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Daily Policy Topics
Economics
Is America already in recession?
Is China’s Steel Industry on the Brink of a Major Crisis?
Who Wins And Who Loses When The Housing Bubble Pops?
Why investors are not buying Europe’s revival
Wall Street Outraged Over Latest Epic F*ck Up By Biden’s Labor Department
Geopolitics
Ukraine Tried To Attack Kursk Nuclear Plant To Stage Provocation: Putin
India Surpasses China as Largest Importer of Russian Oil
Blinken ‘Sentenced Ceasefire Talks to Death’ With Comments on Netanyahu
Ukrainian Missile Sets Fuel-Laden Ferry On Fire At Key Russian Port
‘No Israeli Withdrawal, No Ceasefire Deal’: Hamas
After decades of decline, Poland’s population seems to be increasing
What Happened to Iran’s Promised Revenge Against Israel?
Climate Change
Many Climate Policies Struggle to Cut Emissions, Study Finds
BBC Accused of Doing PR for Major Polluters
Science & Technology
Oil Giant Halliburton Reportedly Hit By Cyberattack, Disrupting Houston Operations
Hardware Backdoor Discovered in RFID Cards Used in Hotels and Offices Worldwide
Chinese Hackers Exploit Zero-Day Cisco Switch Flaw to Gain System Control
Critical Flaw in WordPress LiteSpeed Cache Plugin Allows Hackers Admin Access
Gartner Spotlights AI, Security in 2024 Hype Cycle for Emerging Tech
American Politics
Staggering Incompetence: Biden’s Commerce Secretary Is “Not Familiar” With The Bureau Of Labor
The DNC Fiddles While the World Burns
Good News!
Good News in History, August 22
How smartphones are revolutionizing earthquake detection and alerts
Quote of the Day
“In fact, one of the main lessons to be learned from the collapses of the Maya, Anasazi, Easter Islanders, and those other past societies (as well as from the recent collapse of the Soviet Union) is that a society’s steep decline may begin only a decade or two after the society reaches its peak numbers, wealth, and power. In that respect, the trajectories of the societies that we have discussed are unlike the usual courses of individual human lives, which decline in a prolonged senescence. The reason is simple: maximum population, wealth, resource consumption, and waste production mean maximum environmental impact, approaching the limit where impact outstrips resources. On reflection, it’s no surprise that declines of societies tend to follow swiftly on their peaks.”
― Jared Diamond
