When Mike Tyson and Roy Jones Jr fought last year, there were justifiable concerns that two men closer to pensionable age than the peaks of their celebrated careers would carry out concussive damage on one another. Tyson, with his instinct for ring brutality, came under the more specific scrutiny, with …
Read More »US Senate votes to give financial aid to ‘Havana Syndrome’ victims & resurrects spectre of mystery weapon behind ‘attacks’
The bipartisan law – Helping American Victims Afflicted by Neurological Attacks (HAVANA) Act – passed on Monday authorizes funding for treating illnesses with symptoms relating to the so-called syndrome, including headaches, dizziness, tinnitus, hearing and vision impairment, vertigo and memory loss. There have been more than 130 instances of the …
Read More »NYT, MSNBC contributor shocks critics by saying it was ‘disturbing’ to see ‘American flags’ flying during Long Island trip
During a Tuesday appearance on Morning Joe, Gay targeted Trump supporters, some of whom she described as hateful, displaying flags with expletives next to President Joe Biden’s name and pro-Trump banners, when discussing investigations into the January 6 Capitol riot. “The reality is here that we have a large percentage …
Read More »Pentagon says US exit from Afghanistan halfway done, but won’t give ‘specifics’ on progress going forward
US Central Command (CENTCOM), the military body that oversees the Middle East and Central Asia, said more than half of American forces had left Afghanistan in a Tuesday press release. “US Central Command estimates that we have completed greater than 50% of the entire retrograde process,” it said, adding that …
Read More »‘Who are they to dictate good and evil’? Trump praises Nigeria for banning Twitter, regrets not doing so himself while president
“Congratulations to the country of Nigeria, who just banned Twitter because they banned their President,” Trump said in a statement on Tuesday. Trump also seemed to regret not having acted more forcefully against social media platforms while in office. “Perhaps I should have done it while I was President,” he …
Read More »‘Wow, good friends ehhh?’: Britons shocked as none of 30 ‘friends’ at party where BLM activist was shot talk to police
In an interview with the Evening Standard on Monday, Detective Chief Inspector Richard Leonard revealed that none of the 30 or so individuals present at a party on May 23, where Sasha Johnson received gunshots to the head, have spoken to police. Leonard’s remarks, which were accompanied by a plea …
Read More »US tax agency requests ‘clear dictate’ from Congress to collect cryptocurrency transfers data
“I think we need congressional authority,” the IRS head, Charles Rettig, said on Tuesday in testimony to the Senate Finance Committee. He argued that his service gets “challenged frequently” in the field of cryptocurrency operations and having a “clear dictate from Congress” allowing it to collect the relevant information “is …
Read More »Hunter Biden used N-word in messages with his lawyer, even SEXTED him by accident – media
“How much money do I owe you. [Because] n***a you better not be charging me Hennessy rates,” Biden texted Mesires on December 13, 2018, explaining that he “just made up that phrase.” A bill from October that year showed that Mesires charged $845 an hour, the UK tabloid reported. After …
Read More »Joints! Jackpots! Burgers! States offering gimmicky incentives only make those suspicious of Covid-19 vaccines more concerned
Considering the ridiculous amount of prizes being offered from state to state as vaccine incentives, one would think the country would be well past President Joe Biden’s July 4 goal of 70% of US adults being vaccinated against Covid-19. That is simply not the case. Vaccination rates have plummeted in …
Read More »Trial of the century will reveal EXACTLY what Australian soldiers really got up to in Afghanistan
The eyes of Australia are on an important defamation trial which got under way in the Federal Court in Sydney on Monday. The trial, which is to be heard by a judge alone without a jury, has been described in the media as “the defamation case of the century.” That may …
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