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Putin’s Nuclear Death Wish
Russia is deliberately attempting to wipe out the Ukraine’s entire power infrastructure. Moscow’s goal, say Vladimir Putin’s chosen TV hosts and their guests, is to plunge Ukrainians into darkness, to freeze them, and to use winter as a weapon to destroy them. ...
Space Is the Green New Deal
COP-27 is underway in Egypt’s Sharm El Sheikh with a basic goal laid out in its statement of purpose: “Mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions with the goal of reducing global emissions by half by 2030.” But that is just one small step toward a greater goal—net...
The Big Rocket Race
A major race is coming up in the next few weeks, a race between two rockets. But the rocket that’s the clear winner is being hobbled by the government. It’s SpaceX’s Starship. Starship’s alleged competitor is NASA’s Artemis Moon Rocket. NASA has been working...
Did Trump Win or Lose This Election?
Historically, in the first mid-term after a new president steps into office, his party loses the House and Senate. In a landslide. So Republicans anticipated a red wave, a tsunami of Republican wins in November 8th's elections. But said the Democratic Washington...
Saudi App Jails You
Saad Ibrahim Almadi, 72 years old and a joint Saudi and American citizen, was arrested at the Riyadh airport in Saudi Arabia when he arrived for a two week visit to family. Almadi is a project manager who retired[i] to Florida. Reports England’s the Guardian, the...
Why Twitter? Elon Musk’s X-App
On April 14th, roughly six months ago, Elon Musk offered to buy Twitter for $44 billion. Then he pulled out of the deal. Now he is pulling back in again, offering to buy Twitter at the original price if Twitter will drop a lawsuit it filed against him after he...
Protests in Iran
On Tuesday, September 13, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, Mahsa Amini, came out of a subway station in central Tehran, walked through a park, and in that park was arrested by Iran’s Moral Security Police. The morality policemen bundled her into their standard white and...
Putin’s Delusions
At 9 am Moscow time Wednesday September 21, Vladimir Putin gave his first address to the Russian nation since he started his Ukraine war in February 2022. The speech was shocking. It revealed a worldview radically different from yours and mine. Shock number one...
Can’t Sleep? You’re Not Alone
Two new polls show that since the beginning of the Covid pandemic on March 11, 2020, some of us have had trouble sleeping. There are two main things keeping us awake. We are worried about the state of the world and its impact on us. And our mate in the bed next to...
Your Lifespan Has Just Nose-Dived
First, let me give you the hidden bottom line of this story. If you are a man or a boy, nature has cut your lifespan off at the knees. Now for the news. On August 31st, the CDC dropped some startling statistics about your probable lifespan and mine. Life...