Now behind bars in Tbilisi after a dramatic arrest last week, former Georgian president Mikhail Saakashvili must be hoping that prison conditions have improved since his days in charge of the country. In 2012, a massive scandal rocked the small Caucasus nation after clips emerged showing physical abuse of prisoners …
Read More »Zelensky’s Purge? Ukraine’s latest internal battles show how hopes of the 2014 Maidan are fading in sharp turn to totalitarianism
His decision to lead the charge to dismiss the speaker of the country’s parliament on Thursday is clear evidence of this. Zelensky’s “Servant of the People” Party pushed out Dmitry Razumkov in a move that the top MP branded as illegal over disagreements about the country’s new law targeting oligarchs …
Read More »‘False narrative’: Zuckerberg rejects latest accusation that FB ‘promotes hate’ & puts ‘profit over safety’ in wordy rebuttal
Zuckerberg took to his own platform on Tuesday night with a massive, 1,300-word essay, saying he wanted to share a note he wrote to all company employees hours after a self-avowed Facebook ‘whistleblower’ testified before US lawmakers, leveling withering critiques against the site and its business practices. “Now that today’s testimony is …
Read More »‘No Time To Die’ is the latest in a long line of James Bond movies supported by the UK & US military
The new James Bond adventure ‘No Time to Die’ features a C-17 aircraft and a naval destroyer, courtesy of the British Ministry of Defence (MOD). The Royal Air Force and Royal Navy lent their support to the action thriller, in the latest act of government sponsorship of the Bond franchise. …
Read More »Is it ‘tornadx’ now? In his latest gaffe, Biden says ‘they don’t call ‘em tornados anymore’ during climate-change speech
Biden visited New Jersey on Tuesday to survey the damage wrought by Hurricane Ida, which tracked up to the US northeast after battering Louisiana a week ago. The storm brought devastating floods and killed dozens of people, while exposing the inability of US infrastructure to handle extreme weather, and, to …
Read More »‘I had one arm’: ‘Blonde Bomber’ boxer wins latest fight on razor-thin decision despite breaking her hand in second round (VIDEO)
The ‘Bronze Bomber’, who is known for stripping to her lingerie at weigh-ins, slugged it out with tough French opponent Mailys Gangloff at a stadium in Leeds as she edged a 77-76 points card to make it seven wins out of eight in her professional career. Australian Bridges had support …
Read More »Syrian air defenses shot down 21 of 24 Israeli missiles fired in latest raid on Damascus, Russian military says
“At about 1:30 September 3, four Israeli Air Force F-15 tactical fighters fired 24 guided missiles at targets in the Syrian Arab Republic from Lebanese airspace,” Rear Admiral Vadim Kulit, deputy head of Russia’s Reconciliation Center for Syria, said in a statement on Friday, referring to an attack on Damascus …
Read More »Classified 9/11 files to be reviewed under Biden’s latest executive order after families ‘disinvited’ him from memorial
In a statement on Friday, Biden said he had signed an executive order instructing Attorney General Merrick Garland to conduct a ‘declassification review’ of the remaining documents, concerning the FBI investigation into the attacks targeting New York City and Washington, DC on September 11, 2001. “We must never forget the …
Read More »Biden’s latest ‘lab leak’ report tells us nothing… but it won’t stop the US blaming China for Covid
The 90 days that Joe Biden assigned US intelligence to investigate the origins of Covid-19 and the Wuhan Institute of Virology lab leak theory are up and, to nobody’s surprise and as reported in the Wall Street Journal, the probe comes to no definitive conclusions. Anyone with an ounce of …
Read More »China brings latest Covid outbreak under control, no new local infections for first time since July
On Monday, health authorities in China reported 21 imported cases of Covid-19 but, importantly, no new locally transmitted infections for the first time since July 20, suggesting that the current outbreak may have been brought under control. There were also 16 new asymptomatic coronavirus cases on Monday which are not …
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