Weird, i kinda get the impression RT took some info from here. Especially the coaster comment. Hi RT, take what you want😂

28 Nov, 2022 21:32

Elon Musk reveals what’s on his nightstand

Twitter’s new boss shares guns-and-soda photo as his amnesty drives liberals to Hitler

Elon Musk reveals what’s on his nightstand

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Twitter’s new boss, Elon Musk, is fond of replica guns. That is one of the takeaways from a photo of his bedside table that the SpaceX and Tesla magnate posted on Monday, which also featured an ancient Hindu weapon and several cans of caffeine-free Diet Coke, but not a coaster in sight.

The picture, shared early in the morning, shows several mystery items scattered about Musk’s nightstand. One is an 18th-century-style pistol in a wooden display box, with Emmanuel Letze’s famous painting “Washington Crossing the Delaware” on the inside of the lid. Another is a replica revolver from the video game ‘Deus Ex’.

Off to the side is a vajra, a traditional Hindu weapon. Several opened cans of the carbonated beverage, and the corresponding circle marks on the table’s surface, complete the picture.

Whatever the purpose of the tableau, it drew half a million likes and over 50,000 responses. Musk himself followed up by apologizing for the lack of coasters.

“I’m Musket, Elon Musket,” he tweeted around noon, referring to the muzzle-loading pistol.

Around 6 am, Musk also posted a Pepe the Frog meme, showing the cartoon amphibian wearing sunglasses and lighting a cigar, captioned “I don’t care about this particular psyop, honestly.” It was unclear what this was referring to.

The attention-grabbing photos come just a month since Musk took ownership of Twitter, in a reported $44 billion leveraged buyout. He has since restored a number of banned accounts, including that of former US president Donald Trump.

Last week, he asked the user base to vote on a general amnesty for banned accounts, “provided that they have not broken the law or engaged in egregious spam.” Over 72% of the three million respondents voted in favor.

While un-censoring Twitter has been Musk’s publicly stated objective for buying the company, the prospect of it actually happening has fueled outrage from corporate journalists and Democrat activists. Former actress Alyssa Milano, who used to be a Musk fan just a few years back, accused him of racism on Saturday and tweeted she had traded in her prized Tesla for another electric car.

“I gave back my Tesla. I bought the VW EV. I love it,” Milano said, adding she doesn’t understand how any advertiser can support a company being “in alignment with hate and white supremacy.”

Legions of Twitter users quickly reminded Milano that VW stands for Volkswagen, a German conglomerate founded in 1937 by none other than Adolf Hitler.

Claims of Twitter’s alleged platforming of “hate” came from liberal activist groups, even after the company did everything it could to appease them, Musk revealed in early November. Sign-ups on the platform are at an all-time high, and the number of monthly users could exceed a billion within 18 months, he said on Sunday.

https://www.rt.com/pop-culture/567337-elon-musk-twitter-nightstand/

28 Nov, 2022 16:24

US-EU alliance heading for ‘ugly divorce’ – ex-Russian president

Washington cheats on its partner, which lacks the resolve to break up, Dmitry Medvedev has said

(This is true EU is pissed the MIC out of the US is making billions on armaments while EU is depleting their own weapons. And their countries are starving without fuel while US is just fine for now. It must really piss them off the sanctions they agreed to place on Russia are making the entire EU poor and the citizens are turning against them; all because they believed a dementia patient and the real people running things. Maybe EU will finally get a spine)

The “marriage” between the US and EU will likely end in divorce, following the obvious “economic cheating” by the American “alpha-male,” former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has said. The remarks were made on Monday amid media reports that EU nations are becoming increasingly angry over what they see as American opportunism amid the Ukraine crisis.

The US “has no intention to share his income. On the contrary, he steals the last savings of his aging partner and pockets the money without any qualms,” Medvedev, the deputy head of Russia’s Security Council, wrote on his Telegram channel.

Washington increasingly makes the business conditions at home attractive to European companies and encourages other nations to buy its products, he noted. Meanwhile, the market for European goods is shrinking, in part because of its decision to decouple from Russia, he added.

“You can’t really trust those rich patrons. Just like that – Europe is off the allowance!” he said. The EU could “break up with its cheating … partner and start a new life of freedom,” but most likely they do not have enough resolve and “testosterone” for it, he added. In a nod to “political correctness,” Medvedev said he declined to define the genders of the characters in his metaphor.

The growing rift between EU leaders and their American counterparts has been reflected in public statements within the bloc and in Western media reports.

Last week, Politico described a growing anger in the EU due to the perception that Washington is profiting from the crisis among the member states. Some of the bloc’s senior officials are irritated by the fact that US energy suppliers are selling liquified natural gas to EU nations at a price four times higher than at home, while military contractors are benefitting by “selling more weapons” to Ukraine, the article said.

EU officials also point to the US Inflation Reduction Act and the impact that the financial incentives for eco-friendly businesses that it provides will have on European companies trying to compete, and which are finding it difficult to cope with the record-high energy prices at home, Politico added.

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US-EU alliance heading for ‘ugly divorce’ – ex-Russian president

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28 Nov, 2022 19:06

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Westminster Hall damaged during Queen’s funeral

The massive flow of people paying last respects to the late monarch caused some “some delamination” of the floor

Westminster Hall damaged during Queen’s funeral

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The flooring of the ancient Westminster Hall was damaged by the “high-level of continuous footfall” when over a quarter of a million people bid their final farewell to Queen Elizabeth II, a House of Lords spokesperson revealed on Monday.

“As a consequence of the high-level continuous footfall through Westminster Hall during the lying-in-state some delamination to the Yorkstone floor has occurred,” the spokesperson told British media, adding that the damage did “not present a structural risk.”

The excessive flow of people even “exposed some areas of bare stone,” the spokesperson explained. The worn-out patches of the stone flooring are expected to “blend in with the surrounding areas over time,” he added.

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Elizabeth II, who died on September 8, was the longest-ruling British monarch, having occupied the throne for more than 70 years. The Queen’s coffin was put on display at Westminster Hall for some five days, with over 250,000 people visiting the ancient building to pay their final respects to the late monarch.

Constructed in the late 11th century, the hall has been renovated multiple times by different British rulers over its history. The current floor is made of Yorkstone, a variety of sandstone mined in Yorkshire, and is relatively ‘new’, having been installed only in the 1830s.

Does this mean the foundation of UK power is damaged?

28 Nov, 2022 19:06

Westminster Hall damaged during Queen’s funeral

The massive flow of people paying last respects to the late monarch caused some “some delamination” of the floor

Westminster Hall damaged during Queen’s funeral

FILE PHOTO. © Getty Images / PA Images / Phil Noble

The flooring of the ancient Westminster Hall was damaged by the “high-level of continuous footfall” when over a quarter of a million people bid their final farewell to Queen Elizabeth II, a House of Lords spokesperson revealed on Monday.

“As a consequence of the high-level continuous footfall through Westminster Hall during the lying-in-state some delamination to the Yorkstone floor has occurred,” the spokesperson told British media, adding that the damage did “not present a structural risk.”

The excessive flow of people even “exposed some areas of bare stone,” the spokesperson explained. The worn-out patches of the stone flooring are expected to “blend in with the surrounding areas over time,” he added.

Royal Guard collapses near Queen’s coffin READ MORE: Royal Guard collapses near Queen’s coffin

Elizabeth II, who died on September 8, was the longest-ruling British monarch, having occupied the throne for more than 70 years. The Queen’s coffin was put on display at Westminster Hall for some five days, with over 250,000 people visiting the ancient building to pay their final respects to the late monarch.

Constructed in the late 11th century, the hall has been renovated multiple times by different British rulers over its history. The current floor is made of Yorkstone, a variety of sandstone mined in Yorkshire, and is relatively ‘new’, having been installed only in the 1830s.

https://www.rt.com/news/567335-queen-damaged-westminster-hall/

28 Nov, 2022 14:36

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Merriam-Webster reveals ‘word of the year’

The publisher of the English-language dictionary says searches for ‘gaslighting’ spiked more than 1,000%

Kekkity should be on that list

Gaslighting, a term used to describe a form of psychological manipulation, is Merriam-Webster's word of the year for 2022.

The oldest dictionary publisher in the US defines gaslighting as causing the victim “to question the validity of their own thoughts, perception of reality, or memories,” among other things. A second definition is that gaslighting is “the act or practice of grossly misleading someone, especially for one’s own advantage.”

Merriam-Webster Editor-at-Large Peter Sokolowski told AP on Monday that searches for the word rose by 1,740% this year. He added that there was no single event that prompted the sudden curiosity and interest in ‘gaslighting.’

“It’s a word that has risen so quickly in the English language, and especially in the last four years, that it actually came as a surprise to me and to many of us,” Sokolowski said.

It is believed that the word was first popularized by the 1938 play ‘Gas Light’ and two of its film adaptations made in the 1940s. In the 1944 film, a man lies to a woman, convincing her that the dimming of the gaslights at their home was a figment of her imagination. According to Sokolowski, the death of actress Angela Lansbury in October, who starred in the film, contributed to the interest in the term.

The dictionary publisher chose ‘pandemic’ as the word of the year 2020, and ‘vaccine’ the following year.

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Is Fauci trying to martyr himself

28 Nov, 2022 15:10

Fauci lectures China on lockdowns

The US Covid-19 czar claims that Beijing has no clear strategy

The outgoing White House chief medical adviser, Dr. Anthony Fauci, has criticized China for rejecting Western vaccines while continuing to impose lockdowns on its citizens. Beijing argues that its strategy has led to a lower death count.

“Their approach has been very, very severe and rather draconian in the kinds of shutdowns without a seeming purpose,” Fauci said on Sunday in an NBC News interview.

The 81-year-old Fauci, who plans to retire by the end of next month, led a disjointed US Covid-19 response marked by his flip-flopping on issues such as the efficacy of masks and herd immunity targets. He criticized China’s ‘Zero Covid’ policies, despite previously praising similar zero-tolerance mitigation approaches in Australia and New Zealand.

Mass anti-lockdown protests rocked several Chinese cities including Shanghai, Wuhan, and Beijing over the weekend, allegedly triggered by a deadly apartment block fire in Urumqi, with protesters blaming Covid restrictions for hampering rescue efforts.

“It seems that in China, it was just a very, very strict, extraordinary lockdown, where you lock people in the house, but without any seemingly endgame to it,” Fauci said. “They went into a prolonged lockdown without any seeming purpose or endgame to it, which really doesn’t make public health sense.”

China’s Foreign Ministry stated this summer that the “dynamic zero-Covid policy” is “not aimed at zero infection.” Rather, “it aims to control the spread of the virus at the lowest possible cost in the shortest possible time.”According to official figures, China has recorded 9.5 million infections and 30,000 fatalities, while the US has counted more than 97 million cases and nearly 1.1 million deaths.

While President Joe Biden declared two months ago that the pandemic is “over,” Fauci contradicted this statement, saying on Sunday that the US is still seeing 300-400 deaths from Covid-19 daily and lamenting that less than 15% of Americans have been inoculated with the most up-to-date booster shot.

Fauci said Beijing made a mistake by refusing to bring in “highly effective, 94-95% effective”Western vaccines and relying on domestically developed shots, which he claimed were inferior to the inoculations used elsewhere around the world. Yet despite being fully vaccinated and double-boosted with an American vaccine, Fauci himself caught the virus twice.

The controversial US health official also accused the Chinese authorities of acting in a “suspicious, non-transparent way” during disease outbreaks, “even when there’s nothing to hide.” However, Fauci himself previously admitted to lying to the US public in order to “nudge” up vaccination rates.

PS: I hate this fucking liar, being sent to Siberia would be too good for him. I bet he has his ticket to fly to china the last day of work.

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Fauci lectures China on lockdowns

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