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Switzerland Plans to Restrict the Use of Electric Cars During the Winter Energy Crisis
Post Date: 2022-12-24 01:00:25 by Charles_Byrd
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Electric cars may not be terribly useful in the midst of an energy crisis. While almost 6 million of these are on the road, drivers had better hope that the Tesla charging in their driveway isn’t the only vehicle they own. In another episode of “Wait, you can’t charge that right now,” Switzerland has drawn up proposals to restrict the use of electric cars for any nonessential travel this winter. Let me be absolutely clear for the “independent fact-checkers” who love to put words in my mouth. I’m not saying that Switzerland is “banning electric cars.” They’re not. The proposal is specifically about reducing the need to charge them during ...
King Charles III announces first Trooping the Colour, reveals new titles for royal family
Post Date: 2022-12-24 00:45:28 by Charles_Byrd
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It’s a royal celebration! Buckingham Palace announced the Trooping the Colour, King Charles III’s birthday parade, will be held on June 17, 2023. Click for Full Text!
Australia Limits Oil and Gas Prices for 1 Year, Inciting Backlash From Energy Sector
Post Date: 2022-12-24 00:38:59 by Charles_Byrd
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Australia has enforced temporary limits on domestic oil and natural gas prices on the pretext of tackling rising prices, but the move has provoked a heated backlash from energy firms that say it would deter investment in new projects. Although Australia is one of the world’s largest suppliers of coal and gas, gas and electricity prices have been rising in the country over the past few months. Such price hikes are due to skyrocketing international prices since the Ukraine-Russia crisis earlier this year, as well as the inability by the federal and state governments to secure ample gas supply for domestic use. Click for Full Text!
Chile’s Constitutional Circus: A Warning for the U.S.
Post Date: 2022-12-24 00:37:42 by Charles_Byrd
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Chile’s president Gabriel Boric is celebrating what mainstream media call an important victory, brokering a deal among his country’s multiple political parties to draft a new constitution. It’s part of an ongoing saga in Chile, where voters decided in 2020 to scrap the constitution adopted 40 years earlier during the anti-communist, free- market-oriented administration of Augusto Pinochet, who ruled from 1973 to 1990. Click for Full Text!
Iran Suspends Morality Police, Conducts Public Executions of Protesters
Post Date: 2022-12-22 16:34:04 by Charles_Byrd
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Iran has been plagued by weeks of unrest after a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, Mahsa Amini, died in police custody after being arrested by the Iranian morality police. Recently, the beleaguered country saw its morality police force suspended, following the nationwide protests. Also, the regime conducted public executions of protestors in efforts to deter more people from participating in anti-government demonstrations. Officially termed the Guidance Patrol, the police unit has been present in major intersections and thoroughfares in Iranian cities for years, detaining those deemed in violation of the Islamic Republic’s stringent religious dress codes. The patrols appeared to vanish from ...
Brickbat: Maybe Your Next Flight Should Be on a Train
Post Date: 2022-12-22 15:59:09 by Charles_Byrd
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The French government says it will ban flights between cities connected by trains if the flights take less than two and a half hours. Officials said the move is aimed at increasing train ridership and cutting greenhouse gas emissions. Click for Full Text!
Netanyahu, the godfather of modern Israeli fascism
Post Date: 2022-12-22 15:51:09 by Charles_Byrd
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Fascism has been on the minds of Israel’s friends and foes alike since “the Jewish State” held its latest elections and its former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu began negotiations to form a new coalition. Warnings about Israel “heading toward a fascist theocracy” or “sleep walking into Jewish fascism” have multiplied. But all these warnings appear to fall on deaf ears, as Netanyahu charts a path back to the premiership in coalition with Israel’s fascist parties. He dismisses concerns over the potential demise of Israel’s democracy and its worsening reputation in the West, especially in the United States, insisting that when it comes to the ...
North Korea Confirms Important Test to Build Spy Satellite
Post Date: 2022-12-21 20:34:52 by Charles_Byrd
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North Korea’s state media KCNA reported on December 19 that the hermit state has conducted an “important, final-phase” test for the construction of a spy satellite, which it hopes to complete by April 2023. The communist state made this declaration after the South Korean and Japanese militaries reported the North’s launch of two intermediate-range ballistic missiles toward its east coast. Click for Full Text!
China Isn’t Even Good at Being China
Post Date: 2022-12-21 19:29:33 by Charles_Byrd
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There’s a version of the case against free markets that goes something like this: China has proven itself able to generate economic growth through government planning, so if the U.S. is going to compete with China, it must do a little bit of government planning, too. Click for Full Text!
Historical Christianity as a Liberating Force in China
Post Date: 2022-12-21 19:26:23 by Charles_Byrd
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Attempts by the Chinese government to arrest the spread of Christianity have faltered since Christians are remaining steadfast in their faith. Over one hundred million Chinese are estimated to be Christians, and projections suggest that by 2030, China could have as many as 247 million Christians. However, instead of affirming the rise of Christianity, the Chinese government has ramped up efforts to clamp down on Christian missions. In China, the Church is treated like another arm of the state that must be monitored to ensure conformity with the doctrines of the Communist Party. The “Administrative measures for religious groups” which was instituted in 2020 compels religious ...
Brickbat: That Smell
Post Date: 2022-12-20 16:57:06 by Charles_Byrd
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Agriculture accounts for about half of New Zealand's exports. The nation is the largest dairy exporter in the world. But farmers are warning that could change if the government adopts a planned tax on the burps, farts, and excrement of cattle. Government officials said the tax is part of their plan to cut methane emissions 10 percent by 2030 and become carbon neutral by 2050. Click for Full Text!
Why did Viganň call out George Soros, Klaus Schwab, and Bill Gates?
Post Date: 2022-12-20 10:50:55 by A K A Stone
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Xi of Arabia and the Petroyuan Drive
Post Date: 2022-12-19 20:43:11 by Charles_Byrd
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It would be so tempting to qualify Chinese President Xi Jinping landing in Riyadh a week ago, welcomed with royal pomp and circumstance, as Xi of Arabia proclaiming the dawn of the petroyuan era. But it’s more complicated than that. As much as the seismic shift implied by the petroyuan move applies, Chinese diplomacy is way too sophisticated to engage in direct confrontation, especially with a wounded, ferocious Empire. So there’s way more going here than meets the (Eurasian) eye. Click for Full Text!
Australia Targets Apple and Microsoft Over Online Child Safety
Post Date: 2022-12-19 19:55:43 by Charles_Byrd
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An Australian regulator, after employing new powers mandating that technology giants disclose details about their methods to stop child exploitation, lambasted Apple and Microsoft for not doing enough to halt child exploitation content on their platforms. The e-Safety Commissioner, an office established to safeguard internet users, claimed that after issuing legal demands for information to some of the world’s largest internet firms, Apple and Microsoft had failed to proactively filter out child-abuse material in their storage services, iCloud and OneDrive. Click for Full Text!
Canada Threatens Free Speech in the Guise of Nationalistic Obsessions
Post Date: 2022-12-19 19:29:40 by Charles_Byrd
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Canada's government seems determined to shed the country's reputation as a liberal democracy that values civil liberties. The Trudeau cabinet's move earlier in 2022 to financially isolate critics of its restrictive pandemic policies were more than a little chilling. Now several years of constant effort to tame the give-and-take of the internet culminate in legislation that seeks to bring much online speech under state control. At issue at the moment are actually two bills, C-11 and C-18. C-18 is similar to an earlier Australian law that requires digital platforms to pay for links to news articles. That law resulted in a negotiated compromise after Facebook and other outfits ...
Canada Killed More Than 10,000 People in Assisted Suicide Last Year
Post Date: 2022-12-18 16:34:40 by Charles_Byrd
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An article by Sam Ashworth-Hayes that was published by the Spectator (UK) on December 11, 2022 arguing that Canada’s assisted dying catastrophe is a warning for the UK. This is an important article because assisted dying (euthanasia) is being heavily debated in the UK. Click for Full Text!
South Africa, Australia, Germany, Japan: why the difference in infections and cases now? Need a hint? See last graph as one of the main contributing factors; Bulgar? It has fared well & look at vaxx?
Post Date: 2022-12-18 16:33:17 by Charles_Byrd
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The data is very clear that all high vaccinated nations have elevated infections, cases, hospitalizations and deaths relative to low vaccinated nations; why is that? hhhmmm, I wonder Click for Full Text!
World’s Only Nonuplets Head Home After Celebrating Their First Birthday
Post Date: 2022-12-18 16:15:49 by Charles_Byrd
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Nine siblings have set a world record as the largest number of babies to be born together and survive. And after more than a year in the hospital, the Mali nonuplets finally were deemed well enough to go home this week, the TODAY show reports. Click for Full Text!
China Removes 6 Diplomats From Britain Over Manchester Violence
Post Date: 2022-12-18 16:14:31 by Charles_Byrd
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China has recalled six officials from the U.K. whom police planned to question over their reported violent treatment of a man. The alleged victim, who was protesting outside the Chinese consulate in Manchester in October, said he was kicked and punched while doing so, according to British Foreign Minister James Cleverly. Cleverly said the officials, including the consul general in Manchester, were called home by China following a police request to interview them over the incident. “I am disappointed that these individuals will not be interviewed or face justice,” Cleverly said in a written statement. “Nonetheless, it is right that those responsible for the disgraceful scenes ...
15-Minute City Insanity Is Only 'Climate Change' Lockdown Madness
Post Date: 2022-12-16 17:34:37 by Charles_Byrd
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“We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.” ~ Ayn Rand While the masses continue to happily accept any and every tiny bit of ‘permission’ to have a miniscule amount of ‘freedom,’ all at the whim of the rulers, the drive toward more ‘climate change’ lockdown policy and societal regulation and total control are going forward quickly and without restriction. The candy offered to the herd in the form of temporary lifting of ...
Inside the COVID-19 Global Coup d’état
Post Date: 2022-12-16 17:20:22 by Charles_Byrd
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Geopolitics & Empire is joined by Emanuel Pastreich, who serves as the president of The Asia Institute and as director general of the Institute for Future Urban Environments. He declared his candidacy for president of the US as an independent in February of 2020. Welcome to Geopolitics & Empire, Mr. Pastreich. Click for Full Text!
The World’s Largest Arms-Producing Companies
Post Date: 2022-12-16 16:24:41 by Charles_Byrd
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For the first time in over 30 years, and in a tightly-controlled presentation, the United States unveiled a new strategic bomber on Friday. The nuclear-capable B-21 Raider is expected to enter service in 2027 and is seen as a major part of the States’ response to military buildup by China. The estimated cost was also revealed: The plane’s manufacturer, Northrop Grumman, can expect $700m per aircraft. Many other companies will also profit from the project, with the arms production company stating that 400 suppliers are involved in the project. One of these is Raytheon Technologies – whose subsidiary Pratt & Whitney will be manufacturing the engines for the new stealth jet. ...
Netanyahu Says US Must ‘Reaffirm’ Alliance With Saudi Arabia
Post Date: 2022-12-16 16:13:48 by Charles_Byrd
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Israel’s incoming prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said Thursday that the US must “reaffirm” its alliance with Saudi Arabia and that he will seek normalization with Riyadh once in office. “I think that the alliance, the traditional (US) alliance with Saudi Arabia and other countries, has to be reaffirmed. There should not be periodic swings, or even wild swings in this relationship, because I think that the alliance between America’s allies and with America is the anchor of stability in our region,” Netanyahu told Al-Arabiya English. Click for Full Text!
G7 Nations Agree to Give Vietnam $15.5 Billion in “Loans” to Cut Coal Use
Post Date: 2022-12-15 20:24:19 by Charles_Byrd
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On Wednesday, the G7 nations announced that they are giving loans and grants totaling $15.5 billion to Vietnam in order to assist the Southeast Asian nation in switching from coal-based energy to renewable sources. The G7, which includes Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the European Union, were joined by Norway and Denmark in the deal. Click for Full Text!
Portugal’s Parliament passes euthanasia bill. President de Sousa rejected two previous euthanasia bills.
Post Date: 2022-12-15 20:18:10 by Charles_Byrd
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Alison Roberts reported for BBC News on December 9 that Portugal’s parliament passed a bill that would legalize euthanasia if an adult’s wish to die is “current and reiterated, serious, free and informed”. Click for Full Text!
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