It is difficult to find the correct adjectives to describe the latest policy that the mayor of London is adopting and imposing on the city’s besieged Police Commissioner, as she struggles with terrorism, cyber crime, Covid-19, burglary, skyrocketing murders of young black males by other black males, to say nothing …
Read More »‘MuslimPro sold us out’: Report exposes many apps selling your LOCATION DATA to US military Special Operations Command
The US military is “buying the granular movement data of people around the world, harvested from innocuous-seeming apps,” Joseph Cox of VICE’s Motherboard wrote on Monday. Specifically, one of the buyers is the US Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), which deals with counter-insurgency, counter-terrorism and various covert activity around the globe. …
Read More »US House Squad member Ayanna Pressley tries to make student debt forgiveness about racial justice, but even Dems aren’t buying it
“Student debt cancellation is a racial-justice issue,” the Massachusetts Democrat declared Monday on Twitter. Pressley’s tweet came amid increasing discussion of student loan debt after Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said earlier this month that once Joe Biden becomes president, he would be able to extinguish $50,000 of student borrowings …
Read More »California governor considers imposing curfew after surge in Covid-19 cases leads to tighter restrictions in 40 of 58 counties
“We’re considering the notion of a curfew,” Newsom told reporters in a Covid-19 briefing on Monday. “We are assessing that.” He added that he will examine studies from France, Germany and Saudi Arabia on the efficacy of curfews before making a decision. California is tapping the “emergency brakes” under its …
Read More »Twitter brings in notorious hacker who worked at Google and DARPA months after celebrity megahack
Zatko joined the social media behemoth as head of security on Monday and is expected to take over “key security functions” after a 45 to 60 day trial period, according to Reuters, which interviewed him about his new role. He will report directly to CEO Jack Dorsey and will reportedly …
Read More »‘Founding principles HAVE BEEN LOST’: Macron blasts US media for legitimizing Islamist violence after wave of terror attacks
Macron reportedly called New York Times columnist Ben Smith on Thursday to complain about media coverage of France’s latest round of Islamist violence, contrasting reaction around the world to the outpouring of international support for France following the terror attacks that killed 130 people in November 2015. “When I see, …
Read More »Republican leader McConnell says pulling out of Afghanistan will cause ‘a new round of global terrorism’
President Donald Trump broke Republican convention when he campaigned on an anti-war platform, promising an end to the US’ “forever wars” in the Middle East and calling George W. Bush’s war in Iraq “the worst single mistake ever made in the history of our country.” After firing a host of …
Read More »Big Tech may silence Trump when he leaves office – but who will they use for their ‘two minutes hate’ without the Bad Orange Man?
Trump has long escaped the worst of Twitter and Facebook’s heavy-handed censorship thanks to his presidential position, which allows him to play by looser rules than the choking thicket of edicts that has frustrated so many of his followers. But if he’s replaced in January by Biden, he’ll be just …
Read More »Trump claims ‘great’ vax discoveries made on his watch & denies election loss, incurring wrath of Twitter censors
Trump began Monday morning by tweeting “I WON THE ELECTION,” before calling the ongoing recount in Georgia “fake” – a complaint leveled in recent days by the president and his supporters, due to the fact signatures on ballots aren’t being checked against voter rolls. He then called on his followers …
Read More »Russia’s Red Sea hub: Putin signs off on building naval facility in Sudan
The proposal to set up a naval facility in the North-African country, which Putin approved on Monday, was brought forward by the Russian government last week. Moscow and Khartoum signed a seven-year-long military cooperation deal last year and the project of a naval logistics hub has been already discussed by …
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