When President Emmanuel Macron got the green light for the state to bail out ailing Air France earlier this month, who knew that just a few days later he would put the nation’s aviation industry into a tailspin after bowing to a climate group’s demands on reducing carbon emissions. With …
Read More »Who is David Chipman? Biden’s gun czar nominee defended Waco, spent decade in anti-gun activism
Announcing Chipman’s nomination to head the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives on Thursday, the White House said he “served at ATF for 25 years and now works to advance commonsense [sic] gun safety laws.” The agency, still known as ATF – though Biden twice called it “AFT” instead …
Read More »German govt spent over $2 BILLION of taxpayers’ money to pay pharmacies for ‘overpriced’ face masks – reports
In December 2020, every German over 60 as well as people with pre-existing health conditions were entitled to receive three FFP2 masks at any pharmacy free of charge, courtesy of the German Health Ministry, and personally of Minister Jens Spahn. The plan was to provide relief to the most vulnerable …
Read More »Leaked files show how UK govt spent millions exploiting Syrian women in cynical PR offensive
The leaked UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) documents reveal a variety of covert ways in which London sought to not only propagandize women in Syria, but to exploit them as weapons in a vast information warfare campaign waged at home and abroad. The papers are among bombshell files released …
Read More »Biden’s cancer charity raked in millions but spent NOTHING on medical research, tax filings show
Federal tax filings reveal that the Biden Cancer Initiative, founded in 2017 by the former vice president and his wife Jill, did not distribute grants during its first two years of operations, the New York Post reported. The charity, created after Biden’s oldest son, Beau, died from brain cancer in …
Read More »Two-thirds of Russians, almost all income is spent on food
More than half of its budget the vast majority of Russians — 71% — are forced to spend to buy food during isolation. In an average month to buy food is spent a little more than 30 thousand rubles, according to the study of service Work.ru and it-company “Motor”. Experts …
Read More »The Bank of Russia a record spent on supporting the ruble
The Central Bank of Russia for Monday, April 20, sent to support the ruble exchange rate more than $222 million, which was the daily record since the beginning of the intervention in the spring of 2020. In terms of rubles, the regulator was thrown into the exchange 16.8 billion rubles, …
Read More »“Island FORTS” daughter of Sergei Shoigu spent 114 million rubles
Expenses of the Fund “Island FORTS”, which is supervised by the daughter of defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, Ksenia, for 2019 totaled 113.6 million rubles. This is stated in the published on the website of the Ministry of justice statements of the Fund, drew attention to the “Open media”. “Island FORTS” …
Read More »Nearly 1 billion rubles will be spent on informing people about the referendum on the Constitution
On the information campaign about voting on the amendments to the Constitution will be spent 925 million 658 thousand 900 rubles. The figure brought the head of the CEC of the Russian Federation, Ella Pamfilova, noting, but the regions can still add money from their budgets. As reported “Interfax”, Pamfilova …
Read More »Moscow city hall spent 850 million rubles for export from lawns, fallen leaves
Cleaning autumn leaves from the Moscow lawns remains a cause for dispute between the authorities and environmental activists who insist that the removal of fallen leaves is harmful to plants. The need for such cleaning city hall I tried to imagine how the requirement of inhabitants, implemented through the “Active …
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