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HRW didn’t see it coming.

However, what HRW didn’t foresee was the China factor. Shortly after the official announcement of the “Stop Covid-19” app’s launch, Wang Wentian, the Chinese ambassador to Phnom Penh, met with Cambodian officials and requested access to the personal data collected via the new system, according to sources familiar with the request.

China squeezes Cambodia for its Covid app data

When Cambodia’s post and communications and health ministries initiated in February a so-called “Stop Covid-19” QR code contact tracing app system to prevent the spread of the lethal virus, rights …

I thought about my colleagues, the small college team I worked with every day. We were friends. We sometimes dined together. We would have walked across campus together after a hearing. It had honestly never occurred to me how that would look to an outsider desperately seeking a fair hearing for her son. In her eyes, the fix had been in. She told me what college her son had been expelled from. I knew some of those people. I knew my counterpart there, knew him to be a highly regarded senior student-affairs professional. I offered no defense, however, because I had none.

‘How Much Damage Have My Colleagues and I Done?’

A former dean of students loses faith in how colleges handle sexual assault.

So far, the CDC has identified 226 reports that might meet the agency’s “working case definition” of myocarditis and pericarditis following the shots, the agency disclosed Thursday. The vast majority have recovered, but 41 had ongoing symptoms, 15 are still hospitalized, and 3 are in the intensive care unit.

CDC plans “emergency meeting” on rare heart inflammation following COVID-19 vaccines

Reported cases represent just a tiny fraction of the nearly 130 million Americans who have been fully vaccinated with either Pfizer or Moderna’s doses.

“Uncomfortable levels of inflation” may be ahead, Deutsche Bank economists warned in a new report, but said US authorities likely won’t take any action until it’s too late.

‘TIME BOMB’: Major bank’s warning to global economies

Despite the US Federal Reserve’s insistence that inflation is nothing to worry about, rampantly rising prices could trigger a new wave of financial crises.

From 2012 to 2015, WIV researchers identified as many as 293 coronaviruses in and around the mine.

The institute in November 2020 disclosed the existence of eight other “SARS-type” coronavirus samples taken from the site.

China’s Mojiang mine and its role in the origins of COVID-19

Top US infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci has urged China to release information about six labourers who fell ill after working in a mine in Yunnan province in 2012.

The Chinese Communist Party is not repelled by the Woke talismans that provide nearly complete immunity to criticism in the West. They don’t play by politically correct rules. None of that critical theory means s**t to China.

Greta Thunberg complains that Chinese state-owned media is fat-shaming her

Global warming activist Greta Thunberg complained about criticism from Chinese state-owned media after they “fat-shamed” her in a critical article. Thunberg issued her response in a tweet from her official social media account. “Being fat-shamed by Chinese state owned media is a pretty weird e..…

Remember when it was “two weeks to flatten the curve”

The end of the talks will increase pressure on Democrats to pass a sweeping package using a special process that doesn’t require any Republican votes in the Senate.

Biden’s infrastructure talks with GOP collapse amid irreconcilable differences

Sen. Shelley Moore Capito said the president informed her that he was ending their negotiations.

The new order doesn’t target any companies specifically, but creates the potential for an even broader crackdown on Chinese-owned apps than the Trump administration orders it replaces by mandating a review of all software applications with potential ties to countries such as China.

Trump’s TikTok, WeChat Actions Targeting China Revoked by Biden

The president issued an executive order mandating a broad review of apps controlled by foreign adversaries, including China.

One day the people who would always come back walk away for good. “You can’t leave California! You can’t leave New York!

You can.

Keystone XL Oil Project Abandoned by Developer

The decision hands a major victory to environmentalists, who for years fought against the effort to pipe more Canadian crude to the U.S.

New at the Belmont Club. Nature makes complex statements. It hasn’t finished the paragraph but bureaucrats might.

Living with the limits of knowledge

Knowledge is not certainty

Worse than Trump, even with a progressive discount coupon.

After Biden took office, the department continued to pursue subpoenas for reporters’ email logs issued to Google, which operates the New York Times’ email systems, and it obtained a gag order compelling a Times attorney to keep silent about the fact that federal authorities were seeking to seize his colleagues’ records. Later, when the Justice Department broadened the number of those permitted to know about the effort, it barred Times executives from discussing the legal battle with the Times newsroom, including the paper’s top editor.

This escalation, on Biden’s watch, represents an unprecedented assault on American news organizations and their efforts to inform the public about government wrongdoing.

Washington Post editorial

The data help explain how Mr. Trump won 11 million more votes in 2020 than in his first election and show that his campaign drew new supporters to the GOP, an effort that focused most intensely on reaching working-class and rural voters in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and other battlegrounds.

Trump Found Millions of New Voters in 2020. Will They Turn Out for Next Year’s Midterms?

Former President Donald Trump drew substantial support in 2020 from a new pool of voters whose decisions on whether to participate in elections again will be central to next year’s midterms.

Trading places. Their Communists are coming down from the peak which our Communists are eagerly trying to climb.

Cuba Legalizes Most Private Businesses | Stratfor

The move will help spur growth, but the continued state control of Cuba’s most lucrative sectors will impede investment.

Immunity acquired from infection and various vaccines not only affords varying protection but wears off at different rates.

Six months of COVID vaccines: what 1.7 billion doses have taught scientists

At a pivotal moment in the pandemic, Nature explores key questions about the vaccines that countries are racing to deliver while viral variants spread around the globe.

Kept from FBI till the last moment

EXCLUSIVE: High-Ranking Chinese Defector Has ‘Direct Knowledge’ of Several Chinese Special Weapons Programs

Knowledge of the defector was kept from FBI, Langley due to potential compromise of those agencies.