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Canada’s public health agency admits it tracked 33 million mobile devices during lockdown

Chinese Terracotta Warriors city Xian in lockdown as Covid-19 outbreak grows

Israel’s Iran question: To strike or not to strike?

Putin says ‘diverse’ options open to fight Western ‘threat’

How are Rome’s monuments still standing?

Twice the speed, half the time, no loss of learning

Ketamine therapy swiftly reduces depression and suicidal thoughts

Oh the mystery of how coronavirus doesn’t infect and kill people in Japan anymore?

In August I challenged the UC vaccine mandate in federal court. Yesterday the University fired me for refusing the vaccine.

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China hoards over half the world’s grain, pushing up global prices

Rikers Island has been notorious for violence and neglect for decades. But detainees, corrections officers and officials tell us the New York City jail complex has plunged into a new state of emergency.

Covid is suddenly funny and cool now that all the right people are getting it.

The real story is how common carjacking is getting in some cities. Two Dems who support police reform carjacked less than 24 hours apart

The newfound structure sits within the masseter, a key muscle for chewing.

A New Way to Preserve Tomatoes?

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Europe Faces Full Blown Energy Crisis As Gas Prices Smash All Records

Germany’s Reaction To The Energy Crisis Could Be Catastrophic

Science Should Never Shut Down Debate

UK: Omicron variant has 50%-70% less hospitalization rate

It’s a Pandemic of the Vitamin D Deficient:

When and why did human brains decrease in size 3,000 years ago?

US: Supreme Court to hear challenges to Biden vaccine mandate

On the Horn of Africa, a tiny ‘country’ has Congress’ ear

This Scientist Created a Rapid Test Just Weeks Into the Pandemic. Here’s Why You Still Can’t Get It.

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We May Be Prescribing Antidepressants Wrong, Claims Concerning New Review

According to their filings, for years Hertz has falsely reported that its cars were stolen as part of its regular business practice, “ensnaring its customers in accusations of car theft, throwing them in jail on felony charges, prosecuting them, burdening them with criminal records that impact their livelihoods, and separating them from their family and loved ones.”

Cuba records runaway inflation of over 70%

N.Y. Gov. Hochul Now Bribing Counties to Enforce Her Mask Mandate

Study: Moderna, Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines less effective in seniors with chronic health woes

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Harassment Of Navy Destroyers By Mysterious Drone Swarms Off California Went On For Weeks

Gazprom halts gas transit to Germany via Yamal pipeline No US press yet that I have seen but there is also this.

The country’s total population of nearly 52 million is set to decline 0.18% by 2021 year-end, for the first time since the country began collecting census data, according to figures released by Statistics Korea.

The supply chain that is Japanese

Philippines typhoon death toll hits 375

Hair, beauty products may interfere with hormones during pregnancy

Israel to offer fourth COVID-19 booster dose

No, 73% of US COVID-19 cases aren’t Omicron yet: how the press got it wrong

According to reports, the IDF does not have the means to effectively and seriously damage Iran’s nuclear facilities right now.

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Warren and Booker announce breakthrough COVID-19 cases And this is related.

New York has a huge rat problem. These vigilantes with dogs think they can fix it

FDA finds 3 COVID-19 tests that fail to detect the omicron variant

Leftist millennial wins election as Chile’s next president

LA Area Port Traffic: Disappointing Traffic in November

China Developing ‘Brain-Control Weaponry’

Realpolitik behind Israel’s counterintuitive alliance with Azerbaijan

More than 150 Comparative Studies and Articles on Mask Ineffectiveness and Harms

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Boosters for Men 16-40: A Regulatory Gamble

OSHA Vaccine Mandate Heads to the Supreme Court

New York City’s Drug Experiment

It Turns Out That Everything We Know About The Runner’s High Could Be Wrong

Enraged monkeys kill 250 DOGS by dragging them to the top of buildings and dropping them off ‘out of revenge’ after pups killed one of their infants in Indian village

Joe Manchin Just Killed the Build Back Better Act

“Way way more vaccinated and boostered patients are now becoming positive. Many of them quite ill.”

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Putin’s Move to Destabilize Ukraine Maybe related… Putin and Xi plot their SWIFT escape

The case seemed like a lock — until an informant and one FBI agent were charged with crimes, another was accused of perjury, and a third was found promoting a private security firm. And that wasn’t all.

Rantz: Seattle police ‘Unavailable’ list grows, city an emergency event away from catastrophe

Federal appeals court reinstates Biden administration’s business vaccine and testing mandate

A domestic newspaper warns of the Russian space program’s “rapid collapse”

Anti-5G necklaces found to be radioactive

Schools across US cancel classes over unconfirmed TikTok threats

From Turkey With Love: Tracking Turkish Military Donations

Covid-19: Omicron spreading at lightning speed – French PM

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A nurse reader describes the state of her hospital

Omicron is far more infectious than Delta, and it is also able to infect those who are fully vaccinated, and even those who have received their booster.

In which ways does inflation harm the poor?

Biden Admin Announces Posthumous Medal Of Honor — For Living Recipient Standing In Room

Missouri Judge Loses Bid for Immunity for Jailing ‘America’s Got Talent’ Kids