Category: land

Pelosi’s Trip And China’s Coercion On Taiwan; China Buying of U.S. Land Up 10-fold in Past Decade | NTD Business

Has speaker Pelosi’s trip caused damage to U.S.-china relations? will China put more economic pressure on Taiwan? We talk with an expert. Inside the Democrat tax and climate bill: a tax on imported oil. What will this do to gas prices, at a time when they’re already high? The Chinese communist party is buying up American…


Pelosi’s Trip and China’s Coercion on Taiwan; China Buying of US Land Up 10-fold in Past Decade | NTD Business

Has House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s trip caused damage to U.S.-China relations? Will China put more economic pressure on Taiwan? We talk with an expert. Inside the Democrat tax and climate bill is a tax on imported oil. What will this do to gas prices, at a time when they’re already high? The Chinese Communist Party is…


Beijing Is Restoring China’s Farmlands to Prevent Food Shortages Amid Russia-Ukraine War

News Analysis The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is pushing local authorities to reconvert fishponds and orchards back to arable land in order to increase farmland and mitigate a food crisis. However, this move has threatened the livelihood of locals, with some claiming that they were not fully compensated for their losses. Some experts warn that…


Delta Pilots Land Jet Safely After Cockpit Windshield Cracks

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah—The pilots on a Delta Air Lines flight from Salt Lake City to Washington decided to bring their jet down in Denver after the cockpit windshield shattered above 30,000 feet. The crew repeatedly told passengers to remain calm until they landed. “They came on the loudspeaker saying that the windshield had shattered,…


After 3 Years of Van Life, Couple Buys Land and Builds a Dream House in the Mountains

After a short trip in their self-converted van turned into three years on the road, and a once-in-a-lifetime journey to the southernmost tip of Argentina, a Utah couple decided to put down roots. They bought a piece of land in Utah and built their very own tiny cabin in the woods, just in time to…


Chinese City Takes Back Two Plots of Land From Evergrande

HONG KONG—The city of Chengdu has taken back two plots of land from China Evergrande Group the latest move by authorities to seize assets from the cash-strapped property developer. The land planning authority in the southwestern city said it was taking control of the plots, totaling over 300,000 square meters, as Evergrande had not developed…


Bill Seeks to Block Foreign Adversaries from Buying Land Near US Military Bases

Rep. Mark Green (R-Tenn.) has introduced a bill that would block foreign adversaries from buying land near American military bases. Called the Military Perimeter Transparency Act (pdf), the bill would direct the Secretary of Defense to produce regular reports on land purchases or occupancy around U.S. military bases by foreign adversaries. The reports, which would be…


Radical 30 X 30 Plan Will Ensure That This Land Will No Longer Be Your Land

Commentary Moving rapidly to transition the United States away from fossil fuels in the name of combatting climate change, the Biden administration is employing a mix of executive authority and legislative action to force the transformation. While much attention is focused on which climate-related provisions ultimately make it into the administration’s massive infrastructure bill, a…


Film Review: ‘Land’: Healing Grief Through Living Off the Land

PG-13 | 1h 29min | Drama | 12 February 2021 (USA) Anticipating an encroaching Zombie Apocalypse in my 20s, I started taking classes in primitive skills at Tom Brown Jr.’s Tracking, Nature, and Wilderness Survival School at the now defunct Tracker Farm in Asbury, New Jersey. We built leaf huts, learned fire-making with bow and hand drills…