In the One Thousand and One Night tale of the princes of Serendip, all three have one desire: To achieve all their wishes with a single throw of the dice.
However, not confined to the world of oriental tales, that dream has dictated quite a few tragic, comical and tragi-comical events in history.
The latest appearance of the “one throw” theme could be witnessed in Tehran these days, where Islamic Republic leaders offer both tragic and comical versions of it.
A precipitous drop in ratings for National Football League games has networks slashing ad prices and renegotiating contracts with key advertisers, the Wall Street Journal reports Sunday.
Overall, viewership for the 2020 NFL season is down around 9% from the 2019 season according to Front Office Sports, which tracks sports business news. Week-over-week, though, the damage is much worse. ‘The NFL averaged 14.5 million viewers in unlucky Week 13, down 29% from the same week last year,” the outlet noted on Friday.
But will they be able to stay off the “national server” if the Democrats take over?
When the NHS, Britain’s socialized medicine system, debuted its contact tracing app, six million eagerly rushed to download it. After a few days, 10 million had downloaded and installed the app, and after a month, around 40% of smartphone users had put a monitoring device on their phones that would trace their social interactions and could tell them to isolate at any moment.
On Thursday, 114 schools were abruptly ordered shut in the Windsor-Essex region of Ontario by the area’s chief medical officer. School boards were caught off guard by the announcement, which has pushed over 56,000 students into online learning until at least the beginning of January.
“The health and safety of students and staff remains a priority for the [Windsor-Essex County Health Unit],” reads the news release. “This action is being taken in an effort to keep our community safe and prevent further spread of COVID-19.”
Loyal members of the Chinese Communist Party are working in British consulates, universities and for some of the UK’s leading companies, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.
An extraordinary leaked database of 1.95 million registered party members reveals how Beijing’s malign influence now stretches into almost every corner of British life, including defence firms, banks and pharmaceutical giants.
Most alarmingly, some of its members – who swear a solemn oath to ‘guard Party secrets, be loyal to the Party, work hard, fight for communism throughout my life…and never betray the Party’ – are understood to have secured jobs in British consulates.
A group of Proud Boys activists burned a Black Lives Matter banner on Saturday in Washington. The right-wing group repeatedly brawled with their counterparts from left-wing Antifa on the night after the MAGA March event.
Police detained multiple people at the pro-Trump march in DC as clashes with counter-protesters ensued, while the election was being denounced by speakers like Alex Jones who claimed that Biden “will never” be recognized as POTUS.
Hundreds of Proud Boys are marching in downtown D.C. Thousands are expected for pro-Trump protests today pic.twitter.com/vohgn8RenA
— Debbie Truong (@debbietruong) December 12, 2020
Neither Fox News host Tucker Carlson nor American Majority CEO Ned Ryun care for the “bastardized, corporatist capitalism” that’s routinely defended and beloved by establishment Republicans.
Speaking together Friday on Fox News’ “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” both concurred that the right’s embrace of this faux capitalism is paving the way for socialists to take over and destroy America.
Attorneys for Joe Biden’s son and brother are refusing to cooperate with congressional oversight, according to a Senate chairman.
Sens. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) have been probing the foreign business dealings, along with other matters, of the Biden family for around a year.
Johnson chairs the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. Grassley chairs the Senate Finance Committee.
A young mother says she and her husband were kicked off a United Airlines flight because their two-year-old daughter refused to wear a mask.
Eliz Orban was in tears during a video she shared Friday on Instagram showing herself in the airport along with her husband and daughter, Edeline, after getting off the plane.
‘We just got kicked off a flight because our two-year-old would not put on a mask,’ Orban, who was flying with her family from Colorado to Newark, New Jersey, said.
There are ‘many ways’ in which China ‘gets what it wants’
Sky News host Paul Murray says there are many ways that China “gets what it wants,” which are just as active as the economic coercion currently being played out on Australia right now.
Mr Murray spoke of an “amazing story that you probably didn’t hear much about over the past few days”.
He said China has found a way to “get its hooks” into one of the Five Eyes’ nations.
The Five Eyes intelligence alliance comprises the United States, Australia, Canada, the UK and New Zealand.
OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole says that while he sees many problems with the Liberal government’s handling of pandemic, he won’t be pushing for an election until the COVID-19 health and economic crisis is under control. When the time comes for Canadians to cast their ballots, he says his party will be ready.
“We have to get through the health and economic crisis of COVID-19 before we go to the polls,” said O’Toole in an interview on CTV’s Question Period with host Evan Solomon.
On November 17, four US Senators introduced legislation to investigate the “sister city” partnerships between communities in United States and China. According to Senator Marco Rubio:
“The Chinese government and Communist Party has a history of exploiting cultural and economic partnerships to conduct malign activities, and it’s clear that opaque, sister-city partnerships deserve increased scrutiny. We must do more to better understand, and then counter, Chinese influence operations at the state and local level, which are often conducted under the benign auspices of sister city relationships.”
Laura Stone is absolutely fed up with being harassed, assaulted and vandalized by mostly drug-addicted tent dwellers in the Moss Park encampment.
Stone is not her real last name.
Now that the election is over and it is safe for the media to cover the Hunter Biden scandal they ignored when The Post broke the story in October, things in Washington are getting back to normal. FBI and Justice Department officials are once again leaking like sieves to their favorite reporters.
The New York Times knew before the election that Joe Biden was the “big guy” in line for a secret 10 percent stake in a deal with a Chinese energy conglomerate, but the paper withheld the information from readers. Yet now that Hunter Biden admits he’s under a criminal tax probe, the Gray Lady begins to stir.
