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[extrovert] 19/11/2024 20:26

Retailers will put prices up whatever the news, less weight or volume the prices still rise. Greed is the name of the game and everyone joins in to rip us off.

[johnwise] 19/11/2024 16:31

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Jeremy Clarkson SCOLDS the BBC for playing 'mouthpiece' to 'INFERNAL' Labour in farmers rally speech

[johnwise] 19/11/2024 14:16

LIVE: Farmers Rise Up Against Starmer In London

[portside1] 19/11/2024 13:59

Dow down 500

[johnwise] 19/11/2024 11:03

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The tide is turning in Israel's war against Hezbollah. The IDF has launched an unprecedented series of strikes on Hezbollah’s strongholds in the heart of Beirut, targeting terror infrastructure, weapons depots, and underground tunnels. The once-mighty Hezbollah is now on the brink of collapse as Israel intensifies its operations, dismantling their capabilities one strike at a time.


IDF Takes on Hezbollah in Beirut's WORST Conflict Zone

TBN Israel

[johnwise] 19/11/2024 10:44

BREAKING NEWS Ukraine fires US-made missile into Russia: WW3 fears as Kremlin threatens 'nuclear response' if long-range Western weapons are used on its territory


Volodymyr Zelensky's forces marked the 1,000th day of war in Ukraine by carrying out their first strike on Russian territory with US-supplied long-range missiles early this morning, Ukrainian military officials declared.

A fiery explosion lit up the night sky around 77 miles from the nearest Ukrainian border at an ammunition store in Karachev, in Russia's Bryansk region.

[portside1] 19/11/2024 10:21

Read why reeves had to. Put in her notice at hbos

[johnwise] 19/11/2024 10:03

Greggs, Amazon, Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury's, Aldi warn of job losses and price increases


More than 70 businesses have written to Chancellor Rachel Reeves, warning that the national insurance changes in October's Budget mean price hikes are 'a certainty'


A coalition of Britain's top retailers, including giants like Tesco, Asda, and Sainsbury's, have sounded the alarm over job cuts and inevitable price increases following the national insurance rises outlined in October's Budget.

Over 70 businesses put their names to an open letter addressed to Chancellor Rachel Reeves, expressing their unease about the impending cost surges, with a warning that price rises are a "certainty". The letter emerged after Ms Reeves announced a £25.7bn adjustment to employers' national insurance contributions in the previous month's Budget, which not only increases the tax rate but also the threshold for payment.

[johnwise] 19/11/2024 07:46

Container News

Red Sea Shipping Disruptions to Persist Amid Rising Tensions




Suspected Attack by Yemen's Houthis Targets Ship in the Red Sea

A suspected attack by Yemen's Houthi militants targeted a commercial ship late Sunday night traveling through the southern reaches of the Red Sea, though it caused no damage nor injuries, authorities said.

The attack comes as the militants continue their monthslong assault targeting shipping through a waterway that typically sees $1 trillion in goods pass through it a year over the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza and Israel’s ground offensive in Lebanon.

[johnwise] 19/11/2024 07:37

Budget tax raid will drive UK firms out of business: Insolvency expert sounds alarm over £25bn NI hike


More companies will go bust because of the Budget, bankruptcy experts have warned.


As concern over the Chancellor’s tax raid on business showed no sign of easing, the boss of corporate restructuring specialist Begbies Traynor said the extra costs facing firms will lead to a prolonged period of ‘elevated insolvency levels’.

Ric Traynor also warned that the prospect of higher interest rates – in part due to measures unveiled by Rachel Reeves in the Budget – represents another ‘headwind’ facing private enterprise.

[johnwise] 19/11/2024 07:03

"I assumed Starmer would have learned lessons from young Dave Cameron's naivety regarding the most anti-Western dictatorship in history. China spies on us, steals vital research from our elite educational institutions and undercuts our businesses, thus impoverishing us. They loathe us far more than Putin and they will stop at nothing to have their boot on our neck".


The Daily Mail

Keir Starmer risks an early rift with Donald Trump after PM calls for 'respectful' UK-China relations as he becomes first PM to meet Xi Jinping since 2018 at G20 summit

China’s communist president yesterday praised Labour’s plans for the economy as Sir Keir Starmer pushed for a new ‘respectful’ relationship with Beijing.



VIDEO..Donald Trump: "I'll take jobs back from China, Mexico"

[johnwise] 19/11/2024 06:38

Warning retail job cuts ‘inevitable’ after Budget


High Street job losses are "inevitable", prices will rise, and shops will close as the result of the tax increases in the Budget and other rising costs, a group of the biggest retailers in the UK is warning.

Tesco, Amazon, Greggs, Next, and dozens of other chains are urging the Treasury to reconsider some of the measures.

In a letter to Chancellor Rachel Reeves, they said the "cumulative burden" of the Budget changes, and other policies already in the pipeline, would amount to an additional £7bn in costs next year.

A Treasury spokesperson said the government had had to "make difficult choices to fix the foundations of the country".

Measures in the Budget, in particular a rise in the tax that firms pay on their staff's wages, have been met with a tide of criticism from business, who argue it will hold back growth.

[johnwise] 19/11/2024 06:07

Biden missile move puts UK and French weapons into play


London and Paris have donated Storm Shadow/SCALP missiles to Kyiv, but Washington has blocked their use against targets in Russia.

All eyes are on London and Paris after United States President Joe Biden’s decision to allow Ukraine to use American missiles to hit targets inside Russia.

France and the United Kingdom have donated their Storm Shadow/SCALP cruise missiles to Kyiv. So far, London has not received permission from the U.S. to allow them to be used to attack targets in Russia, while Paris remains vague about what Ukrainians could do.

Although the European cruise missiles are manufactured by missile-maker MBDA, the U.S. controls some of the company's tech, giving it a voice in their use.

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[johnwise] 19/11/2024 05:55

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[stonedyou] 18/11/2024 23:34

Biden going against voters on Ukraine war – US lawmaker

Marjorie Taylor Greene has lashed out at the president for reportedly greenlighting long-range strikes against Russia by Kiev


US President Joe Biden is “dangerously trying to start WWIII” before he leaves office in January, Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has claimed.

The lawmaker from Georgia was reacting to reports that Biden had lifted a prohibition on the use of US-supplied long-range missiles by Kiev for attacks deep inside Russian territory. The policy change has been reported by the New York Times, the Associated Press, Axios, and other news outlets, all of which cited anonymous sources.

The purported decision goes against the expressed desire of the American people not to “fund or fight foreign wars,” Greene wrote on X, referring to the election of Donald Trump as the next US president earlier this month. He campaigned on an “America First” platform and claimed that he could end the Ukraine conflict in 24 hours, if elected. Trump won, securing a popular majority.

Republican Senator Mike Lee mused that liberals “love war” because it “facilitates bigger government” in reaction to the news. Elon Musk, a key Trump confidante, agreed with this assertion.

Biden is “pointlessly escalat[ing] with two months to go” because his team knows that “the Blob” – the permanent national security and foreign policy community in the US – is unhappy that “they didn’t do enough to arm Ukraine,” pro-Trump venture capitalist David Sacks said.

Securing permission to use Western-donated weapons to strike targets deep inside internationally recognized Russian territory was part of the ‘victory plan’ proposed in September by Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky to Biden and Trump. Sources claim that the US president has now granted limited permission to do so with ground-launched ATACMS ballistic missiles.

Kiev is reportedly allowed to use the weapons against North Korean troops, which Ukraine and its backers claim have been deployed in Russia’s Kursk Region. Zelensky ordered an incursion there in August, stating that it would give his government a bargaining chip during eventual peace talks.

READ MORE: Putin hopes NATO heard warning on long-range strikes

Neither Russia nor North Korea have either confirmed or denied the reported deployment. This month, the two nations ratified a bilateral agreement, which includes provisions for providing assistance in the event of a foreign invasion.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned that Moscow will consider an attack by Western long-range weapons on Russian soil as directly involving the countries that donated the arms. Ukraine does not have the military assets required to collect intelligence for such operations and cannot prepare them without direct assistance from NATO nations, he said.

[portside1] 18/11/2024 21:12

We now know that aliens are watching earth and we do have bodies of aliens And the aliens are getting more open to to USA

[johnwise] 18/11/2024 19:22

Non-doms: South Africa’s richest woman is fighting to stay in the UK


“I really don’t want to leave the UK”

[johnwise] 18/11/2024 17:48

Trump On How He Negotiated A New Trade Deal With Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe