British Prime Minister Boris Johnson addressed Ukraine’s parliament last week after weeks of vowing endless British support for Kyiv’s fight against the Russian invasion. Johnson recalled WWII and mentioned how the British parliament also continued to meet during the darkest days of WWII. “And the British people showed such unity and resolve that we remember...
Tag: may 10 2022
CHINA BLAMES NATO EXPANSION FOR UKRAINE CONFLICT
NATO’s expansion towards Russia “sowed the seeds of conflict” prior to the Ukraine War, the Chinese ambassador to the UN said Thursday. Zhang Jun, the ambassador, said the Alliance’s eastward expansion after the Cold War “not only failed to make Europe any safer, it also sowed the seeds of conflict.” “Contrary to its claim to...
BRAZIL’S LULA SAYS UKRAINE’S COMEDIAN SHARES BLAME FOR WAR
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the former Brazilian president who is in the middle of another run for the presidency, made waves in an interview published Wednesday when he said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky shares blame for the Russian invasion earlier this year. Characterized as a deeply left-leaning liberal, Lula, speaking to Time magazine, made fun of...
PUTIN SIGNS DECREE TO RESPOND TO WESTERN SANCTIONS
Last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Moscow could terminate exports and deals with Western countries that could “sow chaos across markets.” The decree, which was in response to the wide array of Western sanctions that Putin has called illegal, are Russia’s toughest economic maneuver since the war began. The decree was published on the...
TECHNOCRACY TWISTS: DID ELON BUY TWITTER TO SPEED THE ROBOT TAKEOVER?
Robot cars aren’t the half of it. It’s no secret Elon Musk is out to mainstream robotics beyond electric cars and AI-powered auto-driving and driverless technology. His Tesla bot vision calls for robots to take on many jobs and tasks currently performed by humans. Musk was an early force in OpenAI, originally an open tech...
CAPTURING CARBON WITH ALGAE
The amount of carbon in the atmosphere is growing day by day and scientists and entrepreneurs are exploring ways to take it out, from planting more trees to making giant filters to suck carbon out of the air and pump it into underground rock formations. Perhaps the most cost-effective way is Brilliant Planet’s plan to...
CALLING ON ALPACAS, NOT DRUGS, TO TAMP DOWN CHRONIC INFLAMMATION
Science has shown that chronic inflammation underlies a range of human conditions from arthritis and gout to age-related degeneration and Alzheimer’s Disease. Now researchers at universities in Germany and Brazil think the solution to inflammation may lie with alpacas, the wooly critters that look like llamas, only smaller. The group was studying something called ASC...
NEW PROCESSES “MINE” METALS FROM WATER, FUEL FROM SEWAGE
Nations are scrambling for ways to source more cobalt, lithium, nickel, oil, and other minerals without having to depend on foreign sources. Now the U.S. energy department’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) has an answer. The lab is grabbing metals from wastewater by adding magnetized iron nanoparticles covered by a chemical shell that snags lithium...
LIFE IN PRISON FOR MURDER
By Bradley J. Steiner, American Combato While lynch mobs cannot be justified, they certainly can be understood. To a decent, civilized human being the taking of a human life for any reason other than self-defense is truly an abomination; an unforgivable, evil crime that demands the elimination of the murderer. The only rational objection to...
BLOCKCHAIN BATTLES
LOSING IT IN LONDON. As Gerald Celente says, when people have nothing to lose, they lose it. According to The Guardian, London thieves are targeting digital currency investors in a spate of “crypto muggings,” with victims claiming large amounts taken after their phones were grabbed. City of London police say criminals are combining strength and...
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