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Disastrous economic losses for the former Soviet region including Russia from the Ukraine invasion
04/11/2022
Losses to the economy for Russia from 11% to 25%, for Ukraine 45%, for Belarus, Moldova and former Soviet republics 30%. This is the scale and magnitude of economic losses for this region. All sides in the war are losers and the spinoff effects are creating economic problems in other regions of Asia, Latin America and North Africa who have no connection to this war. Yet nothing has been solved.
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Ukraine economy to shrink by almost half this year, World Bank forecasts
The Guardian 04/11/2022
Russia-Ukraine war latest news: Austrian leader’s talks with Putin ‘very direct, open and tough’The Guardian 04/11/2022
China burns more coal with power shortages in 2021 risking climate change targets
10/29/2021
Linked Articles
China Takes the Brakes Off Coal Production to Tackle Power Shortage
WSJ 10/20/2021
China’s Ambitious Climate Goals Collide With Reality, Hampering Global EffortsWSJ 10/27/2021
America's self-reliant economy - Biden with Trumpian undertones
01/21/2021
The Biden administration is seen as continuing the efforts of president Trump to pursue American interests in trade, technology, American workers and business to restore America's leadership role in the free world to what it was in the 1950's. Biden from Delaware is in the same tradition as president Harry Truman from Missouri in that period. Because of Biden's age this could be a one term presidency, and strange as it may sound it could be a presidency of Trump in foreign affairs and trade, technological leadership, without the rhetoric, and a socially cohesive presidency of Democrats in the tradition of Harry Truman. What then to make of all the fights of the Trump presidency? Much of this can be seen as an effort to break the status quo which did not benefit American workers.
Linked Articles
Biden’s Economic Team Charts a New Course for Globalization, With Trumpian Undertones
WSJ 12/01/2020
Trump touts record of ‘no new wars’, standing up to China in farewell addressFrance 24 01/21/2021
Pope Francis and the challenge of the modern world in 2020
11/27/2020
Two crises back to back in 2010 and 2020 putting the working class, middle class and poor further behind each ten years. Pope Francis calls this a challenge for the modern world in his new book "Let us Dream- The Path To a Better Future." He says "we cannot return to the false securities of the political and economic systems before the pandemic, we need economies that give access to all of the fruits of creation, to the basic needs of life, land lodging and labor."
Linked Articles
A Humble Pope, Challenging the World
New York Times 09/18/2015
Opinion | Pope Francis: A Crisis Reveals What Is in Our HeartsNYTimes.com 11/27/2020
Britain in the second wave of the coronavirus
11/02/2020
Linked Articles
Lockdown 2? The PM’s friends in the north have lived it for months
The Times 11/01/2020
New lockdown: ‘Boris Johnson had no option. He could not ignore the facts any longer’The Times 11/01/2020
Floods and climate change in Bangladesh, China, India, and Indonesia in 2020
09/22/2020
Linked Articles
A third of my country was just underwater. The world must act on climate | Sheikh Hasina
The Guardian 09/22/2020
Floods Inundate Sinking Jakarta, Leaving 16 Dead After Torrential RainWSJ 01/02/2020
The opening of bars in tourism destinations of Europe in summer triggering a second wave of the pandemic
09/22/2020
Linked Articles
Tourists in Croatia Help Feed Covid-19 Surge Across Europe
WSJ 09/21/2020
Coronavirus Cases Rise in Europe as Youth Hit Beaches and BarsWSJ 08/02/2020
Where the Republicans and Mr. Trump stand on the economy in 2020
08/24/2020
Linked Articles
Why Trump’s Approval Ratings on the Economy Remain Durable
NYTimes.com 08/24/2020
Trump Trails Biden, but Polls Show the President Has Some StrengthsWSJ 08/23/2020
What to know about face masks imported from China
08/04/2020
Why FDA has failed in its quality control of face masks imported from China. WSJ analysis shows the unreliability of many of the N95 masks imported from Chinese suppliers. These imported masks follow a Chinese standard K95.
Linked Articles
WSJ News Exclusive | FDA’s Shifting Standards for Chinese Face Masks Fuel Confusion
WSJ 08/03/2020
What to Know About KN95 Face MasksWSJ 08/03/2020
U.S. and China's Communist party
07/27/2020
Linked Articles
Secretary of State Pompeo Urges Chinese People to Change Communist Party
WSJ 07/23/2020
Pompeo blames China for Galwan, calls it rogue actor - Times of IndiaThe Times of India 06/20/2020
Get low tech contact tracing going to reopen economy- the message from Germany to Europe and America
05/28/2020
Linked Articles
Human contact tracing provides valuable clues to COVID-19 infections | DW | 27.05.2020
DW.COM 05/27/2020
The first wave: How Germany’s coronavirus contact tracers helped to ease its lockdownThe Times 05/26/2020
The success tackling coronavirus in the Indian state of Kerala
05/18/2020
Past experience with pandemics- most recently the Nipah virus in 2018 -helped the Indian state of Kerala set a unique state of preparedness of both the health ministry and the people in control of spread of coronavirus. Hardship is also a great teacher of solidarity- only recently in 2019 Kerala had the worst floods in a century from a cyclone that hit the coast of Kerala in southwestern India. It did not take long for people to take preventive action starting at the end of January when the first cases were being seen in Wuhan, China, led by Health minister Ms. Shailaja. She personally visited a region quarantined in the state to guide the effort.
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The coronavirus slayer! How Kerala's rock star health minister helped save it from Covid-19
The Guardian 05/14/2020
Coronavirus lockdown: Is India flattening the COVID-19 curve? | DW | 24.04.2020DW.COM 04/24/2020
How underreporting of coronavirus in China and in U.S. led to a false sense of security and unpreparedness
05/09/2020
The databases failed to be anywhere near the true estimates of infected people, researchers and experts say, and western nations lack of experience with such a virus led to complacency, unpreparedness, till it was too late.
Linked Articles
How a Johns Hopkins Professor and Her Chinese Students Tracked Coronavirus
WSJ 05/09/2020
Travel From New York City Seeded Wave of U.S. OutbreaksNYTimes.com 05/07/2020
Deforestation- is the pledge at COP26 Glasgow a bit too late for Indonesian rainforest?
11/02/2021
This is one of the amazing links in Lyrarc because it shows WSJ article from 2007 noted by Lyrarc that year, showing UN maps on deforestation in Borneo island in Indonesia for 2000, 2005, 2020. By 2020 most of the rainforest is shown as gone. Deforestation and climate ecologist Clare Rewcastle Brown, sister in law of former British prime minister Gordon Brown, from Britain, recalls colonial days in Sarawak, north Borneo Island, where her father was a police officer. And how much of the canopy of forest from that part of Malaysia was disappearing. She continued her protests from outside Malaysia in 2013 as reported by NYT and noted in Lyrarc that year. This is an amazing story of how deforestation of some of the last rain forests in the world took place at a time when awareness of climate change was sorely lacking in 2007-2013, and how by 2020 the rain forests in Borneo may have already disappeared from planet earth to combat climate change. One woman's fight and a fight that is still on after world leaders took a pledge to end deforestation on the planet by 2030 including Russia, Brazil, Indonesia, China, and the US, and a UN report that had the foresight to show a rainforest disappearing in 2007 in Tom Wright's WSJ report from Surabaya, Indonesia the same year.
Linked Articles
WSJ 07/03/2007
Barred From Malaysia, but Still Connecting With Critical JabsNew York Times 08/16/2013
The shift in Europe's relations with China from Prague to Paris
10/26/2021
Linked Articles
In Germany, Hamburg is at the heart of a growing dilemma over China
South China Morning Post 10/26/2021
Taiwan Gains Favor in Europe’s East, Angering ChinaWSJ 10/26/2021
U.S. China Phase 1 Trade Agreement not working out
01/15/2021
Linked Articles
A Year On, China Falls Short on Trade-Deal Targets
WSJ 01/15/2021
China Exports Generate Record Trade SurplusWSJ 12/07/2020
European hospitals feeling the strain in the second wave of the coronavirus in November
11/05/2020
Linked Articles
Covid-19 Live Updates: European Hospitals Are Filling at an Alarming Pace
NYTimes.com 10/29/2020
COVID-19 challenges European health care systems again | DW | 05.11.2020DW.COM 11/05/2020
How global travel seeded the first and second wave of the pandemic- ski resorts in March and beach resorts in September
09/30/2020
Linked Articles
Ski, Party, Seed a Pandemic: The Travel Rules That Let Covid-19 Take Flight
NYTimes.com 09/30/2020
Tourists in Croatia Help Feed Covid-19 Surge Across EuropeWSJ 09/21/2020
China's buildup since Doklam on the LAC with India
09/22/2020
Linked Articles
China doubled its air bases, air defences and heliports near LAC in three years: Report
Hindustan Times 09/22/2020
Exclusive: In Doklam, Chinese Built New Roads In Last 2 Months, Show Satellite PicsNDTV.com 12/12/2017
Bringing factories and jobs home from China
08/27/2020
Linked Articles
Opinion | Bringing the Factories Home
WSJ 07/19/2020
Covid-19 forces France to look at relocating its pharmaceutical industryFrance 24 05/15/2020
The Leshan Buddha on the Yangtze River and China today
08/20/2020
Linked Articles
Is a Buddhist Group Changing China? Or Is China Changing It?
NYTimes.com 08/20/2020
Floods reach toes of China's Leshan Giant BuddhaBBC News 08/19/2020
Coronavirus impact on economy- over 10% second quarter GDP decline in Europe
08/01/2020
Linked Articles
Coronavirus leads to record drop in German GDP | DW | 30.07.2020
DW.COM 07/30/2020
Eurozone GDP drops 12.1% in record pandemic plunge | DW | 31.07.2020DW.COM 07/31/2020
Luckin Coffee a China startup for aspirational coffee drinkers- billions of dollars in investment that never reached infrastructure and health services,and huge losses
06/13/2020
Linked Articles
China’s Changing Tastes Offer Upside for Coffee
WSJ 06/13/2020
Fraud Rocks China's Hottest Coffee Startup - The Journal. - WSJ PodcastsWSJ 06/13/2020
How the WHO failed as early warning system in the coronavirus after being a model during the leadership of Dr. Brundtland in 2003 SARS
05/21/2020
The contrast could not be greater between the World Health Organization today and the WHO under Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland, a three time prime minister of Norway between 1981 and 1996 with great experience and a record of handling difficult issues of climate change and sustainable development.
Linked Articles
A Failed Deception: The Early Days of the Coronavirus Outbreak in Wuhan - DER SPIEGEL
SPIEGEL ONLINE 05/20/2020
‘The only way forward for WHO is...’: Full text of Trump’s letter to WHO chiefHindustan Times 05/19/2020
How underreporting of coronavirus in China and the U.S. led to a false sense of security in U.S., unpreparedness, till it was too late
05/09/2020
Linked Articles
Millions of coronavirus infections left undetected worldwide – study | DW | 08.04.2020
DW.COM 04/08/2020
Travel From New York City Seeded Wave of U.S. OutbreaksNYTimes.com 05/07/2020
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