From Jenna Orkin

A South Korean Artificial Sun Reactor Just Broke a Nuclear Fusion Record

By running at one million degrees for 30 seconds.

Siberian mine explosion kills more than 50, another tragedy in an industry plagued with safety lapses

Oil and gas companies should pay more to drill on public lands and waters, Interior Department says

As cases rise nationwide, a flood of covid patients causes ‘almost unmanageable’ stress in Michigan

Inside your dreamscape

Dream-hacking techniques can help us create, heal and have fun. They could also become tools of commercial manipulation

Ukrainian president accuses group of planning coup for next week

1. Climate activists say they blockaded 15 Amazon sites in 3 countries on Black Friday, using huge bamboo structures to prevent access for trucks

   Belgium records Europe's first case of the new coronavirus variant spreading in southern Africa

   Israel reports first case of COVID-19 variant from Africa

Rise of a new coronavirus variant in Africa looks like the disaster scenario experts warned of if rich nations hoarded vaccines for themselves

 

From Jenna Orkin

"Most People Don't Even Realize What's Coming" | Edward Snowden (2021)

At least 27 migrants drown in English Channel, in one of the deadliest incidents on a dangerous route

The Rittenhouse Trial: A Legal Scholar Responds

Ronald S. Sullivan Jr.

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A Turkey's Day of Reckoning

A UAE official accused of torture has been elected president of Interpol

Ohio State wants to wipe out its student debt and just launched an $800 million program to do it within 10 years

Ohio State, one of the largest state schools, will offer all undergrads a mix of scholarships and grants to ensure they graduate debt free.

I went to 'the shuttlecock of the Confederacy' to hear what people there thought about critical race theory. I heard about equity instead.

Pfizer has accused a longtime employee of stealing a 'playbook' containing secrets about its COVID-19 vaccine

North Korean to be executed for smuggling Squid Game: report

'Dazed' Jeffrey Epstein asked to call his dead mother in his final days: report

Sweden’s first-ever female prime minister resigns just hours after her appointment

 

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Russia’s Oil Reserves Are Becoming Increasingly Hard To Recover

Weekly jobless claims plunge to 199,000, the lowest level in more than 50 years

German parties to announce government led by center-left Olaf Scholz, marking end of Merkel era

Kevin Spacey Loses Arbitration Case Against ‘House of Cards’ Production Company

Arbitrator rules actor breached contract, awards MRC nearly $31 million following sexual-harassment, misconduct claims

Police Could Take Guns from Troops Accused of Domestic Violence Under Proposed Law

1. Putin says he took an experimental nasal COVID-19 vaccine

   The Bank of England said 20% of commercial banking deposits could shift to 'Britcoin' - and dismissed stablecoins as an alternative

   Rittenhouse fired attorney because of his support for QAnon

1. CIA Director gives Russia warning if behind 'Havana syndrome'

 

From Jenna Orkin

Greenland saw record ice loss from calving icebergs and ocean melt over the last year

Climate change fuels a water rights conflict built on over a century of broken promises Biden authorizes use of strategic oil reserves to combat high U.S. gasoline prices

Racial Bias in Medical Devices

Four more UK energy suppliers go bust

SA Health planning COVID quarantine camps in case of outbreak

Russian gas giant Gazprom threatens to cut supplies to Moldova

The number of UK job ads mandating a COVID-19 vaccine jumped 189% in 3 months on jobs board Adzuna. The 'taboo' around mandates is 'breaking,' its CEO said.

Germans will be 'vaccinated, recovered, or dead' by the end of the winter, the health minister warned amid a COVID-19 surge

Malcolm X's daughter, Malikah Shabazz, found dead in Brooklyn home 

From Jenna Orkin

European thinktank adds U.S. to list of "backsliding" democracies for 1st time

Biden to nominate Jerome Powell for second term as Fed chair, signaling continuity amid heavy economic headwinds

One Woman’s Mission to Rewrite Nazi History on Wikipedia

AI Hiring Tools Can Discriminate Based on Race and Gender. A New NYC Bill Would Fight That

Germany Considers Vaccine Mandate

80 looters simultaneously broke into a Nordstrom near San Francisco, police say

Octopuses, crabs, and lobsters will be recognized as 'sentient beings' in UK after a review concluded they feel pain and distress

Ukraine in the Crosshairs

Why Is Russia Surging Troops to the Border Again?

Hillary Clinton says cryptocurrency has the potential to destabilize nations and traditional currencies

El Salvador plans to build a 'Bitcoin City' powered by a volcano

 

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Vancouver Is Marooned by Flooding and Besieged Again by Climate Change

Facebook’s race-blind policies around hate speech came at the expense of Black users, new documents show

Sudan’s military, civilian leaders reach deal that reinstates prime minister deposed in coup

Americans Load Up on Firewood as Home-Heating Costs Skyrocket

1. Many of the 200 witnesses interviewed by the January 6 committee are Trump administration staffers who voluntarily came forward

   Glow-in-the-dark materials can help cities stay cooler and use less electricity — here's how they work

   A woman in a coma and on a ventilator with COVID-19 woke up the day her family planned to pull her life support

   Hospital staff told family members of 69-year-old Bettina Lerman, who was unvaccinated, that she'd never wake up.

   A house cleaner working for Israel's defense minister offered to spy for hackers linked to Iran, says indictment

   Protests rip across Europe over COVID-19 winter restrictions
2. Southwest Airlines employee shot dead at El Paso airport: police

   China belongs to Xi Jinping now — and what he believes could plunge the world into chaos

   Xi Jinping is reigniting China's revolutionary fire and reining in big business. His hardline mindset is the key to fathoming the conflicts to come.

 

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Werner argued that negative interest rates were designed not to stimulate the economy but to create deflation and wreak further havoc — “havoc that they intend to instrumentalise to accelerate their goal of becoming the complete masters of our lives, by allowing only digital currency that they issue and control – and that they can monitor in terms of all transactions, and that they can switch off, if, for instance, some pesky dissident criticizes them too much.”

Vancouver is now completely cut off from the rest of Canada by road

As Haiti’s crisis worsens, a rising number flee by sea: ‘There is nothing for me here’

Malcolm X, Julius Jones and Britney: How documentaries are making an impact

Attempted breach of Ohio county election network draws FBI and state scrutiny

Two Iranian Nationals Charged for Cyber-Enabled Disinformation and Threat Campaign Designed to Influence the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election

Dry River Triggers Mass Protest In Iran's Third-Largest City

Rotterdam police clash with rioters as Covid protest turns violent

"Naughty Guy" Australia's Sabre-Wielding Submarine Deal

This member of Congress wants everyone to know about the 'dark money scheme' that's 'captured' the Supreme Court

 

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As COVID cases rise, officials fear a possible holiday surge

Africa’s rising cities

Homicide Rates in 2020 Surged to a 24-Year High. It's Another Sign of a Failing Regime.

Reynolds Middle School is shutting down in-person learning for 3 weeks to address student fights, misbehavior

U.S. Senator Introduces Bill to Block Brazilian Beef Imports After 'Mad Cow' Reports

Austria's focus shifts to full lockdown as COVID-19 cases keep rising

Women given forced internal exams after a baby was found in a Qatar airport bathroom say they thought they were being kidnapped, and compared the trauma to rape

1. Biden to transfer power to Harris while under anesthesia

Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse could fracture the world as we know it — letting people 'reality block' things they disagree with and making polarization even worse

About 60% of the US population has reduced protection against COVID-19, CDC data shows

 

From Jenna Orkin

Vancouver is now completely cut off from the rest of Canada by road

Two men convicted of role in Malcolm X assassination to be exonerated Thursday

Gibraltar: Given the exponential rise in the number of cases, the Government, for example, intends to cancel a number of its own functions including official Christmas parties, official receptions and similar gatherings.

FBI investigating vials labeled 'smallpox' found in lab near Philadelphia

Austrian COVID cases hit record on third day of lockdown for unvaccinated

The 800 Million Barrel Oilfield Getting Boris Johnson In Trouble

The FDA has proposed to produce 500 pages per month which, based on its calculated number of pages, would mean it would complete its production in nearly 55 years – the year 2076.

US Army Special Forces are shifting their focus to fighting China or Russia, and they're already practicing for it in Hawaii

Companies like Nestle and Coca-Cola are eager to use more recycled material — here's why that actually raises concerns over sustainability

Companies want to increase their use of recycled plastic, but higher prices and low collection rates could slow progress.

'QAnon Shaman' thanked the judge for OKing a fully organic jail diet 

From Jenna Orkin

They bought houses in Italy for 1 euro — and are using them to give back to the community

Terry Glavin: The scale of the disaster unfolding in B.C. is unprecedented

Gabon goes green: Can a small African oil state show how to protect the continent's rainforests?

- Paul Krugman - I got inflation wrong; I didn't see the current surge coming.

Ghostly subatomic particles help scientists peer inside the guts of dangerous volcanoes

The FBI raided the home of a Colorado elections official accused of leaking data that appeared on a QAnon forum

Elon Musk met with Brazilian minister to discuss bringing SpaceX's Starlink internet to the Amazon rainforest

A record number of ships are stuck at LA ports, even as port chiefs say the backlog is easing up

Internal memo shows how freaked-out progressives plan to beat Republicans in 2022

Bill Gates' nuclear startup picks a Wyoming coal town for its 1st advanced reactor, which will cost $4 billion