A missile alarm went off at a US base in Germany on Saturday, during a drill run by Russian strategic nuclear forces. This was breathlessly reported by CNN, quoting unnamed sources, as a frighteningly close shave with Armageddon. According to CNN’s sources, the warning, triggered at Ramstein Air Base (the largest …
Read More »Putin claims opposition figure Alexey Navalny working with American intelligence, says Kremlin not behind his alleged poisoning
Putin added that if Russian security services wanted to assassinate the western-leaning protest leader, they would have “finished the job.” He also insisted that the FSB were within their rights to follow Navalny, given their suspicions. Earlier this week, a joint report by the US and UK state-funded Bellingcat, Russia’s …
Read More »French president Macron tests positive for Covid-19
President Emmanuel Macron was diagnosed with Covid-19 on Thursday, the Elysée Palace said in a morning press release. “This diagnosis was established following an RTPCR test performed as soon as the first symptoms appeared,” the statement read. The COVID-19 RTPCR test is a real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction test …
Read More »Election integrity watchdog to sue Facebook’s Zuckerberg for using ‘dark money’ to fund ‘massive’ fraud
The lawsuit, based on a report authored by the organization, will claim that Zuckerberg used $500 million of “dark money” to unlawfully tip the scales in battleground states that Democrat Joe Biden won by narrow margins, said Mark Serrano, a Trump 2020 campaign adviser who runs a communications firm that …
Read More »WATCH LIVE: Vladimir Putin holds annual year-end press conference
Putin began the tradition of year-end press conferences – which became a sort of less formal state-of-the-nation appearance – back in 2001. From 2004 on, they often turned into marathons, lasting for at least three hours. The record was set in 2008, when the president broadcast live for 280 minutes – …
Read More »Fire breaks out at international terminal of Ignatyevo Airport on Russia’s border with China (VIDEO)
Footage has emerged on social media showing thick plumes of smoke and columns of fire billowing from the burning building that used to welcome international arrivals. The airport is named after the village of Ignatyevo, located some 12km north-west of the region’s administrative center of Blagoveshchensk, which is home to …
Read More »Bitcoin worth more than JPMorgan as crypto sets new historic peak above $22,000
Bitcoin jumped nearly 15 percent in one day and reached $22,327 early on Thursday, setting a new historic high. It was trading at around $22,200, according to Coindesk data as of 6:57am GMT. After the recent rally, believed to be driven by demand from larger institutional investors, bitcoin’s market cap …
Read More »‘Hard lockdown’ in Australian state ‘violated human rights’ & was ‘contrary to the law’ – ombudsman
A summary issued by Victoria Ombudsman Deborah Glass on Thursday found that a strict lockdown implemented over nine public housing towers in July violated civil liberties and may have been illegal. It confined residents to their homes for nearly a week, leaving some without food or medicine. “The rushed lockdown …
Read More »WATCH: Scottish MP kicked out of UK Parliament after shouting, grabbing ceremonial mace in Brexit protest
During a debate on the UK Internal Market Bill, Drew Hendry, an MP for the Scottish National Party (SNP) could be heard shouting, “this is an outrage!” Deputy Speaker of the Commons, Dame Rosie Winterton, ordered the MP for Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey to sit down, accusing him of …
Read More »Pasture bedtime: Gang of farm animals escapes pen in middle of the night, terrorizes Turkish city center (VIDEO)
CCTV footage shared by the city government shows the unstable animals threatening locals and charging security officers who attempted to round up the rural ruffians. According to the animals’ owner, Hasan Unbulan, the gate to their pen was blown open by the wind during the night, at which point the …
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