Having huffed and puffed for more than a year, the Big Bad EU Wolf has finally acted on its threat to punish errant member states. But it’s highly unlikely that Hungary and Poland will pay any attention at all to this latest bullying. The EU has written to both countries …
Read More »‘Cruise to nowhere’ in Singapore cut short after vaccinated passenger tests positive for coronavirus, future voyage canceled
A ship run by Dream Cruises returned to the port several hours earlier than it was supposed to on Wednesday due to the suspected Covid-19 case, forcing the vessel to dock at Singapore’s Marina Bay Cruise Center, according to the country’s tourism agency. “The passenger was identified as a close …
Read More »Biden’s legislative agenda is in danger of going nowhere…and that’s bad for the country
US President Joe Biden presented on Friday his fiscal year 2022 budget; perhaps the greatest show of exactly where the Biden administration’s priorities are in terms of policy. The budget calls for $6 trillion in spending and is being billed by some as a reimagining of how and for who …
Read More »All dressed up & nowhere to riot? Need to ‘prepare’ for Chauvin trial verdict exposed grim reality of the Disunited States
It was no great surprise to hear on Tuesday that Chauvin, the former police officer who infamously knelt on the neck of black ex-con George Floyd for over nine minutes last Memorial Day as Floyd choked out his last breaths, was headed to prison. Had the jury returned any verdict …
Read More »No family, no fun, no respite and no hope: Go-slow BoJo’s roadmap to nowhere quickly just adds to our mountain of lockdown misery
British PM Boris Johnson loves nothing more than standing up in Parliament or before the television cameras and delivering a huge dollop of good news, leaving all the unpleasant stuff to other people. That way, the public can hate that person and not the Prime Minister. So, prior to unveiling …
Read More »Trump’s going nowhere: Former president meets with Rep. McCarthy, vows to help Republican Party win upcoming House races
Trump met with House Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-California) at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida on Thursday to discuss the Republican Party’s chances at taking control of the House in next year’s midterm elections. A readout about the meeting from Trump’s ‘Save America’ Political Action Committee described the meeting …
Read More »You have nowhere to fall. About the prospects for the economy, said the head of the Central Bank
Reporting on the results of work of the Central Bank in 2019, Elvira Nabiullina told about the availability of resources for economic recovery, at least, the government and the Central Bank aims to return the economy to positive changes. To avoid the drop will fail, but in Russia the consequences …
Read More »Russia is drowning in unclaimed oil that have nowhere to store
The sharp drop in oil demand has led to the fact that storage of oil and oil products in Russia is practically no free tanks. This situation exists all over the world. In Europe as free tanks of oil traders to use the tankers, freight, which in places rose in …
Read More »“Gone — so nowhere and nothing”
“Leave here, as nowhere else,” say the workers of the farm “Glusk dawn.” Before the New year milkers dairy complex Berezovka received salary for November is about 220 rubles. And the cleaning lady, whose four children — 70 rubles. TUT.BY tried to find out why it happened and what will …
Read More »The problems start when there’s nowhere to run
It is now fashionable to compare the protests in Moscow (St. Petersburg, other regions of Russia) with the Western type of the Paris “yellow jackets” or Hong Kong. There, he says, all the stronger and more numerous, and Russian — terpily, because here it is all. Any comparison should be …
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