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

Links For Today

Widespread Manhunt Underway For Three Men, Possibly Aborigines, Who Escaped Australian Involuntary Quarantine Camp

Mass vaccination fails to halt Covid transmission rates

Leading Cardiologist Says Researchers Are Refusing to Publish Supporting Study Results That Show Covid Vaccine’s Link To Massive Increase In Heart Attacks

Greece will mandate the COVID-19 vaccine for anyone over 60, or make them pay fines

Links For Today

Omicron — Probably has been circulating and developing in Africa for months

U.S. Strategic Oil Reserves Could Fall By 50% Over The Next Decade

Prices for the biofuel have surged, rekindling a debate about whether it’s contributing to pain at the pump

Never heard of this company before (the company in Binghamton I mean, Henery is a well known maker of lever guns). I wonder what else they make? Custom made in the USA by Binghamton Knitting Co in Binghamton, NY.

Coming soon to a country near you? Road blockades set up across Lebanon in protest against economic meltdown

San Francisco TV Reporter Cautions Against Use of Word ‘Looting’

Links For Today

Goldman Slams Omicron Panic: “This Mutation Is Unlikely To Be More Malicious; No Reason For Portfolio Changes”

Swiss reject plan to abolish COVID health pass

Protests against Covid rules and lockdowns erupt across Europe

Two Minneapolis Best Buys Robbed On Black Friday As ‘Flash Mob’ Thievery Spreads Beyond California

‘Ridiculous demands’ and ‘impossible requests’: Life outside Cuomo’s pandemic war room

Links For Today

Gov. Kathy Hochul orders halt on elective surgery amid COVID spike, Omicron Just as a reminder— No cases of the newly identified variant have been detected in New York or the rest of the United States, for that matter

Senior U.S. General Says Iran ‘Very Close’ to Building a Nuclear Bomb, ‘Variety’ of Military Options on the Table

New Variant, New Travel Restrictions, New Lockdowns

South Africans fear renewed restrictions more than omicron variant

Pandemic skyrockets in Europe; COVID is the No. 1 cause of death

Biden Announces Travel Ban That Blows up His Own Prior Words and Those of Fauci

A frightening new potential explanation for vaccine-driven myocarditis and other problems

Coming near to a place near you…
PPL, up from 7.544 cents to 9.502 cents per kWh (26%);Pike County Light & Power, up from 6.5234 cents to 9.796 cents per kWh (50.2%);

Study: COVID-19 protection wanes after two doses of Pfizer vaccine