The recent summit on Ukraine in Jeddah was a “very special” event, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has said, calling for a greater diplomatic effort to end the ongoing conflict between Moscow and Kiev. Scholz made the remarks in his major annual summer interview with German broadcaster ZDF, which aired on …
Read More »Musk’s Twitter docs dump details efforts to ‘suppress’ Hunter Biden story
Twitter chose to block the Hunter Biden laptop story in 2020 without receiving any alert from the government and struggled to find a plausible explanation for its actions, according to internal correspondence. Screenshots of the messages between high-ranking staffers were published by journalist Matt Taibbi on Friday. The release was endorsed …
Read More »Ukraine’s biochemical efforts targeted children and mentally ill, Russia says
Moscow claims Ukraine tried to infect the pro-Russian population in the Lugansk People’s Republic with tuberculosis (TB) and allowed the Pentagon to carry out human experiments at Kharkov’s psychiatric wards. During a briefing on the findings of the Russian Defense Ministry’s investigation into the purportedly US-funded bioweapon labs in Ukraine, …
Read More »900+ US professors blast efforts to abolish advanced math in schools to level playing field
Warning that the US would be put at a disadvantage internationally, 911 professors in math, science, and engineering – including professors from Ivy League universities such as Harvard and Yale – expressed their opposition to proposed policies that would make all students take the same level of mathematics regardless of …
Read More »Voters don’t care about corporations’ woke efforts – study
The poll results, released on Monday in a study titled ‘The Talking Trap’, indicated that a bipartisan majority of voters from the 2020 election believe companies need to spend less time on unrelated social justice activism and focus on developing and selling their products. The study, conducted by data analytics …
Read More »Despite efforts to silence him, Muqtada al-Sadr has emerged as the most important political figure in modern Iraqi history
For many outside observers of Iraq’s recent national elections, the results disappoint for two reasons. First, only 41% of the 22 million eligible voters turned out. Second, of the 329 parliamentary seats to be filled by candidates selected in the election, the Sadrist Party, led by Muqtada al-Sadr, won 73. …
Read More »New ultraviolent ‘slap a teacher’ craze exposes failings in TikTok’s efforts to ban traumatic videos among impressionable teens
In this age of quantum leaps in technology and seemingly endless possibilities about what we can do with our smartphones nothing is really that novel. So, while disturbing, it’s not surprising to see a new craze of violent assault videos being recklessly shared among TikTok’s one billion users. The latest …
Read More »Pyongyang restores hotline with Seoul, calls for ‘positive efforts’ to ease Korean Peninsula tensions
“The South Korean authorities should make positive efforts to put the North-South ties on a right track and settle the important tasks which must be prioritized to open up the bright prospect in the future,” North Korean state media KCNA said on Monday. South Korean authorities confirmed that the North …
Read More »Liberal efforts to hype up the threat of right-wing terrorism insult the thousands left dead in Islamist terror attacks like 9/11
Those of us around at the time clearly remember the events of 20 years ago, watching on TV in open-mouthed disbelief as two huge aircraft slammed into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York, a third slammed into the Pentagon just outside Washington DC and a …
Read More »American efforts to stop Nord Stream 2 have failed & gas pipeline will be completed in next few days – Russian foreign minister
Speaking at a meeting in St. Petersburg on Monday, the veteran diplomat announced that final preparations are being made on the underwater link, which will connect the gas fields of Siberia to consumers in Western Europe. “It will be completed in a few days and will begin working,” he said. …
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