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  • Insurers could face losses of up to $4 billion after Baltimore bridge tragedy-analyst

    03/28/2024 8:20:16 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 31 replies
    Finance.yahoo.com ^ | March 27, 2024 at 1:07 PM CDT | Sinead Cruise, Jonathan Saul and Carolyn Cohn
    LONDON (Reuters) -Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse could cost insurers billions of dollars in claims, analysts say, with one putting it at as much as $4 billion, which would make the tragedy a record shipping insurance loss. Six people are still missing after a collision with a Singapore-flagged container ship destroyed the landmark bridge on Tuesday, forcing the closure of one of the busiest U.S. ports. With little clarity on when the Port of Baltimore would re-open, insurers and analysts are now assessing the likely losses borne by underwriters across several product lines including property, cargo, marine, liability, trade...
  • Traitor Brits fighting for PUTIN in Ukraine branded ‘an absolute disgrace’ amid calls for them to be jailed

    03/27/2024 3:27:39 PM PDT · by RandFan · 36 replies
    The Sun ^ | March 27 | Ellie Doughty,
    TWO traitorous Brits have been branded an "absolute disgrace" for proudly fighting against Ukraine for Vladimir Putin's brutal army. A former British Army Colonel has demanded the pair be jailed - and they could face prison time if they ever return to the UK. Ben Stimson, 48, from Oldham, has shared videos online from the grim frontline where Ukrainian soldiers are giving up their lives to rid their country of Russian invaders. Brazenly flaunting his Russian military gear in one clip, Stimson waves around the Kremlin's flag and gloats: "Yes, yes, I'm back in Russia. I'm back in uniform." He...
  • Why Progressives Hate Beauty-The dark design behind a Cambridge museum overhaul.

    03/26/2024 6:37:50 AM PDT · by SJackson · 15 replies
    Frontpagemagazine ^ | March 26, 2024 | Mark Tapson
    When you observe renowned landscape artist John Constable’s bucolic painting “Hampstead Heath” above, what feelings does it inspire? Calm? Nostalgia? Spiritual uplift? A surge of white supremacist pride and jingoistic fervor?For some reason – my guess is a toxic mix of colonialist guilt, multiculturalist self-loathing, and pressure from neo-Marxist donors and administrators determined to “deconstruct” Western civilization – England’s Fitzwilliam Museum, owned by the University of Cambridge, recently overhauled its collections with new signage warning sensitive visitors that landscape paintings of the British countryside can evoke dark “nationalist feelings.”Paintings at the Fitzwilliam have been reshuffled into new categories that are...
  • SWIFT planning launch of new central bank digital currency platform in 12-24 months

    03/25/2024 9:15:49 PM PDT · by george76 · 25 replies
    Reuters ^ | March 25, 2024 | Marc Jones
    Global bank messaging network SWIFT is planning a new platform in the next one to two years to connect the wave of central bank digital currencies now in development to the existing finance system.. The move, which would be one of the most significant yet for the nascent CBDC ecosystem given SWIFT's key role in global banking, is likely to be fine-tuned to when the first major ones are launched. 90% of the world's central banks are now exploring digital versions of their currencies. Most don't want to be left behind by bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, but are grappling with...
  • Fans call for boycott of James Bond movie because of Jewish actor

    03/25/2024 4:48:53 PM PDT · by Eleutheria5 · 79 replies
    Arutz Sheva ^ | 25/3/24
    Fans of the James Bond films have threatened to boycott the next movie if Jewish actor Aaron Taylor-Johnson is named to the role. According to reports, antisemites have shared the hashtag #BoycottJamesBond on social media in light of reports that the British actor, 33, has all but signed a deal to assume the role of Bond. The hashtag #BoycottJamesBond has also been widely shared on X, formerly known as Twitter. Comments posted to social media include: “Really bad timing with Israel committing genocide in Gaza. Shame on you. I hope your company collapses”; “Boycott Bond, Free Palestine”; and “I won’t...
  • President Trump's War Hero Uncle

    03/25/2024 2:00:15 PM PDT · by LeoWindhorse · 11 replies
    Mark Felton YouTube ^ | 3/25/24 | Mark Felton
    President Trump's War Hero Uncle
  • ANALYSIS: Cashless Transition Steamrolls Ahead After Major Bank Closes All Branches. ( Australia )

    03/24/2024 5:44:54 PM PDT · by george76 · 21 replies
    Epoch Times ^ | 3/12/2024 | Rex Widerstrom
    Australians made $746 million in digital payments in 2018—that number soared to $93 billion in 2022.. A new all-in-one mobile app will offer what its developers claim is Australia’s first end-to-end digital banking platform for the country’s 2.4 million businesses with fewer than 10 employees. The announcement comes a day after Bankwest announced that it is closing 45 of its branches and transitioning the remaining 15 to Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) branches, going digital-only by October 2024. Bankwest is a subsidiary of the Commonwealth Bank, which trades on the Australian Stock Exchange. ... The new app, called Business+, was...
  • George Galloway damned by MPs as ‘stain on democracy’ for ‘lurid untruths’ about Princess of Wales

    03/23/2024 11:42:01 PM PDT · by RandFan · 37 replies
    Telegraph ^ | Marh 23 | Story by Will Hazell
    George Galloway has been condemned by MPs as a “stain on British democracy” for spreading conspiracy theories about the Princess of Wales, including speculating that she was “dead”. The recently re-elected MP was branded “the lowest of the low” for “platforming untruths” about the Princess. Mr Galloway made a return to Parliament at the beginning of this month after winning the Rochdale by-election as a candidate for his Workers Party of Britain. In recent weeks he has voiced conspiracy theories about the Princess on X, formerly known as Twitter, and on his online chat show, The Mother of All Talk...
  • Kate, Princess of Wales, reveals she is having treatment for cancer

    03/22/2024 11:10:35 AM PDT · by nikos1121 · 162 replies
    Sky News ^ | 3/22/2024
    Kate, Princess of Wales, has revealed she has been diagnosed with cancer and is undergoing preventative chemotherapy. In a personal message, the 42-year-old said planned abdominal surgery in January was successful and it was initially thought her condition was non-cancerous. But tests after the operation found cancer had been present, she said, adding: "This of course came as a huge shock, and William and I have been doing everything we can to process and manage this privately for the sake of our young family."
  • London Most Antisemitic Capital in West as Islamists and Hard Left Join Forces, Warns Israel

    03/21/2024 4:36:55 PM PDT · by conservative98 · 23 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 21 Mar 2024 | OLIVER JJ LANE
    Antisemitism in European cities is reaching 1930s levels and London is the worst of them all, an Israeli government minister says, warning of mass migration, radicalisation, and the hard left coming together and “serious consequences” for inaction. The growth of antisemitism in Britain is “terrifying”, says Israeli government figure Amichai Chikli, who warns freedom of speech is being extinguished in the old “beacon of light and democracy”. “Wokeism”-infected London is now the “most antisemitic place in the West”, the Diaspora and Antisemitism Minister said, counselling the United Kingdom and other Western nations to take another look at their open borders...
  • Excessive free speech is a breeding ground for more Trumps

    03/21/2024 7:46:10 AM PDT · by packagingguy · 81 replies
    The Globe and Mail ^ | March 21, 2024 | LAWRENCE MARTIN
    There was a bit of good news about the future of public discourse this week. The United States Supreme Court, even though stacked with right-wingers, sounded like it was ready to give the Biden administration the go-ahead to try to persuade social-media platforms not to put out content promoting nonsense about the presidential election, conspiracy theories about the pandemic and other assorted bilge and crackpottery... When other communications revolutions like the printing press, radio, and television came along, they were still largely controlled by the elites. But when the internet came along, regulatory bodies like Canada’s CRTC backed off. It...
  • Expert who led the inquiry into UK Child sex abuse says children are at risk from crime gangs

    03/20/2024 9:38:34 PM PDT · by RandFan · 10 replies
    BBC ^ | March 20 | BBC
    Tens of thousands of children are at risk of being groomed and coerced into crime by organised gangs, according to a leading child-protection expert. Prof Alexis Jay, who revealed the extent of sexual exploitation in Rotherham, told BBC News there was an "urgent and preventable crisis". She said there was no national plan to deal with criminal exploitation of children, calling for new legislation. The Home Office said it was investing up to £5m, to support victims. Prof Jay, who previously chaired the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, took evidence from 70 people and organisations as part of her...
  • UK IRS drops decision to close self-assessment helpline

    03/20/2024 8:25:42 AM PDT · by RandFan
    BBC ^ | March 20 | BBC
    HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has reversed a decision to close its self-assessment telephone helpline for half of the year. The tax authority announced on Tuesday that the line would be closed between April and September, with taxpayers directed to online services instead. But less than a day later it said the phone line would stay open this summer. "The pace of this change needs to match the public appetite for managing their tax affairs online," its boss said. HMRC chief executive Jim Harra said: "We've listened to the feedback and we're halting the helpline changes as we recognise more...
  • Conservative broadcaster GB News warned by government agency for having bias 'without exceptional justification'

    03/20/2024 7:37:49 AM PDT · by Twotone · 13 replies
    The Blaze ^ | March 19, 2024 | Andrew Chapados
    A conservative broadcaster in the United Kingdom received an official government warning for not being impartial and having politicians appear on the network without on-screen opposition. GB News was warned by the Office of Communications that some of their news shows were not unbiased enough. After an investigation that began in the summer of 2023, GB News was found to have violated Ofcom's regulatory guidelines surrounding impartiality in a total of five broadcasts. Two episodes of "Jacob Rees-Mogg’s State of the Nation," two episodes of "Friday Morning with Esther and Phil," and one episode of "Saturday Morning with Esther and...
  • JK Rowling vows to defy Scotland's 'ludicrous' new hate crime laws and refuses to delete posts calling trans TV presenter 'just a man'

    03/19/2024 1:28:15 PM PDT · by Twotone · 28 replies
    MSN.com ^ | March 18, 2024 | Krissy Storrar
    JK Rowling has called Scotland's new hate crime laws 'ludicrous', as she vowed not to delete social media posts describing a transgender TV presenter as 'just a man'. The Harry Potter author was cleared of any wrongdoing by police in England earlier this month over an online post about broadcaster India Willoughby, who complained she had been 'misgendered'. But Ms Rowling has now been targeted by activists who claim she could be prosecuted under the controversial new Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act, due to be introduced on April 1. The 58-year-old wrote on X that she would not...
  • London Museum Showcases ‘Contemporary Villains’: Hitler, Bin Laden, And … Margaret Thatcher?

    03/19/2024 1:10:02 PM PDT · by Twotone · 12 replies
    The Daily Wire ^ | March 18, 2024 | Virginia Kruta
    London’s Victoria & Albert Museum took some serious backlash over the weekend after it was reported that an exhibit on British humor had included the late Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher alongside Osama bin Laden and Adolf Hitler in a short list of “contemporary villains.” The exhibit, which was meant to show how British humor had evolved over time, showcased Victorian “Punch & Judy” puppets along with a caption that included the following: Over the years, the evil character in this seaside puppet show has shifted from the Devil to unpopular public figures including Adolf Hitler, Margaret Thatcher and Osama bin...
  • Museum warns that paintings of the British countryside can evoke 'dark nationalist' feelings

    03/19/2024 1:05:44 PM PDT · by Twotone · 14 replies
    The Blaze ^ | March 18, 2024 | Joseph Mackinnon
    A British museum owned by the University of Cambridge recently tried to shake things up, moving around its displays and providing new signage. In an apparent spasm of self-awareness, the director of the Fitzwilliam Museum denied that his new "inclusive and representative galleries" were "woke." This denial, of course, prompted greater scrutiny. It turns out the university's 208-year-old collection has been reshuffled and augmented in the service of a leftist agenda — one that seeks to repurpose art as propaganda and takes issue with too great a historical appreciation for the country that was England. Luke Syson, the director of...
  • British museum brackets former PM Margaret Thatcher as a 'villain' alongside Hitler and bin Laden

    03/19/2024 9:17:29 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 20 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 03/19/24 | Rajan Laad
    Recently, London’s Victoria and Albert Museum sparked controversy over an exhibit that places former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the same light as Adolf Hitler and Osama bin Laden This display is part of an exhibition called Laughing Matters: The State of the Empire, which looks at the role of humor relating to ‘identity, empire, and power over the last two hundred years.’ The exhibit attempted to depict how villains in the Punch and Judy caricatures have evolved over the last century. Punch and Judy is a British puppet show about a couple whose name features in the title. The...
  • Barack Obama Calls at Downing Street for Mystery Meeting

    03/18/2024 10:43:31 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 57 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 03/18/2024 | OLIVER JJ LANE
    Former U.S. President Barack Obama called in at the British Prime Minister’s official residence on Monday, but the office is keeping tight-lipped about the purpose of the one-hour meeting. Barack Obama surprised when he turned up at Rishi Sunak’s front door on Monday, going inside the historic Downing Street residence for an hour and meeting with the Prime Minister. Former President Obama walked up to the famous black door alone but later emerged alongside the U.S. Ambassador to London Jane Hartley. Former US President Barack Obama has arrived at 10 Downing Street for a private meeting. pic.twitter.com/l9hZEHyYvp — Harry Stedman...
  • Just In: Barack Obama Caught on Video Entering Home of UK Prime Minister—Why?

    03/18/2024 11:19:30 AM PDT · by bitt · 67 replies
    gatewaypundit.com ^ | 3/18/2024 | Patty McMurray
    The answer is becoming increasingly clear for anyone wondering how Joe Biden is performing his daily duties as “President of the United States.” It appears as though surrogates who were previously working behind the curtain are coming out of hiding, possibly to assure Democrats that despite Joe Biden’s obvious mental limitations, the old guard, anti-American radicals who’ve been running the party for almost two decades, are still in control. Only moments ago, former President Barack Obama was captured on video walking up to the official residence of Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak at 10 Downing Street in London. BREAKING: Barack...