On Wednesday, the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) tweeted that they had confiscated a fake license featuring a photo of a smirking Duterte during a patrol of Historic Filipinotown. Although police censored some of the information on the license, the name Norman D can be seen on the signature as …
Read More »Australian reporters ‘angered’ after advice to stop using term ‘pedophile’ to refer to accused serial child molestor
In an email to reporters, an unnamed senior producer at ABC said that the Sexual Assault Support Service (SASS) had “mentioned their concerns” about describing former nurse James Geoffrey Griffin – who committed suicide in 2019 after the allegations against him were made public – as a pedophile. Griffin was …
Read More »Italian researchers create world’s 1st ‘smart tattoo’ using OLED tech
Researchers at UCL and the Italian Institute of Technology used the same basic principle as a temporary tattoo, which is transferred onto the skin by soaking and pressing, but combined it with OLED tech to produce the new devices. When combined with other wearable technologies, the smart tattoos could emit …
Read More »NHS doctors transplant hearts in children using re-animated organs in world first
Surgeons at the Royal Papworth Hospital in Cambridgeshire revived stopped hearts and used them successfully in multiple, pioneering transplant operations by employing a heart-in-a-box machine designed to replicate the conditions inside the human body. So far, a total of six patients, aged between 12 and 16, have benefitted from the …
Read More »Ritchie rich: Report on wealthy celebs using government Covid-19 bailouts sparks debate over fate of taxpayers’ funds
Ritchie, a renowned filmmaker, whose reported net worth amounts to more than £100 million ($137.3 million), has used the state-run Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme to pay 19 workers of his Fatboy Pub Company, the Sun on Sunday reported, citing government documents it obtained. The filmmaker’s firm which was on the …
Read More »Jared & Ivanka barred Secret Service from using their toilets, forcing them to pay $100K+ to rent nearby bathroom – report
The president’s oldest daughter and her husband reportedly refused to allow their Secret Service detail to use any of the half-dozen bathrooms in their home, located in the upscale DC neighborhood of Kalorama, according to neighbors and law enforcement officials who spoke to the Washington Post on Thursday. This obviously …
Read More »Mainstream media goes full Orwell telling readers they’re using the word ‘Orwellian’ wrong
News outlet USA Today has managed to personify the term ‘Orwellian’ in its profoundly condescending writeup scolding readers for “using the term ‘Orwellian’ wrong.” Published on Monday, the piece goes to great lengths to shame those insecure about their vocabulary by suggesting the term “Orwellian” can only be used correctly …
Read More »William Burns, ex-envoy to Russia who accused Putin of using judo-like tactics to ‘sow chaos’ in US, named as Biden’s CIA director
Burns, who is currently president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, an international affairs think tank based in Washington, DC, retired from the US Foreign Service in 2014 after a 33-year career in diplomacy. He served as deputy secretary of state in the Obama administration from 2011-2014, and as …
Read More »Scanning digital health QR code becomes OBLIGATORY for passengers using ride-hailing services in Beijing
Starting from Monday, drivers will be able to deny services to those who refuse to show and scan their QR codes, the state-run Global Times newspaper reported. The color-based health QR code system was introduced in Beijing and more than 100 other cities in February to help curb the spread …
Read More »Caitlin Johnstone: The two-faced mainstream media is already using the Washington riot to call for more social media censorship
The United States received a very small taste of its own medicine as rioting Trump fanatics temporarily forced their way into the nation’s Capitol building, and now the whole country is freaking out. I am being generous when I say that America was given a very small taste of its …
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