During a public relations tour of the United States, Vietnam’s de facto first lady, Madame Nhu, spoke at the National Press Club in Washington. Inside, she taunted and belittled the Kennedy administration, accusing the White House of treason for economic sanctions against South Vietnam. Protesters gathered outside met by a smaller faction of her fans from the American Nazi Party holding signs that read, “Madame Nhu, we like you.” And “JFK salutes red Tito, shuns Madame Nhu. Read More...
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Prime Minister Viktor Orbán compared Hungary’s membership in the European Union to more than four decades of Soviet occupation of his country during a speech on Monday commemorating the anniversary of Hungary’s 1956 anti-Soviet revolution.
Speaking to a select group of guests in the city of Veszprem, Orbán accused the EU of seeking to strip Hungary of its identity by imposing a model of liberal democracy that he said Hungarians reject. Read More...
At about 3 p.m. on June 25, Lindsay Iadeluca, a 28-year-old broadcaster for Rhode Island’s NBC10, received an email. She had to read it through three times, she says, she was so shocked.
The email — a transcription from her work voice mail — was nothing short of “fat-shaming,” as Iadeluca puts it.
#FatShaming at its worst. Sorry for the long post screenshots but until people focus more on women’s work in news and less on their physical appearance, nothing will change. Read More...
