Between them, both Ronaldo and Messi have left an indelible mark on the beautiful game, dominating football’s list of individual honors for well over a decade and firmly etching their names in the list of the sport’s greatest ever players. During their respective heydays, a cold war of sorts brewed …
Read More »Psaki says deaths of 13 US troops don’t ‘take place of all the PROGRESS’ made in Kabul as Biden takes flak for Afghan nightmare
“The men and women who gave their lives… that doesn’t take the place of all of the progress, all of the work that’s been done to evacuate people,” Psaki said on Sunday in a press briefing. She added that the 13 fallen service members sacrificed their lives to save thousands …
Read More »Thirty years ago, the START-1 nuclear deal made the world a safer place: Now, the US & Russia risk returning to an atomic standoff
When it entered into effect three years later, there was no USSR left. Nevertheless, its ambitious terms sought to draw a line under the steady increases in long-range nuclear weapons that had characterized the Cold War. Even more importantly, the pact actually reduced their numbers significantly, as cooler heads prevailed …
Read More »By all means feel sorry for Simone Biles, but don’t deify her – that’s what got us here in the first place
Heading into the Tokyo Games, Biles was a dead cert to add to her haul of four Olympic gold medals and was staring at a clutch of records that would burnish her claims as the greatest her sport has ever seen. Instead, the shock factor of what happened during the all-round artistic …
Read More »Spot-on Italy sink Spain in shootout to book place in Euro 2020 final after high-class heavyweight showdown at Wembley
A goal on 60 minutes from Federico Chiesa had looked like giving Italy a brilliant smash-and-grab win, but substitute Alvaro Morata emerged to equalize for Spain with 10 minutes of normal time remaining to send a pulsating game in London into extra time. The teams could not be separated, meaning …
Read More »Police issue ‘shelter-in-place’ order for Massachusetts town as several armed men flee into woods
A police trooper in Wakefield, Massachusetts, a town near Boston, came across the potentially dangerous group early on Saturday, after spotting two vehicles pulled over on the side of a highway. According to media reports, the men, who were wearing tactical gear and armed with rifles and pistols, were attempting …
Read More »Trans propaganda has no place in our schools, fortunately parents and the government in the UK are waking up to this brainwashing
Stonewall, the LGBTQ equality charity, is haemorrhaging support. A number of high profile institutions, including the Equality and Human Rights Commission, Channel 4 television, Ofsted and the DVLA, have withdrawn from its diversity champions programme. The government’s Equalities Minister Liz Truss has urged Whitehall departments to cut ties with Stonewall …
Read More »‘A Quiet Place II’ falls dramatically, culturally and politically flat as it fails to live up to the suspenseful original
In 2018, the monster movie/horror film ‘A Quiet Place’ snuck up on movie audiences and frightened and thrilled the hell out of them to the tune of a $340 million worldwide box office take on a $21 million budget. That movie, written, directed and starring John Krasinski, was a taut …
Read More »Confusion as English councils deny local travel bans in place over Indian Covid-19 variant, despite govt advisory
Officials at eight different local authorities reacted with bewilderment and anger to updated health guidance on the UK government’s website, saying they were not consulted over any changes. On Tuesday a joint statement was issued by the directors of public health for councils in Burnley, Bedford, Blackburn with Darwen, Bolton, …
Read More »‘No place is safe for children in Gaza right now,’ UNICEF tells RT while urging all sides to end violence in Israel-Hamas conflict
“It’s a terrifying situation. Only in the past five days we have reported that at least 40 children have been killed in the Gaza Strip,” Juliette Touma, UNICEF Chief of Communications for the Middle East and North Africa, told RT on Saturday. She added that two children were killed in …
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