Gaffe-prone President Biden has raised concerns after his latest embarrassing blunder, which saw him repeatedly stumble over the word “kleptocracy” during a Thursday speech asking the US Congress for an additional $33 billion Ukraine aid package.
“Alarming,” Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton tweeted alongside a clip of the concerning slip-up.
Alarming. pic.twitter.com/rLar2ESmqj
— Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) April 28, 2022
While President Biden signed an executive order last fall to declassify 9/11 evidence, the families of some 9/11 victims say they had to go through the British courts to get records and videos seized two decades ago from an alleged Saudi government operative that have never been public until now.
“Why did it take 20 years for this information to see the light of day?” Brett Eagleson told CBS News senior investigative correspondent Catherine Herridge.
He is leading a group of families fighting for the documents. He was 15 years old when his father, Bruce, was killed in the World Trade Center South Tower, and 20 years later, he wants his children to know what he calls “the secret of 9/11” and who was behind the plot to kill their grandfather.
Openly gay Belgian MP Gilles Verstraeten has suggested that he is fearful of holding hands with another man in the no-go Brussels suburb of Molenbeek, claiming integration of migrants has been poorly managed.
You know why they are playing out this farce of an inquiry into the calling of the Emergencies Act? It’s because the statute that enables the act makes subsequent inquiry mandatory. And despite the hearty bypassing of parliamentary customs and conventions the Liberal-NDP government has enjoyed under the convenient umbrella offered by COVID, outright defiance on serious statutes has been, for now, off the agenda.
This is a school librarian. pic.twitter.com/dgThdP8i2V
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 29, 2022
Nobody in their right mind. This is Nicole Schwab talking more trash. pic.twitter.com/JC4ucHXcVe
— Nurse Richie (@NurseRichie1) April 29, 2022
Has anyone else been suspicious of Twitter’s flip-flop on selling the platform to Elon Musk? I’m sure I’m not the only one. I always felt that Twitter was far less valuable than what Musk was offering and was particularly surprised when a Twitter board member, Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Al Saud, who is also one of Twitter’s largest shareholders, said that he’d reject Musk’s offer because it was too low.
Wtf Is this shit pic.twitter.com/TMgXTFkvgv
— Art TakingBack 🇺🇸 (@ArtValley818_) April 29, 2022
Mercenaries have become increasingly influential as states across Africa find their armies unable to limit the widening reach of armed groups.
Ahead of the holy month of Ramadan every year, traders from neighbouring towns flock to the popular cattle market in the central Malian town of Moura. That ritual continued this year.
But on March 27 – one of those market days – military helicopters suddenly appeared in the sky. Malian troops and foreign soldiers descended on the busy market to target members of armed groups who had controlled the remote town for years.
Witnesses said the bloodied operation lasted for more than four days, with about 300 civilian men, some of them suspected fighters, summarily executed in that period.
One trader said dozens of men, including two of his brothers, were executed by Russian-speaking soldiers who “took them several meters away and executed them, point-blank”.
A court case is under way over whether energy companies can drill for oil and gas in the Arctic.
Environmental activists are taking Norway’s government to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) because it is allowing exploration. It’s being seen as a test case for how much of the area’s natural resources can be exploited.
A much-anticipated EU-China Summit, the first since 2020, has ended as both a failure and a success: a failure because the two sides were unable to agree on anything of bilateral importance; a success because after years of kowtowing to China, European officials finally stood their ground. EU-China relations are now on a new footing: Beijing no longer calls the shots.
EU-China relations have long been on a downward trajectory due to a panoply of disputes, including the worsening human rights situation in China, Beijing’s spreading of disinformation to cover up the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, China’s unfair trade practices, and its economic bullying of EU member states.
The Department of Homeland Security has created a governance board to police “misinformation” and “disinformation,” Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas first revealed to Congress on Wednesday. The effort has been criticized as a government effort to police free speech.
In 2012, the Obama campaign launched a ridiculous website called ATTACKWATCH.com, which, together with an email list and a Twitter account, were billed as “new resources to fight back” that would “fact check statements by Obama’s Republican opponents with links to ‘evidence’ to back them up.”
ATTACKWATCH! would watch the attacks from those dastardly Republicans and “support the truth” and “fight the smears.”
Israelis say he’s a leader of a terrorist group who is running a Canadian charity. Supporters say he is a victim of Israeli intimidation
I’d call him a shining example of Justin Trudeau’s preferred immigrant.
