There comes a point when you can no longer ignore the truth. We’ve reached that juncture with Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. He’s the ruler of Dubai, one of the United Arab Emirates, and is credited with transforming a desert town into a modern metropolis. Tourists and social media …
Read More »Explosion injures 3 people at Lidl headquarters in Germany
The wounded have been rushed to hospital. One of the three sustained moderate injuries in the incident, according to local reports, while the other two escaped with light injuries. Around 100 people were evacuated from the administrative building, located in a small town near Stuttgart. “It was probably a package or a …
Read More »The Great Atlantic Schism is here: Between US and China, Europe will choose its own path
Over 70 years ago, the United States forged the beginning of a new transatlantic order through the initiation of first, the Marshall Plan to rebuild the war-torn economies of Europe, and then secondly, the NATO alliance, framed as a protection from the perceived threat of the Soviet Union. Depicting themselves …
Read More »Vaccine rollout will trigger new Covid variants, Oxford scientist warns, adding ‘new layer of complexity’ to pandemic fight
Speaking to the UK Commons Science and Technology Committee on Wednesday, Professor Sir John Bell, Oxford’s regius professor of medicine, said that the Covid-19 mutations observed so far are a result of the virus adapting to be more effective in its new hosts, humans. “Most of the variants we have …
Read More »‘Only the strong will survive’: Texas city mayor resigns for lashing out at residents asking for help during deadly storm
“No one owes you are your family anything; nor is it the local government’s responsibility to support you during trying times like this! Sink of swim it’s your choice!” Boyd said in the now deleted post, which was riddled with grammatical errors. Unusually cold weather conditions in the state of …
Read More »An actual university course aims to revive the art of chit-chat. Good luck making small talk with the perpetually offended, though
Some people can talk. I mean, they can really, really talk. For hours and hours. About absolutely nothing. My mother, for example, can talk pretty much anyone under the table. She is the chit-chat champion of the known universe. You’d realise she was in a totally different chit-chat stratosphere, for …
Read More »Playing politics while Texans freeze? Gov. Abbott grilled after blaming Green New Deal for his state’s power woes
Frigid temperatures have shut down some of Texas’ wind turbines and solar panels, as well as natural gas infrastructure in the Lone Star state. As a result, millions of residents have been left in freezing conditions without power, resulting in numerous deaths. Speaking with Fox News host Sean Hannity on …
Read More »Gina Carano is showing how to beat cancel culture by making a movie with Ben Shapiro. Others must go independent and follow suit
Earlier this week, a crisis public relations consultant told The Hollywood Reporter that publicists have told their clients to “steer clear of politics, especially anything leaning right.” This, of course, follows the dismissal of Carano from ‘The Mandalorian’ for a social media post that compared the treatment of modern-day conservatives …
Read More »How India’s hunger for oil could transform the Middle East
The release of a major report last week by the International Energy Agency (IEA) highlighting that India will make up the biggest share of energy demand growth from now until 2040 – ahead of China – comes at just the right time for the US’s new strategy to counter China’s …
Read More »Despite Russia’s ‘challenge’ to American values, State Dept says Washington seeking further ways to improve stability with Moscow
Blinken was speaking to US state-funded radio station NPR, where he explained his belief that Washington should work with Moscow on “both fronts,” despite the White House’s view of the Kremlin. In particular, Blinken noted the recently extended New START arms control reduction agreement as an example of mutually beneficial …
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