Britain’s War on Landlords

Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Reem Ibrahim

“This week, the UK Parliament passed the Renters’ Rights Act. It is the biggest shakeup to the British rental market this century, and is being sold as a big win for tenants. This could not be further from the truth. This legislation will wreak havoc on the already fundamentally broken rental market. It introduces de facto rent controls, crushes the supply of housing, and makes life harder for everyone trying to find somewhere to live.” (11/04/25)

https://fee.org/articles/britains-war-on-landlords/

Thomas L. Knapp

They Tortured Lambs In The West Bank

Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone

“Israeli settlers were filmed torturing lambs which belonged to Palestinians in the West Bank. Gouged their eyes out. Smashed them with cinder blocks. Beat them to death in front of their mothers. Lambs. It’s not the most evil thing the Israelis have done. Not by a long shot. Hell, all of human civilization subjects animals to cruel abuses every minute of every day through the horrors of factory farming. But this particular incident shines a special sort of light into exactly what’s going on behind Israeli eyes over there in that sadistic society. Think about the hatred and savagery you’d need to summon up within yourself to gouge the eyes out of a living baby sheep. Think about the kind of person you’d have to become to do something like that to an innocent creature. Those lambs didn’t know they were Palestinian.” (11/04/25)

https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/11/04/they-tortured-lambs-in-the-west-bank/

Steve Trinward

Philippines: Typhoon Kalmaegi leaves 26 dead, people trapped on roofs and cars submerged

Source: San Diego Union-Tribune

“Typhoon Kalmaegi has left at least 26 people dead in the Philippines, mostly in flooding set off by the storm, which barreled across the central part of the country on Tuesday, disaster response officials said. Floodwaters trapped scores of people on their roofs and submerged cars. A Philippine air force helicopter with five personnel on board crashed in a separate incident in southern Agusan del Sur province while flying to help provide humanitarian assistance to provinces battered by Kalmaegi. … Before the typhoon’s landfall, officials said that more than 387,000 people had evacuated to safer ground in eastern and central Philippine provinces. Authorities warned of torrential rains, potentially destructive winds and storm surges of nearly 10 feet.” (11/04/25)

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/11/04/typhoon-kalmaegi-philippines-aftermath/

Thomas L. Knapp

When They Go Low, We Go Low

Source: The Dispatch
by Yascha Mounk

“Writing about the coronation of Napoleon Bonaparte’s nephew, Louis, as the emperor of the French, Karl Marx coined one of his most famous phrases: ‘Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.’ I have been thinking about this phrase a lot in recent weeks, as it has become increasingly clear what shape the Democrats’ response to Trump 47 is going to take.” (11/04/25)

https://thedispatch.com/article/donald-trump-democrats-gavin-newsom-extremism/

Thomas L. Knapp

Six dead in listeria outbreak linked to pasta

Source: Seattle Times

“Six people became ill and died after eating prepared pasta meals that were contaminated with listeria and sold at major grocery chains across the country, federal health officials said. The meals, sold at Albertsons, Kroger, Sprouts Farmers Market, Trader Joe’s and other major stores, were recalled in recent months in connection with the outbreak, which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said grew last week. Federal health officials said the supplier, Nate’s Fine Foods Inc., had found Listeria monocytogenes, a bacterium that can cause illness and death, in a sample of its pasta. Health officials said that a total of 27 people in 18 states had been affected by the outbreak, and that they were working to investigate the source.” (11/04/25)

https://archive.is/m4vEw

Thomas L. Knapp

This Supreme Court case could redefine the presidency

Source: The Hill
by Aron Solomon

“The Supreme Court is about to hear oral arguments in a case that sounds like a fight over toy imports but is really about the future of presidential power. On Nov. 5, in the only case being heard on that day, the justices will take up Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump, and the question behind it is huge: Can a president declare a ‘national emergency’ whenever he wants to set his own economic policy? … the core issue is deceptively simple: can the word ’emergency’ be stretched so far that it covers anything a president feels like tackling without Congress? Because if the answer is yes, that’s not just a trade story — that’s a blueprint for a permanent emergency presidency.” (11/04/25)

https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/5587034-supreme-court-presidential-power-case/

Thomas L. Knapp

Faith, not Trump’s guns, can fix Nigerian violence

Source: Christian Science Monitor
by staff

“Asserting that Christians in Nigeria face ‘an existential threat,’ President Donald Trump signaled over the weekend that the United States military might go into Africa’s most populous country ‘with guns-a-blazing.’ While his depiction of the situation is highly simplified, it could at least draw attention to the political and economic issues that have driven extremist insurgencies in Nigeria as well as in nearby nations. One issue is that the violence committed by militant groups, many of which operate in the name of Islam, has hit people of different faiths. ‘Terror groups … have attacked mosques and churches alike, killing both imams and pastors, Muslims and Christians, without distinction,’ noted The Punch, a Nigerian news daily. ‘Portraying these conflicts as a one-sided religious debate and advocacy ignores the broader socio-economic and environmental pressures … that drive violence.'” (11/03/25)

https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/the-monitors-view/2025/1103/Faith-not-Trump-s-guns-can-fix-Nigerian-violence

Steve Trinward