https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/13/1080813239_111:0:1311:675_1200x675_80_0_0_107b54f55734fb87c919dde7baabc0d2.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Radhika Parashar. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/india/202010191080812925-monday-motivation-watch-this-indian-granny-train-with-weights-at-82-whats-your-excuse/ The seasons are changing and winters are nearly here – bringing snowy nights, fuzzy blankets, woollen overalls and lots of laziness. Monday mornings hit a little harder during the winter, but look around, your inspiration to beat the blues could be just a glance away. Aged 82, a saree-clad Indian grandmother is winning over the internet after videos of her training with significantly heavy weights went viral on social media. Indian business tycoon Harsh Mariwala, the founder of consumer goods brand Marico – a Fortune India 500 company– shared a video of […]
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Criterion President Peter Becker knows that his company’s film collection has long ignored Black artists. And now, he says, he’s ready to do something about it. In a fascinating feature well worth reading in full, The New York Times spoke with Becker about the scarcity of Black and African American directors within Criterion’s ranks. “There’s nothing I can say about it that will make it OK,” Becker told the Times. “The fact that things are missing, and specifically that Black voices are missing, is harmful, and that’s clear. We have to fix that.” Criterion’s DVD collection can be coveted among cinephiles […]
The Daily Show host Trevor Noah checked in on Tuesday with Tucker Carlson, “Fox News primetime star and mom haircut model.” The previous night, Carlson finally addressed the controversy surrounding his show’s top writer, Blake Neff, who was fired by Fox for a history of racist, misogynistic and homophobic online posts. “So Fox News got rid of the guy,” Noah said, “but it appears Tucker Carlson might have some mixed feelings about how it all went down.” After telling viewers that he does not “endorse” Neff’s comments, Carlson said, “we should also point out to the ghouls now beating their chests […]
For years, Donald Trump has been claiming that he can’t release his tax returns because at least some of them are still under audit by the IRS. As recently as this past Thursday, White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany repeated that reasoning to reporters, saying, “The media’s been asking this question for four years, and for four years, the president has said the same thing, his taxes are under audit, and when they’re no longer under audit, he will release them.” On Sunday morning, the president’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani blew up that excuse once and for all. After telling Fox […]
Submitted to VT by the Washington Post Leon Panetta, former defense secretary and director of the CIA, writes in Washington Post Opinions: When the report came out that the United States had intelligence that the Russians were paying bounties to the Taliban for killing U.S. troops and that the White House had not decided what to do about it, President Trump tweeted: “Nobody briefed or told me, [Vice President] Pence, or Chief of Staff [Mark Meadows] about the so-called attacks on our troops.” Wrong answer, Mr. President. The fact that you or your staff were not “briefed” on this critical intelligence […]
The New York Times will seemingly disregard sky-high homicide rates in America’s cities if doing so makes President Donald Trump look bad. To much of the media, the only facts that matter are those that hurt Trump. The US president is known for his bombastic declarations, hyperbole, and generous use of superlatives. In his nearly four years in office, that has provided plenty of material for journalists to churn out ‘fact checking’ articles cross-examining his wilder claims in an effort to cut the larger-than-life leader down to size. If anyone was wondering at what point ‘owning the president’ takes precedence over […]