From the Trenches World Report

Nevada Public Radio – by Kate Wells

Inside the emergency department at Sparrow Hospital in Lansing, Mich., staff members are struggling to care for patients who are showing up much sicker than they’ve ever seen.

Tiffani Dusang, the emergency room’s nursing director, practically vibrates with pent-up anxiety, looking at all the patients lying on a long line of stretchers pushed up against the beige walls of the hospital’s hallways. “It’s hard to watch,” she says in her warm Texan twang.  Continue reading “ERs are now swamped with seriously ill patients — but many don’t even have COVID”

Washington Examiner – by Jeremiah Poff

Parents of Loudoun County public school students have been asked to sign a type of nondisclosure agreement to view a curriculum connected to a group known to push critical race theory.

The NDA is required to be signed by parents who want to review the “Second Step” curriculum. Parents are required to acknowledge that the presentation of the material is “not a public event” and that “copying, broadcast or recording of any kind is prohibited.”  Continue reading “Loudoun County parents required to sign type of NDA to view CRT-affiliated curriculum”

— Author Unknown

There was once an old withered tree growing amidst the forest in the highlands. The winter was snowing, and very, very cold. One day, a duck flew past from far away. The duck was tired and hungry and so he landed on the old tree’s shoulder to rest.

The old tree asked him, “My friend, have you come from far away?” Continue reading “Tales of Ancient Wisdom: Death of an Old Tree”

Transportation Nation

Toronto, ON – The Canadian Trucking Alliance (CTA) is warning of increased “supply chain disruptions” should the United States follow through on its recently announced cross-border vaccine mandate.

Earlier this month, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that beginning in “early January” of 2022, all inbound foreign national travelers — including truckers — must be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 and provide related proof of vaccination. Continue reading “REPORT: 38,000 Cross-Border Truckers Will ‘Immediately Exit’ Due to Vaccine Mandate”

MedPage Today

COVID-19 vaccination efforts have decelerated or plateaued in developing and developed nations alike. To deal with vaccine holdouts, leaders across the world have proposed concrete benefits such as monetary compensation and lotteries, as well as punitive strategies such as barring unvaccinated people from restaurants, flights, and public places. However, leveraging such reactive techniques broadly may be viewed as coercion, trigger legal and political challenges, and even fuel public distrust toward authorities and harden anti-vaccination beliefs. Furthermore, by shying away from intrinsic motivation, health leaders miss an opportunity to leverage an array of behavioral, motivational, and organizational strategies that are supported by decades of management research. Continue reading “A 100% COVID Vaccination Rate Is Possible — We Did It”

Fox Business

The Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles are looking to crack down on congestion with a new surcharge for ocean carriers’ import containers that linger on marine terminals.

Under the new policy, which will take effect on Nov. 1, the ports will charge ocean carriers for each container scheduled to move by truck that dwells at marine terminals for nine days or more. Meanwhile, for containers moving by rail, ocean carriers will be charged if the container has dwelled for three days or more.  Continue reading “Ports of Long Beach, Los Angeles to issue surcharge to ocean carriers whose cargo lingers at terminals”

UPI

Oct. 25 (UPI) — Jeff Bezos announced plans on Monday for Blue Origin to run the world’s first private space station called the Orbital Reef, which would serve as a space business park and a regular destination for space tourists.

Blue Origin will partner with a Sierra Nevada Corp. subsidiary called Sierra Space, along with Boeing, Redwire Space and Genesis Engineer to make the space station happen. Continue reading “Blue Origin, partners announce plans for private space station”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Iran has announced that the country’s energy infrastructure was hit by a massive cyberattack on Tuesday, which left state subsidized gas stations across the country out of commission, resulting in very long lines of cars observed waiting to fill up in many towns and cities.

The timing is interesting given it happened near the two year anniversary mark of deadly nationwide protests following serious gas shortages and price hikes in the fall of 2019. The ‘activist’ nature of the hack is further revealed in that Iranian media is reporting that a message showed up in national computer systems that were hacked that addressed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei with the words, “where is the gas?”  Continue reading “Gas Stations Across Iran Crippled After Massive Cyberattack”