South Korean industry embraces robots to ease labor crunch

  Backlink: NIKKEI ASIA Logistics firms and restaurants are early adopters; delivery bots await new deregulations Major logistics companies have introduced transport robots to streamline package handling. A big food delivery service provider and a convenience store chain have begun testing fully automated robots to deliver products to customers’ homes.   […]

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Biden to Cancel $10,000 of Student Loan Debt for Millions, Amid Inflation Concerns

  Backlink: THE EPOCH TIMES President Joe Biden said on Aug. 24 that his administration will spend hundreds of billions of dollars to pay off $10,000 in federal student loan debt for some borrowers, amid widespread concern that the move will worsen the inflation crisis. Individuals earning less than $125,000 a year or families earning less than $250,000 will […]

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Thousand Ukrainian Children Given ‘New Families’ in Russia: ISW

  Link: NEWS WEEK Russia forcibly resettled more than 1,000 Ukrainian children from the occupied Mariupol region to be adopted by Russian families—a move that amounts to genocide, a U.S. think tank said Wednesday. The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) cited a now-deleted Russian government post that showed that Russia is bringing Ukrainian […]

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Unusual Toxic Components Found in COVID Vaccines, ‘Without Exception’: German Scientists

  Link: THE EPOCH TIMES A group of independent German scientists found toxic components—mostly metallic—in all the COVID vaccine samples they analyzed, “without exception” using modern medical and physical measuring techniques. The Working Group for COVID Vaccine Analysis says that some of the toxic elements found inside the AstraZeneca, Pfizer, and Moderna vaccine vials were […]

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UK Supermarket Starts Issuing Microloans to Pay for Groceries

  Link: VISIONTIMES British supermarket Iceland has introduced a — for the time being — interest free microcredit system for those having difficulties making ends meet, but critics warn of the potential downsides of the plan. The plan entails handing out a prepaid top-up card to cover the most dire grocery necessities with a small […]

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AOC Admits to Defying Financial Disclosure Rules

  Link: BREITBART A spokesman for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., admitted to the Washington Examiner that the congresswoman is defying congressional financial disclosure rules. Communications Director Lauren Hitt said Ocasio-Cortez is in no rush to file her disclosure as required by federal law because she can wait another 20 days before risking a fine.   […]

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Florida Judge Grants Marines Religious Exemption to DOD COVID Vaccine Mandate

  Link: VISIONTIMES A Florida judge has granted Marines who objected to taking the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccines on the basis of their religious beliefs an exemption from the Biden Administration’s Department of Defense mandatory injection policy. On Aug. 19, Liberty Counsel, attorneys for the Plaintiffs, shared the win in a press release, stating that […]

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Pollak: Biden’s Student Loan Bailout Adds Insult to Working-class Injury

  Link: BREITBART President Joe Biden is set to announce student loan forgiveness of $10,000 — and perhaps more — for lower-income debtors on Wednesday, in a move that is unconstitutional, unfair, and dangerous for the stability of our economy and our democracy. There is no doubt that some borrowers would benefit from student loan […]

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EXCLUSIVE: Vaccinated Making Up Higher Proportion of COVID-19 Metrics in US

  Link: THE EPOCH TIMES Vaccinated people are more likely than the unvaccinated in recent months to be a COVID-19 case, hospitalization, or death in 25 states, according to an Epoch Times investigation. That same month, the vaccinated made up 65 percent of COVID-19 cases, 64 percent of COVID-19 hospitalizations, and 66 percent of COVID-19 […]

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Big Banks Face $1 Billion in Fines Over WhatsApp, Other Unapproved Message Tools, Says Report

  Link: THE BL Major banks such as JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, and Bank of America are collectively facing more than $1 billion in regulatory fines, after employees used unapproved communication tools, such as private email and messaging apps like WhatsApp. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) discovered the violations after probing several banks’ record-keeping practices […]

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Rare poor quarterly earnings, two Chinese tech giants tightening their belts

  Link: THE BL The two Chinese tech giants, Alibaba and Tencent are experiencing sluggish sales for the first time after regularly talking to investors about innovation and new products in Financial Report Announcement meetings. However, the meeting turned to another topic – how to reduce costs. The same goes for Alibaba, which reported flat […]

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Shanghai Bund turns off lights, Sichuan people don’t dare to take the elevator due to continuous power cuts

Link: THE BL   China is facing rare hot, dry weather with record breaking temperatures and power shortages in many places. Tencent reported that, on August 21, the Sichuan provincial government issued a notice launching its first emergency response. The local area is facing a severe situation due to the most extreme high temperature in history, […]

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British Migrant Crossing Record Broken, Highest Daily Total

The number of migrants arriving in Britain in small boats reached a new high for a single day on Monday. The U.K.’s Ministry of Defense said 1,295 people in 27 boats were intercepted on August 22. The figure tops the previous daily record of 1,185 in November last year, according to the BBC. More than 22,000 […]

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