Shootings, murder, violent assaults on the subways are all on the rise, and the Guardian Angels are back on the streets to try to stem the tide. This is what happens if you give criminals an invitation to loot – and worse. Once-progressive New York City is about to get …
Read More »Charges against trucker who drove through BLM protest to be dropped – report
As thousands of protesters blocked the Interstate 35W Bridge in Minneapolis last June, truck driver Bogdan Vechirko approached the crowd in his semi. The crowd refused to allow him to pass, but Vechirko pushed on regardless. As the protesters surrounded his cab, some shouted “get his ass,” and Vechirko was …
Read More »NYT newsroom ‘more like North Korea every day’: Ex-reporter who dropped N-bomb implies scandal linked to his union work
Donald McNeil Jr, who had worked at the Times since 1976, resigned in early February. His distinguished career ended after he was accused of racism over using a slur word during a trip with students to Peru in 2019 – a revelation that caused an internal revolt by newspaper employees. …
Read More »Shock rocker Marilyn Manson dropped by record label amid slew of horrific abuse claims, calls them ‘distortion of reality’
Wood met Manson when she was 18 and he was 36, and began a relationship with the rock star which lasted from 2007 to their short-lived engagement in 2010. Wood previously testified before the House Judiciary Subcommittee in 2018 about both sexual and domestic abuse at the hands of a …
Read More »Whom to cancel next? Singer Ariel Pink dropped by label after artist attended pro-Trump rally that led to Capitol unrest
Independent record label Mexican Summer said in a tweet that it was ending its “working relationship” with Pink “going forward.” The company was set to release a new album from the artist at the end of January. The popular indie musician attracts more than one million listeners per month on …
Read More »Weapons dropped from orbit anywhere on Earth within an hour? DoD asks SpaceX to prove it’s viable
A year ago SpaceX President and Chief Operating Officer Gwynne Shotwell mused about how the Pentagon could use its future heavy launch system Starship. Not to land space marines on Mars, but for the speedy point-to-point delivery of cargo on Earth. The pitch apparently fell on fertile ground, since the …
Read More »The price of Russian Urals oil dropped to the level of 1999
The price of Russian Urals crude oil fell 16.2 percent, according to Argus media. The publication notes that this is the lowest level since June 1999. Over the week, Russian grade fell $of 5.51 per barrel. The cost of the futures on Brent crude for delivery in June 2020 is …
Read More »Belarus dropped fuel exports, Russia has increased its surrogate diesel
Export of petroleum products, earlier Belarus brought substantial income to have contracted. The situation now is compounded not only by the dispute with Russia, but the fall in world oil prices, pandemic and coronavirus. Global price agencies have reported the accumulation of oil in storage in several countries. However, in …
Read More »Roshal has asked Putin to protect the doctors that the media “dropped through the floor”
The President of the Institute of emergency children’s surgery and traumatology Leonid Roshal, receiving the order of Alexander Nevsky, the ceremony of presenting state awards in the Kremlin, said that he wanted to share his title with thousands of Russian doctors, “which the media has dropped through the floor.” About …
Read More »In Saudi Arabia after an attack drones twice dropped oil production
The biggest attack on the oil infrastructure of the country is threatened by instability on world markets. After the drone attacks on oil refineries, oil production in Saudi Arabia decreased in two times. Experts fear that the largest country in the history of the attack on the oil infrastructure would …
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