Links For Today

Governor Kathy Hochul announces statewide mask mandate for New York effective December 13 for all businesses and venues

Colorado’s Democratic governor: I’m not mandating masks. The COVID emergency is over.

When the Crime Wave Hits Your Family

Palestinian factions discuss ‘escalation’ following delay in commitments from Egypt

The Covid Chaos in Russia

It Will Make Scientific Sense To Offer Booster after Three Months

The Pandemic of the Vaccinated Is Here

Inflation Continues to Soar in Latin America, Even As Central Banks Intensify Their Rate Hikes

In 2017, Bob was informed that he was breaking the law. His crime? Teaching horseshoeing to paying students who had not completed high school, a GED, or a government exam.

The California Air Resources Board on Thursday voted to require that new, small off-road engines – like the ones found in leaf blowers and lawn mowers – meet zero-emission standards starting in 2024.

Understanding just how big solar flares can get

Links For Today

New York school spending hits record high

San Francisco Sees 3,000 Car Break-Ins in 1 Month; ‘It’s Out of Control’

Study can’t confirm lab results for many cancer experiments

Judge halts Biden vaccine mandate for federal contractors nationwide

Ministers are expected to sign off new rules to impose home working and vaccine certification across England

Apple wins Epic court ruling: Devs will pay up for now as legal case churns on

FDA Doubles Down: Asks Federal Judge to Grant it Until at Least the Year 2096 to Fully Release Pfizer’s COVID-19 Vaccine Data

China is imposing quarantines of up to 7 weeks for cargo ship crew, and it’s bad news for the supply chain

Links For Today

New report sheds light on Apple’s supply chain issues, highlights pre-pandemic problems

Pfizer says third COVID shots may protect better against omicron

Houthis Claim Drone Attacks On Saudi Oil Facilities

The kingdom has reportedly ‘pleaded’ with the US for a resupply of Patriot interceptor missiles which cost $1 million a piece to defend against airstrikes by Yemen’s Ansarallah

Dems begin souring on vaccine mandates

Stores in Germany now have signs saying “Unvaccinated Not Welcome”

De Blasio Imposes New Vaccine Mandate And New Yorkers Scream “Enough!”

Publishers against the People of the Book

Field sources in the strategic province say that Saudi-led coalition troops in Marib have suffered “major collapses” in their ranks

Links For Today that I forgot to post last night.

Apple CEO Tim Cook “secretly” signed an agreement worth more than $275 billion with Chinese officials, promising that Apple would help to develop China’s economy and technological capabilities

3D-printed suicide pods are now legal in Switzerland

More than 100 drugs face supply chain shortages, FDA says

Florida Continues to Record Lowest Coronavirus Cases Per Capita

According to the revelations British authorities prioritized the evacuation of animals over human beings

Taking Viagra slashes Alzheimer’s risk by two-thirds, research suggests.

California District Tells Students How To Use Witchcraft On People Who Say ‘All Lives Matter’

Links For Today

Good news about the omicron variant?

Brutal, brazen crimes shake L.A., leaving city at a crossroads And this might be related.

How an Air Force Recruiting Commercial Became a Popular VR Game

Finally, a Fusion Reaction Has Generated More Energy Than Absorbed by The Fuel

In more normal times, when nuclear-powered submarines and multibillion-dollar contact cancellations didn’t dominate the news, plans to increase the US military presence operating out of Australia would be big news.

Homework in the Middle Age Russia.

Bank of America execs warn junior staffers to ‘dress down’ as NYC crime surges

What sort of system nurtures a decades-long programme of deliberately infecting children and prisoners with a dangerous disease?

Well let’s talk facts eh? None of these are in dispute, by the way.

The end of the apartheid alibi

Links For Yesterday (Forgot to post)

Three Teens Who Escaped From Aussie COVID Camp All Have One Thing in Common, and It’s Not the Virus

PCR Tests and the Rise of Disease Panic

Mumps cases in vaccinated people increasing, reason why is unclear

Loudoun County asks parent to pay $36K for FOIA request for documents regarding ‘sexual assault’ or ‘rape’

Why Has the Press Ignored Retailers’ Crappy Black Fridays, as Experts Warn of Coming Bankruptcies?

Russia issues threat to GPS satellites

UK Grim Prospects Over Surging Energy Bills Just Got Worse

Links For Today

Russian troops mass on Ukraine’s border. West worries this isn’t like the last time.

Vaccine Mandates: Unscientific, Divisive, and Enormously Costly

Vermont: Highest Vaccination Rate, Record-Breaking COVID Numbers

As Turkey’s economic crisis deepened, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan replaced his treasury and finance minister, a skeptic of the president’s unorthodox economic policies, with Nureddin Nebati, a champion of his low-rates policy.

Water agencies in drought-stricken California that serve 27 million residents and 750,000 acres of farmland won’t get any of the water they have requested from the state heading into 2022 other than what’s needed for critical health and safety, state officials announced on Wednesday.

Esmail Ghaani implied that Iran is able to strike at the US in ways it once could not.

Turning The Tables: The UK’s Case For Buying The Bayraktar TB2