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America’s Decline

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The chilling images are unforgettable. Massive military helicopters shuttling American diplomats from the roof of a hulking embassy. Desperate parents attempting to pass their babies over razor wire to departing American servicemen. Despairing Afghans swarming the tarmac and chasing and clinging to a crammed Air Force transport plane, with some then tragically falling from the skies, as the plane lifted off from the Kabul airport. An inglorious ending The scenes of chaotic and shameful defeat have captured the globe’s attention and are likely to be a defining moment of the Biden presidency and a showcase of waning U.S. power. This “Kabul moment” of American failure, according to a blog post published by The Times of Israel, announced “a tired, bankrupt giant racing for the exits,” and illustrates “a real present decline of American hard power” to the point that “the Pax Americana is no more.” A United Press International article went even further, declaring, “When historians look...
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CONTRARY BRIN: Tales of optimism – and concern

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First to all of you who participate in Contrary Brin’s lively and very smart comment community…one of the oldest and best on the web… see a housekeeping comment below. Ever since I wrote Earth , way back in 1989, I’ve long held we should emulate some of nature’s own processes and help her to ameliorate the harm we’ve done with our ignorance and adolescent greed   — including now the notion of a worldwide campaign to ‘plant a Trillion Trees.’     Does it count for my predictive tally that a   Trillion Trees Campaign was later proposed in 2011? Or that the World Economic Forum in Davos endorsed it in 2020? But let’s correlate that with something in the news about   geoengineering.  If it is acceptable to help the planet by planting billions of trees, how is tree planting any different   inherently   than proposed efforts to stir bottom sediments into fast ocean currents, thus fertilizing them and bringing alive some of the 70% of the oceans...
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5 documentaries for entrepreneurs it is best to watch on Netflix this weekend

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This article was translated from our Spanish edition using AI technologies. Errors may exist due to this process. Entrepreneurs know that every opportunity is valuable to learn something that inspires them to grow and take their business to the next level. The Toys That Made Us vía YouTube Netflix is the world’s largest streaming platform and this year offers a series of documentaries and original shows that are indispensable for businessmen and women who want to do things differently. This is a selection that you can start watching this weekend or when you have 45 free minutes. 1. Dirty Money (2018) What it’s about: There are six one-hour episodes that tell the story of a famous corporate fraud and the investigation that took place around the case. Among the topics that you will see in the series are the polluting emissions scandal of Volkswagen vehicles, the money laundering by HSBC for the Sinaloa cartel and Donald Trump. Alex Gibney, the creator of the Netflix ori...
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Media allowed to attend SABC Information boss Phathiswa Magopeni’s disciplinary listening to right this moment as she accuses public broadcaster’s chairperson Bongumusa Makhathini and CEO Madoda Mxakwe of editorial interference.

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by Thinus Ferreira The media will be able to attend the disciplinary hearing of the South African public broadcaster’s SABC News boss Phathiswa Magopeni today who claims that she is being hounded out of the SABC and accused the SABC chairperson Bongumusa Makhathini and SABC CEO Madoda Mxakwe of gross editorial interference  into the operations of SABC News. Gugu Ntuli, SABC spokesperson has no comment. Phathiswa Magopeni has been charged with negligence and of bringing the SABC into disrepute, after which she accused Bongumusa Makhathini and Madoda Mxakwe of editorial interference. Media are allowed to attend Phathiswa Magopeni’s disciplinary hearing starting today, after chairperson of the hearing, Advocate Nazeer Cassim ruled that journalists will be allowed into the disciplinary meeting to report on it. It follows after lawyers for the South African National Editors’ Forum (Sanef) and the Campaign for Free Expression (CFE) demanded that the disciplinary hearing be opened...
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Understanding the Psychology Behind the COVID Pandemic

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In the video above, Dr. Robert Malone, inventor of the mRNA and DNA vaccine core platform technology, 1 reviews a theory professor Mattias Desmet, a Belgian psychologist and statistician, believes explains the absurd and irrational behavior we’re now seeing worldwide with regard to the COVID pandemic and its countermeasures. He calls this phenomenon “mass formation psychosis,” a type of crowd hypnosis that results in literally converting a large segment of the population into psychosis. Mass formation psychosis is the explanation for how the Germans accepted the atrocities by the Nazi party in the 1930s, and it’s the explanation for why so many around the world support medical apartheid and the destruction of the unvaccinated now. It’s so irrational and inhumane, many have wondered how we got here. As it turns out, the psychology of totalitarianism has been studied for decades, and the whole thing is in fact explainable as a psychiatric phenomenon that arises when certain condition...
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Festive Put on – The New York Occasions

Do you have a special holiday outfit, whether for Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, New Year’s Eve or any other occasion celebrated this month? If so, what’s it like, and how does it make you feel? How do you feel about the Christmas sweater, a tradition that Britons — including this dinosaur in the Natural History Museum in London — have embraced? Would you ever wear one? Tell us in the comments, then read the related article to learn more. Want more Picture Prompts? Find them all in this column . Students 13 and older in the United States and Britain, and 16 and older elsewhere, are invited to comment. All comments are moderated by the Learning Network staff, but please keep in mind that once your comment is accepted, it will be made public.
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Aran’s Double Chocolate & Buckwheat Cookies — Inexperienced Kitchen Tales

Notes : We have included Aran’s original recipe here, but we made it vegan by swapping the eggs for 6 tbsp aquafaba (that we whipped before adding int he sugar). And coconut oil instead of butter.  We also used a little less sugar (3/4 cup).  1. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper. Crush the fennel seeds to a powder in a mortar and pestle or clean coffee grinder. 2. Fill a medium saucepan one-quarter full with water and bring to a simmer over medium-high heat. In a large heatproof bowl, combine the fennel, 7 ounces (200 g) of the chocolate, butter, and almond butter, and place over the simmering water. Stir until the chocolate is nearly all melted, then remove from the heat. The residual heat will continue melting the chocolate. 3. In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the whisk attachment, combine the eggs, brown sugar, and vanilla and beat on high speed until the eggs are pale and very thick, about 5 min-utes. Pour in the m...
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