Just Six Countries Responsible for 90% of Identifiable Waste in North Pacific Garbage Patch, Study Reveals

  Backlink: VISIONTIMES Researchers with the Ocean Cleanup project and Wageningen University have discovered that more than 90 percent of the identifiable waste that makes up the North Pacific Garbage Patch (NPGP),  originated in just six countries, all major industrialized fishing nations. Their study was published in Scientific Reports on Sept. 1.       […]

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Philippines could allow US troops access to military bases during Taiwan conflict

  Backlink: NIKKEI ASIA The Philippines would let U.S. forces use the Southeast Asian nation’s military bases in the event of a Taiwan conflict only “if it is important for us, for our own security,” the Philippine ambassador to the U.S. says. Jose Manuel Romualdez, who is a relative of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. […]

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Biden Administration to Shift COVID Vaccine Distribution to Private Sector Despite Plans to Extend Public Health Emergency

  Backlink: CHILDREN’S HEALTH DEFENSE Specifically, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said that it expects its supply of COVID-19 vaccines and treatments to be depleted in the coming months, and is now preparing for the availability of these products to transition to the commercial market. This announcement comes despite the Biden administration’s purchase of 170 […]

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A Chinese game company has appointed the world’s first humanoid robot as its CEO

  Backlink: PR Newswire NetDragon Websoft Holdings Limited (“NetDragon” or “the Company”, Hong Kong Stock Code: 777), a global leader in building internet communities, is pleased to announce that Ms. Tang Yu, an AI-powered virtual humanoid robot, has been appointed as the Rotating CEO of its flagship subsidiary, Fujian NetDragon Websoft Co., Ltd. The appointment […]

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Russia Launches War Games With China Amid Tensions With US

  Backlink: THE EPOCH TIMES MOSCOW—Russia on Thursday launched weeklong war games involving forces from China and other nations in a show of growing defense cooperation between Moscow and Beijing, as they both face tensions with the United States. The Russian Defense Ministry said that the Vostok 2022 (East 2022) exercise will be held until Sept. 7 at […]

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US Ambassador lines up for PCR test, Chinese shout Shanghai mayor’s name

  Backlink: THE BL The U.S. ambassador lined up in Shanghai for a nucleic acid test, sparking lively discussion, with netizens wondering: Has the Shanghai mayor ever lined up for a nucleic acid test? NetEase reported that Burns took a high-speed train from Beijing to Shanghai on August 31. This is his first official visit to Shanghai after […]

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IRS Mistakenly Published Confidential Info of 120,000 Taxpayers

  Backlink: THE EPOCH TIMES The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) said on Friday it accidentally exposed but has since removed the confidential financial information of about 120,000 taxpayers. In a letter to Homeland Security Chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), Treasury Department acting Assistant Secretary for Management Anna Canfield Roth wrote that the IRS “recently identified an inadvertent and […]

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Xi Jinping gave a controversial signal regarding ‘closing the country’

  Backlink: THE BL In the past few days, an article titled “The Research Group of the Chinese Academy of History: New Explorations on the Problem of “Seclusion and Lockdown” in the Ming and Qing Dynasties has become popular on the Internet. It is said that it is a signal for Xi Jinping to reverse the car […]

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Cyberscam Victim Says CCP Belt and Road Developers Are International Human Trafficking Syndicates Based in Cambodia

  Backlink: THE EPOCH TIMES After the recent exposure of international fraud and human trafficking that victimized thousands of Chinese-speaking nationals from China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, details about the fraud syndicates are surfacing as more rescued victims speak up. Much information has pointed to the Communist regime’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) developers based in Cambodia […]

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Pakistan flood toll rises with 25 children among 57 more deaths

  Backlink: REUTERS The toll from cataclysmic floods in Pakistan continued to climb on Saturday with 57 more deaths, 25 of them children, as the country grapples with a relief and rescue operation of near unprecedented scale. Record monsoon rains and melting glaciers in northern mountains brought floods that have affected 33 million people and […]

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CCP censorship blacklist continues to grow, artists and writers silenced

  Backlink: THE BL The list of books and artists banned by the Chinese regime continues to grow. On Aug. 29, a media outlet reported that several schools received a new list of prohibited books sent to students’ parents. The list includes the works of the cartoonist Guo Jingxiong, the Taiwanese writer Lung Ying-tai and the writer […]

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Elon Musk Confident Tesla Will Release Self-Driving Technology By Year’s End

  Backlink: VISIONTIMES On Monday, Aug. 29, Tesla CEO Elon Musk expressed his intentions to have his company release its new self-driving technology by the end of 2022, aiming for a widespread release in the U.S. and perhaps in Europe if regulatory approval is passed. Musk, however, has a tendency to exaggerate his own capabilities […]

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U.S. angers China with potential $1.1 billion arms sale to Taiwan

Backlink: REUTERS The U.S. State Department has approved a potential $1.1 billion sale of military equipment to Taiwan, including 60 anti-ship missiles and 100 air-to-air missiles, with China threatening to take counter measures. The Pentagon announced the package on Friday in the wake of China’s aggressive military drills around Taiwan following a visit to the […]

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