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US businessman is wannabe ‘warlord’ of secretive far-right men’s network
Revealed: Charles Haywood, creator of the Society for American Civic Renewal, has said he might serve as ‘warlord’ at the head of an ‘armed patronage network’Jason WilsonTue 22 Aug 2023 11.00 BSTShareThe founder and sponsor of a far-right network of secretive, men-only, invitation-only fraternal lodges in the US is a former industrialist who has frequently…
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Lewis Hamilton says F1 hard to trust with no accountability in the sport – BBC Sport
Lewis Hamilton says there is “no transparency and no accountability” in Formula 1 as the sport continues to be rocked by off-track wrangles.The seven-time champion appeared to conflate controversies involving governing body the FIA and the behaviour of Red Bull team principal Christian Horner.Speaking before this weekend’s Australian Grand Prix, Hamilton said: “With the FIA,…
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Does a university undergraduate degree lead to a ‘good job?’ It depends what you mean
Universities are central to Canada’s economic growth.As a result, governments (which partially fund them), employers (who hire graduates) and students (who pay tuition fees) have come to view universities as a tool to achieve their own goals: economic growth, a productive workforce and good jobs after graduation.Yet, the increasing focus on training undergraduates for specific…
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International Democratic Union
Harper, Mike Roman, Sheer, O’Toole and Poilievre have one major thing in common: they are all members of the International Democratic Union (IDU). This organization is an international alliance of far-right political parties that works to destroy democracy around the world. It was founded in 1983 by a group of conservative leaders from Europe and…
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Chattering classes
SIR ISAIAH BERLIN, a Latvian-born Oxford philosopher who died in 1997, may well have ranked among the greatest conversationalists who ever lived. According to Robert Darnton, a Princeton historian, Berlin’s friends would “watch him as if he were a trapeze artist, soaring through every imaginable subject, spinning, flipping, hanging by his heels and without a…
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Democracy Is Under Siege Globally. Canada Being Tested | The Tyee – A must read
If the polls hold, Pierre Poilievre will be our prime minister and Donald Trump will be ruling the United States, which — according to the Orange One’s own words — will no longer be a democracy. Trump will act as a dictator on “Day 1,” he’s declared on Fox News. According to the world’s most…
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Revealed: rightwinger Leonard Leo linked to efforts to keep Trump on ballot | US supreme court | The Guardian
The man behind the conservative effort to move the judiciary to the right has ties to many of the groups and people arguing that Donald Trump should stay on the ballot in a case heard before the US supreme court this week.Leonard Leo’s advocacy and financial network played a major role in Trump’s judicial nominations…
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A Potentially Huge Supreme Court Case Has a Hidden Conservative Backer – Koch
The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments on Wednesday that, on paper, are about a group of commercial fishermen who oppose a government fee that they consider unreasonable. But the lawyers who have helped to propel their case to the nation’s highest court have a far more powerful backer: the petrochemicals billionaire Charles Koch.The…
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Inside North Korea’s Forced-Labor Program in China | The New Yorker
IN FEBRUARY OF LAST YEAR, Donggang Jinhui Foodstuff, a seafood-processing company in Dandong, China, threw a party. It had been a successful year: a new plant had opened, and the company had doubled the amount of squid that it exported to the United States. The party, according to videos posted on Douyin, the Chinese version…
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The 7 Best Brunello di Montalcino Wines to Buy Now in 2023
Considered the finest expression of the Sangiovese grape, Brunello di Montalcino is the standard bearer for the Tuscan variety. The vineyards surrounding the beautiful hilltop village of Montalcino received DOC status in 1968, and in 1980 Brunello di Montalcino was upgraded to become Italy’s first DOCG wine region. Signifying “controlled and guaranteed name of origin,”…