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WAYNE ROONEY and wife Coleen go head-to-head on TV tonight in a bid to conquer their jungles. While Coleen stars on ITV’s I’m a Celeb in the Aussie outback, 10,000 miles away Rooney can edge Plymouth away from the Championship drop zone by beating Watford live on Sky Sports. The legendary Manchester United striker , 39, is also facing a number of hazards himself as Pilgrims boss. Argyle are geographically an outpost, have one of the league’s smallest budgets and their main ambition this season is simply to survive. Yet Rooney is winning over hearts and minds in the city with his down-to-earth, man-of-the-people approach. Whether it is singing karaoke with fans , dining out in the city, or visiting boozers for a few pints, he has immersed himself in Devon life. READ MORE IN FOOTBALL A club source told SunSport: “Wayne has really bought into Plymouth. “He’s not come down to be a boss who hides away in his apartment — but wants to feel completely connected to the fans and everything going on.” Due to Plymouth’s remote location in the south-west of England, Rooney has introduced starting some away journeys two days before matches. He likes to stop off halfway to games on Thursday to train before continuing the journey on Friday ahead of a Saturday fixture. Most read in Football This has not led to a win on the road yet but Home Park is becoming a mini fortress with just one league defeat. The ex-England star still takes part in training himself — and has left players open-mouthed with his skills. Rooney often likes talking to his stars and staff about movies, holidays, family life, food and is always sharing little anecdotes away from the game. While we get to see Coleen up close in the jungle, Roo is now making a behind-the-scenes documentary about managing Plymouth. It has not yet been decided which platform it will be screened on. But the Argyle gaffer said: “It’s going to be great for the club. We have cameras everywhere from a club point of view anyway, so it’s not anything new. “They won’t be here every single day and minute. It will give good insight for the fans.” Rooney‘s ex- United team-mate and best pal Tom Cleverley — with whom he won the Premier League in 2013 — is Watford boss. He serves a touchline ban tonight but hit out at critics who reckon Rooney underachieved as gaffer at Derby, DC United and Birmingham. READ MORE SUN STORIES Cleverley, 35, said: “We’ll catch up before and after as friends. He was one of the best players I’ve seen and I’m happy to see us both trying to work our magic as coaches. “It’s harsh to say he underachieved.” HERE'S where you can watch the Rooneys tonight... WAYNE: Plymouth v Watford, 8pm, Sky Sports Football (also on talkSPORT 2) COLEEN: I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!, 9pm, ITV1 and ITVX
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Ah, the United Nations. What's not to love about it? Like most governmental bodies, it's got all of the political corruption and none of the effectiveness. They are a feckless, rotten organization that deserves to go the way of the dodo bird, and every day they prove it more and more: Here's more from The Wall Street Journal : The United Nations long ago lost credibility as a moral arbiter, but its assault on Israel is hitting a new low. On Wednesday the U.N. will refuse to renew the contract of Alice Wairimu Nderitu, the Kenyan who is the Special Advisor on the Prevention of Genocide. Ms. Nderitu is an accomplished mediator, whose U.N. bio describes her as a 'recognized voice in the field of peacebuilding and violence prevention.' She has served in that role since 2020 and her tenure has been marked by careful study of humanity’s worst crime. She is being dismissed because she has stood firm in her belief that Israel’s war with Hamas isn’t genocide. So much for 'trust the experts', huh? Nderitu has said the war in Gaza is not a genocide because it isn't a genocide. But the U.N. has made up its mind: Israel is guilty, and they'll make the evidence fit the supposed crime. Kudos to her for standing by principles. Big kudos. In good old days corruption would happen in the back rooms. Now it happens in front of our eyes. Because they no longer fear consequences. They need to fear consequences. The United Nations is functioning like some academic fields: by purging heretics. They'll still tell you they're the good guys, though. They are not the good guys. Ms. Nderitu is correct. We live in sad times when standing by the truth gets you fired. Very sad times. Except to a cretin, it is patently obvious that the UN is a bad actor and we must divest this country of any interest or involvement with that organization. It needs to be defunded, booted out of Manhattan, and the building razed. Then salt the earth for good measure. The world sucks at preventing genocide. Also , genocide is not happening in Gaza. It is not happening in Gaza. In case it still wasn’t clear that the UN thinks its mandate is simply to destroy the one Jewish state.... https://t.co/ROxxjGvjzx That's their goal. The UN is institutionally antisemitic. https://t.co/GpgiDO4ufO To the core. The @UN is the modern face of antisemitism and anti-west bigotry. https://t.co/msOozVIxGT Yes it is.
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The Union Government’s amendment to the Conduct of Election Rules, 1961, on Saturday, has sparked a heated debate, with political leaders voicing strong opposition. The amendment, introduced after recommendations from the Election Commission of India (ECI), restricts the public’s access to documents such as CCTV footage and other election materials unless specifically listed by the ECI. Congress and other opposition parties have expressed strong opposition, with some warning of legal challenges to the amendment. Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge called the amendment “another assault in [the Modi government’s] systematic conspiracy to destroy the institutional integrity of the Election Commission of India”. He said, “Modi Govt’s calibrated erosion of ECI’s integrity is a frontal attack on the Constitution and Democracy and we will take every step to safeguard them.” Kharge also highlighted the government’s previous actions, such as removing the Chief Justice of India from the panel responsible for appointing Election Commissioners, as part of an allegedly coordinated assault on the integrity of the ECI. He accused the government of resorting to stonewall electoral information, even after a high court order. He further added, “Every time the Congress party wrote to the ECI, regarding specific poll irregularities such as voter deletions and lack of transparency in EVMs, the ECI has responded in a condescending tone and chosen not to even acknowledge certain serious complaints. This again proves that the ECI, even though a quasi-judicial body, is not behaving independently.” The Communist Party of India (CPI) expressed concerns about the impact of the amendment on electoral integrity. CPI lader D Raja argued, “This government deosn’t believe in a democratic way of functioning. Whenever certain changes are proposed, ECI used to have an all-political-parties meeting and place the proposals. Now they think parties can be taken for granted. Without political parties, what is the electoral system?” He added that India is a multi-party democracy, and political parties are the real players in our electoral politics. He condemned the government’s approach, calling it ‘unilateral’ and a move that would ‘destroy the electoral system’ and could harm the fairness of elections. He added, “Without having a proper discussion with political parties and without evolving a consensus, such unilateral decisions will destroy the electoral system, and we will not be able to have free and fair elections.” The Communist Party of India (Marxist) or the CPI(M)’s Politbureau also issued a statement strongly objecting to the proposed amendments. The CPI(M) demanded the “immediate withdrawal of the proposed amendments”. The party’s statement argued, “The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) expresses its strong objection to the Modi government’s move to amend the Conduct of Election Rules to restrict the access of political parties and candidates to electronic records, including video and other digital trails, which were initially introduced by the Election Commission in consultation with political parties to ensure greater transparency.” The CPI(M) further noted that the amendment was made without adequate consultation with political parties, calling it “contrary to the established precedents over the years”. The party highlighted the importance of video records in exposing election malpractices, referencing incidents in Tripura where video evidence led to repolls during the Lok Sabha Elections. The party stated, “In this era, where technology is an integral part of the electoral process, the government’s move represents a retrograde step.” Manoj Kaka, spokesperson of the Samajwadi Party (SP), echoed concerns about the amendment’s impact on electoral transparency. Kaka emphasised that the amendment would undermine the fairness of elections, saying, “We want the Election Commission and all procedures to be fair, transparent, and unbiased—that is when elections will have a stronger relevance.” He also pointed to the use of EVMs in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, alleging that “over 5.38 Lakh votes were not counted in the final tally”, and reiterated the party’s demand for a return to paper ballots. Kaka also strongly criticised the BJP for its alleged actions against Dalits and backward classes. He stated, “The BJP is the largest dictatorship of the era that has insulted Babasaheb and Dalits. A chief minister like Akhilesh Yadav’s house is washed because he comes from a backward class. Babasaheb is insulted because he comes from a backward class.” In contrast to the widespread opposition, Gopal Agarwal, spokesperson of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), defended the amendment, emphasising that it is just an “enabling provision where the Election Commission will come out with a list of documents that can be accessed by the public”. Agarwal dismissed Opposition claims, stating, “The way some of the opposition parties try to derail the process of election and create confusion in the mind of the public saying the election process is compromised - this is not good for the democracy.” The BJP leader reassured that the Election Commission remains an independent body with the responsibility to oversee elections. He added, “Every institution, particularly democratic institutions like the Election Commission, the judiciary, etc, are independent bodies and they are the watchdogs of our democratic ecosystem. Apprehending everything to the central government and attaching intentions to it is not good.” He added, “It is for the Election Commission to decide. Whatever the Election Commission, which is responsible for holding elections, requires for the way forward on the electoral reforms, the central government does it.” Agarwal assured that “all candidates have access to all the documents, and “legal process of going to courts, etc is open for the public”. He concluded, “There is nothing compromising on the transparency of this order.” The Union government amended the Conduct of Election Rules, 1961, restricting public access to certain election materials such as CCTV footage, in response to recommendations from the Election Commission of India (ECI). The amendment to Rule 93(2)(a) narrows the scope of election documents available for public inspection, limiting access only to those specifically listed in the rules. This change follows a case where the Punjab and Haryana high court ordered the ECI to provide certain election materials to a lawyer, leading the ECI to propose the amendment to avoid similar requests in the future. Critics argue that the amendment undermines transparency, as it could prevent citizens from accessing key election records like Form 17C and CCTV footage, without a court order. The ECI will release a list of election materials that can be accessed.
WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump has identified what he sees as an all-purpose fix for what ails America: Slap huge new tariffs on foreign goods entering the United States. On Monday, Trump sent shockwaves across the nation's northern and southern borders, vowing sweeping new tariffs on Mexico, Canada , as well as China, as soon as he takes office as part of his effort to crack down on illegal immigration and drugs. In a pair of posts on his Truth Social site Trump railed against an influx of immigrants lacking permanent legal status, even though southern border apprehensions have been hovering near four-year lows. He said he would impose a 25% tax on all products entering the country from Canada and Mexico, and an additional 10% tariff on goods from China, as one of his first executive orders. He said the new tariffs would remain in place “until such time as Drugs, in particular Fentanyl, and all Illegal Aliens stop this Invasion of our Country!” The president-elect asserts that tariffs — basically import taxes — will create more factory jobs, shrink the federal deficit, lower food prices and allow the government to subsidize childcare. Economists are generally skeptical, considering tariffs to be a mostly inefficient way for governments to raise money. They are especially alarmed by Trump’s latest proposed tariffs. Carl B. Weinberg and Rubeela Farooqi, economists with High Frequency Economics said Tuesday that energy, automobiles and food supplies will be particularly hit hard. “Imposing tariffs on trade flows into the United States without first preparing alternative sources for the goods and services affected will raise the price of imported items at once," Weinberg and Farooqi wrote. "Since many of these goods are consumer goods, households will be made poorer.” High Frequency Economics believes the threats are not meant to support new trade policy and are instead a tool to elicit some changes along the borders and for imports from Canada, Mexico and China. Though Vice President Kamala Harris criticized Trump’s tariff threats as unserious during her failed bid for the presidency, the Biden-Harris administration retained the taxes the Trump administration imposed on $360 billion in Chinese goods. And it imposed a 100% tariff on Chinese electric vehicles. Indeed, the United States in recent years has gradually retreated from its post-World War II role of promoting global free trade and lower tariffs. That shift has been a response to the loss of U.S. manufacturing jobs, widely attributed to unfettered trade and an increasingly aggressive China. Tariffs are a tax on imports They are typically charged as a percentage of the price a buyer pays a foreign seller. In the United States, tariffs are collected by Customs and Border Protection agents at 328 ports of entry across the country. The tariff rates range from passenger cars (2.5%) to golf shoes (6%). Tariffs can be lower for countries with which the United States has trade agreements. For example, most goods can move among the United States, Mexico and Canada tariff-free because of Trump’s US-Mexico-Canada trade agreement. There's much misinformation about who actually pays tariffs Trump insists that tariffs are paid for by foreign countries. In fact, its is importers — American companies — that pay tariffs, and the money goes to U.S. Treasury. Those companies, in turn, typically pass their higher costs on to their customers in the form of higher prices. That's why economists say consumers usually end up footing the bill for tariffs. Still, tariffs can hurt foreign countries by making their products pricier and harder to sell abroad. Yang Zhou, an economist at Shanghai’s Fudan University, concluded in a study that Trump’s tariffs on Chinese goods inflicted more than three times as much damage to the Chinese economy as they did to the U.S. economy Tariffs are intended mainly to protect domestic industries By raising the price of imports, tariffs can protect home-grown manufacturers. They may also serve to punish foreign countries for committing unfair trade practices, like subsidizing their exporters or dumping products at unfairly low prices. Before the federal income tax was established in 1913, tariffs were a major revenue driver for the government. From 1790 to 1860, tariffs accounted for 90% of federal revenue, according to Douglas Irwin, a Dartmouth College economist who has studied the history of trade policy. Tariffs fell out of favor as global trade grew after World War II. The government needed vastly bigger revenue streams to finance its operations. In the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, the government is expected to collect $81.4 billion in tariffs and fees. That's a trifle next to the $2.5 trillion that's expected to come from individual income taxes and the $1.7 trillion from Social Security and Medicare taxes. Still, Trump wants to enact a budget policy that resembles what was in place in the 19th century. He has argued that tariffs on farm imports could lower food prices by aiding America’s farmers. In fact, tariffs on imported food products would almost certainly send grocery prices up by reducing choices for consumers and competition for American producers. Tariffs can also be used to pressure other countries on issues that may or may not be related to trade. In 2019, for example, Trump used the threat of tariffs as leverage to persuade Mexico to crack down on waves of Central American migrants crossing Mexican territory on their way to the United States. Trump even sees tariffs as a way to prevent wars. “I can do it with a phone call,’’ he said at an August rally in North Carolina. If another country tries to start a war, he said he’d issue a threat: “We’re going to charge you 100% tariffs. And all of a sudden, the president or prime minister or dictator or whoever the hell is running the country says to me, ‘Sir, we won’t go to war.’ ” Economists generally consider tariffs self-defeating Tariffs raise costs for companies and consumers that rely on imports. They're also likely to provoke retaliation. The European Union, for example, punched back against Trump’s tariffs on steel and aluminum by taxing U.S. products, from bourbon to Harley-Davidson motorcycles. Likewise, China responded to Trump’s trade war by slapping tariffs on American goods, including soybeans and pork in a calculated drive to hurt his supporters in farm country. A study by economists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Zurich, Harvard and the World Bank concluded that Trump’s tariffs failed to restore jobs to the American heartland. The tariffs “neither raised nor lowered U.S. employment’’ where they were supposed to protect jobs, the study found. Despite Trump’s 2018 taxes on imported steel, for example, the number of jobs at U.S. steel plants barely budged: They remained right around 140,000. By comparison, Walmart alone employs 1.6 million people in the United States. Worse, the retaliatory taxes imposed by China and other nations on U.S. goods had “negative employment impacts,’’ especially for farmers, the study found. These retaliatory tariffs were only partly offset by billions in government aid that Trump doled out to farmers. The Trump tariffs also damaged companies that relied on targeted imports. If Trump’s trade war fizzled as policy, though, it succeeded as politics. The study found that support for Trump and Republican congressional candidates rose in areas most exposed to the import tariffs — the industrial Midwest and manufacturing-heavy Southern states like North Carolina and Tennessee.Ahead of Ohio State's appearance in the College Football Playoff, head coach Ryan Day received a vote of confidence from his athletic director despite the Buckeyes' latest loss to Michigan. Ohio State AD Ross Bjork appeared on 97.1 The Fan in Columbus on Thursday, where a radio host asked him whether Day would be the Buckeyes' coach at the start of next season regardless of how the playoffs shake out. "Absolutely," said Bjork, who came to Ohio State from the same role at Texas A&M in July. "Coach Day and I have just hit it off so well. I've been really, really impressed. Every single time I've talked to him, I've learned something. He's innovative. He recruits at the highest level. He's got a great staff. There's always tweaks. There was tweaks after last year, right? You're always going to tweak things. You're always going to make adjustments. You're always going to make improvements." Bjork continued by addressing the "championship or bust" attitude held by some of the fanbase. "This whole mentality about -- and look, we live it, and we sign up for it -- but if you get fixated on the end result and not have the process fully baked every time, you're going to lose," Bjork said. "The mindset's going to lose because you're only fixated on one thing. And so what we have to do is this whole ‘championship or bust' mentality, you want that as the goal, but it has to be about the process. "To me, we've got to maybe change some conversations a little bit. I think we need to maybe just approach things a little bit differently." Day is 66-10 as Ohio State's coach and led the Buckeyes to one national championship game appearance, a 52-24 loss to Alabama to cap the 2020 season. Ohio State went 10-2 in the regular season but missed out on a place in the Big Ten championship game when rival Michigan defeated the Buckeyes 13-10 on Nov. 30. It was Michigan's fourth straight win in The Game, and Day is now 1-4 as a head coach against the Wolverines. At the time, Bjork released a statement of support for Day, and he doubled down during Thursday's radio hit. "He's great to work with. He totally gets it. He loves being a Buckeye, and so we're going to support him at the highest level throughout," Bjork said. "But here's the thing too, and the reason why we needed to say something after that game is we're still breathing. They're still alive. The season's not over. The book is not closed, right? And so we've got to have confidence. I mean, Ohio State should be confident every single day. We're Ohio State. "But we also have to make sure we stay to our values and we stick to what we believe in. 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