The ceasefire brokered by Egypt has brought to an end the latest episode of conflict in Gaza. Israeli forces again traded blows with Palestinian extremist group Hamas, targeting militant sites during airstrikes, following the Muslim group’s 150-rocket barrage of Israel launched over a week ago. The casualty figures, which include …
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 »Biden’s Pentagon chief makes surprise visit to Afghanistan as questions loom over Trump withdrawal deadline
Austin arrived in Kabul from India and met with President Ashraf Ghani and other government officials, according to local media. The US general told the select reporters traveling with him that the Biden administration is interested in a “responsible end to this conflict.” “There’s always going to be concerns about …
Read More »Surprise, surprise! New York Times finds Trump ‘GUILTY’ in its own impeachment trial verdict
“If you fail to hold him accountable, it can happen again,” the Times’ editorial board wrote on Friday, in a plea to Republican senators to convict the former president. “To excuse Mr. Trump’s attack on American democracy would invite more such attempts, by him and by other aspiring autocrats,” they …
Read More »‘Not tough enough’? Le Pen put in surprise position of DEFENDING Islam as Macron’s interior minister attacks from the right
Gerald Darmanin, Minister of the Interior for the ruling Republique En Marche party, slammed Le Pen as having gone “a little soft” on the issue of Islam in France as the pair debated on Thursday on the France 2 channel. “You’re not tough enough here,” Darmanin told Le Pen. “If …
Read More »79% of Americans think the US is falling apart. That’s no surprise when one half of the country wants to crush the other
A recent Axios-Ipsos poll suggests that 79 percent of Americans believe that the nation is disintegrating. “The question, asked Tuesday and Wednesday, reflects the collision of crises besetting the country — the backdrop of a pandemic, recession, decoupling of red/blue America, and racial injustice and the immediacy of the Capitol …
Read More »‘Let this be the end of it’: Assange supporters hail judge’s surprise refusal to extradite WikiLeaks founder
Assange, 49, is charged with 18 counts of conspiring to hack US government computers and the publication of confidential military records, including a video of a 2007 Apache helicopter attack in Baghdad. A dozen people, including two Reuters journalists, were killed in that attack. In a surprise ruling on Monday, …
Read More »‘Cancel culture at work!’ Trump shares his surprise amid reports Cleveland Indians to drop their name after 105yrs
The Ohio-based Major League Baseball team will announce the decision to drop its current name as soon as this week, the New York Times and ESPN reported, citing sources. Trump quickly tweeted that it was “not good news, even for ‘Indians,’” and was “cancel culture at work.” According to reports, …
Read More »Experts get US election predictions wrong again, but it’s no surprise; the culture war is so toxic dissent has become demonised
The only unsurprising thing about the US elections was the fact that so many pollsters and pundits got it wrong, yet again. Without knowing whether Biden or Trump will eventually slide past the 270 electoral college votes to secure the presidency, the result will leave many experts with egg on …
Read More »Trump blames ‘surprise’ ballot dumps & says his lead ‘magically disappearing’ as he trails Biden in key states
“Last night I was leading, often solidly, in many key States, in almost all instances Democrat run & controlled,” Trump tweeted on Wednesday. “Then, one by one, they started to magically disappear as surprise ballot dumps were counted,” he continued, adding that “pollsters” got this election “completely & historically wrong.” …
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