Contreras was locked out of his Twitter account for 12 hours for stating that men have “no uterus or eggs” and therefore cannot birth children, in response to an article he shared which discussed a transgender man announcing they were a father after giving birth to a child. “You can …
Read More »US is whipping up fear of China because Washington simply cannot contemplate a world it does not dominate
On Wednesday, US intelligence officials provided a briefing on the biggest threats to Washington around the world, giving ample focus to China, but also mentioning Russia and North Korea, building on a comprehensive report that had been released earlier in the week. Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines defined Beijing as …
Read More »Lockdown is a disaster for kids’ mental health, and they need support – but we also cannot pathologize an entire generation
“Children in mental health crisis used to be brought to A&E about twice a week. Since the summer it’s been more like once or twice a day. Some as young as 10 have cut themselves, taken overdoses, or tried to asphyxiate themselves.” These words, from a doctor’s diary published by …
Read More »China says ‘George Floyd cannot even breathe freely’ as it blasts US over Uighur Muslims forced labor claims
“In the United States hundreds of thousands of innocent people died of Covid-19, people like George Floyd cannot even breathe freely,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said during a regular press conference on Thursday. Zhao blasted US allegations that Xinjiang products were made through the “forced labor” of detained …
Read More »EU member states cannot negotiate their own Covid-19 vaccine deals – von der Leyen
Speaking on Friday, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said that the EU had ordered more than enough doses for everyone in the EU, as Brussels announced its purchase of another 300 million doses of the Pfizer jab. Von der Leyen took the opportunity to warn member states against …
Read More »Ukraine’s Zelensky warns he cannot justify rejecting Russia’s Sputnik V unless West supplies Kiev with other Covid-19 vaccines
In an interview with the New York Times, Zelensky’s exasperation at Washington was clear, especially given that some form of inoculation against Covid-19 could already have begun in Ukraine if Kiev had chosen to cooperate with Moscow. However, despite the fact that the humanitarian reasons for such a move would …
Read More »Horrific rise in cases of baby abuse is the hidden cost of lockdown that we simply cannot ignore
There is nothing more heartbreaking in our society than the death of an infant by abuse. And yet the incidence of this, both deliberate and accidental, is on the increase in England, a direct result of the terrible impact of the coronavirus pandemic and the subsequent double lockdowns on vulnerable …
Read More »Trump administration embraces a vision of nuclear armament it cannot afford, this policy will bankrupt US
The debate on whether the Trump administration was serious about seeking an extension of the New START Treaty is over. Recent comments by Dr. Robert Soofer, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for nuclear and missile defense policy, underscore the reality that Washington has no intention of extending the New …
Read More »Saratov students will develop routes to the school from which you cannot deviate
The Committee on education of the mayoralty of Saratov for students to develop individual routes from home to school and back, that student will not be allowed to violate. This was stated by the Chairman of the Committee Larisa Revutskaya, writes “Kommersant”. On such measures the city authorities decided to …
Read More »Head ARB: we Cannot say that the risk of departure from the country of Visa and MasterCard does not
We cannot completely exclude the risk of the withdrawal of international payment systems of Russia, the head of the Association of Russian banks (ARB) Garegin Tosunyan. “I can’t say that the risk is completely absent, although and regard it as negligible. I used to think it unlikely a variety of …
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