Game of Thrones fans are freaking out Monday morning after Drogon, the largest of Daenerys Targaryen’s dragons, made a cameo appearance on a different HBO show last night: Westworld. And, as if a cameo from Drogon wasn’t enough, the latest Westworld episode, entitled “The Winter Line,” featured a cameo from Game of Thrones writers David Benioff and D.B. Weiss. For those who have given up on […]
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Alex Wong/Getty Images Unofficial medical research expert and U.S. President Donald Trump hyped an unproven combination of drugs as potentially “one of the biggest game changers in the history of medicine” a day after Dr. Anthony Fauci tried to tamp down expectations for experimental coronavirus treatments. In a series of tweets Saturday morning, Trump hyped a cocktail of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin as a treatment for COVID-19, […]
Submitted by Saxo Bank’s Peter Garnry Summary: Private equity is one of the worst asset classes during a liquidity and credit crisis. Private equity firms cannot adjust risk because they invest in illiquid assets and their high leverage amplifies returns both ways. The recent decline has reduced the annualised return to 5% since late 2003 significantly lower than the S&P 500 and with worse risk-adjusted metrics. […]
NATO was on the cusp of initiating a massive war drill called Defender-Europe 20. The 40,000 solider war game would have included 20,000 US troops and accompanied by heavy weaponry but was called off on Monday amid the Covid-19 outbreak across Europe. “As of March 13, all movement of personnel and equipment from the United States to Europe has ceased. The health, safety, and readiness of our military, civilians, […]
A Wednesday night game between the Utah Jazz and Oklahoma City Thunder was abruptly postponed to a later date by the NBA just minutes before tipoff, although no official reason was given for the rescheduling of the game. The Chesapeake Energy Arena in Oklahoma City was almost filled to capacity and players had already begun pre-game warm-ups when both the Jazz and Thunder teams suddenly walked off […]
Riyadh’s actions in the oil market could be a grave miscalculation and will definitely backfire, but they will not make Moscow dance to its tune, analysts have told RT. Crude oil prices suffered the biggest one-day fall since 1991 on Monday after top oil producers failed to agree on new output cuts and Saudi Arabia decided to boost production and offer discounts. Such an upheaval inflicts […]
‘Game of Thrones’, Ingmar Bergman’s ‘The Seventh Seal’ star Max von Sydow dies aged 90 — RT World News icon bookmark-bicon bookmarkicon cameraicon checkicon chevron downicon chevron lefticon chevron righticon chevron upicon closeicon v-compressicon downloadicon editicon v-expandicon fbicon fileicon filtericon flag ruicon full chevron downicon full chevron lefticon full chevron righticon full chevron upicon gpicon insicon mailicon moveicon-musicicon mutedicon nomutedicon okicon v-pauseicon v-playicon searchicon shareicon sign […]
Authored by Binoy Kampmark via Oriental Review, Moralising the way diseases and viruses are transferred is a very human, and particularly nasty trait. “We don’t need this kind of riff-raff on our shores,” screamed The New York Times in 1892 in response to Russian Jewish immigrants arriving at Ellis Island by boat. (The occupants hosted lice which, in turn, led to typhus.) Italian immigrants in the United States […]
Washington momentarily put aside the fact that it’s essentially at war with Iran and in a very rare moment actually offered to “help” Iran combat the rapidly spreading and deadly coronavirus according to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Friday. “We have made offers to the Islamic Republic of Iran to help, and we’ve made it clear to others around the world […]
99.9 Percent Of US Citizens Unaware Of Largest US War Game In Europe In 25 Years By Ann Wright, Popular Resistance. February 28, 2020 99.9 Percent Of US Citizens Unaware Of Largest US War Game In Europe In 25 Years2020-02-282020-02-28https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/02/a-defender-europe-e1582925025328.jpg200px200px Above photo: From Global Research. 99.9 percent of citizens of the United States have no clue that the new “Cold War” against Russia is manifesting in […]
UK 17:03 GMT 25.02.2020Get short URL Julian Assange is charged with 17 counts under the espionage act and one count of “conspiracy to commit computer intrusion”. This charge has been erroneously misused by the US to represent an attempted act of ‘hacking’ in order to shield Chelsea Manning from detection while revealing classified documents to WikiLeaks, according to his defence. US Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning sought […]
US defense secretary launches simulated nuclear attack against Russia in Pentagon war game By Andre Demon, Wsws.org February 25, 2020 US defense secretary launches simulated nuclear attack against Russia in Pentagon war game2020-02-252020-02-25https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/02/image-1.jpg200px200px Above Photo: U.S. Marines run to firing positions during live-fire training in Jordan [Credit: Marine Corps, Staff Sgt. Dengrier M. Baez] As more than 20,000 US troops and 20,000 military vehicles began to arrive in […]
Photo courtesy: Sportsnet It’s every amateur player and sports fan’s dream come true: being literally plucked out of the arena to play in a professional game and save the day. Cut to Saturday night in Toronto, when a 42-year-old former junior hockey player, Zamboni driver, and—are you kidding?— kidney transplant survivor, was pressed into service as an emergency back-up goalie in a NHL game between the Carolina […]
The Democratic 2020 caucus in Nevada continues apace, and amidst doubts about whether caucusing is the best way to hold a primary, it remains fascinating to see the many quirks of the process. As it were, one of those little things occurred in a Reno precinct, and it caused Sen. Bernie Sanders to lose a delegate to former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg. When there is […]
Authored by Simon Watkins via OilPrice.com, Historically, Russia goes to great lengths to hide or disguise its strategic intentions but it clearly feels empowered enough in the Middle East to very obviously stake its claim in the region – excluding, for the time being only, Saudi Arabia – by stating that a slew of Russian companies are to spend up to US$20 billion on oil projects […]
Above Photo: Mr. Fish / Truthdig The quadrennial political game of least worst, or how to scare the public to vote for presidential candidates who serve corporate power, comes this season with a new twist. Donald Trump, if he faces Pete Buttigieg, Joe Biden, Amy Klobuchar or Michael Bloomberg, will continue to be an amalgamation of Adolf Hitler, Al Capone and the Antichrist. But should Bernie Sanders […]
Ukrainian video game studio 4A Games helped out one love-struck megafan of their Metro Exodus series by embedding a marriage proposal into the game. It’s a bold strategy, Cotton, but did it work out for him? Gamers are used to taking risks (well, in the digital realm anyway) but thankfully, this gamble did pay off and, regardless of how players fare in-game, Metro Exodus: Sam’s Story […]
Enjin has announced the launch of its game development platform on ethereum, enabling potentially millions of developers to integrate crypto assets into games and apps with no knowledge of writing blockchain code. The company announced the news Tuesday, saying the Enjin Platform allows game engineers to take advantage of decentralized inventory, to integrate blockchain-based gaming and non-gaming assets, and to manage economic game play mechanics. “Our […]