Why 2022 will be a dangerous year

Europe is leaderless in the face of growing threats

It is hardly surprising that we have little time for reflection, as the New Year dawns, about matters beyond our own back yard. The “tidal wave” of Omicron has struck, the Nightingale hospitals are understaffed, the PCR tests have run out, the hospitality industry has been hit by panic, and large parts of the economy seem barely able to function as hundreds of thousands self-isolate. And yet, however bad matters of public health might be, and however diverting the implosion of possibly the most dishonest and incompetent government in British history, there is scope for life to get much, much worse.

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Why China haunts America

America’s growing antagonism towards China is a reflection of its domestic malaise.

The events of 2021 confirmed that the US political class sees containing China as its No1 foreign-policy goal. Indeed, China is now one of the few issues that publicly unites Republicans and Democrats. Treating China as the biggest external threat to America can no longer be regarded as a Trumpian aberration. The Joe Biden administration has been similarly focused on China, building on a theme that goes back at least to Barack Obama’s ‘pivot to Asia’ 10 years earlier.

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Soldier arrested over ominous Covid ultimatum video to government

German prosecutors have opened a probe against a Bundeswehr soldier who delivered a video ultimatum to the government demanding it abandon its Covid-19 policies. The man was released after being briefly detained.

A series of video appeals surfaced on social media on Thursday, where a man dressed in military uniform and calling himself “Sergeant Major Oberauer” demanded the government give up on its “crazy anti-constitutional projects.” 

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Flooding, drought and wildfires caused by climate change could do as much damage to our planet as a giant asteroid or massive volcanic eruption, experts warn

Earth’s most famous mass extinction event was the giant asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago.

But although it was severe, obliterating some 76 per cent of the world’s species, there have been two other more devastating near apocalypses throughout our planet’s 4.5 billion-year history and five in total.

MailOnline looks into these different catastrophic events, from the ‘Great Dying’ to the Kellwasser cataclysm, and asks scientists what is most likely to cause a sixth, where it would leave us and if such a scenario is already under way.

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Douglas Todd: How disastrous has the COVID-19 pandemic been for Canadian housing?

Ottawa’s war against the pandemic has had an outsized impact on millions of Canadians frozen out of home ownership. But politicians have proved oblivious

Just how much of a disaster has COVID-19 been for housing affordability in Canada? Let us count the ways, if there is a stomach for it.

Since the pandemic began in March 2020 house prices across Canada have jumped 34 per cent.

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GOLDSTEIN: Trudeau’s 2022 climate plan — more carbon taxes

 

The forecast for climate change in Canada for 2022 is higher carbon taxes for Canadians and little progress in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, which is what carbon taxes are supposed to do.

Grocery prices to keep soaring in 2022

Canadian grocery bills have been growing steadily throughout the past year, and experts say that won’t change in 2022. In fact, a typical family could be stuck spending nearly $1,000 more just to put food on the table.

“The average family of four, we’re expecting the food bill to go up by as much as $966,” said Dr. Sylvain Charlebois, Sr. Director of the Agri-Food Analytics Lab at Dalhousie University.

“It’s going to be tight for a lot of families, unfortunately.”

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Why Not COVID Antibodies or Previous Infection?

Why are liberals immune to medical and scientific evidence that’s staring them in the face?

As the Supreme Court considers the unconstitutional overreach of the Biden OSHA mandate forcibly vaccinating Americans, it might also consider the common-sense alternatives. These are obvious options pursued by countries and organizations that follow science and haven’t lost their minds in a mass bout of vax psychosis, as we have here in America, especially our liberals.

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Germany’s New Government: Business as Usual with China

Germany’s new chancellor, Olaf Scholz, has had his first telephone call with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Scholz, who succeeded Angela Merkel as chancellor on December 8, pledged to strengthen economic ties with China, but he failed to mention human rights or the destruction of democracy in Hong Kong.

The telephone call will disappoint those who had hoped that Germany’s new government — a three-way coalition consisting of the center-left Social Democrats (SPD), the environmentalist Greens and the pro-business Free Democrats (FDP) — would break with the past and take distance from Merkel’s policy of appeasing dictators and sacrificing human rights on the altar of financial gain.

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