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Oxidisible non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are new but in many ways, the system of tokens replacing money used in areas of revolutionary Spain, could be considered the first NFTs. And the logs of food and tools taken from communal stores - precursors to the blockchain.
The conclusions are different. The premises, not so much.
Nina Kouprianova was married to Richard Spencer from 2010 to 2019, during which time he organised multiple white nationalist rallies, including Charlottesville where anti-fascist Heather Heyer was murdered in a car attack.
Kouprianova in Dugin's Journal of Eurasian Affairs from 2016.
Millions of people marched against the war, thousands stormed military bases, hundreds of thousands of school children ran out of school and blocked roads.
Disbelief at the WMD allegations was so mainstream that former foreign secretary Robin Cook resigned from Tony Blair's cabinet over it. The liberal 'can't go to war without more weapons inspections/UN resolutions' soft anti-war position hinged on it.
What you didn't get much of, and nor did anti-war movement require it, was denying the Halabja massacre, or saying the Kurds deserved it because they were agents of American imperialism (the US supported Saddam at the time of the massacre), or saying Ba'athism was socialist etc.
They also allow governments to appear tough and *doing something* in ways that are popular with the media, allowing nearly everyone to ignore much more structural issues like sick pay.
A few months ago the UK was able to genomically sequence about 10,000 PCR tests per week. There are currently about 280,000 positive PCR tests per week in the UK.
I don't know how many samples South Africa can sequence per day, but they had cases in the hundreds a couple of weeks ago, now low thousands. Much easier to find variants when you're dealing with hundreds or low thousands of samples to sequence.
South Africa had a massive shortage of vaccines and then a glut. They've been doing approx 100k doses/day but that could still lead to a stock build up with very uneven deliveries. reuters.com/world/africa/e…