Netflix Hikes Subscription Fees Ahead of Q4 Earnings Report
Streaming giant Netflix has increased its subscription prices for North American customers. For existing...
How To Recognize and Break an Amazon Addiction
Does Amazon shopping consume a significant portion of your week? Do you hide unnecessary Amazon purchases...
Amid Fears of ‘Catastrophic’ Damage, Networks Halt 5G Rollout Near US Airports
Verizon and AT&T have announced that they are delaying the rollout of 5G networks within two miles...
US Bill Seeks to Prevent Defense Industry From Becoming Dependent on Chinese Rare Earths
On Jan. 14, the U.S. Senate introduced a bipartisan bill that aims to prevent American defense contractors...
England Ends Mandatory Masks, Vaccine Passports
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced that most COVID-19 restrictions, notably mask mandates and vaccine passports, will be abolished in England. While some measures will be removed immediately, others are set to be deactivated...
Jordan Peterson Resigns From Tenured Professor Position at the University of Toronto, Cites ‘DIE’
On Jan 19, Jordan Peterson, bestselling author of 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos, penned a letter published by Canada’s National Post announcing his resignation from a tenured position at the University of...
China Warns US Navy After Warship Sails Through South China Sea
The Chinese military said on Thursday that its radars picked up a U.S. warship sailing through the South China Sea, accusing the Navy of “provocative actions” and warned of “serious consequences.”China claims almost all 1.3...
The Philippines are Buying Indian-Made BrahMos Missiles in a $375 Million Deal
India and the Philippines have reached a military agreement according to which New Delhi will supply the archipelago with its BrahMos anti-ship cruise missile system. The defense deal is expected to help the Philippines counter...
Confusion Ensues After Biden Appears to State That the 2022 Elections Could be Illegitimate
At a press conference on Wednesday, Jan. 19, U.S. President Joe Biden appeared to imply that the upcoming 2022 elections, scheduled for November this year, may be “illegitimate.” At the presser, Biden was asked the...
Beijing Artist and Falun Gong Practitioner Xu Na Handed 8-Year Sentence for Reporting on COVID-19 Outbreak
Well known Falun Gong practitioner and Beijing-based painter Xu Na has been sentenced to eight years in prison on Jan. 16 after a sham trial — the latest round of abuse she has endured in...
87% of Countries Struggling With Inflation Levels Above the Norm
According to Trading Economics, a website that provides users with information on 196 countries and regions and that forecasts utilizing more than 20 million economic indicators, exchange rates, stock market indexes, government bond yields and...
China’s ‘Belt and Road Initiative’ Falters as Beijing Runs Out of Funding
What started out as an ambitious plan to globalize itself is now slipping further out of reach for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) was inaugurated in 2013 and aimed to...