The Chinese government is offering companies involved in the manufacture of spacecraft, rockets and satellites a hefty financial incentive to relocate to Wuhan, seeking to reinvent the city as a “valley of satellites” by 2025. Wuhan announced the official launch of its plans to turn the city into a $15.7 …
Read More »Elon Musk announces Tesla HQ is moving from Silicon Valley to Texas
“I’m excited to announce that we’re moving our headquarters to Austin, Texas,” Musk announced to enthusiastic applause on Thursday, at the annual shareholder meeting. It was streamed live online from the assembly plant currently under construction outside Austin. “It’s tough for people to afford houses, and people have to come …
Read More »Mujahideen resistance held off the Soviet invasion in the Panjshir Valley in the ’80s. Will history be repeated for the Taliban?
Earlier this week, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid declared the war in Afghanistan officially over because the group had claimed victory in Panjshir province. Nonetheless, the situation in that region is currently unclear, and it remains the last stronghold of the resistance, which claims it still controls a strategic position in …
Read More »Taliban says it captured key entrance to Panjshir valley, local resistance denies it – as both claim heavy losses on other side
The Taliban launched a major operation to take the Panjshir valley on Thursday, after the negotiations with the local resistance movement failed, according to spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid. He said the Taliban fighters entered the province and captured eleven “important” positions along the main road leading to the eastern province of …
Read More »Mujahideen v Taliban: Battle for strategic valley looms as anti-Taliban warlord & remnants of Afghan military refuse to surrender
The Taliban’s conquest of Afghanistan in August was lightning fast – and in some cities and provinces, almost entirely bloodless. The US-backed Afghan National Army crumbled before the militants, and Kabul was in Taliban hands weeks or months before American officials thought it would be. However, one tract of the …
Read More »The switched-on, censorious billionaires of Silicon Valley are now the greatest threat to free speech and the pursuit of truth
If anyone still naively believes that Facebook is a force for good and not the vanguard of the elite’s pacification of public life, then last week’s announcement that it would ban a prominent researcher from its platform should have the alarm bells shrieking. The issue, according to Facebook, was a post …
Read More »Claims of Silicon Valley bias are ‘disinformation’, say researchers relying on disgraced partisan ‘experts’ and Big Tech itself
Twitter spokesman Nick Pacilio approvingly quoted the Washington Post story about a report arguing that the “claim of anti-conservative animus on the part of social media companies is itself a form of disinformation: a falsehood with no reliable evidence to support it.” Nothing to see here, folks, just a former …
Read More »‘Free speech’ platform Gab surges in popularity in wake of Silicon Valley’s Trump purge
Wednesday’s pro-Trump riot on Capitol Hill brought about an unprecedented crackdown on free speech by America’s tech giants. President Trump was permanently booted off Twitter, and indefinitely suspended from every other major platform, while thousands of conservatives had their accounts deleted. Free speech-focused alternative Parler was then removed from Apple …
Read More »US suspends tariffs on French luxury goods over tax on Silicon Valley tech giants
The 25 percent levy, targeting French goods such as handbags, cosmetics, and soap, was set to become effective on Wednesday. However, the US Trade Representative’s office made a last-minute U-turn, announcing on Thursday the punitive measure wouldn’t be enforced. The top trade negotiator explained that the suspension comes “in the …
Read More »In Transcarpathia flowered Narcissus valley
When the beginning of mass flowering.In the Valley of daffodils near Khust in Transcarpathia started flowering. This was reported on the page of the Carpathian biosphere reserve. “As of April 23 populations of Narcissus in PNIO “Valley of daffodils to them. Professor Basil Komentara” are in the phenological phase “mass …
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