
World Brief with Zach McCormick
90 second breakdowns of world events from the legal perspective
Episodes
49 episodes
Wifi Tracking Your Movements In-home?
Xfinity (whose parent company is Comcast), now offers a service called “WiFi Motion” which allows users (in select areas) to monitor motion inside their home using nothing more than the WiFi signals. Functioning like radar, th...
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Season 3
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Episode 26
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1:27

War & Pizza? How Restaurant Traffic Can Predict Global Conflict
Can wait times at pizza restaurants predict war?Yes but only in certain locations and at certain times of the day. For example a popular account on X called the “Pentagon Pizza Report” follows real-time customer traffic numbe...
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Season 3
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Episode 25
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1:29

Riot Incorporated: Who's Making Money Off Riots?
“Professional agitators” definitely get paid for stirring up trouble but it’s not clear who’s actually paying THEM. Following apparent top-level security briefings on the subject, President Trump branded the 2025 LA Anti-ICE r...
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Episode 24
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1:20

Warfare Forever Changed: Carrier-launched Drones Defeat Russian Air Defenses and Take Out Long-range Bombers
Warfare Just Changed ForeverOver the weekend the Ukraine used off-the-shelf drones hidden in semi-truck trailers to strike Russian Nuclear-capable bombers deep inside Russia. The operation, code-named “Spide...
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Season 3
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Episode 23
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1:27

Lost American Nuclear Powered Ice Base Found in Greenland?
Lost Secret Nuclear US Icebase in Greenland Is there a lost American nuclear-powered ice-base hidden in Greenland?Yes. But the reactor isn’t there anymore. Camp Century as it was known, had been frozen in time until it...
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Episode 22
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1:26

Florida: Pay Taxes in Gold & Silver
Florida Gold Rush?Florida is set to recognize gold and silver as currency that can be used to pay taxes. Committee Substitute Bill 999 is making its way through the Florida legislature and, ...
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Season 3
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Episode 21
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1:06

Coinbase Ad Attacks Fed During NBA Playoffs
Did Coinbase just attack the Federal Reserve? Oh yeah. Big time. The crypto clearinghouse Coinbase just published an ad attacking the Federal Reserves policy of “printing” money while touting the benefit of Bitcoin (which has a set ...
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Season 3
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Episode 20
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0:47

Debt Jubilee
Debt Jubilee What if ALL debts were forgiven and everyone just started over?It sounds crazy but it’s actually been done before - a lot - every 50 years in some cases. And it’s exactly what it sounds like - ALL de...
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1:27

Food Dyes Banned?
It was just announced that the FDA will be phasing out eight petroleum-based food dyes by next year. Citrus Red No. 2 and Orange B are going to have their authorizations pulled in the next few weeks while the FDA is asking for voluntary c...
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Season 3
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Episode 24
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1:17

Crypto is Over-hyped
Is Crypto is over-hyped?Yes. It’s just a ledger that’s distributed to lots of other users and essentially password protected. But a ledger is nothing new - you can find them chiseled onto stone tablets going back millennia. W...
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Season 3
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Episode 23
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1:05

Why Does It Matter Who Is Pope?
Why does it matter who is Pope?In short? Everyday life. The Pope - the head of the Catholic Church- is the spiritual leader of nearly 1.5 billion people worldwide, controls a centuries-old (mostly cash) financial...
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Season 3
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Episode 22
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1:29

Have You Been Eating "Gene Edited" Food?
Have you been eating genetically modified food without knowing it? Could be. So-called “gene edited” (GE) foods don’t have to be labeled in more than 20 countries including the US, UK, Canada, Japan and Australia and that...
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Episode 21
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1:29

Luxury Brands Exposed?
Where was your luxury purse actually made? Recent allegations suggest that many luxury brand labels such as Chanel, Gucci, Louis Vitton and others are making their products, (or most of them) in China and not in the country li...
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Season 3
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Episode 20
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1:29

Insurance Foreclosure Landmine?
Is America about to step on an “Insurance foreclosure land mine”. Seems like it. As if it wasn’t bad enough that no one can afford to buy a decent home, a new threat is looming. “ Insurance foreclosures”. Insurance costs...
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Season 3
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Episode 19
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0:55

Tariffs: Who Wins?
Tariffs: Who Wins?If things go well, working class Americans who need more high-paying jobs . For context, a tariff is a tax on things that are imported into the country. They’re designed to incentivi...
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Season 3
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Episode 18
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1:24

Did England Betray US & Poach the Ukraine Minerals Deal? Pt 3/3
Did England just betray the US and poach the Ukraine minerals deal? Pt. 3/3
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Season 3
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Episode 17
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1:02

Did England Betray US & Poach the Ukraine Minerals Deal? Pt 2/3
Did England just betray US & poach the Ukraine minerals deal? Pt 2/3
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Season 3
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Episode 16
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0:33

Did England Betray US & Poach the Ukraine Minerals Deal? Pt 1/3
Did England just take the Ukraine mineral rights deal out from under the US's nose? Pt. 1/3
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Season 3
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Episode 15
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0:59

Renting our Rain?
Recent developments in cloud seeding technology suggest “yes”.The question arose because Florida (which ironically gets more rain than most), wants to ban cloud seeding and all “weather modification”. Proponents of the technology oppose ...
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Season 3
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Episode 14
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1:25

Should American Presidents Use Autopens?
Yesterday President Trump announced that presidential pardons issued by former President Biden were invalid because they had been signed using an autopen. Critics immediately rejected the claim but others have pointed out that the US Constituti...
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Season 3
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Episode 13
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1:28

Magic Money Computer Printing Trillions
US Government computers have been making money “out of thin air” and paying out “trillions” of dollars worth of this “magic money” for who knows what. At least, that is what DOGE Chief Elon Musk reported during an appearance on SenatorTed...
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1:30

Banker Takeover?
Former Bank of England (and Canada) head Mark Carney has recently been elected to lead Canada's Liberal Party and is poised to take over as PM from Justin Trudeau just after Trudeau had a spat with his finance minister Chrystia Freeland. Turns ...
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Season 3
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Episode 11
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1:16

Gold Flying into US Vaults
So much gold has been flowing into US vaults that the Bank of England has been unable to honor physical withdrawal requests in real time (whereas before requests could be honored in as little as 2 days, depositors now have to wait as long as 8 ...
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Season 3
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Episode 10
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1:18

LA Burns and Fire Hydrants Run Dry
Fire-hydrants run dry just as infernos engulf the Pacific Palisades and Malibu neighborhoods in North Los Angeles. This is one of the wealthiest communities on earth -- home to 'movie stars and millionaires' -- so how could this kind of worst-c...
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Season 3
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Episode 9
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1:28
