It’s impossible to escape the constant undertone of the need to sacrifice for the greater global good or else be viewed as a selfish prick. And now, you risk even worse branding by the thought police if you don’t fall in line with this new outlook: That of a Putin-enabler. …
Read More »FDA changes 72yo standard
The US Food and Drug Administration has deregulated the making of French dressing, revoking the “standard of identity” for the salad topping. The request comes decades after the industry first called for standards to be dropped. On Thursday, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) tossed out the old “standard …
Read More »Biden pushes ‘aggressive’ green mileage standard
The rule, announced Monday, will see the standard raised to 40 mpg in 2023 and up every year from there. It is a 25% increase over the Trump administration standard of 36 mpg announced last year, and 5% above the 38 mpg the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed in August. …
Read More »‘Testing the same weapons’: North Korea denounces US ‘double standard’ after Washington condemns submarine missile test
“It is a clear double standard that the United States denounces us for developing and testing the same weapons system it already has or was developing, and that only adds suspicions to their sincerity after saying they have no hostility towards us,” the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) quoted an …
Read More »The gold standard of espionage is human intelligence, yet the CIA has never come close to perfecting the art and likely never will
The New York Times has run a front page story highlighting the dismal state of human intelligence collection on the part of America’s premier intelligence service, the CIA. It points out that the agency has, in the past few years, lost “dozens” of agents – captured, killed, or turned – …
Read More »Fear of right-wing PragerU classroom infiltration overlooks double standard: BOTH left and right should stop brainwashing kids
After the mother of a 10th-grade student alerted Maumee City Schools administrators and the media to her daughter’s history teacher’s apparently unconscionable assignment of PragerU videos as extra credit, HuffPost “discovered” a much scarier truth: the conservative video outlet is invading America’s classrooms. In the process, they’ve laid bare a cherished …
Read More »Y’all show some respeck now! America gives up on teaching ‘standard English’ in favour of ‘Black language’ instead
The Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) has released an official statement demanding that “teachers stop using academic language and standard English” and teach the “Black language” in college classrooms. In the statement, titled, “This Ain’t Another Statement! This is a DEMAND for Black Linguistic Justice!,” a group of …
Read More »Not that the Russian – American allowed: double standard, WADA
The world anti-doping Agency (WADA) has long been a policy of double standards in relation to the athletes. This is especially noticeable in relation to the Russian athletes, after all, the decision on suspension from international tournaments and Olympic competition for 4 years is clearly politicized. Slogans of fair …
Read More »Increased the cost of standard grades of oil
Oil has risen on Friday, Brent crude rose to $of 65.25 per barrel.Oil prices reference marks are at the end of trading on Friday rose, while the increase in the cost of WTI continued for the fourth straight session and Brent – fifth. Monday markets in the U.S. and Europe …
Read More »The new BMW M2 will be non-standard
BMW is currently developing several options for the new generation. BMW M2 new generation will be deprived of the basic version, which is still the most affordable this model is, according to BMW Blog, citing insider information. Instead, the standard will be the Competition package. We already know that BMW …
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