Wednesday, December 31, 2025
The G7 Is Still Pushing Its Nutty Russia Oil Price Cap Idea
A new effort to punch Russia in the nose look as likely to backfire as earlier attempts, charitably assuming the scheme gets off the ground.
FBI Now Joins in China Warmongering in Bizarre Speech in London with MI5 About Taiwan, Intellectual Property Theft
The US is really really out to heat things up with China…
Fossil Fuel Interests Are Behind Canada’s Blue Hydrogen Push
Fossil fuel producing Canada is promoting the blue hydrogen con.
2:00PM Water Cooler 7/6/2022
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NYC Doctors, Doulas, Activists Prep for a Massive Influx of Abortion Seekers
At a grassroots level, New York advocates have long been helping women where abortion is effectively unavailable. Now, they’re doing even more
The Coming Sanctions-Induced Economic Tsunami?
It does not take much in the way of prognostication skills to anticipate that things can get way way worse on the economic front.
Welfare Can Discourage Crime More Than It Discourages Work
Who’d have thunk it? Income support, such as welfare, reduces crime.
Boris Johnson Death Watch
Boris Johnson agonistes.
2:00PM Water Cooler 7/5/2022
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Supremes Kayo Climate Change Regulation: West Virginia v. EPA
The Supreme Court last week scuppered the ability of the EPA to implement climate change regulation under the Clean Air Act- absent further action by Congress.
EU Commission President Once Again in Hot Water (Or At Least Should Be) Over Her Opaque Dealings With Pfizer
Concerns are rising about the EU Commission’s ongoing opacity over its relations with Pfizer. But this is not the first time von der Leyen has been caught deleting sensitive information regarding deals with large corporations.
Shorting British, American and Baltic Intelligence – Going Long on Vladimir Putin
Perhaps not surprisingly, it’s possible to get books published about Putin based on accounts by spooks not in Russia when Putin was in office.
