Above Photo: A view of the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol where Ukrainian forces and the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion have gathered. (Sputnik / Ilya Pitalev). Germany, Canada, the UK, the Netherlands, and Romania are among the countries that have pledged the supply of more weapons to Ukraine. The US has already announced a billion dollars worth of arms supplies in a week. With German chancellor Olaf Scholz proclaiming on Tuesday, April 19 that the European Union and NATO are united to make sure that Russia never wins the war in Ukraine, the possibility of it continuing looms large. He also pledged […]
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Above Photo: Peter and Maria Hoey. Rampant outsourcing, financialization, monopolization, deregulation, and just-in-time logistics are the culprits. Anyone old enough to remember the Cold War is familiar with a scene routinely depicted on U.S. television at the time: the Soviet breadline. Warning Americans about life under communism, these clips showed Russian citizens lingering forlornly outside businesses for hours to obtain basic goods—indelible proof of the inferiority of central planning, and an advertisement for capitalism’s abundance. Breadlines, the Big Book of Capitalism assured us, could not happen in a market economy. Supply would always rise to meet demand, as long as there’s […]
At the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, panic buying seemed to create a shortage of different necessities, including toilet paper. Midway through the COVID-19 pandemic, housing prices started rising drastically, as demand surpassed supply due to shortages of construction materials. As students returned to in-person learning, schools found nutritious food for school lunches more difficult to get, and the U.S. relaxed requirements that schools must comply with federal nutrition standards. Visit any grocery store recently and you are likely to find shelves bare of any number of items. A global shortage of computer chips has created a drastic reduction […]
The German Armed Forces, or Bundeswehr, has contracted with Rheinmetall to supply it with additional heavy tractor trailers with a 70-tonne payload. According to a press release issued earlier in December 2020 by Rheinmetall, delivery of a further 24 unprotected heavy tractor trailers – dubbed the SaZgM 70t mil in German military parlance – is to take place in 2021, with a further 24 to follow in 2022. In total, the order is worth €41 million. The tractor trailers are primarily used for transporting heavy armoured vehicles such as the Leopard 2 main battle tank. – ADVERTISEMENT – CONTINUE READING BELOW – In 2018 the […]
Ukrainian-based Thermal Vision Technologies company, woks under the Archer brand name, has secured a contract for the supply of specialized multi-sensor binocular systems for an undisclosed army in the Asia-Pacific region. The contract calls for the supply of multi-sensor binocular Archer’s MSB-8, to be operated for surveillance, areas observing and target acquisition in limited visibility conditions at day and night. The MSB-8 is a compact and light yet rugged multi-sensor binocular designed for d for military and security operations for infantry, special forces, intelligence gathering and also for infrastructure and border surveillance. – ADVERTISEMENT – CONTINUE READING BELOW – As noted […]
The SBU, Ukraine’s state security service, has reported on Tuesday that it blocked a systematic steal of aircraft components from the strategic aerospace enterprise. According to a press release issued on 3 November by the SBU, the security service has blocked the illegal supply of helicopter engines to Russia. The stolen spare part and engines were exported abroad by intermediaries outside customs control. According to forged documents, the equipment was sold to defense companies from the Middle East and the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States. – ADVERTISEMENT – CONTINUE READING BELOW – Special service carried out an operation prepared […]
U.K. aerospace giant BAE Systems offered the U.S. Army a new wheeled howitzer in response to the request for proposals for a 155 mm wheeled gun system. BAE Systems has offered its ARCHER howitzer that will provide highly responsive and versatile fire support to troops in combat. The Army’s RFP, released on July 30, looks to evaluate mobile howitzers in support of future Army requirements. ARCHER is already in service with the Swedish Army with the highest technical and manufacturing readiness levels. – ADVERTISEMENT – CONTINUE READING BELOW – “ARCHER is a mature, proven system that can quickly get into the fight […]
Using foreign military hardware is nothing new for the Ukrainian Army, where US-made weaponry, including patrol vehicles, fast boats, and Javelin anti-tank missiles are currently in service. Senior Ukrainian presidential aide Andriy Yermak said on Friday that the UK had expressed readiness to provide the country with a hefty lethal weapons contract, in addition to a £1 billion ($1.2 billion) loan to the Ukrainian Navy. The statement came as President Volodymyr Zelensky met UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson in London to sign a spate of bilateral cooperation agreements. Yermak claimed that recent mass protests in neighbouring Belarus pose a possible threat […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/07/1080690039_0:64:1281:784_1200x675_80_0_0_a9a3408969a00d6b2bc7ff09552be2ce.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Muhammad Osman. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/uk/202010071080689975-video-east-london-residents-rush-to-buy-bottled-water-following-large-pipe-burst-in-main-supply/ The tap water shortage was said to have taken place on Tuesday afternoon at around 4.30 p.m., but the company responsible for public water in that part of London, Thames Water, was not able to discover the cause of the issue until nearly midnight. Thousands of residences in East London were left without water beginning Tuesday afternoon, prompting residents to clear local supermarket shelves of drinking water. Local residents reported on social media an ongoing water shortage beginning Tuesday at around 4.30 p.m. BST, but Thames Water was only able “to identify exactly […]
Ukraine will supply advanced missile engines to Turkey, for new cruise missile with deep-strike capability. The news agency Defense Express, quoting the ProZorro public procurement platform, reported that SE Ivchenko-Progress signed a number of contracts for the purchase of cutting-edge aircraft engine components for the new AI-35 turbojet engines that will equip new Turkish cruise missiles. SE Ivchenko-Progress designed the AI-35 engine family to power high-speed unmanned aircraft systems and advanced cruise missiles. – ADVERTISEMENT – CONTINUE READING BELOW – According to the news agency, the AI-35 engines should be delivered to Turkey, where they are going to be used in […]
Gilead Remdesivir can Now Be Bought Directly From the Company Supply of our investigational COVID-19 treatment is now meeting demand in the U.S. Today, Gilead has assumed responsibility for U.S. distribution of the drug. Read more: https://t.co/MtZVLkL3SH — Gilead Sciences (@GileadSciences) October 1, 2020 Health Editor’s Note: Gilead is able to keep production of remdesivir (veklury) up and is meeting demand for this antiviral in the U.S. Remdesivir is currently authorized for Temporary use under an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for treatment of COVID-19 patients in the hospital, moderate to severe disease, regardless of the need for supplemental oxygen. “Veklury has […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/world/202009301080617822-russia-will-supply-25-million-doses-of-sputnik-v-covid-19-vaccine-to-egypt/ The Russian Direct Investment Fund previously announced that more than 50 nations had sent requests for the purchase of Sputnik V, registered by the Russian Health Ministry in August, becoming the world’s first-ever anti-coronavirus vaccine. Russia will supply 25 million doses of the Sputnik V vaccine to Egypt, the Russian Direct Investment Fund, one of the vaccine’s developers, said in a statement Wednesday. “RDIF … and Pharco, one of the leading pharmaceutical groups in Egypt (acting through its key operational subsidiary – Biogeneric Pharma) have agreed to secure the supply of 25 million doses […]
New research suggests that somewhere between 30 to 50 percent of the world’s water supply is being illegally siphoned off and is not being paid for or counted, reviving debate about how we define water. In their paper, the researchers argue that a lack of any widely-accepted definition of what constitutes water theft, or whether it can even exist at all, precludes coordinated effort from governments, regulators and communities and therefore hamstrings any efforts at enforcement and policing of water resources. The study points the blame squarely at the political, legal and institutional establishments which it says are fundamentally flawed and […]
Belarus’ Defense Ministry has confirmed on Monday that Republic and Russia signed an accord for Moscow to supply Minsk with advanced air defense systems. “A plan of interaction with Almaz-Antey Group for 2021-2025 has been signed for the deliveries of advanced air defense systems through 2025,” the republic’s Defense Ministry said on 24 August. The document was signed at the Army-2020 international military and technical forum in Russia. Also at the forum, Belarus’ top brass signed a contract on two battalion sets of BTR-82A armored personnel carriers produced by the Arzamas Machine-Building Factory and a contact on receiving the first batch […]
(Note: Thank you for your support for American businesses like Bonner Wines and for Gateway Pundit. We appreciate you! The following message is from Will Bonner.) Dear Reader, do you have a minute? America’s ‘Top Wine Explorer’ here… The contents of this message are rather time-sensitive… so I’ll get straight to the point… TRENDING: Dem Convention Dumpster Fire: Michigan Gov Gretchen Whitmer on ‘Hot Mic’: It’s Shark Week Motherf****** (VIDEO) As I write this, a few cases of a rare type of red wine – called ‘black wine’ – are making their way to a secure, climate-controlled warehouse in California… Up […]
Community-Based Farms Rise To The Occasion As Big Food Supply Chains Stall By Elizabeth Henderson, Independent Media Institute. August 16, 2020 Community-Based Farms Rise To The Occasion As Big Food Supply Chains Stall2020-08-162020-08-16https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/food.png200px200px Above photo: In the greenhouse at Massaro Community Farm, masked and gloved workers keep a safe distance from one another. In the foreground is Jessica Cipriano, with Kayla Uhl farther back. Alyssa Desrosiers. The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed deep craters in the U.S. food supply chain. Dairies that supply milk and food products to restaurants have had the heartbreaking task of dumping millions of gallons of milk. Many giant meat processing plants had […]
An agency attached to the U.S. Department of Agriculture said it expects blockchain will play an important role in the sector’s supply chains. Source link
Numerous vaccines for SARS-CoV-2 are currently being developed across the world, with more than 20 entering the final stages of trials. The World Health Organisation has warned, however, that there may never be a “silver bullet” for the disease, which has infected 18.2 million people worldwide and killed almost 700,000. “Even if you have an optimistic assessment of the scientific progress, there is not enough coronavirus vaccines for the world”, said Rasmus Bech Hansen, CEO of the analytics company Airfinity. The statement comes as health advocates across the world fear that wealthier countries could monopolise the supply of COVID-19 vaccines, leaving […]
Elrond’s move onto mainnet will replace 19.98 billion testnet tokens with 20 million mainnet tokens at a rate of 1000:1. Source link
Bitcoin’s performance the past 24 hours is flat as the world’s oldest cryptocurrency loses ground from Tuesday’s jump to over $9,400. Bitcoin (BTC) trading around $9,378 as of 20:00 UTC (4 p.m. EDT). Gaining 0.05% over the previous 24 hours. Bitcoin’s 24-hour range: $9,276-$9,389 BTC above 10-day and 50-day moving average, a bullish signal for market technicians. Bitcoin trading on Coinbase since July 20.Source: TradingView The bitcoin market is still in bullish territory after yesterday’s move over $9,400, a price not seen in almost two weeks. “Bitcoin is flirting with its 50-day moving average, but has seen short-term momentum improve after […]
PayPal, the fintech giant planning to bring crypto trading to its massive user base, has chosen Paxos to handle the new service’s supply of digital assets, according to two people familiar with the matter. It’s a plum assignment for New York-based Paxos, which last week launched Paxos Crypto Brokerage and announced its first customer in Revolut US, the American division of the U.K.-based fintech firm that offers bitcoin trading. A formal announcement of the PayPal relationship could come as soon as this week, one source said. The offering would make PayPal one of the most prominent mainstream companies to offer cryptocurrency […]
Bitcoin miners curtailed their supply to exchanges to the lowest level in 12 months during the second quarter, revealing their long-term bias on the cryptocurrency. The daily miner selling activity, as measured by the percentage of bitcoin sent to exchanges, fell to a 365-day low of 15% on May 20, according to data provided by Chainalysis. The metric remained in a declining trend throughout the April to June period. Bitcoin miners operate on cash and are constant sellers in the market, liquidating at least some part of their holdings every day in order to cover their operational costs. “It seems miners, […]
The first vote on Polkadot will be to see whether the DOT supply should be redenominated by a “logical” 100x or even by 1,000x. Source link
Militants on pickup trucks attacked a logistics supply convoy headed to a US military base in Iraq, forcing it to stop, got the local contractors out of the vehicles, and torched the trucks, according to local media reports. The incident happened on the Samawah-Diwaniya highway as the convoy, operated by Iraqi citizens and carrying supplies from Basra to one of the US bases in Iraq, came under attack by unknown assailants on Saturday night. • The US logistics convoy was stopped• Iraqi Drivers were asked to leave• Unconfirmed reports of US troops/security were present • 3 vehicles were destroyed• Operation lasted […]
BRUSSELS (Sputnik) – The European Commission is negotiating with the US-based Gilead Sciences company, which is producing the Remdesivir antiviral drug used against COVID-19, the possibility of providing the EU with a sufficient number of doses of the drug in light of reports that the US intends to stockpile the doses, the official statement said. “Commissioner [Stella] Kyriakides has had multiple discussions with different pharmaceutical companies, including with Gilead, to discuss, for instance, production capacities. Now, at our level, the commission is currently negotiating with Gilead the possibility to reserve … the sufficient quantities doses [of Remdesivir} for the [EU] member […]
Tether’s volume on decentralized lender platform Compound has soared as traders try to maximize the amount of COMP they receive. Data from Compound shows the supply of the USD-backed stablecoin has quadrupled from roughly $43.7 million at the start of the week, to over $224 million on Friday. This time last week, USDT supply had just about crossed the million-dollar mark. With 2,000 suppliers (lenders) and just over 400 borrowers, USDT one of the largest and most active lending markets on the Compound protocol. For comparison, the supply for USDC, another stablecoin, is currently just under the $170 million mark – […]
On-chain data indicates crypto investors aren’t taking profits but are holding on despite uncertain economic conditions and bitcoin’s strong performance. At the time of publication, 60.63% of all bitcoins have not moved in at least a year, according to data from Glassnode. This data suggests bitcoin ownership is consolidating, and investors who bought at the cycle bottom in 2018 have been reluctant to take profits and relinquish their bitcoin holdings. It’s been over four years since a percentage of supply this large has been inactive. One method to analyze inactive bitcoins has been to group them by the length of time […]
SIMBA Chain, a blockchain-as-a-service company with deep ties to the Department of Defense, has two years and $1.5 million to research and develop a blockchain for supply chain logistics for the U.S. Air Force. The South Bend, Ind., firm said on Monday it has entered Phase II of its Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) USAF project with a renewed mandate to investigate blockchain’s military supply chain value propositions. It has also gained a new partner: Boeing. SIMBA CEO Joel Neidig said his firm will “stand up” a node running Hyperledger Fabric at Oklahoma’s Tinker Air Force Base – a hub for […]
The US government’s supply of the only proven Covid-19 drug runs out at the end of the month By Elizabeth Cohen and Arman Azad/CNN (CNN)The US government’s current supply of remdesivir, the only drug known to work against Covid-19, will run out at the end of the month, Dr. Robert Kadlec, a US Department of Health and Human Services official, told CNN. The government’s last shipment of the drug will go out the week of June 29. Gilead Sciences, the company that makes the drug, is ramping up to make more, but it’s unclear how much will be available this summer. “Right […]
So far, Boris Johnson’s government has been eager to allow China’s tech giant Huawei to participate in Britain’s 5G rollout despite warnings from its Five Eyes intelligence partners. But following concerns over China’s alleged role in the coronavirus pandemic, Downing Street has become increasingly cautious over its ties with Beijing. London is creating an alliance of 10 democratic countries that will task their national tech companies to supply 5G equipment as an alternative to those provided by China’s giant Huawei, the Times reported citing sources familiar with the development. The club will be dubbed “D10” and could potentially include all G7 […]
A lab technician dips a sample into the Abbott Laboratories ID Now testing machine at the Detroit Health Center on April 10. Three coronavirus testing machine manufacturers — Hologic Inc., Roche and Abbott Laboratories — have confirmed that demand is outstripping supply, creating a bottleneck processing tests. Carlos Osorio/AP hide caption toggle caption Carlos Osorio/AP A lab technician dips a sample into the Abbott Laboratories ID Now testing machine at the Detroit Health Center on April 10. Three coronavirus testing machine manufacturers — Hologic Inc., Roche and Abbott Laboratories — have confirmed that demand is outstripping supply, creating a bottleneck processing […]
A patient arrives to pick up medication for opioid addiction and is given hand sanitizer at a clinic in Olympia, Wash. The pandemic is changing the distribution networks and supplies of street drugs across the U.S., authorities say. Ted S. Warren/AP hide caption toggle caption Ted S. Warren/AP A patient arrives to pick up medication for opioid addiction and is given hand sanitizer at a clinic in Olympia, Wash. The pandemic is changing the distribution networks and supplies of street drugs across the U.S., authorities say. Ted S. Warren/AP As the country went into quarantine in March, many of Joseph DeSanto’s […]
The value of assets for all stablecoins surpassed $10 billion Tuesday, having surged by over 70% in just two months, according to Coin Metrics. Stablecoin supply growth comes as more cryptocurrency traders choose to trade alternative cryptocurrencies (or altcoins) using dollar-backed digital tokens instead of bitcoin. Most of the stablecoin growth comes from tether, which represents almost 90% of the total stablecoin supply. The largest tether markets measured by traded volume are supported by two Asia-based exchanges, Binance and Huobi, according to CoinGecko. Both exchanges support nearly 200 different cryptocurrencies, which makes them attractive platforms for altcoin traders. Almost every exchange […]
Coronavirus testing is ramping up across the country but not nearly fast enough. The consensus among experts is that “Phase One” testing must at least triple before the economy can fully re-open. After that, we’ll need tens of millions more COVID-19 tests, not to mention contact tracing and—when they become more accurate—widespread antibody testing. Can we recruit, train and—most important—supply a new “Testing Army”? The answer is yes because we’ve done it before. It’s time to think of a mobilization model so old, it’s new. In 1933, the Civilian Conservation Corps went from zero to 275,000 in four months—the fastest mobilization […]
Full Belly Farm, a 450-acre, organic farm, in California’s Capay Valley northwest of Sacramento, is busier than ever trying to ramp up production to meet soaring demand. Full Belly Farm hide caption toggle caption Full Belly Farm Full Belly Farm, a 450-acre, organic farm, in California’s Capay Valley northwest of Sacramento, is busier than ever trying to ramp up production to meet soaring demand. Full Belly Farm Images of some American farmers dumping milk, plowing under crops and tossing perishables amid sagging demand and falling prices during the deadly coronavirus pandemic has made for dramatic TV. But it’s not the whole […]
Tradeshift, the digital trade finance platform that uses blockchain to make payments instant and transparent, has proposed a scheme to the government of Denmark that will free billions of dollars from supply chains, the startup says. The COVID-19 crisis, like the 2008 financial crisis, has seen companies stretch payment terms and try to preserve cash, which causes a ripple effect down the supply chain and makes the overall situation steadily worsen. Tradeshift’s plan is to motivate big companies that have applied the brakes, to pay their suppliers instantly rather than delaying, thus preventing further calcification of supply chains and possibly keeping […]
Tether growth is hitting new all-time highs across multiple blockchains, but the first protocol to support Tether is being left behind. Omni Layer, built on Bitcoin, has suffered negative growth in Tether transactions for the last 12 consecutive months. Tether supply on Omni Layer has also fallen more than 50% over the same period, according to Coin Metrics. Omni Layer’s Tether supply peaked in mid-2018 at just over $3 billion. Tether tokens first launched on Omni Layer in October 2014. While fluctuations in stablecoin supply and transaction counts happen regularly, it’s unusual for there to be a contraction in supply for months at […]