Attending the celebrity-filled Met Gala event while she rages about the coronavirus pandemic regularly on social media was already bad optics for Ocasio-Cortez. Worse, however, is sporting a ‘Tax the Rich’ statement sprawled across the type of dress few Americans will wear at an event fewer will ever attend on …
Read More »Diving gear, medieval armor & a ‘meddling’ Donald Trump: Some Russians choose unusual dress for parliamentary election (VIDEOS)
According to the Central Election Commission, over 40% of the population had already cast their ballots, by Sunday afternoon, in the country’s parliamentary elections and a number of them looked really memorable while doing so. One voter in the Ryazan Region in central Russia apparently did some deep thinking before …
Read More »Labour MP rallies support after ‘trans activists’ allegedly scare her away from attending party conference
“Parliamentarians, who have been elected to speak up for their constituents, should be able to attend their own party conference without fear of harm,” Sir Lindsay Hoyle said on Saturday during a gathering of G7 parliament members. Earlier she was dragged through mud and branded a transphobe for being among …
Read More »Volcano erupts on Spain’s Canary Islands, ejecting large plumes of smoke into the air (PHOTOS, VIDEOS)
On Saturday, a 3.2-magnitude earthquake was reported on the island. It was followed by four tremors on Sunday morning, with the most powerful said to have reached 3.8 magnitude. Fearing an eruption and landslides, local authorities had begun to evacuate people with reduced mobility and farm animals from nearby areas …
Read More »Elderly Australian woman knocked down & PEPPER-SPRAYED by police during Melbourne protest against lockdowns
As she held an Australian flag and stood on the road facing toward a group of approaching police, one officer shoved the woman, sending her tumbling to the ground. Another officer then pepper-sprayed the woman as she laid motionless and unable to protect herself. Seconds after the attack – with …
Read More »Bank of China: Beijing to steadily expand cross-border use of yuan in 2021
According to the regulator, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement is expected to further boost trade ties between the nations in the Asia-Pacific region, thus promoting more opportunities for the use of the yuan in mutual settlements and investment activities. The pact was clinched in late 2020 at a …
Read More »No, Bloomberg, Amazon’s ‘factory towns’ will NOT solve inequality, they will be satanic mills for the working class
“Plentiful new jobs at higher wages in places with cheaper housing sounds like a solution to inequality,” investment adviser Conor Sen wrote in a piece for the news agency. Bloomberg and Amazon are putting such a shine on this idea, it reminds me of those Victorian texts where the working …
Read More »Israeli forces catch last two Gilboa Prison escapees after two-week manhunt
The raid early on Sunday morning in the city of Jenin in the occupied West Bank was conducted by the Israeli military, the domestic security service Shin Bet, and the police special forces. The two fugitives, Ayham Nayef Kamamji and Munadel Yacoub Infeiat, surrendered without a fight. Two other people, …
Read More »‘Australia’s interests come first’: PM Morrison says he ‘doesn’t regret’ canceling submarines deal with France
Proceeding with the 2016 submarine deal with France would have been “negligent” and harmful to Australia’s strategic interests, Scott Morrison said on Sunday. Speaking to the media in Sydney, he said he has no regrets over the decision that triggered a multinational diplomatic crisis and is believed to have put …
Read More »AUKUS submarine deal shows UK’s readiness to be ‘hard-headed’ in defending own interest, new foreign secretary insists
Truss, who was promoted to foreign secretary after a government reshuffle earlier this month, was trying to justify the need for Britain’s participation in the highly controversial AUKUS agreement in a dedicated article in the Sunday Telegraph. “Freedoms need to be defended, so we are also building strong security ties …
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