From Jenna Orkin

Inside Hunter Biden’s multimillion-dollar deals with a Chinese energy company

Internet Provider to Ukrainian Military Hit With Major Cyberattack

MICHAEL HUDSON: US DOLLAR HEGEMONY ENDED ABRUPTLY LAST WEDNESDAY

Russia's Transneft caps oil pipeline intake on brimming storage

Taibbi: Meet The Censored - Chris Hedges

Authored by Matt Taibbi via TK News,

This past weekend, celebrated journalist and author Chris Hedges woke up to find six years of episodes of his Russia Today show On Contact vanished from the show’s account on YouTube. 

World's Longest Flights Created to Avoid Russian Airspace

Germany Takes Step Towards Gas Rationing Over Payment Standoff With Russia

Roman Abramovich asked a scientist 'are we dying?' after apparent poisoning attack, report says'We have your daughter': The terrified father paid the ransom. Then he found his kid where he least expected her.

Criminals are staging a devious new kind of kidnapping — and the FBI is stumped.

GOP Sen. Susan Collins says she'll vote to confirm Biden's Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson

Russia brought back a US astronaut from the ISS despite the two countries cutting most ties over the invasion of Ukraine

Russian journalist says families are pressured not to talk about their relatives killed in Ukraine, local papers don't report their deaths

Photos show a Russian businessman's $50 million superyacht docked in London with no visible security and lit up with fake stars hours after being seized 

From Jenna Orkin

Salmon travel deep into the Pacific. As it warms, many ‘don’t come back.’

China's Running Out of Water and That's Scary for Asia

El Salvador declares state of emergency amid killings

Texas Wildfire Expands to Largest Military Base

1. General Motors told Shanghai workers to sleep on factory floors to keep up production during the city's new lockdown, report says

   Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich was seen attending the Russia-Ukraine peace talks in Istanbul following reports of his suspected poisoning

   Congress launches probe into Credit Suisse after report that it asked investors to destroy documents linked to Russian oligarch finances

   Russia is prepared to drop its demand for Ukraine to be 'denazified' from its list of ceasefire conditions: report

   White House call logs on the day of the Capitol riot had a 7-hour gap, report says, as House panel investigates 'possible coverup'

   Russia says it will reduce Kyiv military activity to help peace talks

 

From Jenna Orkin

U.S., Israel and Arab states to expand cooperation in unprecedented meeting

China Canceled H&M

These days it is easy enough for anyone to simply search “CIA coup d’états” and find no end of open-source material, even Agency documents describing in detail how, for example, it used false-flag “sham bombings” during the coup in Iran in 1953.

Black Ops in Hollywood: From Censorship to Normalization

Volcanologists seek answers as island in Portugal's Azores keeps shaking

China is shutting down Shanghai in two phases to control Covid

Luhansk 'may hold referendum on joining Russia', Ukraine says 'null and void'

Russian secret service agents seized millions of dollars of Swiss luxury watches from Audemars Piguet in apparent retaliation against sanctions

Russia holdout HSBC has cut references to a 'war' in Ukraine from its analyst research reports, the FT says

Committees at the research department at HSBC — which is under pressure to exit Russia — have softened the language in several publications, the FT said.

Zelenskyy says Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich has been trying to help Ukraine during Russia's invasion

Prepare to switch to rubles for natural gas exports by March 31, Vladimir Putin tells Gazprom and Russia's central bank

Daniel Yergin, of 'Peak OIl's a myth" fame is back with more reassuring wisdom: 

The US will emerge as the world's largest natural-gas exporter this year, a top energy market historian says

"The longer the war goes on, the more Russia has been separated from the global economy," S&P Global's Dan Yergin told CNBC Monday. 

From Jenna Orkin

1. We Have New Evidence of Saudi Involvement in 9/11, and Barely Anyone Cares
   

   Russian generals are getting killed at an extraordinary rate

   Mainstream media has failed to notice its own disinformation issue

   Broke Russian Oligarch Says Sanctioned Billionaires Hold No Sway Over Putin

   Biden is making a colossal mistake in thinking he can bleed Russia dry, topple Putin and signal to China to keep its hands off Taiwan.
   For the US a Tenuous Balance in Confronting Russia

2. Ukraine is willing to discuss 'neutral status' in talks with Russia to end the invasion, Zelenskyy says

3. Elon Musk says Russian rocket engines are 'great, to be fair'
4. Ukrainian protestors forced Russian troops to release abducted mayor

Oligarch Mikhail Fridman says he learned about the sanctions against him from TV and doesn't have any way to deliver messages to Putin

 

From Jenna Orkin

1. China threat to Taiwan highlighted by Ukraine war, warns US admiral 

   G7 and EU announce sanctions evasion initiative to prevent circumvention and backfilling of our unprecedented sanctions; continue to blunt Central Bank of the Russian Federation’s ability to deploy international reserves including gold

   COLUMN-EU steps back from impractical Russia oil embargo

   The US is preparing to sanction companies providing technology and intelligence services for Russia's military, a report says

   Amazon delivery drones are falling out of the sky, with at least 8 crashes in the last year, documents show

   With the US dollar's dominance in question, here's how China's yuan could become a global reserve currency — and why it wouldn't be all bad

   How Congress can impeach Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas

   Elon Musk discusses the war in Ukraine and the importance of nuclear power — and why Benjamin Franklin would be 'the most fun at dinner'

   Needless to say, (I hope,) it's the nuclear power part that got our attention

   New York is back — but it's terrible news for renters getting hit with $1,100-a-month increases, like this single mom of 2

   Mass evacuation ordered in the Philippines after volcano erupts

 

From Jenna Orkin

Nebraska Rep. Jeff Fortenberry found guilty of lying to the FBI

China and Solomon Islands Draft Secret Security Pact

NATO leaders set to OK 'major increases' of troops in ... - CNBC

Peace, partition or stalemate? How the war in Ukraine might end

Dmitry Orlov Blog

Russians are panic buying anti-depressants and sleeping pills due to fears that supplies may run out, reports say

Kremlin says Russia would not be upset if it gets kicked out of the G20 for invading Ukraine and would focus on different countries for allies

Cheap Russian oil is heading to China and India amid sweeping sanctions

Russia proposes accepting bitcoin for its oil and gas exports from 'friendly' countries like China and Turkey

Social-media users in China are obsessing over a conspiracy theory claiming the COVID-19 virus was produced by US-linked laboratories in Ukraine

A sanctioned Russian oligarch says he's struggling to pay bills and isn't sure he can employ a cleaner or driver

Old joke: Once upon a time there was a family that was very poor. The father was poor. The mother was poor. The children were poor. The butler was poor... 

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Brain Implant Enables Completely 'Locked-In' Man to Communicate Again

Biden to accept 100,000 refugees; G-7 to warn Putin against chemical, nuclear weapons

Small lab that got $187 million for covid testing put patients in ‘jeopardy’

If you sanction a country, you force it to become more self-reliant and across the board, from agriculture to dairy products to technology, Russia is forced to become more self-reliant and at the same time to depend much more on trade with China for the things that it is still not self-reliant in.

So America is bringing about exactly the opposite of what it intended… American sanctions are driving Russia and China together, and America has gone to China and said, Please don’t support Russia. Most recently, on Monday, March 14, Jake Sullivan came out and told China, we will sanction countries that break our sanctions against Russia. And basically, China said, fine. - Michael Hudson

Record-Smashing Heatwaves Are Hitting Antarctica And The Arctic at The Same Time

Fallout from a Russian nuclear strike on Ukraine could drift into NATO countries and be considered an attack, says head of US Senate Armed Services Committee

Russian journalist Oksana Baulina died after a rocket strike on a shopping center in Kyiv

Oksana Baulina, 42, a reporter for The Insider, was on assignment in Ukraine filming the destruction of Russian shelling in Kyiv.

Oil could double to $250 this year because Russia's supply to Europe will plunge, top traders warn

Russia says it will demand payment in rubles for its natural gas from 'hostile countries.' 6 experts break down how that might work.

Wall Street bonuses hit a record high of $257,500 per worker last year

The richest man in Africa just opened the continent's biggest fertilizer plant. He says people are 'begging' him to sell crop nutrients as sanctions against Russia disrupt supply.

 

From Jenna Orkin

Taliban reopens Afghan schools — except for girls after sixth grade

Putin plans to attend G-20 summit despite calls to exclude him

Twitter sleuths emerge as Ukraine war intelligence analysts

Tokyo Issues First-Ever Power Crunch Alert to Avoid Outage

Bank of Canada and Massachusetts Institute of Technology announce joint Central Bank Digital Currency collaboration

Lithium Prices Have Nearly Doubled In 2022 Amid Insane Commodity Rally

Traders warn of looming global diesel shortage

Moderna says its coronavirus shot works in young kids and will ask regulators to OK its use

How 8 Ukrainian software developers are taking up arms and using code to inspire, launch attacks, and defend their country

NATO official estimates that 40,000 Russian troops have been captured, injured, or killed: report

 

From Jenna Orkin

White House officials say U.S. has exhausted funds to buy potential fourth vaccine dose for all Americans

Omicron: Shanghai hit by record surge in cases as China stands by zero-Covid approach to outbreaks

Canadian Pacific rail work stoppage could hit US agriculture

NYC's Third-Largest Hotel To Sell At Staggering Loss

Russian generals are dying in Ukraine partly because they are struggling to get conscripts to follow orders, report says

The coronavirus subvariant surging in Europe is a more-contagious type of Omicron which experts fear could soon take over in the US

A third of US workers make less than $15 an hour, and they're struggling to make ends meet

US sends Ukraine small loitering drones for kamikaze attacks on Russia

Sand for fracking is now 3 times as expensive as it was last year, and it's one of several reasons US oil production isn't increasing 

Finland's people now strongly back joining NATO, poll says, a massive political shift that would enrage Russia

From Jenna Orkin

Navalny Sentenced to 9 More Years in Prison

Earthquake of magnitude 7.3 suspends the operation of some semiconductor factories in Japan

Olga Misik: Teenage girl reads constitution in front of Putin’s riot police during Moscow protests

Second Read How a Book About America’s History Foretold China’s Future In 1989, a young Chinese academic spent six months travelling in the United States. His insights are now central to Xi Jinping’s cultural crackdown.

As it enters a third year, California’s drought is strangling the farming industry

North Korea fires multiple-rocket launcher, South Korea says

Banks Are Restocking Gold at Fastest Pace in Years

Ukraine conflict: Putin lays out his demands in Turkish phone call

Zelensky says Ukrainian political parties linked to Russia to be banned

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has been hospitalized with 'flu-like symptoms'

 

From Jenna Orkin

Scientists Find a Natural Protein That Stops Allergies And Autoimmune Conditions

Mikhail Baryshnikov: Do not punish Russian artists and athletes for war

Polish schools expect as many Ukrainian refugees as there are students in Los Angeles

Spring Outlook: Drought to expand amid warmer conditions

Edward Snowden Talks Governments and Crypto, CBDCs, and Ethereum vs Bitcoin at Camp Ethereal

Russia Confirms It's Using Hypersonic Missiles in Ukraine

'We have your daughter': The terrified father paid the ransom. Then he found his kid where he least expected her.

1. Crypto isn't decentralized — it's actually run by a handful of big wigs exploiting low-paid workers, says long-time internet academic

   If a US civil war breaks out, here are the 3 places it's most likely to start

2. China Eastern Airlines flight crashes carrying more than 130 people: state media

 

From Jenna Orkin

Dispatch Ukraine’s Radio Station of National Resistance High up in the Carpathian Mountains, two Kyiv broadcasters keep the signal alive.

It’s 70 degrees warmer than normal in eastern Antarctica. Scientists are flabbergasted.

A good opportunity for us’: Brazil’s Bolsonaro uses Ukraine war to justify exploiting Indigenous land

Elon Musk's Starlink Helping Ukraine Win Drone War

Nearly 400 gallons of gas stolen from North Carolina gas station

U.S. Egg Prices Rise as Deadly Bird Flu Strikes Ahead of Easter

China Planned Taiwan Invasion in Fall, Alleged Russian Intel Leak Claims

Mother died due to rare 'brain bleed' side effect of COVID-19 vaccine, coroner rules

Meet the army of volunteers who are beating Putin's censorship by sending texts about the Ukraine war to Russian strangers

An economist explains why Saudi Arabia and China are looking to ditch the dollar in a new oil deal — and where Beijing could target next as it spreads yuan adoption

 

From Jenna Orkin

1. Previously unknown COVID variant detected in Israel
   Quake in Japan kills two, halts factories, cuts power to thousands of homes | Reuters

   Ukraine Postcard Vlogging the War With the help of a database launched by Ukraine’s Ministry of Internal Affairs, a YouTuber from Kyiv is calling strangers in Russia and telling them just what their boys in uniform are doing across the border.

   
   
   
   

   Say hello to Russian gold and Chinese petroyuan

   
   Exclusive: Secret CIA training program in Ukraine helped Kyiv prepare for Russian invasion
   

   Saharan dust turns skies orange over Europe

   The 'Move fast and break things' culture has taken over the food industry – now people are getting undercooked meat from uninspected ghost kitchens

   Oligarchs and other wealthy Russians have stashed up to $214 billion in secretive Swiss bank accounts, leading trade group reveals

   The unusual revelation from Switzerland's top banking association, made to Reuters, comes after the country dropped its historical neutral status.

   Private jets are leaving Russia for Dubai after Putin threatened to purge Russian society of traitors

   The splinternet in pictures: What the internet looks like for Russians