The case is ostensibly linked to the coal trade between Kiev and the breakaway eastern Ukrainian regions in the Donbass during his time in office. Poroshenko, who heads the European Solidarity party, was a vehement opponent of both the unrecognized statelets and Russia. Earlier this year, another Ukrainian opposition leader, …
Read More »China follows through on its vow to ‘punish’ Lithuania over Taiwan
In a statement on Sunday, the Chinese foreign ministry said that China’s diplomatic relations with Lithuania will be formally lowered to the level of charge d’affaires, while blasting Vilnius for setting a “bad international precedent” by giving the island the green light to open its mission in the Lithuanian capital. …
Read More »Will it be called OnlyTwits? Twitter’s ‘Super Follows’ fills paid content niche users didn’t know existed
Rolled out on Wednesday, the Super Follows feature is clearly meant to become a major part of Twitter, as its first tweets were posted under its very own username (@SuperFollows, of course). The feature is currently only available for iOS to those American and Canadian users who applied for the …
Read More »Safe space? NASA’s ‘Mission Equity’ draws groans as agency follows CIA & Pentagon down woke street
Following in the footsteps of the Pentagon and the CIA, NASA is struggling to reinvent itself as woke, capable of luring and keeping the attention of Americans addicted to identity politics, whom it had not previously felt the need to reach. The agency released a video touting its ‘Mission Equity’ …
Read More »Monsters & the military: How ‘Godzilla vs Kong’ follows a long tradition of US meddling in the movies
Godzilla vs Kong has debuted to a gargantuan box office and critical response, but overlooked in the excitement over a genuine tentpole release – something that has been missing during the pandemic – is the tale of the Pentagon’s involvement in monster movies. It is not a natural or easy …
Read More »Going out with a bang: Lionel Messi’s astounding goal can’t save Barcelona as he follows Cristiano Ronaldo out of Champions League
For all the pre-match talk of the epic tie between Barcelona and Paris in 2017, when Barca overcame a 4-0 deficit from the first leg to win 6-1 in the return and go through, the task ahead of them seemed almost impossible after a 4-1 mauling at the Camp Nou three …
Read More »What about student loans, water or the homeless? Outrage follows report $1.7 trillion F-35 program is now considered a failure
Frustration with Lockheed Martin’s fifth-generation stealth jet flooded Twitter on Wednesday, after Forbes magazine published a story about how USAF commissioning a study into a new, cheaper and lighter fighter amounts to “a tacit admission that the F-35 has failed.” “We could have used this cash to cancel student loans …
Read More »In good company: Fauci follows Wiki co-founder, ‘death panels’ inventor, warmonger Blair & WEF creator as winner of Israeli prize
The Dan David Foundation, which is based out of Tel Aviv University and counts such dubious luminaries as war criminal Henry Kissinger on its board of directors, has gifted $1 million to Fauci for “courageously defending science in the face of uninformed opposition during the challenging Covid crisis.” It’s not …
Read More »Azerbaijan follows Armenia in announcing martial law after intensive border clashes
The order, which will come into force from Monday, mirrors Yerevan’s reaction to the crisis. The government of Armenia declared martial law and ordered the mobilization of reserve troops earlier on Sunday. Authorities in the self-proclaimed Nagorno-Karabakh Republic did the same. Tensions between Azerbaijan and Armenia spiked this weekend after …
Read More »Biden follows Trump to Kenosha, meets with Jacob Blake’s family despite father’s anti-Semitic posts surfacing
Ahead of the visit on Thursday, Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris released a TV ad promising to impose a nationwide standard for police use of force and declaring that “now is the time for racial justice.” Biden has also called for criminal charges against the police officer who …
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