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How China's import cuts importing 8.5 million barrels a day down from 12.5 million and it's large oil reserve will keep oil prices low

07/15/2026

Not covered in the media for Hormuz is the combined response of US, China, India, Japan and the European Union to find alternatives to Hormuz making it less or not relevant to oil prices and oil supplies

07/10/2026

The Constructive Aspects of the situation in July 2026 from the Hormuz Crisis not covered in the Media

06/27/2026

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When Roosevelt Took on Churchill to End British Rule in India

  
TheQuint - 10.03.2022 Original article ›
Khemta H Jose
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On Gandhi Jayanti remembering American president FDR's contribution to Hind Swaraj. FDR rejected Churchill's ideas of retaining the British Empire's colonies while fighting the German Nazis in the name of freedom. FDR said- " India should be made a commonwealth at once. After a certain number of years- 5 perhaps or 10- she should be able to choose whether she wants to remain in the Empire or have complete independence." 

FDR (US president Franklin Roosevelt) said -"I can't believe that we can fight a war against fascist slavery, and at the same time not work to free people all over the world from a backward colonial policy."

 

 

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Japan Starts Releasing Water From Fukushima Nuclear Plant Into Pacific

  
WSJ - 08.24.2023 Original article ›
Miho Inada
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The opposition in China and South Korea to Japan's release of slightly radioactive water into the sea stems from a distrust of Japanese data that supported by the International Atomic Energy Agency says the discharge does not affect public health. By next March 2% of the accumulated water will be released. In all 1.2 million tons are planned to be released over 30 years starting August 24, 2023. That water contains small quantities of radioactive tritium which Japan says is less than what Chinese nuclear plants release into the sea. TEPCO which manages the Fukushima plant decommissioning says it will post the data on release and level of radioactive material on its website with comparison to the levels seen as not affecting health that WHO has set.

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David Attenborough is our TV man of the year

  
- 12.26.2025 Original article ›
Carol Midgley
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David Attenborough in Ocean (Disney+) and Wild London at 99 years age. In many BBC documentaries on Travel and Nature by the BBC broadcaster Attenborough, he shows the same enthusiasm and lively feeling. There is no drop in output, in quality and enthusiasm says this report in The Times of London.

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Republican Larry Hogan’s Campaign Formula Includes Rejecting a Trump Endorsement

  
WSJ - 09.26.2024 Original article ›
Kristina Peterson, Anthony De Barros
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Who controls the Senate may depend on a handful of 7 competitive seats including Maryland.

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Japan tackles dementia crisis as super-ageing society sees cases soar - Focus

  
France 24 - 01.28.2025 Original article ›
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Japan's ageing society one third over 65 years and 5 million with dementia.

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Western Lakes Shrink From Drought, and Boat Businesses Struggle

  
WSJ - 06.19.2022 Original article ›
Jim Carlton | Photographs By Mikayla Whitmore For The Wall Street Journal
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Scientists say the drought in the western region of the US is the worst in hundreds of years. At Lake Mead the reservoir is only 28% full. The other reservoirs on the Colorado river are in similar shape. Lake Mead is a reservoir from the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River and stretches for 120 miles in the states of Arizona and Nevada. It is the largest reservoir in the US and the water depletion in this and other reservoirs all the way into Oregon is affecting agriculture in the western US and the access to water for cities in the region. 

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Germany inks deal with China's COSCO on Hamburg port – DW – 05/11/2023

  
dw.com - 05.11.2023 Original article ›
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China's COSCO taking an ownership stake in Hamburg port was opposed by the Greens and Free Democrats parties in the three party coalition government with the SPD in Germany. Scholz of the SPD went ahead over their opposition saying this will preserve jobs in Hamburg port. In the compromise reached the ownership is capped at 24.99% so that no foreign country owns a majority stake. At one point Germany's cyber security agency BSI classified the Hamburg port as critical infrastructure.

China is Germany's largest trading partner  for 7 years with trade reaching a record $320 billion.

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India, China trade deficit at $51.5 billion during April-October this fiscal

  
The Hindu - 12.10.2022 Original article ›
Pti
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Improvement in the managing of India's trade deficit with China. Merchandise exports from India to China increased from $11.93 billion in 2014-2015 to $21.6 billion in 2021-2022, an increase of 78% over the last 6 years. Imports from China from $60.41 billion in 2014-15 to $94.6 billion in 2021-2022. The trade deficit with China during 2021-2022 is at $73.31 billion compared to $44.03 billion in 2020-2021. Most of the goods imported from India were in equipment and intermediate parts to meet the needs of electronics, telecom and power sectors in India. 

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Ukraine’s Farmers Begin a Harvest Like No Other

  
WSJ - 07.30.2022 Original article ›
Alistair Mac Donald | Photographs By Joseph Sywenkyj For The Wall Street Journal
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WSJ's Alistair MacDonald talks to farmers in the Chernihiv region north of Kviv which was overrun by Russian troops early in the war before withdrawing. Herd farmers brave mines and continue to farm in difficult conditions. Many have borrowed heavily for next years harvest. Many farmers have damaged equipment and craters from bombing in the fields. About $4.3 billion in damage happened in the early days of the war. 

Farming is the occupation of 14% of the population. It brings in 40% of the $68 billion in Ukraine exports each year making it important to get farming back as early as possible. 

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Germany Goes Ahead With First LNG Terminal to Cut Dependence on Russian Gas

  
WSJ - 03.06.2022 Original article ›
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Germany's state development bank KfW has signed a memorandum of understanding with German energy company RWE AG to build a new LNG terminal at the northern port city of Brunsbuttel. Netherlands infrastructure group Gasunie will operate the new LNG terminal. The Nordstream 2 $11 billion project is now set aside and Germany plans to use the LNG terminals and other sources outside of Russia. Germany commissioned its gas market trading hub to buy LNG of 1.5 billion euros. 

Germany will now fast track another LNG terminal on the North Sea at Wilhelmshaven. That terminal would be operational in 3 years. 

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Midtown Manhattan With Fewer Office Workers: Imagining the Unthinkable

  
WSJ - 03.22.2022 Original article ›
Kate King, Roque Ruiz, Konrad Putzier | Photographs, Video By Jose A. Alvarado Jr. For The Wall Street Journal
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New York city officials are facing up to the reality that midtown Manhattan, a party of the city that is made up of office commuters, may never be the same. Offices in midtown are attracting about one third of their pre-pandemic workforces. Midtown is home to about 11% of all office inventory in the US, employing 1.6 million workers, a third of all New York city jobs and contributed two thirds of the city's gross product. Before the pandemic three years ago, an estimated 2.6 million worked in the borough of Manhattan, 70% of whom commuted from other parts of the city or suburbs.

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Inside the Massive and Costly Fight Against the Dixie Fire

  
NYTimes.com - 10.11.2021 Original article ›
Brent Mc Donald, Sashwa Burrous, Eden Weingart, Meg Felling
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The NYT looks inside the fight against a million acre fire in California. Fires were fought in previous years against hundred thousand acre fires. A million acre fire is something else. It cost $610 million over 3 months to fight the Massive Dixie fire in California, according to the head of CalFire. It took thousands of personnel, hundreds of bulldozers, aircraft and other equipment to fight the fire. Can the cost of fighting so many large fires be met in the future? Australia and California, Greece and other part of the world experienced unprecedented level of fires in 2021.

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U.S. Economy Makes Record Gains, but Problems Remain: Live Updates

  
NYTimes.com - 10.29.2020 Original article ›
Ben Casselman
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U.S. economic growth in the third quarter of 2020 was 7.4%. This is a record and the closest to this was the economic growth in 1950 which was 3.9% a little over half of that. This is the equivalent of 33% on an annualized basis.

The economy is about 3.5% smaller than when the pandemic started. This record is better than the one in 2008 financial crisis when over a period of one and half years the economy declined by about 4%. By 2021 the U.S. economy will have recovered to where it was back to its original shape if recovery proceeds at this rate.

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India’s renewable power capacity is 4th largest in the world, says PM Modi at RE-Invest 2020

  
Hindustan Times - 11.26.2020 Original article ›
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Indian prime minister Modi tells RE Invest 2020, that India has almost tripled renewable energy production including solar and wind energy in 6 years, and is now the 4th largest renewable energy producer in the world. India is also now the fastest growing renewable energy producer in the world. He says India made investments in renewable energy early even when it was not the most cost effective source of energy. Through its scale and new technology, manufacturing advances, India is now in a position to show that renewable energy is sound economics. Since 2017 renewables exceed coal as a source of energy, making up 36% of energy production today.

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‘If Milkha Singh was born in present times, no one would be able to break his record in 100 yrs’

  
The Indian Express - 06.19.2021 Original article ›
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India's greatest runner Milkha Singh describes his life and struggles in this interview in the Indian Express written by Nihal Koshie. Much of his early life was spent in poverty and facing partition, running for his life seeing his parents dead in the riots in Pakistan part of Punjab.

He worked very hard, so hard that he hardly sees this type of effort today. If he had the facilities and training received by athletes of today Milkha says he would be able to set records that no one could break in a hundred years. With so little he achieved so much. 

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How Gareth Southgate turned that 1996 penalty miss into a hit formula

  
The Times - 07.03.2021 Original article ›
Matthew Syed
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This story in The Times shows how Gareth Southgate has rebounded from a penalty miss in Euro Soccer 1996 playing for England. After 25 years Southgate is back inspiring his players to take the English team to the quarter finals of Euro Soccer in 2021, and with a win against Ukraine can put it in the top 4 teams. He is shown as a learner with humility and respect for other people who helped him develop as a person and a player. He is seen as someone who believes in sharing success with others who helped make it happen and unlike  other egocentric coaches. 

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‘We suffered – what did you expect?’ Spain take long road to epic Italy clash | Sid Lowe

  
The Guardian - 07.03.2021 Original article ›
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Luis Enrique suffered a nose injury in the 1994 Euro soccer quarter finals against Italy, and a loss to Italy. Now the coach for the Spanish soccer team is back with the win in the quarter final against Switzerland, that game going to penalties. Spain is now in the final four with Italy, England and Denmark. He will meet Italy now as the coach of the national team. Spain has gone through long periods when the national team has not done well. Spanish soccer revived after 44 years with a win in penalties in Vienna that took it to the soccer semifinals in 2008.

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Boeing: How much trouble is the company in?

  
BBC News - 03.17.2024 Original article ›
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The head of a pilots union says he no longer trusts that Boeing is following the quality practices it has followed for three decades that have made Boeing planes safe. Serious concerns about quality issues under management that comes from the financial sector without the extensive experience in the manufacturing or other related areas, about how workers put together the planes. A senior manager is cited in this BBC report that the culture at Boeing has been toxic to trust for over ten years so that even if new safety steps are introduced and new procedures added the lack of trust makes them nearly ineffective.

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‘Part of My Core’: How Schumer Decided to Speak Out Against Netanyahu

  
NYTimes.com - 03.19.2024 Original article ›
Annie Karni
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To just go for Israeli policy changes it would not accomplish anything says Schumer in this interview with NYT's Annie Karni at a Brooklyn school which he attended years ago. He says it took 2 months and 10 drafts for his 44 minute address. And not to address Netanyahu would do little as Schumer says Netanyahu "was the fount of the problems." Schumer said he looked at words "stepping down" and "resignation" and said to himself no they were not the right words. Instead he says he called for new Israeli elections, the chips fall where they would fall.

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Does This Fisherman Have the Right to Be in a Billionaire’s Backyard?

  
NYTimes.com - 09.03.2022 Original article ›
Ben Ryder Howe
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Roger Fly 81 years, an old school fly fisherman and a nuclear scientist decides to challenge the right of landowners to prevent trout fishing by ordinary people in Colorado's pristine wilderness. Hill wants to give everyone a right to "just stand in the water" in all navigable rivers in Colorado and not to let sprawling private estates stand in the way. The NYT gives this story about Mr. Hill's efforts and how this would provide access to the 100,000 miles of navigable rivers in Coloradonfor people who like to go out on the river and for hiking, kayaking.

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House Republican Majority Shrinks Again as Congress Faces Critical Issues

  
NYTimes.com - 02.16.2024 Original article ›
Annie Karni
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 Tom Suozzi is elected to the US House of Representatives from New York for the seat vacated by Rep. Santos. After Suozzi is sworn in Feb. 28 Republicans will have 219 seats to Democrats 213. The majority is so slim that when 3 Republicans opposed the impeachment of Homeland Secretary Mayorkas for immigration issues Speaker Johnson could get the impeachment passed only on the second try and that only by one vote. President Biden has called for a vote immediately in the House on an Ukraine aid bill after it passed in the US Senate 70-29 with 22 Republicans joining Democrats. 

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Britain needs a growth plan, not magical thinking | Observer editorial

  
The Guardian - 11.26.2023 Original article ›
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The Observer in Britain says Jeremy Hunt's Tory tax cuts will result in further cuts to essential public spending in health and education, and public services to the disadvantaged. Without the funding to improve public infrastructure Britain is getting locked into a painful low growth future. Households are on average 1900 pounds poorer by the end of this parliament compared to December 2019, and weekly earnings will not reach 2008 levels till a full twenty years later in 2028, says The Observer. This is the extent of the damage done by the Tory governments of Cameron, Johnson and Sunak.

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Germany: COVID contact tracing halted in several states | DW | 24.12.2021

  
DW.COM - 12.24.2021 Original article ›
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With staff shortages and the spread of omicron variant some German states are no longer doing contact tracing. Contact tracing is not happening in Berlin or Hamburg says this report in DW.com. The chair of the Federal Association of Doctors, Dr. Teichert, in an interview with RND says "comprehensive followup is almost no longer taking place at the moment." He also said there is a "massive fluctuation" in staffing levels for nearly two years. Experts even say that because of staff leaves and office closures infection rates will not be really known till later, a "sink into ignorance" says a medical statistician.

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Opinion | How Do We Fix the Scandal That Is American Health Care?

  
NYTimes.com - 08.17.2023 Original article ›
Nicholas Kristof, September Dawn Bottoms
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Most American states fare worse than China in life expectancy and a third of American states including even Michigan fare worse than Sri Lanka in life expectancy. This series by Nicholas Kristof of the NYT looks at the interwoven problems from reading comprehension for 4th graders to a broken health system and large disparities of income never before experienced in this way through loss of manufacturing that are devastating America. Among retired people over half have no savings at all and about 90% of retired people are income insecure, something never before seen in the two hundred years of American history. 

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How Bad Is China’s Economy? Millions of Young People Are Unemployed and Disillusioned

  
WSJ - 07.26.2023 Original article ›
Brian Spegele
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Jobs exist in manufacturing, white collar jobs are scarce, tech sector has layoffs. About 28 million graduates are entering the job market over three pandemic years into this uncertain job market. Most graduates are looking for white collar jobs not the hard work in factories. Government jobs in civil service are lower paid and also selective. Is the youth unemployment rate 20% or much higher at 48%? Experts ask after looking at poor job prospects and most graduates depending on parents. Some are shown here turning down jobs that do not exercize their skills and studies at school, such as in engineering.

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