The Daily Beagle Roundup #11

Ukraine hairdresser exemption demand, NHS in crisis, and Sesame Street put their foot in it

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Ukraine War Updates

• China blames the US for instigating the Ukraine war

• House prices collapse in Kiev

• Arestovich plans to run for Ukrainian President if Zelensky doesn’t take a second term. Will there be any elections held, though?

• Britain declares it will give Ukraine 3 more MLRS (Multiple Launch Rocket Systems)

• Zelensky asked to release all the tough male hairdressers from military service so they can go participate in hairdressing world championships. Priorities people.

• Ukrainian medic from 56th brigade complains Ukrainian artillery is ‘more like a curse than a cover’ due to inaccuracies in shelling, with infantry ‘dying in batches’

• Study estimates the German economy will lose 265 billion amid the energy crisis due to the Ukraine war.

• Intel Slava Z suggests in response to Ukrainian shelling at a fire station near the nuclear plant, that maybe Russia should fire at Lviv nuclear reactors

• Killnet hackers reportedly publish a list of names of employees at Lockheed Martin

• Latvia - who are paying for Russian gas in Rubles - is calling Russia a State Sponsor of Terrorism. Does that mean Latvia will sanction itself for buying from terrorists, which is against the law?

• Estonia to ban Russian tourists from entering. Yeah, because the peaceful money spending tourists are the real problem.

• US government threatens African countries with sanctions if they dare buy anything other than grain or fertiliser from Russia. Yeah, that’s bound to win them over.

• From Ukrainian Strana Today (via translation), reports 13,000 Belarusian soldiers intend to join Russia against Ukraine. Due to translation errors, the title says “with Ukraine”, however it’s meant in the sense of ‘he started a fight with Ukraine’, which can be confirmed by the body of the text.

• (Via translation) Ukrainian military official accidentally(?) leaks military strategic information and secrets in a discussion with the press.

• UK research institute apologies to Russian scientist’s job denial over racism towards Russians over the Ukraine war

• Oil exports from Russia, along Ukraine, to Europe, are set to resume, after transit fees got caught in sanctions causing Ukraine to halt oil exports

• EU sanctions on coal goes into effect, likely to adversely impact European imports of coal (as an alternative to oil and gas), given they used to import 46% of their coal from Russia.

America Accused Of Stealing Oil

One for ‘do the bears poop in the woods’ section, America is accused of stealing 80% of oil from Syria.

Northern Mexico Runs Out Of Water

Says it will impact beer manufacturing permits.

Florida Bans Drugs For Children

Says they cannot receive them for “transgender” madness.

US Government Introduces A Bill To Stop The CCP (Chinese Communist Party) From Purchasing US Land

We’re wondering if they will bother to do the same to Bill Gates. The Senators argued China’s purchases of the land constitute a national security threat.

Biometric Payment Systems Expand

They definitely like tracking people, don’t they? Roll out of creepy “palm print” scanners reaches numerous Whole Food stores.

Pharmaceutical Companies Make $40 Billion Losses

Sanofi and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) have $40 billion in value wiped out over possible Zantac lawsuit.

UK Crisis

• UK's National Grid alerts to capacity notice, however they have since withdrawn the alert

• UK energy bills set to increase even further, to £5,000 a year

• More than 100,000 people have joined the ‘Don’t Pay’ protest

• Boris Johnson to meet utility companies as UK faces winter crisis

• UK Energy Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng say “biomass reactors” (wood burners) are not sustainable, causing a drop in the price of Drax, a “biomass” firm, this as Kwasi notes they ‘haven’t actually questioned’ it

• Human trafficking reports experiences 4,171 referrals

• UK set to declare drought status placing restrictions on water usage

If conditions worsen further still, water companies may need to ask the government for an emergency drought order to allow them to ration water supplies to homes and business at certain times of day, or to ask customers to access water from standpipes or mobile water tanks. Farmers could also face restrictions usage for irrigation.

NHS Crisis

• UK NHS Trusts to offer “hardship grants” to NHS staff for food, school uniforms for children, this comes as food banks and fare subsidy schemes are put in-place to help the workers

• NHS experiences a cyber-attack, attacking Advanced, the firm who provide things like ambulance dispatch, out-of-hours bookings and more

Sierra Leone Experiences Cost Of Living Riots

Protests turn violent after complaints over cost of living in Sierra Leone.

German Minister Faces Scrutiny

Olaf Scholz is reportedly accused of helping waive the tax bill of a major German bank, MM Warburg & Co, one of the oldest and largest private banks in Germany.

Xi Jinping To Visit Saudi Arabia

The Chinese leader will be given an over-the-top reception, in contrast to the low key reception Joe Biden was given. Saudi Arabia defends the abuse of Uighur Muslims by China.

Fire Destroys Mill

Destroys a historic flour mill in eastern Oregon in the US. This comes as notable reports of fires at many places.

European Commission Freaks On Drought

Reported by Ukrainian Strana Today (via translation), the European Commision have declared this drought to be the worst in 5,000 years.

Sesame Street Character Gets Cancelled

An individual dressed up as Rosita from Sesame Street reportedly ignored two black children, reported the Daily Mail roughly 26 days ago, although the Daily Mail asks if the character was declining to carry them.

Since then, a $25 million lawsuit was filed, and apparently (via translation), the Sesame Street character itself was entirely cancelled from the park.

Virtue signalling Metro comments that all Sesame Street employees have been forced to go on ‘diversity and inclusion training.

The ban on Rosita is particularly interesting given the nature of Rosita’s character. Having spoken with some members, they suggested the context of the lawsuit was possibly an excuse for Sesame Street to essentially trashcan an “undesirable” character.

It turns out it might be the case. Rosita represents bilingual Mexicans (according to both Sesame Street guide, and the Sesame Street fandom). According to the fandom, the muppet is only one of two bilingual muppets, the other being “Osvaldo, el Gruñón” (Oswald the Grouch). Osvaldo only had 23 TV appearances, 6 book appearances and stopped appearing after 1994.

In contrast, Rosita had 48 book appearances and 37 film appearances, appearing in the main show up until the muppet got cancelled. Rosita was introduced in 1991 and kept appearing as late as 2021.

Given the views of Americans in opposition of open borders and illegal migration into the US, it’s hard not to view this cynically as a cover to get rid of what might be an unpopular character. In trying to appease Black people in a lawsuit, Sesame Street might have inadvertently offended Mexicans instead.

River In German Sinks To Catastrophic Levels

River Rhine may become impassible, preventing all German river traffic.

Head Of Lancet Investigation Changes Mind

Says the virus likely came from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

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