Violent protests erupted on Friday in Chile in the southern city of Panguipulli after a police officer shot a...
Tag Archive for: feb 9 2021
We have been reporting since mid-November on the protests of hundreds of thousands of farmers in India, in response...
Bobbi Wine, Uganda’s opposition leader who lost last month’s election to incumbent Yoweri Museveni, announced he is seeking to...
China’s Education Ministry issued a notice last week warning that a troubling number of young men in the country...
As reported in this Trends Journal, the Chinese government is taking measures to de-feminize its male population. Over in...
October will commemorate the 20th anniversary of the United States’ invasion of Afghanistan. The war was launched under the...
The International Criminal Court (ICC) announced last week it was investigating the Gaza War, or Operation Protective Edge, named...
IRAN TO FREE S. KOREA SHIP CREW WHEN IT GETS ITS MONEY BACK
Support, , TRENDS IN GEOPOLITICS, feb 9 2021, 0Iran and South Korea announced last week an agreement was reached to release the crew of a 9,797-ton oil...
Thousands of people in Myanmar took to the streets over the weekend, decrying the military coup that we reported...
WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM HIGHLIGHTS “TECH FOR GOOD”
Support, , TRENDS IN TECHNOCRACY by Joe Doran, feb 9 2021, 2The recent World Economic Forum’s “Davos Agenda” virtual summit highlighted several “Tech For Good” innovations that appeared to tout...
STATES LEADING PUSH-BACK AGAINST BIG TECH
Support, , TRENDS IN TECHNOCRACY by Joe Doran, feb 9 2021, 6Tech companies would no longer be able to ban political candidates, and they would have to provide opt-outs of...
POLAND TAKES A STAND AGAINST TECH CENSORSHIP
Support, , TRENDS IN TECHNOCRACY by Joe Doran, feb 9 2021, 3Poland is proposing the establishment of a “Freedom of Speech Council” that would guarantee its citizens are not arbitrarily...
AMERICA DRIFTS TOWARD CHINA’S “TECHNO-AUTOCRACY”
Support, , TRENDS IN TECHNOCRACY by Joe Doran, feb 9 2021, 2American democracy has been destroyed from the inside, and the nation has become a thoroughly co-opted satellite of China....
Along with David Portnoy of Barstool Sports, Elon Musk was one of the few prominent figures who signaled support...
At the University of Vermont, scientists have tinkered with cells scraped from frogs’ embryos to make something that’s not...
An increasing number of companies looking for technology workers want those new hires to have a basic understanding of...
As we age, our immune system tends to go haywire. It can become sluggish in responding to infections, fail...
Many states in the U.S. approached rates of 20,000 vaccinations per 100,000 in population this past week. States with...
Facebook announced yesterday it will dish out $120 million in free advertising to health departments and non-government organizations that promote...
The U.K.’s National Health Service (NHS) found that about one in three who received the COVID vaccine reported some...