Some people are looking for fame all their lives and suffer due to not being able to achieve it. But the story of Vlad Ivanov – better known as Lelush – seems to be the complete opposite. The 27-year-old man from the city of Vladivostok in Russia’s Far East claims …
Read More »New Yorkers freak out as NYPD deploys Digidog, despite city’s project to ban ‘weaponized robots’
The dog was seen exiting the housing project on Monday with a group of human police officers, who acted almost subservient to the shiny blue metal creature while escorting it out of the Kips Bay building. While the New York Police Department insisted the faux-canine had not played an “active …
Read More »Despite rock bottom relations back home on Earth, Russia & US embrace space partnership for another decade of rocket-sharing
On Saturday, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin approved the proposals, extending the agreement until the end of 2030. According to a missive from officials, it will underwrite “the exploration and the use of outer space for peaceful purposes” for the best part of the coming decade. “This document is one …
Read More »Despite roll-out, Russians ‘in no hurry’ to receive Covid-19 vaccines as suspicion is a ‘national characteristic,’ Kremlin claims
Speaking to Moscow-based newspaper Argumenty i Fakty, President Vladimir Putin’s press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, admitted that distrust in domestically-produced vaccines is still hampering immunization efforts. “In terms of why people are in no hurry to get vaccinated, it seems to me that this is one of our national characteristics,” the …
Read More »Biden says he’s ‘not looking for confrontation’ with China, despite ‘stiff competition’ & issues with Taiwan and South China Sea
While Biden acknowledged China “have the overall goal to become the leading country in the world, the wealthiest and most powerful country in the world,” he attempted to dispel any possibility that this might come to pass. “That is not going to happen on my watch, because the United States is …
Read More »Merkel backs EU’s joint vaccine procurement model despite complaints that European nations don’t have enough Covid jabs
Speaking on Thursday, Angela Merkel praised the work of German vaccine developers in the global effort to inoculate people against Covid-19, but said it was right that Germany did not go it alone and, instead, worked with EU partners to ensure equitable supply across the bloc. “It was right to …
Read More »Revealed: How the US Marines secretly advised on the hit movie Avatar, despite later framing it as being anti-war
The 3-D sci-fi epic Avatar was recently re-released in China, and revenues from the People’s Republic have seen the movie overtake Avengers: Endgame and reclaim its position as the highest-grossing film of all time. This tidbit about box office statistics has resulted in a flurry of news coverage, but hidden …
Read More »Covid-19 vaccine deliveries slow in April but will speed up in May, says UK minister, despite drug company rebuttal
“We have less supply than we might have hoped for the coming weeks, but we expect it to increase again later through the course of April,” British housing Robert Jenrick told the BBC on Thursday. “We have every reason to believe that supply will increase in the months of May, …
Read More »With Trump gone & despite ‘BLAME RUSSIA’ still MSM’s favorite rallying cry, Americans perceive China as nation’s top adversary
A record-high 45 percent of Americans said they consider China to be the greatest enemy of the US, up from just 22 percent a year ago, according to a Gallup poll released on Tuesday. The poll is taken each year in February. Russia slid to No. 2 on the list …
Read More »New York Gov. Cuomo refuses to resign despite harassment scandals, claims he ‘never touched anyone inappropriately’
During a Wednesday press conference, Cuomo turned from talking about vaccine distribution in New York to addressing the allegations of unwanted touching and harassment from multiple women that have led some to say he should step down from the governorship. “I now understand that I acted in a way that …
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