Can wars stimulate the economy? The debate is always open. In any case, private portfolios can get benefits for sure. Just like in the case of Capital Group, a £1.4Tn investment firm holding thousands of shares in the world’s biggest Defence Firm, Lockheed Martin (it owned 7,09% of the company in March 2018 -source: Investopedia– …
Tag: USA
Apr 18
Cold fusion: news from US military contractors
Lockheed Martin declares development of a new nuclear fusion reactor “like no other”. The US defense contractor says that the reactor is no bigger than a shipping container, but could power 80,000 homes. The defense company estimates that just 25 pounds of fuel could run the reactor for an entire year, non-stop, and generate a …
Feb 22
Need political propaganda? Ask Facebook Global Government and Politics Team
Control over fake news and radical propaganda is been recently set at the top of NATO Countries’ political agenda -a significant test of such strategy is currently run by the Italian government, where the political elections will be held in March, 4. Unfortunately, in order to make such strategy successful, they should start from inhibiting …
Mar 08
HONEST Act resurrects the Secret Science Act?
The UCS-USA protests against the recent HONEST Act, which would require that all raw data, models, code, and other materials from scientific studies are made available to the public before a federal agency could use it. It is not a bad idea, in principle. However, there might be negative side-effects. In any case, this will …
May 02
TTIP Leaks
Oct 07
Is China set to join Russia and Iran in support of Syria?
“The pro-Assad Al-Masdar (citing an unnamed SAA “senior officer”), said Chinese “personnel and aerial assets” are set to arrive within weeks”, Tyler Durden reported on ZeroHedge two weeks ago. “Beijing has taken decision to take part in combating IS and sent its vessels to the Syrian coast. (…) It is known, that China has joined …