INNOVEGA OFFERS A LOOKING GLASS INTO THE METAVERSE This past week Facebook made it official, changing its corporate name to “Meta”, signaling a focus to be a master corporation of a mixed-reality world. Given Mark Zuckerberg’s penchants, the worlds Meta creates are likely to be more immersive versions of the manipulated and censored social media...
Tag: nov 2 2021
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FBI: THE POLITICIZED POLICE UNDERMINING AMERICA
Last week Ted Cruz eviscerated Attorney General Merrick Garland over the Justice Department siccing the FBI on parents airing concerns at school board meetings. Cruz rightly condemned Garland for mobilizing the FBI to act on a vitriolic letter by the National School Boards Association (NSBA) that claimed parents constituted a “domestic terrorism” threat. Among other...
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IN THE EVENT OF SOCIAL CHAOS
By Bradley J. Steiner, American Combato If we are correct then the term for those who are rather constantly concerned about the prospect of society’s collapse, and of subsequent urban chaos, is “preppers.” Obviously, we believe in being prepared, and so we respect those who occupy themselves with activities that are intended to see to...
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BLOCKCHAIN BATTLES
NYDIG ACQUIRES BOTTLEPAY TO EXPAND CRYPTO FOCUS. Every day there are fresh signs that traditional finance is working overtime to catch up and move with haste into the cryptosphere. Case in point: the New York based NYDIG crypto investing firm just bought British payments startup Bottlepay for an estimated 300 million dollars. NYDIG was created...
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WOODEN BATTERIES
Battery chemistry, considered settled science for most of a century, has got new energy in recent years, now that everything from pocket flashlights to electric vehicles is demanding cheap, lightweight, long-lasting portable power. However, our battery-powered world is confronting an undeniable problem: spent batteries contain a liquid or paste-like electrolyte composed of sulfuric acid, hydrochloric...
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TAP WATER SHIELDS AGAINST MICROPLASTICS
The typical person in North America ingests about 100,000 granules of microplastic every year, much of it leaching from the plastic bottles we chug our sodas, water, and energy drinks from, a study by biologists in British Columbia found (“Drinking the Bottle Along With the Water,” 10 Jul 2019). Those bits lodge in the body...
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SPACE FOR RENT
Billionaires may be commercializing space by renting out their rockets to NASA to send payloads aloft or by tossing up wealthy thrill-seekers for joyrides in zero gravity, but Orbital Reef has taken the idea to a different scale. It’s creating a space station in low Earth orbit for rent or lease to research scientists, product...
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ISRAEL’S NEW “SETTLEMENT” PLAN CONDEMNED BY U.S., EUROPE
Israel faced harsh criticism from the U.S. and Europe after announcing plans to allow thousands of new settlements in the occupied West Bank. The decision was seen as an unnecessary provocation just months after the Israeli clash with Palestine. (See “SPECIAL REPORT: THE GAZA WAR.”) Ned Price, the spokesman for the State Department, called the...
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ISRAEL KEEPS STRIKING SYRIA WITH MISSILES
An Israeli missile strike on Saturday reportedly killed five in a Hezbollah and Iranian convoy. Antiwar.com reported that the strike hit a Damascus suburb and the artillery used was believed to be surface-to-air missiles. Tel Aviv did not comment on reports of the strike. SANA, Syria’s state news agency, reported that the Syrian air defenses shot...
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ETHIOPIA WAR DISASTER WORSENS
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed took to Facebook on Sunday to appeal to his countrymen to take up arms to thwart the military offensive by Tigrayan forces in the northern region of the country. Abiy, the former Nobel Peace Prize winner who went to war with Tigray after a local election during the COVID-19 outbreak,...
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