As the Ukraine crisis rolls on, there is a growing fear among Western commentators and foreign policy elites that a “China-Russia” axis is consolidating, which will pose a gargantuan threat. With this thinking, many, especially on the right of US politics, have called for an effort to split Moscow from …
Read More »Poland and Germany can’t handle migrant crisis on Belarus border alone – German interior minister
“We must help the Polish government secure their external border. This would actually be the task of the European Commission. I’m now appealing to them to take action,” Seehofer told Bild newspaper on Tuesday. Some 3,000 migrants from the Middle East and Africa, who are looking to make it into …
Read More »Ye for prez 2024? Kanye West moves to change his legal name in line with monosyllabic Twitter handle
The 44-year-old rapper and music producer submitted the necessary documents to the Los Angeles Superior Court on Tuesday. Once approved by a judge, Kanye Omari West will have a single syllable for his first name, with no middle or surname. West has been using the moniker Ye on social media …
Read More »‘Swatting’ call by teenagers who coveted Tennessee man’s prized Twitter handle leads to his death, family reveals
The incident occurred in April 2020, when Mark Herring got a telephone call from a neighbor who told him there were “police everywhere” because they thought a man had killed a woman on his property, Herring’s son-in-law, Greg Hooge, told Nashville’s local ABC News affiliate on Tuesday. Police had come …
Read More »Based Nigeria: African country teaches US lesson in how to handle Big Tech tyranny
The government in Abuja announced on Friday it had “indefinitely suspended” the US-based platform, following Twitter’s censorship of Buhari. The move was made because of “the persistent use of the platform for activities that are capable of undermining Nigeria’s corporate existence,” said Information Minister Lai Mohammed. Nigeria’s TV and press …
Read More »‘Don’t come NOW’: DHS chief laments US border isn’t ready to handle influx of illegal migrants in ‘orderly, safe & humane’ fashion
“We are flooding the space with that critical message,” US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said on Monday in a White House press briefing. “I cannot overstate its criticality to the wellbeing of those individuals who are thinking of coming,” explaining that Washington is working with NGOs …
Read More »‘Never Forget’ means facing history, not erasing it. If we can’t handle statues, we’re helpless against living, breathing fascists
On Holocaust Remembrance Day, Forward writer Lev Golinkin unveiled a list of scores of monuments and streets across the US and Europe honoring “fascists, Nazis and murderers of Jews” as indicative of a darker current running through supposedly tolerant societies. That most were erected in the last 20 years is …
Read More »Twitter says it will strip Trump of @POTUS handle on January 20, even if he does not concede, touts talks with Biden team
“Twitter is actively preparing to support the transition of White House institutional Twitter accounts on January 20th, 2021,” Twitter spokesperson Nick Pacilio said in a statement emailed to reporters on Friday, adding that the tech giant would pass off the @POTUS, @whitehouse, @VP, @FLOTUS and other government-related handles to the …
Read More »Americans can handle it
Almost all reaction to the campaign #blacklivesmatter in the Russian “Facebook” could be reduced to the two most popular types (if to speak about “Facebook”, i.e., relatively “advanced” part of society): 1) “Conservative” — emphasis on the various “excesses” of the campaign. How its members silenced all who say at …
Read More »Brought to handle Friske decided to buy grandson
Father Zhanna Friske Vladimir Kopylov concessions Dmitry Shepelev. The man was desperate to see her grandson. For regular meetings with the son of a singer man ready to give the lead share of a country house. The property has long been a stumbling block between the family and friends of …
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