There are many things wrong with Facebook, especially the unaccountable control it exercises over today’s public square. But researching how to attract and capture tomorrow’s customers is not one of them. This week’s big ‘revelation’ was that Facebook drew up plans to tap into children’s playdates. According to leaked internal …
Read More »No, China’s Belt & Road Initiative is not falling apart, this is just US propaganda, right on cue as Congress promised
Western mainstream media yesterday began posting in tandem a purported ‘study’ from which Reuters spun its own headline: ‘China’s Belt and Road plans losing momentum as opposition, debt mount – study’. The study, as noted in the report, was sponsored by the US government through the surrogate of its own …
Read More »‘Time to give Australians their lives back’: Border to reopen for fully vaccinated after 18 months of Covid restrictions
The nation closed its border back in March 2020, initially banning individuals from travelling abroad without official permission and leaving thousands of Australians stuck abroad. The relaxation of the restrictions will allow citizens to travel abroad when their state’s vaccination rate hits 80% – a goal set nationwide to ensure …
Read More »‘Canceling women’? Democrats draw online flak after $3.5trn spending bill uses non-gendered terms for mothers and women
In all, the spending package – one part of the Biden administration’s ‘Build Back Better’ program – uses the word “mother” three times and the word “maternal” 50 times. Meanwhile, the word “women” appears on 20 occasions in a number of contexts, including domestic violence, business ownership, health insurance and …
Read More »Published without fanfare, the proposals that show vaccine passports ARE on the way in the UK
Anyone by this point accustomed to the UK government’s endless policy reversals and broken promises over the course of the pandemic will be entirely unsurprised to learn that officials have at long last very quietly revealed that “mandatory Covid certifications” – a circumlocutory, Orwellian euphemism for vaccine passports – are …
Read More »Iran kicks off war games amid rising tensions with Azerbaijan and alleged ‘Zionist presence’
On Friday morning, Iran’s Army Ground Forces kicked off the ‘Fatehan (Conquerors) of Kheibar’ military exercise. Brigadier General Kiomars Heidari told Iranian news agencies that the exercises were planned in order to test weapons, military equipment and assess combat readiness. The brigadier added that the drills would improve the combat …
Read More »EU-Australia trade talks delayed following France’s AUKUS submarine snub
On Friday, Australia’s Trade Minister Dan Tehan revealed that trade talks with the bloc had been put on hold, telling Reuters he would meet with his EU partner Valdis Dombrovskis next week to discuss the 12th round of negotiations, which will take place in November instead of later this month. …
Read More »De La Hoya gets face massage from girlfriend Sonders during wild rant claiming Joshua’s career ‘ruined’ by promoter Hearn (VIDEO)
The former six-weight world champion was reacting to Hearn’s latest show, headlined by Joshua and Oleksandr Usyk while enjoyed by 65,000 punters at Tottenham Hotspur’s stadium, and pretended not to know his name while rambling through the livestream. “I’ll tell you one thing the, uh…” De La Hoya begins, before …
Read More »Not Nice: French football fan who kicked Payet during Nice-Marseille Ligue 1 riot receives one-year suspended jail term
Tony Calzoni, aged 28, has been a Nice supporter since infancy and also received a five-year ban from attending their matches. During every game played between the two mentioned rival clubs moving forward, he must also present himself at a local police station so as to prove he is not …
Read More »Welcome to Yankeegrad! Trump was Putin’s cosy comrade & America’s turning into Russia, shock new White House insider tale alleges
Trump-bashers will be delighted with what they find in the yarn, published this week by Foreign Affairs magazine. Formerly the senior director for European and Russian Affairs on the US National Security Council, Hill denounces her former boss for his reluctance to read his briefs, his inability to stay on …
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