A senator from Australia’s ruling coalition has been criticized two weeks before the May 21 federal election, after he thanked the Chinese-Australians for “putting up with racism.” Addressing participants at the Chinese Australian Forum on Friday, the Liberal Party senator for New South Wales Andrew Bragg admitted that, amid the …
Read More »Kiev putting Ukrainian ‘statehood’ at risk, Putin warns
Kiev’s actions are putting Ukraine’s own existence at risk and it must understand it can’t simply carry on with the same policies, President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday. Moscow has previously accused Kiev of condoning the activity of neo-Nazis in the state, and of attacking people in the Donbass republics. …
Read More »Australia mulls putting cats on lockdown
A nationwide 24/7 lockdown for cats is just around the corner in Australia, officials believe, as figures reveal that billions of unique native animals fall prey to feline hunters annually. “The latest statistics show that every year they [pet cats] predate more than 180 native animals; that’s just one pet …
Read More »Caitlin Johnstone: Oh great, they’re putting guns on robodogs now
At an exhibit booth in the Association of the United States Army’s annual meeting and exhibition, Ghost Robotics (the military-friendly competitor to the better-known Boston Dynamics) proudly showed off a weapon that is designed to attach to its quadruped bots made by a company called SWORD Defense Systems. “The SWORD …
Read More »Russia unveils combat robots that can take down tanks without putting soldiers in harm’s way, as part of massive Zapad war games
In footage released by the country’s Ministry of Defense, two models of unmanned fighting vehicles showed off their capabilities and armaments, practicing turning fire on a simulated enemy during the Zapad-2021 joint exercises. Among the two is the Uran-9 armored fighting vehicle, built like a conventional tank but driven remotely. …
Read More »Putting animals before humans is disturbing, yet many Brits see Pen Farthing as a hero after he evacs cats & dogs from Kabul
While 24 staff and dependants linked to his pet rescue centre in Kabul have been left to rot on the ground, Farthing took off with 94 dogs, 74 cats and a whole lot of love from a large section of the British public that views him as some sort of …
Read More »AOC roasted for putting mask on during photo-op, removing it immediately after (VIDEO)
The video, first shared by Breitbart, shows Ocasio-Cortez joining protesters on the steps of the US Capitol. Initially, very few participants appear to be wearing masks while chatting with AOC on the steps. Rep. Ed Markey (D-Massachusetts) also appears in the video and dons his mask for a photo with …
Read More »WaPo & NYT mocked by Chinese officials for putting US at top of Olympics medal table, despite China winning more gold
China currently has eight more gold medals than the US, but both The New York Times and The Washington Post list the US at the top of the Tokyo Olympics leaderboard. The US outlets are using total medals won as their methodology, despite the fact that traditionally, the country with …
Read More »‘You’re counting it wrong’: Readers blast New York Times for putting US at top of Olympic medal rankings
On the fifth day of the 2020 Olympics, the US paper of record showed a chart captioned “here’s where the medal count stands now,” showing the US in first place with a total of 30, ahead of China with 27 and Japan with 22. Except under the traditional method of …
Read More »‘Prankster’ Ohio police chief resigns after putting KKK sign on black officer’s desk (VIDEO)
Anthony Campo, who served for eight years as the chief of police for Sheffield Lake, Ohio, was captured on surveillance video as he approached the empty desk of his black subordinate with a piece of paper reading, “Ku Klux Klan.” The improvised KKK sign was then placed on the back …
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