The conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan continued to destabilize the region last week, with Armenian President Armen Sarkissian warning the area could continue to descend into the abyss and become a “new Syria.” Sarkissian said Turkey has emerged as a “bully in the region” and has pushed aside Russia from its role as a mediator...
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TRUMP’S “BRING HOME THE TROOPS” NOT BIG NEWS
President Trump seemed to catch some U.S. military leaders off guard last Wednesday when he took to Twitter to announce “we should have” all troops in Afghanistan home by Christmas, according to The New York Times. The paper, citing a senior U.S. military official, reported there was some speculation surrounding the timing of Trump’s announcement....
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TEXAS SUPREME COURT STOPS HARRIS COUNTY MAIL-IN BALLOTS
The Texas Supreme Court reversed a lower-court decision last Wednesday that would have allowed Harris Country, which includes Houston, to ship out about two million unsolicited mail-in ballots. This decision is seen as a setback for Democrats. “Mass-mailing unsolicited ballot applications to voters ineligible to vote by mail cannot be said to be necessary or...
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PUTIN ACKNOWLEDGES BIDEN’S ANTI-RUSSIAN RHETORIC
Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a televised interview last week he has noticed Joe Biden’s “sharp, anti-Russian rhetoric” during his presidential campaign, while giving credit to President Trump for improving the two countries’ relationship. Putin has largely stayed quiet on the U.S. election. Democrats have been critical of what they see as a cozy...
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CLEANER AIR IN CHINA = FEWER HOSPITAL VISITS?
Scientists say the drop in some air pollutants in China during the past few months may have resulted in a significant decrease in hospitalizations from other ailments while the country worked to get a grip on the coronavirus outbreak. The South China Morning Post reported that cleaner air in some of the country’s large cities...
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HOTTEST SEPTEMBER ON RECORD HAS SCIENTISTS ON EDGE
The planet has just experienced its hottest September on record, beating out last year’s temperature by 0.09 degrees Fahrenheit, the Copernicus Climate Change Service said in a statement released last week. The BBC reported researchers point to the record temperature and blame emissions that result from humans. Scientists have also raised alarms that Arctic sea...
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SLAVELANDIA: RICH GET RICHER, POOR GET POORER
As we have been reporting for years, the rich are getting richer and the “Bigs” are getting bigger, as the plantation workers of Slavelandia get poorer. Bloomberg’s “Billionaires Index” released data last week that showed the richest 59 billionaires in the U.S. watched their net worth skyrocket during the coronavirus outbreak and now own more...
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A NEW PATH TO CLEAN NUCLEAR ENERGY
Those hoping to revive nuclear power production have been concentrating on redesigning nuclear reactors. But a new coalition is showing a more promising way: redesigning nuclear fuel. The U.S. Department of Energy, the Idaho National Laboratory, Texas A&M University’s Nuclear Engineering and Science Center, and private research company Clean Core Thorium Energy have partnered to...
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EUROPE BUILDS DIGITAL PARALLEL WORLD
The European Union is about to begin building what it calls a “digital twin” of planet Earth that will simulate “with unrivaled precision” our physical planet’s land, seas, atmosphere, and ice caps. The “Destination Earth” project is capable of modeling the planet in squares one kilometer across, about a sixth of a mile, a far...