The tax schemes of the rich and powerful revealed in the “Pandora Papers” were only the latest revelation regarding how elites preserve and grow their own wealth at the expense of the rest of us. The policies of the COVID pandemic, often backed and even developed by elites like Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and Klaus...
Tag: July 12 2022
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BLOCKCHAIN BATTLES
POLS SUDDENLY DISCOVER “ETHICS” WHEN IT COMES TO CRYPTOS Remember Nancy Pelosi overseeing huge government decisions regarding government contracting to tech companies, while her husband was trading on those stocks? Remember those SEC Presidents trading on inside information who conveniently retired after they were found out? Or how about the hundreds of Federal judges who...
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT DEFINES KEY TERMS OF COMING CRYPTO REGULATIONS
The Treasury Department has put forward definitions of “digital assets” and “mass adoption,” that would be used in any coming federal crypto regulations. The Department’s issuance in the Federal Register follows a Biden executive order early this year on an all-government approach to investigating and reporting back on cryptocurrencies and a possible CBDC (Central Bank...
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AUTOMATING OUT OF WORLD CRISIS?
Workforce disruptions, supply chain woes, international conflict, energy sector chaos, food shortages—how are businesses responding to the challenges of the current moment? A new report points to automation. Put together by Futurum Research and Automation Anywhere, a leading company in the field, the report found that businesses are rapidly increasing their moves to automate business...
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RESEARCHERS GROW CROPS WITHOUT SUNLIGHT
We learned it in grade school: plants grow by using carbon dioxide and sunshine in a process called photosynthesis. Or not. At the University of California Riverside, scientists are growing crops in the dark to see if they can improve energy efficiency. Photosynthesis uses only about 1 percent of the solar power that plants collect....
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SIMPLE ENZYME COULD END OBESITY, EATING DISORDERS
German researchers have discovered that an enzyme called autotaxin can control eating disorders and may be able to cure or prevent obesity. In Germany alone, 67 percent of men and 53 percent of women are overweight and 23 percent of adults are obese, the Robert Koch Institute has calculated. In the U.S., 41.9 percent of...
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BACTERIA PRODUCE ENERGY-DENSE JET FUEL
Bacteria have been around longer than dinosaurs and are still capable of making energy-dense fuel even if dinosaurs aren’t, as long as the bugs have some human help. Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory started with a molecule called a polycyclopropanated fatty acid methyl ester (POP-FAME). A POP-FAME holds carbon atoms bound at sharp angles,...
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AMERICA IS BEING ERADICATED
By Paul Craig Roberts, Institute for Political Economy No sooner had I given up on the U.S. Congress when Georgia Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene said that “Ukraine is the new Iraq wrapped up with a pretty little NATO bow, with a nuclear present inside.” She said that instead of sending weapons and billions of...
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PUTIN WARNS WEST, WE’VE ONLY JUST BEGUN!
The Trends Journal, which is opposed to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine—but understands why they have and have long detailed it in our magazine over the decades—had forecast before the war began that little Ukraine would lose a military confrontation against the Russian bear. Ignoring our forecast and spreading their propaganda, since the war began on 24...
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COVID-19 BOOSTERS BARELY WORK, STUDIES SHOW
The COVID-19 vaccine’s effectiveness could drop to about 20 percent a few months after the booster shot is administered, according to an Italian review of COVID studies. “Booster doses were found to restore the VE [vaccine effectiveness] to levels comparable to those acquired soon after administration of the second dose; however, a fast decline of...