The Horror!

Nationalist slogans including “White Lives Matter” and “Black Pete did nothing wrong” were displayed on the side of a bridge in Rotterdam during Dutch broadcaster RTL’s coverage of the New Year celebrations.

Translation – “I read in @telegraaf, that there were racist texts at #Erasmusbrug in @rotterdam according to @POL_Rotterdam.
Can someone explain to me why black lives matter is NOT racist, but white lives matter IS racist.
And even Zwarte Piet did nothing wrong, nothing racist about it!”

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Extinction Rebellion says it will stop disruptive protests as ‘very little has changed’ … and people started to beat us up

Extinction Rebellion is to temporarily halt its campaign of civil disruption after conceding “very little has changed” following four years of action.

The group, which has blocked traffic, damaged buildings and blockaded printing presses, said it would now switch to mass lawful protests in order to try and get its message across, in its new year message.

Meanwhile, Just Stop Oil admitted in its new year message its tactics “would not be acceptable under normal circumstances” but that they had “no choice”.

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Could the COVID Jab Make You Sicker Next Time You Run Into the Virus? New Research Says Maybe.

Recently even The Washington Post had to admit analysis of CDC data showed the majority of patients dying with or of COVID now are vaccinated. Once the paper announced this fact, it provided a reason and some advice: Vaccine efficacy wanes over time; therefore, get your boosters. Unfortunately, new studies offer evidence that additional boosters may not be the solution.

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Putin kickstarts de-industrialisation of Europe’s factories

High gas prices caused by Russia’s war on Ukraine has hit manufacturers and their output

In Germany’s western industrial heartlands is BASF’s main Ludwigshafen facility, a sprawling complex that guzzles roughly as much gas as the whole of Switzerland.

Like many manufacturing giants, the chemicals maker has found that Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine and the new normal of high gas prices is challenging the business model the country’s industrial hubs were built on.

“These challenging framework conditions in Europe endanger the international competitiveness of European producers,” its boss Martin Brudermueller admitted in October as it unveiled permanent cost-cutting measures.

So who destroyed the NordStream pipelines? Putin or America’s Deep State?

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Bryan Kohberger stalked Idaho victims before murders, wore gloves in grocery store weeks afterward: report

The criminology student accused of slaying four University of Idaho students had stalked his alleged victims before the November murders and wore gloves in a supermarket weeks afterwards, according to a new report.

Cellphone data shows that Bryan Kohberger, 28, was often in the same location as the three sorority sisters and one of their boyfriends before he allegedly slashed them to death as they apparently slept at an off campus house, a source close to one of the case’s investigators told The Daily Mail.

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France’s nuclear headache leaves Macron on brink of rationing electricity

The damp and warmer-than-normal weather that afflicted much of France last week was a disappointment for skiers hoping to see in the new year in the Alps. But it has brought welcome relief to those in charge of keeping the country’s lights on.

The threat of power cuts has been looming over France — curious considering that it is normally a significant exporter of electricity, thanks to its 56 nuclear reactors, by far the largest number of Europe.

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Cross-dresser who stabbed his parents to death in 2016 after they ‘refused to accept transition’ is moved to medium-risk mixed-gender Maine prison

Calls itself Andrea

A transgender woman who murdered her parents over claims they wouldn’t accept her transition has been moved to a mixed-sex prison.

Andrea Balcer, 24, who identifies as a woman and uses the name Andrea, is serving a 40-year sentence for stabbing to death her parents Alice and Antonio Balcer on Halloween in 2016.

She is named as Andrew in records by the Maine Department of Corrections, which lists the name Andrea as an ‘alias’.

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France Enjoys Quiet New Year’s Eve – Only 690 Vehicles Car-B-Q’d

New Year’s Eve: a gendarmerie barracks attacked, a children’s hostel set on fire, a retired couple and families saved from the flames… (Update: 690 vehicles burned, 490 arrests, no “notable incident” for Darmanin )

“Darmanin” is Gérald Darmanin Minister of The Interior

Below, While @GDarmanin is at winter sports in Mayotte, the city of Bordeaux fell into the hands of scum for this night of December 31

Below, Amiens: Clashes between law enforcement and scum last night in Macron’s hometown – No major incidents for the government. This kind of scene is completely normal.

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Dozens of New Year attacks on Berlin firefighters

Berlin’s fire department on Sunday said its emergency crews had been attacked 38 times as the city rang in the New Year.

There were attacks in other parts of the county as well as numerous instances of revelers being injured as many Germans celebrated with their first turn-of-year firework displays since the COVID-19 pandemic began.

In a series of incidents in Berlin, 15 emergency responders were injured with one of them needing hospital treatment.

The police department said 18 of its officers had been hurt in the unrest.

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New York governor legalizes human composting after death

Gramps was good for the potatoes,  says Hi.

New York’s governor, Kathy Hochul, on Saturday legalized natural organic reduction, popularly known as human composting or terramation, after death.

The legislative move makes the state the sixth to do so since 2019 and gives New Yorkers access to an alternative, green method of burial deemed environmentally friendly.

But the departed may not be simply tossed on the compost heap: remains must be delivered to a cemetery corporation certified as an organic reduction facility, suitably contained and ventilated, and not containing “a battery, battery pack, power cell, radioactive implant, or radioactive device”.

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Justin Trudeau must be wondering if Canada’s crises will ever end. What if they don’t?

If you think car theft is bad now wait till Trudeau’s Green-Scam gets rolling.

“Permacrisis” is the word of 2022, according to the Collins Dictionary. It also perfectly captures the state of politics in Canada — not just these past 12 months, but over almost the entire tenure of Justin Trudeau’s government as it blows past seven years in power.

The year definitely kicked off in crisis mode here in Canada. The Omicron wave of COVID-19 had played havoc with the holidays, while a “freedom convoy” of truckers started rolling across the country, soon to paralyze Ottawa and several major border points. Just as the state of emergency was being wound down in Canada in February, Russia brazenly moved an invasion force into Ukraine.

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Meghan Markle tops poll of celebrities people are sick of – with her husband Prince Harry in second, Oprah third, Amber Heard fourth and James Corden fifth

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have been branded the most annoying celebs of 2022 – just weeks after the release of their splashy, multimillion-dollar Netflix special that criticized the royal family.

The couple – whose high-profile split from the royal family dominated headlines in 2020 – each snagged a spot on Ranker’s recently released ‘Celebrities You’re Sick of in 2022′, with the Duchess of Sussex leading the list of figures readers have reportedly grown weary of.

The dubious distinctions for the duo is markedly more pronounced than where they placed earlier in the year, when Markle was booked as low as the 20th spot, while her husband, faring slightly little better, was pegged at no. 23.

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Canada will require COVID-19 testing for flights from China as virus surges

They made Justin cry.

The federal government will require COVID-19 testing for travellers coming into Canada from China, Hong Kong and Macau.

Beginning on Jan. 5, air travellers arriving in Canada from flights originating from the People’s Republic of China, Hong Kong or Macau that are two years of age and older will be required to present a negative COVID-19 test before boarding the aircraft to Canada, according to the government.

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