While the nuclear-powered submarines envisioned under the AUKUS pact are at least years away from being built, Australia has already envisioned how it will use the vessels. Speaking at the Hudson Institute, a conservative Washington-based think tank, Australia’s Ambassador to US Arthur Sinodinos said the submarine project, as well as …
Read More »Biden’s vaccine mandate fails ‘reality & common sense’ check, judge rules
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a stark rebuke to Biden’s vaccine requirement for larger American companies in a ruling on Friday, stating that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) – the federal agency tapped to enforce the mandate – was not created to “make sweeping pronouncements on …
Read More »US entrepreneur who flew to space on Bezos’ rocket dies in plane crash
A small private plane carrying de Vries and another man, 54-year-old Thomas Fischer, crashed down in Hampton Township, New Jersey near the border with New York on Thursday, killing both, the New Jersey state police told media outlets. Bezos’ company Blue Origin also noted the entrepreneur’s passing, saying it was …
Read More »Russia’s first IV anti-Covid drug registered, manufacturer says
Dubbed Areplivir, the “first direct-acting intravenous solution for treatment of Covid-19 in Russia” has been registered by the authorities, its developer Promomed told TASS on Friday. The company added that the drug would be available for use in hospitals before year’s end. The solution is a new form of the …
Read More »UK tabloid cheers US hypersonic nukes in Germany, shows mushroom cloud over Moscow
‘Dark Eagle has landed’ proclaimed The Sun, originally reporting that the new US missiles could “blitz Russia” in just six minutes – before revising that to “21 minutes and 30 seconds” – along with a graphic showing Moscow being vaporized in a mushroom cloud. The US has in fact reactivated …
Read More »WATCH: Protesters, police clash after new Covid restrictions announced in the Netherlands
Demonstrators threw stones and set off fireworks on Friday evening, while riot police at one point deployed a water cannon, according to footage and reports from the city. The water cannon was deployed after protesters held a “sitdown action” and refused to leave after multiple requests from law enforcement, police …
Read More »The woke phenomenon: woke media don’t like to be told they’re woke
Charles M Blow, an opinion writer for The New York Times, is clearly irritated that wokishness has acquired negative connotations. He complains ‘woke’ is “now almost exclusively used by those who seek to deride it, those who chafe at the activism from which it sprang.” Blow is unsettled by the fact …
Read More »Trump ally Bannon indicted by grand jury
The indictment was released on Friday, just over three weeks after Bannon was held in contempt by Congress for failing to answer a subpoena to testify to the Democrat-run committee investigating the January 6 pro-Trump riot on Capitol Hill. Bannon claimed at the time that he did not have to …
Read More »BLM could ‘unleash the people’ in New York – co-founder to RT
“Eric Adams is a man without a plan, so all he can conceive of is brute force,” Newsome told RT America on Thursday. “That’s how he wants to and plans to unleash law enforcement, NYPD, on black and brown people who live in … dire, dire poverty.” Created to stop …
Read More »Two Russian paratroopers die in training accident near Belarus-Poland border
One soldier had reportedly tried to save the other until the last moment with the help of his reserve parachute, the ministry added, but the system did not have time to perform due to the low altitude. The incident unfolded during a simulated airborne operation near the Belarusian city of Grodno. …
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