Ackie, who starred in Hollywood blockbuster ‘Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’, will play iconic singer Whitney Houston in an upcoming biopic, ‘I Wanna Dance with Somebody’. Director Stella Meghie said she spent months in an “exhaustive search” to find an actress who could “embody” the legendary performer. Meghie expressed …
Read More »US Covid-19 vaccinations may begin as soon as December 11, reach enough people for return to normalcy in May – program chief
An FDA vaccine advisory committee is scheduled to meet on December 10 and may grant Pfizer’s request for emergency use authorization that day, Dr. Moncef Slaoui said on Sunday during an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper. The Trump administration stands ready to ship the vaccine to immunization sites in all …
Read More »Asteroid that may hit Earth day before US election is ‘not big enough to cause harm,’ Neil deGrasse Tyson reassures earthlings
With an estimated diameter of 2 meters (6.5 feet, or roughly one ‘refrigerator’), the asteroid known as 2018VP1 is just “not big enough to cause harm” when it buzz-cuts within 5,000 kilometres of Earth on November 2, celebrity scientist deGrasse Tyson wrote on Twitter and Instagram. So if the World …
Read More »Not enough black venture capitalists? What’s next, not enough black war criminals? Fetishizing surface diversity insults us all
The problem with the venture capital industry, a sub-sector of private equity in which deep-pocketed investors bankroll cash-hungry startups, is the lack of black representation – or so says venture capitalist Frederik Groce, who co-founded BLCK VC in 2018 to increase black representation in the sector. Surfing the wave of …
Read More »Let’s face it, US politics is just a showy soap opera laced with enough nepotism and corruption to make a banana republic blush
There was an American show that ran on pretty much every TV set in the whole wide world in the 1980s called ‘Dynasty’ – pronounced ‘die-nasty’ by Americans, who like to mangle the English language. The main images that immediately spring to mind are all teeth and hair. Perfect teeth, …
Read More »‘Not enough just to go back to normal’: Johnson says Covid-19 ‘plague’ will reshape UK
In an address to his Conservative Party, the UK leader expressed his opposition to a return to normality once the health crisis is over. Johnson pointed to wars, famines and other catastrophes throughout history, noting that events that affect the “vast bulk of humanity” don’t simply “come and go” but …
Read More »Threats of house arrest and sacking will not be enough to persuade people to take the Covid vaccine
On Thursday, The New England Journal of Medicine published a perspective entitled ‘Ensuring Uptake of Vaccines against SARS-CoV-2.’ It quickly began to gain traction, with tens of thousands of views and reports in the media. Alex Berenson, a former New York Times journalist whose agitating against the Covid hysteria has …
Read More »‘A disgrace to all artists’ or not enough? Hollywood spars over woke diversity quota for future Oscar ‘Best Picture’ award
The new standards were handed down on Tuesday, establishing rules for the 2024 Oscars which were designed to “better reflect the diversity of the movie-going audience,” the Academy said in a statement, though noted they would apply only the Best Picture category. “The aperture must widen to reflect our diverse …
Read More »“Enough to endure!” The social networks are calling for a new all-Russian action in support of Khab
“Enough to endure!” The social networks are calling for a new all-Russian action in support of Khabarovsk In social networks and messengers there have been reports about the new all-Russian action in support of the protests in Khabarovsk. So, video calling come to share distributed in the telegram channels. Judging …
Read More »25 million Russians do not have enough money for meat
Every sixth citizen of Russia can not afford to buy meat to eat in accordance with the regulations of the Ministry of health. Such figures in an interview with “Vedomosti” cited Sergey Mikhailov, General Director of “Cherkizovo” – one of the country’s largest producers of pork and poultry. According to …
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