HUMANITY was warned that not distributing vaccines around the world evenly would eventually lead to Covid mutations that could have further deadly consequences, and here we are; Omicron, the latest ‘variant of concern’ is already cropping up around the world, startling politicians and worrying virologists. As for the rest of us, we’re left to wallow… Read more »
AN internal investigation has been launched at the Daily Mail after the publication only narrowly avoided calling 27 migrants who drowned in the English channel yesterday ‘people’. “It’s a shocking event, and for as long as I live I don’t think a day will go by when I don’t think about it,” said one senior… Read more »
THE geopolitical landscape of Dublin man Eric Carter’s understanding of what’s happening in the world is being put to the test by the latest migrant crisis news from Poland and Belarus, WWN can report. In fact, Carter went on to state that he had initially thought the escalating tensions developing as a result of thousands… Read more »
A WEARY Afghanistan eyed former US president Barack Obama’s ‘we must save the plant’ speech at COP26 with a significant amount of cynicism and urged the planet not to expect saving any time soon. “Sure, he’s a delivers a good speech, but take it from us, if he’s appealing for the need to save you… Read more »
A NEW initiative which will reclassify the earth’s climate as a commercial bank so it can avail of a quick acting bailout from governments is expected to get the greenlight next year, saving the climate from proverbially going bust, WWN has learned. Much like the 2009 bank bailout which saw Irish citizens fork out €41.7bn… Read more »
CITING research which suggests there will be record levels of hot air generated at the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow among world leaders, lobbyists and businesses, energy experts are making plans to use the hot air to solve fuel poverty. “Guff, bluster and bullshit are set to exceed the expected emissions by a significant amount… Read more »
US BORDER officials have confessed to being left profoundly inconvenienced by video of border patrolmen on horseback appearing to strike and intimidate migrants on the US-Mexico border. “We can only offer our deep felt irritation at the fact this was documented on camera for dissemination to the wider public,” shared Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, who was… Read more »
IN HIS MAIDEN speech to the UN as US president, Joe Biden confirmed that the US had hoped to change some hopes and changes while also stressing the need for peace in war zones while not ruling out some war in peace zones which the US historically diametrically opposes. Cobbled together from a mishmash of… Read more »
ACCEPTING that political and business leaders seem incapable of embracing actual climate change measures which would prevent a warming of the planet, climate scientists have suggested simply storing the Earth is a cool dry place out of the way of direct sunlight. Stating that is the only course of action worth pursuing now that world… Read more »
PROMISING all the old hits as well as a few new tunes, the Taliban have announced a comeback tour of Afghanistan that is said to be about as necessary or needed as Westlife’s upcoming ‘Stadiums In The Sun’ tour. “Honestly, who needed this? Who wanted it, who asked for it? So much unnecessary suffering, for… Read more »