Carpenter, who played Cordelia Chase on the hit TV shows Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, posted a lengthy Twitter denunciation on Wednesday, describing how Whedon “abused his power on numerous occasions” during the time she worked with him – fat-shaming her while she was pregnant, mocking her religious beliefs, …
Read More »‘Mutants are a reality’: Germany extends lockdown until March 7 as Merkel urges caution over Covid-19 variants
Exceptions to the lockdown, which has been in place since December, mean that hairdressers are able to reopen from March 1 and federal states can decide on their own timetables for the reopening of schools. But German bars, restaurants, hotels, leisure centers and non-essential shops will remain closed until the …
Read More »Black Hawks Down – does a slew of fatal chopper crashes indicate a larger crisis with US military procurement and effectiveness?
Military flight operations are inherently dangerous, whether conducted in peacetime or during actual operations. As the child of a career US Air Force aircraft maintenance officer, and later as a Naval Aerial Observer with the US Marines, I have experienced the life and death consequences of operating aircraft during war …
Read More »Black Hawks Down – does a slew of fatal chopper crashes indicate a larger crisis with US military procurement and effectiveness?
Military flight operations are inherently dangerous, whether conducted in peacetime or during actual operations. As the child of a career US Air Force aircraft maintenance officer, and later as a Naval Aerial Observer with the US Marines, I have experienced the life and death consequences of operating aircraft during war …
Read More »Biden’s budget nominee Neera Tanden grilled over calling Bernie Sanders ‘everything but an ignorant SLUT’ at contentious hearing
Tanden sat before the Senate Budget Committee on Wednesday for her second confirmation hearing, after Tuesday’s session with the Homeland Security Committee. This time, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) held the gavel, and questioned Tanden on her history of derogatory statements about him and his progressive supporters. “Your attacks were not …
Read More »Biden’s budget nominee Neera Tanden grilled over calling Bernie Sanders ‘everything but an ignorant SLUT’ at contentious hearing
Tanden sat before the Senate Budget Committee on Wednesday for her second confirmation hearing, after Tuesday’s session with the Homeland Security Committee. This time, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) held the gavel, and questioned Tanden on her history of derogatory statements about him and his progressive supporters. “Your attacks were not …
Read More »Biden unveils Pentagon ‘China task force’ to review ‘challenge’ Beijing poses as US military flexes muscles at its doorstep
Biden announced the new task force during a Pentagon visit on Wednesday, his first to the department, declaring that his administration would “meet the growing challenges posed by China to keep peace and defend our interests.” READ MORE: US Navy berates ‘destabilizing’ Chinese activity as pro-NATO Atlantic Council publishes blueprint …
Read More »The government has become the biggest advertiser in Britain’s already struggling newspapers, so how ‘independent’ are they really?
It will surprise most Brits that the nation’s biggest advertiser is not Amazon, Apple, or Nike – it’s the government. That’s across all forms of advertising, but when the focus narrows to newspapers, the picture is even more troubling. Experts have stated that the continued existence of this government money …
Read More »Aristotle and Plato must go. After targeting statues, race activists now aim to topple the ancient founders of Western thought
Dan-el Padilla Peralta, a black academic, claims that Western civilisation is based on conceptions of ‘whiteness’ that come from interpretations of the ancient authors. Recently, some classicists have tied their own discipline to white nationalism, wanting to exculpate their discipline from supposed racism. Padilla goes further and claims that classics …
Read More »The government has become the biggest advertiser in Britain’s already struggling newspapers, so how ‘independent’ are they really?
It will surprise most Brits that the nation’s biggest advertiser is not Amazon, Apple, or Nike – it’s the government. That’s across all forms of advertising, but when the focus narrows to newspapers, the picture is even more troubling. Experts have stated that the continued existence of this government money …
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