So convoluted was the phrasing of the not-quite-admission of wrongdoing on Thursday, that some media outlets – looking at you, The Hill – actually took it as proof the claim Russia had offered Taliban money to kill US troops was true! “The US intelligence community assesses with low to moderate …
Read More »White House admits lack of confidence in DEBUNKED story about Russian bounties – after Biden repeatedly used it to attack Trump
“The US intelligence community assesses with low to moderate confidence that Russian intelligence officers sought to encourage Taliban attacks against US coalition personnel in Afghanistan in 2019, including through financial incentives and compensation,” a senior Biden administration official told reporters on Thursday. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki confirmed the new …
Read More »Dutch parliament rebukes PM Mark Rutte after he scrapes by in no-confidence vote
Parliament passed a motion of disapproval rebuking Rutte early on Friday, saying he had “not spoken the truth” about ongoing talks to form a new government, namely discussion about the repositioning of another high profile lawmaker and vocal critic of the PM, Pieter Omtzigt. The vote followed a separate no-confidence …
Read More »Calls for Merkel to face vote of no confidence after embarrassing U-turn on Covid-19 Easter lockdown
Members of the Bundestag could soon be asked to vote on whether the chancellor has their support after a number of eager politicians jumped to capitalize on a rare case of an admitted misjudgment by the country’s long-standing leader. On Wednesday, the leader of the Free Democratic Party (FDP), Christian …
Read More »Half of French care home workers reluctant to take Covid-19 vaccines due to lack of ‘confidence’ in government – reports
France has one of the highest vaccine skepticism rates in the world, the country’s media reported earlier this month. Four in ten people there say they are unlikely to get vaccinated against the novel coronavirus anytime soon. The sentiment seems to be even more widespread among the French medical caregivers …
Read More »In fresh censorship, Twitter bans ‘Russian’ accounts it says are ‘undermining confidence in NATO’ amid rising tensions with Moscow
On Tuesday, Russian media reported that the San Francisco-based microblogging platform had confirmed at least 100 of the bans were of accounts supposedly connected with Russia. According to a company spokesperson, “some of these accounts disseminated messages that were associated with the Russian government, while the rest of the network …
Read More »‘Inviting erosion of voter confidence’: Justice Thomas calls out SCOTUS for ‘baffling’ refusal to hear Pennsylvania election case
Among the flurry of Supreme Court rulings on Monday was the decision to reject hearing two cases challenging the Pennsylvania supreme court’s changes to election rules, including the counting of mail-in ballots for several days after the legally established deadline. The order list showed no explanation for the majority’s decision, …
Read More »‘Pope’s thumbs-up gave me more confidence,’ Instagram star says, as Vatican account likes ANOTHER model’s sexy photo
There was a massive scandal after the official Instagram account of the head of the Catholic Church appreciated a ‘sexy cheerleader’ picture of Natalia Garibotto in late November. The news made international headlines and triggered an investigation in the Vatican. Yet apparently she was not the only one to receive some …
Read More »VP Pence says he’ll get coronavirus jab ‘in the days ahead’ while urging ‘confidence’ in new vaccines despite speedy approval
Though he did not specify a date, Pence suggested he would soon receive the inoculation at a roundtable event on the federal vaccine initiative, Operation Warp Speed, in Bloomington, Indiana on Tuesday. “Be confident that we have cut red tape, but we’ve cut no corners when it comes to the …
Read More »CONfidence game: Harris gaslights voters with pretend facts on Trump’s finances, Russia, fracking & economy to sail through debate
That ability was front and center in Wednesday night’s vice presidential debate, where Harris told bold fib after fib with scarcely a blink and got little pushback from Mike Pence. In the end, she walked off relatively unscathed and, of course, won praise from her adoring mainstream media, which has …
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