Finland will deploy the first batch of new US-made F-35 fighter jets to the country’s northernmost region, Lapland, when Helsinki receives the aircraft in four years’ time, the country’s air force has revealed. On Friday, Brigadier General Juha-Pekka Keränen, the Nordic country’s air force commander, said that the “F-35 fleet …
Read More »Celebrity astrophysicist debunks Santa with ‘science’
Tyson made several viral posts attempting to debunk the mythology of Santa Claus using science on Christmas Eve, Friday. “Since the Northern Arctic is just ocean, Santa’s North Pole workshop has only ever existed on a floating sheet of ice. Images that portray Santa’s workshop with pine trees and snow-capped …
Read More »Young Brits want gay, black or female Santa – poll
“Age is the key factor among the wider public, with the youngest Britons – those aged 18-24 – supporting a gay Santa by 60% to 20%,” reads a report by YouGov, which conducted the poll on December 14-15. Findings show that the majority of Britons older than 65 “cannot tolerate …
Read More »Putin defends Santa in lawsuit over bad presents
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said he hopes Santa will bring his countrymen everything they want this year, and weighed in on a case brought against him by a lawyer who says he has never received the presents he hoped for. Speaking to journalists on Thursday as part of his …
Read More »Bishop chastised for telling kids ‘Santa does not exist’
“First of all, in the name of the bishop, I express my regret for this declaration which has generated disappointment in the smallest children,” the Italian press quoted Don Alessandro Paolino of the Diocese of Noto as saying. Don Paolino’s apology came after Bishop Antonio Stagliano left some young churchgoers …
Read More »Distasteful ‘Santa Inc.’ trailer met with equally distasteful anti-Semitic comments
It’s that time of year when Christmas trailers start dropping and YouTube recommends I watch this new trailer for ‘Santa Inc.’. Sounds like ‘Monsters, Inc.’, how bad can it be? So I go to the video and see that first, huge red flag – ‘Comments have been disabled’. Using an …
Read More »Russian Santa’s hometown bans Covid unvaxxed from grotto
On Sunday, officials in Veliky Ustyug, the fabled hometown of the bearded bringer of joy, warned that adults who want to tell him their wishes for the festive season will have to show a QR-code proving their immunization status, or a negative PCR test taken within 72 hours. The region …
Read More »Santa Claus is gay? Of course he is
Santa is gay. But you knew that already, right? How could he not be in this, the modern era, the age of woke? I admit, I’d always presumed there was a Mrs Claus back home somewhere in the Arctic Circle, helping Santa all year long pack presents alongside his elves …
Read More »Gay Santa Claus ad causes controversy
Produced to mark 50 years since Norway decriminalized homosexuality, ‘When Harry Met Santa’ depicts the blossoming love affair between a Norwegian man and Father Christmas himself. Over several years, Santa visits ‘Harry,’ and the pair fall for each other. The advert ends with a passionate kiss between the two men, …
Read More »US envoy who asked Santa for vaccine declines Sputnik V jab offered by Russian hosts – but says he has other requests for Moscow
Russia’s Foreign Ministry suggested that Sullivan receive Sputnik V after the US diplomat revealed that he had asked Santa for a coronavirus vaccine for Christmas. In a series of tweets, a spokeswoman for the US Embassy in Moscow explained that Sullivan was grateful for the offer but would have to take a …
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