Bitcoin’s price may have seen some downturn over the last week, but several major announcements might just prove to be lightning in a bottle for the king of cryptos. Strike CEO Jack Mallers disclosed a number of high-powered agreements, including one with ecommerce giant Shopify, that will see Strike’s Bitcoin Lightning Network be utilized to...
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MAKING THAT FIRST MOVE
By Bradley J. Steiner, American Combato Failing to avoid trouble, the next best action is to preempt it. That is, ATTACK THE ATTACKER! which we first formulated as our basic strategy in American Combato in the early 1970’s, for anyone seeking self-defense instruction and training for the real world. OK . . . attack the...
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BIDEN, ZELENSKY AND THE NEOCONS
By Philip Giraldi There are many backstories surfacing from what is going on in Ukraine and Washington that have been largely ignored amid the drumbeat of casualty counts combined with claims and counter-claims from the two sides. Two stories that I believe have received insufficient attention are the U.S. government’s three decades long obsession with...
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SULFUR: THE NEXT BIG THING IN EV BATTERIES?
The formula for typical EV battery cathodes—the terminal where the electric current flows out to spin a motor—is known as NMC811, because the cathode is 80 percent nickel, 10 percent manganese, and 10 percent cobalt. German start-up Theion’s new EV battery cathode could be called S100 because it’s all sulfur—the fifth most common element on...
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STUDY PROVES IT: YOU GO WITH YOUR GUT
You may attribute your lingering fatigue to late nights, stress at work, or parenting a two-year-old. But a new study from Texas A&M University has linked people’s degree of energy or fatigue to the good or bad bacteria that inhabit your digestive tract. Researchers quizzed subjects about their diets and found that mental and physical...
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EU PARLIAMENT HEAD GOES HEAD OVER HEALS AFTER MEETING ZELENSKY
Roberta Metsola, the president of the European Parliament, said in an interview published last week that she met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and got a chance to look into his eyes, which she essentially said revealed a true leader in all his glory. Metsola visited Kyiv on 1 April and told DW.com that she...
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RUSSIA BLAMES UKRAINE, UKRAINE BLAMES RUSSIA FOR CIVILIAN MURDERS
Russia and Ukraine traded blame last week after a train station in eastern Donbas was struck by a missile, killing at least 50, which mainly consisted of women and children looking to flee the region due to the looming Russian offensive. The missile hit the station located in Kramatorsk, which is located in Donetsk. The...
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RESEARCHERS OPEN THE DOOR TO THE BRAIN
Your brain lives in a bubble—specifically, a protective web of about 400 miles of special blood vessels that bar toxins, bacteria, and other alien invaders from passing from your blood to your crucial headspace. Without the barrier, we wouldn’t live long. But when your brain is sick, that’s a problem: the so-called blood-brain barrier also...
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RUSSIA USE OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS IN UKRAINE WAS A U.S. LIE
“Remember the Maine,” lie the mentally deranged U.S. politicians sold the public so they could invade Cuba? Remember the Gulf of Tonkin lie the U.S. mentally deranged U.S. politicians sold the public so they could invade Vietnam? Remember the “Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass-destruction lie the U.S. mentally deranged U.S. politicians sold the public...
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CZECH REPUBLIC BECOMES THE FIRST COUNTRY TO SEND TANKS INTO UKRAINE AFTER RUSSIA INVASION
The Czech Republic announced last week that it has provided Ukrainian fighters with about a dozen modernized, Soviet-designed tanks—becoming the first known country to provide Kyiv with that caliber of heavy weaponry. The Wall Street Journal reported that 35 countries met last week to discuss weapon transfers to Ukraine, and even countries that have been...