Last week, the Treasury shocked the world when it announced that in the current quarter (the 3rd of the fiscal year), the US will need to sell a mindblowing, record $3 trillion (pardon, $2.999 trillion) in Treasurys to finance the US money helicopter. This, after selling $807 billion in the first half of the fiscal year, and another $677 billion in the quarter ending Sept 30. […]
Daily Archives: May 15, 2020
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(Natural News) After flip-flopping numerous times between supporting a Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine and not supporting one, President Trump appears to have finally gotten off the fence and made the decision to press forward with “Operation Warp Speed,” which aims to get a WuFlu jab to market by year’s end. According to reports, Trump has officially named Moncef Slaoui, a former executive at drug giant GlaxoSmithKline […]
US 23:33 GMT 15.05.2020(updated 23:44 GMT 15.05.2020) Get short URL With a 217-189 party-line vote, the Democrat-controlled US House of Representatives on Friday voted in favor of allowing lawmakers the ability to hold remote hearings and vote from home amid the COVID-19 novel coronavirus pandemic. For the first time in 231 years, members of Congress are now permitted to cast votes and participate in hearings without […]
Advocates say the U.S. Navy could be on the verge of ruling on a second waiver sought by a transgender staff member so that they may carry on serving their country. If granted, it would be the second successful challenge to President Trump’s ban on trans service personnel, after it was revealed this week that the Navy has granted the first ever waiver to a transgender […]
A protester attends a demonstration over Michigan’s coronavirus restrictions on Thursday at the state Capitol in Lansing. Paul Sancya/AP hide caption toggle caption Paul Sancya/AP A protester attends a demonstration over Michigan’s coronavirus restrictions on Thursday at the state Capitol in Lansing. Paul Sancya/AP As the pandemic moves from public health crisis to partisan flashpoint, the debate over the coronavirus response in the U.S. is becoming […]
JK Rowling probably wasn’t expecting to unleash the bitcoin community’s pent up passion and imagination when she tweeted two sentences asking about bitcoin. But the author of the Harry Potter series did. Responding to a tweet from CoinDesk senior reporter Leigh Cuen, Rowling tweeted: “I don’t understand bitcoin. Please explain it to me.” In just two hours her tweet had spawned 1,300 replies. It took less […]
Ric Grenell Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell on Friday announced major changes to election security briefings. Grenell announced the US Intel Community (IC) will lead all intelligence-based threat briefings to candidates, campaigns, and political organizations. The FBI was frozen out. This is huge. TRENDING: WTH? Will This Be Mandatory?- General Perna Announces Plans for Health Dept and Defense Dept. to Deliver Coronavirus Vaccine The […]
Jordanian king on Friday warned that if Israel annexes the West Bank, it would lead to a “massive conflict” with Jordan, Anadolu Agency reports. “If Israel really annexes the West Bank in July, it would lead to a massive conflict with the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan,” King Abdullah II said in an interview with Der Spiegel. “Leaders who advocate a one-state solution do not understand what that would mean,” he said, […]
House Republican Conference chairwoman Liz Cheney (R-WY) told Breitbart News Daily that she’s confident that House Democrats are “mortified” by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) saying that President Donald Trump’s anti-China stance is merely a “diversion.” Pelosi claimed on Thursday that Trump’s recent antagonism toward China merely serves as a diversion from his coronavirus response. “What the president is saying about China is interesting — it’s an interesting […]
Affiliates of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), who receive millions of U.S. tax dollars every year, have partnered with Chinese-government controlled media outlet CGTN on a pro-Beijing documentary. Titled, “Voices from the Frontline: China’s War on Poverty,” the film failed to reveal its connection to the communist party or producer Robert Lawrence Kuhn’s ties to China’s governmental propaganda arm. Kuhn was awarded the China Reform Friendship […]
Via Birch Gold Group, It goes without saying, the economy has been severely damaged as a result of various “stay-at-home” orders in response to COVID-19 (coronavirus). One of the emerging ripple effects is that more Americans close to retirement are now considering whether or not to retire early. In fact, due to prolonged business shutdowns, some may feel as though the decision is being made for […]
By William Willers for VT “Practically speaking, government might do well to maintain a more vigorous countermisinformation establishment.” –Cass Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule In 2008, Harvard law professors Cass Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule published “Conspiracy Theories” with the Social Services Research Network, and a year later in The Journal of Political Philosophy under the title “Conspiracy Theories: Causes and Cures”. In time, the contents became known to a shocked public, […]
US President Donald Trump has offered a sneak peak into the future of American military tech, talking up what he called a “super duper missile,” but his scientific terminology was simply too much for some netizens to take. The comment came during an Oval Office ceremony to unveil the official flag of the Space Force on Friday, with Trump taking a brief detour into state of […]
Iran – Powerful And Determined By Andre Vltchek, Journal-Neo. May 15, 2020 Iran – Powerful And Determined2020-05-152020-05-15https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/ira96345.jpg200px200px Above photo: I refuse to describe Iran as a victim. It is not. It is one of the most influential and strong-minded nations on Earth. When facing mortal danger, its people unite, harden themselves and get ready to face invaders, no matter how threatening they might be. Iran is […]
New evidence has emerged of a Syrian doctor classed as a refugee living in Germany who formerly worked on behalf of the Syrian regime to torture and kill detainees, former detainees have revealed. Alaa Mousa was a doctor in the military hospital in the Syrian city of Homs, who, along with his colleague Dr Shuaib Al-Naqari, used to visit the regime’s 261st military security branch every […]
White House Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow said Friday morning in an interview he believed Americans were ready to jump back into the marketplace and boost the economy as coronavirus lockdowns were loosening. “You know, there’s a sense out there, kind of a spirit culturally, you’d call it a weltanschauung, people want to come out,” Kudlow said in an interview with Fox Business host Stuart Varney. […]
There’s a silver lining to virus-related lockdowns in New York City. That is, the rat population is now starving. Just last year, New Yorkers were complaining about rats taking over the city — now it seems these rodents have food security issues. An urban rodentologist has told The Wall Street Journal that rats have become hostile and are resorting to cannibalism as food becomes scarce with restaurants closed. Strict social […]
(Natural News) After being strongly condemned by the pro-liberty, pro-health freedom movement, President Trump appears to be backing away from positioning vaccines as the “cure-all” for the coronavirus. In comments made earlier today, Trump said, “Vaccine or no vaccine, we’re back.” This is the first time Trump has publicly acknowledged the likelihood that a vaccine may never be developed that can safely and effectively prevent the […]
Society 22:20 GMT 15.05.2020Get short URL Officials with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Thursday issued an alert that an inflammatory disease which has appeared among children in recent weeks may be linked to COVID-19. The disease, which is called multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C), was first reported in late April in Britain. However, since then, additional cases have appeared within […]
Defense attorneys for the father and son accused of shooting 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery said Friday that while “videos do not tell the full story,” there is more than one video of the deadly February incident that may prove their clients have been wrongly vilified. “This is not some sort of hate crime fueled by racism,” defense attorney Frank Hogue said in a Friday press conference. “It […]
Gregory McMichael and his son Travis McMichael have been charged with murder in the February shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery, whom they had pursued in a truck after spotting him running in their neighborhood. Glynn County Detention Center via AP hide caption toggle caption Glynn County Detention Center via AP Gregory McMichael and his son Travis McMichael have been charged with murder in the February shooting […]
Top Shelf Consensus: Distributed ended on a high note with a keynote address from Juan Benet, founder of Protocol Labs, who granted a rare interview as he closed out the week-long virtual conference. Speaking widely on the topics of decentralization and Web 3.0, Benet said, “the internet has become dramatically more important to us.” Over a 50-year time span, computing has gone from an idea to a […]
The liberal media reporters that make up the White House press corps are completely incurious about the Obamagate scandal except to mock the president and his administration. White House spokesperson Kayleigh McEnany thanked one reporter, Steven Portnoy, on Friday for asking about Obamagate crimes today.According to McEnany the White House reporters have only asked about the unmasking of General Flynn once this week! On Friday reporter […]
Moving forwards with an Israeli plan to unilaterally annex West Bank land will destroy any chance for peace, warned church leaders in Jerusalem. In a letter addressed to the Israeli government, church leaders highlighted: “Serious and catastrophic questions about the feasibility of any peaceful agreement to end the decades’ long conflict.” The Anglican archbishop in Jerusalem, Suheil Dawani, is one of 13 senior church leaders to […]
Gov. Tom Wolf’s (D) office this week announced that the state’s health department, under transgender Health Secretary Rachel Levine, is focusing on gender identity and sexual orientation or expression in the state’s collection of coronavirus data. “Governor Tom Wolf today took another step in his commitment to fair treatment and inclusion of LGBTQ Pennsylvanians by announcing ways the community will be counted in COVID-19 data,” his […]
Now that the gag order has been lifted, Roger Stone does an interview with Latinos for Trump talking about the entire judicial process he went through. Source link
Authored by Diane Kennedy via The Organic Prepper blog, Mom and pop landlords, defined as real estate investors who own 10 or fewer properties, own about half of all rental units nationwide. And, according to CoreLogic, a real estate data company, the number of small investors is growing. In 2018, they were responsible for 60% of all purchases, as compared to 48% in 2013. Let’s get […]
by Jim W. Dean, VT Editor, …with PressTV, Tehran [ Editor’s Note: The Trump regime is placing as many bets down on the table that “China unleashed the virus” as a last stand defense of Trump’s incompetent handling of the Covid threat, which in 20/20 retrospect we can see he was totally absorbed with its effects on his reelection prospects. Why? If he hadn’t already known […]
A US Air Force F-22 Raptor jet has crashed during a training flight in northwest Florida. The pilot survived after ejecting safely. The dramatic moment was captured on video by a motorist from a nearby highway. The crash took place Friday morning local time near the Eglin Air Force Base, east of Pensacola. The video that appeared later in the day shows the moment the yet-unnamed […]
Defying US Sanctions, Iran Tanker To Deliver Fuel To Venezuela By the Middle East Monitor. May 15, 2020 Defying US Sanctions, Iran Tanker To Deliver Fuel To Venezuela2020-05-152020-05-15https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/oil-tankergage_roads_fremantle-e1589550521384.jpg200px200px Above photo: An Iranian oil tanker. Nachoman-au/Wikipedia. NOTE: Argus media reports that the US issued a response to Iran ignoring the illegal unilateral economic coercive measures being imposed on many countries by the US. “The US administration today issued […]
UK Minister for Middle East and North Africa James Cleverly said Israel’s plans to annex the West Bank are “contrary to international law”. When asked by Scottish National Party MP Tommy Sheppard if the UK government would consider the move “illegal under international law”, Cleverly said that attempting to annex the West Bank would make a two-state solution difficult to achieve, in a break with UK […]
The Senate voted against an amendment on Wednesday sponsored by Sens. Steve Daines (R-MT) and Ron Wyden (D-OR) that would curb law enforcement agencies’ ability to obtain web browsing and Internet search data without a warrant. The Senate voted on amendments on Wednesday to H.R. 6172, sponsored by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY), which would reauthorize provisions relating to intelligence gathering under the Foreign […]
A prime suspect in the ‘wet market’ coronavirus origin theory was just given a pass, after a peer-reviewed study found that the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, could not have jumped from pangolins to humans. As a refresher, SARS-CoV-2, the virus which causes COVID-19 in humans, is 96% identical to a coronavirus strain found in bats known as RaTG13 – which was incidentally collected in a cave in […]