captured class - THE KADE FREQUENCY

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Right After November: Who Actually Pays for This War

European petrol is up 28% since December, and heating oil just jumped €122 in a week. One country made the decision. Most of the people paying have no vote in it.

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No Market: Why Some Diseases Never Get a Drug

1,393 drugs were approved between 1975 and 1999. Thirteen were for diseases affecting 1.7 billion people. Here's the mechanism, and what fixes it.

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The Replacement: A Police Chief, and Six Days

Gaza City's police chief was killed on 13 August. His replacement was killed on 19 August. Some questions, and the answers nobody has given.

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Outdated: The Word That Killed 175 Children

A school in Minab was struck because the targeting data was old. Not a wrong decision, old information, in a system running at 1,000 targets an hour.

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Temporary: When a Rule Becomes a Favour

Italy suspended free movement with Spain. Spain retaliated. Italy has had twice Spain's irregular arrivals. Nine countries now have "temporary" checks.

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The Severed Line: Why one wage stopped being enough, and who decided that

The most common second job is the same job again. Here's what happened to wages after 1979, why nobody believes you, and who decided it.

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The Danish Example: What They're Actually Pointing At

The White House cut the childhood vaccine schedule and said it aligns the US with Denmark. Denmark's schedule is shorter. Here's what else Denmark has.

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The Wrong Strain: Why This Ebola Has No Vaccine

There is a vaccine for Ebola. It doesn't work on the one killing Congo, a species nobody cured in nineteen years. Then it reached a German hospital.

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Nothing Changes: What the World Cup Sale Revealed

A fifth of the World Cup was offered to private capital, and the price of each vote was published. What stopped it wasn't any rule. It was refusal.

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The Order Book: The Most Reliable Extraction in America

Three arms makers posted record backlogs this week and raised guidance, as allies buy elsewhere. The public is billed more precisely as the world buys less.

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The Referee: Nobody Rigs the Count Any More

Five countries took apart their elections in one month. Zimbabwe abolished the presidential vote. Washington fired the referees. Nobody touched a ballot.

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The Names: What Two Subpoenas Actually Asked For

In eight days the DOJ tried to name four journalists' sources and every 2020 poll worker in one county. A Trump-appointed judge named the reason: chill.