SEC PROTECTED INVESTORS FROM 12-THOUSAND PERCENT GAINS. Yes, the headline is sarcasm. The SEC’s rejection late last week of a “Spot Bitcoin” ETF was hardly the first time the federal agency acted to bar non crypto tech savvy investors from gaining exposure to bitcoin. A spot bitcoin ETF was actually first proposed in 2013. If...
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BLOCKCHAIN AND GAMING INDUSTRY SYNERGY GROWING
A recent startup has shown how blockchain development entities and traditional gaming companies are joining to transform the industry. Forte, based in the U.S., recently announced it secured $725 million in a Series B fundraising round. As interesting as the news itself, was the list of those behind the initiative. It includes some third generation...
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A $1-BILLION ROLL OF THE DICE
The European Commission, the European Investment Bank, and the private Breakthrough Energy Catalyst, part of Bill Gates’s Breakthrough Energy Ventures investment firm, have signed a deal to invest as much as €820 million, or about $1 billion, into long-shot ideas that, at best, will take a long time to pay off. Under the agreement, Gates...
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SCIENCE DISCOVERS THE “FAT GENES”
At the University of Virginia, researchers have discovered 14 genes that cause obesity and three that can prevent it. As many as four in ten Americans are obese, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, putting them at risk for ailments ranging from strokes and heart attacks to diabetes and bad joints....
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ELECTRIC CARS CAN POLLUTE MORE THAN GAS GUZZLERS, STUDY FINDS
Critics of electric cars (EVs) have pointed out that they’re only as clean as the sources of the electricity that charge their batteries. Researchers at Berlin’s Radiant Energy Group consulting firm have parsed data to discover exactly where EVs in Europe are the dirtiest. Answer: Poland and the Republic of Kosovo produce most of their...
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TODAY RUSSIA IS MORE FREE THAN THE “FREE WORLD”
By Paul Craig Roberts Americans and the people of Great Britain, Europe, Canada, and Australia have heard for decades that they live in “the free world.” This world contrasted to the Soviet world where civil liberty was replaced with internal passports, with punishments for criticizing authorities and disagreeing with the narrative, and with mandates issued...
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THE COST OF IGNORING COVID-19 RED FLAGS
By Gary Null PhD There remain looming questions for those who have taken the vaccines and who will eventually be taking the boosters. A fundamental question is: What are the consequences if it is revealed that the information we are relying upon for the urgency to get vaccinated is not valid? If this is the...
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FINALLY… IT’S UP TO YOU
By Bradley J. Steiner, American Combato When that awful moment arrives and it’s time to trip the wire and go after your assailant (either preemptively, or after he’s seized, grabbed, shoved, or menacingly moved in on you, etc.) there can be no success, no matter how hard you’ve trained, and no matter how excellent the...
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AUSTRIA: “NO VAX, NO FREEDOM”
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 War, so-called “government health officials” have done their best at dividing populations into two groups: those who obey what politicians and bureaucrats tell them, and those who think for themselves. And as last week’s cover of the Trends Journal noted: “Think for Yourself! It’s not illegal …yet!” That “yet”...
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U.S. FIRMS BOOST CHINA’S BID FOR GLOBAL DOMINANCE
U.S. financial and technology companies, and their affiliates in China, are increasing their investments in Chinese semiconductor companies as the U.S. chip industry struggles to hold its market share, according to a Wall Street Journal investigation. U.S. firms were involved in 58 chip-industry deals in China from 2017 through 2020, more than twice as many...