The chairman of the controversial group, Enrique Tarrio, admitted to the stunt in a post to Parler early on Friday morning, saying that while he did burn the BLM banner during a political rally last week, “there was no hate crime committed.” “Against the wishes of my attorney I am …
Read More »IMF researchers propose to have AI use ONLINE history to determine credit rating, in name of ‘inclusion’ of course
Using non-financial data such as “the type of browser and hardware used to access the internet, the history of online searches and purchases,” which is then fed into technology powered by AI and machine learning, could “advance financial inclusion, by, for example, enabling more credit to informal workers and households …
Read More »‘Disney gonna sue?’: Space Force to call its members ‘guardians,’ but netizens see superhero movie rip-off
The VP unveiled the new title during a White House ceremony on Friday to mark the one-year anniversary of the country’s youngest military branch, with the newly christened “guardians” joining soldiers, sailors, airmen and guardsmen in the ranks of the armed forces. The Space Force announced the name upgrade in …
Read More »Moderna vaccine gets FDA emergency approval, becoming second jab in US to get green light
“With the availability of two vaccines now for the prevention of Covid-19, the FDA has taken another crucial step in the fight against this global pandemic that is causing vast numbers of hospitalizations and deaths in the United States each day,” said FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn in announcing the move on …
Read More »‘Was Beethoven black?’ In any normal society, the answer would be no, but we no longer live in a normal society.
Ludwig van Beethoven’s 250th birthday passed on Thursday, and the Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels celebrated the iconic composer’s in truly modern fashion: by exhibiting artist Terry Adkins’ 2004 work ‘Synapse’ – a video depicting Beethoven’s frumpy visage morphing into that of a young black man with dreadlocks. The …
Read More »‘Two guests per home’: Italy shuts businesses & limits family visits as entire country labeled ‘red zone’ for Christmas
All of Italy will be designated a “red zone” – the highest risk level on its color-coded Covid-19 scale – by the new order, issued by Conte on Friday after marathon negotiations within the country’s governing coalition. “Among our experts there is strong concern that in the period around Christmas …
Read More »Biden aide says Pentagon DID stop transition meetings, amid speculation Trump is preparing to ‘cross the Rubicon’
A sensationally titled Axios report claimed on Friday that Trump’s acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller had ordered a “total halt” to briefings and meetings with Biden’s transition staff, citing anonymous officials as saying it was to give the Pentagon staff a break for the holidays. “This isn’t true,” former acting …
Read More »Kareem Abdul-Jabbar declares celebrity ‘wrongthink’ threatens society and urges them all to shut up (except him, of course)
Celebrities with political opinions outside the ‘safe’ range dictated by the media establishment should keep their mouths shut and their Twitter fingers still, Abdul-Jabbar declared, in a shockingly tone-deaf op-ed in the Hollywood Reporter on Thursday. The sports star warned his fellow famous people that expressing unorthodox political opinions risked …
Read More »‘A bit too transparent’? Pfizer fumes as Belgian official leaks all VACCINE PRICES for EU in ‘unintended’ Twitter post
Brussels has for months been insisting it is legally restricted from revealing any details on the price of the coronavirus vaccines, but that didn’t stop the senior official from blowing the lid late on Thursday. De Bleeker, who is Belgium’s State Secretary for Budget and Consumer Protection, quickly realized her …
Read More »Russia HACKED OUR MINDS, proclaims WaPo-CNN pundit in projection-laden rant
“Russia hasn’t just hacked our computer systems. It’s hacked our minds,” the Washington Post columnist and CNN host argued on Friday, blithely unaware of the irony. For if the article is a reflection of Zakaria’s mind, then it definitely has been hacked – by Russiagate, anyway. The piece isn’t really …
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