“What is causing all of this tension is Brexit, not the [Northern Ireland] Protocol, the Protocol is an attempt to try to reduce tension and solve problems linked to Brexit,” Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney told BBC Radio on Wednesday. “The Protocol essentially is an Irish and British and EU …
Read More »VIDEO shows smoke rising over Houses of Parliament in London. Alarm heard, no confirmed emergency at present
The footage, posted to Twitter on Sunday, shows thick white smoke or steam seemingly rising from London’s Houses of Parliament. Some kind of alarm can be heard over the video. The London Fire Brigade has not acknowledged any emergency, and commenters on Twitter claimed the video showed steam, not smoke, …
Read More »Land of the rising drawbridge: Japan bans ALL foreigners from entry until end of January to prevent Covid-19 mutation spread
The island nation will ban all new entries of foreign nationals from December 28 until the end of January, the government announced on Saturday. The decision was made following the discovery of a new variant of the coronavirus present in foreign nationals who had traveled from Britain. Japanese nationals and …
Read More »Russian warship fires torpedoes in Sea of Japan exercises amid rising tensions with US in disputed waters (VIDEO)
In footage released by the Ministry of Defense on Thursday, the newly modernized Marshal Shaposhnikov, an Udalay-class naval destroyer, let off its A-190 artillery unit, as well as its 30mm six-barrel cannon and at least two naval torpedoes in the Peter the Great Bay. The bay has been a hotspot …
Read More »British supermarkets warned to stash food on rising fears of no-deal Brexit – reports
The government has told supermarkets and suppliers of medicine, medical devices, and vaccines to stockpile six weeks’ worth of goods at secure locations in the United Kingdom, according to the Sunday Times. Prime Minister Boris Johnson will reportedly take control of planning if Britain opts for no deal, and will …
Read More »Poverty is rising fast, but it’s part of a decades-long project which the lockdowns of 2020 will only accelerate
Don’t say you weren’t warned. While ‘centrist’ neo-liberals and faux-progressives lauded turbo-globalisation in the nineties, one ‘insider’ Sir James ‘Jimmy’ Goldsmith – a billionaire financier who never indulged in groupthink – told us that it wouldn’t end well. In his books The Trap and The Response, Goldsmith predicted that GATT and …
Read More »Homeschooling’s rising popularity, spurred on by Covid-19, risks kids being ensconced in both digital and physical echo chambers
The popularity of homeschooling is rocketing, but there’s a raging debate as to whether that’s a good thing. The number of kids being educated at home in England has risen by 38 percent in the past year. Gail Tolley, of the Association of Directors of Childrens’ Services, admitted she had …
Read More »OPEC+ likely to prolong existing oil cuts despite rising prices – media
The coalition is leaning towards maintaining crude oil production cuts at the current level of 7.7 million barrels per day (bpd) for another two or three months, the Wall Street Journal reported citing officials. Similar intentions were earlier reported by Reuters, who cited delegates and sources close to OPEC+. The …
Read More »Tehran adds ‘aircraft carrier warship’ to Iran’s navy amid rising tensions with Washington
The 150-meter Shahid Roudaki vessel is “ready to carry out missions,” Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said in a statement on its website. The IRGC’s existing fleet mainly comprises small vessels off the Iranian coast and near the Strait of Hormuz, a strategic choke point on a major international …
Read More »‘Put your f**king mask on!’: Drive-by mask shaming of Jewish man highlights rising tensions in Covid-19-era NYC
A clip of the video was shared by Don Hikind, a former New York State Assemblyman and the founder of the Americans Against Anti Semitism group. “Put your f**king mask on! There’s covid cases! Hurry up! Put it on!” the driver bellows at the visibly shocked Jewish man. Hikind asked …
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