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Brits "revolt". Labour promises of redressing pensioners' grievances, and have done bugger all. Pensioners short changed, on top of winter fuel allowance short change, illegals get lots of bennies. Ukraine gets cash, too. Terrorist orgs get money, too. Labour misdirects and obfuscates. Granny is freezing. Pensioners are taking to the streets. Transcript linked below video.

Hong Kong’s embattled government was working to defuse the crisis over its controversial extradition bill with a possible pause for further discussion, sources told the South China Morning Post on Friday, with the clock ticking towards another showdown with protesters planning a mass rally on Sunday. Several heavyweight advisers to the city’s leader suggested there was no need for Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor to meet a self-imposed July deadline to have the bill passed. But divisions emerged within the Executive Council, with others suggesting she should stick to her guns and continue to fast-track it through the legislature....

NKorean women demonstrate against crackdown: aid group Wed Mar 26, 4:01 AM ET Thousands of North Korean women staged a rare street protest early this month against a government crackdown on illegal market vendors, an aid group said Wednesday, amid worsening food shortages. The protest was reported on March 4 in Chongjin, a port city in the northeastern province of North Hamgyong, said the South Korean group Good Friends, which works in North Korea. More than 10,000 women rallied in several markets in the city, demanding the government either resume suspended food rations or allow them to keep open their...