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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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Nearly £250,000 raised for Liverpool library damaged by rioters

  
The Guardian - 08.14.2024 Original article ›
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Damaging the Spellow Library in a living space in the working class district of Liverpool by rioters in August 2024 was a disgrace say residents. People in the area desperately need safe community space and a chance to read the books they love, say people who came up with funds for restoration.

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Trump’s Tariffs Will Pummel Asia. But One Country Sees Opportunity.

  
NYTimes.com - 04.09.2025 Original article ›
Alexandra Stevenson, Jes Aznar
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Liberation Day Tariffs on the Philippines at 17% vs 46% on Vietnam. Japanese producers are looking at the Philippines as a place to make products to ship to the US. NYT shows companies that have shifted to Philippines from China. Suppliers to Emerson and Epson have moved production from China to the Philippines.

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Marine Le Pen: Macron is finished and will soon have to resign

  
- 12.18.2024 Original article ›
David Chazan, Paris
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The possibility that Marie Le Pen would support Jean-Luc Melenchon's France Unbowed party on the left for a no confidence vote against Francois Bayrou, the new PM of France appointed by president Macron. Socialists under Francois Hollande and the Greens say they will wait to see how Bayrou performs.

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Australia to charge big tech companies that don’t pay for news

  
- 12.12.2024 Original article ›
Bernard Lagan, Sydney
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A yearly fee for use of news media content by tech companies from the  government of prime minister Albanese in Australia would generate 503 million British pounds for local news media companies. This includes media companies News Australia, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, the Guardian Australia, and the Sydney Morning Herald.

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Wind and Solar Energy Are Cheaper Than Electricity from Fossil-Fuel Plants

  
Scientific American - 07.22.2025 Original article ›
Benjamin Storrow, E&E News
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Wind and solar energy are competitive without subsidies vs fossil fuels says IEA. A report in the Scientific American says wind and solar do not need subsidies to be competitive with fossil fuels. IEA shows wind and solar costs are about 50-60% of fossil fuels for new plants in 2025.

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'Man City get their hands dirty to edge Atletico'

  
BBC Sport - 04.08.2022 Original article ›
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Phil Foden and Kevin DeBruyne find a way through Atletico Madrid's defense as Manchester City prevail.

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Economy set for rebound as Covid-19 vaccine raises household and business confidence

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The Times - 03.08.2021 Original article ›
Gurpreet Narwan, Dominic Walsh
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The UK vaccination drive gives a strong boost to business and household confidence in the economic recovery for 2021.

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Previous Covid infection may not offer long-term protection, study finds

  
The Guardian - 06.17.2021 Original article ›
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For a robust immune response that is consistent vaccination is essential says this report from researchers at Oxford University.

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In Retirement, We Have Discovered We Each Need a Cave to Call Our Own

  
WSJ - 07.06.2023 Original article ›
Stephen Kreider Yoder, Karen Kreider Yoder
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A space of one's own in the home works great in retirement as this couple discovered.

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Trump slaps additional 25% tariff on India over Russian oil – DW – 08/06/2025

  
dw.com - 08.06.2025 Original article ›
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In total this is a 50% tax on Indian imports to the US with DJT executive order of  August 6, 2025, 25% baseline for trade and 25% for Indian buying of 2 million barrels a day of Russian oil. US and EU say this money s fueling the Ukraine war, along with higher purchases than this by China from Russia, which add to Russian oil revenues and higher oil production. The order takes effect in 21 days so that India has time to come up with an agreement with the US. The Swiss also are scrambling to get an agreement, hit with 30% tariff.

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Robert Redford Made a Sports Movie Masterpiece—but It’s Not ‘The Natural’

  
The Wall Street Journal - 09.18.2025 Original article ›
Jason Gay
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Redford's "Downhill Racer" and the Sundance Film Festival's origins for low budget films that can be produced by independent producers. Redford learned from his experience in this early film and set about setting up a new location for struggling filmmakers to experiment in filmmaking at Park City, Utah. This was a period in which Redford bought land in Utah's mountains away from the Los Angeles and Santa Monica of his childhood days. With more of the city going into concrete and less green space Redford felt he could not relate to this sprawling city of highways and congested living.

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‘There are bigger issues in the world today than global warming’

  
- 09.10.2025 Original article ›
Oliver Wright, Policy Editor
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It calls for balancing it, taking into account tradeoffs and people's lives in 2025 after the pandemic, cost of living, health and housing vs net zero and speed of net zero targets. Opinion in UK on Net Zero cutting emissions changed over 4 years to split 50-50 on other spending priorities social care immigration NHS, in a focus group of The Times of London. In 2025 40% want to spend less on cutting carbon emissions net zero, large numbers favor more for NHS, then social care, policing and education in equal importance, followed by social housing. 

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India-EU trade deal: Antonio Costa, whom PM Modi called 'Gandhi of Lisbon', has family roots in Margao, Goa

  
- 01.28.2026 Original article ›
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The 'Gandhi of Lisbon' Antonio Costa, now president of the European Council and OCI of India, who is from Margao, India and Lisbon, Portugal is one of the principal architects of the European Union's special relationship with India put through with agreements on every dimension of trade, business and people to people contacts, science and research, in January 2026. Setting a defining time for the 21st century's biggest relationship and market of 2 billion people. Here in MSN one finds the story of Antonio Costa that is interconnected with India's story, and Europe's story.

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Australia social media ban: Get rid of harmful content instead of us, say teens

  
BBC News - 11.27.2025 Original article ›
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A law that is in the Must Have category for Parents, School teachers and Educated Children in the US, Canada, Britain and India, finally gets passed in Australia. Of huge benefit to Australian Parents and School Teachers- after December 10 2025 social media Meta Tik Tok and You Tube are required to remove all under 16 accounts. Chinese children and school teachers, parents have the benefit of such laws regulating the use of social media which in the current climate of license, of leaving childrens, parents and school teachers to fend for themselves, leaving young girls to fend for themselves, has not happened in other nations.

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How Big Tech Camouflaged Wall Street’s Crisis

  
NYTimes.com - 04.02.2023 Original article ›
Joe Rennison, Eli Murray
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The dominance of trillion dollar companies, Apple at $2.4 trillion and Microsoft at $2.1 trillion, which make up 13% of the S&P 500 index during the regional banking crisis of 2023. The index was up 3.5% in March even as some banks were shut down by the FDIC. This has given these two companies the role of a safe haven in the crisis, along with chipmaker Nvidia. Not for the tech sector's other companies such as Google, Amazon, Facebook and others which are companies facing monopoly behaviour scrutiny and possible breakup by the Biden administration and Congress.

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U.S. Moves to Strengthen Mental-Health Services as Coronavirus Crisis Exposes Systemic Strains

  
WSJ - 04.10.2020 Original article ›
Stephanie Armour
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The U.S. aid package to tackle the coronavirus includes $425 million for mental health and substance use disorders and $50 million for suicide prevention to ramp up mental health services. A telemedicine program for mental health providers is being expanded and a suicide prevention program at Veteran Affairs Department is being expanded to other Americans. Second lady Mrs Pence is supporting the suicide prevention program. 

Widespread anxiety and post traumatic stress disorder is expected by experts as a profound aftershock from the coronavirus.

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New York LaGuardia Airport’s Long-Awaited Makeover Is Almost Complete

  
WSJ - 10.26.2021 Original article ›
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New York La Guardia Airport is totally rebuilt with $8 billion renovation. The airport is half way through renovation, Terminal B is halfway finished. It should be completed by Spring 2022. One concourse looks out over Flushing Bay. 

New York La Guardia was for a long time probably the most hated airport in America. Now passengers getting off the plane at la Guardia even think they are at the wrong airport. The pandemic actually made construction easier with more space to work in. 

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First Quad Summit | Quad leaders emphasise ‘open, free’ Asia Pacific at first summit

  
The Hindu - 03.12.2021 Original article ›
Kallol Bhattacherjee & Suhasini Haidar
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The first Quad Summit of leaders of US, Australia, India and Japan takes place on March 11, 2021. The Quad is a force for good says the Indian prime minister, with its focus on vaccines, climate change and emerging technologies. 

The leaders affirmed the need to ensure equitable access to the vaccines for speedy economic recovery and benefitting global health. Mr. Biden affirmed the need for the Indo-Pacific region to be "governed by international law, free of coercion and upholding universal values."

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Germany faces calls for nationwide approach to Covid restrictions

  
The Guardian - 04.05.2021 Original article ›
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Germany has a patchwork of restrictions to tackle coronavirus. This is a serious problem during the third wave in April 2021. There is a lack of clarity as the 16 states within Germany's federal structure each make their own rules. This has weakened the power of the federal government and chancellor Merkel in setting rules for the whole country. A You.Gov poll shows 53% of Germans support the federal government setting the rules. Interior minister Seehofer is considering a new federal law to make this happen.

 

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Floods Inundate Sinking Jakarta, Leaving 16 Dead After Torrential Rain

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WSJ - 01.02.2020 Original article ›
Jon Emont
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A city already 40% below sea level faces torrential rain and flooding in the first days of 2020. Jakarta, Indonesia is a metropolitan area of around 30 million people. Land around the city is subsiding from overuse of pumping of underground water. Floodwaters do not drain into the sea as is normal. Walls protect the parts of the city that are below sea level. 

During heavy rain the water from upland areas comes down to Jakarta further overwhelming a poor drainage canal system.

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The Effects of Massive Wildfires Can Reach the Stratosphere and Linger for Months

  
WSJ - 11.16.2020 Original article ›
Robert Lee Hotz
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How huge wildfires are affecting the stratosphere 6 to 31 miles above the earth and creating a swirling vortex of smoke reaching 21 miles high that is spreading across the planet. Circling twice around the world according to some studies. This resulted in fire induced thunderstorms in Portugal, South Africa and Argentina.

Wildfires in California have sent plumes of smoke 10 miles high altering air quality in places as far as Europe. Fire seasons are getting longer in many parts of the world as a result of this.

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5G to 50Mbps broadband speed: Key takeaways from National Telecom Policy 2018

  
https://www.hindustantimes.com/ - 07.12.2018 Original article ›
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Key points in the National Digital Communications Policy 2018 to be approved by the Modi cabinet are that every citizen of India will have 50 mbps access to broadband by 2022. Key development institutions will have 100 mbps speed. 

10 million public wifi spots are planned for 2022. Expand the ecosystem to 5 billion connected devices by 2022. And attract $100 billion in new investment. Under National Digital Grid the National Fibre Authority will be created to have the supporting organization to achieve these goals.

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HRD ministry to scrap UGC, replace it with new Higher Education Commission to improve academic standards

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https://www.hindustantimes.com/ - 07.20.2018 Original article ›
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Commenting on the new Higher Education Commission proposed to replace the University Grants Commission, a former Vice Chancellor of Delhi University Dinesh Singh, says the HECI is designed to overcome the shortcomings of the UGC when it comes to monitoring the quality of education. Yet much depends on the people who run HECI. 

Currently the proposed structure of  HECI has come under criticism for its close connections to the government, and not bringing in more talented people from outside.

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Russians vote on constitutional changes | DW | 24.06.2020

  
DW.COM - 06.24.2020 Original article ›
Mikhail Bushuev
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Russian people will vote on new constitutional changes proposed by president Putin. This allows Putin to serve without term limits. New changes also consolidate federal authority in the president including appointment of the prime minister and cabinet, and members of the upper house of parliament.

One of the changes is for a monthly wage of roughly $152 which is set above the poverty line guaranteed to all Russians. Russian is stated as the national language and children given priority, with maternity payments of $6800 from the first child.

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Daily Coronavirus Infections in U.S. Hit Record

  
WSJ - 06.26.2020 Original article ›
Brianna Abbott
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The U.S. and India see a surge in coronavirus cases. Per day cases surged to 40,000 on June 25 in U.S. and 17,000 in India. Alabama, Idaho, Nevada, Arizona, California, Florida are seeing a surge in new cases. Texas, California and Florida all recorded more than 5000 cases each. In California cases for hospitalization surged 32% with more than 4200 in hospitals.

India now has 490,000 cases with death toll of 15,301. Indian Railways cancelled all bookings. In the U.S. Texas is paused reopening plans.

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