The Kremlin, once again, said the war in Ukraine will only end through negotiations, but said Kyiv’s continued refusal to negotiate has led to the war of attrition. Ukraine has said Russia cannot be trusted, so negotiations are worthless. Kyiv also said it will not lay down arms until it reclaims all of its land...
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday once again brushed off the Ukrainian counteroffensive and issued a wider threat to the West for its military support for Kyiv. Putin has recently said his forces largely have not begun to fight. The troops in Ukraine have been volunteers up until this point. His recent mobilization will increase...
Antony Blinken, the U.S. secretary of state, said last week that the U.S. will continue its support for Ukraine because the country’s existence hangs in the balance. Blinken told the UN Security Council that the U.S. (“we”) will continue to support Kyiv as it defends itself and “strengthen its hand to achieve a diplomatic solution...
You know it’s serious when the Pentagon doesn’t just rubber stamp a Ukrainian weapons request. Members of Congress sent Lloyd Austin, the head of the Defense Department (and former board member of Raytheon, America’s second largest defense contractor), a letter urging the Pentagon to speed up the process in reviewing Kyiv’s request for hi-tech MQ-1C...
“Clean” Energy isn’t clean. The emissions and impacts on the environment of making EVs, wind turbines and solar panels and associated equipment is an enormous cost often hidden by tallies of the supposed benefits of these technologies. They can’t scale to provide equivalent amounts of energy as current systems, even with enormous expenditures and environmental......
TETHER STABLECOIN MUST PROVE ITS BACKING, SAYS COURT Tether must prove it has 1 to 1 dollar reserves or equivalent backing for its USDT stablecoin. That was the directive last week issued by Judge Katherine Polk Failla of the Southern District of New York’s U.S. District Court, as part of a case that stems back...
In a bid to leverage blockchain technology innovations, Asian banking giant Nomura has made several recent moves, including investing in the Fnality Payments Firm, based in London. According to theblock.co, Nomura has also raised money for a crypto venture fund, and has noted the evolution of DeFi as an important development. “The transformation of financial...
The metaverse and NFTs will likely figure into the near term future of The Disney Company’s theme parks and entertainment creations. The news is significant for the crypto sector, since Disney has long been one of the major movie studios and entertainment companies in the world. Speaking in an interview with Deadline Hollywood, Disney CEO...
Yes, the prognosis continues to look bleaker. The modern story of monetary manipulation by the government via the Fed, marked by spending increasingly unmoored from GDP, is known to TJ readers. The problem has fomented successive bubbles, from dot.com, to real estate, to derivatives. At the moment, the dollar itself is the bubble, as world...
Adden Energy, a start-up spun out of Harvard University, reports having created a battery that can be fully charged in three minutes and will last through 10,000 cycles or 20 years of regular use. At Harvard, engineers used computer power and machine learning to analyze and refine battery chemistry, create novel power cell designs, and...
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