"He was at FVI before but got transferred back to Kent because he got caught having sexual relations with female inmates."
"As TTIP has not been ratified, the EU trades with the United States under WTO terms, modified by such bilateral agreements. There are in fact 147 agreements listed on the EU Treaties database as being in force between the USA and the EU."
A single locust swarm in Kenya measured 2,400 sq km!
82 Iranians and 62 Canadians are among the dead.
According to the geological record, the last time the poles switched was ~780,000 years ago, and it has happened about 400 times in 330 million years. Each reversal takes roughly a thousand years to complete. The field has weakened about 10% in the last 150 years. Some scientists think this is a sign of a flip in progress.
“I didn’t say anything derogatory,” he told LifeSite. “I basically said, ‘God loves you, God’s calling you, there’s hope for you’. I got arrested on allegations of hate speech, but there was clearly no hate speech. And so they came up with this bogus charge of disturbing the peace.”
Freeland’s role in Canada has never had much to do with Canada, as much as it has with Canada’s role as a geopolitical chess piece in a turbulent and changing world and her current role as Deputy Prime Minister as well as Minister for Intergovernmental Affairs can only be understood in those global terms.
People could literally be arrested by Sidewalk Lab's police and and sentenced by their judges. Sidewalk Lab's police could use "unique data identifiers" to track anyone they want.
Carney was joined by former Bank of England Governor Mervyn King who recently warned that a “financial Armageddon” is looming unless central banks are permitted to unleash unbounded quantitative easing once more.
The Northern Vision called for building vast roads and resource development complexes across the Arctic along with rail links to Alaska.
The EU is a graveyard of low growth.
Other traditionally deeply Christian nations like Spain, Portugal, Italy and Ireland need to jump on board too and follow Hungary’s bold lead. The parties that still –laughingly – dare to call themselves Christian Democrats in the European parliaments need to throw their cowardly and contemptible “me-too” open borders liberalism and cultural appeasement overboard at long last too.
Today, the U.S. dollar is the world’s most powerful reserve currency, making up over 61% of foreign reserves. The dollar gets an extensive network effect from its use abroad, and this translates into several advantages for the multi-trillion dollar U.S. economy.
If you’ve ever flown cross-country in a window seat, chances are, the bright lights at night have caught your eye. From above, the world tells its own story—as concentrated pockets of bright light keep the world’s economy thriving. Today’s visualization relies on data compiled by CityLab researchers to identify the world’s largest megaregions. The team defines megaregions as: Areas of continuous light, based on the latest night satellite imagery Capturing metro areas or networks of metro areas, with a combined population of 5 million or higher Generating economic output (GDP) of over $300 billion, on a PPP basis The satellite imagery comes…
Normal service will be disrupted by people panicking about Brexit. In some cases possibly even also by people deliberately disrupting Brexit. It is the ‘imminent hurricane’ effect.
In 1970, there were about 10 billion birds in North America. Now, there are about 7 billion.
If ocean temperatures rise high enough, millions of fish will perish, and that will put even more stress on our increasingly strained global food supply.
On 5 June 2019, in a speech in Portsmouth, HM the Queen led the British commemoration of D-Day. She recalled the "hundreds of thousands of young soldiers, sailors and airmen left these shores in the cause of freedom. In a broadcast to the nation at that time, my Father, King George VI, said: “…what is demanded from us all is something more than courage and endurance; we need a revival of spirit, a new unconquerable resolve...” That is exactly what those brave men brought to the battle, as the fate of the world depended on their success." "Many of them…