systems, with inpatient care the single largest expense. Uneven access means outcomes depend heavily on geography, income, and health care infrastructure
• Supporting mitochondrial function — by lowering linoleic acid intake, repairing your gut gradually, and reducing electromagnetic field and plastic exposure — may help support your neurological health

Your nervous system and cardiovascular system are tightly linked foundations for proper function. They work together to create a working system that ensures environmental stimuli are processed in your brain while your heart pumps the required amount of blood to keep up with demand. That’s why when one pillar begins to crack, the other often follows.

For example, when stroke occurs — a condition in which blood supply to part of the brain is blocked, or a blood vessel in the brain bleeds — brain function is immediately affected. You may suddenly have trouble speaking or understanding what others are saying.¹ Nowadays, for some reason, conditions like these, as well as migraine, and Alzheimer’s disease are affecting a growing number of Americans.

While it may sound just like a string of unrelated coincidences, published research puts the scale of the problem into perspective — more Americans are living with neurological conditions today than in 1990, largely because the population is growing and living longer. In fact, findings show that more than half of the population has at least one disorder falling under this category.

Neurological Disorders Now Affect Over Half of Americans

A cross-sectional analysis, conducted by researchers with the American Academy of Neurology, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation and several U.S. universities, estimated that 54.2% of Americans — around 180.3 million people — live with at least one condition affecting the nervous system. Published in JAMA Neurology, the researchers used data from the Global Burden of Disease 2021 project to measure how these disorders contribute to overall disability and early death across the country.²

•Americans live with a wide range of neurological disorders — A total of 36 conditions that cause neurological damage were included in the study, which included tension-type headaches, stroke, Alzheimer’s disease, and diabetic neuropathy.

The study reported that these conditions collectively account for 16.6 million disability-adjusted life years (DALYs), a measure showing years lost to disability and early death. Putting it into context, the researchers identified these disorders as the top cause of disability in the United States, accounting for 13% of all U.S. DALYs in 2021.² Two of them — stroke and Alzheimer’s disease — also rank among the nation’s 10 leading causes of death.³

•A breakdown of the most common conditions — Tension-type headaches affected roughly 121.9 million Americans, while migraines impacted 57.7 million. Though these may sound like minor inconveniences, frequent episodes can disrupt concentration, sleep, and even digestion, reducing productivity and quality of life.

Diabetic neuropathy (nerve damage from high blood sugar) was also prevalent, affecting 17.1 million people. Stroke and Alzheimer’s disease topped the list for overall disability and premature death, accounting for 3.9 million and 3.3 million DALYs, respectively. An estimated 6.3 million Americans were living with stroke and 4.9 million with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias.

•Geographical inequality of neurological conditions — Southern states, including Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana, showed the highest DALY rates, while Northeastern states such as New York, Massachusetts, and New Jersey fared better. The researchers note that these states roughly correspond to the “Stroke Belt” and are more rural, with greater rates of preventable risk factors and more socioeconomically disadvantaged residents.

•Despite medical advances, progress has been mixed — The study looked back over three decades, comparing today’s data to that from 1990. After adjusting for age, the overall prevalence of neurological conditions barely changed — a shift of just 0.2% — but death rates dropped 14.6% while years lived with disability increased by 9.8%.

This means more people are surviving but living longer with disease-related complications. While mortality from stroke has decreased thanks to better emergency care and other treatments, the number of people living with post-stroke disability continues to climb. In addition, the number of people living with conditions like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease has risen sharply alongside an aging population, and I believe widespread exposure to industrial toxins that harm the mitochondria also plays a role.

•The numbers also highlight the increasing disability accumulation — Because modern medicine has extended life expectancy, chronic neurological disorders now account for more years lived with disability. “The burden of lost health is accentuated by reductions in mortality for disorders across the age spectrum, where more life-years equate to greater accumulated disability,” the researchers emphasized.⁴

In other words, people are living longer, but not necessarily better. This shift has enormous implications for health care systems that struggle to manage neurological impairment, as they will need to come up with better programs.

•Prevalence is higher compared to other nations — In addition to more than half of the American population living with a condition affecting the nervous system (54.2%, compared with 43.1% worldwide), the researchers noted that the U.S. age-standardized prevalence rate “is the highest in the world.” This means that other nations around the world tend to have lower rates of neurological disorders in their populations.

•Suggestions for improvement — The featured study largely focused on the rates, leaving future analyses to formulate new plans on helping Americans manage neurological disorders. Nonetheless, the researchers still gave some recommendations that can serve as a springboard for change:⁵

“National health priorities should encourage robust funding for bench research to better understand causes for these disorders, translational studies to take work from the bench to the bedside, clinical trials in preparation for effective treatments, and postapproval investigations of comparative effectiveness, dissemination, and implementation.

Streamlining drug approval processes, incentivizing evidence-based care, and improving access to neurological specialists and disability care could yield vast dividends in US national health in the next 30 years.”

The Economic Impact of Neurological Disorders in America and Around the World

Looking outward, a study published in The Lancet Public Health highlighted that the global financial toll of brain-related disorders, which include both neurological and mental health conditions, has reached staggering levels. In this modelling study, the team estimated spending across 204 countries between 2000 and 2019 to quantify how much the world spends on 24 brain disorders.⁶

The study focused on 24 specific brain disorders, including both neurological diseases like stroke, Alzheimer’s, and Parkinson’s, and mental health conditions such as depression, anxiety, and schizophrenia. This featured study didn’t measure indirect losses like lost productivity or informal caregiving — it only counted the direct spending on hospitals, pharmaceuticals, nursing facilities, and home care, giving you an idea of the economic strain that nations experience around the world. The authors note that these are modeled estimates, that relative costs of care were derived from U.S. data, and that data were sparse for many low- and middle-income countries.

•Economic costs are staggering — The results showed that direct health care spending for brain disorders totaled $1.7 trillion in 2019 — nearly double what was spent two decades earlier. Moreover, the global spending rate grew 3.5% per year, underscoring that these disorders are not only medical concerns but also profound economic threats.

•The economic burden of neurological disorders — The data showed that neurological disorders made up 51.8% of global brain health spending, around $894 billion. Meanwhile, mental health accounted for the other 48.2%, roughly $830.3 billion.

Stroke was the single most expensive condition, costing more than $330 billion in 2019, followed by Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias at $205 billion. These two conditions alone consumed over 30% of all global spending on brain health. Depressive and anxiety disorders together accounted for another 20%, reflecting the growing global burden of mental illness.

•Older adults account for the most spending — The study found that the heaviest spending occurred in older adults between ages 50 and 74, the same group that saw the steepest growth in spending. This matters because brain disorders in this age range can overlap with metabolic issues, which may make care more complex and costly.

As populations age worldwide, this combination of neurological and metabolic dysfunction could place growing strain on public health systems unless preventive approaches are more widely adopted.

•How spending is unevenly distributed around the world — High-income countries, which represent less than 20% of global brain-related DALYs, were responsible for 78% of total spending. In contrast, lower-middle-income and low-income countries together carried about 43% of the disease burden but accounted for only 2.7% of total spending.

This means health care systems in wealthier countries are pouring enormous sums into maintaining aging populations, while poorer nations are left with minimal resources to treat the same disorders. Thus, access to proper treatment is determined as much by geography and income as by medical need.

•Different types of care also drove costs in unique ways — Inpatient care represented the largest share of spending, accounting for 41.6% of all brain health costs. Ambulatory care, which includes outpatient visits and therapy sessions, was another major category, with anxiety disorders accounting for the greatest ambulatory spending of any brain disorder.

For neurological disorders, the data showed that conditions like encephalitis and stroke relied heavily on hospital-based care — nearly all encephalitis spending (98.3%) went to inpatient care, and stroke accounted for the greatest inpatient spending of any brain disorder. The takeaway here? In my view, supporting your health early through lifestyle and diet — and seeking timely care when you need it — makes far more sense, for both your health and your finances, than relying on late-stage hospital care.

•Differences by age group — Young adults, aged 20 to 34, accounted for the highest spending on drug use disorders, particularly opioid abuse, while middle-aged adults (35 to 49) saw the highest spending on depressive disorders. Adults 75 and older accounted for most of the spending on dementia and Parkinson’s disease. Moreover, dementia accounted for the largest share of nursing facility costs.

•Rising prices, not just more cases, drive spending growth — The researchers also highlighted rising prices per case, rather than higher disease rates alone, as the main driver of spending growth. In other words, the rising cost of care itself — not just illness — is fueling much of the financial strain.

Supporting Cellular Energy Production Is a Practical Place to Start

Understanding the biological side may help explain why these conditions are affecting more people. In my view, many neurological disorders share a common thread — mitochondrial dysfunction, which poor diet and exposure to environmental toxins can drive. When these energy producers inside your cells falter, your health can begin to stumble, too.

Since your cellular health can be affected by many factors, it makes sense to apply a multifaceted approach to repair it. Here’s an overview of my recommendations, which I also explain in detail in my book “Your Guide to Cellular Health: Unlocking the Science of Longevity and Joy.”

1.Minimize linoleic acid (LA) intake — I believe that excess LA intake is one of the biggest issues affecting mitochondrial function, which, in turn, may lie at the core of many diseases, including neurological conditions such as stroke. As I noted in a previous article, high LA intake can damage your blood vessels over time, which may increase inflammation and clotting risk.

LA is highly concentrated in seed oils (often sold as “vegetable oils”), which families typically use to cook their food at home. They’re also used by restaurants and fast food joints, so it’s best to avoid eating out whenever you can. Examples include sunflower, soybean, canola, and corn oil. If you do eat out, The Templeton List can help you find healthier restaurants.

Minimizing your LA intake is a big part of improving your cellular health. I recommend keeping your intake below 5 grams per day from all food sources, including meat. The Pax health platform contains the Seed-Oil Sleuth. This feature will help you track your LA intake down to a tenth of a gram.

2.Repair your gut health — Complex carbohydrates can help nourish the gut microbiome. Still, it isn’t wise to jump straight into foods containing complex carbohydrates if your gut is already compromised due to an unhealthy diet filled with ultraprocessed ingredients.

A 2022 narrative review notes that complex carbohydrates can help feed the beneficial microbes in your large intestine.⁷ But if your gut ecosystem is unbalanced, these same carbohydrates can also feed harmful bacteria. Exposure to metabolic disruptors, including excess LA and xenoestrogens, can make this imbalance more likely because they may reduce mitochondrial energy production. When energy output drops, oxygen can seep into the large intestine, creating conditions where pathogenic microbes thrive.

Most adults need to aim for 250 grams of targeted carbohydrates daily. Start with whole fruits and white rice to give your body fuel without overfeeding the bad bacteria in your gut. From there, as your digestion improves, gradually add root vegetables. Add legumes, and well-tolerated whole grains when you’re certain that gut function isn’t compromised anymore.

3.Reduce electromagnetic field (EMF) exposure — Two simple steps to cut down on everyday EMF exposure are turning off your Wi-Fi when not in use and switching to wired Ethernet connections. Be especially mindful of phone use at night. Since there’s no need for constant connectivity while you sleep, power your phone off entirely and use an analog alarm clock instead.

For additional information, I recommend reading my article, “EMFs Destroy Sperm Count” which goes into greater detail about different strategies to minimize EMF exposure in your home.

4.Reduce your plastic consumption — Like EMFs, plastics (many of which contain hormone-disrupting chemicals) are nearly unavoidable in modern life. Still, you can meaningfully reduce your exposure with these helpful strategies:

◦Opt for products sold in glass containers rather than plastic whenever possible.

◦Store your food in glass containers rather than plastic ones.

◦Look for plastic-free alternatives to commonly used products at home, such as toothbrushes and toys.

◦Choose reusable products over single-use ones, such as glass bottles for your drinks, cloth grocery bags, handkerchiefs, cloth diapers and nondisposable razors.

◦Invest in a home filtration system for your drinking water. In addition, bring your own refillable water bottles when going out.

◦Bring your own silverware, as well as glass containers in the event you have to dine outside.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) About Neurological Conditions in the United States

Q: How common are neurological disorders in the United States?

A: Around 180 million Americans live with at least one neurological disorder. These conditions now represent one of the leading causes of disability nationwide.

Q: Which neurological disorders are most widespread and disabling?

A: Common conditions include tension headaches, migraines, diabetic neuropathy, stroke, and Alzheimer’s disease. Tension headaches affect over 120 million Americans, while stroke and Alzheimer’s contribute most to disability and early death.

Q: Why are neurological disorders increasing despite medical advances?

A: Mortality has decreased thanks to better care, but years lived with disability have increased. People are surviving longer with chronic neurological complications. The researchers link this to lower mortality and an aging population, and I believe toxin exposure and mitochondrial dysfunction also play a role.

Q: What is the global economic impact of neurological and brain-related disorders?

A: Worldwide, direct health care spending on brain disorders reached $1.7 trillion in 2019, with neurological conditions accounting for over half. Stroke and dementia are the costliest, and spending is heavily concentrated in high-income countries.

Q: What strategies are recommended to improve neurological health and reduce long-term burden?

A: Researchers urge greater funding, streamlined drug approval, and better access to neurological care. Lifestyle changes, such as minimizing LA intake, repairing gut health, lowering EMF exposure, and reducing plastic use may help support cellular energy production on an individual level.

This article is for informational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice. Consult a qualified health care provider before making changes to your health regimen.

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Will an effort to limit and eventually ban cash payments work in a nation where 80 to 90 percent of payments are made in cash?

On Wednesday, the Mexican government inched closer to passing a law that would begin the process of phasing out cash payments and requiring digital payments.

The “Digital Economy Law” was first introduced by President Claudia Sheinbaum in early September and has since moved rapidly through official commissions and the Chamber of Deputies. Most recently, on October 14, the bill passed out of two Senate commissions and now awaits a full Senate vote in the coming weeks.

The bill is part of an ongoing effort by the Sheinbaum government and the Morena party to expand the digitization of Mexico’s economy. It instructs Mexico’s Ministry of Finance and Public Credit (SHCP) to designate which business sectors will eventually only accept digital and electronic forms of payment.

While Mexico already has existing digital infrastructure, such as the SPEI (Sistema de Pagos Electrónicos Interbancarios) and the CoDi and DiMo networks, the public’s embrace of these systems has been slow. The Digital Economy Law is aimed at increasing the use of such digital payment platforms.

However, in a country where somewhere between 80 and 90 percent of all transactions are done in cash, it remains to be seen how the law will be implemented and enforced. Some critics of the bill have argued that the language of the bill does not make it clear which types of businesses will be compelled to only accept digital payments.

Meanwhile, Sheinbaum and her party allies have said the measures will make life easier for Mexicans because “they do not have to bring cash” and will “be able to pay from the cell phone or through other mechanisms directly.”

At a press conference on September 24, Sheinbaum discussed the effort to limit the use of cash as she officially introduced the Digital Economy Law. Sheinbaum and the Morena Party claim the law will “help security, efficiency, and the formalization of shops and products by digitizing payments and reducing the use of cash.”

José Antonio Peña Merino, head of the Digital Transformation and Telecommunications Agency (ATDT), also spoke at the press conference and explained that the new Digital Economy Law will help accelerate digital payments. He noted that the Mexican government has already begun efforts to reduce the use of cash in “strategic sectors” such as gas stations and toll booths.

The Effort to Limit Cash Advances

After Sheinbaum’s introduction of the bill, the government has worked quickly to pass it into law. On October 1, the bill advanced in the Finance and Public Credit Commission of the Chamber of Deputies with 24 votes in favor and 4 against.

Héctor Saúl Téllez, deputy of the opposition National Action Party (PAN), said the bill gives “absolute and discretionary power to the Ministry of Finance to decide where to ban cash, without clear criteria” and transfers the “excessive costs” to Mexican families and businesses.

Only five days later, the bill was approved by the full Chamber of Deputies. During debates about specifics, language was added that made it clear that cash or check payments will be allowed if a situation arises where it is impossible to receive digital payments, such as a power outage. Some opposition party members also expressed their concern about the law during the vote.

This was followed by another vote on Wednesday, when the Senate’s joint commissions (United Economics and Legislative Studies Commissions) also approved the bill.

Emmanuel Reyes Carmona, president of the Economic Commission, reportedly noted that the implementation of the new bill should not be interpreted as the immediate elimination of cash, but as establishing a legal framework to progressively expand the adoption of digital payments.

The full Senate is expected to debate and vote on the bill in the following week. With the Morena Party’s current majority, it is likely to pass. It will then be sent to President Sheinbaum for her signature before it is published in the Official Journal of the Federation (DOF).

According to the latest text of the bill, once the bill is signed and published it will become law. Within fifteen business days after the law enters into force, the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit must publish the “strategic sectors and relevant activities” in which digital payments may become the only accepted form of payment. Fifteen days after that, the relevant legal authorities for those specific sectors must issue detailed administrative rules outlining the conditions, requirements, and a timeline of implementation.

The bill in its current form does not make it clear what happens to businesses that continue to accept cash once the digital-only rules are in place.

International Bankers Push Mexico to Go Digital

President Sheinbaum first called for ending cash payments at gas stations and toll roads in March, as part of a speech at the 89th Banking Convention in Cancún.

“Our goal is that this year we make it mandatory to pay for gasoline and toll booths digitally. This will allow us to promote accessible digital payments that allow us to advance the digitization of the country through many other schemes,” Sheinbaum said at the time.

At this meeting, representatives from the Mexican government and banking sector met to discuss the future of digital payments and the phasing out of cash. The convention brought together former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, representatives from Banorte, BBVA, Scotiabank, Santander, HSBC, as well as Mexico’s Central Bank, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), and Sergio Mendez, the Director of BlackRock Mexico.

Emilio Romano, the head of the Association of Banks of Mexico (ABM), also made it clear that the Mexican Central Bank and the international bankers were working diligently to shift Mexico away from cash and towards a digital economy.

In an interview with Bloomberg, Romano stated, “The central bank is preparing to publish protocols to drive the adoption of payments sent by mobile phones.”

He noted, “Authorities are studying separate measures that could include eliminating cash payments for some services and products, such as gas stations and toll roads.” [emphasis added]

Romano also emphasized that these changes are being made because in Mexico, “roughly 85% of small transactions are done in cash,” largely due to Mexicans not trusting their government and seeking to avoid taxation. “Easing concerns about how the government assesses income will help,” he said.

Will the Mexican People Accept the Loss of Cash?

It’s clear that the Mexican ruling class and their friends in the banking industry are determined to bring about the end of cash payments in Mexico. Whether or not the Mexican people will simply abide by the new laws, or find ways to skirt the regulations, remains to be seen.

One country which might offer some insight into how the reduction of cash might unfold is India. Like Mexico, India has historically been known for predominantly dealing in cash payments. In 2016, the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) was launched under the oversight of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) as the main method for conducting digital payments. As of 2026, billions of Indians use the UPI for payments, but the transition was not instant.

One of the ways in which the Indian government hastened the transition to digital was by eliminating the use of certain cash notes. On November 8, 2016, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that the existing 500 and 1,000 banknotes would cease to be legal tender at midnight. At the time, those two denominations accounted for nearly 90% of the currency in circulation. This led to severe cash shortages and a sharp increase in the use of digital payments.

While Mexico has not currently announced similar measures, it does appear that Sheinbaum’s government and her banking allies are using India as an example of how to transition a society with a large informal economy based in cash towards a formalized digital economy that can be tracked and traced.

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With full spectrum intelligence, nothing will remain hidden; everyone and everything will be detectable anywhere: perspective

“Full spectrum intelligence” will one day unify all signals like WiFi, ultrasound, sonar, and X-rays and will be able to detect any person or object anywhere, according to a presentation at the World Economic Forum (WEF) inaugural Annual Meeting of Global Future Leaders in Dubai, UAE.

Giving a presentation at the WEF meeting on Wednesday called, “Sensing The Invisible,” the person who pioneered the technology that uses WiFi to see through walls, MIT Signal Kinetics Research Lab founding director and Cartesian Systems co-founder Dr. Fadel Adib explained how all signals will eventually come under one umbrella called “Full Spectrum Intelligence.”

With full spectrum intelligence, nothing will remain hidden. Everyone and everything will be detectable anywhere, from the deepest depths of the ocean to the far reaches of outerspace, and everywhere in between, including the biological signals beneath our skin.

“What we’re going to start seeing is ‘full spectrum intelligence;’ intelligence that is able to extract meaning from all the signals that exist around you and be able to use them to deliver new capabilities”

Dr. Fadel Adib, World Economic Forum, October 2026

“We think of WiFi as different than ultrasound. We think of sonar as different from cellular communication. But what research has shown over the past 15 years is that there’s a unifying theme under all of them, and it’s almost like a playbook that you could extract information from,” said Dr. Adib.

“So what is now happening is that the electromagnetic spectrum, which is like the wireless spectrum, is being populated […] What we’re going to start seeing is ‘full spectrum intelligence;’ intelligence that is able to extract meaning from all the signals that exist around you and be able to use them to deliver new capabilities.”

The applications for full spectrum intelligence are vast.

Wireless sensing can already aid in personalized healthcare by diving deep beneath the skin; it can help retail stores and warehouses find missing products; and it is being deployed to build “an internet of things to observe the underwater world” with the help of the “world’s first battery-free underwater camera.”

For law enforcement, full spectrum intelligence would be a godsend, especially when it’d come to vehicle searches and search warrants on private property.

Border patrols, port authorities, and customs and immigration agencies would love this.

And for the  military, full spectrum intelligence would leave no person or installation, including what’s buried deep inside a facility, undetectable.

Going back 15 years, Dr. Adib’s research has been pivotal in making all of this possible.

“The person has no device or sensor on his body. We’re tracking him entirely using the device on the other side of the wall. And because we’re sensing people from wireless signals, not only can we get their locations, but we can also track their body parts”Dr. Fadel Adib, World Economic Forum, October 2026

“Can we see through walls with WiFi? […] Wireless signals can go through walls, which is why you can get WiFi from another room. But they also reflect off different objects in the environment and come back. And if we can sense them, then we can extract meaning and information that is hidden from us”Dr. Fadel Adib, World Economic Forum, October 2026

Not only can WiFi detect people in a different room, it can detect when they are moving around.

This includes being able to detect which position they are in, whether they are standing, sitting, moving, or simply raising their hand.

But it doesn’t stop there.

Detecting physical movement is one thing; sensing what’s going on within the human body when it’s at rest is another.

In his presentation Dr. Adib showed another example how WiFi could measure a not just person’s breathing via “non-contact breath monitoring,” but even record a baby’s heartbeat at a distance. 

“We can even measure your breathing from wireless signals”Dr. Fadel Adib, World Economic Forum, October 2026

“We took this baby monitor and we augmented it with the output of our device, and when we do that, we’re able to measure the baby’s breathing […] and you can also measure the baby’s heartbeat“Dr. Fadel Adib, World Economic Forum, October 2026

“You folks are sitting still,” Dr. Adib said to the audience.

“Can we still be able to locate you and sense you? Turns out not only can we do that; we can even measure your breathing from wireless signals.”

The same applies to measuring heartbeats.

How?

“The reason is that when the heart pumps blood, it creates a force that acts on different body parts causing them to vibrate, and our sensors are sensitive enough to pick up these vibrations”Dr. Fadel Adib, World Economic Forum, October 2026

During the Q&A, Dr. Adib was asked about privacy concerns and potential military uses of the technology he helped create.

It’s something that he has thought about a lot over the years, and he explained that he wanted this type of invasive technology to be used for good, such as in healthcare and undersea monitoring.

He also said that those weren’t the first industries that came a-knocking.

“We’re the ones who invented this technology. You can probably imagine the first requests that we got for deployment were not in healthcare, but because we’re the ones who came up with it, we pushed that towards the direction of like healthcare, self-driving cars, and what-have-you, and so we led the way”Dr. Fadel Adib, World Economic Forum, October 2026

“People wanted to follow us, because they were like, ‘OK. Do you want to work on saving people’s lives or invading people’s privacy?’ That said, at the end of the day there is a limit to how much you could control these use cases. People will use technologies for nefarious capabilities. People use all kinds of technologies for nefarious capabilities” 

Dr. Fadel Adib, World Economic Forum, October 2026

Acknowledging that “people use all kinds of technologies for nefarious capabilities,” Dr. Adib said that “law needs to catch up fast enough with these capabilities. We can try our best to play our part in this, and we can try to guide it in this direction, especially as global future leaders in this space.”

But the cat’s out of the bag. The genie is out of the bottle. The toothpaste has been squeezed.

For one example, Israeli-based Camero-Tech launched its Xaver 1000 in 2022.

Camero-Tech describes Xaver 1000 as “an essential system for  Military, Law Enforcement, Search & Rescue teams and Intelligence units, operating in various situations including hostile urban and disaster environments.”

It includes “a real-time 3D ‘Sense-Through The Wall’ imaging device that enables the detection of live objects (static or dynamic) behind walls and building obstacles,” among many, many other features.

It can detect mission-critical accurate real-time information about living objects from behind solid walls and barriers including:

• Presence of life in the room
• Number of people and their distance from the system
• Can be operated near-wall or in stand-off mode
• Target height and orientation
• Room general layout, including dimensions and major infrastructure elements

Apart from being a WEF Young Global Leader, Dr. Adib is one of the first researchers to develop technology to sense, detect, and track people and objects through walls using radio and WiFi signals.

Dr. Adib’s past research includes:

• Seeing through walls with WiFi: including 3D tracking, gesture recognition, and reconstructing human figures through walls.
• Smart homes that measure vital signs including breathing, heartbeats, micro-cardiac events, emotions, and stress levels.
• Batteryless micro-implants for in-body connectivity, sensing, self-reconfiguring with security/privacy.
• RFID and RFID-vision fusion: localization, tracking, food/liquid sensing, drone-based inventory, reinforcement learning, robotic picking, and augmented reality.

On top of Dr. Adib’s work in transhumanism, the Internet of Bodies, smart homes, and track-and-trace technologies, his team’s research is now being directed towards:

• Ocean IoT: including batteryless networking, underwater GPS, backscatter theory, underwater-to-air communications, battery-free wireless cameras, and underwater AI.
• Imaging with Wireless Signals: including non-line-of-sight 3D reconstruction, generative-AI-powered wireless vision, and indoor scene reconstruction.
• Robot/Drone Perception and Manipulation: including RF-Visual reinforcement learning, mechanical search, and drone localization/navigation with millimeter-wave backscatter tags.

And when it comes to the US  military, The  Sociable has reported on similar sensing methods coming out of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

For example, in 2018 DARPA funded researchers at the University of Central Florida (UCF) to discover how to “see” around corners with a new sensing method using natural broadband illumination.

A research paper published in Nature titled “Passive sensing around the corner using spatial coherence” showed that “a highly scattering wall can transfer certain statistical properties of light, which, in turn, can assist in detecting objects even in non-line-of-sight conditions.”

This sensing approach is completely passive, assumes no control over the source of light, and relies solely on natural broadband illumination, according to the research.

A few years later in 2022, DARPA announced its Muons for Science & Security (MuS2) research program that would allow the Pentagon to see through thick concrete walls and deep underground chambers using beams of subatomic particles called muons.

“If successful, a transportable muon source could enable imaging through concrete walls several meters thick or locating chambers & tunnels hundreds of meters underground”DARPA, Muons for Science and Security (MuS2), July 2022

Full spectrum intelligence could unlock wonders in areas such as healthcare, enviornmental services, drones, self-driving cars, retail inventory, and so much more.

It can also be used to track-and-trace all products in the circular economy via “digital product passports,” which are very popular in Europe at the moment.

The circular economy business model of Product as a Service means that all products are not to be sold, but rather rented, and when their life cycle is complete, they are returned to their manufacturer.

The circular economy is the inspiration behind the WEF’s infamous phrase, “You’ll Own Nothing. And You’ll Be Happy.”

And then of course, there’s the ever-present military and law enforcement use cases where full spectrum intelligence will give cops, soldiers, spies, governments, and corporations the ability to penetrate deep into not just places, but people as well.

As Dr. Adib told the WEF, this technology can be used for “saving people’s lives or invading people’s privacy.”

The inaugural WEF Annual Meeting of Global Future Leaders ran from October 13-15, 2026, and it livestreamed only nine sessions.

You can check out Dr. Adib’s full presentation in the video below:

Image source: Screenshot of Dr. Fadel Adib giving his presentation “Sensing The Invisible” at the WEF Annual Meeting of the Global Future Leaders in Dubai, UAE, October 15, 2026

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Chainalysis has revealed that a victim of last week’s Ledger theft was a scammer themself.

Call it poetic justice: one of the biggest victims of last week’s Ledger theft happened to be a scammer themself, according to blockchain analysts, and lost nearly $5 million in bitcoin. 

In a post Thursday, Chainalysis wrote that a crook lost 60 bitcoins worth about $4.8 million they’d stolen via a so-called task scam. 

According to Chainalysis, the address was linked with a con where people were paid to fake sales and reviews of real items. They were told to add their own money in order to get paid — and then stolen from. 

But the mastermind behind the task scam moved the stolen money to Ledger addresses which were then targeted by different scammers last week.

“On Sep 22, the person behind the scam moved the proceeds into three separate Ledger addresses,” Chainalysis said. “On Oct 9, thieves emptied all three. One transfer each, into the same wallet. The wallet is reported as stolen funds.”

Paris-based Ledger last week said it had started an investigation after customers in South East Asia reported they’d lost funds after buying from Malaysia-based reseller, CryptoBilis. 

Ledger has since said that the scam was a massive organized crime operation where a group installed implants into devices and put them back on the market. The implants could read users’ seed phrases so criminals could then drain wallets. 

Calling it one the most “sophisticated attacks” the digital asset industry has experienced, Ledger is yet to reveal how much money has been lost — but blockchain investigator Specter said $86 million had been drained. 

And the task scam conman, according to Chainalysis, was one of the victims.

Ledger has said that it is working with law enforcement to “follow the funds and dismantle the attackers’ infrastructure” and has made sure no other vendors have been targeted by scammers. 

CryptoBilis has stopped selling Ledger products, the company said. 

Criminals have targeted bitcoin hardware sellers this year, with a huge attack taking place in July on the popular Coldcard products. 

Crooks were able to steal close to $120 million in bitcoin from Coldcard users because the devices had a firmware bug which led to faulty seed generation, allowing hackers to guess investor seedphrases. 

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Adults ages 60 and older who met recommended meat intake levels had about 30% lower odds of frailty than those who ate meat less often, according to a study of 5,484 participants in Nanjing, China.

About 17% of the participants were classified as frail, the study stated. The research was published in Frontiers in Nutrition and was reported on October 8, 2026.

Researchers assessed frailty among participants and used a food questionnaire to measure how often they ate red and white meat, according to the study. The findings add to a body of research examining how diet, protein intake, and muscle maintenance interact as people age.

Study Design and Population

The study included 5,484 adults ages 60 and older in Nanjing, China, researchers said. Participants were assessed for frailty and completed a food questionnaire on red and white meat consumption frequency, according to the study.

Researchers compared people who met China’s recommended meat consumption frequency for older adults with those who ate meat less often, the study stated. Meat provides protein along with nutrients such as iron, zinc, selenium, and vitamin B12, according to the study.

Protein becomes especially important with age because maintaining muscle can become more difficult over time, researchers stated. Muscle loss is a natural effect associated with aging, though it is not inevitable when steps are taken to prevent the condition and strengthen muscles, according to an article published by Mercola.com [1]. Research indicates that nutritional status and physical activity both influence major chronic diseases of aging, according to a nutrition text [2].

Main Findings

Those who met the recommended meat intake level had about 30% lower odds of frailty than those who ate meat less frequently, according to researchers. The association remained after researchers accounted for age, physical activity, chronic health conditions and vegetable intake, the study stated.

The association was generally consistent across different ages, sexes, and living environments, researchers said. Among adults 80 and older, the association was no longer clear, according to the study.

Researchers suggested that factors such as reduced appetite, digestive issues, chronic illness, and changes in how the body uses nutrients could become more important at this age. An analysis of 7,300 NHANES participants aged 60 and older found 29% or 48% significantly lower frailty odds in participants who had either moderate or high adherence to an alternate Mediterranean diet, respectively, according to a review of dietary patterns and aging [3].

Caveats and Limitations

This was a cross-sectional study, meaning researchers looked at diet and health at one point in time, the report stated. It can show an association between meat intake and frailty, but it cannot prove that eating meat prevents frailty, researchers said.

Healthier people may simply have been more likely to eat meat regularly, according to the study. The study did not establish a clear association for adults 80 and older, researchers noted.

Low dietary variety has been associated with an increased frailty score, according to research published in the journal Nutrients [4]. Separate research found that social isolation and loneliness were associated with higher risks of frailty and death over about seven years, according to an analysis of four long-running aging studies [5].

Protein Intake and Muscle Health

The findings do not mean people need to start eating more meat, researchers said; instead, they add to the case for making protein a regular part of the diet as people age. Animal proteins include meat, fish, eggs, and dairy, which provide high-quality protein along with other nutrients, according to the study.

Plant proteins such as beans, lentils, tofu, tempeh, nuts, and seeds can also help meet protein needs, researchers stated. If appetite changes, smaller meals and protein-rich snacks may be easier to manage than large portions, the report said.

Protein matters more as we age because it protects muscle and strength, according to a registered dietitian cited in a report on eating habits for longevity [6]. Protein intake from meals provides the amino acids the body needs to manufacture hormones, neurotransmitters, and immune system molecules, according to a book on nutrition and viral defense [7]. Regular strength training and other forms of movement also help preserve the muscle and physical function that support independence as people age, according to researchers.

Conclusion

In this study, older adults who regularly ate meat were less likely to be frail, but the finding does not mean meat is a guaranteed prevention, researchers said. Muscles need consistent support from food and movement, according to the study.

The researchers stated that protein intake and physical activity should both be considered as people age. The study adds to existing research on the relationship between diet and frailty in older populations.

High consumption of ultra-processed foods was associated with more severe age-related muscle loss, including the most advanced forms, according to findings reported August 6 that drew on 1,006 older adults in Iran enrolled in the Birjand Longitudinal Aging Study [8]. Ultra-processed food consumption has been linked to chronic low-grade inflammation that interferes with the body’s ability to build and repair muscle, according to a report on eating habits and muscle loss [9].

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