The Minnesota Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that Chauvin did not qualify for a public defender. Upholding an earlier decision by Hennepin County District Judge Peter Cahill to the same effect, Chief Justice Lorie Gildea rejected the application after reviewing information Chauvin provided regarding his debts and assets. In the …
Read More »‘I’m upset you called me a killer,’ Putin allegedly told Biden after US president’s words sparked diplomatic row – new book claims
That’s according to a new behind-the-scenes account of the Biden administration’s first weeks in power, written by Washington Post journalists Bob Woodward and Robert Costa, with excerpts picked up by US media on Monday. In April, during the first bilateral call since the Democratic Party politician took office, Putin reportedly …
Read More »‘Finally we have a killer’: Lukaku hailed as ‘difference maker’ after bailing out lackluster Chelsea against Zenit resistance
Just as it looked as if Russian champions Zenit might hold out for a worthy point, Lukaku drifted off the shoulder of defender Dmitri Chistyakov in the 69th minute to head home an inch-perfect cross from Chelsea skipper Cesar Azpilicueta. Lukaku headed in Chelsea’s winner. © Reuters Up to that …
Read More »Obesity is a killer and Covid is brutal to fat people, so why are we doing nothing to tackle this ticking time bomb?
The CEO of salad chain Sweetgreen was recently chastised by leftist journalists for a LinkedIn post suggesting that obesity has been a significant factor contributing to poor health in the context of Covid morbidity and mortality. Vice magazine took similar umbrage when the CEO of Whole Foods expressed the same …
Read More »Going from ‘video game sniper’ to remote killer withers away who you are, drone operator turned whistleblower tells RT
Brandon Bryant served in the US military between 2006 and 2011, targeting drone strikes from the Cannon Air Force Base in New Mexico. His job was to point a laser at where a Hellfire missile fired by a coworker from a Predator drone should hit. He estimates that he personally …
Read More »Russia to kit out warships with new ‘aircraft carrier killer’ rockets as standoff with West continues to heat up on high seas
On Friday, RIA Novosti reported that military chiefs had penned the deal with rocket design bureau NPO Mashinostroyenia. Under the terms of the agreement, deliveries of the Zircon complex will be received next year, marking the first time a serial anti-ship hypersonic missile has been routinely deployed. Last month, a …
Read More »Ten years on from Anders Breivik, the very complaints that drove the mass killer have gone mainstream across much of Scandinavia
As Norway pauses to reflect today 10 years after Anders Behring Breivik’s July 22 terrorist rampage that left 77 people dead, it is hard to deny that the very complaints that drove the killer have not disappeared elsewhere in liberal Scandinavia. In fact, they have gone mainstream. Fantasist Breivik, who …
Read More »Wuerzburg knife killer had ‘ISIS propaganda,’ may have been motivated by jihad – report
Police in Wuerzburg, Bavaria shot and arrested a 24-year-old Somali man on Friday after he stabbed three people to death and injured six others, two seriously. The killer reportedly took a knife from a department store and immediately began attacking those around him, and according to witnesses he shouted “Allahu …
Read More »‘I’ve never been in such good shape’: Miesha Tate shows off killer body ahead of UFC comeback (PHOTOS)
Known as ‘Cupcake’, Tate uploaded visual proof of remarkable progress to her 2 million followers on Instagram. Taking a selfie in the bathroom, it shows Tate with a ripped six-pack which is even more impressive considering she only gave birth to her second child, son Naxton, just over a year …
Read More »Rise of the killer robot: An autonomous drone hunted down a human target in Libya last year & no one is talking about it
When I was studying international human rights law at university almost a decade ago, I recall our lecturer stating that experts anticipate military enthusiasts to have fully developed killer robot technology within the next 20 years. Those predictions seem to be fairly accurate thus far, as recent developments suggest we …
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