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Warren and Booker announce breakthrough COVID-19 cases And this is related.

New York has a huge rat problem. These vigilantes with dogs think they can fix it

FDA finds 3 COVID-19 tests that fail to detect the omicron variant

Leftist millennial wins election as Chile’s next president

LA Area Port Traffic: Disappointing Traffic in November

China Developing ‘Brain-Control Weaponry’

Realpolitik behind Israel’s counterintuitive alliance with Azerbaijan

More than 150 Comparative Studies and Articles on Mask Ineffectiveness and Harms

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Boosters for Men 16-40: A Regulatory Gamble

OSHA Vaccine Mandate Heads to the Supreme Court

New York City’s Drug Experiment

It Turns Out That Everything We Know About The Runner’s High Could Be Wrong

Enraged monkeys kill 250 DOGS by dragging them to the top of buildings and dropping them off ‘out of revenge’ after pups killed one of their infants in Indian village

Joe Manchin Just Killed the Build Back Better Act

“Way way more vaccinated and boostered patients are now becoming positive. Many of them quite ill.”

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Putin’s Move to Destabilize Ukraine Maybe related… Putin and Xi plot their SWIFT escape

The case seemed like a lock — until an informant and one FBI agent were charged with crimes, another was accused of perjury, and a third was found promoting a private security firm. And that wasn’t all.

Rantz: Seattle police ‘Unavailable’ list grows, city an emergency event away from catastrophe

Federal appeals court reinstates Biden administration’s business vaccine and testing mandate

A domestic newspaper warns of the Russian space program’s “rapid collapse”

Anti-5G necklaces found to be radioactive

Schools across US cancel classes over unconfirmed TikTok threats

From Turkey With Love: Tracking Turkish Military Donations

Covid-19: Omicron spreading at lightning speed – French PM

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A nurse reader describes the state of her hospital

Omicron is far more infectious than Delta, and it is also able to infect those who are fully vaccinated, and even those who have received their booster.

In which ways does inflation harm the poor?

Biden Admin Announces Posthumous Medal Of Honor — For Living Recipient Standing In Room

Missouri Judge Loses Bid for Immunity for Jailing ‘America’s Got Talent’ Kids

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Russia shows no sign of retreat on invading Ukraine

For The First Time in History, a Spacecraft Has ‘Touched’ The Sun

San Francisco Democrat Mayor London Breed appears to have reversed course on her support for defunding the police

New York City Considers Banning Gas From New Buildings

President Joe Biden is running out of patience as Sen. Joe Manchin continues to drag his feet on supporting the party’s domestic spending legislation.

Omicron Brings Fresh COVID Hell to Cornell

After the Libyan Civil War and the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh War, perhaps the Tigray War will soon be added to a quickly growing list of conflicts where the use of UCAVs proved decisive.

Pakistani Taliban emir says his group “is a branch of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan”

Minecraft crosses 1 trillion views on YouTube

Links For 12/14 (Forgot to hit publish on the proper day)

New York Won’t Force Counties to Comply With Mask Mandate

Amtrak will revise its vaccine mandate for workers, reverting to its previous requirement that allows employees who are not vaccinated to get tested. Additionally, the rail company no longer expects service cuts in January as previously expected.

Missing Workers by Age Group

On the heels of last Friday’s Consumer Price Index release for November — in which inflation faced by Americans hit a 12 month high not seen since 1982 — the Producer Price Index smashed through it’s all-time record when it came in even higher than expected on Tuesday.

But does lumping generators in with lawnmowers and leaf blowers make sense, especially in a state with so many power outages?

Covid vaccines may not improve your chances of staying alive at all even in a pandemic

Japan’s Vaccination Policy: No Force, No Discrimination

it is jarring to hear a Navy Flag Officer, nominated to be the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, say that “gender advisoers” for combat troops are critical to mission success.

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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul Makes Sad, Laughable Attempt to Stop Omicron via Mask Mandate

China Develops Humanized Pigs to Simulate COVID-19 Infection for Future Testing of Vaccines and Drugs

Austria says only the rich can go unvaccinated for £12,000 a year

COVID vaccines only partially effective against omicron

Hospitals Abandon Covid-19 Vaccine Requirement to Ease Staffing Shortages

Shortage of snowplow drivers hampers states as storms arrive

Fear doesn’t monger itself, you know

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At least 70 are killed by EIGHTEEN tornadoes in Kentucky’s deadliest storm in 130 years: More than 100 deaths expected across six states as twisters level entire towns

Has the Cleveland Clinic Made the Right Call?

Amid violent threats, lawmaker ditches bill to make unvaxxed pay hospital bills. “We just can’t have a reasonable conversation anymore,” Illinois Rep. Carroll said.

Does China own more of America than we thought?

Minnesota Bistro Owner Sentenced With 90 Days in Jail and $1,000 Fine For Defying COVID Lockdown Order

Omicron looking less deadly, but South Africa has a lot of natural immunity

“What is wrong with physicians?”
CDC: About 75 Percent of Omicron Cases Are in Fully Vaccinated People

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Throws Out Mask Mandate For Public Schools

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Cold snap this winter could zap New England power grid

San Francisco’s vaunted tolerance dims amid brazen crimes

Jussie Smollett is part of a larger trend of fake hate crimes

China’s Coming Property Correction

Serbs vote to leave key institutions in secession move

Pentagon Considering COVID-19 Booster Mandate for Troops

Recently uncovered software flaw ‘most critical vulnerability of the last decade’

Double Standards for Nadia Murad and Shamima Begum

As hot as 6.8% year over year inflation is, Friday’s report is probably the best the Biden administration could have hoped for.

Safety Concerns Mount Over Damaged Fuel Rods at China’s Taishan Nuclear Plant