One of the worst literary cliches in the book is quoting some dead white man as an opening gambit – just to show your opponents how clever you are. As Oscar Wilde wrote: “I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies …
Read More »Irony meets hypocrisy? When it comes to UNION vote, Amazon argues that in-person ballots are crucial for valid & fair election
In this case, the online retailing behemoth is arguing that in-person voting is needed for a “valid and fair” election when employees at one of its warehouses in Alabama vote whether to unionize. Amazon has asked the National Labor Relations Board to delay the union vote for 6,000 warehouse workers …
Read More »Just when you thought 2020 couldn’t get any worse along comes Wonder Woman 1984, a man-hating mess of a movie
On Christmas Day, the highly anticipated ‘Wonder Woman 1984 (WW84)’ premiered in theaters and on the streaming service HBO Max. The film, co-written and directed by Patty Jenkins and starring Gal Gadot, is the sequel to the smash hit 2017 film ‘Wonder Woman’. ‘Wonder Woman’ (2017) wasn’t a perfect movie …
Read More »Deal or no deal? Boom Bust explores the Brexit saga & what comes next
RT’s Boom Bust talks to Hilary Fordwich, from the British American Business Association about what could be done to get the deal done and dusted before the end of the year. “This [Brexit] isn’t something drastic and terrible,” she says. “It’s been hyped as such because, obviously, the EU leaders want …
Read More »Arizona secretary of state’s tweet about ‘neo-nazi’ Trump base comes back to haunt her as she’s in charge of certifying VOTES
“@realDonaldTrump has made it abundantly clear he’s more interested in pandering to his neo-nazi base than being @POTUS for all Americans,” Hobbs, a former Democrat senator, tweeted in 2017. Other tweets from the same time period blast Trump as “being on the side of freaking Nazis.” Hobb’s tweets followed Donald …
Read More »5 key states to determine next US president, as race comes down to Rust Belt and new Southern battlegrounds
The first three Rust Belt states were considered Democratic strongholds until Donald Trump’s 2016 upset. The morning after the Tuesday election, Pennsylvania with its 20 electoral votes is the prize most coveted by the president and challenger Joe Biden. Trump currently has a commanding lead of 12.6 points there. The …
Read More »Lockdown till a Covid vaccine comes? It’s too long to wait, and there’s no guarantee it will be effective anyway
Wales, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland are all heading into lockdown in one form or another, and restrictions are being cranked up in England and Scotland. Cheerleaders for lockdowns say that we need to keep cases low until a vaccine arrives. But it is becoming increasingly apparent that …
Read More »Time for some NeuroSpeculative AfroFeminism Research: Forget activism, here comes ‘artivism’ in support of BLM’s aims
You could be forgiven for thinking an exhibition opening in Coventry this week was a spoof, a satirical piece of work by some comedian gently taking the mickey out of today’s increasingly woke art world. More’s the pity, it isn’t. Advance press releases for ‘Thirteen Ways of Looking’ (opening on …
Read More »IRGC chief warns Trump of retaliation if ‘a hair comes off an Iranian’s head’ amid rising tensions as US threatens sanctions
US President Donald Trump sent a series of headline-grabbing tweets this Tuesday, warning that any attack by Iran on the US “will be met with an attack on Iran that will be 1,000 times greater in magnitude.” The fiery remarks followed media reports claiming that Tehran is considering assassinating Lana …
Read More »Kovid comes to Russia do not breathe
Coronavirus migrates around the country from the capital to the province. And, apparently, no power, no medicine in most regions are not ready to take the hit. Almost all Russian municipalities began the weakening of quarantine measures, despite the ongoing pandemic of coronavirus. Officially reported that it went into decline, …
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