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@ZiaYusufUK Let me introduce you to 'UzMania Grill, Dessert and Shisha' in Derby. The business was founded in 2021. They sell pizzas, kebabs, wings, and wraps. They hold a certificate to sponsor 'Skilled Worker' visas. In 2023 it was assigned SEVENTY SIX Certificates of Sponsorship. In just a single year. Countless similar businesses – barbers, fast-food shops, and dessert parlours – also held certificates to sponsor so-called skilled workers. Is slicing shawarma what comes to mind when you think of high-skilled labour? The Tories told us they were bringing in the “brightest and best” to fill skills shortages. And make...

Perhaps the biggest obstacle to data centers seems to be water use. I just saw this: "One of the most common questions we get about AI data centers is how much water do they use? Fair question. Older designs cooled servers by evaporating water and people naturally assume ours do too. They don't. IREN's sites are different. Direct-to-chip liquid cooling in a closed loop. Same idea as a car radiator or a fridge. Fill it once and the water just goes round and round.Over the life of a 200MW site, the initial fill plus every top-up averages out to about...

Weeks after the Obama Presidential Center’s star-studded opening in Chicago, a subcontractor who previously claimed his company was stiffed for nearly $4 million has shut down operations and laid off 25 union workers. Mike Owen, the owner of Chicago-based Adamson Plumbing Contractors, told Fox News Digital that the financial fallout forced the company to abandon about half a dozen other construction jobs and left it on the verge of collapse. Owen described the shutdown as a painful decision he believed was necessary to save the company from bankruptcy. "Laying off close to 30 people is something that no owner in...

The United States and the United Kingdom are under attack from within. Consider a small sampling of recent stories that the corporate news media have mostly ignored: Communist commentator Hasan Piker — an America-hating, Muslim anchor baby who grew up in Istanbul — continues to tell his followers that the United States deserved 9/11, while celebrating Antifa domestic terrorism and left-wing assassination culture. After a left-winger allegedly murdered well-known British conservative Ann Widdecombe by bashing her head with a hammer twenty-one times, an Islamic supremacy group called Palestine Action began offering “direct action” training for fellow leftists who wish to...

Tensions are rising between Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) and President Trump over the Senate GOP’s inability to pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE America) Act or emergency funding for the Pentagon at a critical moment during Trump’s second term. At a rally in Marietta, Ga., on Wednesday, Trump fumed at the Senate’s failure to advance his agenda, telling a crowd: “We’re having a hard time in the Senate. … It’s like the Senate is a place you send things when you want them to die.” Then on Thursday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters that...

Mad Max/Road Warrior spoof. Hero is black capitalist, road reavers are leftard redistributionists after his load of petrol.

Four-year-old Yuval Kogan, who had been missing since yesterday in the Hof Ashkelon area, was found after about 24 hours, healthy and unharmed. .....

There is probably a camera on a pole at the entrance to your neighborhood. You’ve probably stopped noticing it. It is small, solar-powered, unremarkable, and it photographs every car that passes: yours, your neighbor’s, your teenager’s. And it reads the license plate, logs the time, and files the record in a national database. The company that owns it is called Flock Safety. Founded in 2017, valued at $7.5 billion, it now operates in more than 5,000 communities across 49 states, and its network scans roughly 20 billion vehicles a month. Twenty billion. Each month. For perspective, there are about...

UPDATE: The jury has reached the verdict of: NOT GUILTY on the first count of misdemeanor disorderly conduct, which is the interaction with the child. GUILTY on the on the second count for the interaction with the videographer. Hendrix will also receive supervised probation, will serve 200 hours of community work service, and is also ordered to pay a $1,000 fine. SNIP

"Chris Nolan desecrated the Odyssey so that he would be eligible for an Academy Award …" said Musk Now that Nolan's film is out to rave reviews from both critics and audiences, Musk has taken to X once again to share his plans to make a more "historically accurate" version of the film. "Before this year ends, Grok Imagine will make a full-length movie of The Odyssey that is historically accurate and true to the art of Homer," said Musk in a July 21 X post. That same day, he replied "I'm down" to a tweet asking him to give...

Florida Pizza Kitchen. It doesn’t have quite the ring to it that California Pizza Kitchen does. But had the iconic chain been dreamed up in the 2020s rather than the 1980s, it would have been FPK rather than CPK, not because the California Pizza Kitchen’s co-founders moved to Florida, though one did a couple of years ago, but due to the Golden State’s corrosive business policies. Not that long ago, California was “the greatest place to do business,” Rick Rosenfield, the CPK co-founder who fled to the Sunshine State, told Fox News Digital. “If it were me today, I would...

Back in June, we called on the mainstream media to pressure Democrats into answering questions about the increasingly radical Democratic Socialists of America platform. “With the rapid takeover of their party by the Democratic Socialists of America underway,” we wrote, “it’s time for every Democrat to answer for what the DSA believes in.” (See: “10 Questions Every Democrat Must Now Be Made To Answer.”) We’re glad that one news network, at least, has taken us up on our advice. Fox News lately has been prodding prominent Democrats to answer whether they agree with planks in the DSA’s latest platform,...

Thousands of tourists have been forced to flee a top French holiday hotspot, with many evacuated by boat to escape a raging wildfire. The area of Lege-Cap Ferret in southwestern France - an upmarket tourist destination known as the French Hamptons - is in the middle of a total evacuation with thousands of hectares of forest burning and villas going up in smoke. French President Emmanuel Macron has already requested help from the European Union as the country's growing battle against wildfires intensifies. Images showed scores of residents boarding boats this morning as they evacuated the area while a French...

Since the 2020 election, the most common response to claims of election fraud—from virtually all leftists and an unfortunate number of conservatives—has been that it either doesn’t exist or that it does but it’s time to move on. However, the earth-shattering declassifications President Trump revealed to the nation on July 16, along with the left-leaning networks’ decision to refuse to air them, prove that it is not merely necessary, but obligatory to once and for all uncover and end the practice of election fraud in America and prosecute those responsible. During his 25-minute primetime address, President Trump revealed newly declassified...

We’ve all seen those awful videos where someone is being beaten, robbed, or attacked in broad daylight while the people nearby stand around filming it on their phones for clicks and engagement. More and more people are afraid to get involved, and honestly, you can’t entirely blame them. Look at what happened to Daniel Penny when he stepped in to help. The city of New York tried to destroy his life. Still, it says something terrible about the state of our society when good men are afraid to take that risk. Meanwhile, the victim is left suffering while strangers collect...

Hundreds of incoming Howard University students from across the country were blindsided just weeks before the start of school after learning they had been unenrolled over unpaid bills. Freshmen were informed this week that they had missed a July 10 payment deadline and would not be allowed to attend the upcoming fall semester at the private HBCU school in Washington, DC. ABC 7 reported. Students were set to start moving into their on-campus housing on August 3 while the Fall semester begins on August 17. Isabella Williams had her truck packed and was gearing up to take the long trip...

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Chinese ships fired water cannon at Philippine vessels, including one carrying a CNN crew, near a dangerous flashpoint in the South China Sea on Friday – the third tense confrontation this week in the contested waters. Besides rich fishing grounds in its lagoon and surrounding waters, there’s seemingly little remarkable about the shoal. But this corner of the world is a deceptively fraught geopolitical hotspot. Free access to one of the world’s most vital shipping lanes, a mutual defense treaty between the Philippines and the United States, and a steady Chinese push to solidify claims over disputed territories mean one...

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