Russia did it! Russia invaded a US ally, Ukraine, and occupied the eastern reaches of the country. It hacked our elections. It broke into Democratic National Committee servers to steal thousands of emails detrimental to candidate Hillary Clinton’s campaign. It has the undying support of US President Donald Trump because it has secretly brokered billion-dollar...
Author: Gerald Celente
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Power poles to charge electric cars in need of a business model
Visitors to Seattle’s Woodland Park Zoo now can plug their electric cars into a charging station that’s also a streetlight post. It’s part of a test project by automaker BMW and the private firm eluminocity US to turn streetlights into at-the-ready electronic-vehicle chargers. Drivers are used to fueling up in a few minutes and getting...
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CNN’s duplicitous double standard
On Sept. 2, CNN reported: “No evidence Trump Tower was wiretapped.” The CNN on-air presstitute gleefully announced: “The Justice Department is revealing it has found no evidence, zero evidence, that Trump Tower was ever wiretapped as the president has alleged in a series of tweets.” No evidence? Zero evidence? When it’s to the mainstream media’s...
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The Trends Research Institute was correct in 2013 and 2014. We stated the West, and especially the US, had targeted Russia with propaganda campaigns long before the crisis with Ukraine. We cautioned then that the US was stoking a war that couldn’t be won. Today, we intensify and expand that caution. With media, political and...
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Printed solar panels: Fast, cheap renewable energy
Researchers at Australia’s University of Newcastle have learned how to 3D-print cheap solar panels quickly. At a cost of about $10 per square meter (about a yard), the panels represent the fastest and, perhaps, cheapest form of renewable power so far. Using a water-based electronic ink containing semiconductor materials, the process layers solar panels’ components...
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The language of lies is often cloaked by words and phrases that appear conclusive but are merely speculative and opinionated. For example, the US remains engaged in the longest war in its history in Afghanistan with no end in sight. Just two days after 9/11, an American population, dumbstruck with fear, swallowed the unsupported allegation,...
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Solar technologies are shifting from stiff panels of glass and silicon to flexible forms that can cover windows invisibly or be rolled up like a blanket and backpacked to campsites. By 2035, cheap, portable, efficient solar cells will be used as much as conventional batteries are now.
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Rising sea levels may mean rising food prices worldwide
Are sea levels really rising? Is climate change real? Real or imagined, the debates go on endlessly. Here’s the way we see it: If you dump trillions of tons of poison into the air, Earth and water, do you think it will make things better or worse? As glaciers melt, rising temperatures break new records....
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Driverless vehicles: The next dot.com bust
It’s all the rage of the auto industry. It’s all the talk of Silicon Valley. It’s a media blitz and a multibillion-dollar investment frenzy across the globe, affecting scores of industries. Jump in your car, turn on your TV, text away, Twitter to your heart’s content, read your favorite magazine or newspaper (if you still...
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Electric vehicles to kill gas powered cars? Don’t bet on it
As part of its commitment to the Paris climate accords, France will prohibit the sale of new petroleum-powered vehicles in 2040. Nicolas Hulot, France’s ecology minister, says the goal will be “tough” for French carmakers to meet. But Peugeot, Citroen and Renault already are racing to get electric vehicles to market. On the demand side,...