Trust in the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has fallen 16 points on average, a poll conducted last week by the Kaiser Family Foundation has revealed. Published on Thursday, the survey’s results appear to show widespread fear of the virus is now gradually giving way to economic anxiety, and impatience …
Read More »‘Hitler would be proud’: Video of airborne Spanish police berating beachgoers over Covid-19 triggers bleak comparisons online
Footage has been shared widely online showing Spanish police barking instructions at beach goers in Mallorca from a helicopter. Some commentators described the video as “creepy,” as others decried the huge waste of police resources to harass a practically empty beach while the streets of Palma are filled with people …
Read More »‘You thought it would stop at statues?’ Darwin exhibits at UK’s Natural History Museum may be canceled for being ‘offensive’
The museum’s directors are scrutinizing collections that may be considered “problematic,” which could lead to removal or lesser remedies, such as renaming, The Telegraph reported, citing internal documents. Artifacts from the father of evolutionary theory are among the suspects because Darwin’s voyage to the Galapagos Islands on HMS ‘Beagle’ was one …
Read More »‘Steve would not be happy!’ Trump goes after late Apple founder’s billionaire widow, who owns magazine behind ‘dead losers’ report
Powell Jobs, the widow of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, holds a 70 percent stake in the Atlantic, which she acquired in 2017. She has also kicked a share of her $21 billion fortune toward Democratic campaigns. After Joe Biden secured the party’s nomination, she cut the former vice president a …
Read More »‘What animal would say such a thing?’ Trump trashes anonymous claims he called dead veterans ‘losers & suckers’
The Atlantic article, published on Thursday, claims the president disparaged dead American soldiers on several occasions throughout his term, citing a flock of nameless officials and aides, none of whom would go on record with their accounts. The story also noted Trump’s “contempt” for the late GOP Senator John McCain …
Read More »Poll that shows one in six Brits think racist Enoch Powell would have been a good PM proves how polarised UK has become
A poll by the radio station of Britain’s newspaper of record, the Times, has thrown up some eye-catching results. The general public were asked for their views on how various political figures would have fared as prime minister. The names spanned different generations and affiliations, but few would have predicted …
Read More »Merkel reveals she has no regrets over 2015 migrant influx, claims she would let 1 million into Germany again
Merkel was asked about the policy during her annual summer press conference in Berlin on Friday. “When people are standing at the German-Austrian border or the Hungarian-Austrian border, they have to be treated like human beings,” the German leader told journalists. The politician added that European nations will face similar …
Read More »Poisoning protest leader Navalny ‘would not benefit’ Moscow, says Russian Foreign Ministry, labels Western allegations ‘offensive’
The ministry issued a statement on Tuesday evening, following a meeting between Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and US Deputy Secretary of State Stephen Biegun, during which the subject of Navalny was raised, among other issues. Lavrov pointed out the “suspicious haste” with which the narrative about Navalny’s alleged poisoning was …
Read More »Ibram X. Kendi’s ‘anti-racist’ constitutional amendment would lead to racial discrimination on a massive scale
It’s been a good week for Ibram X. Kendi, professor of history, best-selling author, and founder of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research. On August 20, his nascent research center came into possession of a not-inconsequential sum of money – $10 million to be exact – thanks to the …
Read More »Why Lukashenko would lose power and after that with Putin
So what is happening in Belarus? It is obvious that Lukashenko lost the election and had a devastating defeat, after which in fact made a coup and usurped power. Why did he lose? Because his proposed political-economic model is at an impasse. No future, no development, people’s life is getting …
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