Last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Moscow could terminate exports and deals with Western countries that could “sow chaos across markets.” The decree, which was in response to the wide array of Western sanctions that Putin has called illegal, are Russia’s toughest economic maneuver since the war began. The decree was published on the...
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TECHNOCRACY TWISTS: DID ELON BUY TWITTER TO SPEED THE ROBOT TAKEOVER?
Robot cars aren’t the half of it. It’s no secret Elon Musk is out to mainstream robotics beyond electric cars and AI-powered auto-driving and driverless technology. His Tesla bot vision calls for robots to take on many jobs and tasks currently performed by humans. Musk was an early force in OpenAI, originally an open tech...
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CAPTURING CARBON WITH ALGAE
The amount of carbon in the atmosphere is growing day by day and scientists and entrepreneurs are exploring ways to take it out, from planting more trees to making giant filters to suck carbon out of the air and pump it into underground rock formations. Perhaps the most cost-effective way is Brilliant Planet’s plan to...
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CALLING ON ALPACAS, NOT DRUGS, TO TAMP DOWN CHRONIC INFLAMMATION
Science has shown that chronic inflammation underlies a range of human conditions from arthritis and gout to age-related degeneration and Alzheimer’s Disease. Now researchers at universities in Germany and Brazil think the solution to inflammation may lie with alpacas, the wooly critters that look like llamas, only smaller. The group was studying something called ASC...
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NEW PROCESSES “MINE” METALS FROM WATER, FUEL FROM SEWAGE
Nations are scrambling for ways to source more cobalt, lithium, nickel, oil, and other minerals without having to depend on foreign sources. Now the U.S. energy department’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) has an answer. The lab is grabbing metals from wastewater by adding magnetized iron nanoparticles covered by a chemical shell that snags lithium...
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LIFE IN PRISON FOR MURDER
By Bradley J. Steiner, American Combato While lynch mobs cannot be justified, they certainly can be understood. To a decent, civilized human being the taking of a human life for any reason other than self-defense is truly an abomination; an unforgivable, evil crime that demands the elimination of the murderer. The only rational objection to...
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BLOCKCHAIN BATTLES
LOSING IT IN LONDON. As Gerald Celente says, when people have nothing to lose, they lose it. According to The Guardian, London thieves are targeting digital currency investors in a spate of “crypto muggings,” with victims claiming large amounts taken after their phones were grabbed. City of London police say criminals are combining strength and...
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IT’S TIME FOR AN END-USER RIGHTS AGREEMENT
We’ve all seen those legalistic “end-user” agreements that come with every app and seemingly most activities on the internet. The ones that flash in tiny print, and basically confine the rights of end users to an absolute legal minimum, while granting endlessly expansive rights over user activity data and output to the software makers. Consumers...
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AMERICA’S FULL SPECTRUM DECLINE
By Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD, Progressive Radio Network “It is possible to live only as long as life intoxicates us; once we are sober we cannot help seeing that it is all a delusion, a stupid delusion.” – Leo Tolstoy For an ever-growing number of Americans, life is becoming ever more difficult and...
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SWEDEN WINS COVID WAR: DEATH RATE AMONG LOWEST IN EU DESPITE REFUSAL TO IMPOSE DRACONIAN LOCKDOWNS
The COVID-19 death rate in Sweden, which refused mandatory lockdowns in the early stages of the virus outbreak, was among the lowest in Europe, according to data released from the World Health Organization. The average excess death rate in the country was 56 per 100,000 from 2020 and 2021 compared to 109 in the UK...