The United States is prepared, if needed, to provide Sweden and Finland with military support as these countries await NATO’s response to their membership applications, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby has said. On Sunday both Finland and Sweden formally announced their intention to join NATO, despite multiple warnings from Russia. Moscow, …
Read More »Alex Jones loses two Sandy Hook lawsuits by default over failure to provide documents
Jones has been found guilty by default in both cases, meaning he and the Infowars outlet will be held responsible for all damages, according to rulings by Judge Maya Guerra Gamble which were published on Thursday. A jury will decide how much he owes the plaintiffs, parents Leonard Pozner, Veronique …
Read More »Facebook steps in to provide high-speed internet to broadband-starved rural Virginia – what could go wrong?
Already constructing enormous high-speed fiber networks to connect its sprawling data centers in Ohio, Virginia, and North Carolina, Facebook plans to overlay consumer broadband for some 6,000 homes in Virginia’s Grayson County onto that infrastructure by the end of the fall, according to a Thursday blog post. The Appalachian county …
Read More »OnlyFans REVERSES adult content ban, says it will provide home for ‘all creators’
The un-banning immediately angered some sex workers who likened the reversal to an abusive ex-boyfriend trying to win them back. OnlyFans – which is used mostly, but not exclusively, by amateur sex workers to sell pornographic content – announced last week that it would prohibit content showing sexual intercourse, masturbation, …
Read More »G7 nations to provide 1 billion Covid-19 vaccines for ‘neediest’ countries, but it’s not enough, says WHO
On the final day of the G7 meeting in Cornwall, England on Sunday, the group announced that it had agreed on a shared agenda to “end the pandemic” by “driving an intensified international effort, starting immediately, to vaccinate the world by getting as many safe vaccines to as many people …
Read More »Hackers provide decryption tool to unlock IT systems of Irish health services after ransomware cyberattack
The move by the hackers was “an encouraging development,” the government said in a statement on Thursday. The country’s National Cyber Security Centre as well as private contractors were examining the provided tool to make sure it “would support restoration of our systems and rather than cause further harm,” the …
Read More »America is deluding itself if it thinks Vietnam will provide it with missile bases, or help it at all, in any conflict with China
Despite their shared ideology, anti-imperialist worldview, and Mao’s historical support for North Vietnam in its long struggle against the United States between 1955 and 1975, China and Vietnam aren’t allies. In fact, the longstanding enmity between the two countries is huge. For thousands of years, Vietnam has perceived Beijing as …
Read More »Maxine Waters’ ‘insurrection’ calls provide more proof that race-baiters ripping America apart don’t deserve to be taken seriously
Likewise, the Democrat “leaders” and media propagandists who will, as usual, ignore or excuse Waters’ incitement to violence are reminding us that they shouldn’t be taken seriously. All of their talk about racism, criminal justice, policing, white supremacy and the like is just blather. It’s disingenuous, manipulative and dishonest. America’s …
Read More »National Guard to remain in Washington, DC until MARCH to provide security for impeachment trial – report
According to an anonymously sourced Politico report on Sunday, a contingency force of 7,000 National Guard troops will stay in DC until Trump’s trial begins in February, after which 5,000 will stay put until the trial concludes, likely in the middle of March. Politico’s sources said the deployment was necessary …
Read More »Pompeo claims Al-Qaeda has new home base in Iran, doesn’t provide evidence
“We must acknowledge it, we must confront it… we must defeat it,” Pompeo said during a press event on Tuesday, organized for making the bold announcement. “We ignore this Iran-Al-Qaeda nexus at our own peril,” he added. Pompeo acknowledged that to many Americans the alleged development may come as a …
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