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[ad_1] Photograph Source: David Falconer – Public Domain Cartel members are not always a congenial bunch.  Relations can get frosty and brittle over time.  With the United Arab Emirates, membership of the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has not been without its troubles, not helped by the increasingly snarky relationship it shares with the group’s de facto leader, Saudi Arabia.  To be part of such a group entails mindful restraint, an understanding about production targets and a curbing of individual initiative.  The statute of the group states its goal: to “devise ways and means of ensuring the stabilisation of prices in international oil markets…

[ad_1] Many Americans underestimate China’s threat to the United States. That threat includes the world’s most aggressive military build-up and provocations in the South China Sea; support for hostile regimes in Russia, North Korea and Iran; cyber operations; its global “Belt and Road” investment strategy; funding Code Pink, anti-ICE, No Kings, and other progressive movements; theft of intellectual property from U.S. universities and businesses; purchasing farmland adjacent to U.S. bases; and infiltrating think tanks and research centers. Though Donald Trump moderated his language in the run-up to his summit last week with Xi Jinping and in his public comments about…

[ad_1] Earlier this month, Republican county commissioners fast-tracked approval for a 40,000-acre data center in northwest Utah, blocking public comment from hundreds of furious locals. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] It is old news that all the tech we now live with is constantly gathering data about us. It is important, however, not to become complacent about this or to assume the situation cannot or is not getting worse. Pretty much every piece of digital technology that we interact with likely is gathering some personal information about you which is used to target advertising and to sell to third parties. Regulations in most countries are inadequate and fail to keep up with technological changes. One of the latest venues to soak up information about you may be surprising –…

[ad_1] Anew report is doing the rounds, warning that the UK’s new Online Safety Act is being circumvented by the cunning device of children drawing fake moustaches. The press is treating it as a big joke, but that’s a propaganda tactic we’ll get to in a second. The report itself – published by corporate-backed non-profit Internet Matters and titled “The Online Safety Act: Are children safer online?” – is taking it very seriously. There’s a lot more to it than eyeliner moustaches. The foreword insists that… …questions remain about whether current regulations are sufficiently robust, effectively enforced, and adaptable toan evolving digital…

[ad_1] Why Electric Bills Are Skyrocketing and the State is No Help [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Friends of Rep. Thomas Massie flocked to his Kentucky district to campaign for him over the weekend, drawing the ire of the libertarian-leaning Republican’s number one hater: Donald Trump. The furious president called for a new wave of reprisals against those who would defy him, including Rep. Lauren Boebert (R–Col.), who said she supported both Massie and Trump. “Boebert is campaigning for the Worst ‘Republican’ Congressman in the History of our Country, Thomas Massie, of the Great Commonwealth of Kentucky, and anybody who can be that dumb deserves a good Primary fight!” seethed Trump on Truth Social. “Even though…

[ad_1] Photograph Source: Benjamin D Applebaum – Public Domain Aggressors should compensate their victims for those killed, wounded, or displaced by their attacks as well as for damage to their buildings, bridges, and environment. By this logic, Iraq was forced to pay some $52.4 billion to Kuwait for damages resulting from Saddam Hussein’s 1990-1991 invasion and occupation. The process was managed by the United Nations Compensation Commission, created in 1991 as a subsidiary organ of the UN Security Council to handle claims and payments for losses and damage suffered by Kuwait.  Using revenue from oil sales, Iraq made its final payment…

[ad_1] Why RFK Jr. Is Coming for Your Antidepressants [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] So Special Judge Steven David (Ind. Super. Ct. St. Joseph County) ruled Friday. There had been a dispute about the reasonableness of the attorney fees, as there often is, but the court largely ruled that defendant’s fee request was indeed reasonable (with only modest deductions). It also noted that the plaintiff didn’t use the opportunity to present live evidence at the fee hearing, which might have offered more of a chance at successfully challenging the fees:For more on the substance of the case, here’s an excerpt from the opinion in Kay v. Irish Rover Inc., decided last year by…