First Images Of Mars Released
A literary festival in St-Malo, France, Russian writer Zahar Prilepin and I spoke on a panel about Russia’s war in Chechnya. The audience was fired up with anti-Russian sentiment, having just seen a documentary on the devastation of Grozny by Russian forces in 2000. Prilepin—muscular, silent—sank sullenly in his chair as the…
Fed Loses Control of its Benchmark Interest: Repo Rates through the Roof! by Knave Dave Sun, 09/22/2019 The following article by David Haggith was published on The Great Recession Blog: Well, that didn’t take long! Four days ago, I stated the following in an article titled “Why are Bonds Going for Broke?“: Central banks are losing control, and are…
Youtube is now replacing real users with AI generated content. It appears Youtube has taken the ultimate dive into the control matrix where yes, accounts you know of are still there, but you’ll never find anything new, instead you will find only new AI generated content on AI generated accounts that is safely…
India and Pakistan’s failure to resolve Kashmir could see a huge escalation of violence, and derail an Afghan settlement Reviving tension over the divided territory, claimed in its entirety by both sides and the spark for two previous wars, has already upset Indo-Pakistan peace talks. More importantly for Britain and the US, a new Kashmir…
Beijing, China — Challenge China’s position on Taiwan and watch China go ballistic. When the United States last week announced plans to sell advanced weapons to Taiwan, China fired back with vitriolic anger. It’s a “crude interference in China’s domestic affairs,” said He Yafei, vice minister of foreign affairs. It could “lead to repercussions that…
AP / Ebrahim Noroozi, File UN urges Afghanistan’s Taliban to end floggings, executions | 2023-05-08 ISLAMABAD (AP) — A U.N. report on Monday strongly criticized the Taliban for carrying out public executions, lashings and stonings since seizing power in Afghanistan, and called on the country’s rulers to halt such practices. In the past six months… Byron Messia…