Giorno: 23 Settembre 2022

Saying mini-budget is ‘trickle-down economics’ is leftwing nonsense, says minister

Read More The levelling up secretary has described the suggestion that the chancellor’s mini-budget will be “trickle-down economics” as leftwing “nonsense”. Simon Clarke made the comments before a tax-cutting budget to be announced on Friday. The rightwing economic theory that cutting taxes for businesses and high earners will enable benefits to “trickle down” into the […]

Ucraina – Russia, le news dalla guerra oggi: Zelensky ai russi: “Protestate”. Ungheria: no a nuove sanzioni

Read More Il capo della diplomazia russa Lavrov in Consiglio di sicurezza ha ribaltato le accuse di Kiev chiedendo che sia la “nazi” Ucraina a essere punita per i suoi crimini, “coperti dall’Occidente con la connivenza delle organizzazioni internazionali”. Una lettura della storia sempre più drammaticamente isolata. Se gli Stati Uniti, attraverso il segretario di […]

Elezioni 2022, Salvini: “Da von Der Leyen parole disgustose”. Letta: “Nessun ricatto da Ue, voto sarà libero”

Read More Punti chiave 08:56 Letta: “Nessun ricatto da Ue, voto sarà libero” 08:44 Salvini: “Da von Der Leyen parole disgustose” 08:56 Letta: “Nessun ricatto da Ue, voto sarà libero” (fotogramma)”Non c’è nessun ricatto, il voto di domenica sarà libero. Gli italiani sceglieranno chi andrà al governo e chi all’opposizione. Il Paese è assolutamente libero”. […]

Solar Energy

Read More SA takes another step towards renewable energy South Africa took another step closer towards moving to renewable energy with the signing of the Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme (REIPPPP) tender this week. The REIPPPP is a tender procedure that was launched by the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy to engage […]

Imagination and pragmatism are needed to navigate a world in shock

Read More Make no mistake, we no longer live in a stable, international rules-based order. The days of unipolarity and global liberalism are over and we are facing a confluence of shocks unlike anything most of us have seen in our lifetimes.  No pilot is flying the plane — the closest thing we have to […]

South Africa, as a Brics member, must make its voice heard on Putin’s nuclear weapons sabre-rattling

Read More With President Vladimir Putin’s latest speech announcing a partial mobilisation and redefining Russia’s strategy for nuclear weapons, his war against Ukraine has taken an ugly turn of escalation. By threatening the use of such weapons, after abandoning the slightest attempt at using the international institutions Russia helped to build, is far too damaging […]

Unplanned outage: SA faces ‘de facto’ blackout

Read More Jo’burg at night: In the unlikely event of a total grid collapse, the economy would be brought to an unprecedented standstill Eskom’s plan to revive the grid after a collapse has come under increased scrutiny, raising the question of what the government will do in what the utility calls the unlikely event […]

Mini-budget 2022: chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng to unveil tax cuts as Labour calls it ‘another zigzag on path of policy failure’ – live

Read More Simon Clarke, the new levelling up secretary, has been doing interviews this morning ahead of the mini-budget. Here are some of the points he has been making. Clarke said it was “nonsense” to describe Liz Truss’s policies as trickle-down economics. He told Sky News: This whole term trickle-down is such a nonsense and […]

COVID-19 Mutation Linked to Kids With Neurological Diseases, Taiwanese Researchers Find

Read More As Taiwan experiences another wave of the Omicron COVID-19 variant, doctors report seeing a high number of children with neurological diseases, including encephalitis. According to a research report by a Taipei hospital, the surge in encephalitis cases appears to be correlated with an Omicron subvariant mutation. The study by Tri-Service General Hospital in […]

Khmer Rouge Tribunal Ends Work After 16 Years, 3 Judgments

Read More PHNOM PENH, Cambodia—The international court convened in Cambodia to judge the Khmer Rouge for its brutal 1970s rule ended its work Thursday after spending $337 million and 16 years to convict just three men of crimes after the regime caused the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million people. In its final session, the […]