“We just had our first patient who has died of a thrombosis, cerebral thrombosis, following vaccination from AstraZeneca,” Arruda told a news briefing on Tuesday. Speaking about the fatality, Quebec Premier Francois Legault said he was “very sad to know that a 54-year-old woman in good shape… died because she …
Read More »Hypocrisy at its finest: US announces millions in aid for Syria crisis, caused largely by its regime-change policy and sanctions
“How is it possible that we can’t find in our hearts the common humanity to actually take meaningful action?” Blinken said on Monday, calling for the reopening of aid corridors and an increase in aid for war-torn Syria. Whilst the Biden administration’s representative has been praised by Western media as …
Read More »Texas power grid operator axes its CEO after deadly blackout caused by winter storm
The board of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) has given a 60-day notice to President and CEO Bill Magness, the non-profit company said in a statement after a meeting on Wednesday night. During the transition period, he will “work with state leaders and regulators on potential reforms,” while …
Read More »Caitlin Johnstone: Conspiracy theories are caused by government secrecy
The DC Circuit has ruled that the CIA is under no obligation to comply with Freedom of Information Act requests pertaining to its involvement with insurgent militias in Syria, overturning a lower court’s previous ruling in favor of a Buzzfeed News reporter seeking such documents. As Sputnik‘s Morgan Artyukhina clearly outlines, this ruling comes despite the fact …
Read More »Family of 20yo who committed suicide says Robinhood caused his death w/ ‘reckless tactics’ that prey on inexperienced
Filed in California’s Santa Clara County Superior Court on Monday, the 30-page complaint from the family of Alex Kearns accuses the online trading app of luring a young, inexperienced investor into transactions he “did not understand” and misleading him to believe he had incurred hundreds of thousands of dollars in …
Read More »How the curse of Covid has caused a spate of suicides in Bollywood… and India is ill-equipped to deal with it
Plenty of unexpected events occurred in the wake of the pandemic, making 2020 one of the most volatile years ever. But one phenomenon that’s flown under the radar has been the shocking rise in suicides in the colourful world of India’s TV and film industry, Bollywood. Within a matter of …
Read More »Guardian columnist implies his heart attack was CAUSED by Jeremy Corbyn’s politics, gets mercilessly mocked
In the hierarchy of journalists, there are none hardier than war correspondents. They risk life and limb to report from the world’s most dangerous conflict zones, yet the Guardian’s Rafael Behr appears to believe that reporting on Brexit and fretting over Jeremy Corby’s leadership of the Labour Party can be …
Read More »Arabian slights: How a deepfake video caused a rift in the Arab world and led to a three-year blockade of Qatar
In early June 2017, a major fissure in the already fragile relations between the six members of the GCC (Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, and Qatar) emerged, leading to a total blockade of Qatar. The crown princes of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), and the …
Read More »Covid-19 pandemic ’caused by separate outbreaks’ around the world, China was only the first to report – Chinese FM
“We raced against time and were the first country to report cases to the world,” Wang said in an interview to Chinese media published on Friday. He argued that, contrary to a prevailing opinion, China’s own outbreak of the disease was not exclusively to blame for the global pandemic. More …
Read More »Mass mink graves may have caused groundwater pollution in Denmark, as govt admits it LOST TRACK of 1.5 million animals
The unprecedented mass cull was conducted by Denmark last month in an attempt to stop the spread of a mutated coronavirus strain among animals and workers. Now, the slaughter, which saw the entire mink population of 15 to 17 million animals killed, has seemingly created a whole set of new …
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