The Trends Journal has warned for the better part of two years that the COVID-19 War launched by politicians and subsequent draconian lockdown orders will kill more people than the virus as it would accelerate the number of the world’s poorest who face starvation. See “POLITICIANS CAUSE WORLDWIDE HUNGER CRISIS,” “GLOBAL HUNGER FROM COVID WAR...
Tag: nov 16 2021
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NO VAX, NO GERMAN DICTATES
The Financial Times reported that German-speaking countries, like Austria, Switzerland and Germany have been slow to get their population vaccinated. Switzerland has vaccinated 66.61 percent of its population and Germany about 69 percent. About 14 million people in Germany who are eligible to receive the vaccine have opted out, according to the report. About 80...
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NORWAY RAMPS UP COVID WAR
Ramping up the fight to win the COVID War, the Prime Minister of Norway, Jonas Gahr, announced there will be new COVID-19 mandates as well as increased efforts in the push to give everyone over 18 the COVID booster shot. “We have started planning for a third dose . . . and have made the...
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THIS WEEK IN SURVEILLANCE
DRONE ATTACKS AND SURVEILLANCE ARE ON THE RISE. They can be operated by almost anyone, as endless YouTube videos including overhead vistas of adventures and travels demonstrate. But drones, or unmanned aerial systems (UASs), are increasingly impacting the rights and lives of average citizens in more significant ways. A recent Joint Intelligence Bulletin (JIB) not...
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BLOCKCHAIN BATTLES
SEC PROTECTED INVESTORS FROM 12-THOUSAND PERCENT GAINS. Yes, the headline is sarcasm. The SEC’s rejection late last week of a “Spot Bitcoin” ETF was hardly the first time the federal agency acted to bar non crypto tech savvy investors from gaining exposure to bitcoin. A spot bitcoin ETF was actually first proposed in 2013. If...
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BLOCKCHAIN AND GAMING INDUSTRY SYNERGY GROWING
A recent startup has shown how blockchain development entities and traditional gaming companies are joining to transform the industry. Forte, based in the U.S., recently announced it secured $725 million in a Series B fundraising round. As interesting as the news itself, was the list of those behind the initiative. It includes some third generation...
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A $1-BILLION ROLL OF THE DICE
The European Commission, the European Investment Bank, and the private Breakthrough Energy Catalyst, part of Bill Gates’s Breakthrough Energy Ventures investment firm, have signed a deal to invest as much as €820 million, or about $1 billion, into long-shot ideas that, at best, will take a long time to pay off. Under the agreement, Gates...
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SCIENCE DISCOVERS THE “FAT GENES”
At the University of Virginia, researchers have discovered 14 genes that cause obesity and three that can prevent it. As many as four in ten Americans are obese, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, putting them at risk for ailments ranging from strokes and heart attacks to diabetes and bad joints....
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ELECTRIC CARS CAN POLLUTE MORE THAN GAS GUZZLERS, STUDY FINDS
Critics of electric cars (EVs) have pointed out that they’re only as clean as the sources of the electricity that charge their batteries. Researchers at Berlin’s Radiant Energy Group consulting firm have parsed data to discover exactly where EVs in Europe are the dirtiest. Answer: Poland and the Republic of Kosovo produce most of their...
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TODAY RUSSIA IS MORE FREE THAN THE “FREE WORLD”
By Paul Craig Roberts Americans and the people of Great Britain, Europe, Canada, and Australia have heard for decades that they live in “the free world.” This world contrasted to the Soviet world where civil liberty was replaced with internal passports, with punishments for criticizing authorities and disagreeing with the narrative, and with mandates issued...