The book ‘#Prison diary’ is based on the journal Butina kept chronicling her experiences behind bars, including the time she spent in solitary confinement. The young gun rights activist from Siberia was in the US on a student visa when she was arrested in July 2018. It was the height of …
Read More »I’m an epidemiology professor and I have some genuine concerns about the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine. Here’s why…
With over one-and-a-half million Covid-19 deaths and six million recorded cases worldwide, everyone is aware that the need for a vaccine to stop the spread of the virus is urgent. It has to be developed swiftly and safely, and target all age groups, particularly those at higher risk. The race …
Read More »Oxford and AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine to be trialed AGAIN amid mounting questions over dosage issues
The British-Swedish pharmaceutical giant is to run a fresh trial of its candidate vaccine at a lower dosage, which the company earlier claimed had performed better than a full dosage. “Now that we’ve found what looks like a better efficacy we have to validate this, so we need to do …
Read More »Happiest place on Earth? Disney axes 32,000 jobs as Covid-19 pandemic leaves theme parks empty
According to the company’s filing to the US Securities and Exchange Commission, the layoff of 32,000 workers, which is 4,000 more than Disney had earlier announced, will happen in the first half of its fiscal year which began in October. Earlier this month, Disney announced plans for additional redundancies from …
Read More »Brexit campaign donor Banks gloats after report journalist Carole Cadwalladr ‘admits having no evidence’ of his Russia dealings
Cadwalladr won the 2018 Orwell Prize for her reporting on the Cambridge Analytica scandal and big-data influence on the Brexit referendum. Her reports fit like a glove on the overarching narrative, which claims that unfavorable voting outcomes in the West are products of clandestine Russian psyops and cyber action. “Brexit …
Read More »Austrian government steps up protection of churches after Vienna attack in run-up to Christmas
The attacker may have also intended to target houses of worship, Interior Minister Karl Nehammer said on Thursday. “It cannot be ruled out that the perpetrator also wanted to deliberately seek out victims in churches,” Nehammer told reporters, citing the investigation’s findings. “There will therefore be a reinforced protection of …
Read More »Nearly 1/4 of hate crimes in Europe last year were anti-Semitic, new OSCE report shows
The new data was compiled in the annual report by the Office for the Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODHIR) of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). Out of 6,694 hate incidents recorded in Europe and Central Asia last year, 1,704 were anti-Semitic. This was the category …
Read More »America is not ‘back’ with Biden. It’ll just wear the mask of respectability again as it continues to cause chaos across the world
“America is back!” said Joe Biden this week, as he prepares to take over as president. It’s a sentiment that has, of course, been championed by liberals, but what exactly does it mean? And did America ever really go away? If you ask any critic of Donald Trump, the answer …
Read More »London spared from toughest regional restrictions, but Manchester and Birmingham plunged into tier-three lockdown
Health Secretary Matt Hancock confirmed on Thursday that the national lockdown will be replaced with a return to the tiered system across England from next Wednesday. The restrictions announced by Hancock will see London spared from the highest tier of lockdown and instead being placed in tier two, meaning …
Read More »Three Iranian bomb plotters freed by Thailand in apparent exchange for release of Australian-British ‘spy’ scholar
The prisoner swap was first reported on Wednesday, when the Iranian government agreed to release 33-year-old Kylie Moore-Gilbert. She was serving a 10-year prison sentence after being tried and convicted as an Israeli spy in 2018. Iranian media said her release was made in exchange for securing the freedom of …
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