Anthony Albanese, the newly minted Australian prime minister, made it clear last week that Canberra will take a pro-NATO stance and continue to try and isolate Russia and China. Albanese said he was especially pleased with the emergence of the so-called “Asia-Pacific Four,” which includes New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, and Australia. All four countries...
Russia’s top diplomat Sergey Lavrov, accused NATO of disregarding the NATO-Russia “Founding Act” that was put in place decades ago to express the desire of the Alliance to co-exist with Moscow and cool tensions about its military expansion east. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has sparked a swift reaction from European countries who are now selling...
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Republican from Georgia, came out against the U.S.’s involvement in the Ukraine War and called on Washington to pull out of the Alliance. “The American people do not want war with Russia, but NATO and our own foolish leaders are dragging us into one,” she said in a tweet. Greene...
In an ideally scripted world for the U.S. and its Western “allies,” the historic sanctions leveled against Russia that they said would restrain Russia’s advance into Ukraine and “ruin the ruble” would have worked in the first rounds after the Ukraine invasion. That did not happen, and the West is getting more desperate by the...
John Kirby, the National Security Council coordinator for strategic communications, repeated Sunday that the U.S. will continue to finance Ukraine’s war effort against Russia despite more losses on the battlefield and reports that Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered troops deeper into the country. Kirby told Fox News that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will determine when it is...
CHINA COVID APP CONTROL NOW EMBEDDED AS THE CHINESE WAY China was the first with COVID, which pretty much everyone now concedes or at least suspects originated in a Wuhan Virology lab. They were also on the cutting edge in 2020 with a phone app that dictated the limits of citizens based on their possible...
The internet blew up over the weekend with videos of farmer protests in the Netherlands. There were columns of tractors and equipment filing down roads to government offices, literally flinging fertilizer to demonstrate resistance to measures which would likely end business for many of them. At issue are the projected effects of climate legislation which...
COINS OF WAR? What cryptos have performed best during the Russia-Ukraine conflict? That’s the subject of a new study, which examined the reaction of cryptocurrency markets to the war, which has reverberated the world over with economic and geopolitical ramifications. A group of French university researchers say their empirical findings show that Binance Coin, associated...
They’re not permissionless of course, and not public. But rest assured, China is otherwise innovating like crazy with blockchain technology. So reports the Communist government-tied newspaper, the South China Morning Post. According to theBlockcrypto.com, blockchain based immutable distributed ledgers run by entities authorized by the Chinese government’s internet regulator are offering smart contract based software...
Stem cells—the versatile cells that, on demand, can become other cells to make up muscle tissue or bone or an organ—aren’t all the same. “Multipotent” stem cells are common in the body’s tissues and can become different kinds of cells within the body part where they’re found. “Pluripotent” stem cells are the ones in embryos...