Saturday 30 July 2022

University Of California-San Diego

Offers segregated back-to-school orientation.



Anarchy Rules South Africa

The nation has become a gangster state.



The Devastating Impact of Covid-19 Litter On Earth’s Wildlife

Photos from 23 countries show animals tangled in face masks, disposable gloves and other personal protective equipment.




Airport COVID Measures Derail Israeli Terror Survivors’ Trip to Canada’s Wonderland

They had to cancel paid-for excursions to Niagara Falls and Canada’s Wonderland.



Germany Turns Off The Hot Water

Hanover becomes first big city to ban hot water in public buildings in response to Russian gas crisis.



At This Manhattan Middle School School, Sixth-Graders Are Asked To Surveil Friends and Family for ‘Microaggressions’

This Book Is Antiracist is a key element of curriculum at Lower Manhattan Community Middle School.



Venezuela Provides a Million Acres of New Farming Land

For Iran.



Justin Trudeau Decides to Walk Down the Same Failed Green Path

As Sri Lanka.




Most Trash Polluting Galapagos Islands

Comes from illegal Chinese fishing boats.




The Energy Crisis Will Divide Europe

Eurozone fault lines are starting to re-surface.



The Killing Fields

The skyrocketing market value of yarchagumba, a rare fungus prized as an aphrodisiac, has led to turf wars—and possibly murder.



Dr. Shock

How an apartheid-era psychiatrist went from torturing gay soldiers in South Africa to sexually abusing patients in Alberta.



The Bears Who Came to Town

And would not go away.





The Barnacle Queens

Of the Spanish seaside.




How America Lost the War on Drugs

An anatomy of a failure.



Friday 29 July 2022

The Couple Who Saved China’s Ancient Architectural Treasures Before They Were Lost Forever

As the nation teetered on the brink of war in the 1930s, two Western-educated thinkers struck out for the hinterlands to save their country’s riches.



A Death in the Winelands

The mysterious death of a farmworker reveals a violent history.



‘It’s Going To Keep Getting Worse’

Australian pundit blasts Trudeau’s fertilizer cuts.




Why Silicon Valley Billionaires Are Prepping For The Apocalypse

In New Zealand.



In Sudan, Rediscovering Ancient Nubia Before It’s Too Late

Long ignored by white researchers, modern archaeologists are now racing to document the ancient African civilization.



The Reckoning

Thirty years ago, an acclaimed series of documentaries introduced the world to an isolated tribe in Papua New Guinea. What happened when the cameras left?



On the Other Side

North Korean women have been escaping to the South in search of freedom and happier lives. But what happens when hope leads to disappointment?



Ballots and Bloodshed

The militarization of local politics in South Africa.




The Sunburnt Country

Whiteness as a disease in a skin-cancer-ridden Australia.








Next Year in Jerusalem

When her brother embraced Orthodox Judaism, the author began to question her own reality and went to Israel to find some answers.



Blow Up

How half a tonne of cocaine transformed the life of an island.



Thursday 28 July 2022

Where Will Everyone Go?

ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine, with support from the Pulitzer Center, have for the first time modeled how climate refugees might move across international borders. This is what we found.



A Sumo Wrestling Tournament

A failed coup ending in seppuku. A search for a forgotten man. How one writer’s trip to Japan became a journey through oblivion.



The Real Story of Sandy Hill Pittman, Everest’s Socialite Climber

Jennet Conant’s wife— Did she take it too far?



In Hokkaido, the Ultimate Japanese Snow Country

A rugged mountain landscape and an unexpected mash-up of cultures.



Below Deck

Filipinos make up nearly a third of all cruise ship workers. It’s a good job. Until it isn’t.



The Disaster Tourist

Let’s be clear: We were engaging in ‘dark tourism.’



Wednesday 27 July 2022

How New Zealand made Edmund Hillary

The man who conquered Everest.




Who Killed Tulum?

Greed, gringos, diesel, drugs, shamans, seaweed, and a disco ball in the jungle.



In Ashgabat

I got on the flight back to Istanbul and fell asleep, listening to the relieved braying of businessmen getting pissed on airline whisky, filling the void with tales of corporate derring-do.





Last-Chance Tourism

We’re here to see the Great Doomed Thing.




Borderless Britain

Is becoming a Woke joke.



Girl Guides Spark Trans Row

By issuing statement from parents who let their seven-year-old son live their ‘true gender’ as a girl.



AI Player Grabs a Seven-Year-Old Boy and Breaks His Finger

During tournament in Russia.



China Launches Second Module

For its space station Heavenly Palace.



A House Divided

A story of the continuing battle against racism in South Africa.



When the Monks Come to Town

A mysterious Buddhist organization recently arrived on Prince Edward Island with millions of dollars and a taste for organic farming. 



Return to the Rainforest

A son’s search for his Amazonian mother.



The Dreamy Little Verities That Canadians Took For Granted

Are crumbling.



Crime at Homeless Encampments

Is becoming a national problem.




The Liberals

Are afraid of you.



Canadian Snack Foods Now Made

With crickets as primary ingredient.



The Revenge of Italian Democracy

The fall of Mario Draghi’s technocratic regime is a nightmare for the pro-EU elites.



Food and Energy — The Liberal Government’s Attack On Life's Essentials

After targeting the oil and gas sector, the federal government now wants to cut fertilizer usage by 30 per cent.



Worst Is Yet To Come From Trudeau Liberals

Rough times are a-coming, what with the cascading consequences of energy shortages, supply chain disruptions, war in Ukraine and severe and looming food and fertilizer shortages.