Protestors took to the streets in Tel Aviv on Saturday to voice their concerns about the country’s new coalition being formed by Benjamin Netanyahu that they say will crush individual liberties like gay rights and create new animosity with Palestinians.
Category: 20 December 2022
NEW WORLD DISORDER TOP TREND: SOARING COST OF LIVING PUTS MILLIONS ON THE BRINK, PROTESTS BREAK OUT
Protests broke out across Europe and Asia last week over soaring inflation and wages that are not keeping up with the cost of goods, leading to a “New World Disorder” that will result in widespread civil unrest that will likely only get worse.
PROTESTS CONTINUE TO RAGE IN PERU, DEATH TOLL RISES
Violent clashes continue to break out across Peru after the arrest and ouster of the country’s president as the protest death toll hit 20 last weekend.
JAPAN DOUBLES UP MILITARY SPENDING, ENDS PACIFIST DEFENSE STRATEGY
Japan released its national security strategy last week to present a more aggressive stance over what it sees as a direct threat from China.
RAMPING UP WAR, U.S. PUTTING TROOPS ON ESTONIA’S BORDER WITH RUSSIA
U.S. infantry arrived at a military base in Estonia last week in Washington’s renewed effort to train allied troops and secure Europe’s eastern flank amid the Ukraine War.
SKIP THE PREGNANCY AND HAVE A BABY WITH ECTOLIFE
It’s been called “Womb With a View”: the EctoLife artificial uterus lets a fertilized human egg grow in an ideal environment within a transparent pod so the process of development can be seen not only by doctors, but also by parents-to-be.
WASHINGTON RAMPS UP WAR TENSIONS WITH CHINA: $10 BILLION IN U.S. MILITARY AID TO TAIWAN
With inflation rising in the U.S. to 7.1 percent for the year, the stock market in decline, interest rates rising, fears of recession growing, and 63 percent of Americans living paycheck-to-paycheck, the U.S. Congress passed a military spending bill that would provide Taiwan with a historic amount of funding for weapons in an effort to repel a Chinese invasion.
DECENTRALIZED HOME HEATING—INSIDE YOUR HOUSE
Renewable energy is decentralizing the electric grid. Now the Warming Surfaces Co., a spinout from VTT, Finland’s technology skunkworks, has decentralized heat—specifically, the heat inside your home.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE BESTS HUMANS AT CODING
AlphaCode, an advance in artificial intelligence from Alphabet subsidiary DeepMind, has outperformed humans at writing computer code to solve tricky problems in programming.
THIS WEEK IN SURVEILLANCE
Phones have been weaponized to pervasively surveil, categorize and politically manipulate their users.