Moscow has said that it is for the people of Kherson Region in southern Ukraine to decide if they want to ask to become part of Russia. The comment was made after a senior official in the Russian-controlled area voiced the idea. “The people of Kherson Region must decide for …
Read More »An Elon Musk-owned Twitter is a scary prospect for the establishment
A disruptor and visionary, Elon Musk’s actions and personality embody the spirit of Silicon Valley’s once-vaunted mentality of disruptive techno-Darwinism. While much of the tech industry has become quite content to embrace the certainty offered by the establishment once they made their billions, Musk – now the world’s richest man …
Read More »How realistic is the prospect of a ‘quantum apocalypse’?
A new generation of fear entrepreneurs in the IT industry are promoting anxieties and fatalism about the threat quantum computing poses to the future of encrypted data, cyber-security and our way of life. You can’t make this stuff up. Just when we can breathe a sigh of relief as we …
Read More »Utah college football team ‘devastated’ after NFL prospect Aaron Lowe is shot to death at house party hours after game
Salt Lake Police announced on Sunday that highly-rated defensive player Lowe was one of two people shot at around midnight local time while he was celebrating his team’s 24-13 against the Cougars on Saturday. Lowe was pronounced dead soon afterwards while the other victim, an adult female, is understood to be …
Read More »‘I have no other choice’: College star & highly-rated NFL prospect requests transfer over ‘mandatory’ university Covid vaccination
Rutgers University defensive back Peyton Powell made the announcement on Twitter, writing that he he felt that he had “no other choice” but to withdraw from the team and pursue opportunities elsewhere after voicing his opposition to the university’s position. The New Jersey institution revealed in March that all students must …
Read More »US seeks to entice Brazil with prospect of joining NATO ‘global partnership’ if it bans China’s ‘untrustworthy’ Huawei – reports
On his first visit to the country, Sullivan apparently brought up the prospect of Brazil joining the military coalition as a “global partner” while discussing regional defense and security issues with Brazilian defense minister Walter Braga Netto on Thursday, the Folha de Sao Paulo paper reported. According to the report, …
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