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2022-11-05 at 12:10 AM UTC in China’s Xi warns Putin not to use nuclear arms in Ukrainehttps://www.politico.eu/article/china-xi-jinping-warns-vladimir-putin-not-to-use-nuclear-arms-in-ukraine-olaf-scholz-germany-peace-talks/
…The international community, said Xi, should “jointly oppose the use of, or threats to use, nuclear weapons,” according to a statement carried by Xinhua, China’s state news agency. The world should also “advocate that nuclear weapons cannot be used, a nuclear war cannot be waged, in order to prevent a nuclear crisis” in Europe or Asia, Xi added…
…“We cannot afford any further escalation,”… -
2022-11-05 at 12:06 AM UTC in Fetterman says he's "proud" to campaign with "100% sedition-free" presidents, Biden and Obamahttps://www.cbsnews.com/news/fetterman-campaign-biden-obama/
…"I'm proud to be on the stage of two presidents that both won Pennsylvania. They are 100% sedition-free and they reject extremism," Fetterman told Costa….
"We can all disagree on political issues, but we cannot ever employ the kind of rhetoric that turns up the heat that might induce violence," he said. "And we just need to remember that democracy at the core is part of the promise of America where, you know, there are going to be some elections that you might like the outcome, you may dislike the outcome, but you stand and you accept that, as well. We don't talk about how there's fraud or we don't keep using stronger and stronger kinds of language that incite more violence." -
2022-11-05 at 12:04 AM UTC in South Dakota Senate candidate Joel Koskan accused of grooming, raping child family memberhttps://nypost.com/2022/11/04/south-dakota-senate-candidate-joel-koskan-charged-with-felony-child-abuse/
A Republican running for South Dakota state Senate was charged with felony child abuse Thursday for allegedly grooming and raping a young family member for years, according to local reports.
Joel Koskan, a third-time candidate for the state Senate, allegedly groomed and abused the young girl for at least six years starting in 2014, court documents obtained by the Mitchell Republic revealed.
Koskan, 44, could also face counts of rape, sexual contact with a child under the age of 16 and aggravated incest-related child, according to a probable cause statement the outlet cited. -
2022-11-05 at 12 AM UTC in Our economic crisis isn’t inflation, it’s corporate greed and the GOP will only make that worsehttps://www.foxnews.com/opinion/our-economic-crisis-isnt-inflation-its-corporate-greed-gop-will-only-make-that-worse
…Yes. During this political season it is easy to blame President Joe Biden and Democrats for inflation. But that’s just not accurate.
Let’s be clear. Inflation is not unique to America. It is an international crisis. In the European Union, inflation is nearly 11%. In Germany, it is 11.6%. In the United Kingdom it is 10.1%. In Ireland, it’s 9.6%. In America, it’s 8.2%, much too high, but lower than it is throughout much of Europe.
The truth is that inflation is, to a significant extent, caused by the ongoing global pandemic, the break in international supply chains and the horrific war in Ukraine. But there is another major reason for inflation that too few people talk about. And that is the unprecedented level of corporate greed that we are now seeing.
According to a recent study, nearly 54% of the rise in inflation is directly attributable to the astronomical increase in corporate profit margins. In America today, while the working class struggles to put food on the table, fill up their gas tanks and heat their homes, corporate profits are at a 70-year-high.
If you want to know why you are paying $4, $5, $6 for a gallon of gas, you should know that the profits of ExxonMobil, Chevron, BP and Shell skyrocketed by 169% so far this year to $125 billion. These four huge oil companies are spending over $73 billion not to reduce gas prices at the pump but to buy back their own stock and increase dividends to their wealthy stockholders.
If you are wondering why you are paying 43% more for an airline ticket this year, you should know that profits are up 186% at American Airlines and 99% at United Airlines in the third quarter to nearly $1.5 billion. Yes. These are the same companies that received taxpayer assistance of more than $20 billion during the pandemic while cutting 6,400 jobs.
If you are wondering why global food prices skyrocketed by over 33% last year and are expected to go up another 23% this year, you should know that billionaires in the global food and agri-business industry became $382 billion richer during the pandemic.
If you are wondering why we continue to pay, by far, the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs, you should know that Pfizer has increased its profits by 42% so far this year to $26.4 billion. -
2022-11-04 at 11:58 PM UTC in Supreme Court again declines to block Biden’s student loan relief planhttps://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/04/supreme-court-again-declines-to-block-bidens-student-loan-relief-plan.html
The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a second request to block the Biden administration’s student loan debt relief program.
Justice Amy Coney Barrett denied an emergency application to block the program brought Tuesday by the Pacific Legal Foundation, a conservative legal group, on behalf of two borrowers in Indiana.
On Oct. 20, Barrett rejected a similar request from the Brown County Taxpayers Association in Wisconsin.
Barrett is responsible for such applications issued from cases in the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which includes Indiana and Wisconsin.