Above photo: Main square of Severodonetsk, Ukraine, February 2018. Visem, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. Despite what some “defense analysts” may be telling Western media, the longer the war continues, the more Ukrainians will die and the weaker NATO will become. For a moment in time, it looked as if reality had managed to finally carve its way through the dense fog of propaganda-driven misinformation that had dominated Western media coverage of Russia’s “Special Military Operation” in Ukraine. In a stunning admission, Oleksandr Danylyuk, a former senior adviser to the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense and Intelligence Services, noted that the optimism […]
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https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/04/1080664206_0:0:1201:675_1200x675_80_0_0_6a552440a5edf75d6f35757a4bee0538.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Andrei Dergalin. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/science/202010041080664235-some-kind-of-fantasy-animal-sea-monster-figurehead-recovered-from-500-year-old-shipwreck/ The researchers apparently weren’t immediately able to establish exactly what animal was the figurehead found at the sunken ship represented. A peculiar discovery was made by archaeologists studying the shipwreck of the Gribshunden, a Danish flagship that sank off the coast of Sweden in 1495, the Daily Express reports. According to the newspaper, the find in question is a wooden figurehead depicting a “doglike figure or monster”, which appears to be “one of the oldest known preserved wooden carvings of its kind in the world, preserved by its submersion for centuries”. “It’s […]
TORONTO (Sputnik) – Premier Jason Kenney of Alberta, Canada’s largest oil-producing province, said during a press conference on Thursday that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s proposal for a COVID-19 economic recovery was a “fantasy plan.” “It was a fantasy plan for a mythical country that only exists, apparently, in the minds of Ottawa liberals and likeminded Laurentian elites,” Kenney said. The Alberta Premier said Trudeau’s Throne Speech delivered on Wednesday did not reflect the harsh economic realities Canada is facing amid the novel coronavirus pandemic. Kenney also said Trudeau completely ignored the ongoing economic crisis in western Canada and the growing sense […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107776/42/1077764229_0:0:1920:1081_1200x675_80_0_0_1b612823e3fa13a86b1e764c47a7365e.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/india/202008191080204359-fantasy-gaming-platform-dream11-wins-title-sponsorship-rights-for-worlds-richest-cricket-league/ New Delhi (Sputnik): The 13th edition of the world’s richest cricket tournament – the Indian Premier League – will get underway on 19 September. IPL’s governing body is all set to release the schedule of the IPL 2020, which will be played in the United Arab Emirates. Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has awarded the title sponsorship rights of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020 to China’s Tencent funded fantasy cricket league platform Dream11. The move comes days after Chinese mobile giant Vivo had backed out of sponsoring the multi-billion dollar league […]
Blockchain enabled fantasy soccer platform Sorare announced today that it has raised $4 million in a seed funding round led by e.ventures. In an announcement emailed to Coindesk, the firm said that in addition to venture capital investors like e.ventures and Fabric Ventures, a former member of German national soccer team, Andre Schurrle, has also invested in the firm. Using the ethereum blockchain, Sorare generates unique digital trading cards representing professional soccer players that can be traded by users. A user plays as the team manager and can use their five cards to compete in the weekly league competitions. Recently, Sorare […]
Fans of South Korean professional soccer will now be able to collect and trade digital tokens representing league players and use them to play fantasy soccer games run by the firm Sorare. The South Korean soccer association K League announced a licensing agreement with the blockchain enabled fantasy soccer platform on Wednesday. The agreement gives Sorare the right to include over 400 players from the league’s upper division onto its platform, which currently includes players from prominent teams like Juventus, Atletico Madrid and Napoli, according to a press release. Based in Paris, France, Sorare uses the Ethereum blockchain to generate unique […]
Joe Biden says he has “great concern” that Donald Trump will not only “steal” the 2020 presidential election, but could also refuse to leave the White House should he lose. ‘Daily Show’ host Trevor Noah is one of a growing number of liberals concerned about November’s election, partly due to recent reports out of Georgia showing people waiting hours in line to cast their ballots. “What is the plan up until November, to make sure the people can vote, everybody can, whether it’s Republican or Democrat, black or white, has the opportunity to vote without being in a line that’s six […]