The Biden and Trudeau administrations should pause to reflect carefully on just how much rope Vladimir Putin and Chairman Xi have already sold them
By viewing the world chiefly through the dual lenses of carbon and climate, the Biden and Trudeau governments are missing the key foundations of global energy strategy: security and economic viability. Be assured, Russia’s Vladimir Putin and China’s Xi Jinping are not.
The number of white people in the United States has declined for the first time in history, the latest census data is expected to reveal.
The 2020 Census, due out Thursday, is anticipated to show that all population growth over the last five years has been from people of color, the Washington Post reported Wednesday.
As a result, it is expected to show that the portion of white people in the US has fallen below 60 percent for the first time in census-taking history.
The mother of accused Chicago cop killers allegedly kicked a hospital security guard in the groin and wrestled with police officers during her arrest after she barged into the hospital where one of her sons is being treated.
In one of three first-person Facebook live videos – posted under the name ‘Marsia Outofthebox Braidy’ – a woman is heard telling nurses, ‘I want to see my son. Emonte Morgan.’
The woman in the video is presumably Evalena Flores, 41, whos outfit and appearance in the videos match the mugshots. Police said the videos are ‘of interest to our investigation.’
I’m told this is the mother of the brothers who killed Ella French. She stormed into the hospital in an attempt to see her sons: pic.twitter.com/E9SCiVSymk
— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) August 11, 2021
If there’s any doubt about the extent to which societal and legal expectations regarding climate change are evolving, a Netherlands court’s ruling ordering Royal Dutch Shell Plc. to reduce the CO2 emissions of its 1,100 companies by 45 per cent as of 2030 from 2019 level should put the naysayers to rest.
“What you’ve got is a court interfering in the internal operations of a very big corporate target on the basis that the dangers of climate change outweigh the company’s commercial interests,” said Caroline Jageman, an energy and commercial lawyer at Jageman Law in Toronto.
In a New York minute.
It’s the tenth anniversary of the London riots and I’m starting to feel nostalgic. If only we could recapture the lost innocence and optimism of that magical era when all we had to worry about was a few hundred rioters in various London suburbs torching and looting a few buildings; when there didn’t seem too much wrong with the world that a few water cannons couldn’t sort out…
It was the party of the year, perhaps even the party of the century. Expensive and exclusive, it came at an inopportune time and received plenty of press coverage—much of it negative. If Barack Obama’s birthday party was a monumental display of nouveau riche vulgarity, it also resembled the Bradley–Martin Ball, a party held in 1897 as the nation recovered from the deep depression that had begun in 1893.
German police have arrested a British man who worked at the British embassy in Berlin on suspicion of spying for Russian intelligence in exchange for cash, according to prosecutors.
Germany’s highest public prosecutor said the man, identified only as David S, was arrested at his Potsdam apartment at 2.20pm on Tuesday, and his home and embassy workplace were searched.
China has tested the mettle of all recent US presidents, usually early in their terms of office, and China’s Communist Party (CCP) has already certainly been testing President Joe Biden. Just four days into the Biden presidency, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) fighter aircraft violated Taiwan’s Air Defense Zone. The provocation was a clear message to remind the new president of China’s “Red Line”: not to build upon the Trump administration’s increased military cooperation with Taiwan.
The Indonesian army will no longer conduct virginity tests on women applying to join the forces, the chief of staff announced on Wednesday. The practice was long condemned by rights groups who called it degrading and traumatic.
“Whether the hymen was ruptured or partially ruptured was part of the examination … now there’s no more of that,” Andika Perkasa, the Indonesian army chief of staff, told reporters, referring to the invasive two-finger examination that was conducted to determine whether female applicants’ hymens were intact.
In the past, the military used the tests to determine recruits’ morality.
When is a climate czar not a climate czar? When it’s John Kerry.
The former Secretary of State and Democratic senator from Massachusetts was tapped to handle climate issues by President Joe Biden. But a new report says he might be doing more harm than good.
Hunter Biden claimed Russians stole another one of his laptops for blackmail while he was close to overdosing in a Las Vegas hotel room, DailyMail.com can reveal.
The alleged incident would mean Hunter lost a total of three computers – the first abandoned at a Delaware computer store and the second seized by federal agents – each likely to hold sensitive information on President Joe Biden and the embarrassing pictures, videos and communications of his son.
The third laptop still appears to be missing – and was taken by Russian drug dealers after they partied with Hunter in Vegas, he told a prostitute in a conversation caught on camera.
“The legal process in Iraq is not transparent. Survivors don’t even know if it’s happening, and they’re not involved,” says Abid Shamdeen, the director of Nadia’s Initiative, the NGO founded by the Nobel prize winner Nadia Murad that advocates for survivors of sexual violence.
“There were also many European and US nationals who participated to a certain degree in the attacks against the Yazidi people,” notes Shamdeen, “and there are no ways that the Iraqi courts will be able to prosecute them.”
I wonder how many slavers made it Canada.
Federal elections in Canada don’t happen on a schedule. More often than not, they happen when someone in a position of power thinks it would be a good idea to have one.
Justin Trudeau seems to be the leader who thinks so right now. There’s at least some chance he’d end up regretting the decision to trigger an early election. But there’s an equal (perhaps even greater) chance that he’d regret passing up the opportunity.
The June sham election of Ebrahim Raisi as president of Iran is likely to bring even more political instability to the Middle East partly because the nation’s militant clerics have now moved the country further towards a one-party state.
On Iran’s own official count, voter turnout in a population of 82 million was 48.8 %, a quarter lower than in 2017. “It was a protest vote … against the political system,” says Sanam Vakil, Iran expert at Chatham House, “… frustration that (Iranians) are no longer … considered … important to this process.”
