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Amid all the focus on Europe’s energy troubles in the past year, a byproduct of the continent’s legacy reliance on Russian commodity exports, it has largely slipped the world’s attention that a far more brutal – and mostly ignored – energy crisis is taking place right now in South Africa, which recently declared a state… Continue reading South Africans Without Electricity For Nine Hours A Day Amid “Ginormous” Blackouts

Authored by David Charbonneau via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A recently published meta-analysis shows that global sperm counts are declining worldwide—at an accelerating rate. The article, published in the journal Human Reproduction Update in November 2022 by an international team of researchers, reviewed 2,936 scholarly abstracts and 868 full articles and analyzed data from… Continue reading Global Sperm Counts Declining At Accelerating Rate: New Meta-Analysis

Former and current presidents are the people most commonly named by Americans as the men they most admire. Statista’s Katharina Buchholz notes that, among those being very consistently ranked in a Gallup poll that has been running since 1946 is Jimmy Carter. The 39th president of the United States announced Saturday through his foundation that he had entered… Continue reading America’s Most Admired Men | ZeroHedge

Authored by Gordon G. Chang via The Gatestone Institute, China’s propagandists tell us the Chinese economy this year will “accelerate to 4.8%.” Foreign analysts are even more bullish. Goldman Sachs estimates growth of gross domestic product of 5.5%. China’s National Health Commission announced the end of the Communist Party’s “dynamic zero-Covid” policy on December 7. It did not take… Continue reading Crazy Optimism About China’s Economy

Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix News, The vast majority of Ukrainian refugees currently residing in Germany do not intend to return to their home country immediately after the war, the latest polling has revealed… In a survey conducted by the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF), just 34 percent of respondents revealed they would go… Continue reading Only A Third Of Ukrainians In Germany Plan To Return Home When War Ends

In what could be the beginning of a trend, Japanese company Kyocera is now investing in production in its home country of Japan because it says China can no longer be relied on as the “world’s factory”.  US sanctions on China’s access to advanced technology have become a headwind in the country’s ability to act… Continue reading Kyocera President Says China Is No Longer The “World’s Factory” Due To US Export Controls

Authored by Rajan Laad via AmericanThinker.com, Recently, the BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) awards received praise because their nominees fulfilled the diversity criteria. The BBC reported that performers belonging to ethnic minorities were almost 40% of acting nominees. Back in 2016 “diversity and inclusion criteria” were introduced into the eligibility requirements for the 2019 Film… Continue reading The British Oscars Face Backlash Because All Winners Were White

Q4 2022 saw European businesses filing for bankruptcy at the fastest pace in at least eight years The number of bankruptcy declarations increased during all four quarters of 2022. As The FT reports, there was a particularly sharp increase in Spanish bankruptcy filings, which more than doubled in the second half of last year after… Continue reading Culling Of Spanish ‘Zombies’ Sends European Bankruptcies Soaring To 8-Year-Highs

Authored by Patricia Devlin via The Epoch Times, Shamima Begum failed in a last-ditch legal bid to have her British citizenship restored. On Wednesday, the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC) fully dismissed the 23-year-old’s legal challenge against a Home Office decision to revoke her status as a UK citizen. It means Begum—who travelled from her London home to join… Continue reading ‘ISIS Bride’ Shamima Begum Bid To Restore British Citizenship Rejected

Via The Cradle, The Iraqi central bank announced Wednesday that, for the first time, it plans to allow trade from China to be settled directly in yuan instead of the US dollar to improve access to foreign currency. “It is the first time imports would be financed from China in yuan, as Iraqi imports from… Continue reading Iraq To Drop Dollar For Yuan In Trade With China