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Hurricanes, heatwaves and rising seas: The impacts of record ocean heat
Hurricanes, heatwaves and rising seas: The impacts of record ocean heat Getty Images Excessive phytoplankton growth can choke the sea surface with a jelly-like layer of slime known as “sea snot” as ocean temperatures increase (Credit: Getty Images) Record ocean temperatures suggest the seas are warming faster than expected, and the impacts will be felt […]
Israel’s strike on Iran: Crisis shows how badly Iran and Israel understand each other
Israel’s strike on Iran: Crisis shows how badly Iran and Israel understand each other Reuters Israel says it will defend itself against Iran – but its allies want to avoid a wider Middle East war Israel’s attack on Iran was not the fierce response that US President Joe Biden and other western leaders had feared. […]
Ukraine war: World Bank warns of ‘human catastrophe’ food crisis
Ukraine war: World Bank warns of ‘human catastrophe’ food crisis IMAGE SOURCE,GETTY IMAGES The world faces a “human catastrophe” from a food crisis arising from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, World Bank president David Malpass has said. He told the BBC that record rises in food prices would push hundreds of millions people into poverty and […]
The devil is in the detail
The devil is in the detail If you get your news from the BBC, you might be forgiven for thinking that the economic hit from the pandemic lockdowns and restrictions has come to an end. Indeed, if you merely skim through the headlines in your social media feed, you might believe that the UK is […]
Largest UK Supermarket Warns “Worst Has Yet To Come” Amid Food Inflation Crisis
Largest UK Supermarket Warns “Worst Has Yet To Come” Amid Food Inflation Crisis Britain’s largest supermarket chain warned “the worst is yet to come” on food inflation as the cost-of-living crisis pulverizes the working poor. John Allan, chairman of Tesco Plc, told the BBC’s Sunday Morning Live that low-income households have difficulty choosing between food and heat this winter. […]
How the world embraced consumerism
How the world embraced consumerism (Image credit: Getty Images) Over the course of the 20th Century, capitalism moulded the ordinary person into a consumer. Kerryn Higgs traces the historical roots of the world’s unquenchable thirst for more stuff. _____ The notion of human beings as consumers first took shape before World War One, but became commonplace […]
“Putin Hacked Our Coronavirus Vaccine” Is The Dumbest Story Yet
“Putin Hacked Our Coronavirus Vaccine” Is The Dumbest Story Yet OMG you guys Putin hacked our coronavirus vaccine secrets! Today mainstream media is reporting what is arguably the single dumbest Russiavape story of all time, against some very stiff competition. “Russian hackers are targeting health care organizations in the West in an attempt to steal coronavirus […]
Former Supreme Court Justice: ‘This is what a police state is like’
Former Supreme Court Justice: ‘This is what a police state is like’ The former Supreme Court Justice Jonathan Sumption, QC, has denounced the police response to the coronavirus, saying the country is suffering ‘collective hysteria’. This is an edited transcript of his interview with BBC Radio 4’s World at One programme earlier today. Derbyshire police have shamed our policing traditions […]
“There exists a government within a government within the United States” -Osama bin Laden
“There exists a government within a government within the United States” -Osama bin Laden “I was not involved in the September 11 attacks in the United States nor did I have knowledge of the attacks. There exists a government within a government within the United States. The United States should try to trace the perpetrators […]
The BBC Thought Police
The BBC Thought Police “The need for sensitivity in talking about religious, political or social issues has now been taken to absurd proportions… making it difficult to say anything worthwhile. The aim of Thought for the Day has changed from giving an ethical input to social and political issues to the recital of religious platitudes […]
BBC Producer’s Syria Bombshell: Douma “Gas Attack” Footage “Was Staged”
BBC Producer’s Syria Bombshell: Douma “Gas Attack” Footage “Was Staged” Now approaching nearly a year after the April 7, 2018 alleged chemical attack in Douma, Syria — which the White House used as a pretext to bomb Syrian government facilities and bases throughout Damascus — a BBC reporter who investigated the incident on the ground has issued public statements saying […]
The Original ‘Fake News’? The BBC and the Information Research Department
The Original ‘Fake News’? The BBC and the Information Research Department Last month Ritula Shah presented a BBC World Service discussion programme entitled Is “Fake News” A Threat To Democracy? Predictably the debate focused on Russian attempts to influence Western populations and political systems. Asked whether the US has been involved in similar activities, Dr […]
Why One Should Distrust the News
Why One Should Distrust the News An article by the BBC on “The world’s most nutritious foods” ranks the healthfulness of foods on the basis of an article at the supposedly scientific PLOSone journal, titled “Uncovering the Nutritional Landscape of Food”. That study is based on a dataset that entirely ignores antioxidant-content of foods. Antioxidant-content has come to be recognized […]
Don’t Laugh : It’s Giving Putin What He Wants
Don’t Laugh : It’s Giving Putin What He Wants The BBC has published an article titled “How Putin’s Russia turned humour into a weapon” about the Kremlin’s latest addition to its horrifying deadly hybrid warfare arsenal: comedy. The article is authored by Olga Robinson, whom the BBC, unhindered by any trace of self-awareness, has titled “Senior Journalist […]
Washington is Ramping Up Military Confrontation With Russia and China
Washington is Ramping Up Military Confrontation With Russia and China Photo Source DVIDSHUB | CC BY 2.0 On November 26 the New York Times asserted that “Russia’s seizure [on November 25] of three Ukrainian naval vessels was the first overt armed conflict between the two since 2014, when Russian forces occupied Crimea.” There was no armed conflict in Crimea […]
