While Europe has been keeping a generally optimistic facade ahead of the coming cold winter, signaling that it has more than enough gas in storage to make up for loss of Russian supply even in a “coldest-case” scenario, behind the scenes Europe’s largest economy is quietly preparing for a worst case scenario which include angry mobs and bankruns should blackouts prevent the population from accessing cash.
Republicans gained control of the United State House of Representatives, edging out a narrow victory in the tightly-contested midterm elections.
The GOP currently holds 218 seats after mail-in ballots caused over a week of delays in results, The Associated Press reported, though that number may grow as the last few remaining races wrap up. The elections were far closer than pre-midterm projections, with most pollsters predicting Republicans would take between 225 and 255 seats.
“What I want to know is: Who’s going to clean it up?” A friend of mine, a liberal in the broadest, nearly extinct sense of the word, was asking a simple question about the ongoing acts of vandalism committed over the past few months against timeless works of art in the name of climate-change protest. In the recent annals of TikTok radicalism—truly one of the most peculiar phenomena of our super-prosperous society—flinging mashed potatoes, tomato soup, and pea soup at artistic masterpieces, while gluing your hands to their frames, all in hopes of raising consciousness of climate change, has to be among the weirdest.
There have been at least 10 potential threats by Iran to kidnap or kill British or UK-based people this year.
The figure was revealed by the head of MI5, Ken McCallum, in his annual update on threats facing the UK.
Mr McCallum also warned the UK “must be ready for Russian aggression for years to come”.
But he said Russia had suffered a strategic setback after a mass expulsion of its spies around the world in the wake of its invasion of Ukraine.
Is the banned Muslim Brotherhood organization trying to return to power in Egypt?
Many Egyptians believe that the Muslim Brotherhood was behind calls to Egyptians to hold nationwide protests during the UN Climate Change Conference (COP27), which is now in progress at the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm al-Sheikh. The Islamists, they say, justified their call by arguing that the planned demonstrations were designed to protest human rights violations and bad economic conditions in Egypt.
Democratic Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney criticized Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott for busing illegal migrants to the sanctuary city, during a press conference Wednesday.
Ukrainians suspected of collaborating with Russia have continued to be rounded up and confronted by residents in Kherson.
Images appear to show collaborators filed against a wall and displayed for residents as their hands are bound and eyes covered with tape.
The men were understood to have been arrested for allegedly collaborating and working with Russian forces after they entered the southern city earlier this year.
#Ukraine: Ukrainian forces captured a Russian 2S3 Akatsiya 152mm SPG recently- in working condition.pic.twitter.com/MM58seslor
— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) November 15, 2022
MSNBC’s Joy Reid spread some fake news on the Tuesday edition of The ReidOut when she claimed that Georgia is preventing people from voting early in the state’s Senate runoff because state law requires that Robert E. Lee’s birthday be celebrated. In the real world, the holiday being observed is Thanksgiving.
Kamil Bachouchi, a 21-year-old philosophy student at Wilfrid Laurier University, showed up to class on Nov. 15 wearing a “mask”—or rather, a hollowed-out grapefruit.
It covered his nose and mouth, complying with the mandatory mask policy put in place for the fall university term. This is just the latest way Bachouchi, who plans to go to law school, is peacefully protesting an educational environment in which, he says, students “aren’t allowed to think or debate,” but are forced into “compliance.”
Yowza. At one time, Team Trump pushed the idea that Ivanka Trump could become the next generation of a political dynasty. She served a critical role in her father’s term as both a key advisor and to some extent a calm and moderating PR presence in a chaotic White House.
Love Trump but I never cared much for his daughter and son-in-law serving in the White House. That said Ivanka’s adios may be a sign that Trump should not pursue the 2024 nomination.
Previous backers are saying nyet: GOP megadonors ditch Donald Trump’s 2024 White House run
Twitter CEO Elon Musk, testifying at his Tesla compensation trial in Delaware, told the court that he plans to find someone else to run Twitter, according to a new report.
Musk also reportedly said that the fundamental restructuring of Twitter will be complete at the end of this week, and that the Tesla engineers whom he had asked to review code at Twitter worked on a voluntary basis.
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried and a string of A-list celebrities who backed his failed crypto trading platform have been sued in a class action lawsuit worth $11 billion.
The suit filed in Florida names stars including Tom Brady, Gisele Bundchen, Shaquille O’Neal, Steph Curry and Larry David.
It claims Bankman-Fried, 30, and the celebrities he recruited to endorse FTX are behind losses to American consumers valued at $11 billion.
This just keeps getting better. Celebrity endorsements of worthless coins and other digital scams should have been outlawed long ago.
The price of groceries rose 11 per cent year over year, a drop from the 41-year high of 11.4 per cent seen in September. That’s the 11th straight month grocery inflation has been higher than the overall “headline” number.
Gasoline prices rose 17.8 per cent compared to a year ago.
Wages continued to grow at a slower rate than inflation, rising 5.6 per cent in the last year.
Think house prices are too high? The rental market is even worse — with no relief in sight
According to data from rental accommodation website Rentals.ca and analyzed by data firm Urbanation, the average rent in October across Canada was $1,976. That’s an increase of 11.9 per cent, well ahead of Canada’s inflation rate of 6.9 per cent.
The increases aren’t even across the country, either, as Atlantic Canada has seen rents rise at the eye-watering pace of 32.2 per cent in the past year. Ontario, British Columbia and Alberta have seen increases of 17.7 per cent, 15.1 per cent and 13.2 per cent, respectively.
Human beings as a species have been the most successful form of life in the history of the planet. We thrive in every corner of the earth regardless of climate or geography. And where the planet conspires to keep us out, we figure out a way to change the landscape to allow us a way in.
The Liberal cabinet was told on the eve of invoking the Emergencies Act that police had a plan to clear the Freedom Convoy protest in Ottawa, RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki testified at the Public Order Emergency Commission on Nov. 15.
The information was revealed after negotiations between parties at the commission, since cabinet deliberations are considered confidential.
