China tried to distance itself from the Ukraine War last week during tense discussions with the U.S. about a wide range of topics, from Russian sanctions to Taiwan. Jake Sullivan, President Joe Biden’s national security adviser, held a seven-hour meeting in Rome with Yang Jiechi, China’s top foreign policy official, the Financial Times reported. The...
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BIOWASTE BECOMES BIOFUEL. EUROPE, ARE YOU LISTENING?
Suddenly desperate to end dependency on Russian oil and gas, Europe is looking for alternatives. Europe, meet Virent, a Wisconsin-based subsidiary of Marathon Oil, the ninth-largest U.S. oil company. Virent has developed a process that uses plant waste—corn cobs, trash left over from processing sugarcane, and a variety of other organic matter—to make “drop-in” replacements...
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NEWLY DISCOVERED CELLS MAY DEFEND AGAINST AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES
Autoimmune diseases—celiac disease, lupus, multiple sclerosis, psoriasis, and others—are on the rise, thanks to factors such as lifelong stress, poor diet, and lack of exercise. Mice are known to have a particular kind of T cell—a form of white blood cell that fights infection—that defends their bodies against autoimmune illnesses. Because of other similarities with...
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PRESIDENT ZELENSKY SAVES HIS BEST ACT FOR U.S. CONGRESS DURING VIDEO
Last Wednesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addressed Congress to give an update about his country’s war with Russia, appealing for more help, and invoking some of the worst tragedies on U.S. soil in an apparent effort to tug at the heart and money strings of the public. Zelensky, who appeared in a video link from...
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LYING FRAUDS: CUOMO & NY HEALTH DEPARTMENT
Auditors from the New York State Comptroller’s Office said they found that the state’s Health Department purposely undercounted the number of nursing home residents who died of COVID-19 to mislead the public. “The public was misled by those at the highest level of state government through distortion and suppression of the facts when New Yorkers...
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FORD, GM BEGIN TESTS OF ELECTRIC VEHICLES AS GENERATORS
Power goes out, car goes on. That’s the idea behind vehicle-to-home (V2H) and vehicle-to-grid (V2G), the prospect of using the power in your electric vehicle’s battery pack to run your lights, refrigerator, and charge your phone if there’s a power outage in your neighborhood. While a home battery, such as Tesla’s Powerwall, supplies electricity for...
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HONG KONG HYSTERIA: STRICT MEASURES TO STOP COVID-19 SPREAD PROVE INEFFECTIVE. 50 PERCENT GOT THE VIRUS
It’s all the news! Despite zero-COVID policy lockdowns and an 80 percent vaccination rate, Hong Kong is experiencing its worst COVID-19 outbreak since the start of the pandemic with some 50 percent of its 7.6 million people infected with the virus. Researchers at the University of Hong Kong found that 3.6 million residents in the...
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UKRAINIAN UPDATE #8
By Paul Craig Roberts, Institute for Political Economy It seems the Kremlin still has delusions that there is morality in the West. The Kremlin has appealed to “international structures to make Ukrainian radicals release civilians.” What is the point of such a useless appeal? Why is the Kremlin attributing morality to the enemy that is...
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HOUTHIS HIT SAUDI FUEL DEPOT
Houthis from Yemen used drones and missiles to attack six targets in Saudi Arabia, including an Aramco fuel depot and liquefied natural gas plant. The attacks prompted Jake Sullivan, the U.S. national security adviser, to condemn the strikes. “The Houthis launch these terrorist attacks with enabling by Iran, which supplies them with missile and UAV...
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IRAN’S MISSILES STRIKE “RETALIATORY,” HITS ISRAELI TARGET
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard announced last week that it launched a barrage of ballistic missiles into Iraq and as new details emerge, the strike seems to be a direct response to an Israeli airstrike on a drone factory in Iran last month, according to The New York Times. The paper said the “tit-for-tat” strikes marked an “alarming...