Pivots

Watch: McDonald's Restaurant Rolls Out Robots To Greet, Serve Customers A McDonald’s restaurant in Shanghai is trialling a team of humanoid robots as staff, offering a glimpse into what is likely to be the future of fast-food, Digitaltrends reports. The robots, developed by Keenon Robotics, were spotted at a McDonald’s in the Shanghai Pudong New Area, where they picked up orders from customers at the front counter using a touchscreen. The video also shows children in the restaurant playfulling chasing after the animal-like robots that were greeting customers. McDonald’s has yet to...

Private Sector Struggles In Major Chinese Industrial Base As Export Orders Shrink: Local Businessmen Authored by Alex Wu via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Amid China’s persistently sluggish economy, Zhejiang Province, a major production and industrial base in eastern China, is seeing a decline in trade orders as private enterprises struggle to stay afloat, according to industry professionals who spoke with The Epoch Times. Workers load goods for export into a container at a logistics hub in Yiwu, Zhejiang Province, China, on April 29, 2025. Kevin Frayer/Getty Images As the “hollowing out” of...

The COVID Playbook Returns: Energy Rationing & The Politics Of Crisis Control Authored by Chris MacIntosh via Doug Casey's International Man, This recent headline from New Zealand should itself send chills down your spine… “Government reveals details of fuel crisis rationing plan – and who will be prioritized.” Anytime the pointy shoes get to decide who will and who will not get something, you must realise that you’re about to get royally screwed. The uncomfortable parallels between the Convid response and the proposed fuel rationing plan cannot be ignored. On the surface, the Fuel Response...