COVERING YOUR FACE NOT ENOUGH: GOV’T DEVELOPING WHOLE-BODY BIOMETRICS TO IDENTIFY YOU. Dissidents will have to get more creative, if they want to avoid illegal government crackdowns for exercising their protest rights. Nextgov, the corporate consortium that exists to sell tech to government agencies, is reporting on a new initiative called BRIAR (Biometric Recognition &...
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WILL CHINA SOON INVADE TAIWAN?
Taiwan is reportedly considering its own military might amid new Chinese aggression as war drags on between Ukraine and Russia. Beijing has long declared Taiwan as part of its territory under its “One China Principle.” The U.S. has historically pursued a policy toward the matter as “strategic ambiguity,” which means it will aid Taiwan’s defenses...
FOURTH COVID-19 A ZERO SHOT?
A recent study found that the fourth COVID-19 vaccine that has already begun to emerge in several countries offers little to no protection from the virus when measured against young and otherwise healthy people who have been vaccinated and boosted. The study was conducted by researchers at Israel’s Infection Prevention and Control Unit at Sheba...
THE FORGOTTEN STORY OF TECHNOCRACY’S FOUNDING FATHER
His name was Howard Scott. And more than 20 years before C.S. Lewis warned in the 1940’s about a world in which technocrats would wield undue power via technology, Scott was advocating for exactly that, via his organization “Technical Alliance.” Largely forgotten now, Scott was a surprisingly influential figure in the first half of the...
GLOBAL DEBT TO SURGE HIGHER FROM HERE, FASTER THAN EVER BEFORE
By Gregory Mannarino, TradersChoice.net Despite repeated, totally false claims to the contrary by world central banks, none more so than the Federal Reserve, central banks continue to go out of their way to deliberately fuel higher inflation. To put this into perspective, the Federal Reserve recently raised the Federal Funds Rate by 0.25 percent in...
POT CALLS KETTLE BLACK: BIDEN CALLS PUTIN A WAR CRIMINAL
President Joe Biden last week called Russian President Vladimir Putin a “war criminal” over his actions in Ukraine, prompting a swift rebuke by Moscow and renewed criticism of U.S. war efforts in countries like Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Yugoslavia. Biden’s administration doubled down on the comment. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said he agrees with...
MARKETS OVERVIEW
U.S. EQUITY MARKETS PERK UP, DELIVER BEST WEEK IN 17 MONTHS All three major U.S. stock indexes turned solidly positive last week, ending several weeks of slumping prices and turning in their best performance since the week ending 6 November, 2020. The Dow Jones Industrial Average grew by 5.5 percent over the week, the NASDAQ...
UKRAINE WAR ECONOMIC OVERVIEW
WAR SCRAMBLES EUROPE’S HOPES FOR ECONOMIC RECOVERY As Europe’s economy struggles to right itself after the Omicron surge and a storm of inflation, Russia’s attack on Ukraine has dashed hopes for a smooth return to any kind of pre-COVID “normal.” Europe’s energy prices had spiked as much as fivefold last fall; the war has now...
