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Latest Articles: International News
Toronto Mayor Resigns After Admitting to Affair With Staffer
Post Date: 2023-02-12 01:03:44 by Charles_Byrd
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Toronto Mayor John Tory resigned abruptly on Friday, shortly after the Toronto Star newspaper reported that he had an affair with a much younger staff member. Tory, 68, acknowledged the relationship in a statement announcing his departure, saying it had ended earlier this year and the employee had left city hall. Click for Full Text!
Iran Releases Emaciated Dissident After Long Hunger Strike
Post Date: 2023-02-12 00:55:20 by Charles_Byrd
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Iran on Friday released hunger-striking jailed dissident Farhad Meysami, the Iranian judiciary said, a week after supporters had warned that he risked dying for protesting against the compulsory wearing of the hijab. Images on social media of an emaciated Meysami, who had been in jail since 2018 for supporting women activists protesting against Iran's headscarf policy, had gone viral and caused outrage among social media users and international rights group. Click for Full Text!
EU agrees on stricter measures against 'irregular migration'
Post Date: 2023-02-11 00:31:41 by Charles_Byrd
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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said early Friday that EU leaders agreed tougher measures to tackle "irregular migration." "We will act to strengthen our external borders and prevent irregular migration," von der Leyen said after Thursday's EU summit. Click for Full Text!
Merkel Receives UNESCO Peace Prize for Welcoming Refugees
Post Date: 2023-02-09 00:55:31 by Charles_Byrd
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Germany's former chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday received a prestigious UN award for opening her country to refugees during her time in office. Merkel was hailed for welcoming more than 1.2 million refugees and asylum seekers to Germany in 2015 and 2016 as she was awarded the Felix Houphouet-Boigny UNESCO Peace Prize in Ivory Coast's capital Yamoussoukro. Click for Full Text!
Canadian Senate Passes Controversial Online Censorship Bill
Post Date: 2023-02-08 23:37:54 by Charles_Byrd
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Last week, the Canadian Senate passed the controversial Bill C-11, known as the Online Streaming Act (OSA). This legislation amends the Broadcasting Act and grants the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) new powers to regulate online content. Click for Full Text!
How the green elites are impoverishing the world
Post Date: 2023-02-08 22:06:47 by Charles_Byrd
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The global super-rich love to warn us about climate change. They love to preach about all the things we’ll need to give up and all the sacrifices we should make. But they also love to travel in private jets and live in lavish mansions by the sea. They emit orders of magnitude more CO2 than the average person. So what explains this mismatch? Is there more to it than just hypocrisy? Click for Full Text!
North Korean Leader Seen in Public First Time in 36 Days
Post Date: 2023-02-07 19:19:08 by Charles_Byrd
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's leap back onto the world stage this week reportedly came after his second-longest absence from the limelight. On Monday, the iron-fisted leader headed a meeting of the ruling Workers' Party's Central Military Commission — goading his military to perform "ever-victorious feats" and display "matchless military strength" to begin a new phase in development. Click for Full Text!
Iraq Central Bank Governor Urges US to Scale Back Dollar Restrictions
Post Date: 2023-02-06 14:50:59 by Charles_Byrd
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The Iraqi dinar’s rate of exchange with the US dollar bounced off a near- term low on Friday, raising hope that months of currency free-fall may finally be coming to an end. Concerns around regional smuggling of US dollars have frustrated US economic ties with Iraq. Tightening the dollar supply in Iraq has weakened the potential for smuggling, but badly damaged Iraq’s economy. Click for Full Text!
China Enforces New Cybersecurity Rules in Tibet
Post Date: 2023-02-05 00:07:07 by Charles_Byrd
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A new Chinese cyber law in Tibet materialized on Wednesday (Feb. 1), with the government declaring harsher punishments for anyone found to be stirring “public disorder by engaging in separatist acts.” The law, initially passed in 2016, was formulated to boost digital state surveillance and censorship in the region. These new measures enable the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to single out Tibetans for online activity regarded by authorities as critical of Chinese rule in the region. Click for Full Text!
Brickbat: Cut the Cord
Post Date: 2023-02-03 00:06:28 by Charles_Byrd
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The Indian government has declared a BBC documentary on deadly 2002 riots in the state of Gujarat to be propaganda and used emergency powers to ban it from YouTube, Twitter and other social media. Click for Full Text!
National Conservatives Can't Find a Good Excuse for Viktor Orbán's Inflation Disaster
Post Date: 2023-02-02 22:56:00 by Charles_Byrd
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Viktor Orbán is a hero to American national conservatives. So when in January 2022 the Hungarian Prime Minister announced he would supplement price caps on fuel and mortgage rates by mandating that sugar, flour, sunflower oil, chicken breasts, pork legs, and certain milk products be sold to consumers at lower October 2021 prices, some of this anti–free market cohort celebrated his decisive action to "protect families" from inflation. "But, but, but, what would Milton Friedman say!" tweeted Compact magazine editor Sohrab Ahmari, mocking advocates of market economics. This was "the party of the state for the win." Well, we know what Friedman would ...
Is the Japanese Low Inflation–Low Interest Rate Model at an End?
Post Date: 2023-02-01 16:43:38 by Charles_Byrd
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The macroeconomic situation in Japan seems to be coming to a head. When the Bank of Japan, under its President Haruhiko Kuroda, announced on December 20, 2022, that it would raise its interest rate ceiling on ten- year Japanese government bonds from 0.25 percent to 0.50 percent, share prices in Tokyo plummeted and the Japanese yen appreciated sharply. The “Kuroda shock,” which in the eyes of some observers heralded a turning point in Japan’s thirty-year low, zero, and negative interest rate policy, sent shock waves through the international financial markets. Meanwhile, the markets are betting against the Bank of Japan being able to keep its self-imposed interest rate ...
Japan Faces Demographic Disaster
Post Date: 2023-02-01 15:56:54 by Charles_Byrd
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Japan’s Prime Minister has warned that his country will fall over an economic and social cliff unless it reverses its population decline. “Our country is on the brink of being unable to maintain the functions of society,” said Fumio Kishida at the beginning of this year’s Diet session. Mr Kishida’s apocalyptic statement is by no means news. Japan’s population has been shrinking for years. Rural towns are being abandoned. The number of people in nursing homes is constantly rising. Schools are closing because there are no children to fill the classrooms. Click for Full Text!
Xi Jinping Lures CELAC Summit to Embrace Belt and Road Initiative
Post Date: 2023-01-31 18:46:11 by Charles_Byrd
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Authoritarian Chinese leader Xi Jinping participated in the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) summit last week, encouraging the Western Hemisphere to adopt the Belt and Road Chinese debt-trap scheme and stating that China views the region as a “key partner in enhancing solidarity.” CELAC is a left-leaning platform that can be likened to the Organization of American States (OAS). It is presently conducting a head-of-state conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina, hosted by socialist President Alberto Fernandez. Argentina is a Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) partner, as are various other members of the coalition. Click for Full Text!
Brickbat: Supply and Demand
Post Date: 2023-01-31 18:36:38 by Charles_Byrd
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Even as the National Health Service struggles with a shortage of doctors, the British government has ordered medical schools to hold to a previously announced cap and admit no more than 7,500 medical students this year. The cap was put in place to limit the cost of educating medical students. It costs the government £160,000 (about $200,000) to educate each new physician. Click for Full Text!
Chinese Province to Let Unmarried People Have Children to Tackle Falling Birth Rate
Post Date: 2023-01-31 18:26:36 by Charles_Byrd
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Health authorities in China’s southwestern province of Sichuan will permit unmarried individuals to have children, raise a family, and qualify for benefits previously allocated only to married couples in the most recent attempt to boost the country’s plummeting birth rate. Although the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) mandates that only married women are lawfully permitted to give birth, record low marriage and birth rates in recent years have prompted the provincial authorities to revise a 2019 rule to include singles who want to have children. Click for Full Text!
Taliban Arrests Chinese Nationals for Stealing Afghan Lithium
Post Date: 2023-01-30 22:07:36 by Charles_Byrd
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Taliban terrorists detained three Afghans and two Chinese citizens suspected of trying to smuggle lithium across the Chinese border, the Afghan news outlet Khaama Press reported. Various Afghan and foreign reports about the incident failed to name the men in question, and did not detail any more information about the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s possible culpability in either the smuggling or the arrests. One report, quoting local Taliban “authorities,” said that the men were caught with 1,000 metric tons of rocks with lithium. The incident took place in Jalalabad, on Afghanistan’s eastern border with China. Click for Full Text!
The shaming images that show where our iPhones, laptops and Tesla cars REALLY come from: The truth about the Congolese mines where kids are paid $2-a-day to dig for cobalt
Post Date: 2023-01-30 21:39:29 by Charles_Byrd
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For years, big tech companies like Apple and Tesla have assured the customers of their glossy stores and showrooms that all their goods are ethically sourced and sold. But a new series of images taken from inside mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where 90 percent of the world's cobalt is mined and used to make the batteries that power our tech-led lives, raise uncomfortable questions. Click for Full Text!
Russia’s Intentions Are Clarifying
Post Date: 2023-01-29 20:21:38 by Charles_Byrd
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We forget, perhaps, that from 1 March 1950 the Soviet rouble was on a gold standard at 4 roubles 45 kopecks for 1 gram of pure gold until 1961, when Khrushchev devalued it and refixed it to the dollar. Stalin had been a signatory to the Bretton Woods agreement but refused to join it and make the rouble subservient to the dollar as its intermediary for a gold standard. The Soviets’ rouble was eventually driven off its gold standard by disastrous economic policies. Faced with reforming the command economy system and accepting the economic failures of communism, in 1961 the currency had to give way. This is worth mentioning to remind us that the Russians are no strangers to a gold ...
Bill Gates Warns Australia To Prepare For The Next Pandemic
Post Date: 2023-01-29 20:19:51 by Charles_Byrd
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On January 23rd, 2023 Bill Gates joined Lowy Institute Executive Director Dr Michael Fullilove in Australia to talk about global health, pandemic preparedness, food security and climate change. In the interview, Bill Gates admits that the vaccines are not blocking infection, they don’t stop variants and they have a very short duration. This, after he and his cohorts spent the past three years demanding that we take the vaccine or be ousted from society because the vaccines “stopped the spread” and were “effective”. Click for Full Text!
These Will Be The World's Next Megacities
Post Date: 2023-01-29 20:00:37 by Charles_Byrd
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By 2050, 70 percent of the world’s population will live in cities, up from 54 percent in 2020, according to a new report by the Institute for Economics & Peace. This increase is being driven by both population growth and a continued shift towards urbanization, particularly to so called ‘megacities’ – metropolises that have a population of 10 million or more. As Statista’s Anna Fleck details below, urbanization takes place because of both push and pull factors. The IEA describes how in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s capital of Kinshasa, factors pushing people away from rural areas include issues of violence and a general lack of security, the presence ...
Major nation will stop housing bio males with intact genitalia in women's prisons
Post Date: 2023-01-27 01:15:44 by Charles_Byrd
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The U.K. will no longer allow males who identify as transgender women to be housed in women’s prisons if they have been convicted of sexual offenses or have intact male genitalia, according to a Wednesday announcement from the U.K. government. Click for Full Text!
CCP Further Tightens Control Over Media, Limiting Journalists
Post Date: 2023-01-27 01:08:38 by Charles_Byrd
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The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has tightened media control by putting more limitations in its criteria for China’s journalist-qualification examination. On Dec. 30 last year, The Epoch Times reported, the CCP’s National Press and Publication Administration (NPPA) declared a series of new “Measures for the Professional Qualification Examination for Journalists” to be implemented July 1. These new regulations, jointly published by the NPPA and the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, have a purported aim to “implement the requirements of Party-controlled propaganda, Party- controlled ideology, and Party-controlled media.” Click for Full Text!
Europe is Experiencing a MASSIVE New Migrant Crisis Which No One Seems to be Acknowledging.
Post Date: 2023-01-27 00:10:12 by Charles_Byrd
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In 2022 around 330,000 people crossed into Europe illegally, according to Frontex, the European Union’s border agency – the largest number since the Migrant Crisis of 2015-16 and a 64 percent increase on 2021. The figures do not include the 13 million refugees who fled Ukraine and entered the EU due to the conflict with Russia, ten million of whom have subsequently returned home. Click for Full Text!
Several Senior Ukrainian Officials Fired as Corruption Scandal Rocks Ukraine
Post Date: 2023-01-26 00:17:17 by Charles_Byrd
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Several senior Ukrainian officials resigned on Tuesday after being forced out over a corruption scandal that has rocked Ukraine, resulting in the biggest government shake-up since Russia’s invasion. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in his nightly address on Monday that he decided to make “personnel decisions” after Ukraine’s deputy infrastructure minister, Vasyl Lozynskyy, was dismissed and arrested over allegations of embezzlement. Click for Full Text!
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