“Was talking With Mom & She Said ‘I Watched Trial Of Policeman Who Killed George Floyd,& Cried,’” Cher tweeted during the ongoing trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. It was the second part of the Academy Award winner’s message that raised eyebrows as she appeared to insinuate that …
Read More »Hunter Biden says incriminating laptop ‘absolutely’ could have been his, suggests ‘Russian intelligence’ possibly behind leak
The laptop “absolutely” could have belonged to him, the younger Biden told CBS News, in an interview set to broadcast on Sunday. When asked whether he could give a yes or no answer, Biden replied “I have no idea.” Recovered from a Delaware repair shop in 2019 and handed last …
Read More »Russia’s Sputnik V formula could be updated to protect against new coronavirus variants in just two days using new gene technology
Alexander Gintsburg, who led the team behind the formula, told RIA Novosti on Friday that his scientists at Moscow’s Gamaleya Institute had refined a way of rapidly updating Sputnik’s makeup if new, vaccine-resistant, variants emerge. According to him, “this is the same technology, based on adenovirus vectors,” which was used …
Read More »Suez Canal blockage could alter shipping forever…and China and Russia will be the winners
The Suez Canal’s recent spell in the limelight has turned out to be quite revealing. The strategic waterway has dominated headlines for a week after a giant container ship, the Ever Given, got stuck in sand and mud at the canal’s southern end, blocking it and bringing shipping to a …
Read More »Most Americans see ‘cancel culture’ as a THREAT to freedom, fear they could be fired for posting wrong opinion – poll
The Harvard Caps-Harris Poll, released Monday, found that 64% of Americans fear that a “growing cancel culture” is a threat to their freedom. The other 36% said there is no threat. The results were more split when the poll asked respondents how important they think the issue of cancel culture …
Read More »Could your pet be a threat? Creator of Russia’s Sputnik V warns Covid-19 may spread through cats & dogs in next phase of pandemic
Alexander Gintsburg, the director of Moscow’s Gamaleya Institute – which developed the pioneering formula – claimed in an interview with Moscow outlet Izvestiya, published on Monday, that the virus could become more infectious and spread to a whole new group of potential hosts. “The coronavirus has not yet realized its …
Read More »Who else could it be? Russian hackers suspected of taking Australian morning news broadcast off air
Channel 9 CEO Mike Sneesby confirmed that a cyber-attack rendered the broadcaster unable to air its morning news show, ‘Weekend Today’, which runs between 7am and 1pm local time from its Sydney office. The channel’s 5pm news program also failed to air in Melbourne. The company said in a statement …
Read More »Dr. Birx tells CNN hundreds of thousands of Covid-19 deaths ‘could have been mitigated,’ blasted as ‘complicit’
“The first time, we have an excuse, there were about 100,000 deaths that came from that original surge,” Birx told CNN in a documentary that will air Sunday. “All of the rest of them, in my mind, could have been mitigated or decreased substantially.” Birx believes that if cities and …
Read More »Why blockage of Suez Canal could have rollover effect on oil price
According to commodities analyst Kpler, which tracks bulk goods vessels, at least seven tankers bearing 6.3 million barrels of crude oil have been delayed because of the accident. Using the Brent Crude oil price of about $64 a barrel as a value proxy, the seven vessels carry about $403 million worth …
Read More »‘Yesterday it was Trump, tomorrow it could be anybody’: Bernie Sanders ‘not comfortable’ with Twitter ban on former president
Speaking on the Ezra Klein Show podcast on Tuesday, the US senator from Vermont said he was uncomfortable with the idea of a “handful of high-tech people” having the power to censor different points of view, and called for a ‘balanced’ approach. The former Democratic presidential candidate and frequent Trump …
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