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Poland Turns to Questionable Methods to Turn Back Migrants

Build Back Better? More Americans Have Died of COVID This Year Than in All of 2020

Auto Sales Are Drying Up As Semiconductor Shortage Worsens

The Great Office Refusal

This huge rebound is largely down to the country’s impressive reopening following the Covid pandemic, which continues to hit several countries around the world hard. By opening up production and decreasing Covid restrictions Saudi Arabia has been able to get its oil sector and other industries back on track, as many other states still struggle.

How to Destroy a Country: Does Ethiopia Have a Future?

Workers Wanted: Miners Offered $100k Per Year As Coal Prices Soar

UPDATED: Cost Per Round, by Caliber (May 2020 – Oct 2021, via Ammoseek)

The widespread assumption that suppliers close to home are more reliable has not always proved true. During the turmoil caused by the pandemic, some German companies had more trouble getting supplies from France or Italy, because of strict lockdowns, than they did from Asia.

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Yellen defends IRS rule requiring banks to report all transactions over $600

What automakers require is somewhat at odds with what chipmakers prefer and are tooled to produce: smaller, more densely packed chips, that can be manufactured at lower cost and yield more units.

A Cold Winter: Turkey and the Global Natural Gas Shortage

Those $4.5 trillion ‘infrastructure’ and ‘reconciliation’ bills are far more radical and dangerous than you think

The most powerful ethnic group, the Pashtuns, are taking the homes and farms of their Shiite neighbors.

Perfect Storm – Pakistan Eyes The Bayraktar TB2

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Time to warn Taiwan secessionists and their fomenters: war is real: Global Times editorial

Is Beijing on Borrowed Time? Is the U.S.?

Gas Prices In Europe Are Now The Equivalent Of $205 Oil

Surging prices for high-purity silicon is sending a shockwave towards chipmakers

India’s coal crisis brews as power demand surges, record global prices bite

China Energy Crunch Forces Beijing To Buy Australian Coal

Massive California oil spill was reported Friday. But nobody told the millions who went to the beaches.

It is the City, but still….New York’s Straw Law Will Fine Business for Giving Out Unsolicited Straws, and Also for Not Having Enough Straws

Having SARS-CoV-2 once confers much greater immunity than a vaccine—but vaccination remains vital

Default Of Second Chinese Developer Sparks China Junk Bond Meltdown As Contagion Explodes

New Zealand admits it can no longer get rid of coronavirus

If following a woman into a bathroom and harassing her is now acceptable practice, where is the new line? Do norms exist anymore?

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More energy shocks, and it was crazy to move away from nuclear power

You have to scroll to the middle section to get the good stuff. I imagine we will be hearing more about this one way or another. Inadvertent intravenous injection

Still burning food for fuel. Supply tightness in soybean oil market making ways for sunflower oil

Turkish company again stops supplying Lebanon with electricity

South Pole Sees Record Cold Winter, Smashing 1976 Record …WaPo Admits “Chill Was Exceptional”

Turkish inflation rises to 19.6% after surprise rate cut

Biden declares war on showerheads

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House Budget Chairman Yarmuth To Progressives: “The Federal Government Can Afford Anything”

The NYT’s Partisan Tale about COVID and the Unvaccinated is Rife with Sloppy Data Analysis

Soldiers to start delivering petrol to UK forecourts from Monday amid warnings of 3p rise in fuel costs – but Rishi Sunak admits ‘very real’ food shortages will last until Christmas

“Nobody has fish in their freezer right now. Nobody,”

Cargo ships anchored off NY and LA face 4-WEEK wait to berth and trains in Chicago are backed up 25 miles with global supply chain on the brink of collapse

Rolling Stone Lefty Loses It, Shrieks ‘Joe Manchin Just Cooked the Planet’

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A Week in the World’s Most Chaotic City

Venezuela subtracts six zeros from currency, second overhaul in three years

Key inflation gauge watched by the Federal Reserve hits another 30-year high

Media stops covering FL COVID data because DeSantis’ downtrend threatens lockdown politics: Sexton, Travis

How did 30,000 Haitians get to Texas?

Saturday Commentary and Review #57

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German Coal Plant Runs Completely Out Of Coal

Chinese switch to flashlights, generators amid power cuts

Evergrande and Stein’s Law: “That which cannot go on forever, won’t”

A Peek Inside Corporate America’s Ascendant Woke-Industrial Complex

New COVID-19 antigen testing method offers highly accurate results in under 3 minutes

The right-wing radical party AfD emerged from last Sunday’s election as the strongest political force in the eastern German states of Saxony and Thuringia. What did the mainstream parties do wrong?

Blue Origin employees say they wouldn’t feel safe riding the company’s rockets and that it’s ‘lucky that nothing has happened’

Haiti Since the 2010 Earthquake: A Review of 11 Years Following the Money

Sudan confiscates Hamas assets

Top generals in charge of Turkey’s military operations in Syria have sought retirement amid escalating tensions in Idlib, fueling questions over Ankara’s Syria policies.

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The workers who keep global supply chains moving are warning of a ‘system collapse’

Bacon prices have skyrocketed to record levels, and they might not go down anytime soon

Review Analysis: Stanford students are more likely to wear masks on bicycles than helmets

In a blistering speech to the United Nations on Monday — one that was mostly ignored by the mainstream media — new Israeli PM Naftali Bennett all but threatened war against Iran and that country’s nuclear weapons program.

Why America has a school bus driver shortage

The Culture War is Coming for Your Genes

Global supply crunch fuels German inflation

Rikers Island: “Humanitarian Crisis” with Dead Cockroaches, Urine and Feces, Plastic Bags in Lieu of Toilets, Lack of Food and Water; Guards Call in Sick to Escape Appalling Conditions, Covid Risk

Explainer-What is behind China’s power crunch? and here is a German view.

Buried on page 168 of the House Democrats’ 2,465-page mega bill is a tenfold increase in fines for employers that “willfully,” “repeatedly,” or even seriously violate a section of labor law that deals with hazards, death, or serious physical harm to their employees.

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Most interesting thing about this is that the power crisis has been going on for awhile in China but has just not been reported until now. Power crisis deepens in Asia and Europe: What it means to shipping

The immediate effects of the YouTube ban include taking down channels belonging to vaccine skeptics Robert F. Kennedy, who heads a vaccine skeptic organization, and Joseph Mercola, an alternative medicine entrepreneur.

Governor Kathy Hochul Declares a Healthcare Worker Shortage Emergency of Her Own Making

But maybe no Democrat lit up the Biden team for their failures more than Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT).

Why isn’t there more debate over the Biden economic plan?

BLM NY: We need some George Floyd-style protests against vaccine mandates

Students are demanding their school remove a conservative undergraduate over an article he wrote for ‘Campus Reform’ that gained national media attention.

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GOD AND MAN AT ALBANY:

Petrol supply: Army put on standby to ease fuel crisis and British petrol stations run out of fuel as motorists panic buy amid truck-driver shortage and THIEVES are drilling holes into parked cars to steal fuel after panic buying sparked a petrol shortage.

Official Sources Warn a Geomagnetic Storm Is Imminent, So Get Ready For Auroras

Bosnian Serbs demand their own army, leader says

A group tied to prominent Democratic strategists is posing as a conservative outfit to try to drive a wedge between the Republican candidate for Virginia governor and his core voters, Axios has learned.

Ohio Professor Wins Major Free Speech Decision on Compelled Use of Pronouns in Classrooms

Singapore finding it hard to ‘live with Covid’

95% Vaccinated Harvard Business School Suspends In-Person Classes After Covid Outbreak