The World Health Organisation loses a founding nation
Donald Trump has declared that the United States will end its relationship with the World Health Organisation over the body’s handling of the coronavirus situation, accusing it of being a puppet of China. The United States joined the WHO in 1948, an independent international body that works with the United Nations to promote and develop…
A climate-change rethink
With the novel coronavirus sweeping through the world, shutting down economy after economy without discrimination, an interesting climate change experiment took place. With rising greenhouse gas emissions globally, calls to transform how we travel and live have gained assent, and the coronavirus-instigated lockdowns showed us what could happen if we produced close to zero emissions…
Electric aircraft: a glimpse into the future, today
Yesterday, May 28 2020, was a historic day for electric aviation. The world’s largest all-electric plane took flight for the first time, spending 30 minutes flying over Washington. It is a sign of things to come, as the aviation industry now realises what was previously seen as ‘future technology’ arrive in a very real form…
Meng Wanzhou: A woman caught between three countries
Yesterday, a Canadian judge approved the extradition of Meng Wanzhou to the United States, much to the fury of China. The three nations have been embroiled in a diplomatic spat over her for longer than two years, thanks to her position of Chief Financial Officer fo Huawei, and the daughter of its founder Ren Zhengfei.…
SpaceX: The rise of a cosmos-faring enterprise
On the 27th of May, 2020, SpaceX was 17 minutes away from launching two American astronauts into space, on their way to the International Space Station, before it was called off due to bad weather. The private company, a brain-child of the serial entrepreneur Elon Musk, had a long and rocky road to follow before…
Demolishing History: Rio Tinto
A sacred site in Western Australia that showed 46,000 years of continual occupation and provided a 4,000 year old genetic link to present-day aboriginals have been destroyed in the expansion of an iron ore mine. The move was entirely legal, as Rio Tinto received ministerial consent ot destroy or damage the site in 2013, under…
Japan: No Lockdown, Few Deaths, a Success
On the 25th of May, after little over a month and a half since a state of emergency was declared, the Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has announced the end of his state of emergency declaration. The relative success of Japan is extremely surprising, considering the lack of stringent lockdown measures as seen in other…
China waltzes into India
10,000 of China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) have entered and now lay claim to the Galwan Valley in Ladakh, India. The northern province, part of the widely disputed state of Jammu and Kashmir, has been the subject of Chinese encroachments since 1956. In their most recent move, the PLA have crossed China’s own claim line,…
A ‘trash,’ ‘killer’ President
Jair Bolsonaro, President of Brazil, was abused mercilessly by onlookers in the capital, Brasilia, after he ventured outside to buy a hotdog and a drink, and rightly so. Bolsonaro has masterminded Brazil’s ascent in becoming the global hotspot for coronavirus by failing to administer a proper lockdown and generally treating the crisis with little seriousness.…
Google, AI Tools, and Global Warming
Google, along with Amazon and Microsoft, have been accused by Greenpeace of undermining their own climate change pledges by partnering with major oil companies that have looked for new technology to ramp up oil and gas extraction. In response to the environmentalist group’s report, Google have said they will no longer build custom artificial intelligence…
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