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What's happening in Irkutsk? According to one of my friends in Ufa: not much. So let's take a closer look at who launched the website to "monitor" the infection situation in Irkutsk, and why?

First came an official statement from Rospotrebnadzor, which was spread in Russian media on October 4: an employee at an institute for combating plague in the Irkutsk region has been diagnosed with pneumonia of unknown origin. So far so good. It happens relatively often in the region bordering Eastern anthrax Mongolia.

by Tyler Durden

An inconvenient reality for the Trump administration's race to rebuild Western conflict-free critical materials supply chains outside China, whether domestically or through friendshoring, is that it won't break China's chokehold this decade.

Posted by Tyler Durden;  Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack,

Regardless of why Putin might have held off on this for so long, he's now arguably motivated at least in part by the tantalizing possibility of reaching big-ticket resource deals with the US after the conflict ends, the details of which his and Trump's envoys have been negotiating for over a year already.

Posted by Tyler Durden:  Authored by David Manney via PJ Media,

President Donald Trump is sending well over 20 million Medicare enrollees $90 apiece, and plenty of recipients will understandably welcome the money. With the standard Medicare Part B premium at $202.90 a month this year, $90 isn't pocket change for someone living on Social Security.

Chicago police said the attack happened late Saturday morning on South Cottage Grove Avenue in the Chatham area. Officers said a woman approached the 7-year-old girl on the sidewalk and stabbed her several times in the back with a sharp object. The child was taken to Comer Children’s Hospital, where doctors pronounced her dead. Police described the attack as unprovoked and said the woman did not know the child.