The walkway, located in the Piyan Mountain resort in the city of Longjing, was partially destroyed by violent winds on Friday – leaving the terrified tourist stranded 100 meters (328 feet) from the ground. A photograph published by Chinese media shows the man sitting on a beam as he wraps …
Read More »Service with Pride or more Woke-Washing? CIA recruitment ad featuring gay agency librarian prompts backlash
The ad, released on the agency’s official YouTube account in April as part of its ongoing ‘Humans of CIA’ series, features an unnamed employee who describes himself as an “agency librarian” during a voiceover monologue accompanying a sequence of videos showing him at work. A previous point-of-view video in the …
Read More »Reported disappearance of Navalny doctor sends Western Russia-watchers into overdrive… until he’s found alive and well, that is
On Sunday, as Russia celebrated Victory Day with a national holiday, the Interior Ministry in Omsk put out an alert for a man in his fifties who had become separated from his companions. He had reportedly not been heard-of since heading off into the woods on an all-terrain vehicle. To …
Read More »Western media outlets raise familiar Russian hacker bogeyman in ransomware attack that shut down ‘safety risk’ US fuel pipeline
Nearly 100GB of data was stolen from Colonial Pipeline’s network over two hours on Thursday – part of a “double-extortion” scheme that is reportedly the group’s “hallmark,” sources involved in the company’s investigation told Bloomberg on condition of anonymity since the matter “is not public.” The Georgia-based company was then …
Read More »Rockets fired on Jerusalem in attack claimed by Hamas after clashes between Israelis and Palestinians (VIDEOS)
A spokesperson for Hamas’ military branch said it had fired rockets at Jerusalem in response to Isreali crimes and aggression, including against people in the Palestinian neighborhoo Sheikh Jarrah, where families are facing forced evictions, and at Al-Aqsa Mosque. In response, Israel has dispatched troops to the Gaza border and its air …
Read More »‘You can’t choose what to kneel for’: Russian F1 driver Mazepin takes knee to honor WWII victims, gets accused of swipe at BLM
Russia held parades and ceremonies across the country on May 9 to honor the estimated 27 million Soviet citizens who lost their lives in the war against Hitlerite forces which came to an end in 1945. Away from parades such as those on Moscow’s iconic Red Square, F1 driver Mazepin …
Read More »America is to blame for the bloody violence in Jerusalem – & it just shows that state-led oppression is fine if you’re a US ally
So, who is really to blame for the violent clashes in the city that intensified today as Israeli police oppressed Palestinian demonstrations, following a month of growing tensions surrounding controversy over an eviction order in favour of settlers in East Jerusalem? Police attacked the demonstrators with stun grenades, tear gas …
Read More »‘Civil war is brewing in France and you know it’: French military launches another salvo at Macron with new open letter
The letter, published in the conservative Valeurs Actuelles magazine late on Sunday, strikes a similar tone to the message published by the same outlet last month. Unlike the previous one, which was signed by 25 retired generals and active-duty soldiers, the new letter is anonymous and is open for signing …
Read More »Scientists discover ‘living fossil’ thought to have been extinct for 273mn years on ocean floor near Japan
The creatures in question are non-skeletal corals and crinoids, or sea lilies, who were found proliferating on the floor of the Pacific Ocean, 100 meters (330 feet) below the surface, off the coasts of Honshu and Shikoku in Japan. They managed to survive undetected, having gone AWOL from the fossil …
Read More »George Galloway: Here’s why there WON’T be a second referendum on Scottish independence anytime soon
Despite the best efforts of the BBC, which has forgotten what the first B in its name stands for, the separatist Scottish Nationalist Party has failed for the second election in a row to win a majority in the Scottish Parliament. The BBC, which over Brexit and the Union has …
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