President Trump has reportedly ordered security clearances be removed from a number of Democrat officials, after claiming Joe Biden ‘could not be trusted’.

Earlier this week, Trump said he would be revoking the former president’s security clearance and access to daily intelligence briefings, claiming that he can’t ‘be trusted’.

The president wrote on his Truth Social platform: “There is no need for Joe Biden to continue receiving access to classified information.”

Trump claimed Biden had done the same to him when he came into office back in 2021, which was the first time an ex-president was blocked from the intelligence briefings.

“He instructed the Intelligence Community (IC) to stop the 45th President of the United States (ME!) from accessing details on National Security, a courtesy provided to former Presidents,” Trump wrote, adding: “The Hur Report revealed that Biden suffers from ‘poor memory’ and, even in his ‘prime’, could not be trusted with sensitive information.

“I will always protect our National Security.”

At the time, Biden said Trump’s ‘erratic behaviour’ was the deciding factor behind the move, explaining: “What value is giving him an intelligence briefing? What impact does he have at all, other than the fact he might slip and say something?”

According to The New York Post, Trump is now set to remove security clearances from a list of other Democrats, including Antony Blinken, ex-Secretary of State.

“Bad guy. Take away his passes,” Trump told the Post earlier this week. “This is to take away every right they have [revoking security clearances] including they can’t go into [federal] buildings.”

Also included in the list of officials is New York Attorney General Letitia James – who launched a civil fraud case against Trump last year, in which he was ordered to pay more than $450 million – and Manhattan District Attorney, Alvin Bragg, who prosecuted Trump last year.

The move could prevent the officials from carrying out certain duties, as well as entering prisons or courthouses.

However, attorney Bob Costello explained it’s ‘more an insult and a slap in the face than a real deterrent’.

Other names on the list reportedly include Biden’s former National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan; former Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco; prosecutor Andrew Weissman; lawyer Mark Zaid and Norm Eisen, who was special counsel to the House Judiciary Committee during Trump’s impeachment.

With artificial intelligence (AI) becoming more advanced every day, scientists are able to use technology to understand more about the future of humans and planet Earth.

Unfortunately, for one group of scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), this includes trying to calculate when society will cease to exist.

After carrying out their research, the study was published by the Club of Rome, with the upcoming ‘limits to growth’ highlighted as what would cause the eventual collapse of human society.

When did the study predict society would end?

So when did it predict the end of society as we know it?

Through this research, the team learned that the fall of society would hit near the midpoint of the 21st century. And yes, in case you’d forgotten, that’s the century we’re currently in the middle of.

In fact, there’s apparently less than two decades to go until the collapse. Around 17 years, to be precise, as the scientists predicted the collapse would come in 2040.

Other studies that support the prediction

At the time, the report wasn’t taken too seriously and did attract some ridicule, the Guardian reports. However, before you start to feel smug, you should know that in 2009, a different team of researchers did a similar study which produced similar results.

Published by American Scientist, the more recent study concluded that the model’s results were ‘almost exactly on course some 35 years later in 2008 (with a few appropriate assumptions)’.

“It is important to recognise that its predictions have not been invalidated and, in fact, seem quite on target. We are not aware of any model made by economists that is as accurate over such a long time span,” the study said.

Further to this, in 2021, Dutch sustainability researcher Gaya Herrington also affirmed the somewhat bleak predictions made in the study.

Speaking to the Guardian, Herrington said: “From a research perspective, I felt a data check of a decades-old model against empirical observations would be an interesting exercise.”

Herrington found that the data aligned with the predictions made back in 1972, which had a worst-case scenario of economic growth coming to a halt at the end of this decade and society collapsing around 10 years later.

Thankfully, however, Herrington did have a bit of optimistic news.

She told the Guardian: “The key finding of my study is that we still have a choice to align with a scenario that does not end in collapse.

“With innovation in business, along with new developments by governments and civil society, continuing to update the model provides another perspective on the challenges and opportunities we have to create a more sustainable world.”

He’s the bloke who urged people to buy $1 worth of Bitcoin way back in May 2013 – which is a gamble that would have paid off handsomely if you listened to him.

We could have all been living the life of Riley just like Jeremie is if we had taken more notice of his prediction about how well investing in the cryptocurrency could pan out.

“It’s just a dollar, get some Bitcoins,’ he said in the now notorious clip.

“[If it] goes to nothing, who cares, you only spent a dollar.

“If I’m right, I want all of you to thank me. It will not make me happy if you come back to me in 10 years saying, ‘Dude, I wish I listened to you back 2011 or 2013.'”

Famous last words, eh?

When Jeremie made his forecast 12 years ago, Bitcoin was worth $116.75.

Now, it’s value has skyrocketed to more than $70,000, which will have made those who took a chance on the crypto early very, very wealthy.

As we’ve established, Jeremie is one of those people.

These days, he’s living the high life and enjoys holidays in places like Monte Carlo and Dubai, while smugly strolling around in his ‘I told you so’ t-shirt.

One look at the investor’s Instagram will leave you kicking yourself for not braving the Bitcoin world more than a decade ago.

He’s swanning around the world on private yachts and planes, while driving flashy cars and continuing to pedal cryptocurrencies online.

Jeremie won’t let people forget he was the guy who told us all to take a chance either, as his social media bio’s all include a reminder of his claim to fame.

On X and Instagram, it reads: “I told you to buy #Bitcoin for $1 in 2011. Don’t miss it again!”

Speaking to Coin Telegraph in 2023, Jeremie reflected on how his pleas to get people to invest in Bitcoin had gone unheard.

“Once in a while, something comes along that makes poor people rich because they got it really, really cheap,” he said.

“This was one of them. I thought I was gonna be the hero to my community, but no, they thought I was crazy.

Bryan Johnson, 47, clearly believes that you can’t put a price on longevity in this life, hence why he’s on a mission to override the ageing process.

The venture capitalist, who dubs himself ‘the world’s most measured human’, launched his ‘Project Blueprint’ after suffering a health scare in 2020.

On top of that, he had $800 million (£642 million) burning a hole in his pocket after selling his payment gateway company Braintree Venmo to PayPal in 2013, so he invested his cash into himself.

Johnson has been measuring each of the 70 organs in his body in a bid to ‘maximally reverse’ his quantified biological age.

His unique experiment was recently the subject of a new Netflix documentary, Don’t Die: The Man Who Wants To Live Forever.

A stranger segment of Project Blueprint is the seven step process which the entrepreneur from Utah follows to try and ‘de-age his penis’.

Johnson claims he has been able to lower his ‘erection age’ by over half thanks to this longwinded ritual.

As well as keeping track of his own ‘erection data’, Johnson has also been controversially comparing the stats to his 19-year-old son’s.

The biohacker reckons it’s very important information to collect, because ‘men with erection problems are 70% more likely to die early compared to those without’.

Explaining why he believes nighttime erections have a huge effect on the health of a bloke’s penis, Johnson said: “It’s a classic case of ‘use it or lose it’.

“Think of nighttime erections as how your penis works out,” he said. “Erections keep the tissue healthy by bringing in oxygen-rich blood – the more they last, the better.

“Without these regular exercises, the penis can develop scar tissue over time, making it harder to get erections.”

Johnson claims ‘healthy nerves, good blood flow, high sleep quality and balanced hormones are essential factors for a healthy penis.

So, how does he measure how well his little guy is doing?

Semen analysis

Johnson starts off with ‘semen analysis’, which involves regular testing of ejaculate to look for changes in sperm count, motility, and morphology.

Measuring erections

Next is a ‘measurement of nighttime erections’ with a Fitbit-like smart device, which fits around his penis, and takes readings of how many times he gets hard throughout the night.

Johnson says this provides an indication of ‘physiological cardiovascular and sexual vascular health’.

Blood flow testing

An ultrasound is then used for ‘blood flow testing’, which measures how much blood is getting to his penis.

Urine testing

Johnson also tests his urine for similar reasons, saying that making a note of his ‘max urination speed’ let’s him know everything is all good with his urinary health.

Questionnaires on sexual function

This is followed up by ‘questionnaires’ to score his sexual function, while he also regularly measures the size of his prostrate.

Following core health practices

The sixth step is following ‘core health practices’, which he describes as prioritising quality sleep, eating a balanced diet and regularly exercising.

Prostate health

The final step follows on from the last one as it’s all done through the Adam Health sensor, which provides detailed metrics of a penis’ activity during the night.

These results then work out your ‘AndroAge’, which lets you track how effectively you’re measuring your penis and erection health.

Johnson’s is below 20, even though he is 47-years-old.

As to why he does all this, Johnson explained that he was inspired to go on this bizarre journey after living among ‘extreme poverty’ in Ecuador when he was 21-years-old.

“I felt really compelled to want to do something that would improve the world,” the biohacker told People. “I didn’t know what.

“So the goal became make a whole bunch of money by age 30, and then with that money, find something interesting to do.”

Johnson did exactly that and went on to invest $100 million (£81 million) in ‘synthetic biology, genomics, nanotech’ while building a brain interface.

He claims this is the ‘world’s best way to easily and robustly measure the brain’, while he ‘measures himself’ with Project Blueprint.

“And it all kind of came together into this one simple thesis, which is, don’t die,” Johnson added.