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‘Better kill them with explosives!’ India’s Supreme Court says air pollution turned New Delhi into a ‘gas chamber’ India’s Supreme Court said New Delhi’s staggeringly poor air quality was akin to a “gas chamber” which “suffocates” residents, and slammed both city authorities as well as local farmers for their inaction on the crisis. With air quality in India’s capital city deteriorating year after year, in a hearing on Monday the Supreme Court said living there was now “worse than Narak [hell],” and demanded to know why authorities weren’t doing more to address the issue. “In the capital of the country, if you will create this kind of situation, how will the people survive? How will the country become a global superpower if you are not able to check...

Russia faces 4-year ban from major international sports events after WADA ‘recommends’ strong sanctions The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has published details of its Compliance Review Committee’s (CRC) recommendations amid the reignited Russian doping saga. If enacted, this document might spell a grim future for Russian sports. Since some parts of the recommendations already leaked to the media, the international anti-doping watchdog published additional details on its website. The document claims that a copy of the data on the athletes’ probes from the Moscow Laboratory handed over to WADA in January 2019 as part of the process of restoring Russia’s anti-doping agency RUSADA’s status appeared to be inauthentic or inconsistent. The CRC concluded ...

Beijing summons US ambassador to voice ‘resolute opposition’ & warn of ‘consequences’ for meddling in Hong Kong affairs The Chinese Foreign Ministry has summoned the US ambassador to lodge “strong protests” over a pair of Hong Kong “human rights” bills that sped through the US legislature last week, insisting that Washington minds its own business. Calling on US lawmakers to “correct the mistakes,” Beijing’s Vice Foreign Minister Zheng Zeguang issued a harsh statement on Monday condemning the “human rights” bills and urging for a meeting with Ambassador Terry Branstad. “The Chinese side strongly urges the US to recognize the situation ... prevent the above-mentioned Hong Kong bill from becoming a law, and stop any words and deeds that intervene ...

WATCH Russian military put top secret ‘inspection’ satellite into orbit (VIDEOS) A military-purpose satellite launched from Russia’s Plesetsk space center has reached orbit after a successful launch, carrying a mysterious top-secret optical surveillance and “inspection” device. Launched on a modified Soyuz carrier rocket, the classified military satellite took flight late on Monday and reached orbit soon after, where it will help monitor other Russian craft high above the planet, the Defense Ministry said in a brief statement. The spacecraft created on the basis of a unified multifunctional space platform has been put into the target orbit, from where the state of domestic satellites can be monitored. The satellite is fitted with special o...

Make the world pay for it? ‘Green New Deal’ sponsor wants to sanction everyone for climate change ‘crimes’ Green New Deal sponsor Senator Ed Markey (D-Massachusetts) is seeking to expand US sanctions under the Global Magnitsky Act to foreign individuals and companies involved in “significant actions that exacerbate climate change.” While Democrats have denounced President Donald Trump’s plan to build a wall on the southern US border and make Mexico pay for it, Markey’s proposal seems to take that approach and apply it to the entire world, when US climate change efforts are concerned. “As we fight to enact a Green New Deal here at home, we must use all of the tools or our foreign policy to change the behavior of companies and individuals most respons...

Fish addiction studies & Bob Dylan sculpture: Rand Paul exposes Feds’ latest extravagant spending of US taxpayer millions The federal government is finding new and creative ways to spend US tax dollars, even as public debt soars into the trillions. Fiscal hawk Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) took aim at some of the most absurd programs out there. Issued on Monday, the libertarian-leaning lawmaker’s quarterly report on government waste tracks some of the more outrageous uses of federal cheese, totaling over $230 million, ranging from academic studies on drug-addicted fish to, well, literal cheese. A big slice of cheese Last year, the US Agency for International Development (USAID) spent a cool $22 million subsidizing cheese production in the highl...

‘Treat him like any Australian citizen or journalist’: Pamela Anderson pleads for Julian Assange with PM Scott Morrison Actress Pamela Anderson has called on to Australia’s prime minister to pick up the phone and appeal to US President Donald Trump to free Julian Assange, warning it his extradition would set a precedent harmful to all journalists. The Australian national, founder of whistleblower website WikiLeaks, is looking at up to 175 years in prison under the Espionage Act if he is sent over to the US. He is currently in a UK jail as doctors and supporters are sounding alarm over his health - damaged by prison conditions, solitary confinement, and years of being locked inside the Ecuadorean embassy, where he had asylum. Anderson characterized a...

Judge cites impeachment & ‘extreme national concern’ to ORDER Pentagon & budget office release files that are going public anyway A federal judge has issued a dramatic preliminary injunction ordering the release of documents about US aid to Ukraine the Department of Defense and the Office of Management and Budget had already agreed to make public. Neither the Pentagon nor the OMB really contested the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request by the Center for Public Integrity (CPI), and the only thing in dispute was how many of the 211 related pages would be provided on December 12, Monday’s ruling noted. The remaining documents would be released by December 20. NEW: A federal judge has granted @publicintegrity a preliminary inj...