Access to a “free and open internet” is a human right. So says Twitter, after the company was kicked out of Nigeria. The social platform made news for having the tables dramatically turned on them after they censored a tweet of Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari. The Nigerian government responded by banning Twitter from the use...
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THE LARGEST DOJ CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION IN HISTORY
It’s officially the largest criminal dragnet in U.S. history. Know what it is? It doesn’t involve drug cartels that precipitated 90,000 deaths in 2020, according to the CDC. It’s not an investigation of Antifa and BLM rioters that caused dozens of deaths, hundreds of serious injuries, billions in property damage, and illegal violent political intimidation...
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CHINA BEHIND LARGEST NEWS AGGREGATOR APP IN U.S.
It might be on your iPhone or Android device. You might be relying on it for the latest news. If so, thank the Chinese government. It’s called “News Break,” and it’s the #1 news aggregator app in America. But, like TikTok, the popular media app for creating viral video clips, which has YouTube scrambling to...
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TAX DODGING ON A GRAND SCALE
In a 1 June article that originally appeared in The New York Times, DNYUZ.com describes the tangled web of tax laws that vary from country to country, which enable multinational media licensing companies to avoid or greatly minimize the taxes they pay on the proceeds of their intellectual properties. The example cited is that of...
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BIDEN BARS U.S. INVESTING IN 59 CHINESE FIRMS
Go back over the past four years when Donald Trump was President. Day after day, week after week, year after year, the mainstream media “news” was that market gyrations had nothing to do with economic fundamentals, interest rates, or manipulation. Instead, it was Trump’s “Trade War” with China that swayed equities. Now, with Joe Biden...
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“SMART LAMP” A BIG HIT IN CHINA
While Communist China is a country whose residents have become accustomed to living under high levels of surveillance by their government, as our 14 April 2020 Trends Journal cover illustrated, when the world followed the Chinese by locking down and putting on masks to fight the COVID War, it’s: “THE CHINESE WAY – YOU WILL...
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NO JAIL FOR PRECIOUS METAL MARKET FRAUDSTERS
Federal probation officers advise federal judges on sentencing decisions, and they can disagree with prosecutors on such matters. Such disagreement is on display in the case of two former Deutsche Bank traders convicted of wire fraud for a “spoofing” scheme that manipulated prices on a precious metals futures exchange. Trading is Brisk The rise in...
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DEMS STILL WANT JAN. 6 COMMISSION AFTER SENATE REJECTION
A narrow Senate defeat for a so-called “January 6 Commission” to politically target Trump protesters hasn’t stopped Democrats. According to reports, a House Select Committee hearing may serve as an avenue for continuing to peddle a narrative of “insurrection”. Democrats have already used the January 6 event to illegally spy on U.S. citizens, and jail...
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE POWERING RESEARCH AT TOP U.S. LAB
It’s being hailed — at least by some — “the next generation of the way we do science.” The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory is leading projects to use Artificial Intelligence to speed “transformative discoveries” in science. The lab recently received a $37 million grant from the DOE to further its projects....
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CHINA WANTS A BULLET TRAIN INTO THE U.S.
The Chinese government has looked at plans that would construct an underground high-speed rail from the mainland, underground through Siberia, into Alaska, and possibly even to the U.S. West Coast. That’s according to the Chinese news outlet Sina. It may sound farfetched. But a pan-Asia railway built and funded by China is set to begin...
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