How Energy-Efficiency Upgrades Can Improve Your Health
An energy upgrade to your house will often produce other bennies!
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Growing Revolt Among Medical Practitioners Against Vaccinating Toddlers for Covid
The campaign to admnister Covid vaccines to under five year olds is not going over well with quite a few medical professionals.
Read more...CalPERS Continues to Endanger Employees During Extended Covid Surge Over Union Objections; Falsely Said It Was Complying With California Requirements; Appears To Be Understating Case Count
CalPERS is having employees service the egos of managers by coming to the office rather than protecting them from Covid by teleworking.
Read more...WTO 12th Ministerial Conference Continues Sorry Record of Anti-Worker, Anti-Developing Economy Policies
After pretenses that it might be more solicitous towards people, as opposed to big companies, the WTO followed the money masters.
Read more...More and More Crypto Crashing and Burning as DeFi (Decentralized Finance) Misbehaves
The great crypto unwind is underway, bringing to light even more bad practices than you likely knew about.
Read more...Lithuania’s Step Too Far — Blockade of Kaliningrad Draws No Support from US, UK, EU, NATO, as Russia Prepares “Practical Steps”, “No Diplomacy”
If it doesn’t pull back on its interference with Russian shipments, Lithuania is set to get whacked for messing with Kaliningrad.
Read more...What Might the US Be Like Post-Roe v Wade? Look at Present-Day Nigeria
Yves here. This using Nigeria as a forecast for the US is hyperbolic, since even if Roe v. Wade is overruled or narrowed, it then becomes a states-rights matter, and quite a few states will allow for abortions and many are likely to strengthen their laws. Moreover, laws by states to criminalize abortions and facilitating […]
Read more...How the Yurok Tribe Is Bringing Back the California Condor
The reintroduction of the long-lived, highly social condor has offered insight into the importance of parenting in the species.
Read more...Links 6/22/2022
Fast and Furious Omicron New Variants Defy Explanation, and Don’t Bode Well for Future Either
More cheery Omicron takes.
Read more...German Neutrality Was More Important than NATO Expansion – A New History Book Explains Why Gorbachev Gave It Away for Nothing
How Gorbachev gave a costly and disastrous concession to the West for free.
Read more...Estimating the Short-Term Impact of War on Economic Activity in Ukraine
A rosy-seeming view of how Ukraine’s economy is faring.
Read more...Portland: Sobering Lessons in Untying the Knot of a Homeless Crisis
On the burgeoning homeless problem in Portland, and the city’s well-meaning but insufficient measures.
Read more...Links 6/21/2022
Charlottesville, COVID, Trump and the War on Free Speech
How the war against free speech is backfiring….but the perps keep pushing even harder.
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