As the sun beat down on the Baha Mar resort in the Bahamas, Sam Bankman-Fried was living his very best life.
On stage and before an invited audience, Sam was in his usual work attire of trainers, shorts and a T-shirt, but Tony Blair tried to put the founder at ease. “I’m feeling a little overdressed here,” Blair assured him. Between them, the former US president Bill Clinton chuckled.
Every world leader has a favoured set of ideas, policies and programs. When times are good, their preferred strategies can be employed on a regular basis. If economic conditions change and a country’s political direction needs to make a dramatic shift, that same leader has to pivot and be flexible in his or her approach. Unless we’re talking about Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Those time-honoured political traditions somehow don’t apply to him.
Stories continue to emerge suggesting that new Russian military conscripts are being deployed to the frontlines in Ukraine without adequate training.
Amid ongoing and increasingly significant military failures in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a partial mobilization order in late September, the country’s first since World War II. The stated goal was to draft 300,000 men into service, though the last figure given by officials was 220,000 before the mobilization was concluded.
RT @UAWeapons: #Ukraine: A Russian infantry fighting vehicle (presumably BMP-3) was destroyed by a Stugna-P anti-tank guided missile of the Ukrainian 30th Mechanized Brigade in the vicinity of Bakhmut, #Donetsk Oblast. pic.twitter.com/YSPXV0bvFg
— Trixy (@itrixy) November 20, 2022
Canadian military intervention in Haiti can’t happen unless all political parties in the troubled nation agree to it, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Sunday.
Trudeau was speaking from Tunisia where leaders of French-speaking governments and international organizations held a roundtable on Haiti on the final day of the two-day Francophonie summit.
NO.
President Joe Biden pushed an “assault weapons” ban in response to the Club Q shooting that occurred Saturday night in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Breitbart News reported that the 911 calls about the shooting were placed just before midnight Saturday, and KOAA noted the incident ended when the suspect was subdued and disarmed by patrons.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg says the alliance needs to reinvigorate its military capacity in order to support Ukraine for the “long haul.”
In an interview Sunday on Rosemary Barton Live, Stoltenberg said the alliance had depleted much of its own supplies of weapons and ammunition and would need to work with industry to “ramp up production” in order to continue its support of Ukraine.
He also told CBC chief political correspondent Rosemary Barton that alliance states needed to be ready to pay some price, in the form of higher energy costs and other economic fallout, in order to bolster Ukraine’s defence.
National Defence Minister Anita Anand insists Canada is ready to handle evolving global threats, after missile explosions in Poland prompted concerns about Russia’s war in Ukraine spilling into a NATO country, a tense interaction between the prime minister and China’s president was caught on video, North Korea tested a ballistic missile, and a new report from Canada’s auditor general states there’s a lack of preparedness to properly survey the Arctic, this week.
In an interview with CTV’s Question Period with Joyce Napier, airing Sunday, Anand said it’s vital Canada “be able to walk and chew gum at the same time.”
The West’s attempts to persuade Ukraine to negotiate with Moscow are ‘bizarre’ and amount to asking for its capitulation, a key adviser to the Ukrainian presidency has declared.
‘When you have the initiative on the battlefield, it’s slightly bizarre to receive proposals like: ”you will not be able to do everything by military means anyway, you need to negotiate,” said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s adviser Mykhaylo Podolyak.
This would mean that the country ‘that recovers its territories, must capitulate to the country that is losing,’ he added during an interview in the presidency building in Kyiv this week.
#Ukraine: The 68th Jager Infantry Brigade of the Ukrainian Army hit a Russian tank on the move with an ATGM, knocking it out. pic.twitter.com/BgltpYhzSU
— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) November 20, 2022
The Food and Drug Administration has happily approved Upside Foods’s sale of lab-grown meat for human consumption, simultaneously announcing their openness to other companies with similar approaches to meat production.
Researchers have been working on cloning organs in the lab for years, allegedly always for honorable medical purposes. Now they want to take cells from biopsies of farm animals, and grow synthetic meat from them in a sterile laboratory, to sell for food.
CNN canned freelance producer Idris Mukhtar Ibrahim after he praised Hamas terrorism and wrote “#TeamHitler” on one of his posts.
HonestReporting revealed Ibrahim, who worked as a producer covering international stories for the network, including reporting on Israel, he wrote a story about Israel’s incoming coalition on November 13.
The three-word slogan — “woman, life, freedom” — launched by Iranian protesters in the past two months seems to have found a global resonance that few expected. You see it on giant posters in Tokyo, on a wall in the central railway station in Amsterdam, in neon-light messages in Rio de Janeiro, and scribbled on walls from Indonesia to Argentina.
Hundreds of thousands of women from all walks of life across the globe have cut their hair in solidarity with the Iranian protesters. Suddenly, the global limelight is on womanhood as both a reality and a concept.
Anti-regime protests in Iran have entered their third month and are giving no signs of slowing down. Youths of #Javandroud were out in the streets to support their protesting compatriots elsewhere in the country. #IranRevolution pic.twitter.com/Gev48GSIIg
— Masih Alinejad 🏳️ (@AlinejadMasih) November 20, 2022
Patriot missiles ring the airport in the Polish border city of Rzeszów, and US troops have taken over the Holiday Inn opposite the terminal. On its runway, once the preserve of budget carriers, private jets are lined up beside cargo planes crammed with weapons.
The bristling circle of military protection, set up hastily in early spring as the historic town became the world’s gateway to the war in Ukraine, is both a shield and a constant reminder of the conflict on its doorstep.
When a Russian-made missile slammed into a farm and killed two men in the village of Przewodów, about 100 miles away, many people wondered if it was enough.
But woke soccerism has made Qatar 2022 even worse.
In the run-up to the World Cup, the nations of an entire continent voted to boycott football’s biggest tournament, to take a stand against racism and inequality.
But this was not a protest against homophobia and oppression in Qatar, controversial host of the 2022 World Cup. Despite all of their pious posturing about Qatar, there is no chance of football nations sacrificing cash and kudos by boycotting the tournament this time. (Although some might wish they had taken the ethical high ground if they’re knocked out early.)
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will be honoured with a prestigious human rights award after taking a stand against “structural racism” within the monarchy, it has emerged.
The couple will receive the Ripple of Hope award on Dec 6 at a glittering gala ceremony that honours “exemplary leaders” who have demonstrated “an unwavering commitment” to social change.
The annual event is organised by the Robert F Kennedy Human Rights foundation, named after former president John F Kennedy’s younger brother, who was assassinated in 1968.
No goin back now Harry.
Late Saturday night, police responded to a shooting at a gay nightclub called “Club Q” in Colorado Springs, Colo. According to reports, five people are dead and at least another 18 were injured.
It’s early enough that those numbers could change. Yet, before we even know all the facts, the left has already decided who is to blame: Republicans.
