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Mars for Musk: Bill Gates uninterested in battling Tesla tycoon to be first on red planet

Gates complained big-time Earth entrepreneurs weren’t doing enough to fix “the hard stuff: steel, cement, meat” on Earth while instead…

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Texas halts natural gas exports as states scrambles to end power outages

The governor announced during a media briefing on Wednesday that he had issued a decree forbidding gas producers from selling…

3 years ago

US sanctions on Venezuela have failed to achieve anything but needless death and misery. Against all reason, they are set to stay

Alena Douhan, the UN Special Rapporteur on unilateral coercive measures and human rights – a new position created by the…

3 years ago

Texas disaster is what happens when you DON’T pursue a Green New Deal – AOC

“The infrastructure failures in Texas are quite literally what happens when you *don’t* pursue a Green New Deal,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted…

3 years ago

Collateral damage? Facebook’s purge of Australian news ‘inadvertently’ hits charities, health organizations & government pages

The blanket ban was meant to target only Australian news publishers, and prevent users across the country from sharing and…

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Prince Philip admitted to hospital, expected to remain in care several days – Buckingham Palace

Philip began feeling unwell on Tuesday, and was admitted to London’s King Edward VII hospital that evening, the palace said…

3 years ago

The media’s Valentine’s Day love-in for Joe & Jill Biden was so saccharine it made the Hallmark Channel look gritty

The masturbatory media coverage that accompanied Joe Biden’s inauguration was not, it seems, a brief lapse in objectivity from America’s…

3 years ago

‘No violations allowed’: WATCH Russian Su-27 intercept trio of French planes over Black Sea

The Southern Military District deployed the interceptors on Wednesday morning as the trio of foreign aircraft appeared on their radars,…

3 years ago

Biden signals green light for reparations study as Congress press bill to examine slavery & discrimination from 1619 to present

Biden “certainly would support a study of reparations” and the “continuing impacts of slavery,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki…

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Israeli PM Netanyahu says he had ‘friendly and warm’ call with US president Biden

Tweeting in Hebrew, Netanyahu announced on Wednesday that he had spoken with Biden, saying they discussed the “strong alliance between…

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