The governor’s office wants the review of allegations by two former staffers to be “beyond reproach,” Beth Garvey, special counsel and senior adviser to Cuomo, said on Sunday in a statement. She added that the governor’s office had chosen former federal judge Barbara Jones to oversee the probe, citing her …
Read More »Biden to ‘review’ Guantanamo prison with ‘intention’ to close facility by end of term – 12 years after Obama made same promise
White House press secretary Jen Psaki announced the move during a Friday press conference after she was asked about the controversial prison camp – which now houses 40 detainees, most of whom languish behind bars indefinitely without charges. “That certainly is the goal, and our intention,” Psaki said of closing …
Read More »Biden unveils Pentagon ‘China task force’ to review ‘challenge’ Beijing poses as US military flexes muscles at its doorstep
Biden announced the new task force during a Pentagon visit on Wednesday, his first to the department, declaring that his administration would “meet the growing challenges posed by China to keep peace and defend our interests.” READ MORE: US Navy berates ‘destabilizing’ Chinese activity as pro-NATO Atlantic Council publishes blueprint …
Read More »DOJ internal watchdog opens review into agency’s handling of Capitol riot, will assess if there are ‘weaknesses’ in policies
In a statement on Friday, DOJ Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz announced that his office will be “initiating a review to examine the role of and activity of DOJ and its components in preparing for and responding” to the events that unfolded at the US Capitol on January 6. Horowitz …
Read More »Woke review of the Queen’s paintings shames true heroes of Xmas favourite ‘Zulu’ by insulting their bravery as ‘colonial violence’
While it must be hard for the Queen to ignore the clamour of the woke constituency, especially when one’s own grandchildren are the poster couple for this increasingly insidious mindset, caving in over the relabelling of ‘The Defence of Rorke’s Drift,’ at Christmas of all times, is really a step …
Read More »Official review shows MI6 agents engaged in “serious criminality” abroad, as tribunal reveals agency is also free to break UK law
There has rightly been intense controversy over the Covert Human Intelligence Sources (CHIS) bill in recent months. The legislation would enshrine in law the ability of undercover operatives – both employees of British state agencies and their informants – to not only commit extremely serious crimes, up to and including …
Read More »Customer review site Yelp debuts ‘racism alert’ to freeze reviews of pages engulfed in discrimination scandals
Trumpeting its “zero tolerance policy to racism,” the site announced the new feature in a blog post on Thursday, explaining that while it’s great that many users have been using Yelp to air their grievances about businesses behaving in a racist manner, this is sometimes done without “actual first-hand consumer …
Read More »A scientific review of the science behind lockdown concludes the policy was a MISTAKE & will have caused MORE deaths from Covid-19
A new paper by researchers at Edinburgh University suggests that lockdowns do not help to reduce the death toll from Covid-19, but may simply postpone those deaths. It’s another piece of evidence that suggests that a different strategy to combat the pandemic – one that doesn’t impose blanket restrictions across …
Read More »In Chechnya, teachers require “more review” for Kadyrov
In Chechnya school teachers were obliged to write comments in social networks in support of the head of the Republic Ramzan Kadyrov, after the introduction against his family of U.S. sanctions, according to “Caucasian knot”. Media refers to several teachers from different districts of Chechnya. So, according to the teacher …
Read More »Can start to punish for insulting officials in the review of social networks
Alexander Khinshtein introduced the act on the punishment of comments in social networks insulting officials and politicians All the news headlines recently publicized that in the state Duma received the draft law on the punishment for the officials for insulting public statements. Co-author of this initiative, a member of the …
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