The United Auto Workers (UAW) union announced the strike on Thursday morning, which will affect over a dozen plants for John Deere. The company, based out of Moline, Illinois, has not faced a strike for 35 years. “Our members at John Deere strike for the ability to earn a decent …
Read More »WATCH: Troops fire from armored vehicles as Beirut descends into chaos, resembling warzone
Beirut resembled a warzone on Thursday as the army deployed armored vehicles to a divided area of the city where deadly skirmishes erupted following an attack on a protest. The army declared that the troops would fire at any armed individuals on the capital’s streets. The Lebanese army deployed a …
Read More »New ‘United States of Al’ features Kabul airport chaos, but were producers influenced by the US Marine Corps?
The sitcom centres on Al, an interpreter from Afghanistan who relocates to Columbus, Ohio and moves in with the family of Riley, a Marine Corps veteran he worked with in Afghanistan. OMG, Culture Clash! The low-brow nature of this premise is epitomised by the third episode, when Al becomes unnerved …
Read More »Facebook plunged into chaos as employees ‘CAN’T ACCESS’ servers – or even their workspaces
As the major Facebook outage dragged into hours, a Reddit poster claiming to be a member of the “recovery/investigation team” wrote the companywide snafu was indeed a “global outage for all FB-related services/infra[structure]” and explained that while repairs were underway, “the people with physical access is [sic] separate from the …
Read More »‘F**k the jab!’: CHAOS in Australia as construction workers violently protest vaccine mandate outside union HQ (VIDEO)
Protesters wearing high-vis construction clothing smashed windows, chanted “We are union!” and “F**k the jab,” and threw projectiles at the Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) headquarters. Union officials attempted to barricade the doors and used a fire extinguisher to spray demonstrators from inside. Others tried to diffuse …
Read More »Turf wars: Riot police confront thugs on pitch as violent chaos breaks out at top-flight football match in France again (VIDEO)
A menacing group of fans broke onto the pitch where the Ligue 1 match against Lille was being held and headed towards the away end in search of a scrap, forcing riot police to form a defensive line and pin some supporters to the turf in a troubling fracas. The derby …
Read More »CHAOS at London’s Heathrow Airport as passengers forced to wait for 5 hours in packed queues despite Covid-19 risk (PHOTOS)
Travellers at Heathrow Airport have repeatedly experienced such conditions since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, as the limited number of staff working are unable to cope with those at the border. Social media users posted photos of the chaos at Terminal 5 on Friday, with some Brits reporting queue …
Read More »Despite US humiliation in Afghanistan, Russia not gloating over chaos & only ‘worried about region,’ Moscow’s top diplomat says
Speaking as part of a campaign event ahead of next month’s parliamentary elections, Sergey Lavrov warned that regional instability is far from a cause for celebration. “People have written that we are gloating over events in Afghanistan,” the top diplomat said. “But there has been no such feeling.” “We are …
Read More »‘This wouldn’t have happened if I was president’: Trump blasts Biden and chaos in Afghanistan after US soldiers killed in Kabul
Trump blasted Biden for not ensuring a sooner evacuation of American nationals and allied Afghans and for leaving behind US military hardware, which later fell into the hands of the Taliban. The hasty withdrawal of US troops was “the most embarrassing thing that has ever happened to our country,” the …
Read More »What’s the point in a Green Party? Eco activists are more focused on causing chaos on the streets with XR than elections & voting
Watching day one of Extinction Rebellion’s planned two-week protest kick off with the promised mayhem on the streets of London on the same day that the woolly jumper brigade who prop up the more conservative political outfit began their search for new leadership, it was hard not to wonder, what’s …
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