Cruz published a video on Sunday showing the facility in Donna, Texas packed with migrants wrapped in foil blankets with no social distancing, despite the dangers of the Covid-19 pandemic, as an unnamed woman frantically attempted to get Cruz to stop recording. “Please give dignity to the people… Please respect …
Read More »Wall Street banks ditch $19 billion of stocks in ‘unprecedented’ block trade selloff – media
Goldman Sachs alone liquidated $10.5 billion worth of stocks in block trades on Friday, Bloomberg reported citing the investment bank’s email to clients. The first batch, that included $6.6 billion worth of shares of Baidu, Tencent Music Entertainment Group and Vipshop Holdings, was sold before the market opened on Friday. …
Read More »Russian cosmonaut shows how Suez Canal looks from International Space Station (PHOTOS)
“You can see it now from the International Space Station,” the cosmonaut wrote on Instagram, adding that the images show how small tugboats were trying to move the giant vessel. Посмотреть эту публикацию в Instagram Публикация от Sergey Kud-Sverchkov (@kudsverchkov) The snapshots give a good look at how the 400-meter-long …
Read More »Explosive report reveals US police chief of TINY low-crime village earns more than NYC police commissioner
Chief Thomas Cummings, who oversees Long Island’s Southampton Village and its population of 3,307 people, raked in a total of $441,945.82 last year, but has an annual base salary of $263,829, according to the New York Post. Night differential pay, vacation, holiday pay, Medicare, retirement contributions, “Cleaning/Clothing/College,” and more all …
Read More »Writing music down like Mozart did is ‘white hegemony’, proposed reform of Oxford’s curriculum reportedly claims
One of the most prestigious universities in the UK plans to overhaul its music courses for undergraduates to steer them away from elements of ‘colonialism’ and ‘white supremacy’, the Telegraph reported, citing internal documents. The supposedly problematic parts of the curriculum include the study of musical notation, described as a …
Read More »‘You don’t know what it’s like to experience totalitarianism,’ says the North Korean defector running for election in Britain
Award-winning human rights activists tend not to join Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party. It’s for the elite, the rich, the upper class. You also wouldn’t expect one to stand up for the prime minister, who embodies privilege, having attended Eton College and Oxford University. But Jihyun Park is different. “Sometimes I …
Read More »Armenian PM Pashinyan to resign ahead of fresh election as protests & constitutional crisis rage on in wake of war with Azerbaijan
The Armenian leader said he has no intention to relinquish power. Instead he plans to remain as acting prime minister during the campaign before the general election, which he earlier promised to hold on June 20. The Armenian constitution requires the dissolution of parliament before an early election is conducted. …
Read More »‘It’s between me and my doctor’, Putin said when asked about off-camera vaccination
Putin was reported to have received a shot of a domestically-developed vaccine earlier this week, but neither footage of the procedure nor the name of the vaccine were made public. Speaking to a journalist from Russia 1 TV, he said not even the people closest to him were privy to …
Read More »Fury after CNN refers to Uber Eats driver’s death during carjacking by teen girls as ‘accident’
The crime in question happened on Tuesday in Washington, DC and was filmed by an eyewitness. The graphic video shows a scuffle at a car, which then speeds away with the driver clinging to open door. The vehicle is seen crashing at a nearby intersection, turning on its side. The …
Read More »Who else could it be? Russian hackers suspected of taking Australian morning news broadcast off air
Channel 9 CEO Mike Sneesby confirmed that a cyber-attack rendered the broadcaster unable to air its morning news show, ‘Weekend Today’, which runs between 7am and 1pm local time from its Sydney office. The channel’s 5pm news program also failed to air in Melbourne. The company said in a statement …
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