A woman is harrassing a young guy because he’s wearing a Trump shirt. She’s from Portland 🙄😁😂😂😂🤣 pic.twitter.com/pRju4S4eHt
— LionHearted (@LionHearted76) March 29, 2022
NY taxpayers will pay $850 million for Buffalo Bills’ new stadium
Taxpayers would be on the hook for $850 million in construction costs for a new Buffalo Bills stadium under a deal announced by New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Monday, which would make it the largest direct public subsidy for a National Football League stadium in history.
Hochul’s office on Monday unveiled a three-way agreement between the state, Erie County and the football club to build a new $1.4 billion stadium with at least 60,000 seats in the town of Orchard Park, the team’s longtime home.
New York is giving the Buffalo Bills $850 million in taxpayer funds for a new stadium, the biggest pro sports subsidy of all time.
Three days ago, NY announced a $800 million cut to children and family services.
The Bills owner is worth $5.8 billion.https://t.co/ELNdzXySI9
— Dan Price (@DanPriceSeattle) March 29, 2022
Anybody touting a study purporting to show that tax payer “investment” in a Rich Man’s stadium to house a Rich Man’s sports team is a win win is a liar liar.
h/t Mauser
In villages near Kyiv, how Ukraine has kept Russia’s army at bay
LUKYANIVKA, Ukraine, March 29 (Reuters) – The burnt wreckage of two Russian tanks with blown off turrets and several armoured personnel carriers attest the ferocity of last week’s clashes in Lukyanivka village just outside Kyiv. The charred corpse of a Russian soldier lies in a field nearby.
“There were mortars so strong that it was scary even in the cellar,” local resident Valeriy Hudym told Reuters on Sunday, two days after Ukrainian soldiers seized back control of Lukyanivka in a five-hour battle with the Russians.
Arabs: Biden Administration Harming US interests
Many Arabs are continuing to express deep disappointment with the policies of the Biden administration in the Middle East, especially regarding Iran’s role in destabilizing security and stability in Arab countries that once trusted the US as a reliable and trustworthy ally.
These Arabs say that President Joe Biden is following in the footsteps of former President Barack Obama, who preferred to reach a nuclear deal with Iran at the expense of Washington’s Arab friends and allies in the Middle East.
The Arabs are further saying that the policies and actions of the Biden administration are harming not only America’s allies, but also the interests of the US.
Joe don’t know.
Paris attacks defendant refuses to answer suicide vest questions
The main suspect on trial for the 2015 Paris terrorist attacks has refused to explain his exact role in the series of suicide bombings and shootings that left 130 people dead and many more injured.
It was supposed to be the most anticipated day in the nine-month trial as Salah Abdeslam took the stand on Wednesday to explain why he had not activated his suicide vest on 13 November 2015.
However, there were groans from victims as well as friends and family present in the Paris court, when he announced: “I am exercising my right to remain silent.”
Putin Being Misled by Advisors ‘Afraid to Tell Him the Truth’ About Ukraine
U.S. intelligence officials say that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s advisors are misinforming him about how his military is performing in its invasion of Ukraine.
The U.S. official who spoke on the condition of anonymity on Wednesday said there is tension between the Russian leader and his senior defense officials who are “afraid to tell him the truth” and Putin feels misled about the military in Ukraine, according to the Associated Press.
Ford government appeals to Canada’s top court to keep premier’s mandate letters secret
The Ontario government has asked Canada’s top court to weigh in on the province’s nearly four-year fight to keep Premier Doug Ford’s mandate letters to his cabinet ministers secret.
Mandate letters traditionally lay out the marching orders a premier has for each of his or her ministers after taking office — and have been routinely released by governments across the country.
Ford’s government, however, has been fighting to keep his mandate letters from the public since shortly after the premier took office in June 2018.
Amy Schumer ‘triggered and traumatised’ by Will Smith Oscars slap incident
Two days on from Will Smith slapping presenter Chris Rock at the 94th Academy Awards, following a joke about his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, and Hollywood appears united in feeling Smith deserves substantial reprimand for his actions.
One of the three hosts for this year’s ceremony, Amy Schumer, has said she is still “triggered and traumatised” by the incident, and “waiting for this sickening feeling to go away from what we all witnessed”.
W.H.O. Demands Increased Social Surveillance as Coronavirus Cases Plunge
The number of new coronavirus cases fell globally last week including in the Western Pacific region where they had been rising since December, the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) reported Wednesday.
That unalloyed good news was tempered by a caution for governments everywhere to maintain strict social surveillance levels to thwart any possible resurgence — now and into the future.
El Shafee Elsheikh: Opening statements in ISIS Beatle jihadist trial
Opening statements take place on Monday in the US federal trial of an ex-British jihadist accused of hostage-taking and conspiracy to commit murder.
El Shafee Elsheikh, 33, is the last of a group of Islamic State militants – known as the Beatles for their British accents – to face justice.
The group is said to have tortured and beheaded hostages in Syria, including several journalists and aid workers.
The trial, in Virginia, is expected to last three to four weeks.
Rupa Subramanya: Canada’s woke Liberal government is driving immigrants away
Canada’s self-image is that of a country welcoming to immigrants, where newcomers are tightly woven into the national fabric. But, results of a recent survey suggest that at least some new immigrants are souring on Canada. A Leger poll commissioned by the Institute for Canadian Citizenship (ICC) found that 30 per cent of new Canadians aged 18 to 34 said they were likely to move to another country within the next two years. Even for new Canadians who are university graduates, the percentage of those saying they wanted to leave was 23 per cent. ICC CEO Daniel Bernhard said that he believes some new immigrants are experiencing a “crisis of confidence” in their new country. Ironically, while 72 per cent of new Canadians thought that Canadians as a whole don’t understand the challenges new immigrants face, only 54 per cent of Canadians shared this opinion.
Gen. Jonathan Vance pleads guilty to obstruction of justice charge
Gen. Jonathan Vance, the country’s former chief of the defence staff, pleaded guilty on Wednesday morning to one count of obstruction of justice laid against him following an investigation into allegations of inappropriate behaviour first published by Global News last year.
Appearing virtually before an Ottawa courtroom, Vance entered the unprecedented plea following a year that saw the Canadian Forces embroiled in what experts have called an existential crisis over multiple allegations of sexual misconduct against senior leaders.
Germany close to gas rationing as it activates emergency fuel plan
Germany moved closer to gas rationing on Wednesday, after activating an emergency plan designed to help it cope with any disruption in supplies from Russia.
Amid fears of a looming showdown with Vladimir Putin over gas flows, Germany’s economy minister, Robert Habeck, convened a crisis team and warned consumers and businesses to reduce consumption, telling them “every kilowatt hour counts”.
Europe’s largest economy is also one of the EU members most reliant on supplies from Kremlin-controlled reserves, making it particularly vulnerable if the taps are turned off.
CIA Officer Who Signed Hunter Biden Laptop Letter Claims Credit for Trump Loss
One of the former CIA officers who signed a letter claiming stories about a laptop allegedly belonging to Hunter Biden were disinformation says he helped swing the 2020 election away from former President Donald Trump.
“I take special pride in personally swinging the election away from Trump,” John Sipher, who served for decades as a senior operations officer at the CIA, wrote in a recent post on Twitter. “I lost the election for Trump? Well then I [feel] pretty good about my influence.”
GOLDSTEIN: Environment minister’s climate math doesn’t add up
Federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault on Tuesday unveiled a $9.1-billion climate change plan he says will achieve Canada’s 2030 greenhouse gas emission reduction target, despite the fact it shows the Trudeau Liberals failed to meet their 2020 target.