The chief medical officer was speaking on BBC Breakfast, as part of his regular Q&A sessions with viewers, shortly after the UK government raised concerns that social distancing rules aren’t having the effect they had hoped for and floated the possibility that they are considering introducing tougher lockdown measures. “This …
Read More »CDC launches probe after ‘very healthy’ Miami doctor dies 2 weeks after taking Pfizer’s Covid-19 jab
Dr. Gregory Michael – a 56-year-old obstetrician-gynecologist who ran his own practice at Miami Beach’s Mount Sinai Medical Center for more than a decade – died late last week, 16 days after taking the vaccine developed jointly by Pfizer and BioNTech. Local health officials said on Friday that the Centers for …
Read More »Facebook extends Trump account ban for AT LEAST 2 weeks, citing Capitol riots
Declaring that the “risks of allowing the President to continue to use our service” during the run-up to Biden’s inauguration are “simply too great” to allow, CEO Zuckerberg announced in a Thursday post that the president’s accounts will remain locked for “at least the next two weeks.” Zuckerberg said Trump intends …
Read More »‘This is gonna be a long three weeks’: Pin-up football presenter claims she was sent penis snaps within hours of UK’s new lockdown
The presenter for the Premier League and Leeds – the club at the center of controversy over a row involving pundit and former England player Karen Carney – made the shocking revelation shortly before the UK officially entered the toughest possible restrictions, announced by the government earlier in the evening. …
Read More »With less than seven weeks left before New START arms treaty expires, Russia once again urges US to sign extension
New START is the primary tool regulating Russian and American nuclear arsenals, but has been repeatedly attacked by President Donald Trump, who has refused any offers from Moscow to continue the deal past its upcoming end date. The fresh appeal comes on the 10th anniversary of New START’s ratification by …
Read More »The unwelcome McCain: US destroyer ‘expelled’ from South China Sea weeks after being ‘chased out’ of Russian waters
The People’s Liberation Army “expelled US destroyer USS John S. McCain after it trespassed into China’s territorial waters off Nansha Islands in the South China Sea,” Colonel Tian Junli, spokesman for the PLA Southern Theatre Command, said in a statement on Tuesday. The PLA “opposes US actions which endanger China’s …
Read More »GALLOWAY: Weeks after dying, Robert Fisk is savaged by liberal war propagandists. Why? Because he was a brave anti-imperialist
I first fell in love with Robert Fisk’s journalism almost 40 years ago when he wore the unlikely guise of foreign correspondent for the London Times, nowadays – as it had been for centuries – the house journal of war and imperial adventure, but then playing host to that rarest …
Read More »Trump sees Covid-19 vaccine being distributed to high-risk population FOR FREE in weeks, but Cuomo row to delay New York shipments
“We won’t be delivering to New York until we have authorization to do so,” Trump told reporters Friday at a press briefing. “It pains me to say that…. The governor, Governor Cuomo, will have to let us know when he’s ready.” Cuomo said this week that “we can’t let this vaccine …
Read More »Blaze with black smoke breaks out near Beirut harbor weeks after disastrous port blast (VIDEO)
The fire apparently began earlier on Thursday, with social media users flooding their pages with footage of flames rising up in the devastated port area. Some publications suggested that the bang was heard before the blaze. As locals wondered what could have caused the blaze, a Reuters source in the …
Read More »“We are the power!” Residents of Khabarovsk three weeks out for spontaneous rallies and marches
In Khabarovsk, on the evening of 31 July to the spontaneous rallies and marches in support of Sergey Furgala and against the appointment of the acting Governor of the Khabarovsk Krai Mikhail Degtyarev. It’s already the 21st day of protests. The townspeople gather in the square near the building of …
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