Tracy Shannon married a man and divorced a “woman.”
She had no early indication that her husband and high school sweetheart had a desire to become a woman and the clues were slow in becoming apparent.
Putin has declared all-out energy war on Europe – rationing is inevitable
The panic is palpable as Europe is effectively placed on a war footing
Russia’s disinformation machine has repeatedly struggled to put an alternative spin on the realities of its devastating war in Ukraine. But it was almost like the Kremlin couldn’t be bothered to come up with a credible explanation for a permanent halt to the flow of gas through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline to Europe on Friday night.
Even German industrial giant Siemens, which oversees maintenance of the pipeline, was quick to rubbish Russia’s claims that repair work couldn’t be carried out.
The whole world understands what’s happening – in closing one of the most important gas supply routes to Europe just hours after the G7 group of countries unveiled plans to impose a price cap on Moscow’s oil exports, Vladimir Putin has pre-empted the West and declared an all-out energy war.
Why does Pierre Poilievre appeal to young Canadians?
Pierre Poilievre’s appeal to young voters, something of a novelty for Canadian Conservative politicians, raises questions about both his popularity and the ability of the Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) to capitalize on the trend over the long term.
Why has Poilievre, unlike his recent predecessors, been successful at gaining support among younger voters, and what impact could this have on the CPC’s electoral coalition?
WTF?
This is from a “family-friendly” drag show in Utah last week pic.twitter.com/ioVBBrLiOf
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) September 4, 2022
Germans revive Cold War ‘Monday demos’ amid price inflation for gas, electricity and food
Germany’s political parties on the extreme left and extreme right of the political spectrum have announced a “hot autumn” with regular Monday demonstrations, starting on September 5. The socialist Left Party, the smallest opposition party in the Bundestag, called for the campaign, choosing Leipzig as the main location.
Leipzig, an internationally-renowned trade fair and university city in the east of the country, has a powerful symbolic resonance: This is where East Germans played a decisive role in toppling the dictatorship in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) with their Monday demonstrations in 1989.
FBI agent Timothy Thibault hid intel from whistleblower on Hunter and the ‘Big Guy’ Joe Biden
Timothy Thibault, the FBI agent alleged to have interfered with an investigation into Hunter Biden, was assigned by the Washington Field Office as “point man” to manage whistleblower Tony Bobulinski, the first son’s former business partner, before the 2020 election — but he suppressed his damning revelations, sources say.
Bobulinski spent over five hours secretly being interviewed by the FBI on Oct. 23, 2020, about his inside knowledge of then-presidential candidate Joe Biden’s involvement in his son’s business deals with China.
The coming energy crisis
It’s been obvious for months that a global energy crisis was coming. Then last Monday, just when we thought things couldn’t get any worse, the chief executive of Shell predicted that Europe is headed for a multi-winter energy crisis, with consequences that cascade around the world.
The situation is drawing attention to humanity’s intensive reliance on energy. In the Financial Times, economics writer Philip Cogan said that, despite an extensive programme of renewable energy production called energiewende, the share of fossil fuels in Germany’s primary energy supply has only declined from about 84 per cent in 2020 to 78 per cent today. It’s the same story everywhere.
Amazon Halts User Reviews to Blunt ‘Rings of Power‘ Backlash
Amazon has temporarily shut off user reviews for The Rings of Power on Prime Video, claiming to take this action so it can filter out “trolls” leaving negative comments about the new series.
The tech giant is making it clear: don’t ask questions, don’t voice complaints, just consume their content, and be excited about it.
From what I hear there was much intermarriage between Middle Earth and Wakanda, not to mention the Elves are all Gay.
Sask stabbing suspect found dead, other suspect still at large: RCMP
Saskatchewan RCMP say one of the suspects in a series of stabbing attacks that left 10 dead and 18 injured has been found dead.
Turkey: What Is the Real Terrorist Threat?
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s ideological family tree is inherently anti-Western– hence, anti-US and anti-NATO. This author’s most recent article, “NATO Family Picture in Madrid: This Will Not Be Erdoğan’s Last Blackmail,” was posted on July 7. Only 11 days later, on July 18, Erdoğan said that Turkey would freeze Finland and Sweden’s NATO membership bids if the Nordic countries do not come into line with Turkey’s “fight against terrorist organizations.”
Gas prices soar 26% after Russia keeps key pipeline closed
Gas prices have soared on concerns over energy supplies after Russia announced it would not reopen its main gas pipeline to Europe.
The Dutch month ahead wholesale gas price, a benchmark for Europe, was up as much as 30% in early trading on Monday.
The Nord Stream 1 pipeline had been due to reopen on Saturday after being shut for three days.
But Russia’s state-owned energy firm Gazprom said it had found a leak.
Voters in Chile resoundingly reject socialist constitution
“… Chileans resoundingly rejected a new constitution to replace a charter imposed by the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet 41 years ago, dealing a stinging setback to President Gabriel Boric who argued the document would have ushered in a new progressive era.”
Looks like Canada got all the Socialists according to an unsurprisingly empathetic CBC … 70% of Chileans in Canada support draft constitution, as majority in Chile vote to reject it
While voters in Chile made it clear Sunday they do not support the constitution that was proposed to replace the dictatorship-era document the country currently has, Chileans in Canada overwhelmingly voted in support of the draft.
“I’m sad but the results were overwhelming,” Sebastian Ried, a Chilean man who lives in Hamilton and voted in the referendum from Canada, said Sunday evening.
Trump tears into FBI agents who ‘rifled’ through son Barron’s ‘living quarters’, claims ‘high crimes and treason’ were found on Hunter’s laptop and suggests Biden’s home should have been raided
Donald Trump fumed on Monday about FBI agents going through his teenage son Barron’s ‘living quarters’ during their search for classified documents at Mar-a-Lago.
In a pair of Labor Day posts on his app Truth Social, the former president unleashed against the bureau for its ‘raid’ on his Florida mansion and called for feds to bust into President Joe Biden’s home.
Trump also claimed ‘high crimes and treason’ were found on a laptop belonging to Hunter Biden, which has re-entered the news cycle in recent days after it was revealed the FBI’s warning about 2020 election misinformation led to Facebook censoring stories about it on its platform at the time.
Israeli army: ‘High possibility’ soldier killed reporter
JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli army said Monday there was a “high possibility” that a soldier killed a well-known Al Jazeera journalist in May, as it announced the results of its investigation into the killing. But it said the shooting was accidental and no one would be punished.
Shireen Abu Akleh was killed in May while covering Israeli military raids in the occupied West Bank. The Palestinians blamed Israel for the killing. Israel initially said she may have been killed by militant fire, but later said a soldier may have hit her by mistake during an exchange of fire.
Abu Akleh, a Palestinian-American journalist, had covered the West Bank for the satellite channel for two decades and was known across the Arab world.