Along with elevated oil and natural gas prices, this has powered a series of record-breaking quarterly profits at energy companies like Exxon Mobil and Chevron. The net income of global oil and gas producers is set to double this year, to an “unprecedented” $4 trillion, the International Energy Agency said in a recent report.jfc
NET income
By Nate CohnIn state after state, the final turnout data shows that registered Republicans turned out at a higher rate — and in some places a much higher rate — than registered Democrats, including in many of the states where Republicans were dealt some of their most embarrassing losses.Trump the Loser
Instead, high-profile Republicans like Herschel Walker in Georgia or Blake Masters in Arizona lost because Republican-leaning voters decided to cast ballots for Democrats, even as they voted for Republican candidates for U.S. House or other down-ballot races in their states.
Kyrsten Sinema Says She Will Leave the Democratic PartyGet her ass out of here all together
The Arizona senator is registering as an independent, noting that she “never fit perfectly in either national party.”
By Laboured Go To PostIt's a small step but also a pretty major one.Which stock exchange am I giving my 💵 to?
By Laboured Go To PostNone. It was a government funded lab as usual.Bah, the socialist way.
By Laboured Go To PostIt's a small step but also a pretty major one.where are the Doc Ock arms?
You guys following this?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/11/qatar-alleged-bribing-eu-officials-arrests?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
https://www.dn.pt/internacional/vice-presidente-do-pe-em-prisao-preventiva-devido-a-malas-de-dinheiro-15467681.html
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/11/qatar-alleged-bribing-eu-officials-arrests?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
According to Belgium’s federal prosecutor, officers examining one of the biggest alleged corruption cases in the parliament’s recent history believe a Gulf country – identified by Belgian media as Qatar – has used bribes and gifts to try to influence decisions at the legislature.
Although the prosecutor’s office did not identify the four by name, a judicial source told Agence France-Presse that they include Eva Kaili, an MEP for the social democratic Greek Pasok party who serves as one of the parliament’s 14 vice-presidents.
https://www.dn.pt/internacional/vice-presidente-do-pe-em-prisao-preventiva-devido-a-malas-de-dinheiro-15467681.html
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European Parliament Vice-President Eva Kaili, caught red-handed on Friday with "money bags” at her home in Brussels, will be in preventive detention. The Greek socialist MEP is one of the people who is being investigated by the Belgian authorities for alleged corruption, in a scheme with links to Qatar. The investigation into Qatargate, as it is already being called, continues, with the house of Belgian MEP Marc Tarabella being the target of searches this Sunday.
In addition to the MEP, former presenter of Greek television, three other people were in preventive detention, all Italian: her companion, parliamentary advisor Francesco Giorgi; former socialist MEP Pier-Antonio Panzeri (in office between 2004 and 2019); and Niccolò Figà-Talamanca, from the NGO No Peace Without Justice. Another Italian, the president of the International Confederation of Trade Unions, Luca Vincentini, was released with coercion measures.
On Friday, Belgian police searched 16 homes in and around Brussels, seizing 600,000 euros in cash, in addition to mobile phones and computer equipment. Investigators have suspected for several months that a Gulf country may be influencing "the economic and political decisions of the European Parliament"
Kaili had recently been in Qatar, where he met with the Minister of Labor, having said that the Gulf country was a "pioneer of workers' rights"
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Michael Gove has attacked the New York Times as “useful idiots” for its podcast about the Trojan horse controversy involving Birmingham schools, and accused it of portraying the UK “as an insular backwater whose inhabitants are drowning in a tide of nostalgia, racism and bad food”.…
An entrance to Central Park will be named the Gate of the Exonerated, for the teenagers who were wrongfully convicted of a crime that triggered a national conversation on racial injustice.this is tone deaf af
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/nigeria-military-children
Bruh everything about the Nigerian military is cursed rn
Bruh everything about the Nigerian military is cursed rn
By DY_nasty Go To Posthttps://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/nigeria-military-children
Bruh everything about the Nigerian military is cursed rn
Is this as bad as your last link cause if it is I’m not clicking
By DY_nasty Go To Posthttps://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/nigeria-military-children
Bruh everything about the Nigerian military is cursed rn
Yea, there are degrees to how vile this is.
By Fenderputty Go To PostIs this as bad as your last link cause if it is I’m not clickingWorse
By Perfect Blue Go To PostHave y’all been following what’s going on in Haiti right now? InsaneNot really,
Haiti is always in a constant of crisis.
Whats happened?
By Daz Go To PostNot really,Violence and conflict getting so bad the head of government is asking foreign states to send in troops.
Haiti is always in a constant of crisis.
Whats happened?
Well, that’s a meritocracy Horse. Gotta be above average to have *checks notes* put food on the table
By JesalR Go To PostWell, that’s a meritocracy Horse. Gotta be above average to have *checks notes* put food on the tableThis, but unironically
By Laboured Go To PostHmmm, with a 67m population that's…..Where's your Sigma grind mindset?
It's basically a sunken cost for a lot of tory voters. They lost all the money at the roulette and now they have went to the cash machine to empty their accounts in an attempt to win their money back.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/dec/13/like-a-horrific-board-game-33-hours-inside-an-nhs-in-crisis
Pretty horrifying stuff. Natural endpoint of unfettered capitalism encroaching on one of the greatest things this country has ever done. Tories have absolutely gutted the NHS, safe in the knowledge that there’s people with a sense of morality who will work in these ungodly conditions because people need them.
Pretty horrifying stuff. Natural endpoint of unfettered capitalism encroaching on one of the greatest things this country has ever done. Tories have absolutely gutted the NHS, safe in the knowledge that there’s people with a sense of morality who will work in these ungodly conditions because people need them.
Ukraine getting Patriot missile defense system.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/13/politics/us-patriot-missile-defense-system-ukraine/index.html
https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/13/politics/us-patriot-missile-defense-system-ukraine/index.html
By Lunatic Go To PostUkraine going to be on Haiti slave revolution levels of debt after this war.We gonna get some cheap wheat
By Lunatic Go To PostUkraine going to be on Haiti slave revolution levels of debt after this war.😂
Whatever it was, their neighbor’s mounting resentment burst to the fore in the fall of 2017, in the form of a letter from a lawyer for their homeowner association that ordered the Crouches to rip out their native plant beds, and replace them with grass."Eyesore"
The couple were stunned. They’d lived on their quiet cul-de-sac harmoniously with their neighbors for years, and chose native plants to help insects, birds and wildlife thrive. Now the association was telling them that their plantings not only violated the bylaws, but were eyesores that hurt property values. “Your yard is not the place for such a habitat,” the letter read.
The Crouches were given 10 days to convert their front yard into a lawn that looked like everyone else’s. But instead of doing what they were told, the couple fought back, and ended up paving the way for a groundbreaking state law.
Still, native gardeners wanting to “naturescape” often face pushback from homeowner associations, whose primary interest is to protect home values by ensuring a consistent appearance across property lines. Associations can dictate everything from house paint colors to the location of driveway basketball hoops.https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/14/climate/native-plants-lawns-homeowners.html
But in Maryland, homeowner associations can no longer force residents to have lawns, thanks to the Crouches.
Fender lawst
By reilo Go To Post"Eyesore"Imagine spending a quarter to a million dollars on something to have some neighbors dictating what kind of plants you can own 😂😂
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/14/climate/native-plants-lawns-homeowners.html
Fender lawst
By blackace Go To PostImagine spending a quarter to a million dollars on something to have some neighbors dictating what kind of plants you can own 😂😂Fender fuming
By Lunatic Go To PostFender fumingFender on record saying being told what color to paint his house is thrilling to him.