Host nation expected an economic windfall and global recognition. But amid pandemic, a disgruntled populace just wants it all to go away.
The lockdown realization
Seen on the Internet: “My God I’ve been on self lockdown since this 16 March 2020.In a period of 15 months I only went out of house for errands, government transactions, and vaccination.” It’s that moment when you realize that you’ve wandered into a dungeon.
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Fauci’s denials, however indignant won’t end the controversy over his involvement in Wuhan. The reason is simple. The scale of the catastrophe is just too big to be dismissed without a thorough look. Fauci may well be innocent but with the majority of the public now convinced a lab accident was the cause, according to a Harvard-Politico poll a mere denial will no longer suffice.
Waiting for vaudeville to come back
It’s sad to watch people who used to be respected conservative names in liberal media wandering in search of an audience, victims of a shift in audience composition. Big names that suddenly aren’t who are the last to know. The tide has moved on leaving them stranded in some shrinking pool. Maybe some wave will carry them back out among the big fish. Or maybe this is it.
In a way it’s better to say “I am Nobody” than “I used to be important”.
The sound of silence
The chief health officer of New South Wales, Australia, told reporters Tuesday that in order to prevent the spread of COVID-19, citizens should avoid talking to each other.
Australian health officer tells citizens to not talk to each other — ‘even … your next-door neighbor in the shopping center’ — to prevent COVID spread
The chief health officer of New South Wales, Australia, told reporters Tuesday that in order to prevent the spread of COVID-19, citizens should avoid talking to each other.
What did the doctor say? “Whilst it’s human nature to engage in conversation with others — to be friendly — unfortunately th..…
What did the doctor say? “Whilst it’s human nature to engage in conversation with others — to be friendly — unfortunately th..…
World leaders were bugged
The Paris prosecutor’s office announced it is investigating the suspected widespread use of the Pegasus spyware to target journalists, human rights activists and politicians in multiple countries.
Phones of Macron and some French ministers targeted in Pegasus affair, according to French media
The cell phones of French President Emmanuel Macron and 15 members of the French government may have been among potential targets in 2019 of surveillance by spyware made by the Israel-based NSO Group…
POLITICO-Harvard poll: Most Americans believe Covid leaked from lab
Most Americans now believe that the coronavirus leaked from a laboratory in China, according to a new POLITICO-Harvard poll that found a dramatic shift in public perception of Covid-19’s origins over the last year.
U.S. Treasury blacklists 7 Chinese officials under Trump-era Hong Kong Autonomy Act
The Biden administration blacklisted seven Chinese officials over violations of the Hong Kong Autonomy Act, a bill signed into law by former President Donald Trump in July 2020. President Trump ended the special economic status granted to Hong Kong in response to China’s drive to erode the territory’s autonomy guaranteed by the Communist regime under the “one country, two systems” policy when it took control of the territory in 1997.
Are people who eat only supermarket ice cream making a political statement?
To some Cuba is a tropical socialist paradise
1619 Project writer Nikole Hannah-Jones said she believes Cuba is the most equal country in the western hemisphere. She noted how Cuba was one of the most ‘equal’ and ‘multiracial’ countries in the with ‘very little inequality’ between black and white people living there.
Cuban woes
From what I can tell Cuba is in trouble for 4 immediate reasons:
- The demise of Venezuela’s Daddy Oilbucks largesse;
- The collapse of the tourism industry;
- The pandemic;
- The lack of FX to import food and other essentials due to the abolition of their dual currency system
Together they add up to no hay nada.
Microsoft Exchange hack caused by China, US and allies say
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration and Western allies formally blamed China on Monday for a massive hack of Microsoft Exchange email server software and asserted that criminal hackers associated with the Chinese government have carried out ransomware and other illicit cyber operations.
Microsoft Exchange hack caused by China, US and allies say
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration and Western allies formally blamed China on Monday for a massive hack of Microsoft Exchange email server software and asserted that criminal hackers associated with the Chinese government have carried out ransomware and other illicit cyber operations.
How do you say ‘hi’ with a British accent
Germany knew the floods were coming, but the warnings didn’t work
The first signs of catastrophe were detected nine days ago by a satellite orbiting 500 miles above the tranquil hills around the Rhine river
How the West became East Germany
Few pause to think that their phones can be transformed into surveillance devices, with someone thousands of miles away silently extracting their messages, photos and location, activating their microphone to record them in real time… in the coming days the Guardian will be revealing the identities of many innocent people who have been identified as candidates for possible surveillance by NSO clients in a massive leak of data.
Huge data leak shatters lie that the innocent need not fear surveillance
Our investigation shows how repressive regimes can buy and use the kind of spying tools Edward Snowden warned us about
The Eden tripwire
Psaki: deniers should be everywhere banned
White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Friday that the Biden administration believes social media users who spread COVID-19 misinformation should be banned from all platforms if one platform has given them the boot. Psaki had revealed the day before that White House staff were tracking dangerous coronavirus misinformation with help from the surgeon general’s office and flagging problematic posts to Facebook.
3 Texas Democrats test positive for COVID after packing onto private jet to flee to DC
All three have been fully vaccinated, but one of the lawmakers is experiencing symptoms
Not changing lanes, a U-turn
Although officials still remain divided on whether the virus emerged from nature, passing from animals to humans, the acknowledgment marks a shift from the scorn that was heaped on former President Trump and a group of European scientists who first brought up the lab-leak theory during the height of the pandemic last year.
Biden admin says lab leak now level with natural theory
Tighter than a fast and furious movie U-turn
Senior Biden officials finding that Covid lab leak theory as credible as natural origins explanation
Senior Biden administration officials overseeing an intelligence review into the origins of the coronavirus now believe the theory that the virus accidentally escaped from a lab in Wuhan is at least as credible as the possibility that it emerged naturally in the wild — a dramatic shift from a year …