Speaking on Friday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman, Wang Wenbin, told reporters that China Global Television Network (CGTN) has strictly abided by British laws and regulations and claimed the decision to revoke the organization’s license brought into question Britain’s commitment to press freedoms. “This is clear double standards and political suppression. …
Read More »Double suicide bombing hits Baghdad, killing at least 13 and injuring around 25 others
Two explosions were heard in Tayaran Square, Baghdad by witnesses after suicide bombers are believed to have detonated explosive vests in the area’s busy marketplace. In response to the attack, Iraq has deployed intense security measures and closed roads around the site of the attack, establishing a green zone while …
Read More »One mask good, two masks better: Nearly a year into the pandemic, is advocating double masking really the way to reassure people?
To watch the New York Times’ coronavirus coverage over the last few months has been to witness cognitive dissonance in the extreme. Back in August, it admitted that as many as 90 percent of PCR (‘gold standard’) tests might be false positives, but now it clings to those ‘false’ numbers as …
Read More »Magical Messi hits ANOTHER milestone as double strike against Granada sets La Liga record
Messi’s double-strike meant that the Argentine ace became the first player in La Liga history to hit double figures in 15 consecutive seasons. The record was spotted and shared online by football stats specialists Opta, who hailed Messi’s achievement as “extraterrestrial.” Barcelona ran out comfortable winners at the Los Carmenes …
Read More »George Blake, famous Soviet double agent who fled to Russia after London prison break, dies at 98
“We have received bitter news, the legendary George Blake is gone,” SVR spokesman Sergey Ivanov told Russian media on Saturday. Blake, a member of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), became a communist while serving as a prisoner of war in Korea. In 1953 Blake informed Soviet intelligence of US and …
Read More »Double standards? Fans accuse Demba Ba of RACISM after defiant anti-racism tweet resurfaces
Both teams walked off the field in midweek after the fourth official had called the assistant head coach of Ba’s Istanbul side “the black guy.” Ba was at the heart of the players’ complaints, and he remonstrated with the official, saying, “You never say, ‘This white guy,’ but say, ‘This …
Read More »2mn UK families at risk of plunging into poverty with lockdowns projected to DOUBLE ‘destitution levels’, study finds
More than a million households totalling 2.4 million people were destitute in the UK at some point over the course of 2019, the research, published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF), concluded. The sobering data marks a 35 percent rise in impoverished households compared with 2017. Some 550,000 children were …
Read More »Photo of smiling Melania Trump reignites ‘BODY DOUBLE’ conspiracy theory, setting Twitter ablaze
The theory that the White House uses an impersonator in place of the real Melania Trump has been around since at least 2017. A picture of the US presidential couple taken on Sunday poured some gasoline on the conspiratorial fire. With public opinion ‘settled’ that the real First Lady would …
Read More »Fear of right-wing PragerU classroom infiltration overlooks double standard: BOTH left and right should stop brainwashing kids
After the mother of a 10th-grade student alerted Maumee City Schools administrators and the media to her daughter’s history teacher’s apparently unconscionable assignment of PragerU videos as extra credit, HuffPost “discovered” a much scarier truth: the conservative video outlet is invading America’s classrooms. In the process, they’ve laid bare a cherished …
Read More »DOLLAR will CRASH in 2021, US should brace for double-dip recession, economist warns
“We’ve got data that’s confirmed both the saving and current account dynamic in a much more dramatic fashion than even I was looking for,” Roach told CNBC. According to him, “The current account deficit in the United States, which is the broadest measure of our international imbalance with the rest …
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