Radical prosecutors and woke politicians in American cities have been defunding, demoralizing, and neutralizing the police—and violent crime is rising. In response, citizens have started taking the law into their own hands. This can happen in the middle of a riot, as in the case of Kyle Rittenhouse, but it can also occur in a more planned, deliberate fashion. Entire neighborhoods in several cities have enlisted private security services to protect their homes and loved ones.
Some local news I thought you might enjoy – Steubenville is across the Ohio River from us and the nearest ‘big’ town. The closed steel mills mentioned are on our side of the river, in Weirton; my grandfather and many of my friends worked in those mills. Grandpa’s job was so important that he was declared an essential employee and exempted from the WW2 draft, to his everlasting shame because he wanted to serve. My dear friend and next door neighbor, Betty, was the quality control inspector for the big shells the battleships used when the steel plants were converted for wartime and women became the workers. What stories she had! Back then, people flocked to this area for good jobs, but since the 70s and cheap overseas steel it’s been a dying region. It’s good to see something positive happening.
By recklessly rushing into unreliable renewable energy to replace fossil fuels, the U.K. and Europe are now in the midst of an energy crisis heading into winter, where electricity prices to consumers are skyrocketing and factories are reducing production or shutting down.
In 2000, China’s trade with Latin America amounted to $12 billion. By 2019, the number had grown to a staggering $330 billion.
The astounding growth is suggestive of how China’s influence in Latin America has deepened over the past two decades.
China’s involvement in Latin America clearly seems to be translating into control, and not just of national resources. “In the past four years, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador and Panama have each switched their recognition from Taiwan to China”, TIME Magazine wrote in February.
The Royal British Columbia Museum has been repeatedly voted as one of Canada’s top cultural attractions by reviewers on TripAdvisor. It often ranks as one of the country’s most-visited museums and the Frommer’s travel guide refers to it as “hands down, one of the world’s best regional museums.”
American computer chip maker Intel issued an apology in Chinese text on Thursday for a previous statement in which it urged its Chinese suppliers to not source products from Xinjiang, a region where human rights experts say nearly every manufactured product is guaranteed to have been made by slaves.
US intelligence agencies have assessed that Saudi Arabia is now actively manufacturing its own ballistic missiles with the help of China, CNN has learned, a development that could have significant ripple effects across the Middle East and complicate the Biden administration’s efforts to restrain the nuclear ambitions of Iran, the Saudis’ top regional rival.
Saudi Arabia is known to have purchased ballistic missiles from China in the past but has never been able to build its own — until now, according to three sources familiar with the latest intelligence. Satellite images obtained by CNN also suggest the Kingdom is currently manufacturing the weapons in at least one location.
The Bug-Out is going to plan says the State Department.
Kingston, Ont., posted 154 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday as its Omicron outbreak continued.
The eastern Ontario city of around 160,000 people was an early hotspot of the Omicron outbreak in Canada, with an early explosion of cases.
But at the Kingston Health Sciences Centre, the number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 has gone down recently, said Dr. Gerald Evans, an infectious diseases specialist at the hospital and with Queen’s University.
The unfortunate fact is that Canada ranks very low in per capita ICU beds. “Overwhelmed” should be read as “government imposed shortfall”.
MOSCOW, Dec 23 (Reuters) – Russian mercenaries have deployed to separatist-controlled eastern Ukraine in recent weeks to bolster defences against Ukrainian government forces as tensions between Moscow and the West rise, four sources have told Reuters.
In recent weeks, Russia has moved tens of thousands of regular troops to staging posts closer to Ukraine and followed up by demanding urgent security guarantees from the West designed, Moscow says, to prevent Ukraine and other neighbouring countries being used as a base to attack it.
Two Democrats who supported police reform in Philadelphia and Chicago were both carjacked at gunpoint within 24 hours of each other.
Illinois state Sen. Kimberly Lightford (D-Maywood) was targeted in suburban Chicago on Tuesday night, while Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon (D-Pa.) was carjacked Wednesday afternoon after an event in South Philadelphia.
Lightford was driving with her husband, Eric McKennie, in Broadview at about 9:45 p.m. when three masked suspects in a Durango SUV hijacked the couple’s black Mercedes.
Another year, another crisis.
For Justin Trudeau, it’s become something of a routine.
Of his six years as prime minister, only one — his first — has been what might be considered a normal year of governing, with the usual ups and downs.
December 19, 2021, was Dr. Francis Collins last day as Director of the National Institutes of Health. After more than 25 years in public service, it is customary to thank people for their service, so thank you, Dr. Collins. In his final interview as director with Bret Baier on Fox News Sunday, it was clear that it was time for him to go. If he could have taken Dr. Anthony Fauci with him, that would have been even better for America.
Dec 23 (Reuters) – The jury reached a verdict on Thursday in the manslaughter trial of Kimberly Potter, the former Minnesota police officer who mistook her handgun for her Taser and fatally shot Black motorist Daunte Wright during a traffic stop.
The jury of six men and six women have reached a consensus on whether to convict or acquit Potter and the decision will be read in court between 1:30 and 2:00 p.m. CST (1930 and 2000 GMT), according to a notice from the court.
BREAKING: #KimPotter has been found guilty of first-degree manslaughter and second-degree manslaughter in the fatal shooting of #DaunteWright. | https://t.co/MmLkdS1ovW pic.twitter.com/bsT3VgTE0F
— WCCO – CBS Minnesota (@WCCO) December 23, 2021
Watch live – Verdict now scheduled between 2:30 PM & 3:00 PM
Canada’s military relieved an air force commander of his post in Kuwait on Dec. 7 amid an investigation into claims he made inappropriate comments, CBC News has learned.
The Department of National Defence confirms that Lt.-Col. Philip Marcus was sent back to Canada on Dec. 7, “when concerns over some inappropriate comments that demonstrated a concerning misalignment with our institution’s efforts to evolve our culture were raised” to leadership.
… DND described the alleged comments as inappropriate. Sources who spoke to CBC News but who were not authorized to speak publicly said Marcus was heard making comments about lower-ranking women in the Canadian Armed Forces.
CAF needs to go full tranny. It’s the only culture that fits.
