Sending shockwaves through football when it was announced in April, the competition was originally made up of 12 rebel outfits from Europe, with six representing the Premier League alone. Atletico Madrid, AC Milan, Inter Milan, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur were the other clubs involved, …
Read More »‘Little Britain meets The Thick of It’: Boris Jonson slammed for clumsy photo op in Afghanistan crisis centre
Johnson and Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab visited the Foregn Office crisis centre on Friday, with BBC’s ‘Newsnight’ broadcasting clips from the visit later that night. From the outset, Johnson turned up the cringe factor, greeting staff with a cheery “what’s happening?” and bumping elbows, even though nobody in the room …
Read More »California teacher takes down US flag because it made her ‘uncomfortable,’ invites student to pledge allegiance to Pride colors
The teacher, identified by Fox News on Saturday as Kristin Pitzen of Newport Mesa School District in Orange County, was seen on a viral social media video speaking about the daily Pledge of Allegiance at her school. “I always tell my class, ‘Stand if you feel like it, don’t stand …
Read More »Final UK military flight departs Kabul airport as British campaign in Afghanistan ends
Operation Pitting has now come to an end, with British military forces evacuating more than 15,000 British nationals and Afghan allies, including over 2000 children. Prime Minister Boris Johnson marked the end of Britain’s 20-year campaign in Afghanistan in a statement released through Twitter. “I want to thank everyone involved …
Read More »US embassy in Afghanistan urges Americans to avoid travelling to the Kabul airport due to ‘specific, credible threat’
In a security alert issued early Sunday, the US embassy sounded the alarm about a potential attack at the Kabul airport, two days after a suicide bombing killed some 170 Afghans, 13 US servicemen and two British nationals. Those US citizens who had already set off to the airport were …
Read More »‘Nothing better to do?’ CDC mocked for tweeting about ‘inclusive language’ guide as Covid-19 rages
“Are you using inclusive language?” the CDC asked Twitter users in a post on Friday. The message linked to the agency’s recently issued “health equity guiding principles for inclusive communication,” which advises against using such language as “inmates” and “biologically male” and instead saying “persons who are incarcerated” and “designated …
Read More »Ilhan Omar praises chaotic Afghanistan evacuation as ‘inspiring’ while critics call for Biden’s resignation
Appearing on Saturday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s ‘Velshi,’ Omar was asked by guest host Medhi Hasan whether it was “surprising” to see Biden “now standing up to the defense establishment, to the generals, to the hawks, including in the media, and sticking to this withdrawal timetable, ending America’s longest war?” Biden …
Read More »Hurricane Ida intensifies rapidly, will become one of strongest storms to hit Louisiana ‘since at least the 1850s,’ governor warns
US National Weather Service (NWS) forecasters are “extremely confident” in their current projections for Ida, Edwards said at a press briefing on Saturday, including expectations that it will pummel the Louisiana coast on Sunday and will intensify to at least Category 4 strength with winds of 140 miles per hour …
Read More »‘CIA tweets CIA interview with CIA’: Viewers react to suddenly-released ‘eerily prophetic’ CNN interview with ISIS-K commander
The interview was aired on Saturday, with the “senior ISIS-K commander” telling CNN reporter Clarissa Ward at a hotel in Kabul that the group was “laying low and waiting for its moment to strike.” That moment apparently arrived on Thursday, when a blast for which ISIS-K took responsibility killed 170 …
Read More »James Corden, other celebrities ripped for ‘tone deaf’ video dancing in LA traffic amid Covid-19, Afghanistan crisis
The video includes Corden dressed as a mouse and 24-year-old Camila Cabello as Cinderella dancing for a ‘Crosswalk the Musical Skit’ for an upcoming episode of ‘The Late Late Show’. The stunt is meant to promote a new movie version of ‘Cinderella’, starring Cabello and Corden, which is set to …
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