The diplomat has been reportedly reluctant to leave the country, with US news outlet Axios saying that he wanted to stay in Moscow, and would not go home unless he was expelled. Now, it appears he has taken the ‘advice’, and will return this week. “I believe it is important …
Read More »Police must avoid cracking heads because of scrutiny from RT, top Scottish law official says in explosive new report on brutality
John Scott QC, chairman of the independent advisory group on law enforcement during the coronavirus crisis, ruled that a decision by Police Scotland earlier this month to avoid confrontation with football fans flouting pandemic rules was proportionate and within the law. The force had come under fire from some politicians …
Read More »Progressives make last push for $15 minimum wage as relief bill heads to Senate
Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough ruled last week that a Democrat-proposed provision hiking the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour could not be tacked on to the Biden administration’s $1.9 trillion stimulus bill. MacDonough, a Democrat who acts as a sort of referee in the upper chamber, declared that a …
Read More »US heads into Thursday without clear winner in 2020 presidential race: Key battleground states still in limbo
Both Biden and Trump are racing to claw together enough electoral votes to declare victory, but pauses in ballot counting, razor-thin margins, and legal complaints make it unlikely that there will be a clear winner declared two days after Americans headed to the polls. Biden is projected to win both …
Read More »AP blames France for INCITING Muslims to chop heads off, deletes & rewrites tweet after ferocious criticism
“AP Explains: Why does France incite anger in the Muslim world? Its brutal colonial past, staunch secular policies and tough-talking president who is seen as insensitive toward the Muslim faith all play a role,” the offending message screamed from the official AP Twitter account. It also linked to an article …
Read More »Instagram refuses to remove ‘black art’ depicting severed heads of white people citing ‘differences of expression’
The image, produced by an artist working under the name ‘sugarygarbage’, was shared to a page called ‘supportblackart’ and shows two obese black women posing with the severed heads of a white woman and man. Needless to say, the piece generated strong reactions online. “I would put this in the …
Read More »Putin will meet with heads of sports federations because of a possible tough sanctions
Russian President Vladimir Putin summoned the heads of all sports federations on November 28 round table. It is reported Cempionatam. The theme of the meeting is to discuss possible tougher sanctions against Russia and Russian sport. So, earlier media reported that Petersburg could lose the right to host the Championship …
Read More »Batons again walk on the backs and heads
Well, that and everything fell into place. Jamb are reports of detainees in the Hermitage garden, including journalists. Undoing my colleague Dima Borko. He writes that in front of him in a paddy wagon, put a minimum of two photographers. It is strange that yesterday it was necessary to explain …
Read More »The neural network is trained to create talking heads
The developers have created a system that long-term study on a large set of video data. Training convolutional neural networks, the Russian developers of Samsung and the SKOLKOVO Institute of science and technology (Skoltech) animated photography, portraits and paintings. It is known that to synthesize realistic avatars is difficult for …
Read More »Murzin no longer heads the team of Ukraine on basketball
Ukrainian specialist Evgeny Murzin resigned from the post of chief coach of the national team. At today’s Executive Committee of the FBU Murzin during a progress report, resigned. The Bureau of the FBI made this decision.Portal “Sport.ua” reports that with the new coach of the national team of Ukraine FBU …
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