A recent crackdown by the Rwandan government on the sale of skin lightening creams has highlighted the intense desire of nonwhites to look like whites—and the fact that more than half of the world’s nonwhite females use such lotions, even if many claim to be “proud to be black.” The Rwandan government crackdown—as revealed in recent media reports—has seen officials deployed across that... 

As more and more data flows from your body and brain to the smart machines via the biometric sensors, it will become easy for corporations and government agencies to know you, manipulate you, and make decisions on your behalf. Even more importantly, they could decipher the deep mechanisms of all bodies and brains, and thereby gain the power to engineer life. If we want to prevent a small elite from... 

Uber pays the bills. Did you know that according to a study by GoDaddy as many as one in two millennials in the U.S. have a side hustle? Could it possibly be that when they all lost hope in the American Dream that they turned to the gig economy to restore their faith in their own future? While this may be true, it’s more likely something to do with the fact that so many of the generation baby boomers... 

A court in Sicily ruled on Thursday that Italy’s Interior Minister Matteo Salvini can be charged with kidnapping after he prevented refugees from disembarking an Italian coast guard ship in August. “I confess,” Salvini said in a video posted to his Facebook page, “there is no need for a trial. It’s true, I did it and I’d do it again.” “I risk 3 to 15... 

Police in Tokyo have arrested two Israeli Jews living in Japan for attempting to smuggle—by airmail—485 pounds (220 kilograms) of gold bars—the largest ever gold smuggling operation ever uncovered in that country. A report in the English-language Mainchi newspaper said the two Jews—named as Reuben Rosen, 58, an executive at a precious metals importer, and David Cohen, 55, were also held for... 

The flu has caused 39 reported deaths in Romania this season and the toll has been rising from one day to the next, according to local media reports. Health minister Sorina Pintea said on Tuesday that Romania is close to declaring a flu outbreak due to the increasing number of victims. She added that none of the people who died because of the flu had been vaccinated and most of them had other medical... 

More censorship! YouTube announced Friday that it will stop recommending so-called conspiracy videos for users who are not seeking such topics. In a blog post, the company gave three examples of such content: flat earth, miracle cures for a serious illness, and “blatantly false claims about historic events like 9/11.” Youtube employees are now going to be vetting what is true and what... 

Liberal billionaire and renowned political meddler George Soros has labeled Chinese leader Xi Jinping ‘the most dangerous opponent of open societies.’ China says it’s a gross distortion not even worthy of a rebuttal. Speaking at the Davos economic forum in Switzerland, Soros attacked China’s “social credit” system and technological advances, saying artificial intelligence and machine learning,... 

Amazon’s much-vaunted facial recognition software—currently the subject of a concerted effort to halt its production—regularly identifies dark-skinned females as males, it has emerged. The facial-detection technology—which Amazon is marketing to law enforcement bodies—“often misidentifies women, particularly those with darker skin, according to researchers from MIT and the University of... 

An Israeli ‘apartheid hospital’ is drawing condemnation for making Palestinians exit a bus to be searched before entering its grounds, with thousands of activists demanding an end to the discriminatory policy. Bus 18 stops outside the Barzilai Medical Center in Ashkelon and people suspected of being Palestinian must show their identification and get off the bus to go through a security check,... 

A man in the United Kingdom was subjected to a thought police investigation by authorities in Humberside after he criticized transgenderism. The individual, who goes by the name “Harry the Owl” on Twitter, previously tweeted “trans women are not women”. In a 10 tweet threat on the incident, Harry explains how he first got a call from his boss informing him that the police wished to speak with... 

Aaahahahahaha! Such a farce and a stand up comedian, or better said hypocrite this man is. Despite massive Yellow Vest protests plaguing France for months now, people rioting, demanding his resignation, having only a tiny 20% approval rating, Emmanuel Macron has the guts to come out and call another president “illegitimate”. Well what are you Macron? Aren’t you illegitimate as well?? “After... 

We always knew that this was coming. We always knew that there would eventually be a war between Israel and Iran, but we had hoped that it could be put off for as long as possible. Well, now it appears that time may have run out. The exchange of missiles between the IDF and Iranian forces based in Syria on Sunday represented a major escalation of a conflict that has been simmering at a low level for... 

Hyper-progressive Sweden is a bastion of environmentalism and veganism, but a Swedish professor is now drawing ridicule for suggesting that pet owners should feed their dogs a vegetarian diet, all in the name of saving the planet. Reducing CO2 emissions and recycling packaging have long been understood as important steps towards curbing climate change. However, the environmental lobby has recently... 

A group of Native American activists, led by native elder Nathan Phillips, allegedly tried to enter a Catholic church in Washington, DC, on Saturday while chanting and banging on their drums. Nathan Phillips, along with about twenty other activists, tried to disrupt a January 19th evening Mass at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, while chanting and banging on their...