Nothing more horrifying than a chirpy Energy Secretary tweet first thing in the morning. Especially when it contains the trifecta of bad news for taxpayers from one of the denser members of the Biden administration’s stable of lackluster cabinet mannequins…
The surplus is in large part explained by the high excess mortality, which officials chalk up to COVID. But statisticians say the numbers don’t add up.
Germany’s statutory retirement insurance expects a surplus of €2.1 billion at the end of 2022, its president, Gundula Roßbach, told the German news agency DPA. “A year ago, a deficit of €6.5 billion had been predicted,” Roßbach said. The surplus can be explained by a surprisingly stable job market in Germany alongside a surprisingly high excess-mortality rate.
Despite multiple crises, the labor market in Germany is sturdy, according to Roßbach. This led to a good revenue situation for retirement insurance.
A criminology student has been arrested for the murders of four University of Idaho students more than six weeks ago.
Arrest records obtained by DailyMail.com show that Bryan Christopher Kohberger, 28, was arrested after FBI and local cops swooped in Scranton, Pennsylvania, at around 3am this morning.
Sources say that authorities knew who they were looking for and hunted the suspect down to Pennsylvania in the Pocono Mountains – more than 2,400 miles from Idaho.
Kohberger is being held for extradition in a criminal homicide investigation based on an active arrest warrant for first degree murder issued by the Moscow Police Department and Latah County Prosecutor’s Office.
It is understood that Kohberger is a college student but does not attend the University of Idaho, according to police sources.
From AP – Suspect in deaths of Idaho students arrested in Pennsylvania
— Linda (@LindaFawcett2) December 30, 2022
The old antisemitism was more a right-wing than a left-wing phenomenon – perhaps best personified by the now-withered Ku Klux Klan.
A new antisemitism followed from the campus leftism of the 1960s. It arose from and was masked by a general hatred of Israel, following the Jewish state’s incredible victory in the 1967 Six-Day War.
That lopsided triumph globally transformed Israel in the leftist mind from a David fighting the Arab Goliath into a veritable Western imperialist, neocolonialist overdog.
On campuses, Middle-East activism, course instruction, and faculty profiles are now virulently anti-Israel – and indistinguishable from anti-Jewishness.
And remember folks, the perps are always white supremacists! Even when they’re black and or Muslim!
Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago will end 2022 with the tragic figure of at least 723 murders for the year.
The Chicago Sun-Times reported the city was at 723 homicides for the year as of December 30, 2022.
For a country that has taken such pains to emphasize the Canadianness of its homegrown artists, a new poll has some surprising findings
The idea of having a favourite Canadian artist is becoming a quaint anachronism, according to the head of the Association for Canadian Studies.
Even when pressed to name their favourite Canadian musical artist, about half say they do not have one, and those who do are all over the place. Bryan Adams tops the list at five per cent, followed by Drake, Shania Twain and Michael Bublé at three per cent, then Céline Dion, Justin Bieber, the Tragically Hip and Gordon Lightfoot at two per cent.
CanCon serves only to subsidize the sort of nagging left-wing mediocrities who make immediately ignored CBC Top Ten Lists.
That’s to be expected when government gatekeeping for the arts consists of one group of toxic leftists handing out our money to their equally toxic friends.
But perhaps the single greatest factor contributing to our cultural disconnect is that Canada is no longer a nation held together by common bonds.
Face it we are balkanized to the point of failed state status because the rot of multiculturalism and destructive immigration policy has hollowed out the culture.
I do not hear a stricken nation crying out for more government subsidized DEI pap.
I can’t help but laugh when I think back on the public vigils held for the late Gord Downie. They were far more “white” than any Rob Ford event, far more white than the Trucker protest in fact. Media failed to pick up on that for some reason.
I wonder if anyone attending a Downie vigil had their bank account frozen?
Former President Donald Trump’s tax returns have been released, ending a bitter six-year long battle to gain greater insights into his finances.
Ever since his entry into politics, critics have been keen to get Mr Trump – whose foundational pitch to voters had been that his business success made him the best choice to run the country – to show what his wealth actually looked like.
He had steadfastly refused.
And … Jan. 6 panel drops Trump subpoena as it wraps up work
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Jan. 6 committee has dropped its subpoena against former President Donald Trump as it wraps up work and prepares to dissolve next week.
Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson, the committee’s Democratic chairman, wrote in a letter to Trump lawyer David Warrington on Wednesday that he is formally withdrawing the subpoena.
“As you may know, the Select Committee has concluded its hearings, released its final report and will very soon reach its end,” Thompson wrote. “In light of the imminent end of our investigation, the Select Committee can no longer pursue the specific information covered by the subpoena.”
h/t Mauser
The federal government’s ongoing review of the Cannabis Act emphasizes protecting public health — but experts and industry insiders say it also has to find a way to boost the legal marijuana industry and help it compete with the illicit market.
The act, which legalized recreational marijuana in Canada in 2018, came with a requirement that the federal government review it three years after it became law.
Nikki Secondino, a 22-year-old transgender woman, has been charged with the murder of their father, Carlo Secondino, 61, who was killed in a stabbing at the family home in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn.
Secondino has also been charged with attempted murder and criminal possession of a weapon in connection to the attack, which left their 19-year-old sister in critical condition at Maimonides Hospital.
Initially, police suspected that the incident was connected to a home invasion, but it was later revealed that Nikki may have fabricated the entire story in an attempt to cover up their involvement in the crime.
Eight teenage girls facing second-degree murder charges for the swarming and killing of a formerly homeless man made their first court appearance Thursday.
And one of the accused teens was released on bail.
Incendiary social media influencer Andrew Tate and his brother were busted in Romania Thursday related to sex-trafficking allegations, according to a report.
Police descended on a villa Andrew Tate and brother Tristan were staying at Thursday to detain the British brothers on kidnapping and rape charges, judicial sources told Romanian outlet Libertatea.
This week I was interested to learn of a flareup of the perpetual culture war at the Arden Theatre in the Edmonton suburb of St. Albert, Alberta. Like most people who come from what is now Sturgeon County, I know the 500-seat multipurpose performing venue to be a secret blessing of the hinterland. If you picked it up and moved it into Edmonton, it would immediately compete to be the nicest, best-equipped theatre of its size in the city. It’s owned and managed by the City of St. Albert, so it can be rented for any purpose that is otherwise legal, and you probably already know from the way I’m talking where this is going.
Protesters demonstrating against a drag queen reading hour event for kids in New York City have been met by more than 100 counter-protesters.
Guardians of Divinity, who describe themselves as ‘God’s Army,’ marched towards Jackson Heights Library, in Queens, where a Drag Story Hour event was being held on Thursday afternoon.
But they were met with a larger crowd defending the event in the latest clash in the city following a similar event last week that saw Council Member Erik Bottcher’s neighbor assaulted.
The United Nations has once again demonstrated its blatant anti-Semitism by passing more resolutions critical of Israel this year than all other nations on earth, combined.
The federal government suspended its vaccine requirement to work in the public service in June 2022 but is nonetheless facing legal action over the measure at home and also abroad, with a former employee of the Canadian embassy in Poland seeking compensation over how she was treated.
“The vaccine mandate was truly unfortunate for Canadians but of no relevance whatsoever for Polish staff of the Embassy,” Karolina Janiak told The Epoch Times in an interview.
