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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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Rift Over Fossil Fuels to Dominate COP28

  
WSJ - 12.01.2023 Original article ›
Stacy Meichtry, Matthew Dalton
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The UAE is putting $30 billion into a new fund called Alterra to invest in clean energy in the developing world. The goal is to get $250 billion into the fund by 20230 from other investors. Alterra is investing $6.5 billion along with BlackRock, Brookfield, TPG, in climate investment vehicles. This includes investment to build 6000 megawatts of clean energy in India, including 1200 megawatts of wind energy.

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Analysis: Japan's Cabinet reshuffle is aimed at stability | NHK WORLD-JAPAN News

  
NHK WORLD - 12.14.2023 Original article ›
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Facing low approval ratings the new cabinet of prime minister Kishida is aiming for stability. New ministers can get to work immediately. New Cabinet secretary Yoshimasa was previously defense minister and foreign minister, and is No.2 in the Kishida faction of the LDP. It is a difficult road ahead as members of the Abe faction resigned from a fund raising tickets probe by prosecutors. 

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She Was the World’s Best Player. Now She Won’t Play Soccer Again.

  
WSJ - 01.19.2024 Original article ›
Rachel Bachman
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Rachel Bachman tells the story of Kristie Mewis, one of the best soccer players in the world who is retiring because of an injury suffered in a game in 2017. Even after the injury she made an effort to continue her game winning championships in women's soccer till she decided to switch to covering the game as a broadcaster using skills she had developed.

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Jannik Sinner's strong and improved baseline game helps him stun Novak Djokovic to reach Australian Open final

  
The Indian Express - 01.26.2024 Original article ›
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Jannick Sinner of Italy wins in 4 sets over Novak Djokovic at the Australian Open in a decisive manner 6-1,6-2, 6-7, 6-3. Novak Djokovic had an unbeaten 20-0 record at the Austrlain Open. Sinner is the rising 22 year old from Italy who has emerged in the way Spain's Alcaraz has in world tennis over the last 2 years.

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The secret meaning behind the World Tree Hugging Championships

  
BBC News - 02.07.2024 Original article ›
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Tree hugging brings out the best in people. People from as far away as Germany visit this forest in the north of Finland for this tree hugging contest, part of a way to connect with nature. 70% of Finland is forest yet the trees have no sunlight for 6 weeks in the Nordic winters. This BBC report shows the resilience of the Finnish people and the love of nature.

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Canada To Reimpose Visa Requirement on Mexican Visitors

  
WSJ - 02.28.2024 Original article ›
Vipal Monga, Paul Vieira
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Canada makes the decision to reinstate the visa requirement for Mexican citizens effective February 29th 2024. This was lifted by Trudeau in 2016 without a careful understanding of its implications. Since then Quebec insisted it was at the breaking point and pushed for reinstating the visa requirement. The Biden administration also pushed for the visa requirement as more people were illegally entering the US from Canada.

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The Climate Impact of Your Neighborhood, Mapped

  
NYTimes.com - 12.13.2022 Original article ›
Nadja Popovich, Mira Rojanasakul, Brad Plumer
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A consumption based carbon footprint mapping that was developed by the University of California, Berkeley, is shown in the NYT. It shows different city centers and suburbs in America including New York city and how their consumption based footprints differ. Some places including suburbs and wealthier households drivemore, buy more goods and are responsible for higher emissions than places with better public transportation, that use energy practicing conservation.

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Lee Jae-yong: Why South Korea just pardoned the Samsung 'prince'

  
BBC News - 08.12.2022 Original article ›
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The BBC presents a different view of the pardon of Samsung's Jay Y Lee. It questions the idea that it will help the Korean economy, and whether it can help ordinary Koreans because trickle down economics won't work. Korea's major companies the chaebol have grown unpopular in the country over the last decade, with major protests over bribery scandals. 

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EU Warns Musk's X Platform Over Content Circulating About Conflict

  
WSJ - 10.11.2023 Original article ›
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Issues of social media spreading misinformation are seen in this report in NYT about Twitter acquired by Elon Musk and now called X.  This only points to the broader negative role played by social media in the last decade, which includes negative effect on young people and its damaging effect on society. As a medium it has added little and shows the corrosive effects of some technologies.

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Moderna Drops Pursuit of U.S. Patent for Key Component of Covid-19 Vaccine

  
WSJ - 12.17.2021 Original article ›
Peter Loftus
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The key role played by National Institutes of Health scientists in the development of the Moderna covid vaccine was not accepted in the application for patents by Moderna, leading to a dispute with the NIH. Moderna has now dropped the patent application saying it is a distraction on work for tackling the Omicron variant. That patent application had not listed scientists of NIH who worked on the invention.

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PM Modi lauds strength of youth at NCC rally, says none can stop a nation whose youth works with spirit of nation first

  
The Economic Times - 01.28.2022 Original article ›
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The prime minister of India asks people who came up through the National Cadet Corps in colleges and universities to preserve the NCC spirit and look out for dropouts from school at this time of the pandemic. The NCC spirit is to meet that person and find ways to get him back in school or college. To let no person's potential and mind go to waste.

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Screens, Lack of Sun Are Causing an Epidemic of Myopia

  
WSJ - 08.26.2023 Original article ›
Julie Jargon
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Children are not getting enough time outdoors. The pandemic has worsened this. The Tech company driven changes in use of screen time have added to this with children spending as little as 10 minutes outdoors. The progression of myopia increased by 35% by one estimate after 3 years of the pandemic. Natural sunlight is needed for the eye not to grow longer which contributes to nearsightedness, say researchers.

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3M Nears Roughly $5.5 Billion Earplugs Settlement

  
WSJ - 08.27.2023 Original article ›
Bob Tita, John Keilman
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3M based in Minnesota makes a $5.5 billion settlement for earplugs over hearing loss complaints. It is the largest mass tort in history with 300,000 claims by veterans who served in the military, says the WSJ. An earlier settlement with municipal water providers by 3M was for PFAS forever chemicals. This settlement waits court approval and the WSJ says could cost it $12.5 billion over 13 years.

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Why Floods Can Turn So Deadly, So Fast

  
NYTimes.com - 09.13.2023 Original article ›
Delger Erdenesanaa
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Alluvial soil near a mountain range, dry soil that does not soak up water, led to the quick flash flooding in Libya from climate change induced sudden rainfall that dumped 15 inches of rain on September 10, 2023, in area around Derna, Libya. Normal rain is about one tenth of an inch during the month of September. Dams burst sweeping Derna and its residents into the sea.

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Opinion | Impeachment Is the New Censure

  
WSJ - 09.12.2023 Original article ›
The Editorial Board
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Impeachment inquiry of president Biden is launched by Mr. McCarthy in the US House of Representatives under pressure from a minority called the Freedom Caucus. The bar should be set high says the WSJ. It says this will likely imperil the 18 Republican seats in the House where Mr. Biden won the popular vote and could turn the House to the Democrats in 2024. 

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Biden Administration to Resume Border Wall Construction in Policy Reversal

  
WSJ - 10.05.2023 Original article ›
Michelle Hackman
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The Biden administration plans to build 20 miles of new border security wall in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas completing a section of the wall that is seeing extraordinarily high migrant crossing. The Biden administration is looking for ways to restrict flow of migrants that is taxing the resources of cities in the US. About 2 million crossings in each of the last 2 years, says the WSJ.

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China Falls Back Into Deflation, Reviving Fears Over Weak Recovery

  
WSJ - 11.09.2023 Original article ›
Stella Yifan Xie
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The world is truly changing again. China followed Japan as Asia's second economy going through rapid industrialization and urbanization in the 1990's. After two decades of hypergrowth with huge imbalances of trade with the US, China is not only slowing, it is now experiencing the kind of deflation that hit Japan at this point in its development as a modern economy. 

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Inside the Places Where America Makes Its Goods, From Rockets to Felted Hats

  
WSJ - 11.10.2023 Original article ›
Pia Peterson Haggarty | Photographs By Christopher Payne
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Christopher Payne's new book "America at Work," shows photographs taken by Payne of factories and manufacturing across America in 2023. It celebrates America's new found conviction that it is a manufacturing nation, that it is manufacturing that brought America its greatest success in the 20th century, and it is in manufacturing lies its future and the future of the American people. 

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‘Feminisation of poverty’: France’s cost-of-living crisis is hitting women hardest

  
France 24 - 11.18.2023 Original article ›
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French charity Secours Catholique says it catered to one million people with food in 2022. It says single family households represented 75 percent of this one million. Fifty seven percent of these households were led by women living in poverty, of these 20 percent were single women and 27 percent were single mothers. Shown here is a woman in Toulouse, France.

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What the New, Low Test Scores for 13-Year-Olds Say About U.S. Education Now

  
NYTimes.com - 06.21.2023 Original article ›
Dana Goldstein
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That two thirds of American fourth graders failed to show proficiency in reading comprehension in NAEP is a very serious problem in the US. This report is found in NYT buried somewhere where it could go unnoticed. The title is also accepting and passive and makes no mention about the 4th grader's English proficiency skills on NAEP released some months back.

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How a Side Hustle as a Tennis Announcer Lifted Chris Eubanks at Wimbledon

  
WSJ - 07.11.2023 Original article ›
Joshua Robinson
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His job covering tennis matches at Tennis Channel helped Chris Eubanks get a new perspective on the game from a safe distance. He did this as a way to find a channel for his energies after making it to the top 200 and stalling. He is now the top US player at Wimbledon playing in the quarterfinals after winning a five set match with Tsitsipas.

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California resort extends ski season as rest of US west suffers from heatwaves

  
The Guardian - 07.21.2023 Original article ›
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With record snow after years of drought the eastern Sierra region in California is experiencing effects of climate change. The ski season will extend into August 6 in the mountains because of the effects of the climate crisis, even as nearby Arizona sees record temperatures of 111 degrees Fahrenheit.  The southern US is experiencing a heat wave with temperatures at levels unprecedented in history.

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Macron’s Lesson After Riots? France Needs Order ‘at Every Level’

  
NYTimes.com - 07.25.2023 Original article ›
Aurelien Breeden
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Since his election Macron has faced a whole host of issues related to ease of living- the yellow vest protests on the cost of living, the protests related to the changes in retirement law, and recently rioting by minorities over policing practices. His second term was expected to be one in which some lessons were learned from the first term, yet the unease in the country remains. 

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The Four-Day Workweek Gets Shorter With Practice, Companies Find

  
WSJ - 07.26.2023 Original article ›
Vanessa Fuhrmans
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The idea of shorter workweeks with more efficient work and giving room for health and exercize is a reality. Many companies are trying new ways of approaching work as shown here in the WSJ. The old idea of longer work hours producing better results left little time for health and exercize that affects productive work and ignored that results come from energy and enthusiasm for work. 

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WSJ News Exclusive | German Biotech Sees Its Coronavirus Vaccine Ready for Approval by December

  
WSJ - 07.10.2020 Original article ›
Bojan Pancevski
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A German company BioNTech founded by Dr. Sahin, a son of Turkish immigrants, is based in Mainz. Dr. Sahin says it will be ready with a vaccine by December 2020 when it will seek regulatory approval. BioNTech is partnering with Pfizer of the U.S. and plans to have several hundred million doses ready by the end of this year, 1 billion doses of vaccine by 2021. 

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