President Vladimir Zelensky is planning a “serious” overhaul of the country’s leadership team, he told Italy’s RAI TG1 news channel, when asked about his reported plan to fire Ukrainian military commander General Valery Zaluzhny. Tensions between the Ukrainian president and his top general have grown since last year, with numerous reports …
Read More »Andrey Sushentsov: Ukraine could be just the starting point of a bigger crisis
Why do Russian-Ukrainian relations concern every Russian and Ukrainian? To some extent, what is happening is a delayed civil war, which could have happened in the early 1990s with the collapse of the USSR, when the first generation of Russian and Ukrainian leaders boasted that they had avoided a bloody divorce like the one in Yugoslavia. In Russia, every other person …
Read More »Protest grows bigger after president vows to ‘piss off’ the unvaxxed
At least 100,000 people took to the streets of France in protest against Covid-19 restrictions and mandates, after President Macron promised to make the lives of the unvaccinated increasingly hard until they accept the jab. The huge crowds on Saturday were roughly four times larger than back on December 18, …
Read More »Bye, evil Facebook? Zuckerberg reportedly wants new name for his VR ‘metaverse’ to show that it’s bigger than just social media
The rebranding may be announced on October 28 during the annual Connect conference or even sooner, according to the Verge. The outlet compares the looming switch to how Google renamed its parent company Alphabet in 2015 to stress that it is more than a search engine showing its users some …
Read More »‘World is bigger than five’: Turkey’s Erdogan slams ‘handful of WW2 victors’ ruling the globe during whirlwind tour of Africa
Erdogan landed in Luanda on Monday for a meeting with the president of Angola, Joao Lourenco, and a speech to the south African country’s parliament, in which he denounced the “West-centered orientalist approach” to the continent and complained about “injustices” in the current global order. “The fate of humanity should …
Read More »Global debt will be nearly three times bigger than global GDP by year-end, but there is no reason to panic – S&P
Global debt rose to a record high of nearly $300 trillion in the second quarter of this year, data from the Institute of International Finance (IIF) shows. Total debt, including government, household, corporate and bank debt, soared $4.8 trillion to $296 trillion at the end of June, $36 trillion above …
Read More »‘Disaster… bigger than Saigon’: US Afghan war veteran who lost both legs slams Biden’s ‘horrendous’ exit strategy in RT interview
The way the American troops withdrew from Afghanistan was “a blunder on a worldwide scale” that made many Afghan war veterans feel “let down” and “angry,” Gabriel E. Martinez, a veteran who served in the United States Marine Corps and lost both of his legs to a mine blast in …
Read More »New study proves Hawking was right, black holes only get bigger
In a study published on Monday, scientists from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Cornell University shared their findings from a research project which analyzed ripples in spacetime created by two black holes that spiraled inward and eventually merged into one bigger black hole. The ripples studied were the first …
Read More »Ether market cap bigger than Disney & Nestle as world’s second-biggest crypto breaks past $3,000
The world’s second-biggest digital currency was trading around $3,200 on Monday, marking an 11% intraday growth, according to CoinMarketCap. The weekly rise reportedly totaled 30%. On a year-to-date basis, ether has now quadrupled in value compared to bitcoin’s 100% rise. Ether’s market value reached $368 billion following the latest growth, …
Read More »By storming off his own TV show, snowflake Piers Morgan has proven he’s an even bigger drama queen than arch-enemy Meghan Markle
Those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones. Never for a second did we think that would apply to Britain’s inquisitor-in-chief, Piers Morgan. The Good Morning Britain host has been hailed for his sterling public service during the pandemic. While mealy mouthed BBC journalists and newspaper reporters shuffled around …
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