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WHO Says Pandemic Determinations Can Be Made Without 'Evidence Of Illness' Authored by Jon Fleetwood via Modernity News, The World Health Organization (WHO) says evidence that a person is actually sick is not required for a "laboratory-confirmed" human influenza infection with "the potential to cause a pandemic" to trigger mandatory international reporting. "Evidence of illness is not required for this report," WHO states in its latest Influenza at the Human-Animal Interface assessment, which covered July 8 through August 7, 2026. WHO says countries must "immediately notify WHO of any laboratory-confirmed case of a...

Ruthless Taxation And The Hyperstate: How Germany Profits From Crisis Submitted by Thomas Kolbe, The Hormuz crisis offers us a profound insight into the real power structures in Germany. Nothing seems able to convince the Berlin monolith to partially shield its citizens from the consequences at gas stations through tax cuts. It is now unavoidable that the Iran shock will translate into an inflation driver, working its way through economic value chains into consumer prices. These developments almost force a reduction of the tax burden on households and the middle class. It...

How Economic Power Has Shifted Over The Past 200 Years Over the last 200 years, economic leadership has shifted from China to the British Empire, then to the United States, and increasingly back toward Asia. This streamgraph, via Visual Capitalist's Gabriel Cohen, tracks how the share of global gross domestic product (GDP) held by major economies changed from 1820 to 2025. The visualization incorporates the latest available data from the Maddison Project Database, the COLDAT Colonial Dates Dataset, and the IMF’s World Economic Outlook. All GDP figures are adjusted for purchasing power parity (PPP), accounting...