In his ruling on Friday, Justice Charles Wood of the Westchester County Supreme Court in New York state ordered the New York Times to give Project Veritas back any physical copies of legal memos prepared by the media watchdog group’s attorneys and to erase all electronic copies. The judge also …
Read More »2.3bn Covid shots useless against Omicron – study
On Thursday, researchers from the University of Hong Kong and the Chinese University of Hong Kong called on people to come forward and get a booster shot of Pfizer’s Comirnaty to protect themselves against the Omicron strain of Covid-19. Their study, published on Thursday reveals that the CoronaVac shot, made …
Read More »Hollywood star sorry for outburst against ‘illiterate’ red state
Midler is one of many liberal activists to blast West Virginia’s Manchin since the Republican senator said he is refusing to support President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better plan, making it nearly impossible for the massive spending package to pass the Senate any time soon. Manchin, according to Midler, represents …
Read More »You can’t win against China with billions of Pentagon dollars
Congress has authorized $7 billion for the Pacific Deterrence Initiative, the Pentagon’s program to confront China. This continues the US’ flawed practice of throwing money at the military to solve problems created by bad policy. Like its predecessors, the PDI is doomed to fail. The 2022 National Defense Authorization Act …
Read More »Scientists want to send human cells into space in battle against aging
The study, titled MicroAge, will see a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket deliver the cells to the International Space Station (ISS) to explore what happens to human muscles, how people age and why. The cells, the size of a grain of rice, have been grown in labs and placed into small …
Read More »Brexit minister warns against ‘coercive’ Covid measures in resignation letter
The resignation was first reported by the Mail on Sunday, which wrote about Frost’s growing disillusionment with the government’s economic policies in recent months. In his farewell letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Frost said he initially planned to step down in January to ensure a smooth transition, but decided …
Read More »Ex-foreign correspondent explains what’s behind ‘media war’ against RT in Germany
RT launched its round-the-clock German-language TV channel this week to a storm of controversy in the West. Broadcasting into Germany from Serbia, the channel’s arrival was met with threats of legal action from the media authority of Berlin-Brandenburg, and RT was described by the EU regulators’ representative on Friday as …
Read More »EU regulators’ case against RT DE unfair: Here’s why
The media authority of Berlin-Brandenburg (MABB) has pressed charges against RT DE, arguing it is a broadcaster based in Berlin and therefore subject to their authority. This happened shortly after European Regulators Group for Audiovisual Media Services (ERGA) chair Tobias Schmid called RT DE a “nuisance” that needs to be …
Read More »Only two countries vote against UN resolution condemning Nazism
The resolution on “Combating glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices” that contribute to racism, xenophobia and intolerance was adopted with 130 votes in favor, the Russian permanent mission to the UN announced on Thursday. Sponsored by Russia and more than 30 other UN members, the resolution expresses concern about …
Read More »Ukraine’s Zelensky calls for sanctions against Russia now
Speaking on Wednesday in Brussels following the Eastern Partnership (EaP) summit – a meeting of EU member states with Ukraine, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Moldova – Zelensky suggested that measures could convince Russia not to escalate militarily, while also noting that Kiev is open to starting negotiations directly with Moscow. …
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