Half the seats in the State Duma are awarded by proportional representation, while the others are assigned by ‘first-past-the-post’ results in single member constituencies. United Russia, the ruling party, has officially received close to 50% of all votes cast, while sweeping the overwhelming majority of constituencies, with 99% of votes …
Read More »If Trudeau loses next week, I sincerely hope it marks the beginning of the end for wokeness
The funny thing is, Trudeau has brought his potential downfall on himself. He called the snap election last month, when he did not have to do so. Canadians were not due to go to the polls until 2023, but he thought that he could catch his opponents off guard and …
Read More »Tommy Robinson loses libel case brought by Syrian teenager, must hand over £100,000 in damages
In a High Court judgment on Thursday, Mr Justice Matthew Nicklin ordered Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, to pay the damages and cover 18-year-old Jamal Hijazi’s legal fees. Hijazi was filmed being attacked in the playground at Almondbury Community School in Huddersfield in October 2018. In videos posted …
Read More »‘You don’t know what you’re talking about!’: Fauci LOSES IT with Sen. Rand Paul over Wuhan lab funding accusations
Questioning Fauci during a Senate Health Committee hearing on Tuesday about the government’s coronavirus response, Sen. Paul (R) implied that Fauci lied to Congress in May when he said that the National Institute of Health (NIH) did not fund so-called ‘gain-of-function’ research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China, …
Read More »Twitter loses liability protection for user-created posts in India after failing to delete content
In a ruling filed on Monday, the US microblogging site lost the immunity that prevents it from being held liable for content posted by its users. The decision was made on the premise that Twitter is not respecting India’s “law of the land.” The decision comes after a complaint over …
Read More »Probe launched after Ukrainian man loses consciousness & dies just four hours after taking first dose of Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine
The Ukrainian health ministry said in a statement that a 47-year-old man from the Vinnytsia region was vaccinated by a mobile team at around 1:45pm local time on Friday. The man initially appeared to have no complications, but at around 5pm he began complaining about nausea, and then he lost …
Read More »Crypto crash? Bitcoin loses half its value from year’s high
Bitcoin recovered to $36,554 per token on Monday. It hit a high for the year of $64,895.22 on April 14. “Many point to bitcoin’s volatility as untenable,” RBC Capital Markets’ Amy Wu Silverman wrote, according to Reuters. “Indeed, bitcoin makes severe and dizzying swings.” Other major cryptocurrencies, including dogecoin and …
Read More »If Forstater, sacked over transgender comments, loses tribunal appeal, no one with a job can claim to have free speech
“I believe that sex is real and that sex matters. It is important to be able to talk about biological sex and the ways in which men and women are differently affected by political, societal and cultural choices and policies.” To many people, this is a statement of the obvious. …
Read More »Germany’s CDU/CSU loses majority support after Laschet named chancellor pick, as Greens become TOP party for first time – poll
The Union of Christian Democrats (CDU) and the Bavaria-based Christian Social Union (CSU) – the leading force in German politics for more than a decade under Chancellor Angela Merkel – have seemingly fallen out of favor with voters after the CDU chose Merkel’s latest successor at the helm of the …
Read More »Trump reportedly loses it over ‘son of a b**ch’ McConnell and ‘full of crap’ Fauci in rant to Republican donors
Trump’s ire arose mainly from his continued belief that the 2020 presidential election was rigged against him, according to reports from the New York Times and Washington Post. The former president allegedly ripped McConnell and even his vice president, Mike Pence, for not doing more to support his fraud claims. …
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