Tucker: Policymakers just can’t stop breaking coronavirus rules
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Venezuela’s sending its gold reserves to Iran: This is where socialism leads
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Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro – REUTERS It’s come to this: Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro is now sending a good chunk of the nation’s gold to Iran in exchange for help propping up the decrepit oil industry. At least nine tons … Read More
Cellphone monitoring is spreading with the coronavirus. So is an uneasy tolerance of surveillance.
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Photo: CATHERINE LAI /AFP / TNS Government Technology Agency (GovTech) staff demonstrate Singapore’s new contact-tracing smartphone app called TraceTogether, as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus in Singapore on March 20. The mobile app using Bluetooth technology developed by … Read More
Weekly Update by Mark Armstrong – 1 May 2020
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Greetings from Tyler, We were warned that hospitals would be overrun. They were sure to run out of ventilators, if not hospital beds. Car companies were recruited to manufacture ventilators instead of cars. Now nobody knows what to do with … Read More
Environmental disasters across world in April 2020
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Authorities in Afghanistan warn more than 7 million people still at risk as 56 people die from severe flooding. ANKARA The fourth month of 2020 saw numerous environmental disasters that impaired climate change and vice versa, including severe flooding in … Read More
Venezuela’s gasoline goes from world’s cheapest to steepest
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PUERTO ORDAZ/MARACAIBO, Venezuela (Reuters) – Venezuelans reported paying above $2 per liter ($7.57 per gallon) for gasoline last week amid fuel shortages, one of the world’s highest rates and a dramatic reversal for an OPEC nation that long boasted of … Read More
Weekly Update by Mark Armstrong – 24 April 2020
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Greetings from Tyler, Believe it or not, there is some news that’s not related to the media’s obsession with the latest “gift” from China. Reeling from fears of the sickness and reactions to heavy-handed orders that sometimes defy common sense, … Read More
Oil prices drop below $0 for the first time in history
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Absolute madness On Monday afternoon, oil prices hit an all-time low, dipping below $0 for the first time in history. Traders blamed the drop on the expiration of the May futures contract on Tuesday coupled with a sharp decline in … Read More
Weekly Update by Mark Armstrong – 17 April 2020
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Greetings from Tyler, Let’s just hope the United States hasn’t been permanently wrecked, not only for our own sake but for the sake of every country on earth. But it has been temporarily wrecked. It seems as though those who … Read More