Exxon Profits Break All-Time Records
On Friday, Exxon posted the best quarterly income ever posted by any U.S. oil firm. Exxon’s revenue final quarter of $17.9 billion was the highest posted by any main worldwide oil firm in historical past. This quarter’s income smashed that record, totalling $19.7 billion within the third quarter of this 12 months, practically triple what […]
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Poverty Is at Emergency Levels in the US. Why Isn’t It a Midterm Election Issue?
Ours is an ever extra unequal world, even when that topic is ever much less attended to on this nation. In his ultimate e-book, The place Do We Go From Right here?, Reverend Martin Luther King wrote tellingly, “The prescription for the remedy rests with the correct analysis of the illness. A individuals who started […]
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GOP May Launch Impeachment Blitz If They Win the House
With Republicans satisfied that they’ve the midterm elections within the bag they’re hauling out their huge weapons. As I’ve mentioned before, they’ve unveiled plans to carry the debt ceiling hostage with a purpose to drive President Biden to offer tax cuts to their rich benefactors (which explains why so lots of them are pouring late […]
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DeSantis Is Using “Election Police” to Intimidate Voters With Felony Convictions
We communicate with Florida voting rights activist Desmond Meade about how Republicans like Governor Ron DeSantis try to scare previously incarcerated individuals with felony convictions from voting. DeSantis launched an election police pressure to arrest individuals on trumped-up voter fraud costs. The arrests overwhelmingly focused Black individuals and display “the state’s failure to have a […]
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Students in Tehran Protest Gender Segregation in University Dining Hall
College students at Sharif College of Expertise, the highest-ranking public technological college in Iran, lately confronted members of the college’s chapter of the pro-regime Basij militia who have been attempting to strengthen gender segregation at one of many college scholar eating halls. On October 23, feminine and male college students defied the state-mandated segregation rules […]
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Week in Review: Rishi Sunak’s political identity problem
When Rishi Sunak was first elected because the MP for safe-seat of Richmond in 2015, the political panorama was in a really totally different state. The Tories had been using excessive; David Cameron had simply been re-elected and the Brexit referendum lay forward. The then-prime minister spoke overtly of his plan to retire quietly on […]
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Playing politics with people’s livelihoods
Over the previous six weeks, we now have seen how the markets reply to political uncertainty and indecision, witnessing the hurt it causes to our financial system and our wider social material. Whereas consideration has rightly centered on the spectacular extent of u-turning and resultant chaos, we have to recognise that households on a low-income […]
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Sunak under fire for planned COP no show
New prime minister Rishi Sunak, is coming beneath political criticism following the announcement that he’ll no longer personally attend the COP27 local weather change summit in Sharma-el-Sheikh subsequent month. The COP 27 summit, which is scheduled for six to 18 November, will conflict with Chancellor’s Jeremy Hunt’s monetary assertion which has now been moved to […]
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Northern Ireland set for fresh elections
The Democratic Unionist Social gathering has failed to affix different events in forming a brand new govt in Northern Eire. Below the legislation, Northern Eire’s political events had 24 weeks following an election to type a brand new govt. That 24 week interval ended at midnight final night time. The secretary of state for Northern […]
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Conservative Policies Are Associated with Early Death, Study Finds
Working-age folks dwelling in states ruled largely with conservative insurance policies usually tend to die early than folks in states with extra left-leaning insurance policies, a brand new examine finds, corroborating observations and theories that left-wing political commentators have maintained for years. The examine, published this week in PLOS ONE, analyzed a large swath of […]
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