Author: Press Room

Europe’s governing body keeps wealth at the top while using FIFA, Russia, and Israel to defend its power As I sat in the Olympic Stadium in Athens on Thursday night, I would like to say I felt the hand of history on my shoulder, but instead I felt a sick feeling in my stomach at how European football has been irreversibly damaged by the holier than thou brigade at UEFA.UEFA, the governing body for football in Europe and subordinate only to global overseer FIFA and to the richest clubs on the continent, has effectively created a full-on apartheid system that…

Troy Jackson (D-ME) Democratic Maine Senate candidate Troy Jackson has broken his silence on reports that he married (co-mingled with) his second cousin and fathered children with her.  Notably, there was no denial of the report. Instead, his campaign chalked it up as “Personal attacks on Troy’s family” as if there’s nothing wrong with marrying your own relative. “Susan Collins will do anything to distract from the fact that she votes with Trump 96% of the time and has sold out working people in Maine. Personal attacks on Troy’s family are shameful and desperate,” the Jackson campaign said in a…

Microsoft co-founder and private citizen Bill Gates received top security clearance from the Department of Energy (DOE), giving him access to deep government secrets for seven years, according to a letter obtained by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY). The billionaire was given “Q security clearance” from 2014 to 2021, beginning during Barack Obama’s presidency and overlapping Dr. Anthony Fauci’s controversial and powerful tenure heading the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), according to the Daily Caller’s reporting of the letter. Sen. Paul requested the letter be entered into the Congressional record during Wednesday’s committee hearing where the now retired…

BERLIN (AP) – An experiment with artificial intelligence at the annual Richard Wagner festival in the southeastern German town of Bayreuth drew boos from the audience after producing a staging that appeared to leave some spectators confused. Curator Marcus Lobbes and his team were greeted with boos and whistles as they took to the stage at the end of Saturday evening’s performance of “Götterdämmerung,” German news agency dpa reported. However, there was warm applause for the singers and musicians, and particularly for conductor Christian Thielemann. Festival organizers said ahead of the performance that it would be the first time AI…

During an interview with PBS’s “Firing Line” released on Friday, Democratic U.S. House nominee Melat Kiros said that she only wants to take over private industries for basic needs and defined basic needs as things like “housing, healthcare, nutritional food, public education” where “the profit motive will always end up exploiting the most vulnerable people.” Though she later said she only is intrigued by government ownership for “utilities, like water and energy.” Kiros said, [relevant remarks begin around 16:40] “I’m a socialist because I believe all of the evidence shows that, when you have a profit motive in industries where…

Washington’s sanctions against Gustavo Petro and its worsening ties with Bogota had little to do with Donald Trump’s war on drugs, Rosa Yolanda Villavicencio has told RT Israel is at the heart of Washington’s long-running tensions with Colombia and its outgoing President Gustavo Petro, Foreign Minister Rosa Yolanda Villavicencio has told RT.In an exclusive interview aired on Sunday, Villavicencio insisted that the decisive factor behind US sanctions on Petro was not his alleged failure to combat drug trafficking but rather his outspoken support for Palestine and repeated accusations that Israel was committing genocide in Gaza.Relations between Bogota and Washington –…

Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill announced on Saturday that her office will be investigating Dr. Anthony Fauci to determine whether he committed any offenses that can be pursued under state law, joining similar efforts underway in Alabama and Florida. The announcement comes days after Fauci invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination more than 100 times during a contentious Senate hearing led by Sen. Rand Paul examining the COVID-19 pandemic response and origins. Murrill pointed to newly released personal diary entries and work records that Paul made public, which she said contradict Fauci’s earlier claims during depositions that he could…

During an interview with PBS’s “Firing Line” released on Friday, Democratic U.S. House nominee Melat Kiros responded to the history of socialism, paired with Communism ending in mass death by saying that “the historical record is also one that doesn’t show the full story as well, right? Our country has a long and storied history of intervening and trying to prevent any kind of government that was trying to deliver back more power to working people from succeeding in any meaningful way.” Host Margaret Hoover asked, [relevant exchange begins around 21:20] “I wonder if it concerns you that so many…

An Indiana Fever postgame press conference came to an abrupt end when a reporter attempted to ask about teammate Sophie Cunningham’s recent comments defending women’s sports. The team’s PR director immediately cut off the session, sending players and the coach fleeing the podium. Following the Fever’s win over the Portland Fire on Friday night, an Outkick reporter began a question with the words “Speaking of outside noise, Sophie came out with—” PR director Jackie Maynard immediately interjected and declared, “We’re going to wrap up there.” Players Aliyah Boston and Makayla Timpson quickly jumped out of their seats and left the…

During an interview with PBS’s “Firing Line” released on Friday, Democratic U.S. House nominee Melat Kiros said that a two-state solution “ignores the reality of how Israel was created as a state and robs the Palestinian people of their right to self-determination as well.” Because “that is land that they would not have the same rights to occupy as well, that, in theory, was all of Palestine to begin with.” She further stated that “the question I’ve had for a lot of folks is, what does it mean to be a Jewish state? And, for a lot of folks, I…