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- This month’s eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano caused mysterious concentric ripples in the atmosphere which had never been seen before. Scientists believe that the ripples were caused by so-called acoustic-gravity waves (AGWs), but not everything is as simple as it may seem at first glance. Although AGW waves are not unknown to researchers, never before have they been so distinctively registered during volcanic eruptions. Powerful AGWs are typically associated with earthquakes and tsunamis, as well as some man-made events such as rocket launches or explosions.
- A man was arrested after he was caught on video beating up and abusing a person for allegedly urinating in front of a cow in Madhya Pradesh’s Ratlam district, police said on Saturday.
- The maximum speed of the intermediate-range ballistic missile that North Korea tested earlier on Sunday was estimated as Mach 16, or 16 times the speed of sound at takeoff, the South Korean Yonhap news agency reported, citing a military source. The missile flew approximately 800 km (497 miles) with a maximum altitude of 2,000 km (1,243 miles).
- In Belgium, protesters hold a demonstration against pandemic restrictions. “United for Freedom” is organising the event just one week after protesters clashed with police during a similar demonstration. During the protest, police used water cannons and tear gas to disperse the crowd. At least 70 people were detained.
- Apparently, the years of free flowing digital assets are coming to an end in the US as governments around the world are becoming increasingly concerned with the new decentralised, unregulated, and volatile market. Joe Biden and his administration are planning to take executive action in order to start regulating cryptocurrencies and other digital assets in the US, Forbes has reported. According to the magazine, the regulation will not just affect popular currencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum, but also altcoins, stablecoins, and non-fungible tokens (NFT). The move is seen as prompted by national security needs, Forbes said. Washington will also reportedly coordinate these efforts with foreign governments.
- A pregnant New Zealand journalist, Charlotte Bellis, has said she is forced to seek refuge in Afghanistan, as her home country has denied her a Managed Isolation and Quarantine (MIQ) spot. The MIQ is a step introduced by New Zealand’s government to stop the spread of the coronavirus in which entry is given via a lottery system. All individuals upon arrival are quarantined for 10 days at military-run hotels. In early January, a queue of 16,000 people was vying to book one of 1,250 available rooms. Bellis has been trying to get to New Zealand, but has been unable to get an MIQ spot through the lottery system so far.
- JCanadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his family have left their home in the capital city amid the trucker protest against coronavirus restrictions, Canadian media outlets report. Trudeau and his family were moved to a different location in Ottawa, CBC said on Saturday, adding that trucks with banners denouncing Trudeau and Canadian public health measures were gathering along Wellington Street in front of parliament. Trudeau said that the truckers’ anti-science, anti-government, and anti-society ideas presented a threat not only to themselves but also to all Canadians. Elon Musk, the founder of Tesla and SpaceX, endorsed the protest on Thursday, tweeting, “Canadian truckers rule”.
- George Soros is said to have donated $125 million to “Democracy PAC,” the political action committee he established ahead of the 2020 election season, a move that prompted some experts to believe that the famous investor is seeking to provide help to the Democratic Party ahead of the midterm elections later this year. The donation is deemed one of the largest of its kind this year. Soros described the spending package as a “long-term investment” that extends beyond the next midterms, which will see all 435 House seats, 34 Senate seats, and 39 state and territorial governorships up for election. The reputation of Soros and his colossal investments in progressive and liberal causes around the world remains ambiguous.
- Canadian truck drivers revolution is spreading around the world. Truck drivers from several EU countries are now planning to bring a massive convoy to Brussels, Belgium, which is the capital of the EU.
- Prince Andrew faces bailiffs turning up at his home – the £30 million Royal Lodge to seize his assets – if loses his sex case trial, a lawyer has warned. Already there have been claims he has sold his £17 million ski chalet in the Swiss alps to avoid having it seized should he lose the case. And while his home, the Royal Lodge, is not owned by him – he could see officers from the court turning up at the gates. Lawyer Arick Fudali, who has worked closely with victims of Epstein for Lisa Bloom’s firm, said Andrew faces having his assets seized if he loses. “This could include seizing bank accounts, physical property, etc. The royal does receive a £249,000 yearly allowance from Buckingham Palace and £20,000 pension from the Royal Navy. But he is renowned for his expensive tastes and drives a small fleet of luxury cars. MPs have recently called for a probe into the sale of a house for £15m to billionaire oligarch Timur Kulibayev, son-in-law of the former Kazakh dictator Nursultan Nazarbayev. It also emerged Andrew was gifted £1.5million by a controversial businessman to pay off a loan he had taken out from a private bank.
- Corporate Media and Big Tech align against #FreedomConvoy. If it were up to Google (and it is, when you use them for search), there is no popular support for #Freedomconvoy, everything above the fold is media antagonism and hostile editorial demonizing. Contrast with DuckDuckGo: which unassumingly pulls in excerpts from websites involved with the convoy itself and its Wikipedia entry.
- Magnus Heunicke, Denmark’s health minister, wrote to parliament on Wednesday saying that he would remove all Covid-19 restrictions on February 1, except for testing on arrival from abroad. Just as the Danish government did in September, when it lifted all restrictions, it will also stop calling Covid-19 a “societally critical disease”, meaning that it will no longer have the legal basis to introduce wide-ranging curbs. Denmark is one of the European country in recent days to announce it is dropping most or nearly all measures as it follows in the footsteps of the UK, Ireland and the Netherland.
News Burst 31 January 2022
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