German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is hoping to turn a page in relations with Moscow, and expects to meet with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin by the end of the month, according to a report from Berlin’s top tabloid. On Monday, Bild claimed that Scholz sees relations with Moscow as a top-tier …
Read More »2022 will start with a bus-sized asteroid approaching Earth
According to the US space agency, Asteroid 2014 YE15, first discovered in 2014, will approach Earth at a distance of around 7,400,000km on January 6. As NASA considers objects larger than 150 meters and which approach Earth within a distance of 7.5 million kilometers to be ‘potentially hazardous’, the seven-meter-wide …
Read More »Did Jan 6 kick-start the end of US democracy?
In a book to be published next month, Barbara F Walter, a CIA strategic analyst and professor of political science at the University of California, argues that the United States is on the verge of civil war. In ‘How Civil Wars Start’, Professor Walter states that “no one wants to …
Read More »Is it time to start taking Jake Paul seriously?
Perhaps we should have listened to him. The last time the fighters spoke to the press before the bout at the Amalie Arena in Tampa, at Friday’s weigh-in, the 24-year-old had promised that we were about to see a “different” Jake Paul. “We’re f*ckin’ buckin’ in the middle of the …
Read More »Was China’s WTO accession 20yrs ago the start of West’s suicide?
China became a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO) 20 years ago this month. It was an ascension supported by the United States, and hailed by Beijing as a landmark moment in its reform, opening up and integrating with the world. The then US president Bill Clinton hailed it …
Read More »Xiaomi to start making Tesla rival in Beijing
On Saturday, the Beijing-based corporation signed an agreement with the committee of the Beijing Economic-Technological Development Zone to land the ambitious car project in Yizhuang, a suburb southeast of the Chinese capital. The new plant will be built in two phases with Xiaomi to create its auto unit’s headquarters, sales …
Read More »Ukraine announces start of ‘energy war’ with Russia
In an interview with Kiev’s 1+1 channel on Friday, Deputy Energy Minister Maxim Nemchinov announced that “today, we are in reality locked in a state of war with Russia.” According to him, the neighboring nation is “blocking imports from Kazakhstan, preventing railroad cars laden with coal from traveling to Ukraine, …
Read More »Evergrande catastrophe: How collapse of China’s real estate giant may start a new global crisis
What is Evergrande? Evergrande, which builds and manages apartments, is the second largest residential real estate company in China. With 1,300 residential projects, some of which have come to a dead stop because of cash concerns, Evergrande poses the most serious single, controllable risk to the recovery of China’s economic …
Read More »White House announces start date for vaccine mandate in US
The US will begin enforcing mandatory coronavirus vaccination for private-sector workers starting January 4, the White House announced on Wednesday. Those not vaccinated will have to be tested weekly. “It is important to understand that there are still so many workers who are not protected and remain at risk from …
Read More »Bitcoin will skyrocket to $168,000 when futures start trading on Wall Street – Fundstrat
The New York-based researchers, who had previously projected the world’s most valuable cryptocurrency to hit $100,000 by the year’s end, now say that the ProShares ETF may attract substantial inflows from investors, thus boosting the price of bitcoin. According to Fundstrat, the new bitcoin futures ETF will deliver higher first-year …
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