OOOPS! Fox News is running a clip about brave Israeli soldiers capturing a Palestinian in gray underpants, but the report accidentally includes a shot of the actor playing the Palestinian getting dressed afterwards!
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Nury Vittachi
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Nury Vittachi
@NuryVittachi
Ex-SCMP, ex-Far Eastern Economic Review, ex-Reader’s Digest, ex-op-ed writer for NYT, etc, author of 40+ books; now running Hong Kong’s ‘Friday’ news project
- This is the headline from the Times of London today. Chinese swimmers can literally pass the exact same drug tests as everyone else and still get accused of drug taking. Sigh
- "The American empire is over," Richard D. Wolff, U.S. professor of international affairs, tells Al Jazeera. Already the biggest economic power on the planet is not the US and its allies, but China and the BRICS. But no U.S. politician dares to tell the people: "It's over."
00:00 - Incredible: U.S. police have arrested more protesters in just two weeks, than the Hong Kong police arrested in four violent months in 2019
00:00 - WHY I AM RESIGNING FROM THE U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT By Annelle Sheline, PhD. SINCE HAMAS’ ATTACK on October 7, Israel has used American bombs in its war in Gaza, which has killed more than 32,000 people — 13,000 of them children — with countless others buried under the rubble,
- IOC: IF YOU BAN ISRAEL, WE’LL BAN YOU MORE The International Olympic Committee last night banned Indonesia from hosting any international sports events of any kind for the indefinite future—because it chose not to allow athletes from Israel into its country. Horrified by the
- Iran's supreme leader Ali Hosseini Khamenei, is suddenly cool. How come? For one reason, people have discovered his old tweets. He thinks women are amazing. He thinks the British did bad things in Ireland. He says Muslims must respect Christian figures like Jesus and Mary.
00:00 - THIS WEEK IS the 10th anniversary of one of the most astonishingly successful predictions of modern journalism. On May 13, 2014, legendary investigative journalist John Pilger wrote an article in the UK Guardian titled: “In Ukraine, the US is dragging us towards war with
- SCIENTISTS ARE IN SHOCK today after the discovery of a million-year-old early human skull in China. The finding of the Homo longi (“dragon man”) skull in China will force a re-examination of the long-held belief that humanity originated from Africa. Homo longi had some Homo
Readers added context they thought people might want to knowReaders added contextThe referenced paper does not suggest in its findings that humans had an origin outside of Africa. It is an example from the longi clade, which is a separate lineage from H. sapiens, and is from after the point of divergence. Both lineages still trace back to Africa science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… - YES, NATO CAUSED THE PRESENT DISASTER IN LIBYA Here’s a timeline of what really happened. In March of 2011, US intelligence claimed there was a popular uprising in Libya and asked the UN to okay a temporary no-fly zone over Libya to protect the citizens. China, India, Brazil,
- AARON BUSHNELL: THREE STATEMENTS NOT BEING REPORTED The media is reporting that a US airman named Aaron Bushnell set himself alight and died "in a protest against the Israel-Hamas war" (MSNBC). It’s not true. Journalists, please LISTEN. . . 1) "What would I do if my country was
- A Chinese computer nerd is stunning tech experts with a bargain price AI tool that beats the world's top players on several benchmarks. Liang Wenfeng's system, called DeepSeek-V3, has powers of "reasoning" that match or beat those of the equivalent devices by the world's top
