The IOC said in a statement it was also cutting off all discussions about any potential Olympic Games bid by Indonesia until the government provided assurances that all athletes, irrespective of nationality, would be eligible to compete there in future.

And yet the IOC bans Russian athletes

What ceasefire?

Biden demonstrated the Democrats’ moral and political failure long before Trump snaked back onto the Whitehouse

has denied all the corruption charges against him and pleaded not guilty.

He doesn’t need a pardon then

Proper journalism

That’s asking a lot from Reuters

Probably different sets of protestors.

– a practice of protecting military targets with civilian populations that is prohibited by international humanitarian law.

Humanitarian law doesn’t apply to Israelis, they are inhuman

They don’t want to create a viable country, they want to destroy the country and create chaos.

Unfortunately, the orange turn is just the clown face emoji that the people who are really running America hide behind.

Not really any less credible than the AP/Reuters/AFP cabal

I wasn’t blaming anyone, I was pointing out that it has become way too normalised for “people familiar with…” and “speaking on condition anonymity…” etc to be pushed as credible sources by news agencies that claim to be “gold standards” of journalism. At best it is lazy, too often the subtext is, “we are making this shit up.”

The point of that story to promote rage about how western sanctions are being evaded

people familiar with Indian companies’ Russian oil purchases said

Smoking gun evidence indeed

To stop the wrong person winning

"Is it possible that Trump is devoid of humanity to this extent? Is that possible?”

Er, yes. I’m afraid it is

Western news: persons familiar with the matter said it so it must be true

“Israel must immediately stop the bombing of Gaza, so that we can get the Hostages out safely and quickly! Right now, it’s far too dangerous to do that.

Meaning that as soon as the hostages are out the bombing can continue?

too entitled to take the abuse

too entitled to learn from people who are clearly smarter then they are

More like

Taiwan: Ummm, China is not going to invade, that is just your shitty propaganda

Mr Law told The Straits Times that he was coming to Singapore for a closed-door, invitation-only event. He added that those attending the event were planning to “share insights on particular issues”, but he declined to give more details.

I’m sure Norway has already been threatened

Western media suppresses reputable reports …

… about anything that doesn’t fit the pro US/NATO narrative