The bizarre and so far still unexplained ground stop of planes near the West Coast and Hawaii came just after a North Korean ballistic missile launch.

Biden Admin Quietly Creates Creepy Database Storing Information About Unvaxxed People Who Request Religious Exemptions

Russian gas boost fuels Moscow’s China pivot

Former DARPA Official: COVID-19 Was Designed to Be an Aerosolized Synthetic Spike Protein Vaccine For Bats

Gas Prices In Europe Drop As U.S. LNG Flotilla Arrives

Do Kazakhstan’s protests signal an end to the Nazarbayev era?

Why Does the CDC Do This?

Occupations that disappeared over time, most notably that of cobbler and tailor, have been revived due to the decline in citizens’ purchasing power.

The Energy Crisis Is Sending Shockwaves Through The UK Economy

Convenient Ignorance: The U.S. Senate’s Approach To Israeli Arms Sales To Azerbaijan

The situation in Kazakhstan is a much bigger deal than Western media is letting on. Some of the same information is here in a better format.

Penn’s Transgender Swimmer Loses to Yale’s Transgender Swimmer in Women’s 100 Meter Race

It Is Time to Face Reality about the Vaccines

A little disingenuous on Israel’s demographic security as a Jewish state, but otherwise good. Demography Still Plays a Critical Role in the Middle East

Unstable Kazakhstan a big risk for energy markets

Much Ado About Nothing

N.Y. governor proposes 1st-ever statewide ban on gas hookups in new buildings

Do you have what you need in your car to walk home in the dark with cold snow blowing around you? A search party found the body of a Virginia man who tried to walk six miles home after his vehicle broke down during a snowstorm

Texas teacher put son with Covid-19 in car trunk to prevent exposure, warrant says

It passed. New Law Will Install Kill Switches In All New Cars

Texas edged Florida for the largest net gain of one-way U-Haul trucks in 2021; California and Illinois saw the greatest net losses

NASA successfully deploys complex sunshield on James Webb Space Telescope

Doctors Finally Get Real About Covid Hospitalizations Amid Omicron Spike

I-95 winter storm traffic disaster: Drivers are fuming and demanding answers from Virginia officials

Does the fact that they already have a name for something so rare mean that they are already planning a panic campaign for it? LA’s First Reported Case Of Flurona Detected At COVID Testing Site Near Getty Center

Gas Prices In Europe Are Soaring Again Amid New Cold Snap

Manhattan DA to stop seeking prison sentences in slew of criminal cases

Drivers fret about food and fuel while stranded on highway

Miraculous $10bln profit erases Turkey’s Central Bank losses on last day of 2021

10% of adults have benign tumor linked with diabetes, high blood pressure

Verizon and AT&T cut a deal with the FAA, will hit the brakes on 5G C-band rollouts

Syrian Official Slams Russia for ‘Silence’ Over Alleged Israeli Strikes

DC Comics Is Done Forever

Global chip shortage: Engineer shortfall is the next big problem Not mentioned is that Taiwan is a rapidly aging country.

Check your status! 1,700 flights ALREADY canceled for Sunday after almost 2,700 were canned on Saturday sparking chaos at airports across the nation: Bad weather and staff shortages caused by Omicron are blamed as FAA warns of impending travel turmoil

The Zero Covid Problem

Germany’s Risky Decision To Phase Out Nuclear Power

An emerging understanding of why omicron is so much milder than earlier variants

Norway Arctic Oil Drilling Ends Up In European Human Rights Court

“Their highest-ranking executioners have a kind of uncanny clairvoyance that is not the product of intelligence but of demonic inspiration. At every crossroads, they will find the direction that leads to greater destruction.”

Facebook ‘permanently’ locks account of conservative children’s book publisher

Panicky Would-Be COVID Victims Line Up for Hours to Find Out if They’re Sick

Satellite Imagery of Syrian Port After Alleged Israeli Strike Shows ‘Astonishingly Precise’ Attack