Nikolai Patrushev, the secretary of the Russian Security Council, revealed on Tuesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing next month. This high-level encounter will take during the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation set for October. China had previously confirmed the …
Read More »Bitcoin tumbles to 18-month low
The world’s top cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, has dropped below the $20,000 threshold for the first time since December 2020, trading data shows. The coin had plunged around 13.7% over a 24-hour period as of Saturday afternoon to a low of $17,593, its weakest level in 18 months. It did then manage …
Read More »How game companies twist Pride Month values for profit
Every year when the month of June comes around, there is a change in the air – everything is rainbow-coloured and paraded, and every corporation puts its best inclusivity hat on. The whole world, and especially the US, is no stranger to commercial exploitation of holidays. In that regard, the …
Read More »Bitcoin plunges to 18-month low
The world’s top cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, slid below $25,000 per token on Monday morning, plunging more than 43% so far this year from nearly $49,000 in March. At 08:15 GMT, it was trading at $24,800 per coin, down 9.8% for the day. Bitcoin has been declining for nearly 12 straight weeks …
Read More »Robert Bridge: As LGBTQ+ Pride Month kicks off, is it time to give straight folks their parade too?
It’s already the merry month of June and, according to the woke calendar, time to celebrate the smorgasbord of sexual proclivities now available to all and sundry. But why not also honor the oldest carnal preference of them all? On June 11, 1999, then-President Bill Clinton, the philandering Democrat who …
Read More »Ukraine wants $2bn per month from US
Ukraine’s finance minister, Sergey Marchenko, has solicited at least $2 billion per month in emergency economic aid from the Biden administration. The official also revealed that Kiev hopes to raise an additional $3 billion per month from other sources. Speaking to the Washington Post, Marchenko said that Ukraine needs “to …
Read More »Secret Service paying $30k per month for Hunter Biden security – media
The agency tasked with protecting US presidents and their families is shelling out $30,000 each month to guard Hunter Biden, ABC reported, noting that the Secret Service is paying for an expensive home in Malibu in order to be close to him. For nearly a year, the service has spent …
Read More »Pfizer seeks FDA approval to vaccinate 6-month-old infants
Pfizer and BioNTech announced on Tuesday that they were seeking approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to vaccinate children as young as 6 months old against Covid-19. If given approval, children aged six months to five years old would be able to get vaccinated against Covid-19 with …
Read More »Sweden rolling out Covid passes next month
The upcoming introduction of mandatory coronavirus vaccine passes was announced by Health Minister Lena Hallengren on Wednesday. Citing the ongoing surge in coronavirus cases across Europe – which has not hit the country itself yet – the minister stressed the need to be ready for the new wave of infections, …
Read More »North Korea launches TWO ballistic missiles less than a month after ‘hypersonic’ missile test – reports
The reported missile test took place around 10.17 a.m. local time on Tuesday, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff reported. The South Korean military said that at least one missile was fired from a launch site near the North Korean port city of Sinpo in central South Hamgyong Province. There …
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