Former CBC News host/journalist (still loyal fan of the @Chiefs, @LFC, @KNVB & @TorontoFC) cbctom on Threads, @cbctom.bsky.social
Toronto, Ontario
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I've been looking for this tweet. Will pin it to my account as a reminder of the threat of disinformation, doublespeak. xitter.cf/kasparov63/status/8087…
Cuba could be the next big geopolitical thing which took me down memory lane and to this track by one of my favourite bands, XTC.
It’s a banger.
youtu.be/9IPdmNSjanM?si=GaWI… via @YouTube
The relay is one of my favourite plays in baseball.
Just can’t get enough. #WorldSeries
This is an odd reaction from the Florida Senator.
Wonder what he made of Trump’s comments 10 days ago about seeking Turkish help with Yemen.
“Erdoğan is a very good friend of mine.”
“I think Erdoğan will do whatever I ask of him.”
“I have great respect for him.”
Canada is lost. This is what the Left does. Socialism at home is never enough.
By embracing Communist China, and now Turkey, PM Carney has turned his back on America & made clear that Canada sides with dictators, terrorists & thugs who threaten the security of the U.S. & sovereignty of our allies.
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Turkey is a NATO ally of both the United States and Canada since 1952. Official Canadian statements describe the new Strategic Partnership with Türkiye as deepening cooperation between the two NATO allies on trade, energy, defence and security.
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The Josh Simmons Saga summed up well here. Particularly the last line. It’s been a riddle for more than a year now. #ChiefsKingdom
My final thoughts: Medically, if he ends up needing surgery then there’s no rush, it’s usually a 3-4 month recovery. So rehab and take your time, and if surgery is needed then doing it now or in January doesn’t matter that much.
Team wise, it allows everyone to just stop with the daily or weekly check ins. He’s hurt until he starts practicing again, there is nothing needed to be said or updated, simple as that. Provides clarity and some temporary peace from the situation. A situation which I will say one last time has been fishy from the get go.
End scene
Is this Canadian interference in the US election? 😉
Trump to provide tariff relief for Canada, via @WSJ, amid tight race in Maine affecting Sen. Susan Collins.
wsj.com/politics/policy/trum…
Tom Harrington retweeted
Mark Carney: "Very senior U.S. officials have directly made suggestions, intervened, so to speak, in Canadian sovereignty, Canadian democratic processes, encouraged certain outcomes, encouraged certain peoples through that process."
“Just a flesh wound” is now a part of modern parlance.
People who’ve never seen Holy Grail use it.
Comedy & cinematic gold.
“Alright, we’ll call it a draw”
MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL (1975)
#GrahamChapman #JohnCleese
Tom Harrington retweeted
Pro Football Hall of Fame running back and Southern University coach Marshall Faulk has been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.
Story via @ByScarborough:
espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/5025…
The Josh Simmons story has become one of the more unusual mysteries in the NFL. #ChiefsKingdom
RT @olliecarroll: New. I’m told by frontline commanders that it looks like Starlink speed restrictions have been lifted. They are still doi…
Fascinating probe exploring how Ukraine’s tactics against Russia’s oil sector are having a lasting impact. #UkraineRussianWar
NEW: Rosneft deep dive by Bloomberg News
+ Officials at Russia’s largest oil producer are concerned that even a few more months of the war with Ukraine could leave lasting damage across the business.
+ One of Rosneft’s biggest refineries, Ryazan, has been shut for more than half the time since it was first hit by Ukraine in May and has run well below full capacity when operating, according to damage assessments seen by Bloomberg.
+ Another, Syzran, has spent much of the past six months either completely shut or operating at less than a third of capacity, according to data reviewed by Bloomberg. The Tuapse refinery has been offline since April.
+ Ukraine is conducting repeat strikes on the refineries as soon as repairs are completed or nearing completion. The need to repeatedly repair damaged equipment is straining operations and causing costs to pile up to levels that Rosneft officials have privately warned cannot be sustained long-term.
+ Some plants have deliberately slowed repairs as a result, stretching work that should take days into weeks, according to people familiar with the matter.
+ Efforts to protect the facilities with shipping containers, nets and steel cables have proved ineffective against swarms of drones, company plans show.
+ The damage is particularly difficult to repair when strikes hit complex secondary units, whose parts would previously have been sourced from the West. It means relying on Russian-made copies and Chinese imports that can take months to obtain and are not always compatible with existing machinery.
+ It’s put Rosneft into financial trouble. Even before the ramping up of Ukraine’s drone campaign, the company saw a “perfect storm” for its finances. Since then, its profits are down and debt is rising despite what should have been a big windfall from the Iran war.
+ Moscow Credit Bank, which is linked to Rosneft, is showing signs of distress with $8 billion of problem loans. It highlights how both Russia’s energy and banking sectors are coming under strain at the same time, a dynamic causing concern to Russian finance officials.
All this and much more in the full story here: bloomberg.com/news/features/…
This week’s cover of Der Spiegel, Germany’s influential weekly news magazine.
“Canada’s Premier…” probably lost in translation.
Der neue SPIEGEL ist da:
📍Der bessere Amerikaner: Kanadas Premier wird zur Hoffnung
📍Gespräch im Gefängnis: Ex-Manager Braun über Wirecard-Skandal
📍Pro und Kontra: Soll Rot-Grün-Rot in Berlin regieren?
Morgen am Kiosk, jetzt online: spiegel.de/spiegel/print/ind…
ALT Ein Mann in einem roten Kanada-Hockeytrikot hält eine Fahne mit dem kanadischen Wappen, während ein zweiter Mann in einem Anzug danebensteht.
A friend of mine who lives in Hamburg, Germany says local authorities found 3 unexploded WW2 bombs in his neighbourhood during the excavation for a building project.
That brings the city’s total this year to 27. The area may be evacuated this weekend. Yikes.
Mark Goldbridge is a very popular football Podcaster who’s a Manchester United fan. He lives & dies with them & this season, it’s been a march of death.
His meltdowns are epic, none more so than today during Man U’s one sided Champions League loss to Como.
(Warning: language)
Tom Harrington retweeted
Ukrainian Nobel Peace Prize winner ⬇️
I have read dozens of outraged posts because the US special envoy Witkoff called Putin a "humanist." But no one is writing about the fact that the American negotiators are simply not doing their job. Let me explain.
Peace negotiations are important in their own right. Even if they do not lead to a lasting peace, the process itself is an opportunity to resolve urgent humanitarian issues. If, of course, the human dimension is a priority for the negotiators. But it is entirely obvious that neither Witkoff nor Kushner cares about people's fates in this war.
The Pope calls on Putin to save thousands of people from starvation in occupied Oleshky and the surrounding villages. The UN speaks about a humanitarian catastrophe and asks Russia to allow the evacuation of the civilian population. European Parliament Vice-President Pina Picierno goes on a hunger strike to draw attention to this tragedy unfolding before the eyes of the whole world.
And what are Witkoff and Kushner doing?
That's right, almost nothing.
Except for passing along greetings from Putin’s aide to the First Lady.
Thousands of people are already eating grass to survive and begging to save their lives. The Ukrainian side raises the issue of Oleshky at every meeting. And I can name dozens of such urgent humanitarian issues off the top of my head where American negotiators must be proactive.
Trump’s peace negotiations have already gone down in history as the deadliest years for Ukraine’s civilian population since the start of the full-scale invasion.
I don’t know if anyone will remember the names of Witkoff and Kushner.
But history will certainly record how American negotiators, who had the opportunity to save a huge number of people, refused to raise uncomfortable questions before "humanist Putin."
Tom Harrington retweeted
The AI apocalypse may come dressed in a 3 piece suit.
"Speculative data center debt is being repackaged and sold to pension and retirement funds, university endowments, and other institutional investors in a manner eerily reminiscent of the subprime bubble."
ourfinancialsecurity.org/res…
The AI apocalypse may come dressed in a 3 piece suit.
"Speculative data center debt is being repackaged and sold to pension and retirement funds, university endowments, and other institutional investors in a manner eerily reminiscent of the subprime bubble."
ourfinancialsecurity.org/res…