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‘Realist’ Kissinger Says Ukraine Must Give Up Land to Russia, Warns West Not to Seek to Humiliate Putin with Defeat
Tom Porter | Business Insider - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2022
24 May 2022 – Even for those of us who are not big fans of Henry Kissinger, his ‘Realpolitik’ comments yesterday to the World Economic Forum in Davos about what should be done in Ukraine requires careful consideration by Western leaders.
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Former Apple Engineer Says the Button on iPhones Asking Apps Not to Track You Is a ‘Dud’ That Gives Users a ‘False Sense of Privacy’
Hannah Towey | Business Insider - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
24 Sep 2021 – Even if users request apps not to collect their activity, popular iPhone apps still collect personal data, a new study by Lockdown Privacy determined. “We found that App Tracking Transparency made no difference in the total number of active third-party trackers. We further confirmed that detailed personal or device data was being sent to trackers in almost all cases.”
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Vaccines May Not Work as Well against the Coronavirus Variant Detected in South Africa, Research Shows–People May Also Face a Risk of Reinfection
Aylin Woodward | Business Insider - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2021
22 Jan 2021 – At first, there was little evidence to suggest that COVID-19 vaccines wouldn’t work against the mutated, more infectious versions of the virus that have emerged in the last few months. But preliminary research published this week suggests that a coronavirus variant detected in South Africa in December can partially evade the defenses vaccines build in our bodies’ immune systems.
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The Outbreaks of both the Wuhan Coronavirus and SARS Likely Started in Chinese Wet Markets
Aylin Woodward | Business Insider – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2020
1 Feb 2020 – The coronavirus spreading in China and the SARS outbreak of 2003 both are from the coronavirus family, and both likely started in wet markets. At such markets, outdoor stalls are squeezed together to form narrow lanes and put people and live and dead animals — dogs, chickens, pigs, snakes, civets, and more — in constant close contact. That makes it easy for a virus to jump from animal to human.
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Japan’s Abe Tells Putin He Won’t Let US Troops on Long-Disputed Islands if Russia Returns Them to Japan
Bill Bostock | Business Insider – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2018
16 Nov 2018 – Abe said: “This issue, which has existed for more than 70 years since the end of the war, will be solved by Putin and me, and not left for the next generation. President Putin and I completely shared that strong desire.” But the post-war agreement between Japan and the US could prove problematic, as the US can seek to build military bases in Japan due to the Japan-US Security Treaty and Japan-US Status of Forces Agreement.
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Over 10,000 Migrant Children Are Now in US Government Custody at 100 Shelters in 14 States
Michelle Mark – Business Insider,
25 Jun 2018
The policy means that migrant parents who cross the border with their children are forcibly separated while they await criminal prosecution.
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Here Are All the World Leaders Going to Davos This Week
Alexandra Ma | Business Insider – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
22 Jan 2018 – The world’s elite will converge upon the snowy Swiss town of Davos this week for the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting, a weeklong networking event peppered with talks and presentations.
→ read full articleGandhi’s 1940 Letter to Adolf Hitler: Seek Peace or Someone Will ‘Beat You with Your Own Weapon’
Harrison Jacobs | Business Insider – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
Mohandas Gandhi, frequently known by the honorific Mahatma (meaning “great soul”), was famous for advocating civil disobedience and nonviolence to achieve his goals. Here is the full version, which is the longer of Gandhi’s two letters to Hitler.
→ read full articleThe CIA Paid Psychologists $81 Million to Devise Brutal Tactics for Use on Terror Suspects, and They’re Suing
Erin Brodwin | Business Insider – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
22 Jun 2017 – After a doctor X-rayed one prisoner’s badly broken feet, his colleague gave interrogators the go-ahead to force him to stand for 52 hours. A lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of former prisoners shines new light on the grisly details of the tactics the doctors approved for use on terrorism suspects. These tactics range from water-boarding to “walling” — a method that involves pushing a person into a flexible plywood wall so hard that it creates a disturbing sound that pierces the ear.
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Tom Turula – Business Insider Nordic,
26 Dec 2016
Laszlo Szombatfalvy, one of Sweden’s most successful investors of all time, is urging on the younger generation to rethink global governance. Now he has issued a large award for the best idea to replace the current global governance system, through a competition called ‘A New Shape’.
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Will Martin | Business Insider – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2016
19 Aug 2016 – Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel Prize-winning economist and former adviser to US President Bill Clinton, says the consensus surrounding neoliberal economic thought has come to an end.
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STRATFOR – Business Insider,
17 Aug 2015
A Russian law regarding data localization of internet communications goes into effect September 1 to safeguard Russian citizens in cyberspace. The law requires companies obtaining information online from Russian citizens to store that data on servers physically located in the country.
→ read full articleThis Chart Shows the Bilderberg Group’s Connection to Everything in the World
Ashley Lutz – Business Insider,
24 Nov 2014
The Bilderberg Group is 120-140 powerful people who meet each year to discuss policy. The meetings are closed to the public. This graph is perhaps a compelling argument for why the meetings should be public.
→ read full articleA Startling View of How Much Carbon We Emit in a Year
Kevin Loria – Business Insider,
24 Nov 2014
This spring, levels of atmospheric CO2 topped 400 parts per million in most of the northern hemisphere for the first time in modern human history — experts think we need to lower those levels to be consistently below 350 ppm to avoid the worst effects of climate change.
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Mike Bird – Business Insider,
13 Oct 2014
8 Oct 2014 – Sorry, America. China just overtook the US to become the world’s largest economy, according to the International Monetary Fund.
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Allan Smith and Skye Gould – Business Insider,
18 Aug 2014
13 Aug 2014 – They say the Cold War is over, but Russia and the U.S. remain the leading suppliers of weapons to countries around the world and are the two biggest military powers.
→ read full articleThe 35 Most Powerful Militaries in the World
Amanda Macias, Jeremy Bender and Skye Gould – Business Insider,
14 Jul 2014
Global Firepower Index, a ranking of 106 nations based on more than 50 factors including overall military budget, available manpower, and the amount of equipment each country has in its respective arsenal, as well as access to resources.
→ read full articleCONFIRMED: The DEA Struck a Deal with Mexico’s Most Notorious Drug Cartel
Michael Kelley – Business Insider,
20 Jan 2014
An investigation by El Universal found that between the years 2000 and 2012, the U.S. government had an arrangement with Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel that allowed the organization to smuggle billions of dollars of drugs while Sinaloa provided information on rival cartels.
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Business Insider – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2013
“That Wal-Mart would have the audacity to ask low-wage workers to donate food to other low-wage workers — to me, it is a moral outrage.” Wal-Mart has been criticized for paying low wages to its 2.2 million employees. It turned a profit of $15.7 billion last year.
→ read full article36 Percent of Fukushima Children Have Abnormal Growths from Radiation Exposure
Michael Kelley – Business Insider,
23 Jul 2012
Of more than 38,000 children tested from the Fukushima Prefecture in Japan, 36 percent have abnormal growths – cysts or nodules – on their thyroids a year after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, as reported by ENENews.
→ read full articleIceland’s President Explains Why the World Needs To Rethink Its Addiction to Finance
Adam Taylor – Business Insider,
23 Apr 2012
April 15, 2012 — Here’s the full transcript of our interview with Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, who has been President of Iceland since 1996, and announced last month he would be running for a fifth term. Keep reading to hear his thoughts on Iceland’s recovery, and how a large financial sector can ruin a nation.
→ read full articleA Look at the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Armies
Luke McKenna and Robert Johnson – Business Insider-Military & Defense,
5 Mar 2012
Business is booming for a growing army of private military contractors, who take their military training and offer it to the highest bidder. Modern-day mercenaries are stationed throughout the world fighting conflicts for governments that are reluctant to use their own troops. Security giant G4S is the second-largest private employer on earth.
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