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- ‘Let them drive Teslas’: Jennifer Granholm turns into a green Marie Antoinette as she lectures Americans on gas shortages
Biden’s energy secretary used the Colonial Pipeline hack to tell everyone to ditch their gas-guzzlers for electric cars. The average price of an electric vehicle is $55,600. She has no idea what life is like for working Americans. - #WeAreClosed: Once industrious Americans shunning work as government indulges them with cashA curious new labor movement of sorts has arisen in the US in which, far from appreciating the sanctity of hard work and industriousness, it is reveling in the demise of businesses that are unable to find employees.
- The UK’s absurd ban on ‘junk food’ adverts will outlaw products that have lots of fat and sugars. Watch out, breast milk…If anything shows the inanity of nanny-state prohibitions aimed at tackling obesity, it’s that, if breast milk were a commercial product, it would be close to falling foul of the rules. And is there really even a weight problem?
- CIA spying scandal in Switzerland shows the best way for intelligence services to read your messages is to OWN the platformThe CIA’s role in the Crypto AG case makes clear that spies don’t need a way into messaging apps, but a secret bird’s-eye view from the word go. This is far more effective than any ‘backdoor’ foreign powers may have access to.
- The next big things: Plus-size models grace catwalks & Playboy covers as ‘fat acceptance’ movement starts to win its battleBeing overweight once meant you were shunned, laughed at, and discriminated against. Now a group of large & increasingly vocal and powerful women are leading the campaign to reclaim the F-word as a positive. RT speaks to them.
- ‘A glorified drug cartel whose dealers wore lab coats, suits and ties’: how Big Pharma made Americans addicted to opioidsA new HBO documentary called ‘The Crime of the Century’ lays bare how firms like Purdue used bribery, dodgy marketing, and shady political deals to make fortunes by getting millions hooked on super-strong painkillers.
- Israel is deliberately obliterating media buildings in Gaza to cover up the war crimes that will followThe destruction of two important Gaza buildings housing 20 media outlets was both shocking and predictable. History shows that if the media aren’t around to document Israel’s war crimes, it’s a lot easier for it to commit them.
- #WeAreClosed: Once industrious Americans shunning work as government indulges them with cashA curious new labor movement of sorts has arisen in the US in which, far from appreciating the sanctity of hard work and industriousness, it is reveling in the demise of businesses that are unable to find employees.
- ‘Let them drive Teslas’: Jennifer Granholm turns into a green Marie Antoinette as she lectures Americans on gas shortagesBiden’s energy secretary used the Colonial Pipeline hack to tell everyone to ditch their gas-guzzlers for electric cars. The average price of an electric vehicle is $55,600. She has no idea what life is like for working Americans.
- Did BoJo stoke up racial tensions on the streets of Glasgow to undermine Sturgeon’s bid for Scottish independence?The removal of two immigrants from their flat in Glasgow by the UK Home Office saw more than 1,000 people hit the streets to protest. But the timing and location of the operation have left many questions about its real motive.
- The West pushes the Xinjiang issue hard and selectively, while ignoring the sustained slaughter of PalestiniansMuslims allegedly being treated badly in China? Terrible human rights atrocities that need to be stopped. Muslims being bombed, murdered and driven from their homes in Gaza? Meh, they’re anti-Israel terrorists.
- If medically-assisted procreation is soon a legal reality for all French women, child support from men must be scrappedA major societal debate is set to explode in France, where the government is shortly expected to authorize access to state-funded medically assisted procreation for all women – even those without any reproductive difficulties.
- Ladies & gentlemen, boys & girls, it’s time to tell the non-binary woke warriors where to stick their pronounsThe pronoun police have struck again, with a UK train operator apologising to a passenger who complained about a friendly conductor using the term ‘ladies and gentlemen’. We have to stop pandering to this militant madness.
- CIA spying scandal in Switzerland shows the best way for intelligence services to read your messages is to OWN the platformThe CIA’s role in the Crypto AG case makes clear that spies don’t need a way into messaging apps, but a secret bird’s-eye view from the word go. This is far more effective than any ‘backdoor’ foreign powers may have access to.
- The UK’s absurd ban on ‘junk food’ adverts will outlaw products that have lots of fat and sugars. Watch out, breast milk…If anything shows the inanity of nanny-state prohibitions aimed at tackling obesity, it’s that, if breast milk were a commercial product, it would be close to falling foul of the rules. And is there really even a weight problem?
- Reports of racial discrimination DOUBLE in Germany as Covid brings bubbling undercurrent of anti-Asian sentiment to the foreGermany’s Anti-Discrimination Agency is so overwhelmed with complaints of discrimination its phone lines have been shut since October. While racism towards Asians during Covid-19 is partly to blame, the problem goes far deeper.
- Ideological unity was the US Republicans’ only strength. But with Liz Cheney out, even that’s falling apartThe ouster of Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney from party leadership lays bare the GOP’s problem: they lack workable policies, and their only strength – unity – has now been shattered, too.
- Israel is teetering on the edge of civil war, and what do celebs do? They leap in Tweet first.Israelis and Palestinians are killing each other. Again. This time it could turn into a full-blown civil war. But never fear, the celebrities have arrived and they're going to settle this millennia-old dispute, in 280 characters.
- America is back? Soaring inflation rate shows Biden’s honeymoon is over… and Republicans are eyeing their preyHe’s had a comfortable start to his presidency, but Joe Biden is feeling some pressure thanks to an overheated economy. After licking its wounds following Trump’s demise, it’s time for the GOP to make life difficult for him.
- Former MSNBC host Toure says its OK to punch an old man to death if he calls you the 'n-word'After a 77-year-old was killed in Florida, Toure took to Twitter and suggested using racial slurs essentially deserved a death sentence. Does he not realize that a world where speech is violence would lead to societal collapse?
- Free speech means holocaust deniers shouldn’t be silenced. After all, banning stupid ideas doesn’t make them disappearA UK government minister is under fire for saying holocaust deniers should be allowed to speak at universities. But why should the censorious mob decide what others hear? Students can make up their own mind what’s right or wrong.
- EU aid money sent to Palestine has ended up in the pockets of terrorists – but Brussels doesn’t seem to care that muchRecent revelations that millions of euros have ended up in the hands of a Palestinian terrorist group reveal dangerous contradictions in EU aid policies that damage both its foreign-policy prestige and its partnership with Israel.
- As the mass shootings continue, US won’t solve its gun problem until American men look inside their heads, not their holstersEvery week brings another mass shooting in the United States of Amnesia, where gun culture is so ingrained that senseless slaughter is accepted. Only a rethink of what masculinity should really represent can stop the carnage.
- ‘No immigration for five years’: Ex-EU negotiator Barnier’s bid for French presidency is straight from the Brexit playbookBritain’s EU bête noire Michel Barnier is eyeing the French presidency and has shocked observers with his tough talk on immigration. Had the UK been allowed what he is proposing, Brexit would never have materialised.
- What do you call Liz Cheney’s ousting from a Republican leadership position? A good start…Lawmaker Liz Cheney, daughter of ex-VP Dick Cheney, has held the third-ranking post in the House of Representatives since 2019 but just couldn’t suppress her bitter hatred for Trump. This is not a sign of division – but of unity.
- Netanyahu allying himself with far-right settler extremists has sparked violence in Jerusalem and risks all-out chaosThe Israeli prime minister’s decision to side with extremist settlers for political gain, along with attacks on Palestinian worshippers, have led to possible war with Gaza and “civil war” inside Israel itself.
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