In an executive order made public on Tuesday, Cuomo declared a “disaster emergency on gun violence” that will allow his office to dedicate attention and resources to the crisis. He also announced that he signed into law a bill, passed by the majority-Democrat state legislature, that would make it possible …
Read More »RT’s Keiser Report explores why gold & bitcoin fans are always fighting against each other
“I find it extraordinarily frustrating,” says Hemke. “We are on the same team – bitcoin fans and gold fans. Why are we fighting against each other? And why is the bitcoin marketing campaign always ‘Dump gold and buy bitcoin’? Well, dump dollars for God’s Sake, dump stocks, dump Tesla. Why …
Read More »It’s always Putin! Russian president engineered coup in Armenia because Pashinyan insulted Moscow’s missiles, Western media claims
In an article by journalist Anna Nemtsova published on Friday, New York-based outlet The Daily Beast claimed that “Putin may have triggered an attempted coup in Armenia” because of a public spat over the effectiveness of the Russian-made Iskander missile systems. The Caucasian country’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan warned on …
Read More »Why does every new US president always try to outdo their predecessor in boosting the debt? RT’s Boom Bust explores…
The projected deficit, which is 25 percent larger than expected, doesn’t account for the 1.9 trillion stimulus bill. Larry Summers, a lead player in Democrat financial policies since the 1990s, said the debt levels, coupled with stimulus spending, could cause an overheated economy with severe inflation. RT’s Boom Bust was …
Read More »The British establishment has always made a dog’s dinner of food, no wonder it’s made such a hash over free school meals
British food: It’s so god awful that even flag-waving jingoists find it indefensible. Other than Jamie Oliver, who’s made a small fortune from basically adding salt and pepper to traditional slop, and George Orwell, whose In Defence of English Cooking is an ode to such ‘delicacies’ as potato cakes, bread …
Read More »‘You can always go Downtown’: Social media looks for hidden meaning as police say Nashville RV played 1960s pop hit before bombing
Police in Nashville said on Sunday that, shortly before it exploded next to an AT&T building, an RV parked in the city’s downtown played an audio message over a loudspeaker: a recording of ‘Downtown’ by British singer Petula Clark. Was there a deeper meaning to the message? Commenters on Twitter …
Read More »‘AOC, we always tip at 50% or more’: Neocon Lincoln Project founder roasted over ‘creepy’ proposition to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
In a lengthy open letter proposition – spread over eight Twitter posts on Saturday – Schmidt attempted to woo the congresswoman into his arms. “I would like to officially reach out to @AOC on behalf of the @ProjectLincoln in defense of democracy,” Schmidt wrote, noting that despite the fact that …
Read More »Christmas is usually crap, but Covid means you can have the festive season you’ve always secretly wanted
“I’m dreaming of a Covid Christmas, unlike the ones I used to know…” Maybe that freshened-up little ditty doesn’t quite have the same ring as the Bing Crosby original, plus, well, a singalong is not much fun when folk are socially distanced. And, of course, singing is banned in some places anyway… The …
Read More »‘We’re always treated differently’: Relative of Indigenous Canadian woman sworn at on deathbed by Quebec medics talks to RT
Canada’s Indigenous people are “always treated differently, and it doesn’t depend on whether it’s a public service or a shop or anything else,” Reginald Echaquan told RT days after his cousin Joyce died in Joliette, about 70km north of Montreal. Echaquan, a 37-year-old mother of seven, suddenly felt unwell and …
Read More »Caitlin Johnstone: Exposing war crimes should always be legal. Committing and hiding them should not
The Kafkaesque extradition trial of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange continues, with each frustrating day making it clearer than the day before that what we are watching is nothing other than a staged performance by the US and UK governments to explain why it’s okay for powerful governments to jail journalists who expose inconvenient …
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