US President Joe Biden has once again disparaged his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, calling him a “dictator” in an ABC News interview on Thursday in Normandy, France, where he was attending a ceremony commemorating the 80th anniversary of D-Day. While trying to insult Putin, Biden also made an apparent mental …
Read More »France raises terrorism threat level
France has raised the terrorism alert level across the country following an attack on a packed music venue in Russia, which left 137 people dead. On Friday, four men opened fire inside Crocus City Hall outside Moscow and set the building ablaze. All of the terrorists were later detained while …
Read More »‘Little chance’ China would agree to top-level talks with US – FT
China’s newly appointed defense minister is highly unlikely to meet his US counterpart in Singapore next month due to sanctions that Washington has placed on him over his alleged involvement in the transfer of Russian advanced weapons, the Financial Times reported on Thursday. According to the British newspaper, US Secretary …
Read More »Ukraine disappointed with level of US support – media
Ukrainian officials are becoming increasingly frustrated with the Biden administration’s failure to supply Kiev with US-made long-range multiple launch rocket systems, Politico reported on Wednesday. According to the article, citing three unnamed officials “familiar with the issue,” even though the Ukrainian government has been soliciting the delivery of the US-made …
Read More »Iran already pumping oil at pre-sanctions level – minister
Iranian oil production has bounced back to levels achieved before the US quit an agreement on the country’s nuclear program and reimposed tough sanctions in 2018, according to the country’s oil minister. Output of crude and condensate has rebounded to more than 3.8 million barrels a day, matching pre-sanctions levels, …
Read More »Russia-NATO relations at critical level, Moscow warns
Ties between NATO and Russia have plummeted to an alarming low, the country’s Defense Ministry has warned, in the wake of discussions between the US-led military bloc and Moscow over security concerns on the European continent. Speaking following a meeting between the two parties in Brussels on Wednesday, Deputy Defense …
Read More »Amazon patents show new level of surveillance
The tech giant has been developing its doorbell security camera system since 2018, when Amazon acquired the firm named Ring and, with it, the original technology. According to media reports, Jeff Bezos’ company is now preparing to enable the devices to identify “suspicious” people with the help of biometric technology, …
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 »New AOC book is another level of cringe worship
If Ocasio-Cortez’s millions of social media followers (12.8 on Twitter, 8.6 on Instagram) have not gotten enough of the young Democrat from her frequent posts, then they will soon be treated to ‘Take Up Space: The Unprecedented AOC,’ a book of essays on the 32-year-old that will release in February. …
Read More »The politician who’s used Covid to restrict people’s rights to an unprecedented level strikes again
The pandemic has generated a series of political crises in many Western liberal democracies over the past two years. Leaders who have failed to deal with it effectively have been brutally punished by voters. It was arguably one of the key reasons Donald Trump lost office and, in Australia, Prime …
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