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Mayhem broke out at labour union organised protests in Paris against the cost of living crisis befalling the French public this week, with black bloc-clad rioters clashing with police and smashing windows. An estimated 107,000 people took to the streets of France on Tuesday in protest against the growing economic crisis born out the energy crisis surrounding the war in Ukraine, and self-inflicted economic wounds such as years of lockdown restrictions which spurred rampant inflation, and failures by the government to perform maintenance on the country’s ageing nuclear power plants.

Environmental protesters determined to force the German automotive industry to decarbonize glued themselves to the floor at the Porsche pavilion in the Autostadt museum in Wolfsburg, Germany. Then they complained there was no place to poop. “Together with 15 other members of @ScientistRebel1 I have occupied the Porsche pavillion at @Autostadt, 9 of us glued to the floor and some of us on hunger strike until our demands to decarbonise the German transport sector are met,” self-described “experimental economist” Gianluca Grimalda tweeted. “VW told us that they supported our right to protest, but they refused our request to provide us...

While the United States contends with the newly detected COVID omicron BQ.1 subvariants, another highly mutated strain of the coronavirus called XBB is tearing across Southeast Asia, where in some countries, it has caused the number of cases to double in a day. Some more sensationalist reports have called XBB a “ nightmare variant ” due to its apparent ability to evade immunity and dampen some therapies. But infectious disease experts say it is too soon to jump to such broad conclusions. “That is pretty irresponsible reporting because it’s impossible to know what all these variants mean,” said UC Berkeley...

Dr. Paul Marik, Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance(FLCCC) co-founder, said at an FLCCC conference on Oct. 15 that long COVID and injury from the COVID-19 vaccines share many overlaps in their symptoms and mechanisms. Both diseases are systemic, affecting multiple organs, and tissues and are both driven by a high load of spike protein accumulated in these organs and tissues. These spike proteins trigger inflammation, mitochondrial dysfunction, and autoimmunity. However, not everyone will experience these symptoms. Whether a person will suffer from vaccine injuries is dependent on both permanent factors and temporal factors impacted by actions and choices. Spike...

An Indianapolis police sergeant faces federal charges after shocking body cam video captured him stomping on the face of a handcuffed homeless man’s face as he lay on the ground. Sgt. Eric Huxley, 44, a 15-year veteran, has been indicted by a federal grand jury for violating the black man’s civil rights by using excessive force during the caught-on-video incident Sept. 24, 2021. Huxley, who is white, was charged with one count of deprivation of rights under color of law while using a dangerous weapon, resulting in bodily injury. The sergeant and two other officers — Sgt. Christopher Kibbey and...

The Ukrainian government on Thursday ordered restrictions on nationwide electricity use following a series of Russian missile and drone attacks that struck one-third of the country’s power plants. President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a video address on Wednesday night three energy facilities were destroyed in the last day alone. “We assume that Russian terror will be directed at energy facilities until, with the help of partners, we are able to shoot down 100% of enemy missiles and drones,” he said. “Please limit your electricity consumption.” Under the new energy-reducing program, power supply across Ukraine is restricted between 7 a.m. and...

More Russian troops have arrived in Belarus for military training, prompting anxiety in Ukraine. Some 9,000 Russian soldiers are expected to be stationed in Belarus for what is officially described as "exercises". But the troop movement -- which began on Saturday -- has prompted speculation in the West that the manoeuvres could be in preparation for a new attack on Ukraine. The last time Belarusian and Russian forces held joint exercises was in February. Many of those Russian forces went on to cross the Ukrainian border in their ill-fated push to capture Kyiv. The exercises were announced last week by...

Rep. Ted Budd (R-NC) is expanding his lead weeks out from the North Carolina U.S. Senate race, with a second poll this week showing him ahead of Democrat Cheri Beasley outside of a survey’s margin of error. A poll released on Wednesday by Trafalgar Group shows Budd with 48.4 percent support compared to Beasley’s 44.2 percent. The poll was conducted between Oct. 16 – 19 with 1081 likely general election voters, and the margin of error is ± 2.9 percent at the 95 percent confidence level.

WASHINGTON, Sunday, Oct. 19. Reports are constantly being brought to Gen. SIGEL's headquarters, by deserters and refugees, that the enemy is now rapidly evacuating Winchester. Whether true or false, these reports obtain considerable credit here in official circles. A reconnoissanee is being made to ascertain the facts. A rebel cavalry force was at Catlett's Station on Saturday. WASHINGTON, Sunday, Oct. 18. The Star says that circumstances conspire to induce the general impression among military men here, that the rebels in Gen. MCCLELLAN's front will soon fight. He is evidently crowding them more and more, and they have not evinced a...

A man from Pennsylvania was indicted by a federal grand jury on Wednesday for allegedly mailing a letter with death threats containing an unknown white powder to President Joe Biden and Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS). Robert Maverick Vargo, 25, was indicted on multiple charges including threatening the president of the United States and interstate communications with a threat, the Justice Department said. The letter was received by the Rayburn House Office Building, one of the three House of Representatives office buildings, on October 11, which led to a shelter-in-place order for the building, according to the Washington Examiner. “I'm going...

Yes, there is a day for everything, and I hate it. With a passion. With a burning hot solar flare of a passion. I was happily unaware that today was International Pronoun Day until Twitter destroyed my blissful ignorance by informing me, via this Tweet:

Republican Senate challenger Adam Laxalt has a one-point lead over Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) among likely voters in Nevada’s Senate race, a Thursday CBS poll found. Laxalt’s one-point lead is within the margin of error. Yet Laxalt has led the race in seven of the last eight polls with an average lead of nearly two points. Cortez Masto has outspent Laxalt by about $9 million, according to third quarter fundraising totals.

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With an estimated surface area of over 600,000 square miles, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) is the largest plastic accumulation zone in the world.Located halfway between Hawaii and California, the GPGP is estimated to contain a whopping 2.41 million tonnes of plastic – and is continuing to grow.

Whoopi Goldberg has blasted Meghan Markle for 'making other women feel bad' after the royal claimed her time as a 'briefcase girl' on Deal or No Deal made her feel like a bimbo. Goldberg - famed for her liberal views - delivered the hammer-blow on Wednesday's episode of The View, saying: 'My point is, if you see it and that's how you feel, just maybe you don't want to make the other women feel bad because maybe they're not -- you know, maybe they're trying to make a living too.' She continued: 'The objectification might be coming from you and...

Most people don't read the fine print. Fortunately, in the case of PayPal's new terms of service, somebody did. The online financial transfer company attempted to slip past its users terms that would have allowed it to fine them as much as $2,500 for "the sending, posting, or publication of any messages, content, or materials” which “promote misinformation.” Although this would have supposedly been limited to conduct in the use of its own app, it never seems to work this way on other social media platforms. Patreon, for example, is notorious for imposing its woke morality on content creators who...

Secretary of State Antony Blinken in an interview said Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recent declaration of martial law in annexed regions of Ukraine “speaks to his desperation” in his faltering war. “I think it’s another sign of Putin’s desperation,” Blinken told “Good Morning America” in an interview set to air on Thursday. “Just in the last few weeks, he’s tried to mobilize more forces. He’s gone through with this sham annexation of Ukrainian territory,” Blinken said. “Now, in saying he’s declared martial law in places that he claims have people that somehow want to be part of Russia, that speaks...

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So of course, when Vice President Kamala Harris was asked at an event this week to explain her favorite parts of the Inflation Reduction Act, she faltered. "S- I mean, so much, so m- I- one of the things that I'm very excited about is what we have been doing in terms of electric vehicles," Harris decided was her favorite part of the *Inflation* Reduction Act. "And I have a particular fondness, I must tell you, for electric school buses," she gushed. "I love electric school buses," she added to a smattering of applause from the audience. "I really do....

VIDEOCongresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently encountered a rowdy townhall in which she was surprised that many in the crowd did NOT worship her. The lights went off overhead and when they came back on, AOC tried to quiet the crowd down with a highly fake accented "LISTEN! LISTEN! OKAY, LISTEN!" When I heard that I thought it had musical possibilities and this is the result.