Pimco, the bond fund manager, announced last week that it hired a former Federal Reserve official who came under fire after moving a significant amount of money from bonds to stocks just days before the Fed moved to prop up the financial markets during COVID-19. Richard Clarida was hired by the California-based company as the...
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UNIONIZATION: TOP 2022 TREND KEEPS GROWING
Hundreds of Amazon workers in the UK protested after Jeff Bezos’s company offered them just a 42 cent hourly pay increase while inflation in the UK is approaching 13 percent in 2022. These protests broke out in warehouses across England. One warehouse worker, 31, complained to Business Insider about the working conditions at these locations. “Managers treat...
AIPAC FLEXES $ MUSCLE: DUMPS IN MILLIONS TO POLITICAL LACKEYS
Jewish groups in the U.S. are spending tens of millions on their favorite candidates in the 2022 primaries to defeat any candidate that has anything other than a most favorable view of the Apartheid state of Israel. (See “Israel’s apartheid against Palestinians: a cruel system of domination and a crime against humanity” and “A Threshold...
SENATE PASSES BILL TO ENRICH THE RICH AND SCREW THE PEOPLE
It’s the big Presstitute news. The crime syndicate running Washington passed a bill that the mainstream media shills—like The New York Times, the Toilet Paper of Record—championed on its front-page headline: SENATE VOTE PUTS CLIMATE ACTION IN REACH. Drudge Report hyped it as: BIDEN’S BIG WIN Yes, Biden’s Big Win… and the people’s big losses. ...
RAND PAUL HOLDS FIRST CONGRESSIONAL HEARING ON DANGEROUS “GAIN-OF-FUNCTION” VIRUS EXPERIMENTS
Why would any scientist purposely manipulate viruses with genetic material from other organisms to create more lethal, man made strains? In fact, the controversial technique was banned during the Obama years. But Senator Rand Paul (D-KY) has doggedly pursued evidence that U.S. medical agencies under the authority of Dr. Anthony Fauci funded so-called gain-of-function research,...
BLOCKCHAIN BATTLES
REGULATORS RUNNING WILD? SENATE STAFFER SAYS SEC INVESTIGATING EVERY U.S. CRYPTO EXCHANGE The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has been bogged down for years in a head-numbing lawsuit against Ripple Networks and XRP, technology which could bring the SWIFT system out of the stone age. But the latest SEC news promises even more misguided absurdity....
BLACKROCK INVESTORS WILL GAIN ACCESS TO CRYPTOS VIA COINBASE PARTNERSHIP
Blackrock, one of the world’s largest asset management firms, is partnering with Coinbase to provide investors with crypto investing capabilities. Through connectivity with Coinbase Prime, institutional clients of Aladdin, BlackRock’s end-to-end investment management platform, will have direct access to cryptocurrencies, starting with bitcoin. Coinbase announced the partnership on 4 August, and shares of Coinbase stock...
COULD STABLECOINS SAVE THE DOLLAR?
Many believe the dollar’s current strength is more a result of the relative weakness of alternatives on the world stage, rather than the soundness of the U.S. economy and financial system itself. But there is a path to the dollar fending off attacks from rivals, and maintaining its place as the world’s reserve currency. Or...
POLYMER BRICKS MADE FROM WASTE BIND TOGETHER WITHOUT MORTAR
Making building materials is a messy business. Making the cement used in concrete accounts for as much as 8 percent of the world’s carbon dioxide emissions. Engineers have tried mixing wood waste, coal ash, and even ground-up tires into concrete to moderate its environmental impact. At Australia’s Flinders University, researchers decided to do without concrete...
ULTRASOUND STICKERS CAN SEE INTO YOUR BODY
Ultrasound can tell physicians a lot about what’s going on inside your body but it’s not convenient: the equipment is big and clunky, only available in a medical office, and the technician operating the gear has to smear goo on you to make the best medium for the sound waves to travel through. Now engineers...