Joe Biden’s apparent victory over the incumbent Trump is “statistically implausible,” Basham told Mark Levin on Sunday night during ‘Life, Liberty & Levin’, describing a lot of processes that went against all expectations during the elections. He says that the Democrat defied the “non-polling metrics,” which Basham claims have “a …
Read More »‘An empty suit debates an empty podium’: Twitter descends into mud-slinging after David Perdue ducks Georgia Senate debate
In a scene befitting the strange political and social landscape of 2020, Ossoff debated an empty podium on Sunday night in what was supposed to be the first of two debates before a January 5 runoff election that will decide who will represent the Peach State in the Senate. Perdue …
Read More »BoJo will secure a Brexit deal with the EU, but it will be a pyrrhic victory that ultimately satisfies no one
Four-and-a-half years after the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union, what became known to everyone as Brexit is in its endgame. With Britain having formally left the EU at the start of 2020 to commence the year-long transition agreement, there are now just weeks left for Downing Street …
Read More »Tehran will not renegotiate nuclear deal or ‘compromise on its national security’ – Iranian govt spokesman
Khatibzadeh’s comments come after Germany’s Heiko Maas called for a ‘nuclear plus’ agreement last week, a reference to expanding the terms of the 2015 deal to cap the Iranian nuclear program. “All those familiar with the international laws know that Iran will not do renegotiation on something which has been …
Read More »Scientists may have discovered Alaska’s own Yellowstone ‘supervolcano’
Diana Roman of the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, DC and her colleagues are due to present their research at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2020 Fall Meeting. Their analyses of the seismicity, localized geology, structure, and thermal and gas emissions of Mount Cleveland and five similar-sized volcanoes in …
Read More »You can’t have good eco reporting & harmful adverts, says Greta Thunberg while guest editing paper, as issue runs full-page BMW ad
Thunberg technically was the editor-in-chief of the special 58-page Sunday issue of Dagens Nyheter (DN), Sweden’s largest newspaper. The 17-year-old eco-celebrity’s actual input was limited, she said on Instagram, but she did offer some suggestions and feedback, “such as that you can’t have serious reporting on climate and environment while …
Read More »Live broadcasting of misogyny, violence & even death: The growth of ‘trash-streaming’, a disturbing Russian internet sub-culture
In essence, trash streamers make money by taking payments for their on-screen actions. Viewers, sometimes in their thousands, send donations with commands for things the streamer should do. Often, these include humiliating other on-screen guests, or offering cash to young girls for performing sexualized actions on camera. ‘Trash-streaming’ has become …
Read More »Denmark to end oil production in 2050
The round failed to attract much attention, anyway, with just one applicant expressing interest after French Total withdrew, Reuters noted in a report on the news. Denmark is not a particularly large producer of oil and gas, with its average daily output this year estimated at 83,000 bpd of oil …
Read More »Irish leaders see chances of Brexit deal at ‘50-50’ as UK goes ahead with divorce treaty-breaching Internal Market Bill
The Internal Market Bill is an “insurance policy” that will protect the “integrity of the UK” as a single entity, Cleverly said, adding that it contains clauses Britain may need to “rely on.” The draft Internal Market Bill is scheduled to be back before the UK Parliament late on Monday. …
Read More »Venezuela’s Maduro claims solid victory in opposition-boycotted parliamentary elections
The United Socialist Party of Venezuela and its allies took more than 67 percent of votes in the election, the country’s electoral board’s president, Indira Alfonzo, said early on Monday. The result was hailed as a major win by Maduro, who said the socialist were able to “recover” the rebellious …
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