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Tag Archives: India
Global pharmaceuticals supply under stress
From Substack author: A Chokepoint for Modern Medicine: The Strait of Hormuz and the Hidden Fragility of Global Health Supply Chains How the world’s most critical energy corridor underpins—and endangers—the flow of pharmaceutical ingredients and medical materials worldwide Peter A. … Continue reading
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Tagged global supply chain, India, Iran war, pharmaceuticals, Strait of Hormuz
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Canada’s PM speaks at WEF, DAVOS 2026
Here is Mark Carney’s speech:
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Tagged AI, Arctic, ASEAN, China, Coalition of the Willing, free trade pacts, G7, Greenland, India, Mercosur, minerals, NATO, philippines, plurilateral trade, Qatar, SAFE, sovereignty, Thailand, ukraine, world order
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It’s all Chinese to me
I have to say London is always open for business: https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-to-approve-massive-china-embassy-london/ Dec 2nd, 2025 Update: Starmer delays decision to approve Embassy: https://news.sky.com/story/government-delays-chinese-super-embassy-decision-again-13478365 And seems so is the United States of America: xAI to deploy Telsa Megapacks at Colossus II supercomputing … Continue reading
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Tagged 14 eyes, 2027 deadline, 5 eyes, 9 eyes, AI, C5, China, Chinese Embassy, Chinese supplies, Colossus, cyber weapons, datacenter, ending 5 eyes, grouping, harm, health, India, Labour Party, lithium batteries, London, Memphis, NATO alliance, Pentagon, Russia, supercomputer, UK Government, unregulated, US
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Religious Mafia
I am reproducing a Substack piece by Chris Hedges: When Religious Mafia & Rightwing Extremists Take Over (w/ Rollo Romig) | The Chris Hedges Report The 2017 murder of Gauri Lankesh, an Indian journalist and activist, is indicative of … Continue reading
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Tagged america, assassinations, cruelty, cults, exclusion, India, israel, journalism, land grab. poverty, murder, oersecution, othering, religious mafia, right wing extremism, targetting, torment, wealth
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Cotton and Wool Blending
Like much of our knowledge and language, the word ‘cotton’ comes from Arabic ‘quton’. As with wool and silk, so cotton is a natural fabric and is comfortable to the most sensitive skin. It is soft yet strong; is absorbent; … Continue reading
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Tagged British colonialism, climate change, cotton blending, cotton industry, Covid, disease, ecology, GMO, India, organic cotton, overpopulation, poverty, textiles, Tuberculosis, wealth, wool and cotton
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O2
There is an excellent Forbes of India article on how oxygen is made for use by patients in hospital. There are three different ways: Vacuum Insulated Evaporator: Storage system of liquid oxygen 2. Oxygen Cylinders: hold oxygen under pressure 3. … Continue reading
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Tagged Covid, CPAP, elitism, health infrastructure, India, intubation, oxygen supply
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Generic Drug Supply and Raw Materials Supply
In March 2021, Boris Johnson, Prime Minister, announced the UK was acquiring 10m doses from the Serum Institute of India, the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer and the key source of doses for Covax, a vaccine-sharing agreement on which poor and middle-income countries are relying. … Continue reading
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Tagged Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients, black market, China, citizen ingenuity, costs of drugs, covid 19, crime, deaths from neglect, drug demand, drug making hubs, drug shortages, drug supply, elections, generic drugs, Hindi festival, human vulnerability, India, irresponsible decision making, lockdown easing, masks and no masks, poverty, power base, premature lockdown easing, reverse-engineering, rural areas, sanitation, social distancing, social distancing forgotten, tribes, vaccine industry
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Will we be Fishless?: Part III
Discovered in the 1920s, antibiotics have saved tens of millions of lives from pneumonia, tuberculosis, meningitis and a host of deadly bacteria. But, as with all things we do as humans, we get in the habit of overdoing everything. Overuse … Continue reading
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