Gas-rich countries, such as the U.S., see a growing world market for their resource. But exporting natural gas means investing in multi-billion-dollar ports where the stuff can be cooled and stored at around -260°F, then pumped aboard refrigerator tankers to sail off to foreign lands. Even storing natural gas in your home’s tank for cooking...
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COMPUTER COMPLETES BILLION-YEAR TASK IN 3 MIN
If you’ve ever wondered how fast a quantum computer really is, scientists at the University of Science and Technology of China can tell you: fast enough to complete in three minutes a calculation that would take today’s fourth-best supercomputer an estimated 200 billion years to solve. Conventional computers process information, moving as an electrical current,...
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PROTESTS CONTINUE IN INDIA OVER AGRICULTURE BILL
As we have been reporting, for nearly three weeks, hundreds of thousands of farmers began protesting on the outskirts of Delhi in response to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s push for deregulations they fear will sink them deeper into poverty. Yesterday, leaders of Indian farmers’ unions held a hunger strike in hopes of pressure on the...
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CIVIL WAR IN MOROCCO?
Last month, we reported that gunfire erupted between Moroccan forces and a pro-independence group in Western Sahara, ending nearly 30 years of peace in the area. The Moroccan military clashed with fighters from the Polisario Front in several locations. Brahim Ghali, the Secretary-General of the Polisario Front, announced in a decree the beginning of the...
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HONDURAS MIGRANT CARAVAN TURNED BACK
The Honduran government worked quickly to disperse a caravan with hundreds of migrants who were headed to the U.S. after the country was hit by two enormous hurricanes. The Wall Street Journal reported the caravan was broken up last Thursday after officers from Honduras spotted the migrants, many of whom were lacking basic identification cards and no...
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UNREST BREAKS OUT IN KURDISTAN
Fierce clashes broke out last week in the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region, which attracted Iraqi authorities and resulted in at least eight fatalities, according to a report. The Financial Times reported last Thursday there is growing public anger over government corruption on top of owed salaries. The Washington Post reported the government worked quickly to shut down the internet and...
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ETHIOPIA’S TIGRAY WAR HORRORS
As we have been reporting in the Trends Journal, last month, in an effort to consolidate his power, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed launched an offensive against the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, which threatens stability across the broader Horn of Africa. The conflict has sent over 50,000 Ethiopians fleeing across the border into Sudan, and...
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PROTESTERS ARRESTED IN PARIS
Thousands of protesters organized in Paris on Saturday to condemn President Emmanuel Macron’s new security law that many say is an affront to their individual liberties, which essentially makes photographing or filming police officers a crime. The bill includes a provision that would make it illegal to broadcast “the face or any other identifying element”...
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BUSINESS OF AMERICA: WAR
As much of the nation goes into lockdown and millions of businesses and tens of millions of lives are being destroyed, the people’s so-called representative in Washington passed a $740 billion defense budget… the largest in American history. Despite President Trump’s call for withdrawing half of the 4,500 troops currently in Afghanistan – by far...
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VACCINE COULD BE MANDATORY IN NEW YORK STATE
Linda Rosenthal, a New York State assemblywoman from the City’s West Side, introduced legislation earlier this month that would “mandate vaccination” for anyone health officials determine can “safely receive the vaccine,” according to a Fox 5 news report. Rosenthal’s bill points to the importance of herd immunity. Health officials have hoped the virus would naturally burn itself...