Barnier floated the idea when he appeared on France 2’s Telematin program on Tuesday. “I think we have to take the time for three or five years to suspend immigration,” he said, urging the bloc to reinforce its external borders and review immigration policies. The bold rhetoric from Barnier comes …
Read More »Hunter Biden says incriminating laptop ‘absolutely’ could have been his, suggests ‘Russian intelligence’ possibly behind leak
The laptop “absolutely” could have belonged to him, the younger Biden told CBS News, in an interview set to broadcast on Sunday. When asked whether he could give a yes or no answer, Biden replied “I have no idea.” Recovered from a Delaware repair shop in 2019 and handed last …
Read More »FBI roasted over Boulder shooting after report suggests suspect Alissa was known to intelligence officials
Ahmad Alissa, a 21-year-old man from Denver who went on a shooting rampage at a King Soopers grocery store in Boulder on Monday evening, has been charged with 10 counts of first-degree murder. The mass shooting has caused an outcry, including calls for strict gun control and for a crackdown …
Read More »People of Pompeii were killed in 15 MINUTES by avalanche of ash and gas, not lava, study suggests
Some 2,000 people died in the city and surrounding settlements when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD, but they were not overwhelmed by lava but suffocated by a phenomenally fast, up to 450mph (724kmph), cloud of toxic gases and ash, according to researchers from the Department of Earth and Geo-environmental …
Read More »Vaccines DO help to stop coronavirus transmission, recent study suggests
A preprint study posted on Friday has found that family members of vaccinated British healthcare workers were around 30 percent less likely to catch Covid-19 than those of unvaccinated workers. Though a reduction of 30 percent may seem minor, the study pointed out that these family members were also at …
Read More »Lockdown without end? Extending furlough till the end of September suggests no return to normal in June
Consider the following: When the ‘Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme’ (to give it its official title) was first announced by the UK government on 20 March 2020, it was supposed to last until 31 May. Why did it need to be so long, some people asked, if we were only going …
Read More »Lockdowns or the planet gets it? Guardian ‘accidentally’ suggests Covid-like shutdowns every 2 years to meet Paris climate goals
If carbon dioxide emissions don’t drop by the equivalent of a worldwide lockdown “roughly every two years” for the next decade, the earth will heat to apocalyptic levels, a team of researchers at the University of East Anglia warned in a Nature article published Wednesday. This apparently so excited a …
Read More »Iran ‘not after nuclear weapons,’ says Tehran as US suggests it almost has enough ‘fissile material’ for atomic bomb
“Iran has not been and is not after nuclear weapons,” said Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh on Monday, as he rebuked the remarks of White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan. “We advise the US to take a lesson from four years of Iran’s resistance and Trump’s maximum failure …
Read More »Ex-Guantanamo chief prosecutor calls for ‘DOMESTIC WAR ON SEDITION,’ suggests GOP congressman more guilty than Gitmo detainees
“I was chief prosecutor at Guantanamo for over two years, and there’s far more evidence of Congressman Madison Cawthorn’s guilt than there was of guilt for 95+ percent of the detainees,” Davis said Monday on Twitter. More than 59,000 people have signed a change.org petition demanding his resignation. Cawthorn, a …
Read More »Cambridge Analytica-linked Stanford scientist’s study suggests he can tell by examining your FACE what your politics are
Properly-trained facial recognition algorithms can correctly guess a person’s political orientation nearly three quarters of the time, Kosinski claimed in a paper published Monday in Scientific Reports. Using over a million profiles from Facebook and dating sites across the US, UK and Canada, the algorithm was able to accurately pick …
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