French police used tear gas during a brief clash with demonstrators in Paris who had taken to the streets to oppose both remaining candidates for the presidency: incumbent Emmanuel Macron and the National Rally’s Marine Le Pen. Ahead of the second round of the election, which is scheduled for April …
Read More »Covid-19 neither bioweapon nor genetically engineered, US intel says, but hints if China doesn’t cooperate it can reconsider
The US has let up from the Trump administration’s ‘Blame China’ explanation for the novel coronavirus outbreak, releasing an “updated assessment on Covid-19 origins” that suggests the virus was “not developed as a biological weapon,” “probably not genetically engineered,” and probably not known of by China before the “initial outbreak” …
Read More »Neither feds nor Proud Boys saw ‘Capitol attack’ coming, NYT claims, citing January 6 FBI informant
The messages described by the New York Times on Saturday cover months of cooperation between the unidentified informant and the FBI, prior to the dramatic events in Washington, DC, as well as during and after them. The newspaper obtained them on condition they would not be directly cited. It claimed …
Read More »‘I’m no dictator & neither is Joe Biden’: US conservative media outlet Daily Wire vows to defy ‘unconstitutional’ vaccine mandate
“The Daily Wire does have more than 100 employees but we won’t be enforcing Joe Biden’s unconstitutional and tyrannical vaccine mandate,” the website’s co-founder and co-CEO Jeremy Boreing said in a video on Twitter. “That’s it. We’ll use every tool at our disposal, including legal action, to resist.” Boreing argued …
Read More »‘Neither legal nor constitutional’: Virginia teacher who was put on leave for opposing gender pronoun rules SUES school district
Lawyers for Byron ‘Tanner’ Cross, a gym teacher at Leesburg Elementary School, filed suit against the Loudoun County School Board and two of the district’s top executives on Tuesday, alleging that he suffered “content and viewpoint-based retaliation” after openly opposing the pronoun rule at a board meeting last month. According …
Read More »Use of tough sanctions against Russia amounts to ‘war,’ but neither Washington nor Brussels prepared for battle, says Rostec CEO
Speaking to business daily RBK, Sergey Chemezov said the current sanctions against Russia “definitely cannot be called soft,” noting that they have certainly had an effect on the economy. “They have done everything possible to make life difficult. Very tough sanctions are, in fact, war. And we must be, of …
Read More »Syrian election that hasn’t happened yet ‘will neither be free nor fair,’ declare US and allies
The five foreign ministers “wish to make clear that Syria’s May 26 presidential election will neither be free nor fair,” said US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Jean-Yves Le Drian of France, Heiko Mass of Germany, Luigi Di Maio of Italy, and Dominic Raab of the UK in a joint …
Read More »No, ‘mistresses’ are NOT our ‘friends’ & neither are the woke feminists who want to control how we speak
Language is constantly evolving. One hundred years ago, the word ‘nice’ was understood to mean ‘foolish’, before morphing into a synonym for ‘dainty’ and, eventually, ‘pleasant’. This sort of semantic shift happens for various reasons but often results from a technological or demographic shift. For example, the birth of the …
Read More »What if neither Democrats nor Republicans want to win in 2020? No one wants the task of changing the full diaper of US Empire
Whoever wins the 2020 election will be immediately confronted with a full plate of thorny political issues, from impossible national debt to unwinnable (and apparently unendable) foreign wars to artificially-amplified racial strife to metastasizing income inequality to a pandemic that seems determined to put the last nail in the coffin …
Read More »Neither peak nor plateau
I don’t know what happened in Transbaikalia. Statistics there per day — not out of the ordinary: 39 sick, 2 people died. For example, in the Pskov region plus 112 cases per day and an increase of almost 10%. So the President knows something that we don’t know. But it’s …
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