Yellen defends IRS rule requiring banks to report all transactions over $600

What automakers require is somewhat at odds with what chipmakers prefer and are tooled to produce: smaller, more densely packed chips, that can be manufactured at lower cost and yield more units.

A Cold Winter: Turkey and the Global Natural Gas Shortage

Those $4.5 trillion ‘infrastructure’ and ‘reconciliation’ bills are far more radical and dangerous than you think

The most powerful ethnic group, the Pashtuns, are taking the homes and farms of their Shiite neighbors.

Perfect Storm – Pakistan Eyes The Bayraktar TB2

More energy shocks, and it was crazy to move away from nuclear power

You have to scroll to the middle section to get the good stuff. I imagine we will be hearing more about this one way or another. Inadvertent intravenous injection

Still burning food for fuel. Supply tightness in soybean oil market making ways for sunflower oil

Turkish company again stops supplying Lebanon with electricity

South Pole Sees Record Cold Winter, Smashing 1976 Record …WaPo Admits “Chill Was Exceptional”

Turkish inflation rises to 19.6% after surprise rate cut

Biden declares war on showerheads

House Budget Chairman Yarmuth To Progressives: “The Federal Government Can Afford Anything”

The NYT’s Partisan Tale about COVID and the Unvaccinated is Rife with Sloppy Data Analysis

Soldiers to start delivering petrol to UK forecourts from Monday amid warnings of 3p rise in fuel costs – but Rishi Sunak admits ‘very real’ food shortages will last until Christmas

“Nobody has fish in their freezer right now. Nobody,”

Cargo ships anchored off NY and LA face 4-WEEK wait to berth and trains in Chicago are backed up 25 miles with global supply chain on the brink of collapse

Rolling Stone Lefty Loses It, Shrieks ‘Joe Manchin Just Cooked the Planet’

German Coal Plant Runs Completely Out Of Coal

Chinese switch to flashlights, generators amid power cuts

Evergrande and Stein’s Law: “That which cannot go on forever, won’t”

A Peek Inside Corporate America’s Ascendant Woke-Industrial Complex

New COVID-19 antigen testing method offers highly accurate results in under 3 minutes

The right-wing radical party AfD emerged from last Sunday’s election as the strongest political force in the eastern German states of Saxony and Thuringia. What did the mainstream parties do wrong?

Blue Origin employees say they wouldn’t feel safe riding the company’s rockets and that it’s ‘lucky that nothing has happened’

Haiti Since the 2010 Earthquake: A Review of 11 Years Following the Money

Sudan confiscates Hamas assets

Top generals in charge of Turkey’s military operations in Syria have sought retirement amid escalating tensions in Idlib, fueling questions over Ankara’s Syria policies.

Most interesting thing about this is that the power crisis has been going on for awhile in China but has just not been reported until now. Power crisis deepens in Asia and Europe: What it means to shipping

The immediate effects of the YouTube ban include taking down channels belonging to vaccine skeptics Robert F. Kennedy, who heads a vaccine skeptic organization, and Joseph Mercola, an alternative medicine entrepreneur.

Governor Kathy Hochul Declares a Healthcare Worker Shortage Emergency of Her Own Making

But maybe no Democrat lit up the Biden team for their failures more than Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT).

Why isn’t there more debate over the Biden economic plan?

BLM NY: We need some George Floyd-style protests against vaccine mandates

Students are demanding their school remove a conservative undergraduate over an article he wrote for ‘Campus Reform’ that gained national media attention.

GOD AND MAN AT ALBANY:

Petrol supply: Army put on standby to ease fuel crisis and British petrol stations run out of fuel as motorists panic buy amid truck-driver shortage and THIEVES are drilling holes into parked cars to steal fuel after panic buying sparked a petrol shortage.

Official Sources Warn a Geomagnetic Storm Is Imminent, So Get Ready For Auroras

Bosnian Serbs demand their own army, leader says

A group tied to prominent Democratic strategists is posing as a conservative outfit to try to drive a wedge between the Republican candidate for Virginia governor and his core voters, Axios has learned.

Ohio Professor Wins Major Free Speech Decision on Compelled Use of Pronouns in Classrooms

Singapore finding it hard to ‘live with Covid’

95% Vaccinated Harvard Business School Suspends In-Person Classes After Covid Outbreak

Lebanon: What life is like in a ‘failed state’

Headline Oversells It. They just wanted to do all those things which is crazy enough. Kidnapping, assassination and a London shoot-out: Inside the CIA’s secret war plans against WikiLeaks

More Supply Chain Problems Coming. Chinese Cities In The Dark After Widespread, “Unexpected” Blackouts

German elections: A chaotic start of the post-Merkel era

The Conqueror of Karabakh: The Bayraktar TB2

NEW YORKER AMPLIFIES CALLS FOR PIPELINE BOMBINGS TO SAVE THE PLANET.

Container ships now piling up at anchorages off China’s ports

Berliners vote ‘yes’ on property expropriation, but what happens now?

Covid-19 in Norway can now be compared to the flu, says health chief