Mastercard Launches Its Biometric Retail Payment System in Europe, Using Poland As a Testing Ground
“Buy with your eyes, pay with your glance.”
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Buzzer Beater – Russian General Staff Aims at Ending the Ukraine by Electric War
The Western press is largely ignoring Russia’s destruction of Ukraine’s electric system, which will bring Ukraine to its knees
Read more...The EU “Center” Embraces the Right Kind of “Right”
A look at Europe’s elections and a comparison of the neoliberal, pro-war center with a right that abandons its EU and NATO skepticism begs the question, what’s the difference between the two?
Read more...Ninth Circuit Supports Jacobson Public Health Doctrine, But Accepts “Non-Traditional” Covid Vaccines May In Fact Be Treatments (and Hence Should Not Have Been Mandated)
Key question for consequentialists: If “non-traditional” vaccines are in fact treatments as under the Ninth Circuit’s opinion, what happens to the liability of Pfizer et al. for vaccine injury?
Read more...Book Review: Truth and Consequences for Medical Whistleblowers
In “The Occasional Human Sacrifice,” Carl Elliott notes that those who expose medical wrongdoings are hardly heroes.
Read more...The Desire to Be “Your Own Boss” in America
On the romance of being you own boss.
Read more...The War Racket in Germany
What happens when everyone starts to believe in the con?
Read more...One Issue Proved Key to the Opposition’s Stunning Success in India’s Election: Caste Politics
Did Modi’s BJP suffer a setback due to failing to provide enough economic benefits to lower-caste voters?
Read more...Black Sea Port Becomes Geopolitical Battleground Between China and the EU
Western handwringing over China building a port a little too close to Europe’s backyard.
Read more...X Premium Users Face Stark Choice: Hand Over Biometric Identitifiers to “Spooky” Israeli Firm or Get Demonetised
“The personal data processed by this X subcontractor includes data of a sovereign nature. An identity document is a sensitive document. This raises a number of questions…”
Read more...When It Comes to the Environment, There Really Is No Such Thing as a “Good” Car
The problem with the EV as a climate change remedy is that it is still a car.
Read more...Research on Earth’s Raging Heat of 2023-24 Is Picking Up
La Niña will most likely quell a stretch of global record heat, but human-produced greenhouse gases loom as large as ever.
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In Virginia, Data Centers Collide with Zero-Carbon Goals
With electric demand from data centers skyrocketing, the state considers how to meet its goal of decarbonizing the grid.
Read more...Mount Sinai Eye & Ear Nurses Rally for Layoff Plan as Beth Israel Shutdown Looms
New York City’s Mount Sinai is trying to shutter acquired Beth Israel and its own respected eye and ear facility despite state opposition
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