The ongoing lockdowns and other restrictions imposed on residents of Australia’s states of Victoria (largest city, Melbourne) and New South Wales (largest city, Sydney) continue despite just 74 coronavirus deaths this year in the entire nation of 25 million people. Also continuing are protests, in those areas and even in parts of the country not...
Tag: aug 24 2021
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BREAKTHROUGHS BEGET RISK REASSESSMENT
The bill of goods we were all sold (and willingly bought) when the COVID vaccines were first made available was that those who were vaccinated would be immunized, and therefore highly unlikely to become infected or to require hospitalization, let alone to risk death. Now, with the advent of the Delta variant, diminishing effectiveness of...
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NO VAX, NO JOB, NO FUTURE: BIDEN KNOWS BEST
The Biden administration has escalated its authoritarian power trip, including the threat of withholding federal funds, in its quest for universal COVID Jab. The New York Times reported on 19 August that on that date the president announced that he would make Medicare and Medicaid funding for nursing homes contingent on their employees having been...
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FRENCH “HEALTH PASS” PROTESTS CONTINUE: MUTED IN AMERICA
Barely reported, it did not make the headline news in America. For the sixth weekend in a row, hundreds of thousands took to the streets in France to protest the Orwellian labeled “health pass.” And despite “unofficial” accounts of up to some three hundred thousand protesting across the nation, when reported by France 24, they...
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COINBASE PARTNERS WITH MUFG TO OFFER JAPAN CRYPTO EXCHANGE
Coinbase, the largest U.S. cryptocurrency exchange, has formed a partnership with Japan’s Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) that will allow the bank’s 34 million customers to buy and sell digital currencies through their existing bank accounts. If the venture is successful, Coinbase likely will offer the same deal to other Japanese banks, MUFG said. The...
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HUMANE SELF-DEFENSE
By Bradley J. Steiner, American Combato We are not in the least troubled by those who choose to disdain the kind of serious, vicious and brutal attitudinal and technical approach to self-defense that we and our Associate Teachers espouse. Just don’t expect us to sanction, endorse, support, or accept it. We approach self-defense in the...
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HOT FUSION CREEPS CLOSER TO VIABILITY
Physicists working on hot fusion, which seeks to unleash limitless energy by fusing hydrogen atoms together in chambers heated to the temperature of the surface of the Sun, have struggled for decades to make their technology work, despite billions of private and taxpayer dollars invested and serial claims of “breakthroughs.” (See “Nuclear Fusion,” Trends Journal,...
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FECAL TRANSPLANTS REVERSE SYMPTOMS OF AGING IN MICE
Research scientists have discovered that your microbiome—the complex ecosystem of microbes that live in your intestinal tract—controls not only a range of aspects about your physical health, but also your state of mind. Now a team working from University College Cork in Ireland has shown that what goes on down there also could reverse key...
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OAK RIDGE AUTOMATES BATTERY RECYCLING
With demand for rare earth metals and other components for electric vehicle (EV) batteries exploding and supplies shrinking, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has tested one possible solution. It created an automated disassembly line for used EV batteries. Even though EVs make up a sliver of the world’s vehicle fleet, there’s a growing backlog of...
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FACEBOOK’S DIGITAL WALLET POISED FOR LAUNCH
Novi, Facebook’s digital wallet, has received licenses or regulatory approval in “nearly every state” and is now “ready to come to market,” David Marcus, who has spearheaded the company’s foray into digital currencies, wrote in an 18 August memo quoted by the Financial Times. The wallet will allow persons to transfer money between themselves directly,...