“Where is the line between a successful global business, in-demand services and consolidation of big data – and attempts to harshly and unilaterally govern society, replace legitimate democratic institutions, restrict one’s natural right to decide for themselves how to live, what to choose, what stance to express freely?” Putin wondered. Addressing …
Read More »China overtakes US as global destination for foreign investment amid Covid-19 pandemic
The Chinese economy pulled in $163 billion in inflows last year, marking a four percent year-on-year increase, according to the figures released by the UN Conference for Trade and Development (UNCTAD). Meanwhile, the US fell into second place as foreign inflows into the largest economy in the world dropped to …
Read More »China’s century: Yuan to dethrone US dollar as major global currency, trend forecaster tells Max Keiser
Joining Max Keiser in the latest episode of RT’s Keiser Report, Celente said that China is the top trend of this year. It is also projected to dominate the whole 21st century, like the US did after World War II, and is on path to replace America, according to the …
Read More »‘Global pandemic alert system not fit for purpose’: WHO report critical of China’s & its own responses to Covid crisis
“What is clear to the panel is that public health measures could have been applied more forcefully by local and national health authorities in China in January,” the panel, led by former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark and former Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, noted. The first cluster of …
Read More »Global smartphone market shrinks almost 9% in 2020 – report
The steepest decline was registered in the first three months of 2020, when global smartphone shipments declined around 20 percent year-on-year. The market also saw a double digit drop in the second quarter of the year. The decline narrowed to single digits in the July-September period, before the market finally …
Read More »No sex please, we’re locked down: Plunging global birth rate shows long-term effects of Covid on society will be DEVASTATING
As the restrictions defining Lockdown 3.0 turn ever more draconian, the authoritarian crackdown on dissent and the increasingly grim prognosis for Covid-19 are having a serious impact not just on the here and now, but on our future. Things are so serious, people have stopped having sex. The UK birth …
Read More »‘Measure how far US is from the South China Sea’: Global Times editor shuts down Pompeo for noting China’s distance from Arctic
On Sunday, Pompeo provoked China on the subject by tweeting: “I made clear that it is a communist fiction for China to be a ‘near-Arctic nation’ when you are 900 miles from the Arctic. This pangolin’s nose under the Arctic tent went on for too long – we did what …
Read More »Covid vaccine certificates could lead to ‘global identity document’ used for all aspects of life, human rights NGO warns
In its analysis, the UK-based human rights group said that vaccination cards and “immunity” passports being issued by some governments could pave the way for “digital identity schemes” and other forms of ID. While countries like the UK insist that such documents are simply used to keep a record of …
Read More »Google services back online after global outages of Gmail, YouTube & others prompt panic
The outage affected Gmail, YouTube, Google My Business, Google AdSense, Google AdWords and other services, according to complaints. The names of the mail service and the video platform operated by the tech giant trended on Twitter as people rushed to share their frustration and surprise. People trying to access the …
Read More »Germany’s CureVac starts pivotal global trial for Covid-19 vaccine, enrolls 1st participant
The randomized and placebo-controlled trial called Herald may include more than 35,000 participants in Europe and Latin America, the Tübingen-based company announced. It added that the first participant has been enrolled in the pivotal study of a mRNA vaccine candidate, CvnCoV. “With the start of the pivotal Phase 2b/3 study, …
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