THE TYRANNY OF BATTLE DRILL 6

Turkey’s inflation spirals out of control

Haiti police battle gunmen who killed president, amid fears of chaos

Don’t buy the hysteria: The Delta variant is actually less dangerous

OPEC’s Spat Isn’t Even About Oil

Meet the Navy’s First Maternity Flight Suit

Haiti President Jovenel Moïse assassinated in middle-of-the-night attack at his home

Keep in mind the following statistic (as of today from this site) when you read this article. Deaths per million from COVID France 1701. Deaths from COVID Russia 959. Even allowing for a lot of lying on the part of Russia authorities, there is no particular evidence that Russia is doing all that bad compared to many first world countries. A massive third wave is spreading unchecked, anti-vaxxers are rampant, and the Kremlin’s vaccine diplomacy has failed.

Report: Delta variant is said to cause fewer serious COVID cases in Israel

Do not post: Content attacking concepts, institutions, ideas, practices, or beliefs associated with protected characteristics, which are likely to contribute to imminent physical harm, intimidation or discrimination against the people associated with that protected characteristic. Facebook looks at a range of signs to determine whether there is a threat of harm in the content.

Cuomo’s gun-violence emergency slush fund is all about saving… Cuomo

Suez Canal officials release Ever Given ship after settlement

Why a Chinese invasion of Taiwan would be a catastrophe for China and the world

A Review of COVID-19 Deaths in Two California Counties Drops the Total by Nearly 25%

Iran accuses Israel of June sabotage attack on nuclear site

We Still Don’t Know If Masks Work

The NSA Does Not Deny Reading Tucker Carlson’s Emails

Are Speed Limiters Coming to American Cars?

Spiders are eating snakes all over the world, and yeah, it’s gruesome

How Preconceptions Influence Science

Operation Ditroite: The HMS Defender Incident Explained

Some Chinese shun grueling careers for ‘low-desire life’

Hackers conduct one of the largest supply chain cyberattacks to date

Army preparing for mandatory COVID-19 vaccines by September, report says

CULTURE WARS ARE LONG WARS

Lockdown killed my mother — and thousands like her

Lying to the ghost in the machine

Early Reports on Delta Variant Symptoms Indicate They Are Different From Normal

Big Tech cracks down on Robert Malone, mRNA vaccine pioneer who warns about their risks

Humans caught the ocean on fire’: Gas pipeline fire in Gulf of Mexico creates shocking scene

UK pupils use orange juice to fake ‘positive’ Covid test results

Trump Organization indictments are a travesty of justice

‘The information’ being shared during in-person gatherings ‘itself if listened to creates risk to the public,’ claimed stammering Nova Scotia chief medical doctor Robert Strang, necessitating ‘a need to manage that misinformation campaign’ by restricting socializing.

Single bee is making an immortal clone army thanks to a genetic fluke

NIH study suggests COVID-19 prevalence far exceeded early pandemic cases

Is your friend an extremist? Facebook is asking some users about exposure to content.

U.S. pulls out of Bagram Airfield without notice

Settlement evacuation compromise rocks Israeli coalition

Western drought brings another woe: voracious grasshoppers

Birds dying in Indiana and Kentucky remains a mystery

In Western universities and board rooms, souls are cheap. But Jimmy Lai’s is not.

California Democrats pass law to change recall rules and help Gov. Newsom fend off challengers

Is North Korea Headed Towards Starvation?

Lebanon’s parliament backs $556M cash subsidy

5-minute breathing workout lowers blood pressure as much as exercise, drugs