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Belarus Border Crisis
It’s a crisis that is going from bad to worse as some Belarusian opposition figures question the sanity of Belarus’ unelected leader Alexander Lukashenko. The EU has now taken out more sanctions against Lukashenko who lured asylum seekers from Iraq to Belarus,. and then pushed them to the border with Poland.
The EU has supported Polands forces which today fired tear gas and water cannons at the migrants who seem caught between Belarus and Poland with no way back or forward.
Lukashenko warns his country will retaliate, saying: “They’re scaring us with sanctions. We will defend ourselves. We cannot retreat.”
Bidens Bill
President Biden signed his 1 trillion dollar infrastructure bill into law Monday, that will inject huge sums into roads, ports and more. The initial proposal was to spend more than double that, but this allowed the Dems and Republicans to find a compromise, and Biden needs a lift after sinking popularity over Afghanistan and at home rising inflation.
America needs the new spending say supporters, but Trump loyalists have labelled it as a communist takeover of America.
Despite a number of Republicans supporting the spending bill, the division in that political wing has only become more extreme and it came on a day Trump advisor Steve Bannon surrendered on contempt charges stemming from investigation into the Jan 6 attack on the Capitol.
“We’re taking down the Biden regime,” Bannon told reporters before he went to court, where the judge released him pending trial. “I’m telling you right now, this is going to be the misdemeanor from hell for [Attorney General] Merrick Garland, [House Speaker] Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden.” He said his team is "going to go on the offense.”
Bannon repeated Trump’s call to the Proud Boys telling supporters to “stand by.”
Britain Terrorism
Emad Al Swealmeen has been named as the man who was killed when he set off a bomb in a taxi in Liverpool Sunday, near Remembrance Day Ceremonies. Swealmeen was an asylum seeker, but his profile is unusual.
He had converted to Christianity, and the 32 yr old was not on the radar of intelligence agencies. He had embraced Western culture and his conversion took place in an Anglican Church near the Liverpool Womens hospital where the bomb may have prematurely detonated in cab.
Emad appears so far to be a lone wolf attacker, likely radicalized on the internet during the pandemic lockdown. He also has a past history of mental illness and had been hospitalized years before because of an incident with a knife.
The taxi driver survived the explosion. And by all accounts had Emad gotten into the hospital or moved to the nearby church, the numbers of injuries would have devastating.
Storm Canada
A winter storm sweeping across Western Canada will hit Alberta today with high winds and up to 60 cm of snow, or just under 2 feet. Earlier on Monday heavy rains pounded Vancouver with wide reports of damage including flooding.
Russia Missile Test
The U.S. angrily condemned a Russian missile test, which blew up a satellite scattering debris and endangering the Int. Space Station. The ISS crew were forced to shelter in capsules.
US state department spokesman Ned Price said at a briefing "the test has so far generated over 1,500 pieces of trackable orbital debris and hundreds of thousands of pieces of smaller orbital debris that now threaten the interests of all nations."
Nasa administrator Bill Nelson said he was outraged at the incident.
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Dana
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/snow-weather-alberta-1.6249222
https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/storms-impact-felt-across-b-c-south-coast
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/15/us/politics/biden-signs-infrastructure-bill.html
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-59301708