The Biden administration gleefully announced its agenda to vaccinate children between 5 and 11 yrs. old, approved and undertaken just weeks ago, is so far so successful that as many as 3 million such children could be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by Christmas Eve. Yahoo News reports, on 17 November, that a White House official...
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BLOCKCHAIN BATTLES
CAN CRYPTO TURN AROUND TURKEY’S CURRENCY IMPLOSION? Turkey’s economy has been rocked by a currency crisis. After the central bank lowered borrowing charges for the third month in a row, the Turkish Lira reached a new low versus the US Dollar. The bank lowered a “key rate by one percentage point,” according to The Wall...
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A CORNUCOPIA OF ALTCOINS?
Plenty of crypto analysts have been predicting an “altcoin season” that may roughly coincide with the 2021 holidays. Some of the factors are technical. Those who track such things have reported that some large bitcoin addresses sold to help spur the recent 10-plus percent dip in bitcoin. Those whales may well be buying back the...
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THIS WEEK IN SURVEILLANCE
YOUR CARBON CREDIT CARD HAS BEEN DECLINED. Get ready for a whole different kind of credit score. This one has nothing to do with financial risk, and everything to do with control in the guise of combating “climate change.” A Swedish fintech company Doconomy is applying the “credit limit”model to calculations about pollution. It’s issuing...
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SPARRING: IS IT AN ESSENTIAL COMPONENT OF CLOSE COMBAT/DEFENSE TRAINING?
By Bradley J. Steiner, American Combato You hear it all the time: “Without freestyle sparring in whatever you are doing, there is no preparation for self-defense. You must spar.” With all due respect to those who honestly believe that (and with utter contempt for those who know better, but foster the lie because it serves...
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NEW CABLE COULD SLASH EV CHARGE TIMES
One barrier to drivers’ acceptance of electric vehicles (EVs) is the unwillingness to stand around for 20 minutes while the car charges at a public station. Most EVs can run for at least two days on a typical overnight charge at home, but the fear of being stuck at a charger in a random parking...
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ROOFTOP REACTOR MAKES KEROSENE FROM CO2, WATER, AND SUNSHINE
Engineers at ETH Zurich, the Swiss research university, have made a rooftop reactor that draws carbon dioxide and water vapor from air, then uses solar energy to turn the ingredients into hydrocarbon fuel. The system is made up of three sections. The first section sucks in air, extracts water and carbon dioxide from it, then...
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IMPLANTED CELLS RELEASE ARTHRITIS DRUG
Physicians treat rheumatoid arthritis (RA), a chronic condition caused by inflammation, by injecting patients with drugs that can, over time, cause side effects from severe infections to liver damage to increased risk of some cancers. At Washington University’s medical school, scientists took a new tack. They used Nobel-winning CRISPR technology (“New CRISPR Gene Editor Edits...
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VAX WAR: THE SHOT HEARD AROUND THE WORLD
Over the weekend, hundreds of thousands of citizens took to the streets in protest of being forced to get the COVID Jab or lose their jobs and freedom. Governments are reinstating lockdown orders while applying new pressure on the unvaccinated to get vaccinated. TREND FORECAST: These massive demonstrations that are barely reported by the mainstream...
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MODI LOSES, FARMERS WIN. A MEGA-TREND BEYOND INDIA
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday announced that his government will repeal the farm laws that resulted in deadly year-long protests by farmers who claimed the legislation would crush their livelihood. “Today, I beg the forgiveness of my countrymen and say with a pure heart and honest mind that perhaps there were some shortcomings,”...