China’s top diplomat to the UN last week excoriated the General Assembly for voting in favor of suspending Russia from the Human Rights Council over allegations its troops committed war crimes in Ukraine. Chinese ambassador Zhang Jun—without naming the U.S.—accused “individual countries” of “talking loudly of peace” but being “obsessed with creating bloc confrontations” such...
Tag: april 12 2022
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THIS WEEK IN SURVEILLANCE
RETROACTIVE FACIAL RECOGNITION SURVEILLANCE THROUGHOUT EU. Europe is intent on building the world’s largest integrated facial recognition surveillance system, as part of it’s “Prüm II” anti-terrorism initiative. That’s according to Ella Jakubowska of the European Digital Rights watchdog organization. Speaking to Wired magazine, Jakubowska said the EU is determined to create “the most extensive biometric...
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UKRAINE UPDATE #10
By Paul Craig Roberts, Institute for Political Economy No useful information about Ukraine can be obtained from Western media. The Russian military operates without the need of news releases, so little information is provided. Last week Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said, “Of course they [Ukraine] can win this. The proof is literally in the outcomes...
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BLOCKCHAIN BATTLES
MARCH MADNESS IN CRYPTOS DISGUISED BY UNCERTAIN PRICE ACTION. Crypto price action over the past six weeks has been down, up, and mainly sideways. But the seeming “volatile malaise” in token prices may not be a true indicator of where cryptos are as a sector in a very uncertain world economy. Data shows March 2022...
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LIGHTNING STRIKES U.S. COMPANIES
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...