In a Tuesday Twitter thread, the Black Lives Matter organization called for Biden to end the 1033 program, otherwise known as the Law Enforcement Support Office, which allows for the transfer of military surplus equipment to local law enforcement agencies. While this can at times be weaponry, it also includes …
Read More »FBI pinpoints Capitol protester by open-source investigation alone, though it’s unclear what he could be charged with
Stephen Chase Randolph, a participant in the January 6 raid on the Capitol in Washington, DC, was identified from surveillance footage and photographs using facial recognition software alone, the Huffington Post reported on Tuesday. The suspect’s identity appears to have been triangulated through computerized means alone, according to federal authorities, …
Read More »College investigating instructor after she told students she’s ‘sick’ of talking about Black Lives Matter
In the short clip posted to Instagram, the SUNY Buffalo State College teacher says she wants to be “honest” and hear “honest” responses from students before she finally declares, “I am sick of [talking] about Black Lives Matter.” The teacher was identified as Erica Cope by the student who took …
Read More »Amnesty International ‘upholds racism’ and its senior staff used the N-word, so why do its views still carry so much influence?
Truth hides in the darkness, if we go by the latest revelations surrounding Amnesty International The human rights organisation, whose stated aim is “campaigning for a world where human rights are enjoyed by all,” decided not to release a damning internal report to the press. It somehow found its way …
Read More »Tucker Carlson claims Jeff Bezos sent WaPo ‘minion’ to dig into past & see if host did ‘anything naughty at the age of 19’
“Jeff Bezos had one of his minions, a mentally unbalanced middle-aged man called Erik Wemple, pull our dusty college yearbook and call around and see if we’d done anything naughty at the age of 19,” Carlson told viewers on Tuesday evening. He went on to claim that “quite a few …
Read More »Sweden’s goal was to live with the Covid virus rather than try to suppress it, and this new book sets out its success
As someone who tends towards scepticism about anything governments do in relation to health – I always prefer giving people information and the freedom to choose, particularly when it comes to our ‘bad habits’ like smoking, drinking alcohol, and eating the ‘wrong’ foods – I’ve found the illiberal responses by …
Read More »Security forces make arrests as protesters take to streets of cities across Russia in support of jailed opposition figure Navalny
Footage from the center of the Russian capital, where the unauthorized rally was set to be held on Wednesday, showed riot police erecting barricades, while uniformed officers asked crowds – with many protesters shouting anti-Kremlin slogans – to disperse. Moscow authorities had rejected an application for a protest, and gatherings …
Read More »Modi has done too much too soon in his bid to pitch India as a rival to China
India is suffering a catastrophic second wave of Covid-19. With the number of new cases averaging nearly 250,000 a day over the past week, the country’s healthcare system has been pushed to the brink and deaths are on the rise, forcing several cities and states to go into lockdown. Prime …
Read More »Search underway for Indonesian submarine missing north of Bali, 53 on board – military
National Armed Forces Commander Hadi Tjahjanto told reporters that the KRI Nanggala disappeared 95 km (60 miles) north of Bali. The vessel went missing northwest of the port town Singaraja and was in the area to conduct a torpedo drill, according to Janes, the defence intelligence information publisher. The vessel …
Read More »As chemical weapons watchdog’s credibility crumbles, OPCW member states strip Syria’s voting rights
The vote to penalize Syria took place on Wednesday at the conference of the states that are parties to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague. Syria was punished for allegedly violating the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), of which the OCPW is the guardian, based on …
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