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How Europe won the energy war after shutdown of Russian gas supplies
04/07/2023
By April 2023 with winter over it is clear that Europe has come out of the winter season with its economy intact after shutdown of pipeline gas from the pipelines in Russia. A lot of action was taken in a short time- Germany's Habeck went to Qatar and other countries to secure LNG supplies, a new LNG terminal was built at Wilhelmshaven in record time, Norway and the US pitched in with more supplies, conservation went into high gear, and renewable energy investments were accelerated. There is no recession in the European Union as a result of this effort. And in this sense and with the Ukrainian economy functioning, generators taking Ukraine through a tough winter, EU taking in 80% of Ukraine agricultural exports, and supermarket shelves kept well stocked, refugees settled in Poland and Germany, the war has already been decided. The principle of no impunity for attacks on neighboring countries has been preserved by the EU acting together to protect itself.
Grouped Articles
Opinion | Putin’s Energy Offensive Has Failed
NYTimes.com 04/07/2023
Thwarting Vladimir Putin: The Ukrainian Economy Just Keeps On Going - DER SPIEGEL
SPIEGEL ONLINE 04/07/2023
An LNG pipeline built in record time – DW – 11/01/2022
dw.com 11/04/2022
European and Indian oil imports from Russia- myth and reality
04/01/2022
Grouped Articles
Truss-Jaishankar faceoff over sanctions: ‘most Russian oil buyers in Europe’
The Indian Express 04/01/2022
India’s stand on Russia tied to the ‘extra issue’ of China’s challenge: Australian envoy
The Hindu 03/29/2022
Opinion: Targeting India for buying Russian oil smacks of hypocrisy | DW | 22.03.2022
DW.COM 03/28/2022
How women can navigate the waters to find a family friendly workplace and get men to share in household chores. This is important for women's Mental Health.
09/24/2021
During the pandemic women increasingly stayed at home while men continued to work. Figures from Bureau of Labor Statistics show women ended up with doing even more household chores than men in 2020 compared to 2019. As a result women during the coronavirus feel worn out or burned out in addition to losing income. WSJ offers ways women can tackle this problem both by getting men to share in household chores, and finding employers who are family friendly as the coronavirus pandemic declines in 2022.
Grouped Articles
How to Find a Family-Friendly Workplace
WSJ 09/24/2021
Women Still Do More of the Housework. Here’s How to Share the Load.
WSJ 09/23/2021
The World Health Organization in the crucial early weeks in January and February 2020- failure of the early warning system for coronavirus
06/03/2020
Grouped Articles
China withheld data on coronavirus from WHO, recordings reveal
The Guardian 06/02/2020
Why Trump Is Taking On the World Health Organization - The Journal. - WSJ Podcasts
WSJ 05/23/2020
Harsh Vardhan takes over as WHO executive board chief
Hindustan Times 05/24/2020
A Failed Deception: The Early Days of the Coronavirus Outbreak in Wuhan - DER SPIEGEL
SPIEGEL ONLINE 05/20/2020
Who is Dr. Harlem Brundtland? Compared to her does the WHO today flunk, and even Dr Fauci, Dr Redfield fall short
05/20/2020
Dr. Harlem Brundtland was head of the WHo during the SARS crisis which originated in China in 2003. Her swift action included questioning China's suppression of the openness of its scientific and medical community at the time, alerting the world to take action to control the epidemic. The U.S. clearly brings up Dr. Brundtland as the model that was not followed in its letter to the WHO of May 18, 2020. Dr. Redfield, head U.S. CDC was alerted by Dr. Gao Fu head of China's CDC and its medical scientific community on Dec. 31, 2019, and through Dr. Redfield the American medical scientific community including Dr. Fauci, in an early warning of what was to happen. Dr Brundtland is a three time prime minister of Norway starting with the first term in 1981 and ending with the third term in 1996. She was head of the Labor Party and had a distinguished record including her work in climate change, sustainable development and other issues. The WHO earned much respect under her leadership of the organization.
Grouped Articles
‘The only way forward for WHO is...’: Full text of Trump’s letter to WHO chief
Hindustan Times 05/19/2020
A Failed Deception: The Early Days of the Coronavirus Outbreak in Wuhan - DER SPIEGEL
SPIEGEL ONLINE 05/20/2020
Trump gives WHO ultimatum over virus handling
BBC News 05/19/2020
The World Health Organization (WHO) and cuts in U.S. funding
05/16/2020
Cuts in U.S. funding over the WHO's handling of coronavirus. Questions are being raised about the transparency, and the competence of the WHO in its handling of coronavirus including its early warning and preparation capabilities that members including Europe and the U.S. relied on in the crisis to their regret.
Grouped Articles
Trump Says U.S. Is Considering Restoring Some WHO Funding
WSJ 05/16/2020
China withheld data on coronavirus from WHO, recordings reveal
The Guardian 06/02/2020
Why Trump Is Taking On the World Health Organization - The Journal. - WSJ Podcasts
WSJ 05/23/2020
Harsh Vardhan takes over as WHO executive board chief
Hindustan Times 05/24/2020
A Failed Deception: The Early Days of the Coronavirus Outbreak in Wuhan - DER SPIEGEL
SPIEGEL ONLINE 05/20/2020
Lockdowns and quarantine- buying time for the testing and cluster isolation attack on cornonavirus
03/27/2020
Grouped Articles
India 'super spreader' quarantines 40,000 people
BBC News 03/27/2020
Bloomberg to help New York build 'army' of COVID-19 tracers - France 24
France 24 04/22/2020
The Critical Variable in Keeping Coronavirus in Check
WSJ 04/20/2020
Five tests that will guide us out of coronavirus lockdown
The Times 04/30/2020
OPEC and a new alliance with a 10 nation group led by Russia that includes Mexico
02/06/2019
Grouped Articles
OPEC Pursues Formal Pact With Russia
WSJ 02/06/2019
Russia's S-400 antiaircraft missile system and its role in contesting a U.S. led world order
01/23/2019
Grouped Articles
The New Iron Curtain: Russian Missile Defense Challenges U.S. Air Power
WSJ 01/23/2019
India Russia trade relations
10/05/2018
Grouped Articles
India Goes Ahead With Russia Missile Buy in Face of U.S. Sanctions Threat
WSJ 10/05/2018
Why is India interested in Russian missile system? | DW | 05.10.2018
DW.COM 10/05/2018
The Trump Putin meeting in Helsinki in July 2018
07/18/2018
Grouped Articles
A Besieged Trump Says He Misspoke on Russian Election Meddling
New York TImes 07/17/2018
WSJ 07/16/2018
Trump Leaves GOP, Intelligence Community and Allies in the Hot Seat
WSJ 07/16/2018
Trump Sheds All Notions of How a President Should Conduct Himself Abroad
New York TImes 07/16/2018
2018 World Cup Soccer in Russia
06/14/2018
Grouped Articles
World Cup Gives Putin’s Policies a Global Stage
WSJ 06/13/2018
World Cup: Maradona rides emotional rollercoaster as Rojo rescues Argentina
The Times 06/27/2018
Benjamin Pavard, and His World Cup Highlight, Came Out of Nowhere
New York Times 07/04/2018
How England surprised everyone at the World Cup
The Economist 07/11/2018
France to Hugo Lloris: Get Back in Goal
WSJ 07/13/2018
France Revels in World Cup Victory
WSJ 07/15/2018
Oil prices in 2018 with Russia-OPEC cutbacks and the tensions between Iran and the Saudis
04/25/2018
Grouped Articles
Yemen’s Rebels Step Up Attacks on Aramco Oil Facilities
WSJ 04/25/2018
Oil Producers Debate Best Way to Contain Crude Prices
WSJ 09/23/2018
Oil Falls Most Since 2015 on Fears of Oversupply
WSJ 11/13/2018
Saudis Struggle to Share Pain of Pumping Less Oil
WSJ 11/30/2018
OPEC Pursues Formal Pact With Russia
WSJ 02/06/2019
US oil sanctions on Iran anger Asian powers
The Times 04/22/2019
How the Ukraine War Happened- Miscalculations on All Sides
04/03/2022
The WSJ report on the miscalculations going back 20 years by all sides looks at key events since 2002. An interview by Timakova and Kolesnikov of the Russian president provides more insights into his mindset and thinking.
Grouped Articles
An Astonishing Self-Portrait by Russia's President
NYTimes.com 04/02/22
Opinion | What’s on Vladimir Putin’s Reading List?
WSJ 04/01/22
Russian Strategy in Ukraine Shifts After Setbacks, and a Lengthy War Looms
WSJ 04/01/22
Russia Set for Steep Slump and Long Stagnation in Wake of Ukraine War
WSJ 03/31/22
Putin advisers ‘afraid to tell him truth’ about Ukraine error, says GCHQ head
The Guardian 03/30/22
Biden says Putin ‘badly miscalculated’ in invading Ukraine.
NYTimes.com 03/02/22
Nature walks, nature settings, as an essential way to boost mental health and wellbeing during the pandemic
10/09/2021
It is proven that just two hours a week of walks in nature setting in parks, natural settings, green areas, or forested areas, can be hugely beneficial for health and wellbeing during the pandemic. Long and recurrent lockdowns or partial lockdowns, closure of schools, loss of work and income, have had devastating effects on mental health in many countries. Much needs to be done to promote nature walks and bringing nature as a healing mechanism to take some of the burden off the overburdened health services of many countries. Awareness of this in the UK and funds + projects to do this can be a model for other countries.
Grouped Articles
Two-hour ‘dose’ of nature significantly boosts health – study
The Guardian 06/13/19
Oyster Shoreline at ‘Greater New York’ Has a Pearl of a Message
NYTimes.com 10/04/21
‘It took a year to get help’: generation Z on mental health decline
The Guardian 09/30/21
Natural health service: wildlife volunteers get mental health boost
The Guardian 10/02/17
Nature on prescription: wetlands project aims to boost mental health
The Guardian 05/13/21
‘These salt marshes saved my life’: how nature is helping mental health
The Guardian 10/09/21
Pope Francis and the call "not to return to the false securities of the political and economic systems we had before the pandemic."
11/27/2020
Two crises back to back in 2010 and 2020 which set back the working class, the middle class and the poor, and the neglect of capital allocation to healthcare, education, infrastructure. Pope Francis calls for a culture that feels others pain, that "gives access to all to the fruits of creation, to the basic needs of life: to land, lodging, and labor." See "Misallocation of Capital" in Top Stories for more coverage.
Grouped Articles
Germany- low tech coronavirus contact tracing that works for reopening the country
05/27/2020
Grouped Articles
Human contact tracing provides valuable clues to COVID-19 infections | DW | 27.05.2020
DW.COM 05/27/20
The first wave: How Germany’s coronavirus contact tracers helped to ease its lockdown
The Times 05/26/20
Dr. Redfield, head of the U.S. Centre for Disease Control
05/20/2020
Grouped Articles
C.D.C.’s Dr. Robert Redfield Confronts Coronavirus, and Anger
NYTimes.com 03/13/20
A Failed Deception: The Early Days of the Coronavirus Outbreak in Wuhan - DER SPIEGEL
SPIEGEL ONLINE 05/20/20
How underreporting of coronavirus created a false sense of security in the U.S. and Europe, leading to complacency and unpreparedness till it was too late
05/09/2020
Grouped Articles
How a Johns Hopkins Professor and Her Chinese Students Tracked Coronavirus
WSJ 05/09/20
Travel From New York City Seeded Wave of U.S. Outbreaks
NYTimes.com 05/07/20
Millions of coronavirus infections left undetected worldwide – study | DW | 08.04.2020
DW.COM 04/08/20
The cloud over Franco-German relations and the European project in 2019
11/30/2019
Grouped Articles
Franco-German Rift Clouds EU’s Future
WSJ 11/28/19
The 1987 Missile Treaty
02/01/2019
Grouped Articles
The History of a Cold War Missile Treaty
WSJ 02/01/19
The Russian economy in 2017-2018- declining ruble from sanctions and rising oil prices
10/16/2018
Grouped Articles
U.S. Sanctions Give Russian Economy an Unintended Boost
WSJ 10/16/18
Oil Falls Most Since 2015 on Fears of Oversupply
WSJ 11/13/18
Saudis Struggle to Share Pain of Pumping Less Oil
WSJ 11/30/18
Oil prices in 2018 - the effect of Trump administration sanctions on Iranian oil
09/24/2018
Grouped Articles
Oil Producers Debate Best Way to Contain Crude Prices
WSJ 09/23/18
Oil Falls Most Since 2015 on Fears of Oversupply
WSJ 11/13/18
Saudis Struggle to Share Pain of Pumping Less Oil
WSJ 11/30/18
US oil sanctions on Iran anger Asian powers
The Times 04/22/19
World Cup Soccer 2018 in Russia
06/18/2018
Grouped Articles
Germany embarrassed by passionate Mexico fans on historic World Cup night | DW | 18.06.2018
DW.COM 06/18/18
A Fearless Mexico Tops Germany, With Help From Its Cerebral Coach
The New York Times 06/17/18
Did Mexico’s Revelry in World Cup Win Over Germany Cause an Earthquake?
New York Times 06/17/18
World Cup: Maradona rides emotional rollercoaster as Rojo rescues Argentina
The Times 06/27/18
Benjamin Pavard, and His World Cup Highlight, Came Out of Nowhere
New York Times 07/04/18
How England surprised everyone at the World Cup
The Economist 07/11/18
The impact of U.S. withdrawal from the Iran Nuclear Deal in May 2018, on world oil prices
05/09/2018
Grouped Articles
Trump’s Iran Sanctions to Shake Up Global Oil Supply Lines
WSJ 05/09/18
Saudis Struggle to Share Pain of Pumping Less Oil
WSJ 11/30/18
US oil sanctions on Iran anger Asian powers
The Times 04/22/19
US to end Iran oil sanctions exemptions
BBC News 04/22/19
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