China has ordered central government agencies and state-backed corporations to replace foreign-branded personal computers with domestic alternatives within two years, marking one of Beijing’s most aggressive efforts so far to eradicate key overseas technology from within its most sensitive organs.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-06/china-orders-government-state-firms-to-dump-foreign-pcs ​ Staff were asked after the week-long May break to turn in foreign PCs for local alternatives that run on operating software developed domestically, people familiar with the plan said. The exercise, which was mandated by central government authorities, …

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Washington state bans the word marijuana

OLYMPIA, Wash. — “Pot,” “weed,” “grass,” “Mary Jane,” “flower” — there is no shortage of terms to describe cannabis. However, Washington state is taking one word officially off the table: “marijuana.” Legislators recently passed a law that changes every Revised …

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State of emergency in Peru

The rent is to damn high! Coming to America! This is why inflation is so serious. While elites in our country joke about inflation and dismiss it as a concern, this is Peru. https://t.co/UheLOlk6BR — Aaron Ginn (@aginnt) April 7, …

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Norwegian state pension fund will liquidate all their investments (totalling $3 billion USD) from Russian stock market

Just announced on a press conference by the Norwegian government. Sources: https://www.vgtv.no/video/233573/direkte-siste-fra-krigen-i-ukraina https://borsen.dagbladet.no/studio/borsenstudio/608?post=86622 Edit (28.02.22 00:26 GMT+1): Russian central bank has ordered block on foreign clients’ bids to sell Russian securities. Source: https://www.reuters.com/business/russian-cbank-orders-block-foreign-clients-bids-sell-russian-securities-document-2022-02-27/     h/t  andrerav