SOTT Media Bias

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A Hard-Edged Rock: Waging economic warfare on humanity

health

Why is much modern food of inferior quality? Why is health suffering and smallholder farmers who feed most of the world being forced out of agriculture? Mainly because of the mindset of the likes of Larry Fink of BlackRock - the world's biggest asset management firm - and the economic system they profit from and promote. In 2011, Fink said agricultural and water investments would be the best performers over the next 10 years. Fink Stated: "Go long agriculture and water and go to the beach." Unsurprisingly then, just three years later, in 2014, the Oakland Institute found that institutional investors, including hedge funds, private equity and pension funds, were capitalising on global farmland as a new ...
SOTT     Jan 25, 2023

11,000-year-old human remains discovered in northern Britain

science

An international team led by archaeologists at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) has discovered the earliest human remains ever found in northern Britain. Human bone and a periwinkle shell bead unearthed at Heaning Wood Bone Cave have been analysed and dated at around 11,000-years-old. UCLan's Dr Rick Peterson and PhD student Keziah Warburton have examined the human remains and prehistoric artefacts excavated in Cumbria's Great Urswick by local archaeologist Martin Stables. Dr Peterson, a Reader in Archaeology, said: "This is a fantastic discovery! We've been delighted to confirm Martin's unbelievable find dates back around 11,000-year-ago and gives us clear evidence of Mesolithic burials in the north.
SOTT     Jan 25, 2023

5000-year-old stoneware workshop found in Iran

science

Iranian archaeologists found the ruins of a stoneware workshop estimated to date back to the 3rd millennium BC, during their excavations at Jiroft in Iran's Kerman Province. A team of archaeologists from the University of Tehran has discovered a wide variety of stone vessels and stone ornamentations from the site of Hajjiabad-Varamin in Jiroft, IRNA reported. According to the archaeologists, stone containers and objects that were used or broken by people were not discarded in Jiroft, but their broken pieces were brought to the production workshop to make smaller containers and objects such as beads and pendants. The Jiroft culture also referred to as the Intercultural style or the Halilrud style is a presumed early Bronze Age ...
SOTT     Jan 25, 2023

BEST OF THE WEB: Wave of top Ukrainian officials resign, huge corruption scandal reveals Western aid embezzled

entertainment

The Ukrainian government on Tuesday confirmed the resignation of multiple high ranking officials amid large-scale corruption allegations, in what's being called the biggest mass resignation and graft scandal since the Russian invasion began. Some dozen officials have quit their posts after a huge political shake-up over allegations and probes into cases ranging from bribery, to mismanagement of aid funds for purchasing food, to embezzlement, to driving expensive cars while common people suffer under wartime conditions. A top presidential adviser and four deputy ministers - among these two defense officials, along with five regional governors were forced out of their posts. And among the regional governors to step down included officials overseeing regions which have seen intense fighting, ...
SOTT     Jan 25, 2023

Britain to PAY homes to cut energy usage in bid to prevent blackouts amidst record cold weather

More than a million households will be paid to cut back their electricity tonight as part of an emergency scheme to prevent blackouts on one of the coldest days of the year. The National Grid will reward those participating in the Demand Flexibility Service who voluntarily reduce their usage between 5pm and 6pm, preventing the nation's supply from being overstretched. It is the first time National Grid has implemented its DFS scheme since it was announced last November, the Times reports, as the UK prepares for freezing temperatures this week.
SOTT     Jan 25, 2023

El Salvador pays off $800 million bond using bitcoin, avoids indebting itself to IMF

finance

El Salvador's $800 million bond issue set to mature on Tuesday has been repaid with interest, President Nayib Bukele said on Twitter. Finance Minister Alejandro Zelaya confirmed the same news on his Twitter account. "In the past year, almost every legacy international news outlet said that because of our 'bitcoin bet,' El Salvador was going to default on its debt by January 2023 (since we had an 800 million dollar bond maturing today)," Bukele said. "Literally hundreds of articles."
SOTT     Jan 24, 2023