The Los Angeles Staples Center sports arena is being rechristened the Crypto.com Center on Christmas Day, after the Singapore crypto brokerage of the same name agreed to pay $700 million over 20 years for the privilege, people familiar told the Wall Street Journal. “This is certainly one of the largest deals I’ve ever heard of,”...
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NON-CITIZEN VOTING COMING TO NYC
Hundreds of thousands of noncitizens may soon be able to vote in municipal elections in New York City, though Mayor Bill de Blasio and his successor, Eric Adams, contend they have opposing views. The bill would add a new chapter to the city charter that would enable green card holders and those with work permission...
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FBI: HOW LOW CAN YOU GO?
Earlier this month, a Trends Journal article noted how U.S. Attorney Merrick Garland was taken to task by Sen. Ted Cruz for directing the Federal Bureau of Investigation to use its National Security powers against parents who dared to question or challenge their local school boards, essentially branding such parents as “domestic terrorists”; see “FBI:...
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PORTUGAL BANS BOSSES FROM CALLING WORKERS DURING OFF-HOURS. WHAT’S NEXT?
Portugal’s Socialist government announced a new series of laws it says will help remote workers adapt to the new work-from-home environment, including a rule that bars bosses from contacting employees during off-hours. Ana Mendes Godinho, Lisbon’s labor minister, announced the new law. She said the COVID-19 outbreak has introduced widespread remote working and “accelerated the...
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NEW FDA HEAD STUCK IN REVOLVING DOOR
President Joe Biden’s nominee to head the Food and Drug Administration definitely brings experience and credentials to the post, although some might say he also brings baggage. As reported by The New York Times on 12 November, if approved it wouldn’t be the first time that Dr. Robert M. Califf served as commissioner of the...
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WILL COVID KILL YOU? ROUNDUP HERBICIDE SAGA CONTINUES
It’s no secret that our world is fraught with peril. But with the COVID War now going into its second year, the only killer lurking out there that can cause us great harm or even death is the coronavirus… according to Presstitutes and politicians. FU, GMO Beyond COVID, among the great people killers are chemicals...
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POLS SHOOT WATER CANNONS TO REPEL ADVANCING MIGRANTS
Polish guards in position near its border with Belarus used water cannons on advancing migrants amid freezing temperatures, while the crisis shows no signs of improvement. The Trends Journal has reported extensively on the border issue. (See “BELARUS VS. EU: AND THE WINNER IS?” “POLAND’S LINK WITH EU WORSENS. POLEXIT NEXT?” and “REFUGEE CRISIS WORSENING: POLAND TO...
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AUSTRALIA LOOKS TO QUANTUM SCIENCE TO COUNTER CHINA
Australia has announced new investments in quantum technology and will design a hub to enable allied countries to interact—all while keeping its eye on countering China’s growing reach in the Pacific. The Wall Street Journal reported that Canberra will invest about $81 million in the technology. The country will also focus on its development of 6G...
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COMMISSION WARNS WHITE HOUSE OF COMMERCIAL TIES WITH BEIJING
The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission on Wednesday published its annual report that warned the White House about the expanding commercial ties between U.S. businesses and China and the risks those relationships bring. “The U.S. businesses and investors must recognize that their participation in the Chinese economy is conditioned by the CCP’s policy priorities...
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CHINA MOCKS AMERICA: ELITES IN CHARGE, IT’S NOT A DEMOCRACY
Jiang Jinquan, the head of the Policy Research Office of the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee, gave a five-minute speech on Friday where he criticized the U.S. for trying to export its kind of flawed democratic system. “Democracy is not an exclusive patent of Western countries and even less should it be defined or dictated...