Media Groups Urge US To Drop Julian Assange Charges Guardian. Huh? That horse left the barn and is in the next county.
UK GOVERNMENT DEPLOYED 15 STAFF ON SECRET OPERATION TO SEIZE JULIAN ASSANGE Declassified UK
Alexa, how did Amazon’s voice assistant rack up a $10bn loss? Guardian
A Peek Inside the FBI’s Unprecedented January 6 Geofence Dragnet Wired
Was election denial just a passing threat? New York Times
Solutions to save lives from gun violenceWashington Post
Elon Musk Is Destroying the Myths of Silicon Valley in Front of Our Very Eyes Jacobin
Elon Musk accuses Apple of threatening to remove Twitter from App Store Guardian
New Twitter Sign Ups Hit All-Time Record Despite Cancel Campaign Jonathan Turley
UK Ditches Ban On ‘Legal But Harmful’ Online Content In Favor of Free Speech Reuters
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Tipping Point: The Financial Fragility of the Big Four Global Audit Firms Francine McKenna
Dollar Dominance is Financial Dominance Institute for New Economic Thinking. Measured but deadly critique of the Fed.
Cutting-edge tech made this tiny country a major exporter of food - Washington Post: ” The Netherlands has used advances in vertical farming, seed technology and robotics to become a global model The rallying cry in the Netherlands started two decades ago, as concern mounted about its ability to feed its 17 million people: Produce twice as much food using half as many resources. The country, which is a bit bigger than Maryland, not only accomplished this feat but also has become the world’s second largest exporter of agricultural products by value behind the United States. Perhaps even more significant in the face of a warming planet: It is among the largest exporters of agricultural and food technology. The Dutch have pioneered cell-cultured meat, vertical farming, seed technology and robotics in milking and harvesting — spearheading innovations that focus on decreased water usage as well as reduced carbon and methane emissions..
it also provides vegetables to much of Western Europe. The country has nearly 24,000 acres — almost twice the size of Manhattan — of crops growing in greenhouses. These greenhouses, with less fertilizer and water, can grow in a single acre what would take 10 acres of traditional dirt farming to achieve. Dutch farms use only a half-gallon of water to grow about a pound of tomatoes, while the global average is more than 28 gallons.
More than half of the land in the Netherlands is used for agriculture. The Dutch often say their singular focus on food production is born of the harrowing famine the country experienced during World War II. But it could be argued that the preoccupation with food began in the 17th century, when the Dutch were at the center of the global spice trade…”