A tweet posted by President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday was removed less than one day later over the rule violation, with the platform also suspending his handle for 12 hours, according to Reuters. “Many of those misbehaving today are too young to be aware of the destruction and loss of …
Read More »Fauci said in early days of Covid outbreak that masks ‘NOT EFFECTIVE in keeping out virus,’ small droplets pass through
“The typical mask you buy in the drugstore is not really effective in keeping out virus, which is small enough to pass through the material,” Fauci said in a February 2020 email to Sylvia Burwell, assumed to be the former Obama administration health official. “It might, however, provide some slight …
Read More »Argentina’s oil workers threaten STRIKE if government doesn’t greenlight private Covid-19 vaccine purchase
The Rio Negro, Neuquen and La Pampa Private Oil and Gas Union – which has 24,000 members, many of whom are employed at the Vaca Muerta shale oil formation – insisted that it would only wait until the end of next week for permission from the government in Buenos Aires. …
Read More »That was unexpected: Amazon, Barnes & Noble memory-hole Fauci’s book amid email revelations
Searches for ‘Expect the Unexpected: Ten Lessons on Truth, Service, and the Way Forward’ on both Amazon US and Barnes & Noble booksellers returned “page not found” results on Wednesday. No official explanation was offered by either company. Fauci’s publisher, National Geographic Books, said in a statement that the book …
Read More »What will Bella Hadid do now? Louis Vuitton has culturally raped Palestine with its $705 keffiyeh in the Israeli flag’s colours
What will Bella Hadid do now? Louis Vuitton has culturally raped Palestine with its $705 keffiyeh in the Israeli flag’s colours The French fashion house has rightly been met with a backlash for its ill-judged Arab scarf, whose price and colour scheme make it unedifying. Why was it allowed to …
Read More »Biden to discuss cyberattacks with Putin in Geneva among other topics, White House says
Cyberattacks – including recent hacks disrupting the largest US transporter of refined fuels and the world’s biggest meatpacker – “will certainly be a topic of discussion” when President Joe Biden meets with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on June 16 in Geneva, White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters in …
Read More »Bibi’s done? Anti-Netanyahu coalition notifies Israeli president that it has formed new government after Arab party joins
Lapid, who leads the Yesh Atid party, informed President Reuven Rivlin shortly before midnight on Wednesday that he has “succeeded in forming a government” and that his coalition partner Bennett of Yamina “will serve as prime minister first.” Lapid will take over as PM after two years, under the terms …
Read More »Peter Hitchens’ reactionary conservatism is, at times, hilarious – his fear that we have traded freedom for safety is anything but
Peter Hitchens is a dyed-in-the-wool conservative. In an interview for Unlocked, Hitchens even describes himself as a ‘reactionary’. His theme is the loss of freedom in the UK and while his uber-conservative views mean he has a very different take on freedom from me, he’s quite right to be concerned …
Read More »There’s no ‘wolf warrior diplomacy’, only a logical reaction to Western attacks on China
“Xi Jinping wants to ‘make friends’ with the world. But Beijing can’t kick its wolf warrior habits,” says CNN, criticizing what it perceives as an aggressive, vocal, and assertive foreign policy attitude from China and its diplomats. This term ‘wolf warrior’ gets bandied about a lot these days; derived from a …
Read More »Trudeau’s regret over children’s deaths does nothing to address the issues faced by Canada’s indigenous people
Since the horrifying news broke this week that the bodies of 215 children have been found at Kamloops Residential School in the Canadian province of British Columbia, there have been increasing calls for ‘greater accountability’ and a nationwide search for more graves. Between 1831 and 1996, more than 150,000 indigenous …
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