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The reason for this link is that it has interesting arguments on the nature of Chinese demographic statistics. The Coming Demographic Collapse of China

Lawmakers Investigate State Department Over $1 Billion Ransom Payment to Iran

Uncompetitive Defence in a Competitive Age

Is China About to Deploy Private Military Companies in Central Asia?

Ohio State employs 150 diversity officials. Now it will hire 50 professors focused on social and racial justice.

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Doctors Warn of Illness in Children Triggered By COVID-19

Sweden saw lower 2020 death spike than much of Europe – data

Murder rate jumps back to 1990s levels, data show

Scientists will test the world’s first nuclear fusion reactor this summer

The amount of lies would be a scandal in any other setting. Amid setbacks, prosecutors abandon some claims in U.S. Capitol riot cases

Mass Shooters Aren’t Disproportionately White

On Laws and Gods

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Could the passage of a $1.9 trillion coronavirus-relief package mark the end of the neoliberal era?

How the media grotesquely distorted the Atlanta massacres

NASA and SpaceX sign agreement on spaceflight safety

The US wood shortage can be traced to a decades-old beetle infestation in Canada

Australia Mice biting hospital patients, ravaging farms as plague escalates across NSW

FTC memos suggest Obama-era regulators passed on an opportunity to rein in Google when the company still had viable competitors.

A Brief List Of Official Russia Claims That Proved To Be Bogus

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Researchers discover deep sea microbes invisible to human immune pattern recognition

The Washington Post’s Fake Trump Quote Scandal Is a Lot Worse Than You Think

A politicized US military should horrify all Americans

Berlin to Give Secret Services Access to Encrypted Conversations

The American Rescue Plan as Economic Theory

Ancient leaves preserved under a mile of Greenland’s ice – and lost in a freezer for years – hold lessons about climate change

Double talk for the day: “All they are going to see for evaluation is which percentile the soldier falls into,” the Army official said. “The gender identity will not be included in that information. If anything, it’s a more gender-neutral assessment process because it doesn’t show the raw scores.”

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Israel behind serial sabotage of Iranian tankers, report says

Shocking news from the world of science. Coronavirus infection leads to immunity that’s comparable to a COVID-19 vaccine

Study finds cancer cells may evade chemotherapy by going dormant

A new test has been scoring men and women on the same basis — but more than half of women are failing.

Legacy Media Silent as Biden DHS Tear-Gasses Antifa Rioters in Portland

The Washington Post Issues a “Correction” Which Clarifies That Every Claim Made In Their Story Stating that Trump Told the George Secretary of State to “Find the Fraud” Was a Lie