U.S. Treasury blacklists 7 Chinese officials under Trump-era Hong Kong Autonomy Act

The Biden administration blacklisted seven Chinese officials over violations of the Hong Kong Autonomy Act, a bill signed into law by former President Donald Trump in July 2020. President Trump ended the special economic status granted to Hong Kong in response to China’s drive to erode the territory’s autonomy guaranteed by the Communist regime under …

Cuban woes

From what I can tell Cuba is in trouble for 4 immediate reasons: The demise of Venezuela’s Daddy Oilbucks largesse; The collapse of the tourism industry; The pandemic; The lack of FX to import food and other essentials due to the abolition of their dual currency system Together they add up to no hay nada.

How the West became East Germany

Few pause to think that their phones can be transformed into surveillance devices, with someone thousands of miles away silently extracting their messages, photos and location, activating their microphone to record them in real time… in the coming days the Guardian will be revealing the identities of many innocent people who have been identified as …

Psaki: deniers should be everywhere banned

White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Friday that the Biden administration believes social media users who spread COVID-19 misinformation should be banned from all platforms if one platform has given them the boot. Psaki had revealed the day before that White House staff were tracking dangerous coronavirus misinformation with help from the surgeon general’s …

Not changing lanes, a U-turn

Although officials still remain divided on whether the virus emerged from nature, passing from animals to humans, the acknowledgment marks a shift from the scorn that was heaped on former President Trump and a group of European scientists who first brought up the lab-leak theory during the height of the pandemic last year.