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  • WHO Makes Key Concessions Ahead Of Pandemic Treaty Vote

    WHO Makes Key Concessions Ahead Of Pandemic Treaty Vote Authored by Kevin Stocklin via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The World Health Organization (WHO) has watered down some provisions of its pandemic agreements ahead of the upcoming World Health Assembly on May 27. Critics in the United States, however, say the changes don’t do enough to address the concerns over the policy. Provisions in prior drafts of the WHO pandemic treaty and International Health Regulations (IHRs)...

  • South Korea Still Dominates The World With The Highest Density Of Robot Workers

    South Korea Still Dominates The World With The Highest Density Of Robot Workers China's huge investment in industrial robotics has made it one of the most automated nations on the planet in the space of just a few short years. As Statista's Anna Fleck reports, according to the latest study by the International Federation of Robotics (IFR), the number of operational robots in China's manufacturing industry reached a ratio of 392 units per 10,000 employees in 2022, a robot density...

  • The Masked And The Super Masked

    The Masked And The Super Masked Authored by Roger L. Simon via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), We live in an era of masks, only not the fun kind you might find at Carnivale in Venice, Italy. A pro-Palestinian protestor wears a keffiyeh on the West Lawn of Columbia University, in New York, on April 29, 2024. (Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images) Something considerably more sinister is going on. This era began, as almost all of us realize now, with COVID-19 when all of us were...

  • Which Countries Have The Highest Infant Mortality Rates?

    Which Countries Have The Highest Infant Mortality Rates? Infant mortality rates are generally regarded as the barometer of an overall population’s health. A higher rate indicates unmet needs of a population, especially with regards to food availability and sanitation. Visual Capitalist's Pallavi Rao visualized the top 15 countries with the highest infant mortality rates, according to 2023 estimates from the CIA World Factbook. It is measured as the number of infant deaths under the...

  • Go Nuts About Nuts To Help Keep Cancer At Bay

    Go Nuts About Nuts To Help Keep Cancer At Bay Authored by Alexandra Roach via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), In their many variations, nuts are a superfood praised as rich sources of minerals, vitamins, amino acids, proteins, and other bioactive compounds. (Pavel Kalenik/Unsplash) Chestnuts are champions for vitamin C, for instance. Pistachios contain the most vitamin A and potassium. Both are high in folic acid. Cashews enrich us with magnesium. The level of vitamin B3 (niacin)...

  • Services No Longer Required: Which Jobs Are Most At Risk?

    Services No Longer Required: Which Jobs Are Most At Risk? Long before the emergence of ChatGPT and other AI tools threatening to take over our jobs, technological advancements have altered the way people work, making some occupations disappear, while others emerged. Did you know, for example, that people used to work as living alarm clocks before actual alarm clocks became a thing? “Knocker uppers”, as they were called, would walk around in industrial England, wielding a long...

  • A Global Tax

    Oil - A Global Tax Authored by Robert Burrows via BondVigilantes.com, Few commodities wield as much influence in the intricate web of global economics as oil. Oil is pivotal in driving economic growth and development as the primary energy source for transportation, manufacturing, and countless other sectors. However, beneath its surface lies a hidden truth: oil can act as a tax on growth, imposing significant costs on economies worldwide. The Economic Impact of Oil Prices Oil...

  • How Americans Feel About Federal Government Agencies

    How Americans Feel About Federal Government Agencies Come election time, America won’t hesitate to show its approval or disapproval of the country’s elected political representatives. That said, feelings about the federal bureaucracy and its associated agencies are a little harder to gauge. Visual Capitalist's Pallavi Rao charts the results from an opinion poll conducted by Pew Research Center between March 13-19, 2023. In it, 10,701 adults—a representative of the U.S. adult...

  • Pressure On China Heightens As Capital Outflow Chokes Liquidity

    Pressure On China Heightens As Capital Outflow Chokes Liquidity Authored by Simon Black, Bloomberg macro strategist, The latest money data from China shows its capital-outflow problem is worsening, pressuring policymakers to allow a further weakening in the currency. China released money and inflation data over the weekend. CPI and PPI were not great reading, but money supply data was even more downbeat: M2’s growth disappointed, while M1 growth is moldering, falling 1.4%...

  • UN Unleashes Controversy, Accusations Of Deception, Over 'Revised' Gaza Casualty Data

    UN Unleashes Controversy, Accusations Of Deception, Over 'Revised' Gaza Casualty Data Since the start of the brutal Gaza conflict in the wake of Oct.7, a public 'info-war' has raged over the numbers of wartime casualties, especially on the Palestinian side. Something similar happened in the Syrian war, as well as in the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war: either side's true casualties became a matter of tightly guarded internal secrets on the one hand, and an issue of public propaganda to...

  • Man Who Attacked Times Square Police Officers With Machete Sentenced To 27 Years

    Man Who Attacked Times Square Police Officers With Machete Sentenced To 27 Years Authored by Ryan Morgan via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A federal judge has handed down a 27-year prison sentence to the suspect who pleaded guilty to attacking a trio of New York Police Department (NYPD) officers in Times Square on New Year’s Eve 2022 in the name of radical Islamic extremism. A file photograph of a judge's gavel. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images) Trevor Bickford, 20, of Wells, Maine,...

  • Dem Lawmakers Urge Biden To Use Executive Action Against High Food Prices

    "Combat Illegal Corporate Behavior" - Dem Lawmakers Urge Biden To Use Executive Action Against High Food Prices Greedflation is a myth, and Democrats are well aware of this. However, they will never acknowledge that corporate greed isn't the root cause of inflation, as greed tends to be constant in the economy. What changed is the overstimulation of the economy through failed Bidenomics, which involves spending $1 trillion every 100 days. In the early days of Russia's 'special...