Aleksey Pushkov, a senator and former head of the parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee, argued in comments on Telegram on Friday that the White House was struggling to demonstrate the tough stance it had promised against the Kremlin, because it had run out of viable options. “The hesitation about Russia in …
Read More »Elon Musk declares himself ‘Technoking’ of Tesla, company’s CFO now its ‘Master of Coin’ – SEC filing
Tesla’s chief financial officer Zach Kirkhorn also now holds a new position of “Master of Coin,” in apparent reference to George RR Martin’s ‘Game of Thrones’ series of books and TV shows. “Elon and Zach will also maintain their respective positions as Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer,” the …
Read More »Leftists are going to create the next Donald Trump with their constant vilification of Tucker Carlson
Tucker Carlson has been around the political game for a great many years. He first made his name with a show called Crossfire, which former Daily Show host Jon Stewart accused of “hurting America.” Now he resides on Fox News, and has some of the highest ratings of any political …
Read More »Has the pandemic turned your government into totalitarians? RT launches own Covid-19 Freedom Index
Covid Freedom Index Even as billions are set to acquire immunity to the virus in 2021 – either through vaccination or antibodies gained following a course of the illness – there has been little letup in crisis rhetoric, with those in power often advocating restrictive measures that go far beyond …
Read More »Egypt and France conduct joint naval exercise as tensions ease following 2020 Prophet cartoon controversy
The joint military exercise in the Red Sea was confirmed by a spokesperson for the Egyptian military, Tamer al-Refai, in a Facebook post on Sunday. French carrier ‘Charles de Gaulle’ and Egyptian warship ‘Seem Al Fateh’ were present for the exercises, with helicopter maneuvers, defensive activities and other military actions …
Read More »Regular ‘booster’ shots will become commonplace as new variants emerge, says UK’s Covid-19 genomics chief
“We have to appreciate that we were always going to have to have booster doses; immunity to coronavirus doesn’t last forever,” Sharon Peacock, UK Covid-19 Genomics (COG-UK) chief, told Reuters at the Wellcome Sanger Institute’s Cambridge campus on Monday. Peacock, whose COG-UK programme has sequenced half of the world’s mapped …
Read More »US must lift sanctions and pledge not to repeat Trump’s ‘mistakes’ before nuclear talks can resume, Iran says
“The US should lift sanctions on Iran and also should give guarantees that Trump’s mistakes will not happen again, then we can talk within the framework of JCPOA,” Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said on Monday, referring to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. Meanwhile, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad …
Read More »‘Capitol rioter’ reportedly told colleagues Nazis ‘should have finished the job,’ sported ‘Hitler mustache’ at Navy base (PHOTO)
Hale-Cusanelli was arrested on January 15 as part of an ever-expanding investigation into the Capitol riot, which is on course to become the largest investigation in the history of the country. The man, who worked as a security contractor at Naval Weapons Station (NWS) Earle in New Jersey at the …
Read More »US has 1,000 ‘off-the-books’ troops in Afghanistan, some of whom work with the CIA – media
Citing US, European and Afghan officials, the Times reported that the US has about 1,000 more troops in the war-torn nation than it has disclosed. Officially, the Pentagon claims that its forces in Afghanistan total 2,500, but this figure allegedly does not accurately represent how many US boots are actually …
Read More »Sanctimonious UK has its own dodgy doctor & full-blown doping row – let’s see if quest for the truth is as loud as with Russia
On Friday, a medical tribunal found Freeman guilty of ordering the banned substance testosterone “knowing or believing” it would be used to dope an unnamed rider back in 2011, while Freeman was working with both British Cycling and Team Sky. It was a long and convoluted case which – …
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