Over the past few days, China has handed down sentences for Canadian nationals detained in the country for various misdeeds. One of them is being sentenced to death for smuggling drugs – nothing particularly unusual in an Asian context – while the other is accused more ambiguously of ‘espionage’. This …
Read More »Rand Paul says he and his family have received ‘death threats’ as result of clashes with Fauci on Covid-19
“I don’t know what the world’s coming to. You can’t ask honest, difficult questions that, in the end, have proved that Dr. Fauci was not being honest with us, but as a repercussion, my family had white powder sent to our house, and five death threats phoned in,” Paul told …
Read More »Halting Nord Stream 2 construction may result in legal battle, German minister warns
“If we stop the project now, we will inflict a great deal of harm, casting doubt on the reliability of decisions made on the basis of principles of the rule of law and would probably face court proceedings,” Federal Minister Svenja Schulze said in an interview with Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland (RND). …
Read More »‘US democracy is a lie’: Hezbollah leader Nasrallah says Capitol siege is result of Trump’s ‘criminal’ tactics used in Syria, Iraq
“What the Americans witnessed [on Wednesday] was a small result of the crimes that Donald Trump committed during his four years of presidency in Syria, Iraq and Yemen,” Nasrallah said in a TV appearance, also recalling the assassination of top Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani in a US drone strike …
Read More »The billions given away by the ex-Mrs Bezos result from dodgy business practices that kill competition, so hold the accolades
One of Muhammad Ali’s best boasts was, “I’m so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark,” and that comes to mind every time an Amazon package turns up on my doorstep. The doorbell rings, …
Read More »‘Stolen election’ hysteria is the new ‘Russian interference’ – and both are the result of US institutional erosion
The Trump campaign has now lost 51 legal challenges to last month’s presidential election results, as each state’s authorities confirm rival Democrat Joe Biden’s victory. Yet 52 percent of Republicans actually believed that it was Trump who had “rightfully won” the election (versus 29 percent for Joe Biden), according to a Reuters/Ipsos …
Read More »Austrian lawmaker tests cola for Covid and claims POSITIVE result returned shows testing is ‘worthless’
Michael Schnedlitz, a member of Austria’s National Council and the general secretary of the right-wing Freedom Party, railed against the government’s screening program and other coronavirus measures while addressing his colleagues in parliament on Thursday. During his speech, Schnedlitz administered a rapid Covid-19 test on a glass of cola, showing …
Read More »Trump becomes top search result for ‘loser’, Biden for ‘winner’ on Twitter, as platform denies rigging algorithm
Trump began popping up as a “loser” in Twitter’s “People” search tab after his Democratic rival, Joe Biden, declared victory in the US presidential election on Saturday. The Democratic candidate addressed the nation after several major television networks called the battleground state of Pennsylvania for the 77-year-old, which put him …
Read More »Plane bias: Russia’s decision to quit MH17 panel a logical result of Dutch provocations
Almost as soon as the terrible news came out on 17th July 2014 that a passenger airliner had come down over eastern Ukraine with the loss of all 298 people on board, the fingers of blame in the West were pointing at Russia, and the Kremlin was declared guilty until …
Read More »A critical vulnerability. In Putin’s Russia, the result of any online elections can be predicted in advance
The other day while the state Duma has adopted the bill about the possibility of Internet voting and even voting by mail. Thus, the game in the “democratic elections” in Russia was over before it even started. Someone indignantly asks why, because he is electronic voting, for example, in Switzerland? …
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