Wolf said he was saddened to step down, having planned to serve until President Donald Trump’s administration ends, but “this action is warranted by recent events, including the ongoing and meritless court rulings regarding the validity of my authority as acting secretary.” Wolf made no specific mention of the January …
Read More »‘Sexist, ageist and jealous’ CBS’s Leslie Stahl degraded online for asking if 80-year-old Nancy Pelosi had a successor in Congress
During a Sunday interview, Stahl asked Pelosi about a potential future leadership change, in reference to Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez previously accusing Congressional Democrats of not training the next generation of party heads. “You’re 80, your number two [House Majority Leader] Steny Hoyer is 81, your number three [House Majority Whip] …
Read More »No sex please, we’re locked down: Plunging global birth rate shows long-term effects of Covid on society will be DEVASTATING
As the restrictions defining Lockdown 3.0 turn ever more draconian, the authoritarian crackdown on dissent and the increasingly grim prognosis for Covid-19 are having a serious impact not just on the here and now, but on our future. Things are so serious, people have stopped having sex. The UK birth …
Read More »Barricades, police & media: Twitter battens down the hatches in preparation for pro-Trump crowd that never came
San Francisco police lined the entire block occupied by Twitter’s headquarters on Monday morning, bracing themselves for a predicted onslaught of angry Donald Trump fans presumably seeking revenge for the deplatforming of the US president the previous week. But at 8am local time, when the demonstration was set to begin, …
Read More »Ukrainian neo-Nazi ‘thought leader’ fired from prestigious Vienna fellowship as outcry over far-right links goes viral
Olena Semenyaka, who has been called “The First Lady of Ukrainian Nationalism,” was due to take up a Junior Visiting Fellowship at the Vienna-based Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in January. However, on Monday, the college told RT that the arrangement was now under review in response to allegations raised …
Read More »Parler hacker says RELAX, not ALL private information was compromised
Until it was denied web hosting by Amazon and effectively removed from the internet on Monday, Parler was growing in popularity among US conservatives and right-wingers, many of whom migrated to the site after being banned from Twitter. Amazon pulled the plug in light of what it called a “steady …
Read More »FBI bulletin claims threat of ‘armed protests’ and ‘huge uprising’ if Trump is removed – reports
The Bureau has “received information about an identified armed group intending to travel to Washington, DC on 16 January. They have warned that if Congress attempts to remove [the president] via the 25th Amendment, a huge uprising will occur,” according to an internal bulletin obtained somehow by ABC News Radio …
Read More »Can America be saved? It would have to start with some TRUTH-TELLING and unselfishness, so…not so much
Ironically, it was during the last civil war when President Abraham Lincoln spoke those eloquent words at Gettysburg, asserting that the honored dead had fallen in battle so America could have a “new birth of freedom” and govern with such dedication to the will of its people that it “shall …
Read More »Slavoj Zizek: Trump’s GREATEST TREASON is the betrayal of populism
When the district judge Vanessa Baraitser rejected the US demand to extradite Julian Assange, many Leftist and liberal critics commented on this decision in terms which recall the famous lines from T.S. Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral: “The last temptation is the greatest treason / To do the right deed …
Read More »Merkel says Trump Twitter ban ‘problematic’ due to ‘fundamental right’ to freedom of opinion – spokesperson
Steffan Seibert said on Monday that it was right for social media companies not to “stand back” when content inciting violence was posted online, such as by ‘flagging’ it, as Twitter has previously done to several of the US president’s tweets. Merkel’s spokesman stressed, however, that the right to freedom …
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