The implementation of COVID restrictions caused many of the problems at the ports.

China Evergrande, once the country’s second-largest real estate developer, is drowning in debt. Some 1.5 million people have put deposits on new homes that have yet to be built. A collapse could be catastrophic.

After decades of scholarship denying that the Carthaginians sacrificed their children, new research has found ‘overwhelming’ evidence that this ancient civilisation really did carry out the practice.

Democrats Want Mandate To Stop Banks From Funding Oil & Gas After 2030

U.S. generals planning for a space war they see as all but inevitable

Indiana University hospital system suspends 280 employees for COVID vaccine refusal

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY:

Insane footage shows China blowing up 15 skyscrapers that had sat vacant for nearly a decade

Recent Ebola outbreak emerged from someone infected 5 years earlier

Number of states with high obesity rate nearly doubles since 2018: CDC

Europe Could Turn To More Coal If Gas Crunch Persists

The Grand Alliance to Contain China: Will It Work?

Scott Gottlieb’s Uncontrolled Spread

Drought in Iraq and Syria could totally collapse food system for millions, aid groups warn

U.S. judge blocks N.Y. vaccine mandate for healthcare workers

Biden Vax Mandate In ‘Chaos’: OSHA ‘Underfunded’ And ‘Toothless,’ Employers Worried About ‘Millions Of Dollars’ In Testing Costs

Effect size is significantly more important than statistical significance.

The tangled history of mRNA vaccines

Haitian prosecutor wants PM — who fired him the day before — charged in Moïse’s killing

Americans Spent More on Taxes in 2020 Than on Food, Clothing, Healthcare and Entertainment Combined

911 callers in Portland face lengthy hold times amid efforts to defund the police

No one elected Mark Milley

Always comes in waves so don’t celebrate yet. On the other hand, these are facts you won’t read in the news. Delta is Dying

THIS WEEK IN POLITICS

New hope for antibody to treat muscular dystrophy

No sports, no clubs, no talking during lunch and other joys of COVID schooling

A Year After Sending Cops To A Kid’s Home, A Colorado Springs School District Apologizes

Are We Wearing the Wrong Masks?

German election demographics: Facts and figures

A New Storm Is Barreling Towards Texas Oil Terminals

Yet another underreported medical scandal — the overmedicated elderly

The ACLU, Prior to COVID, Denounced Mandates and Coercive Measures to Fight Pandemics

Upstate New York hospital won’t deliver babies after unvaccinated staff quit

Record Number of Ships at Southern California Ports

First came a quake in Mexico, then strange blue lights. People feared the apocalypse

This was supposed to post last night but I forgot to hit publish.

As I wrote about in early August, the California Legislature is set to enact a law providing such a definition, in a content-based, unconstitutionally broad restriction on speech outside vaccination centers.

Palestinian prison break embarrasses Israeli government

Residents in a Sydney tower block under a strict coronavirus lockdown are having their alcohol deliveries policed.

MIT-designed project achieves major advance toward fusion energy

Denmark is paying the UK to take their Afghan refugees

Yale study identifies those at risk of breakthrough COVID-19 infections

Arizona Elementary School District Hit by Same Covid Vaccine Madness Afflicting the NFL

A Resource on Violent Political Unrest, Continually Updated

New York To Phase Out New Gasoline Car Sales By 2035

Protein And Transpacific Power: China’s Emergent Struggle For Food Security

The Surprisingly Strong Supreme Court Precedent Supporting Vaccine Mandates Concise commentary on the results of this decision here.

Health officials believe mu is even more transmissible than the delta variant and has the potential to resist vaccines.

Study: No lasting damage to lungs after COVID-19 in younger patients

Vietnam’s Covid winning streak has dramatically reversed with grave implications for global supply chains

No milk or water: Shoppers face shortages at UK grocery stores