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Source : The Economist

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Dans la pratique, il se peut qu’il n’ait pas beaucoup d’effet sur les partenaires commerciaux

Après la décision de la Cour européenne de justice, 90 % des jugements des tribunaux polonais concernant les créanciers en francs suisses dans l’affaire des prêts immobiliers illégaux (sur la période 2004-2010) ont été remportés par les débiteurs (dans 76 % des cas, les contrats originaux ont été déclarés invalides, dans 14 % des cas, les prêts ont dû être convertis en Zl). Source : Anna Popioloek : Frankowicze kostowni dla banków, Gazeta Wyborcza, 28 janvier 2021

L’occasion de (re)lire l’analyse qu’Eric Toussaint faisait de cette affaire dès octobre 2019.

While Beijing may already be engineering “super soldiers” through biological advancements, it’s unclear how far Chinese military researchers have gone. But what we do know is that the Chinese military has already deployed exoskeleton suits for troops along the heavily disputed Sino-Indian border.

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When the head of Myanmar’s military, Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, seized power in a coup on February 1, he seemed to be tapping into a global trend. After all, if Donald Trump could attempt to overthrow the US elections by charging massive fraud — and Alexander Lukashenko seemed to be getting away with his effort to overthrow an election in Belarus — why couldn’t Myanmar do the same? 

The cartoon above was created by DonkeyHotey for WhoWhatWhy from these images: Ted Cruz caricature (DonkeyHotey / Flickr – CC BY 2.0), dog 1 (Ben Fruen / Flickr – CC BY 2.0), dog 2 (The U.S.

The DC Circuit has ruled that the CIA is under no obligation to comply with Freedom of Information Act requests pertaining to its involvement with insurgent militias in Syria, overturning a lower court’s previous ruling in favor of a Buzzfeed News reporter seeking such documents.

Source : Yahoo Finance, Chris Katje

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(Photo : Photo officielle de l’ambassade des États-Unis par Archibald Sackey et Courage Ahiati).

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The race is now on to convert body heat into battery power. Just like the action/sci-fi movie The Matrix.

In The Matrix, it was revealed to Neo (Keanu Reeves) that humans are flesh batteries powering artificial intelligence machines that have taken control of Earth.

Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have come one step closer to harness the human bodies’ thermoelectric energy to power low-cost wearable devices.

Good news (and bad news) America!

The great news is that on Wednesday, approximately 33.8 million people have received at least one COVID-19 shot, including 10.5 million people who have been fully vaccinated, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Now for the bad news. A new study shows about 1 in 3 of respondents won’t get the vaccine.

On Thursday, when we reported that natural gas prices across the plains states had soared to never before seen levels as a result of a brutal polar vortex blast…

A fuel tanker truck explosion on the Iran-Afghanistan border on Saturday caused a chain reaction of blasts so large it could be observed from space.

According to the Associated Press, “Two explosions at the border crossing were powerful enough to be spotted from space by NASA satellites. One blast erupted around 1:10 p.m. Afghan time (0840 GMT), the next around a half hour later at 1:42 p.m. local (0912 GMT).”

The relationship between Donald Trump and Mike Pence reminds me of one of the greatest leads to a newspaper story I have ever read.

It was written in the 1970s in the Washington Star by a reporter named Sheilah Kast who was covering a criminal case in Arlington, VA, involving a young woman who had been attacked by a man who climbed into her garden apartment and raped her, not once, but twice, at knifepoint, with the attacks coming a week apart.

If at first you don’t succeed, mask, mask again.

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Source : Consortium News, Danny Sjursen

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Danny Sjursen propose ici un panorama Bidenesque du militarisme américain

Source : Arte Découverte

Le changement climatique chamboule la vie des Iakoutes, les habitants de la république autonome de Sakha. Car l’augmentation des températures fait fondre le permafrost qui recouvrait jusque-là le sol. De plus en plus de Iakoutes abandonnent ainsi maisons et villages. La population parviendra-t-elle à s’adapter à ces bouleversements ?

Less than a month away from the one-year anniversary of the pandemic’s official declaration, policy wonks at the Atlantic Council together with former and current government officials are dissecting the “lessons” of the Covid-19 epidemic to advise the Biden administration on the steps to take in order to avert the next disaster.

Just days after the CDC decided that “science” demands that two masks be worn instead of just one, on Friday afternoon the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Friday released long-awaited guidance urging the nation’s elementary and secondary schools to reopen safely as soon as possible, saying they can operate by strictl

It came as no surprise that China disingenuously seized on this month’s World Health Organization (WHO) trip to try and claim the COVID-19 pandemic actually started abroad, while at the same time a number of global headlines essentially echoed “nothing to see here” – particularly on widespread suspicions the virus originated in a Wuhan military lab.

In today’s video, we reveal a massive cover-up in New York and how Democrats are turning on governors Andrew Cuomo and Gavin Newsom.

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Mahmoud Abbas conspired with US to overthrow Hamas after it won 2006 elections.

Two days after the WHO team of investigators was marched through the Wuhan Institute of Virology, its members declared that any ‘conspiracies’ about the origins of COVID-19 were simply untrue – confidently exclaiming that it was “extremely unlikely” the pandemic came from a lab leak.

In tight formation over the Super Bowl, low enough for their engines’ wails to be heard over the crooning of the national anthem and the noise of the 25,000 people in socially distanced attendance, flew the deadliest airplanes the world has ever known — the three heavy strategic bombers flown by the United States Air Force.

The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election (Reader Steve)

The author writes, “A weird thing happened right after the Nov. 3 election: nothing. The nation was braced for chaos. Liberal groups had vowed to take to the streets, planning hundreds of protests across the country. Right-wing militias were girding for battle.

Is it too soon to try to see the Trump years through a clarifying historical lens? Not according to this week’s WhoWhatWhy podcast guest, Lawrence Rosenthal, chair and lead researcher of the Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies, and the author of Empire of Resentment: Populism’s Toxic Embrace of Nationalism.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s top aide privately apologized to Democratic lawmakers over a decision to withhold the state’s nursing-home COVID-19 death toll out of fear that it would be “used against us” by the Trump Justice Department, according to the New York Post.

Source : Consortium News, Patrick Lawrence

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Tony Blinken sera donc secrétaire d’État, il est doté de toute la fougue et de la fausse subtilité qu’exige une politique étrangère en faillite, si la pantomime américaine doit se poursuivre pendant quatre ans encore.

Source : InsuffisantCardiologue.com – 28-01-2021 – Florian Zores

We each inhabit two very different worlds simultaneously: the real world, and the narrative world.

The real world is the physical world of matter, of atoms and molecules and stars and planets and animals wandering around trying to bite and copulate with each other. Science does not yet understand much of this world, but it can reasonably be said to have some degree of existence to it.

Hillary Clinton, whose campaign paid a guy to fabricate Russian conspiracy theories against Donald Trump during the 2016 US election, says that Republican Senators who vote to acquit the former president for allegedly inciting the Jan. 6 Capitol riot are “co-conspirators.”

“If Senate Republicans fail to convict Donald Trump, it won’t be because the facts were with him or his lawyers mounted a competent defense,” Clinton said in a Wednesday tweet. “It will be because the jury includes his co-conspirators.”

Twitter continues its purge of conservative voices – this time banning conservative watchdog group Project Veritas, just hours after the social media giant locked founder James O’Keefe’s personal account.

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— Josh Caplan (@joshdcaplan) February 11, 2021

How will the Biden administration impact prospect of justice for Palestinians?

Canada is escalating its assault on human rights.

In today’s video, we cover the silencing of art, comedy, music and so much more.

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The Second COVID-19 Shot Is a Rude Reawakening for Immune Cells (Dana)

From the Atlantic: “Side effects are a natural part of the vaccination process, as my colleague Sarah Zhang has written. Not everyone will experience them.

The Chinese government has decided to ban BBC World News from airing all content in China after it found the British news organization “infringed on the principles of truthfulness and impartiality in journalism.”

*BBC WORLD NEWS BARRED FROM AIRING IN CHINA, CGTN SAYS

— zerohedge (@zerohedge) February 11, 2021

The oldest bank in America will now be storing Bitcoin on behalf of its asset-management clients, according to the Wall Street Journal.

“Digital assets are becoming part of the mainstream,” said Roman Regelman, chief executive of BNY Mellon’s asset-servicing and digital businesses.

WhoWhatWhy is partnering with Global Geneva, where this story was originally published, to help expand access to content that will benefit a broader global readership.

La France a vécu les quatre dernières décennies sous le règne d’un parti unique informel, regroupant, au plan idéologique, les formations politiques proches du centre, qui se sont tout à tour partagé le pouvoir au rythme d’élections de façade.

Source : Byline Times, Sam Bright

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NdT : élément de contexte. Andrew Neil est un journaliste et présentateur britannique, d’origine écossaise. Il est le président de la chaîne d’information télévisée GB News, qui sera lancée en 2021

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Twitter is once again being called out for its free speech hypocrisy and double-dealing when it comes to influential and wealthy foreign governments allied closely with Washington. In this latest case Twitter has purged accounts of recent Saudi political prisoners.

Despite headlines discussing COVID ‘plateaus‘ and ‘dramatic declines‘ in the United States, the Biden administration is mulling whether to impose domestic travel restrictions over concerns that “coronavirus mutations are threatening to reverse hard-fought progress on the pandemic,” according to the 

Eitan Ze’ev awarded “certificate of appreciation” after wounding farmers.

Falic family of settlement funders is to co-chair the Shmuley Boteach event.

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As Joe Biden was sworn in as president on January 20th, about half of the United States — and most of the world — breathed a sigh of relief. Finally the orange buffoon has exited stage left. It can only get better from here right? Right?

In today’s video, we break down the hypocrisy of Twitter and of public health officials.

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We already know based on objective, impartial, empirical data, that there’s not much difference in COVID-19 case counts/hospitalizations/deaths in states that mandate masks and business restrictions (such as North Dakota) vs states which do not (such as its southern neighbor).

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In America’s ‘Uncivil War,’ Republicans Are the Aggressors (DonkeyHotey)

From FiveThirtyEight: “In his inaugural address, President Biden described America as in the midst of an “uncivil war that pits red against blue, rural versus urban, conservative versus liberal.” His invocation of a civil war and the American Civil War was provocative.

Former US President Donald Trump will never be allowed to have a Twitter account again after his @realdonaldtrump handle was banned, Twitter CFO Ned Segal confirmed on Wednesday.

Segal stated during a CNBC interview following their earnings release:

“If you are removed from the platform, you are removed from the platform… Remember, our policies are designed to make sure that people are not inciting violence.”

Former President Trump’s second impeachment trial hinges on two defense arguments. The first is that it may be unconstitutional to impeach a former president. The second? That Trump was protected under the First Amendment.

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People with dementia are twice as likely to get Covid-19, a study finds.

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Source : Glenn Greenwald

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De la guerre froide à la guerre contre le terrorisme : les dégâts causés par les « solutions » autoritaires sont souvent plus importants que les menaces qu’elles sont prétendument destinées à combattre.

Spain’s CAF is helping build Israel’s illegal Jerusalem light rail.

In today’s video, we cover how world health officials and Joe Biden are siding with the Chinese government and its official explanation of the sickness.

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The Capitol Siege: The Arrested and Their Stories (Bethany)

The authors write, “Nearly every day since insurrectionists stormed the U.S. Capitol, the list of those charged in the attack has grown longer. The government has now identified more than 200 people for their alleged role in the Jan. 6 rioting, which ended with five people dead, including a U.S.

Ben Nimmo, a former NATO press officer and current senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, has announced Facebook has hired him to “lead global threat intelligence strategy against influence operations” and “emerging threats.” Nimmo specifically named Russia, Iran and China as potential dangers to the platform.

We noted that Tesla’s buy of $1.5 billion in bitcoin wasn’t a huge surprise to us yesterday. But it turns out we might not have been the only people who weren’t surprised by the purchase.