“We just think that sand is everywhere. We never thought we would run out of sand, but it is starting in some places,” a climate scientist with the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) Pascal Peduzzi said during a webinar hosted by the Chatham House think tank. “It is about anticipating …
Read More »London promises students won’t miss out on an education if they refuse to wear a mask as schools reopen after Covid closures
Schools minister Vicky Ford told Sky News on Monday that the wearing of masks in schools is not mandatory, but is nonetheless advised. “Nobody should be denied an education if they don’t wear a mask, but we do strongly recommend it,” she noted. The MP said she was “excited” to …
Read More »Exposed: How British state tries to weaponise Russian-speakers in Baltics as ‘agents of change’ in operation to ‘weaken’ Moscow
The UK government has for several years targeted residents of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, “whose primary language is Russian,” with a variety of information warfare strategies, in order to “develop greater affinity” among them for the UK, European Union and NATO, and to help “weaken the Russian state.” This is explained in …
Read More »Ivan Safronov case: How a Russian space agency advisor & ex-journalist crash-landed at the centre of a NATO-linked espionage drama
That changed dramatically in July last year, when he was arrested by agents from the FSB, the country’s top domestic security agency, and charged with treason. In a statement, officials said that he was suspected of passing state secrets to spooks from a NATO nation. On Tuesday last, a Moscow …
Read More »Biden preparing to launch series of ‘clandestine’ cyberattacks against Russia – NYT
Citing officials familiar with the operation, the Times said that a “series of clandestine actions” aimed at Russia is expected to begin over the next three weeks and that the cyberattacks are intended to be “evident” to President Vladimir Putin and Russia’s intelligence services, but not to the “wider world.” …
Read More »If you’ll miss lockdown when it’s over, you need to get out more. It’s going to be a wake-up call for the whole world
I don’t mean to be rude, but if lockdown really is your idea of ‘fun’, maybe, just maybe, when it’s finally all over, you need to get a life? Some people like to be indoors. Some people are at their absolute happiest alone on their own sofa with the TV …
Read More »WTF is a NFT? RT’s Boom Bust explores multi-million crypto industry
Twitter CEO and crypto enthusiast Jack Dorsey is one of the latest to get into the game, auctioning his 15 year-old tweet as an NFT. Earlier this week, US rock group Kings of Leon announced that their new album will be available as an NFT, offering some exclusive options to …
Read More »‘Govt demands sacrifice; hence I sacrifice on behalf of farmers’: 50-year-old man dies by hanging near Indian protest camp
Tens of thousands of farmers from the states of Punjab, Haryana, and Uttar Pradesh have been protesting for over 100 days after the Indian parliament passed highly controversial new legislation last September. The 50-year-old was named by a national farmers union as father of two, Rajveer Singh, from the Hisar …
Read More »Global food prices continue to rise with poorest countries hit hardest
The agency said that its food price index jumped by 2.4 percent month-on-month to reach 116.0 points in February. The gauge, which tracks monthly changes in the international prices of commonly-traded food commodities, is also 26.5 percent higher than it was a year earlier. The latest increase has become the …
Read More »‘Concerns about how dark his skin might be’?! Meghan drops racism bombshell on why UK royals didn’t want her son to be prince
“They didn’t want him to be a prince or princess, not knowing what the gender would be, which would be different from protocol, and that he wasn’t going to receive security,” Meghan told Oprah Winfrey in an interview aired on CBS on Sunday night. Meghan refused to elaborate, saying that …
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