The conflict between Israel and Hamas has had a devastating economic effect on the West Bank and Gaza, where GDP has shrunk by 4.2% in the month since fighting erupted, according to a report by the UN. It added that 400,000 people have been plunged into poverty during the same …
Read More »The EU is destroying its own energy security with the planned Russian oil embargo
The European Union, this week, announced ambitious proposals to embargo the importation of Russian oil by the end of 2022. After teeth-pulling negotiations which have been met with strident objections from several member states, including Hungary and Slovakia, and public doubt over the impact of such measures, its Commission President …
Read More »Russia’s top security official says West responsible for ‘destroying’ Ukraine
In an interview with Argumenty i Fakty on Tuesday, Nikolay Patrushev blasted powers like the US and EU, arguing that the heads of these states destroyed the homelands of the desperate people who have attempted to cross over into the EU via Belarus in recent days. According to him, foreign …
Read More »Instagram culture of narcissism is destroying our society. Something has to be done about it
Narcissism and vanity are on the rise. While in the past these were considered vices, we must concede that today, in our downward-hurtling dystopia, these are now positively virtues. There is no longer any moral opposition to ANYTHING that might stand in the way of a ‘more impressive selfie’. Fake …
Read More »New fissure opens as La Palma volcano continues to erupt, destroying homes & EVAPORATING swimming pools (VIDEOS)
The fissure opened overnight following an earthquake with a magnitude of 4.1, the Canary Islands’ volcanology institute, Involcan, said. The new fissure has produced more lava, forcing an additional 500 people to evacuate. The destructive eruption which began on Sunday afternoon has forced a total of 6,000 people to evacuate. …
Read More »Platforms like TikTok are full of ‘irrelevant content’ that is destroying human creativity, says Russian tech billionaire Durov
Writing on his personal channel on Saturday, Pavel Durov claimed that the consumption of both food and information work in a similar way. “If we nourish our brain with real-life data that allows it to solve fundamental problems, it will process this data in the background and come up with …
Read More »Private equity and public ignorance – how US society is obediently destroying itself and enriching those at the top in the process
By the time Americans realized that the promised ‘trickle-down’ theory of neoliberal economics was in fact more of a speedy trickle-up, the government had all but destroyed the reputation of unions and the public sector that employed many of them, convincing the average American that these were corrupt and bad. …
Read More »BBC’s predictions of climate change destroying sport by 2050 join rich tradition of failed eco-doomsday warnings
‘Sport 2050’ is the BBC’s latest attempt to ratchet up its viewers’ fear levels, using fictional sports news from the year 2050 to demonstrate just how seriously climate change allegedly threatens to impact the sporting world. By highlighting its effect on sport, the BBC states that it hopes to reach …
Read More »‘Stop destroying our kids’ lives!’ Clashes, arrests as thousands protest against Covid lockdown in London (VIDEOS)
The anti-lockdown rally started as a peaceful march on Saturday afternoon, under the watchful eye of hundreds of police, but eventually turned ugly after the officers began detaining people while the protesters actively resisted and some even pelted them with bottles. Riot police actively “engaged” those “breaching Covid regulations,” making at …
Read More »Politics is destroying Australian sport, with the elite seeing it as the perfect way to ram woke views down ‘deplorables’ throats
Australian sport is under attack, as it no doubt is in other countries across the West. In his 1979 book “The Culture of Narcissism” the American historian Christopher Lasch included a chapter titled “The Degradation of Sport.” In Lasch’s view, modern sport had become degraded because it was no longer …
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