QATAR - The Qatari royal family are pressuring Fifa for a complete ban on selling alcohol at all World Cup stadiums, just two days before the controversial tournament kicks off. The host nation - where alcohol sales are typically restricted to foreigners drinking in licenced hotels and restaurants, or non-Muslim residents with special permits in their homes - has put significant pressure on Fifa to stop selling beer at the eight World Cup stadiums.
FRANCE - The French Church is haunted and hamstrung by its latest clerical sexual abuse scandal, both by the shocking admissions of misdeeds by a cardinal and a bishop and confusion about what local Church authorities could reveal about the secrets they know, our Paris-based correspondent Tom Heneghan writes in our lead foreign news story this week.
INDONESIA - On November 15–16, 2022, the Group of Twenty (G20) met in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia, for their seventeenth annual summit, under the theme ‘Recover Together, Recover Stronger.’ The G20 is a summit of the world’s major economies. Its members are responsible for more than 80% of the world’s gross domestic product, 75% of global trade, and 60% of the world’s total population.
USA - We’re entering the final days of COP27, the UN’s annual climate summit, and it’s safe to say that this year’s edition was disappointing — to say the least. It was widely panned by climate experts and activists and drew intense criticism for being sponsored by the likes of Coca-Cola, the world's leading plastic polluter.
GERMANY - Once upon a time, the highly advanced nations of western Europe were the peak of human civilization. Sadly, that hasn’t been true for a very long time, and now major cities all over the European continent are becoming rotting, decaying hellholes. Everywhere you look, there is human degradation, but one country is worse than them all. Ironically, it is actually the European nation with the largest and strongest economy. Germany has openly embraced just about every form of evil that you can possibly imagine, but in this article I want to focus on what they are doing to young women. Legalized prostitution is practiced on an industrial scale by the Germans, and this has earned them the title “the Bordello of Europe”… It is a hard-won title. With more than 3,000 brothels across the country, and 500 in Berlin alone, its sex trade is worth more than £11 billion per year.
UK - British MI5 Director General Ken McCallum delivered a sober annual threat assessment in London Wednesday, underscoring a broad variety of national security threats from Russia's Ukraine invasion to China's growing power, Iranian instability and transnational terrorism. McCallum said in a speech that the British intelligence service MI5 is making "the biggest shifts in a generation" in dealing with complex threats posed by nation-states. "The West is in a contest in which our security, values and democratic institutions are at stake... because of the actions of authoritarian regimes, not because of the people living under those regimes."
ISRAEL - The new Netanyahu government's 64-seat majority assures it the kind of stability that the country hasn’t seen in years. That is the good news, despite the sour feelings among almost half of all Israelis over Netanyahu’s return to power. President Isaac Herzog said in his speech to the Knesset, “The citizens of Israel today are proud of their country, which this year will celebrate 75 years of independence, and they believe in the righteousness of its cause, but at the same time, to tell you the truth, they are exhausted from the internal strife and its fallout."
CHINA - Both countries recognize China has changed and that a new approach toward Beijing is required, of course, but the differences between their approaches were recently underscored by the talks their leaders had with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Chancellor Olaf Scholz flew halfway across the world, with a retinue of leading German business leaders in tow, for an 11-hour visit on Xi’s home turf. He wasn’t the first Western leader to land in Beijing since the onset of COVID-19, but he was the first to meet with the Chinese president since his total consolidation of power at the Communist Party’s Congress.
INDONESIA - WEF's Klaus Schwab gives speech to G20 on the "Need To Restructure The World". Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum find themselves waiting around for the next global crisis event after the covid pandemic turned out to be much less threatening to the public than they had originally hoped. In the meantime, Schwab continues to pontificate on the virtues of the "Great Reset" and the usefulness of crisis as a means to accomplish a "restructuring" of the current world order.
UKRAINE - Zelensky insists missile that hit Poland WAS Russian despite NATO, US and even Polish president saying it was a Ukrainian air-defence misfire – but all agree Putin to blame for nearly sparking WW3. The Ukrainian president was quoted by Interfax Ukraine news agency as saying on Wednesday he had no doubt that an explosion that killed two people in Poland was not caused by a Ukrainian missile. 'I have no doubt that it was not our missile,' he said, adding that he believed Tuesday's explosion was caused by a Russian missile, and that he had based his conclusions on reports from Ukraine's military which he 'cannot but trust'.
UKRAINE - Doubts have today been raised over whether a missile which hit Poland earlier this week really was a Ukrainian rocket gone haywire, with US and European officials calling for further investigation as President Zelensky continues to insist it was a Russian weapon. Polish President Andrzej Duda and NATO leaders yesterday played down suspicions that Moscow was behind the S-300 missile which hit the town of Przewodow on Tuesday, killing two, insisting it was 'highly probable' that it had come from Kyiv's forces – meaning the allies will not respond militarily, which could have sparked WW3.
USA - Republicans have secured the 218 seats needed for a majority in the lower chamber of Congress a week after the midterm elections, the BBC's US partner CBS News projects. While the party's margin in the House of Representatives is razor-thin, it is enough to stall President Joe Biden's agenda for the next two years. Kevin McCarthy, the Republicans' leader in the House, celebrated the result. But Democrats will retain control of the upper chamber, the Senate. The new Congress will convene in January.
USA - S&P 500 worst performance in real terms since 1872 (Worst since President Ulysses Grant!) Between Biden’s green energy mandates and the spendathon by the Pelosi/Schumer led Keynesians in Congress (or Kongress), we saw a 40-year high in inflation. But with roaring Bidenflation, we have the S&P 500 index experiencing, in real terms, the worst performance since 1872.
CANADA - Vancity, a Vancouver-based credit union is launching a program that will allow its Visa credit card holders to track the estimated carbon emissions of their purchases. The data offered will also track how their spending-linked emissions compare nationally and which purchases have the highest environmental cost.
USA - Never let a crisis go to waste. Or a market crash for that matter. With equity and bond markets stuck in brutal bear markets and providing a sufficient distraction to what is happening behind the scenes, the Fed and a group of banks have been quietly preparing for the next stage in the "organized crash" pipeline: the rollout of CBSC. According to a statement by the New York Fed, global banking giants are starting a 12-week digital dollar pilot with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the participants announced on Tuesday.
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