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from Asia Times
LEAST BIASED, HIGH; News & Media Website based in Hong Kong
Twenty-five years ago, America’s tech companies took risks and disrupted established business models. Today they are the new utilities, earning monopoly rents by controlling markets. Microsoft chased its challengers out of personal computer software; Amazon crushed most of its Internet retailing rivals; Apple created a duopoly of hardware and services with its rival Samsung; Google destroyed the commercial prospects of competing search engines; and Facebook, through targeted investments and acquisitions, dominates social media. China wants to avoid the American trap. That’s why Chinese regulators warned the country’s Internet giants that they could not maintain a monopolistic hold on the mass of personal data that drives their businesses, stifling competition from new market entrants.
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from CBS News (& affiliates)
Far more Japanese people are dying of suicide, likely exacerbated by the economic and social repercussions of the pandemic, than of the COVID-19 disease itself. While Japan has managed its coronavirus epidemic far better than many nations, keeping deaths below 2,000 nationwide, provisional statistics from the National Police Agency show suicides surged to 2,153 in October alone, marking the fourth straight month of increase.
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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, non-profit organization
Data show that the policies of Finland and Norway have been even less restrictive than Sweden's for most of the pandemic.
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from Loon Lake Times
As of November 12, there are 19 positive COVID-19 cases in Stevens County, with three COVID-related deaths since November 1 – one in each of Stevens, Pend Oreille, and Ferry counties. As of November 13, 133 people are hospitalized with COVID-19 in the Spokane healthcare catchment area (Ferry, Stevens, and Pend Oreille counties, Kootenai medical and Spokane). Several patients in their low 30s are in the ICU due to the seriousness of their COVID-19 condition. The Spokane healthcare catchment is reportedly in the worst position compared to other catchments in state of Washington in their ability to give care. One likely result is that elective procedures will be postponed. Governor Inslee joined Oregon and California in initiating a travel advisory for non-essential travel. Washingtonians are encouraged to stay home or within their region and avoid non-essential travel to other states or countries. Those arriving in Washington (or returning to Washington) from other states or countries should practice self-quarantine for 14 days after arrival and limit their interactions to those in their immediate household.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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from Sputnik
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, MIXED, Broadcasting & Media Production Company out of Moscow, Russia
In late 2018, Donald Trump ordered the immediate withdrawal of almost all US troops from Syria within 90 days. He repeated the order in October 2019. Several hundred US troops remain in Syria to this day, notwithstanding the president’s executive decisions. Jim Jeffrey, outgoing US special representative for Syria and special presidential envoy for the Western coalition against Daesh (ISIS),* has frankly admitted that he and members of his staff deliberately obfuscated and covered up the true size of the US military footprint in Syria from the president.
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