President Vladimir Putin said this week that the West was taking Russia’s warnings not to cross its “red lines” too lightly. “We constantly express our concerns about these matters and talk about red lines,” he told a high-profile meeting of Russian diplomats. “Our partners are peculiar in the sense that …
Read More »China warns against ‘Cold War’ mentality & ‘ideological lines’ in Asia-Pacific
In a pre-recorded video address on Thursday to a CEO summit on the fringes of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, Xi warned that “attempts to draw ideological lines or form small circles on geopolitical grounds are bound to fail.” The Asia-Pacific region cannot and should not relapse into the confrontation and …
Read More »America’s battle lines against Russia are being drawn in the icy Arctic. Stuck in the middle, Norway is now NATO’s nuclear shield
With its long coastline and convenient northern geography, Oslo is becoming vital to NATO’s increasingly confrontational relationship with Moscow. The bloc’s missile defense systems require a base from which to target Russian rockets which, if launched as part of a retaliatory strike against Western Europe, would almost certainly come flying …
Read More »Emily Ratajkowski is a dangerous role model blurring the lines of female empowerment and confusing a generation of young girls
Oh, Emily. Why do you have to make a fool of us women? Let’s be blunt. Men used to have to work ten times harder to get a woman to take off her clothes. First there was the attempt to get her attention with subtle yet recognizable gestures, opening the …
Read More »NATO expansion into Ukraine would ‘cross red lines’ & force Russia and Belarus to act, Kremlin says after Putin-Lukashenko summit
At a meeting in Sochi as part of a personal visit by Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, the pair agreed that another move eastwards by the US-led alliance would be met with a strong response, according to the Russian president’s spokesman. Dmitry Peskov added that …
Read More »Unvaccinated Delta Air Lines employees to be charged $200 extra per month in health insurance to ‘cover Covid costs’
In a memo to staff on Wednesday, CEO Ed Bastian said the “surcharge will be necessary to address the financial risk the decision to not vaccinate is creating for our company.” Bastian claimed that the “average hospital stay for COVID-19 has cost Delta $50,000 per person” and that, “in recent …
Read More »All new employees will be required to have Covid-19 vaccine, Delta Air Lines announces
“This is an important move to protect Delta’s people and customers, ensuring the airline can safely operate as demand returns and as it accelerates through recovery and into the future,” the company said in a Friday statement. The new policy will go into effect on Monday. CEO Ed Bastian touted …
Read More »Empty shelves & long lines outside stores as Texas runs out of food amid deadly cold snap (VIDEO)
RT’s Ruptly video agency visited one of the stores in Dallas, filming shelves and fridges that were bursting with produce not long ago but now stand completely empty. After several days of the deep freeze and heavy snowfall, even common products like milk, cold meats, vegetables and many others became …
Read More »Israel will ‘regret’ its actions if it crosses ‘red lines’ in Syria, senior Iranian official warns
Ali Asghar Khaji, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif’s senior aide for special political affairs, blasted Israel for its “aggressive and hostile” policies in Syria, in an interview published by Sputnik on Sunday. “While the Syrian government is fighting terrorists, Israel supports them,” he said. Our presence in Syria is aimed …
Read More »Judge rejects Ghislaine Maxwell’s bid to keep 20 lines of Epstein testimony PRIVATE
US District Judge Loretta Preska said on Monday that the lines from a sealed 2016 deposition related only to massages and not private sexual activity of consenting adults, so the public’s right to know outweighed Maxwell’s privacy interests. “There is no reason not to unseal this portion of testimony,” Preska …
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