“Let them eat cake,” A phrase infamously attributed to the doomed queen of France, Marie Antoinette, when she was told the peasants had no bread, has become synonymous with out of touch elites. It illustrates the detachment of someone of great status and wealth when they speak ignorantly about the …
Read More »Going green on Elon: Tesla hit with second Solar Roof lawsuit as customer says price was more than DOUBLED after contract signed
The lawsuit, which was filed in California this week, is led by Matthew Amans, an associate professor of clinical radiology at the University of California San Francisco. Amans had ordered the company’s Solar Roof for his home in June 2020, according to his suit. He agreed to pay $71,662.06, but …
Read More »Chinese lander touches down on Mars in ‘pre-set zone’ in Beijing’s first mission to Red Planet
The unmanned lander reached its destination on Mars’ Utopia plain on Saturday, Xinhua News reported, noting that the craft would carry out imaging of its surroundings and a self-inspection before moving off of its landing platform. The 529-pound (240kg) rover survived a turbulent trip through the Martian atmosphere after spending …
Read More »No garden for American heroes, yes to censorship & monument destruction? Biden revokes more Trump executive orders
The White House announced on Friday that it was revoking half a dozen of Trump’s orders and amending the one aimed at placing federal bureaucrats under tighter control of elected officials. Among the orders on the chopping block were two that would have rebuilt historic monuments that Democrats and social …
Read More »Weaponizing fake news? IDF accused of misleading Western media about ‘Gaza invasion’ to bait a deadly trap for Hamas
Shortly after midnight on Friday, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) tweeted that “air and ground troops are currently attacking in the Gaza Strip.” This led a number of outlets – such as the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, AFP and NPR – to report that Israeli soldiers have actually …
Read More »All new employees will be required to have Covid-19 vaccine, Delta Air Lines announces
“This is an important move to protect Delta’s people and customers, ensuring the airline can safely operate as demand returns and as it accelerates through recovery and into the future,” the company said in a Friday statement. The new policy will go into effect on Monday. CEO Ed Bastian touted …
Read More »Israel is deliberately obliterating media buildings in Gaza to cover up the war crimes that will follow
On Tuesday, Israel bombed the 10-storey Al-Jawhara Tower, causing it to collapse. Before doing so, it had ‘benevolently’ warned that the airstrikes were coming. The following day, it bombed the 14-storey Al-Shorouk Tower, also giving warning it was going to do so. Most reports have the buildings as evacuated before …
Read More »Democrats move to establish commission on Capitol riot as Republicans start pushing back on official narrative
Homeland Security Committee chair Bennie Thompson (D-Mississippi) and ranking member John Katko (R-New York) seem to have agreed on a proposed format and scope of the commission, made up of five Democrats and five Republicans appointed by their party leadership. The commission will only be able to issue subpoenas with …
Read More »‘Exercise the greatest caution’: UK PM warns public that Indian Covid variant could disrupt England’s route out of lockdown
“I have to level with you that this new variant could pose a serious disruption to our progress and could make it more difficult to move to step four in June,” Johnson told a news briefing on Friday. Step four of Britain’s lockdown exit plan allows nightclubs to reopen and …
Read More »‘A glorified drug cartel whose dealers wore lab coats, suits and ties’: how Big Pharma made Americans addicted to opioids
What would it look like if an illegal international drug cartel were allowed to advertise? Perhaps it might take the form of slick music videos and glossy magazine ads promising an ‘end to pain’. Certainly, they would minimise the negative effects of their drugs on your life, your future, and …
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