by WorldTribune Staff, November 1, 2022 In 1990, Taiwan cut mandatory service for its military draftees from three to two years. It was reduced to one year in 2008. In 2017, the self-governing island went to an all-volunteer force and conscripts were only required to serve four months. In just three years time, Taiwan’s active-duty […]
Commentary by WorldTribune Staff, November 1, 2022 An Oct. 31 op-ed in the Atlantic by Emily Oster is titled: “Let’s Declare a Pandemic Amnesty: We need to forgive one another for what we did and said when we were in the dark about COVID”. Oster opens the piece by relating a story in which her […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 1, 2022 A Virginia public library paid 1619 Project author Nikole Hannah-Jones, a former New York Times journalist, $40,000 for a 45-minute speech, a report said. The fee paid by the Arlington Public Library to Hannah-Jones caused the library to exceed its budget by $7,500, The Daily Wire reported on Oct. […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 1, 2022 The Small Business Administration (SBA) approved more than $400,000 in Covid relief loans to five current or former IRS employees who used the taxpayer funds to purchase spa services, cars, jewelry, and travel, a government watchdog group reported. One former and four current IRS employees were charged with submitting […]
by WorldTribune Staff / 247 Real News November 1, 2022 Adam Zimmer, an offensive analyst for the NFL’s Cincinnati Bengals, died suddenly and unexpectedly. He was 38. Police found Zimmer’s body at his home in Mendota Heights, Minnesota on Monday after a request for a welfare check at 1:15 p.m. A cause of death has […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 31, 2022 Gregg Phillips and Catherine Engelbrecht of True the Vote were taken into custody in a Houston courtroom on Monday for refusing to reveal one of their sources in the scandal involving China-linked election firm Konnech. Federal Judge Kenneth Hoyt ordered U.S. Marshals to detain Engelbrecht and Phillips without bond […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 31, 2022 Polling from the Pew Research Center shows that 65 percent of Democrats and those who lean Democrat favor restricting online information even if it means limiting freedom of speech. That compares to just 28 percent of Republicans and those who lean Republican. There is no doubt that Democrats “are […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 31, 2022 Between Oct. 21 and 27 there were a total of 5,435 reports of adverse events, including 45 deaths and 280 serious injuries, from the new Covid bivalent booster shot, according to data from the CDC’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). Between Dec. 14, 2020 and Oct. 21, 2022, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 31, 2022 Many of those who stand to reap funds from American taxpayer coffers in the form of student loan forgiveness plan to spend it in true deadbeat fashion, according to a new poll. Nearly three-quarters of those set to receive up to $20,000 in tax dollars to cover their bad […]
by WorldTribune Staff / 247 Real News October 31, 2022 Comedian Bill Maher unleashed on culture minders taking all the fun out of Halloween on his HBO show “Real Time”. “Here’s an idea clickbait web site: “I won’t tell you how to harvest and sell my personal data, and you don’t tell my what I […]
