This Week in the New Normal #97
Charting the progress of autocracy and authoritarianism worldwide. Including, how insect based proteins are being marketed to an unsuspecting public; including … cockroach milk
Charting the progress of autocracy and authoritarianism worldwide. Including, how insect based proteins are being marketed to an unsuspecting public; including … cockroach milk
The discovery of long-forgotten aerial photos of Antarctica indicate that the ice has remained stable and may even have grown since the 1930s
Ironically Carnage’s best chance of election may be by rebranding himself
as a nationalist patriot
Just as Keir Starmer announces Britain’s willingness to put “boots on the ground and planes in the air” in Ukraine, the consequences of a diversity drive threatens the Royal Air Force’s ability to field enough trained pilots and aircrew
Kit Knightly on the selection of Mark Carney as Canada’s new prime minister and what this says about the state of modern democracy
The Ayatollah has rejected Trump’s proposal as ”bullying”. After Trump issued the Ayatollah with a choice: either negotiate over Iran’s nuclear program or face the U.S. “militarily”.
The anti-NATO candidate scored a surprise win in the first round of Romania’s presidential election in November. However, his win was quickly annulled by the Constitutional Court, which has just prohibited the pro-Putin Calin Georgescu from participating in the second round of the vote. No reasons were given
Napoleon, Hitler, and now the elitist European leaders have all fallen into oblivion from miscalculations over Russia.
Nearly a century back, esoteric Christian researcher Rudolf Steiner said the day would come would come when evil would be identified as an expression of stupidity. Hua Bin wonders whether this is happening under Trump?
The US president looked like a gangster as he roughed up Zelensky. But he wasn’t the one who stoked a war that’s killed huge numbers of Ukrainians and Russians
The war in Ukraine has demonstrated that U.S. weapons and equipment aren’t as good as we thought. Meanwhile, with Russian support Iran would be a “very tough nut to crack”. Especially, given that the Russian army is battle-hardened and arguably the best in the world right now and it is ready to support Iran. That’s why Trump should do his utmost to avoid getting drawn into any Israeli/Iran War
As a young woman in South Africa, Juliette Rose Bryant was offered a job modelling in the U.S. However, as she explains, the dream job turned into a nightmare from which she has been lucky to escape alive