Germany’s “most advanced” IRIS-T air defense system will arrive in Ukraine around mid-autumn, the Ukrainian ambassador to Berlin, Andrey Melnyk, told local media on Friday. He said it’s the only thing he has thanked Berlin for in recent months. The air defense system, which German Chancellor Olaf Scholz promised to …
Read More »Djokovic court hearing plagued by livestream chaos
The Australian court hearing for Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic, who is appealing his visa cancellation, was repeatedly derailed with livestream feed issues, leaving many reporters and the public in the dark. Before the hearing had even started, issues with getting the official Australian court broadcast to work led to …
Read More »BBC plagued by partisanship? Row over appointment of ‘left-wing’ editor continues to fuel debate about broadcaster’s impartiality
Reports emerged last week revealing that Jess Brammar, former editor-in-chief of Huffpost UK, had been tapped by the BBC to serve as its executive news editor. Her appointment was scrutinized in a piece published by the Mail on Sunday, which pointed to the “left-winger’s” previous criticisms of Brexit and Prime …
Read More »My life in a US death-row prison complex plagued by killings, Covid and abuse, while the executioners get busy
“You’re killing an innocent man,” uttered Daniel Lewis Lee. He could feel the IV tubes in his arms as he maintained that he was at “the other end of the country” at the time of the murders he was being killed for. He asked that, after his death, the 10 …
Read More »Scandal-plagued BBC again under fire for hiring Palestinian reporter who once tweeted that ‘#HitlerWasRight’
People responded with dismay and disbelief after the BBC’s apparent lack of social media background checks for its hires was brought to the forefront amid a scandal surrounding digital journalist Tala Halawa. Some were also disappointed by the BBC’s apparent underwhelming reaction to the accusations of anti-Semitism leveled against her. …
Read More »BLM has been plagued by grifters for years, so it should surprise no one that a co-founder now has a $3mn real estate empire
It would be nice to have a pleasant surprise when it comes to politics. Maybe have some good news to share, but sadly today is not that day. Though I imagine there are members of Black Lives Matter who are having a worse day than I am. Especially given the …
Read More »Reddit users in US, Canada plagued by outages in service amidst GameStop stock frenzy
Outage monitor downdetector.com reported the outage complaints from users. Outages for the site have been reported every day this week. “We did have some issues with higher error rates this week…It meant slower load times for some users but we were never hard down,” a spokesperson for Reddit told Reuters …
Read More »Australians plagued by the “dance”.
A unique phenomenon captured on video. In Australia managed to capture on video a rare natural phenomenon, which is called spider lightning. “Severe weather conditions are hard to capture on film, but one experienced operator was able to remove them when they lit the sky in South Australia,” reads the …
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