Backlink: THE EPOCH TIMES Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk told reporters in Norway on Aug. 29 that, while sustainable energy sources should be developed, the world must continue to extract oil and gas in order to sustain civilization. He added that, at the conference, he was planning to provide “ideas for a transition to a […]
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Backlink: THE BL In the past two months, hundreds of cities in China have experienced high temperatures above 104℉ (40℃), 66 rivers have dried up, and the water level in parts of the Yangtze River basin has dropped to its lowest level in 157 years. The regime officially said that this year was the […]
Backlink: REUTERS U.S. stocks closed lower on Monday, adding to last week’s sharp losses on nagging concerns about the Federal Reserve’s determination to aggressively hike interest rates to fight inflation even as the economy slows. […]
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Backlink: THE BL China has been developing and experimenting with a digital yuan, a central bank digital currency (CBDC), with China’s blockchain. China, one of Bitcoin’s biggest opponents, has taken the lessons being learned around the new technology and appropriated it to service its population. A blockchain is a secured public ledger that tracks every […]
Professor Sweet, who teaches history at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, is also the president of the American Historical Association (AHA). The AHA has more than 11,500 members. It publishes the American Historical Review, ‘the journal of record for the historical profession in the United States’. “If we don’t read the past through […]
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Backlink: NIKKEI ASIA Spate of profit warnings reveals extent of risk to broader financial system. Troubling news continues to flow from China’s property market as a series of mainland developers report sharp slowdowns and even reversals from last year’s robust first-half profits before the current crisis unfolded. As the government struggles to shore up […]
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Backlink: NDTV Pakistan’s Climate Change Minister Sherry Rehman called it the “monster monsoon of the decade”. The death toll from the devastating floods in Pakistan neared 1,100 Monday, as international aid began to trickle in following Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif-led cash-strapped government’s desperate appeal for aid to deal with the crisis that has displaced […]
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Backlink: OANN The FDA is set to approve yet another ‘booster’ shot for COVID-19 despite human testing not being completed. According to reports from Sunday, the agency will authorize the next round of boosters before studies show whether it’s safe or efficient for humans. FDA officials claimed that the rush is necessary to ‘protect’ […]
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Backlink: NDTV Merchants in the Huaqiangbei district, home to the world’s largest electronics market, received an official notice that the market will be closed till Thursday to contain the COVID spread. All tenants are required to work from home during the period and take a nucleic acid test every day, Hong Kong-based South China […]
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Backlink: NEWS WEEK NASA made a formal announcement of the cancellation on its official Twitter account following a reported fuel leak affecting the historic spacecraft, which is part of NASA’s plans to establish a sustainable presence on the lunar surface. Artemis I is the first in a series of “increasingly complex missions” to attempt to build […]
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Backlink: TAIWAN NEWS Chinese drones that fail to heed warnings over Taiwan’s outer islands will be shot down The Ministry of National Defense (MND) on Sunday (Aug. 28) announced that soldiers will shoot down intruding Chinese drones that fail to heed warnings after yet more footage surfaced showing Chinese unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) compromising […]
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Backlink: REUTERS German sporting goods maker Adidas (ADSGn.DE)unexpectedly said on Monday that its Chief Executive Kasper Rorsted would leave his post next year, before his contract is due to run out, and that it had started searching for a successor. Adidas last month cut its 2022 earnings target, citing a slower-than-expected recovery in China from […]
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Backlink: THE BL As the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party approaches, CCP senior officials have attracted much attention. However, at this crucial moment, Wang Huning and Zhao Leji, two members of the Standing Committee of the Politburo have not been seen for 27, stirring up a plethora of speculations. NTD said, after […]
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Backlink: VISIONTIMES Japan pledged $30 billion in aid for development in Africa on Saturday, Aug. 27, saying it wants to work more closely with the continent. “Japan will invest a total of $30 billion [in aid for development in Africa[ over the next three years in public and private sectors. First, specifically, we will […]
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