CES, the most influential tech event in the world, gathered virtually from 11 to 14 January. Produced by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), the event has been a proving ground for breakthrough technologies and global innovators, and this year was no different. Tech companies continue to come up with more realistic immersive technology to seduce...
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COVID AND BIG BROTHER RENDEZVOUS IN VENICE
“Venice is watching tourists’ every move.” CNN reported this disturbing fact on 13 January. The news network admired the efforts because Venice is swamped with millions of tourists and, in a “COVID world,” authorities could hardly be faulted for doing their utmost to proactively monitor tourists to protect the safety of the citizens. Venice reportedly...
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FACEBOOK TO PAY MILLIONS OF USERS OVER BIOMETRIC DATA BREACH
A U.S. District Court judged Facebook to be responsible for a data breach detrimentally affecting millions of its social media platform users and ordered the tech giant via settlement to pay up. In his ruling, Federal Judge James Donato said, “This is money that’s coming directly out of Facebook’s own pocket. The violations here did...
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McCONNELL SELLS OUT TRUMP
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said last week that the mob who rioted at the Capitol earlier this month was “fed lies” and “provoked by the president,” which was the latest example of the Kentucky Republican trying to distance himself from Donald Trump. Mainstream media and the Democrat Party had widely blamed Trump for instigating...
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MORE “DUMP TRUMP”
Last week, we reported that New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said, “The city of New York will no longer have anything to do with The Trump Organization” and they were severing contracts. We also noted that the PGA announced it had canceled its contract with the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J.,...
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TRUMP REFILLS SWAMP HE PROMISED TO EMPTY
One of President Trump’s final moves in the White House was to turn back a rule he implemented that blocked former staffers from taking jobs at lobbying firms in Washington for five years after leaving their government jobs. Trump at the time said the move would limit the revolving door in D.C., which includes staffers...
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BIDEN’S INAUGURATION: AMERICA, LAND OF THE FREE?
Just weeks after the riots that rocked Capitol Hill, President Biden was sworn into office during an inauguration unlike any other in modern history – with a sparse crowd and some 30,000 military troops deployed throughout the city. The media and political hysteria leading up to Inauguration Day was that pro-Trump extremists would overrun the...
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BIDEN PRESIDENCY = OBAMA 2021
George Carlin, America’s late, great comedian, so accurately noted, “It’s one big club, and you ain’t in it.” With the election of Joe Biden as President of the United States, the Land of the Free and Home of the Brave, “Our Gang” is back in town. The facts are in the faces and the numbers. ...
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ITALY’S CONTE PREVAILS IN CONFIDENCE VOTE, NOW RESIGNS
Last week, Giuseppe Conte, the Italian prime minister, managed to survive a confidence vote in the country’s Senate, but he will have to work with a brittle government going forward. Failing to win an absolute majority, he won the vote by a 156-140 margin. Conte appealed to the ministers and told them that a government...
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BIDEN RECOGNIZES VENEZUELA’S GUAIDÓ AS PRESIDENT
Fading fast and unable to gain momentum, Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó got a much-needed boost last week from President Biden after it was announced the U.S. will continue to recognize him as the country’s rightful president, Reuters reported. Guaidó has suffered a string of political losses since President Trump anointed him the president of Venezuela in...