January 2022 – The Saturn Herald

Guinness announces £73m microbrewery for London’s Covent Garden

Excited and optimistic, Rishi Sunak, the Chancellor announced £73 million Guinness Microbrewery event space, store and restaurant in Covent Garden, and urged people “ to support the capital’s bounce back and make the most of what it has to offer”. The 50, 000 sq ft Guinness Microbrewery complex at old Brewer’s Yard – just over…

Macau Legend shares plunge 30 per cent after its CEO is arrested

Police in Macau have arrested two men including Chan Weng Lin, CEO of Macau Legend Development which runs Landmark Macau, Babylon Casino and Legend Palace Casino in Macau, over alleged money laundering and illegal gambling. The move comes after the arrest in November of high-profile Macau gambling executive Alvin Chau, chairman of Macau’s biggest junket…

Battersea Power Station Chimneys lit up in purple to take part in

Battersea Power Station’s chimney lit up in purple

Battersea Power Station, a decommissioned. Coal-fire power station, built by the London Power Company to the design of Leonard Pearce, Engineer-in-Chief to the LPC and CS Allott & Son Engineers, with the chimneys lit up in purple to take part in the Light The Darkness National moment. On Holocaust Memorial Day, the iconic Battersea Power…

Kinetic test launch

Country Satellie Rocket Location Date Soviet Union Sputnik 1 Sputnik PS Baikonur/ Kazakhstan 04-Oct-57 United States Explorer 1 Juno 1 Cape Canaveral US 01-Feb-58 France Asterix Diamant A CIEES/ Hammaguir Algleria 28-Nov-65 Japan Ohsumi Lambda 4S Uchinoura, Japan 11-Feb-70 China Dong Fang Hong 1 Long March1 Jiuquan, China 24-Apr-70 United Kingdom Prospero Black Arrow Woomera,…

Magnificent Seven who helped India

An extraordinary history of resistance and the fight for Indian independence from Ramachandra Guha, biographer of Mahatma Gandhi and historian of India, tells the little-known story of seven people who chose to struggle for a country other than their own: foreigners to India who across late 19th to late 20th century arrive to join…

Energy in human affairs

Czech-born professor and Canadian scientist Vaclav Smil from the University of Manitoba, a world-leading expert on energy and an astonishing polymath, in a thought provoking book “How the World Works”, encounters the influential thinking, crushes complex data, with fundamental importance of energy in human affairs. We never had so much information or disinformation at our…

Fortescue Metals buys Williams F1 battery and tech arm for £164m

Fortescue Metals buys Williams F1 battery arm and technology arm of the Williams Formula One racing team for £164m ($222.2m). Andrew Forrest Australia’s richest man, Fortescue’s founder and chairman, who is worth more than £13.3bn ($128bn) is buying the battery said “ This announcement is the key to unlocking the formula for removing fossil-fuel powered…

South Africa won by 4 runs and win series 3-0

One Day International Series South Africa. Vs India at Newlands Cricket Ground South Africa 174 for 3 off 31 ov , de Kock 124 off 130, 9 fours 2 sixes, van der Dussen 40* off 46, 4 fours, D Chahar 2-38 India 283 ao off 49.2 ov, Virat Kohli 65 off 84, 5 fours, Shikhar…

Imelda Marcos the former First Lady of Philippines was duped into buying dozens of misattributed and copied works by the art dealer Adriana Bellini

Dark side of Art business

An insight into the most secretive art world, its list of crimes, including money laundering, tax evasion, smuggling, looting of cultural sites , forgery, theft and Nazi plunder, with prices in the hundreds of millions for individual artworks and billionaires in largely unregulated universe. Increased prices and globalization have introduced new levels of fraud…

Age of ZIRP: Fed’s fateful decision to turn the liquidity to spigots

Christopher Leonard, the New York Times business journalist, infiltrates the Federal Reserve to show how its policies steered by Chairman Jerome Powell over the past ten years have accelerated income equality and put America’s economic stability at risk. The press credited the Fed when the economy grew and also when the economy imploded in 2008,…