Netanyahu really needs either an intifada or a war now. What'll happen if he gets both?

The cap is meant to reduce Russias ability to strategically leverage oil prices and to benefit from disruptions to supply, without disrupting global markets that depend on that supply. If this ban disrupts those markets, then the cap is not working as intended.

It's already trading below the price cap. The point of the cap is that instability with the supply can cause the price to shoot up, which benefits Russia, who can also cause the instability that increases the price. So capping the price reduces Russias ability to strategically leverage the oil supply.

Are the loans not earmarked to go right back to US defense contractors?

TCM as it's understood/taught today was basically invented in the 1970s with a veneer of antiquity (these herbs have been used... since prehistory..)

Traditional Chinese Medicine doesn't have much of a tradition.. it's basically a meme discipline that incorporates some folk wisdom, pushed by the government to deny how far behind they are in actual medicine.

Also, global mining firms like to operate head offices in Canada and list on the TSX because it's better regulated and has higher investor confidence since the Bre-X gold scandal. Not sure how these restrictions might affect that.

We badly need municipal broadband. Too bad the mayor of the largest municipality is on payroll from the largest ISP, while mayor.