Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky addressed a joint meeting of Congress on Wednesday, urging US lawmakers to drop all their disagreements and unite behind Ukraine, while advocating for the passage of a $1.7 trillion spending bill that includes $45 billion in military and other aid earmarked for Kiev in 2023. Speaker …
Read More »EU member won’t support joint Ukraine aid effort
Hungary will not support European Union efforts to jointly raise aid funds for Ukraine amid its ongoing conflict with Russia, the country’s Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto has said. Speaking at a conference in Sofia on Monday, Szijjarto said Budapest had supported Kiev directly as a neighbor and would continue to do …
Read More »Emails reveal Fauci’s effort to ‘smear’ anti-lockdown scientists
The emails, released on Friday by the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, show retiring NIH Director Francis Collins telling Fauci in October 2020 to discredit the Great Barrington Declaration (GBD) – a statement that proposes working towards achieving herd immunity through “focused protection” of the most vulnerable. Days …
Read More »Zuckerberg claims Facebook is victim of ‘coordinated media effort’ to tarnish its image with leaked documents
During Facebook’s third-quarter earnings call on Monday, Zuckerberg told investors that the ongoing spate of reportage based on leaked documents from whistleblower Frances Haugen and others was not “good-faith criticism.” He claimed that the news coverage did not reflect the company’s efforts to curb hate speech and disinformation, noting that …
Read More »UK govt says ‘every effort was made’ to destroy papers naming Afghan embassy workers, amid anger over ‘data protection blunder’
On Thursday evening, the Times claimed that its journalists had found papers identifying Afghan staff at the British diplomatic mission, as well as job applicants, inside the now-abandoned Kabul embassy. The papers were found by the reporters as Taliban troops patrolled the building and posed with abandoned treasures. According to …
Read More »Texas Supreme Court thwarts Democrat effort to overturn governor’s veto that blocked legislative funding
The all-Republican state Supreme Court ruled in Abbott’s favor on Monday, denying Democrats’ request to overturn a veto of a legislative funding measure, which would leave lawmakers without cash for the next two-year session. The judges argued that the funding issue “continues to exist not because of a dispute between …
Read More »What’s really behind the EU’s latest effort to regulate cryptocurrencies? RT’s Boom Bust wants to know
Crypto analyst Christy Ai tells Boom Bust who’s being targeted by these latest proposals. For more stories on economy & finance visit RT’s business section
Read More »‘No chance of life’ for dozens missing in Miami high-rise collapse, fire dept says, as rescue effort shifts to recovering remains
“We noticed the stress, the force of the pressure of the walls and the floors just pretty much… sustained no chance of life,” Miami-Dade Assistant Fire Chief Raide Jadallah told victims’ family members on Wednesday, according to the Associated Press. He added that, given the low likelihood of finding additional …
Read More »California recall election set for September 14, but effort to boot Newsom likely to fail as state reopens
Two months after California officials announced that the petition to remove Newsom surpassed 1.5 million signatures to trigger the recall election, Lieutenant-Governor Eleni Kounalakis set the date for the vote on two questions: whether to remove Newsom or not and if yes, who would replace him. The campaign spearheaded by …
Read More »UFO whistleblower accuses Pentagon of concerted effort to discredit him & hide ‘truth’ from American people
Elizondo is a counterintelligence specialist who was in charge of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) before it was disbanded in 2012. Five years later, he made public three US Navy videos showing “unexplained aerial phenomena” (UAP). The US military later confirmed the videos as authentic, but said they …
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