A unified approach throughout government agencies, and “cold war” level investments are needed to counter and stay ahead of China in crucial technology competition. That was the takeaway of an event last Thursday sponsored by the Center for New American Security. Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO), the keynote speaker, noted that federal agencies don’t currently have...
Tag: oct 26 2021
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BIDEN SAYS (AGAIN) U.S. WILL DEFEND TAIWAN IF CHINA INVADES
President Biden said Thursday at a CNN town hall that the U.S. would defend Taiwan in the event of a Chinese attack on the island, which was seen as a clear departure from Washington’s position of “strategic ambiguity” when it comes to its military commitment to Taipei. An audience member asked Biden about China. The first part...
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TIGRAY HUMANITARIAN FLIGHT WORSENS. BUT IT’S NOT “NEWS”
Ethiopia, which has already been accused of blocking aid from reaching starving Tigrayans, (See “ETHIOPIA CIVIL WAR = MASS MURDER, MASS STARVATION”) again managed to stop U.N. humanitarian aid by launching missiles at a plane delivering food and medical supplies in Mekelle—the region’s capital. The fighting in northern Ethiopia has intensified over the past two...
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TERROR STRIKES SYRIA: ALL OUT WAR COMING?
The Syrian government called the bombing of a military bus that killed 14 in the heart of Damascus a “terrorist bombing,” but no organization claimed responsibility for the attack. The New York Times reported that the bus bombing—inside the capital—could be a clear sign to President Bashar al-Assad that he is not insulated from these kinds...
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A TRAVELING FACTORY
International consumer goods conglomerate Unilever has fitted up a shipping container as a “nanofactory” to make basic consumer items such as mayonnaise and skin creams. If it works, the company will make a fleet of the traveling factories that can be quickly rigged up to test new product ideas or shipped on trucks or boats...
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PIG’S KIDNEY WORKS IN A HUMAN. HEARTS ARE NEXT.
Medical researchers have been eyeing pig parts as replacements for failing human organs for decades. Now they’ve made one work. Surgeons from New York University attached a pig’s kidney to blood vessels of a human patient who had been declared brain-dead. Over a two-day experiment, the kidney—which remained outside the person’s body—worked as well as...
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EV BATTERY RECYCLING IS NOW A THING
Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited (CATL), China’s largest maker of EV batteries, will invest $32 billion renminbi, or about $5 billion, in a new plant to unmake them. Chinese law requires battery makers to recycle their products when consumers have used them up and CATL is planning to make the most out of that directive....
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THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC IN A TIME OF MORAL AND SPIRITUAL BLACKOUT
By Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD In a recent opinion essay published on the pharmaceutical industry-friendly MedPage Today, Dr. Matthew Wynia, a medical ethics professor at the University of Colorado School of medicine, propagated an old trope by accusing doctors who advocate cheaper, effective drugs and natural supplements for treating Covid patients as a...
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BLOCKCHAIN BATTLES
PROSHARES BITCOIN ETF REAPS BENEFIT FROM BEING FIRST. Perhaps some day we’ll hear news of how one Bitcoin Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) managed to capture the first slot against a handful of others, gaining a competitive advantage. There’s no reason why the Securities and Exchange Commision (SEC) couldn’t have arranged for several ETF proposals to...
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POLS EMBRACE CRYPTO CAMPAIGN FUNDING
There may not be much clarity from the SEC or Congress regarding cryptos, but politicians trying to rack up donations may be seeing the light. Several initiatives are in the works that would make it easier for candidates to add crypto to their campaign coffers. In Texas,the state ethics commission has suggested a new regulation...
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