In a statement announcing the study on Tuesday, the University of Liverpool cited reports from March about small numbers of people seeking medical care “predominantly after the AstraZeneca vaccine.” These patients had blood clots in major veins – including those in the brain and abdomen – but also exhibited low …
Read More »CNN insists ‘a car’ killed six people at Wisconsin Christmas parade
Repeat felon Darrell Brooks killed six people and injured more than 60 when he plowed an SUV through a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin, last week. Though Brooks has been arrested and charged with six counts of murder, media outlets covering the massacre have seemingly made a point of avoiding …
Read More »Dutch government apologizes for sterilizing trans people
“Nobody should have experienced what you went through. I am truly sorry that it happened,” Minister for Education, Culture and Science Ingrid van Engelshoven said in The Hague on Saturday. “Standards about what a body should look like do not belong in a law and a law should never force …
Read More »52 people, including 6 rescuers, presumed dead in horror mine explosion – media
Over 260 miners have been rescued from the facility after reports of an explosion, with 40 of them ending up hospitalized. Some 11 miners were confirmed dead shortly after the accident unfolded, while 35 mere were considered missing. At least three out of six emergency workers have also perished during …
Read More »Law protecting religious people from ‘cancel culture’ in the works
The law, put forward by Prime Minister Scott Morrison, a devout Christian, aims to protect Australians from existing anti-discrimination legislation when they are making “statements of belief.” “Many people from various religious traditions are concerned about the lack of religious protection against the prevalence of ‘cancel culture’ in Australian life,” …
Read More »Waukesha parade incident: Police say 20+ people injured, ‘person of interest’ identified
Waukesha Police Chief Dan Thompson revealed that over 20 people suffered injuries in wake of the incident at the holiday parade on Sunday afternoon, that saw a red SUV breaking through police barriers and ramming into parade-goers, including a marching band. DETAILS TO FOLLOW
Read More »Newspaper says Kyle Rittenhouse shot three black people
Shortly after a jury in Kenosha, Wisconsin found Rittenhouse not guilty of murder, attempted murder and reckless endangerment, The Independent updated its front-page live coverage of the trial with the sub-headline: “Full story: Teenager who shot three black men with rifle found not guilty on all charges.” The line was false, as …
Read More »The politician who’s used Covid to restrict people’s rights to an unprecedented level strikes again
The pandemic has generated a series of political crises in many Western liberal democracies over the past two years. Leaders who have failed to deal with it effectively have been brutally punished by voters. It was arguably one of the key reasons Donald Trump lost office and, in Australia, Prime …
Read More »Rapinoe insists greater equality is ‘on white people’, admits she has ‘incredible privilege’
Speaking to Professor Cathy Park Hong, the Korean-American author of a new book about Asian-American identiy, two-time Women’s World Cup winner Rapinoe spoke of her determination to continue her high-profile campaigning and thanked the poet for “continuing the education we as white Americans so desperately need”. Having testified to the …
Read More »Amazon’s Bezos predicts how many people will be left on the planet
The Amazon billionaire enthusiastically shared his predictions for what human civilization will look like in the future – with him personally helping to bring that future closer – during a talk at the annual Ignatius Forum in Washington, DC. He expects vast cylindrical space colonies spinning to create artificial gravity …
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