A newly released Pew Research Poll confirmed what most of us have already known to be true: the political divide in the U.S. is worsening, with more Republicans and Democrats looking at each other with contempt. In 2016, the year Donald Trump was elected president, about 47 percent of Republicans polled said they found Democrats...
Tag: aug 16 2022
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UNIONIZATION TOP 2022 TREND: ANOTHER TRADER JOE’S VOTES TO UNIONIZE
Workers at a Minneapolis Trader Joe’s last week voted in favor of unionizing, becoming the grocery chain’s second location out of about 530 to unionize within weeks. The Trader Joe’s is located in downtown Minneapolis. Workers there voted 55-5 in favor of unionizing. Sarah Beth Ryther, a union organizer and crew member at the store,...
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U.S. RAMPS UP MILITARY TENSIONS WITH CHINA
The Biden administration announced last week that U.S. forces will carry out “air and maritime transits” in the Taiwan Strait after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit earlier this month that prompted China to conduct massive military drills just off of Taiwan. Kurt Campbell, the White House coordinator for Asia-Pacific issues, told reporters that the U.S....
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MORE U.S. POLITICIANS GO TO TAIWAN, RAMPING UP FIGHT WITH CHINA
Fanning the flames of war, a group of Congressional Clowns made a surprise visit to Taiwan on Sunday ramping up tensions between Washington and China following the recent visit by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., was joined by four House arrogant idiots that the media label as “lawmakers.” The politicians included...
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WHAT CELENTE HAS SAID IS NOW PROOF: POLL SHOWS MOST AMERICANS CAN’T FIND UKRAINE OR TAIWAN ON A MAP
While it is non-stop headline news, and promoted by the politicians and the media that it is the United States responsibility to support Ukraine in its fight with Russia and face-off in the Chinese / Taiwan entanglement, only a third of Americans can find Taiwan and Ukraine on a map. The survey was conducted during...
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U.S. OIL SANCTIONS HIT THE PEOPLE HARD, BUT NOT RUSSIAN OIL OUTPUT
In March, when U.S. President Joe Biden started to notice that sanctions against Russia were not panning out, he said they were never intended to prevent last month’s invasion but were instead intended to unite Europe and show its resolve. Biden said sanctions “never deter,” but they can be effective when kept in place for...
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IT’S ALIVE! BIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS RESTORED IN PIGS DEAD FOR AN HOUR
At Yale University’s medical school, researchers have restored some brain and cellular functions in pigs that have been dead for as long as four hours. Within a minute or two of death, animal and human tissues lose their supply of oxygen and begin to break down. However, in 2019, Yale’s research team unveiled what they...
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE CALCULATES STRUCTURES OF ALMOST ALL KNOWN PROTEINS
Every living thing from bacteria to weeds to humans is made of proteins. Last year, the artificial intelligence (AI) AlphaFold, created by researchers at Google parent Alphabet, fleshed out the catalog of human proteins by completing chemical structures that scientists had only been able to calculate in part. The way a protein is structured or...
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BATTERY WARS: A LIQUID REPLACEMENT FOR LITHIUM
Influit, a start-up spun off of the Illinois Institute of Technology, has unveiled the latest entry in the contest to replace lithium batteries. The company refers to its creation as “nanoelectrofuel.” It’s a version of a flow battery—a cell in which two chemical solutions flow past each other on opposite sides of a membrane, transmitting electrons and creating an...
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BLOCKCHAIN BATTLES
ETHEREUM DOMINANCE BECOMING A DONE DEAL If the upcoming Ethereum “merge” to a proof-of-stake consensus method comes off without any hitches, it’s likely to further cement the crypto network’s dominance—and that spells trouble for “Ethereum killer” rivals. So says Blockchain.com co-founder and CEO Peter Smith. “The challenge for all of those blockchains is that you...