Giorno: 22 Aprile 2023

Tories consider controversial plan to politicise civil service after Raab scandal

Read More Radical plans to bring in more “politicisation” of Whitehall by allowing ministers greater powers to appoint their own civil servants – including some with overt political affiliations – are being considered by the government’s own adviser on the civil service. Writing in today’s Observer, the Conservative peer and former Cabinet Office minister Francis […]

Canadian government workers go on strike, list Indigenous paid leave, anti-racism initiatives among demands

More than 155,000 Canadian public sector workers went on strike Wednesday at midnight after failed negotiations with the country’s federal government for better pay and an expansion of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs. The Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC), a labor union that represents more than 230,000 workers in every Canadian province and […]

Reading desperation in Tehran: Gold is the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ best friend

Emmanuel Razavi calls the Islamic Republic of Iran a “narco state” for the smuggling he says its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) carries out to finance terrorist activities abroad, and to enrich its members and friends in the elite. According to Razavi, a writer specializing in the Middle East who recently did an investigation for […]

WW II ship that sank with over 1K Allied POWs found in ‘extraordinary’ discovery

Ocean explorers announced Saturday that they have discovered the remains of a Japanese World War II vessel that sank with over 1,000 Allied POWs on board. The Montevideo Maru was a Japanese war ship that was fired upon by the American submarine USS Sturgeon and sank near the Philippines in 1942. At the time of […]

ISIS using Afghanistan as staging ground for terror plots after US withdrawal: report

Not even two years have passed since President Biden’s fumbled military withdrawal from Afghanistan, and already Islamic State terrorists are using the country to plot attacks across Europe and Asia. Islamic State Khorasan Province is also conducting “aspirational plotting” against the United States, according to leaked Pentagon documents reported by The Washington Post. The leaked […]

Mexico migrant camp tents set ablaze across Texas border

Around two dozen makeshift tents at a camp holding migrants from Mexico and Central America across the Texas border were set ablaze this week. The sprawling camp in Matamoros – near Brownsville, Texas – currently holds around 2,000 people, most of whom are from Venezuela, Haiti, and Mexico. More than two dozen rudimentary shelters made […]

Bud Light Exec Takes Leave After Boycott Calls

The marketing executive who oversaw a partnership between Bud Light and a transgender influencer is taking a leave of absence after it snowballed into cries for boycotts from some angry customers, according to media reports.

DeSantis Seeks Federal Aid for Fort Lauderdale Flood Victims

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Saturday that he will ask the Biden administration to declare Broward County a disaster area due to flooding earlier this month after record rainfall.

Leaked Pentagon Docs: Afghanistan Terrorist ‘Aspirations’ Reconstituting

The Pentagon is warning about the reconstitution of terrorist aspirations in Afghanistan less than two years after President Joe Biden’s unconditional withdrawal from Afghanistan, a Discord leaked has revealed.

Biden admin preparing major crackdown on power plants that fuel nation’s grid

The Biden administration is reportedly finalizing a proposal that would force fossil fuel-fired power plants to substantially curb emissions or utilize costly carbon capture technology. The proposal — which will soon be released by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) — is expected to require coal- and natural gas-fired power plants to cut or capture the […]