Twitter has purged the blue “verification” checks from the accounts of journalists and podcasters who posted interviews with subjects considered controversial in the ever-narrowing centrist-liberal mainstream. Mediaite journalist August Takala was stripped of his coveted blue check just an hour after tweeting an interview with former CBS reporter Sharyl Attkisson, he tweeted on Friday to his 4,000-plus followers. The following day, Wrong Opinion podcaster Josh Lekach tweeted that he, too, had had his blue check revoked after interviewing conservative provocateur (and now congressional candidate) Laura Loomer, who is herself banned from Twitter and several other platforms. Lekach has over 18,700 followers. […]
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(Natural News) The smartphone you are using may be a product of forced labor and modern-day slavery, according to a report by the think tank Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI). The report, released on March 1, details how several thousand ethnic Muslims from China’s Xinjiang region are forced into modern-day slave labor in a network of factories — most of which are integral parts of the supply chains of many major international companies. “More than 80,000 Uighurs were transferred out of Xinjiang to work in factories across China between 2017 and 2019,” the think tank said in its report, adding that the […]
Thousands Of Essential Workers Are At Risk of Deportation By Maurizio Guerrero, In These Times. May 25, 2020 Thousands Of Essential Workers Are At Risk of Deportation2020-05-252020-05-25https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/immigrant-farm-laborers-from-getty-images-e1590419131849.jpg200px200px Above photo: Farm laborers from Fresh Harvest working with an H-2A visa maintain a safe distance as a machine is moved on April 27, 2020 in Greenfield, California. Brent Stirton/Getty Images. Legions of undocumented immigrants in the United States carry letters signed by their employers stating that President Donald Trump’s administration considers them essential workers amid the pandemic. While these letters exempt them from being arrested by local agents for violating stay-at-home orders, these workers […]
US 23:11 GMT 25.05.2020Get short URL https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107735/62/1077356208_0:68:2047:1219_1200x675_80_0_0_ddb92cdcdadaf6c9f4d7e5dd25daf4b5.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202005251079416054-ilhan-omar-says-believes-tara-reades-sexual-assault-allegations-against-joe-biden/ The former staffer previously claimed she was sexually assaulted by the former vice president during an encounter 27 years ago, which Biden has denied. Congresswoman Ilhan Omar says she believes Tara Reade’s sexual assault accusation against Democratic candidate Joe Biden, who is set to run against President Donald Trump in the November election. “I do believe Reade”, Omar told the Sunday Times. “Justice can be delayed but should never be denied.” Omar previously endorsed Bernie Sanders for US president, Biden’s rival from the so-called progressive wing of the Democratic party, […]
The attorney for the family of a University of Connecticut student wanted in a deadly three-rampage said he has “struggled with mental health issues” and urged him to turn himself in. “It’s time to let the healing process begin,” lawyer Michael Dolan said at a Monday evening press conference. “It’s time to surrender.” The FBI and police in three states are hunting for Peter Manfredonia, 23, who was last seen on foot in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, carrying a large duffel bag that may contain weapons stolen from one of the victims. He’s accused of hacking to death a Connecticut woodworker and […]
People enjoy the spring weather as they sit at a restaurant in Stockholm on April 15 during the coronavirus pandemic. Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP via Getty Images People enjoy the spring weather as they sit at a restaurant in Stockholm on April 15 during the coronavirus pandemic. Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP via Getty Images Sweden’s controversial approach to fighting the coronavirus pandemic has so far failed to produce the expected results, and there are calls within the country for the government to change its strategy. “We have a very vivid political debate,” Karin Olofsdotter, Sweden’s ambassador […]
She called the cops and pretended like she was being threatened.Then choked her dog. Another “Karen” was caught on camera in New York City’s Central Park calling the police after a black man told her to leash her dog — which is the law in Central Park. Advertisement – story continues below She did this all while choking her adopted Cocker Spaniel. The Video is going viral. Oh, when Karens take a walk with their dogs off leash in the famous Bramble in NY’s Central Park, where it is clearly posted on signs that dogs MUST be leashed at all times, […]
Details are emerging about the kidnapping of two young people within Saudi Arabia which appears to be the latest desperate move by Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman to exert pressure on one of the Kingdom’s highest profile dissidents. Dr Saad Al-Jabri, once the gatekeeper of Saudi intelligence and security, has broken his silence about the astonishing kidnap of two of his children in a dawn raid on his family home in the Saudi capital, which reveals the unprecedented level that an increasingly paranoid Bin Salman is prepared to go in order to maintain his iron grip on the country and force […]
But McCarthy did not formally withdraw his backing until Monday, after POLITICO asked him for comment on a video it obtained of Howze telling supporters last week that McCarthy pledged to support his campaign if the race looks winnable in the fall. GOP congressional candidate Ted Howze. | Howze for Congress via AP Images “We’ve talked with Leader McCarthy,” Howze told supporters in a video call obtained by POLITICO. “They’ve told us, keep doing what we’re doing. Raise money. If in September we are one of the competitive races in California that they will be here to come into the race.” […]
Even brief and temporary curbs on the use of imported contract workers may cause discrimination against “our personnel based on country of birth,” according to a letter sent by Fortune 500 lobbyists to President Donald Trump. The letter was sent to warn Trump as he pushes forward with plans announced on April 22 to review the various visa programs. The programs provide a growing army of foreign contract workers to Fortune 500 firms, despite the coronavirus crash that is causing mass unemployment among swing-voting U.S. graduates. The letter, signed by Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and many other companies, says: We urge you […]
Fire crews rushed to the scene of a blaze set in southern Arizona by arsonists who illegally entered the U.S. before fleeing back into Mexico, according to Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials. Footage of the incident was captured by Border Patrol cameras and distributed by CBP Yuma Sector’s Acting Chief Patrol Agent Carl Landrum. “On Thursday morning in Yuma Sector, two subjects illegally entered the United States where there is no wall & set fires on Cocopah Tribal Land, then absconded back to Mexico,” Landrum explained. “Multiple agencies responded & were able to contain the raging inferno before it caused […]
In his overnight market commentary, Rabobank’s Michael Every laid out an interesting hypothesis why markets continue to fade the risk of a serious escalation in tensions between the US and China: “Perhaps as within serious HK money circles there is absolute certainty that the US is now an EU-style paper tiger and has no stomach for a real fight, and that Trump is so beholden to Wall Street that he won’t dare act.” And while Every himself disagrees with this sanguine assessment, saying this stance “captures the self-confidence in Beijing but utterly fails to capture the bipartisan anger in DC, or […]
VT Disclaimer: The ideas expressed in this article are not necessarily the beliefs of Veterans Today editors……Carol The greenhouse effect has never existed and will never exist! It is a lie! Written and Submitted by Enkidu Gilgamesh There is no greenhouse effect causing global warming!There is no positive feedback causing global warming!There is no any heating effect of CO2 or CH4!Svante Arrhenius had no global-warming theory, his spin was pure idiocy! CONTENT The greenhouse effect doesn’t exist in any greenhouse! Energy by splitting out neutrons! The greenhouse effect doesn’t exist on any planet! Why is it warm on the Venus? Earth, […]
Virgin Orbit has attempted the first test flight of its orbital payload launch system, consisting of a modified Boeing 747 and an air-launched rocket. The mission, however, failed moments after the rocket was released. The carrier aircraft and its rocket – dubbed ‘Cosmic Girl’ and ‘Launcher One’, respectively – took off from an airfield outside Los Angeles on Monday in the California-based company’s debut test flight, heading for a drop point over the Pacific. According to Virgin Orbit, both the plane and rocket were in “healthy” shape throughout the mission and everything appeared to be going according to plan – but […]
(Natural News) Conditions that cause chronic pain can be difficult to deal with. Severe and persistent pain not only affects a person’s ability to perform his daily tasks, it also reduces his quality of life. Often, physicians prescribe strong opioids that can block pain receptors in the brain to help patients get pain relief. However, the use of opioids comes with undesirable side effects, as well as a high risk of developing an addiction to these synthetic drugs. Therefore, scientists have expanded their search for safer and more efficient alternatives to opioids by looking into the potential of medicinal plants. Cannabis (Cannabis sativa) […]
Turn Out The Lights, Russiagate Is Over By Ray McGovern, Consortium News. May 25, 2020 Turn Out The Lights, Russiagate Is Over2020-05-252020-05-25https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/russiagate-hoax-the-us-flag-in-a-web-of-lies..jpg200px200px The possibility that Trump will not chicken out this time, and rather will challenge the Security State looms large since he felt personally under attack. Seldom mentioned among the motives behind the persistent drumming on alleged Russian interference was an over-arching need to help the Security State hide their tracks. The need for a scapegoat to blame for Hillary Clinton’s snatching defeat out of the jaws victory also played a role; as did the need for the Military-Industrial-Congressional-Intelligence-Media-Academia-Think-Tank complex (MICIMATT) to […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107915/04/1079150497_0:0:3073:1728_1200x675_80_0_0_89ca7e01f80de8826c665bf1ea94a3a3.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202005251079415884-saudi-arabia-to-ease-coronavirus-restrictions-on-thursday/ DOHA (Sputnik) – Saudi Arabia will start phasing out restrictions on Thursday that were imposed to limit the spread of the new coronavirus, Health Minister Tawfiq Al-Rabiah has said. “Starting Thursday, 28 May, the next measures will be implemented to allow a full return to normal life”, he said during a press conference on Monday. As part of the exit strategy, the Saudi health authorities plan to step up testing and increase capacities for treating patients with severe coronavirus disease. Saudi Arabia imposed a 24-hour nation-wide lockdown during the five-day Eid Al Fitr Holiday, […]
Scientists are closely tracking mutations in the novel coronavirus, hoping that the virus evolves fast enough to give researchers hints about its future, but slow enough that the same researchers can make sense of, and keep up with, the changes. The stakes couldn’t be higher. Efforts to contain the virus and treat the people it infects both hinge in part on the pathogen’s mutation rate. So far, SARS-CoV-2 is cooperating. The virus is mutating at a rate, and with effects, that most experts consider normal. “I’ve not seen any evidence of mutations that should cause significant concern,” Oscar MacLean, a University […]
A pharmacy tech pours out pills of hydroxychloroquine May 20 at Rock Canyon Pharmacy in Provo, Utah, on May 20, 2020. After a study found COVID-19 patients using the drug were dying at higher rates, the World Health Organization announced it would suspend its clinical trial. George Frey/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption George Frey/AFP via Getty Images A pharmacy tech pours out pills of hydroxychloroquine May 20 at Rock Canyon Pharmacy in Provo, Utah, on May 20, 2020. After a study found COVID-19 patients using the drug were dying at higher rates, the World Health Organization announced it […]
Congressman Devin Nunes (R-CA) said the Republicans are expanding their investigation into Mueller’s team of angry Democrats. Ranking member of the House Intel Committee, Devin Nunes revealed GOP lawmakers will be making criminal referrals of Mueller’s team as well as officials at the DOJ and FBI that were above Mueller. “We’ve also expanded our investigation into the Mueller team and everything that happened with Mueller and the people at DOJ and FBI that were above Mueller. And so, we will be making criminal referrals in the coming weeks against the Mueller team. We’re just now putting that together and, of course, […]
Mosques, churches and businesses in the occupied West Bank will reopen on Tuesday in an easing of coronavirus restrictions, Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said on Monday, reported Reuters. The Palestinian Authority declared a health emergency in March and imposed lockdowns after the first cases of the novel coronavirus were confirmed in the West Bank town of Bethlehem. Shtayyeh said it was time to “cautiously return life to normal” now that infection rates had slowed. The reopening of houses of worship, shops and factories on Tuesday will coincide with the last day of the Eid El-Fitr holiday marking the end of […]
NORCROSS, Georgia — Vice President Mike Pence told Breitbart News that the Trump administration is “not going to tolerate” social media and big tech companies aiming to silence conservative voices in the 2020 election. Asked during an exclusive interview on Friday about big tech companies like Twitter, Facebook, Google, and others downplaying conservative voices, Pence said that President Donald Trump has “made it very clear” this type of behavior is unacceptable. Pence’s interview aired on Breitbart News Saturday on SiriusXM 125 the Patriot Channel. “Well, the president has made it very clear that we are not going to tolerate censorship on […]
The formation of the Sun, the Solar System and the subsequent emergence of life on Earth may be a consequence of a collision between our galaxy, the Milky Way, and a smaller galaxy called Sagittarius, discovered in the 1990s to be orbiting our galactic home. Astronomers have known that Sagittarius repeatedly smashes through the Milky Way’s disc, as its orbit around the galaxy’s core tightens as a result of gravitational forces. Previous studies suggested that Sagittarius, a so called dwarf galaxy, had had a profound effect on how stars move in the Milky Way. Some even claim that the 10 000 […]
Via Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com, Money printing by the Fed and Congress is off the charts. The Federal Reserve doubled its balance sheet in a matter of months, and Congress is pumping out trillions of dollars in spending bills to fight the economic crisis caused by the Covid 19 lockdown. The really scary thing is not the massive money printing, but the fact that absolutely nobody seems to care about the risk to the U.S. dollar. Money manager Peter Schiff thinks he knows why, and explains: “(Back in 2008-2009,) even Larry Kudlow was worried about what the Fed was doing, but nobody is […]
Trump gave something of an explanation when he opined: “I think President Obama was one of the worst presidents in the history of our country.” One can only hope that Obama pays him back by becoming Biden’s running mate and ensuring the fatuous orange pussy grabber suffers an ignominious defeat later this year. Ian] Every good controversy gets a ‘gate’.It all started with ‘Watergate’ in the 1970s but since then, countless scandals have been anointed with the suffix. ‘Bridgegate’ refers to a scheme that intentionally caused traffic chaos in New Jersey in 2013 in order to punish a local mayor for […]
Powerful winds and heavy rain have hit Ekaterinburg in Russia’s Urals, on Monday afternoon, felling numerous trees, damaging cars and obliterating weak structures. At least three people have been killed by the hurricane. The hurricane brought down numerous trees across the city, Russia’s fourth-largest, multiple videos show, blocking some roads and also destroying power lines, disrupting electricity supply. Many unlucky motorists have found their vehicles obliterated by fallen trees and damaged by other debris. One man was literally blown into the air as he tried to hold down a large sheet of plastic that came loose from a roofed parking lot and […]
(Natural News) Vaccine sorcery is underway folks, and you if don’t learn how to read vaccine literature right now, you are in for a rude awakening. Most healthcare workers have no clue what they’re injecting into their patient’s muscle tissue, they just regurgitate what they hear from the top – the script that’s siphoned, censured, and “peer reviewed” by a highly experimental industry that can never be sued, for anything. This is medical sorcery, these scientists, who engineer sickness by breeding it in infected animal cells (think chicken eggs), even including African Green monkey kidney cells, and then combining all that […]
Hundreds Of Maquiladora Workers Dying After Back-To-Work Orders May 25, 2020 Hundreds Of Maquiladora Workers Dying After Back-To-Work Orders2020-05-252020-05-25https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/maquiladora-workers-strike-e1590421289365.jpg200px200px Above photo: Maquiladora Workers Strike from libcom.org. On Saturday, the health secretary of Northern Baja California announced that 432 of the 519 people who have officially died from the virus in the state were maquiladora workers. In Baja cities like Tijuana and Mexicali, as well as other border cities like Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua and Matamoros, Tamaulipas, doctors report that their hospitals are overflowing with sick maquiladora workers, some of whom are dying in their work uniforms. Mexican maquiladora workers make between US$8 […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107941/56/1079415646_0:261:3025:1962_1200x675_80_0_0_9489999170efacbf0f7e7c67bbce5117.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/asia/202005251079415586-french-aviation-safety-authority-sends-team-to-probe-pakistani-plane-crash/ PARIS (Sputnik) – France’s Bureau of Inquiry and Analysis for Civil Aviation Safety sent an investigative team to Pakistan on Monday to probe the crash of an Airbus jetliner with 99 people on board. “Investigators with BEA_Aero, technical advisors from Airbus & SafranEngines are on their way to Pakistan and will be on site on 26 May”, the organization tweeted. The Airbus A320 crashed into a crowded neighborhood near the airport in the Pakistani city of Karachi on Friday. The Sindh provincial health ministry has confirmed the death of all but two people aboard […]
When the Republican governor of Idaho issued a plan to safely reopen businesses in the state, he ordered bars to stay closed until at least June 13. Last weekend, in defiance of those guidelines, Idaho’s lieutenant governor—also a Republican—reopened the tavern she owns with her family in Idaho Falls. A few days before reopening The Celt Pub and Grill, Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin penned a scathing op-ed in which she slammed Gov. Brad Little’s oversight of the coronavirus pandemic. “As Lieutenant Governor, I am one heartbeat away from the governor’s chair,” McGeachin wrote. State residents, she added, were “sidelined and left […]
Democratic presidential candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden and Jill Biden depart after placing a wreath at the Delaware Memorial Bridge Veterans Memorial Park on Monday. Patrick Semansky/AP hide caption toggle caption Patrick Semansky/AP Democratic presidential candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden and Jill Biden depart after placing a wreath at the Delaware Memorial Bridge Veterans Memorial Park on Monday. Patrick Semansky/AP Former Vice President Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, made an unannounced visit to the Veterans Memorial Park in New Castle, Del., on Monday. It’s the first time Biden has left the area around his home in […]
President Trump on Monday slammed the fake news media for attacking him for playing golf while giving lazy Biden and golfing Obama a pass. Joe Biden over the weekend unveiled an ad attacking Trump for golfing during a pandemic. Nearly 100,000 lives have been lost, and tens of millions are out of work. Meanwhile, the president spent his day golfing. pic.twitter.com/H1BVNtgVjA — Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) May 24, 2020 TRENDING: BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: As Soon As Simona Mangiante Papadopoulos Testified that Joseph Mifsud Worked For the Clinton Foundation, She Was Brutally Targeted and Harassed By the Left President Trump responded to the criticism […]
Syria reported 20 new cases of the novel coronavirus on Monday, the largest single-day increase to date, the health ministry said. The war-torn country has recorded 106 infections and four deaths so far, and new cases have increased in recent days with the return of Syrians from abroad, the ministry said. Syria has kept an overnight curfew in place but has begun to open some of its economy after a lockdown. Doctors and relief groups worry that medical infrastructure ravaged by nine years of conflict would make a more serious outbreak deadly and difficult to fend off. Health Minister Nizar Yazigi […]
Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani on Sunday issued a statement that he will respond to a ceasefire “gesture of goodwill” from the Taliban by expediting the release of 2,000 Taliban prisoners. He asked the Taliban to reciprocate by releasing some of the prisoners it is holding. The Taliban on Saturday announced a three-day ceasefire in honor of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr, which began on Sunday in Afghanistan. The ceasefire followed months of escalating violence from Taliban forces and counter-attacks by the Afghan military. The Taliban did not take credit for the most savage attack during that period, last week’s gun […]
Legendary rocker Sammy Hagar is done complying with coronavirus lockdown measures, according to a recent interview with the former Van Halen singer. Talking with St. Louis, Missouri’s KSHE-95, a classic rock radio station, the 72-year-old Hagar said despite being someone in the age group most susceptible to coronavirus, he’s “not afraid” of contracting the illness. “I don’t say the word ‘hate’ very much, but I hate this frigging coronavirus crap,” Mr. Hagar vented. “I’m not afraid of it, and I’m not locking down anymore. I’ll go around to anyone. If you don’t wanna be around me, fine. Keep your distance — […]
Update (1400ET): As expected, PM Boris Johnson said during a live statement to the press broadcast Monday evening that he would resist calls to fire Cummings, and that he agrees with his advisors’ assessment that he didn’t violate the lockdown rules, despite the intransigence of the British press. Prime Minister’s press conference live now on @BBCNews — Laura Kuenssberg (@bbclaurak) May 25, 2020 Well…the PM does say he regrets the ‘confusion and anger’ that people feel about what’s happened, but people must ‘make up their own minds’ — Laura Kuenssberg (@bbclaurak) May 25, 2020 Johnson says ‘he had a lot on […]
Robert O. Young is a fraudster who made millions selling false medical cures to cancer patients, among others, and went to jail for practicing without a license. Since his release, Young has been promoting bogus cures for cancer and now COVID-19 on his “Dr.Robert.O.Young” Facebook page, which has nearly 60,000 followers. Young is a medical commentator whose “foundational” and false medical theory “suggests that the human body is alkaline by design and acidic by function” and the “one treatment” for any health problem is “an alkaline lifestyle and diet.” He co-wrote a series of “pH Miracle” books that are still distributed […]
Former Roma player Joseph Bouasse Perfection, who played with the Italian giants’ academy side in 2016, has died from cardiac arrest at the age of just 21, reports from Italian media have confirmed. The Cameroonian player never represented Roma’s first team, but trained with the likes of Francesco Totti and Edin Dzeko during his spell in the Italian capital after he was signed up by the Serie A side following a successful trial. It is understood that he died on Sunday evening after suffering a cardiac arrest. Further details are unavailable at this time. Also on rt.com Ex-Premier League striker Pavel […]
Monday, May 25, 2020 by: Mike Adams Tags: adverse events, badhealth, badmedicine, badscience, Big Pharma, coronavirus, covid-19, injuries, Moderna, mRNA, outbreak, pandemic, President Trump, safety, side effects, vaccination, vaccines (Natural News) The Moderna vaccine company that’s attempting to use the mRNA technology platform to rapidly create a coronavirus vaccine has been widely accused of a pump-and-dump stock scheme involving the pumping of company stocks with widely-touted press releases that claim positive outcomes for phase […]
Indict And Punish The Perpetrators Of COVID Mass Death By Glen Ford, Black Agenda Report. May 25, 2020 Indict And Punish The Perpetrators Of COVID Mass Death2020-05-252020-05-25https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/black-people-wearing-facemasks-by-glen-ford-black-agenda-report-e1590421592259.jpeg200px200px Above photo: Black people wearing facemasks by Glen Ford, Black Agenda Report. Not just Trump, but the whole US ruling class must pay for the mass Covid death toll among Blacks because only the ruling class has the power to systematically allocate life-death chances for whole populations over generations. “To limit the indictment to Donald Trump and his administration would be an insult to today’s dead and dying.” The United States finds myriad ways of killing […]
Life 17:50 GMT 25.05.2020(updated 17:51 GMT 25.05.2020) Get short URL Millions of Brits admired the way Her Majesty looked during her two recent speeches to the nation – her address on the coronavirus pandemic and her VE Day congratulation. The monarch was also praised for lifting the spirit of the nation, which has the second-highest death toll from COVID-19 in the world. Queen Elizabeth II is styling her own hair during the lockdown, The Sun reported, citing an anonymous source. According to the outlet, although for decades her appearance was the concern of her personal assistant, the Queen, who turned 94 […]
Charlotte St. Martin, the president of the Broadway League, makes clear she does not “have a crystal ball.” But her personal belief is that Broadway will reopen in January 2021, she reveals in an exclusive interview with The Daily Beast. For St. Martin, Broadway’s post-pandemic reopening means safety protocols being in place to ensure audience members can sit next to each other as they did before, likely—at least in the first phase of reopening—wearing masks, with actors, singers, and dancers able to perform in the same numbers and proximity, and with the same energy, as before. “We know that we cannot […]
President Trump holds a mask as he speaks during a tour of the Ford Rawsonville Plant in Ypsilanti, Mich., on Thursday. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images President Trump holds a mask as he speaks during a tour of the Ford Rawsonville Plant in Ypsilanti, Mich., on Thursday. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images On this Memorial Day weekend, beaches have reopened and people are venturing outside. And images and videos have circulated of some crowded beaches, pools and boardwalks in Maryland, Florida, Missouri, Texas and California. And many people didn’t heed warnings and […]
Hide your children! Advertisement – story continues below Creepy Joe left his Delaware basement for the first time in over two months on Monday. And he looked like a fool with his face mask on. Joe Biden has emerged from his Basement Bunker pic.twitter.com/m7h0xJchhV — Benny (@bennyjohnson) May 25, 2020 TRENDING: BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: As Soon As Simona Mangiante Papadopoulos Testified that Joseph Mifsud Worked For the Clinton Foundation, She Was Brutally Targeted and Harassed By the Left Joe Biden and his wife Jill donned masks as they visited a Delaware military memorial on Monday. Advertisement – story continues below There is […]
Turkey’s president on Sunday reiterated his country’s support for Palestine as the Muslim world celebrates Eid al-Fitr, the holiday marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan. “We will not allow the Palestinian lands to be offered to anyone else,” Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in a video message on Twitter addressed to US Muslims. “I would like to reiterate that al-Quds Al-Sharif, the holy site of three religions and our first kiblah, is a red line for all Muslims worldwide,” Erdogan said, referring to the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, also known by Jews as the Temple Mount, and home to […]
Reports from across the Middle East, Africa, and Asia this weekend described Muslims ignoring coronavirus lockdown bans on large gatherings to celebrate Eid al-Fitr, the end of the Ramadan holiday season, usually celebrated in a highly social manner. A lockdown was imposed in Iraq for the duration of the Eid holiday, for example, and while some Muslims used social media to celebrate without meeting in person, others insisted on gathering at homes and in mosques. The Palestinian Authority felt obliged to ease its coronavirus restrictions after large numbers of Palestinians ignored them to fill the streets and demand the right to […]
President Reagan memorably said that the nine words you don’t want to hear are “I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.” Governments in all the major jurisdictions are now making good on that unwanted promise and are taking responsibility for everything from our shoulders. Those receiving subsidies and loan guarantees are no doubt grateful, though they probably see it as the government’s duty and their right. But someone has to pay for it. In the past, the redistribution of wealth through taxes meant that the haves were taxed to give financial support to the have-nots, at least that was […]
There are two notable highlights in the latest note from the CIO of Horseman Global, Russell Clark, the man we dubbed years ago as the “world’s most bearish hedge fund manager” (a name that appears to have stuck) due to his penchant to run a net short book for the past 8 years (see chart below). The first is that in the same vein as Paul Tudor Jones, Clark – who reports that in April his hedge fund was down 7.1% bringing the YTD gain to 18% – is rotating out of deflation and into inflation: “The conditions for both good […]
For the last week or so, about 99% of the adverts served to me between Youtube videos have been by a chap called Brian Rose who appears to be trying to sell courses in how to setup and run a small business. Now, being a rather cynical chap, and getting quite annoyed at the continual sight of this loudmouthed Yank trying to peddle something rather spurious, I chose to run his name past a swift Google search and lo and behold, he’s nothing but a two-bit swindler: While making this film I was sent a link to the website ‘Scamguard’, which […]
25 May, 2020 17:31 Follow RT on The World Health Organization has paused the clinical trials of anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine in coronavirus patients. It says the drug, notably taken and endorsed by US President Donald Trump, has raised safety concerns. The drug’s safety data is being reviewed by a monitoring board, and the trials have been put on hold, the WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters. It was being tested as part of the Solidarity international program aimed at tackling the Covid-19 pandemic. The UN heath body took the step out of “abundance of caution,” said Mike Ryan, the head […]
(Natural News) A second-wave outbreak of coronavirus isn’t just a theoretical possibility – it’s already happening in China, where authorities have started placing some cities under the strictest control measures as infections climb once again. The latest city to see a turn for the worse is Shulan, in the northeastern part of the country near the Russian border. Home to 703,000 people, the city has been hit especially hard by the virus recently. Around 8,000 people were quarantined over the weekend as a result of the outbreak, and six local officials were given their walking papers for their failure to contain […]
Assange Must Be Released To His Family By the Australian Assange Campaign. May 25, 2020 Assange Must Be Released To His Family2020-05-252020-05-25https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2019/06/assange-extradition-protested-at-westminster-magistrates-court-june-2019.-photo-by-gareth-corfield-e1590422809557.jpg200px200px Above photo: Assange extradition protested at Westminster Magistrates Court June 2019. Photo by Gareth Corfield. In The Time Of COVID, This Is A Matter Of Life And Death. On the twelve-month anniversary of the release of the US superseding indictment, we call on the Australian government to make diplomatic representations to the US and UK and have Julian Assange released to his family. The US extradition hearing is set to commence on September 7, 2020 due to the Covid epidemic, unreasonably […]
Viral 17:10 GMT 25.05.2020Get short URL https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107941/43/1079414384_0:0:1921:1080_1200x675_80_0_0_2bccba18559f76757fc3d252aacd857e.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Tim Korso. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/viral/202005251079414423-russian-satellite-comet-or-ufo-videos-of-epic-fireball-seen-in-australias-sky-puzzle-netizens/ The fiery show was preceded by the launch of a Russian satellite from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, while the third stage of the rocket’s booster was expected to fall into the ocean near Australia. Residents of south-eastern Australia were able to witness an “epic” fireball blazing through the sky on the night of Friday, 22 May, as purportedly a piece of space junk from a satellite launch re-entered Earth’s atmosphere near the area, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) reported, citing an astrophysics expert. Videos of the captivating […]
Donald Trump’s allies in conservative media have a new villain in the coronavirus fight: contact tracing, the rigorous efforts to track the virus’s spread that public health experts say is essential to safely restarting society. Fox News host Laura Ingraham devoted much of her show Thursday night to raising questions about contact tracing, the process where interviewers try to figure out who has been exposed to the virus by literally figuring out whom the infected had contact with. As a Fox News chyron warned that contact tracing should “concern all Americans,” Ingraham claimed that calls for more contact tracers were just […]
The Washington Monument and the dome of the U.S. Capitol Building are visible behind the U.S. Marine Corps War Memorial in Arlington, Va., on Memorial Day. Andrew Harnik/AP hide caption toggle caption Andrew Harnik/AP The Washington Monument and the dome of the U.S. Capitol Building are visible behind the U.S. Marine Corps War Memorial in Arlington, Va., on Memorial Day. Andrew Harnik/AP Thousands of people who had planned to visit war memorials in Washington, D.C., this holiday weekend were forced to cancel this year because of the coronavirus pandemic. That includes veterans traveling with the nonprofit network Honor Flight, which recently […]
Mining reward halvings are a hot topic in the crypto markets, as they alter a cryptocurrency’s supply and often have a significant impact on prices. Bitcoin, the biggest cryptocurrency by market value, underwent its third halving on May 11, which reduced the reward per block mined to 6.25 bitcoin from 12.5. Bitcoin offshoots bitcoin cash and bitcoin SV also witnessed halvings in April. Next in line is zcash (ZEC), a privacy-focused cryptocurrency first created in 2016 that uses a proof-of-work (or mining) algorithm and encrypts user information within shielded transactions. Currently, it is the 26th largest cryptocurrency by market value, as per […]
BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: As Soon As Simona Mangiante Papadopoulos Testified that Joseph Mifsud Worked For the Clinton Foundation, She Was Brutally Targeted and Harassed By the Left Tap here to add The Western Journal to your home screen. Source link
In a Sunday phone call, the presidents of Turkey and Iran discussed cooperation in the fight against COVID-19, plus bilateral ties and regional issues, reported Aanadolu Agency, citing an official statement. Turkey’s Communications Directorate said Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani also exchanged views on bilateral relations and regional developments. The two leaders also exchanged greetings for Eid al-Fitr, the Muslim holiday marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan. Since first appearing in China last December, the novel coronavirus has spread to at least 188 countries and regions. The US, Russia, Brazil, and several European countries […]
Former Vice President Joe Biden on Monday made his first in-person appearance in over two months by laying a wreath at a veterans park near his Delaware residence for Memorial Day. Biden visits this memorial park a few miles from his Wilmington home every Memorial Day. There’s usually a ceremony but not this year. We waved to and saluted two groups of vets who were waiting to do their own tributes. pic.twitter.com/Nr2bJfwb0S — Jennifer Epstein (@jeneps) May 25, 2020 Biden, the presumptive Democrat presidential nominee, along with his wife, former second lady Dr. Jill Biden, both wore black masks as they laid […]
We are 161 days out from the election and Joe Biden wants you to know that he will beat Joe Biden. Biden has set himself up for disaster; he is clearly an old school racist from a bygone era and his latest statements have created a never-ending storm of criticism. Democrats are scrambling to normalize the damage, promoting questionable poll numbers as their schizophrenic ideology clashes, regardless that everyone knows Joe Biden doesn’t stand a chance. We are all just patiently awaiting what will be the most embarrassing Presidential debate in U.S. History. Source link
Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, In 2017, I wrote an article discussing the “Unavoidable Pension Crisis.” At that time, most did not understand the risk. However, two years later, the “Unavoidable Pension Crisis” has arrived. To understand we are today, we need a quick review. “Currently, many pension funds, like the one in Houston, are scrambling to marginally lower return rates, issue debt, raise taxes, or increase contribution limits. The hope is to fill the gaping holes of underfunded liabilities in existing plans. Such measures, combined with an ongoing bull market, and increased participant contributions, will hopefully begin a healing process. Such is not […]
__________HaaretzNetanyahu Attacks Justice System at Opening of His Corruption Trial Benjamin Netanyahu became Israel’s first sitting prime minister to face trial on criminal corruption charges on Sunday. He arrived at the Jerusalem District Court for the opening session in the trial flanked by cabinet ministers from his Likud party who came to show their support. He is charged with bribery, fraud and breach of trust in three separate cases and the court session was dedicated in part to an acknowledgement that the prime minister and the three other defendants in the cases had read and understood the charges. The prime minister, and […]
Israel will not miss a “historic opportunity” to extend its sovereignty over parts of the West Bank, PM Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday. At a meeting of legislators of his right-wing Likud party on Monday, Netanyahu set land moves in the West Bank as “perhaps the first in importance in many respects” of the tasks to be undertaken by the government. “We have a historic opportunity, which hasn’t existed since 1948, to apply sovereignty judiciously as a diplomatic… step in Judea and Samaria,” the PM said. “It is a big opportunity and we will not let it pass by.” The statement […]
(Natural News) Online free speech is under attack like never before, and President Donald Trump has vowed to take action in its preservation. In a recent tweet, Trump called out the culprits by name and indicated that his administration is working to address a problem that has been escalating for years. “The Radical Left is in total command & control of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Google,” the president tweeted. “The Administration is working to remedy this illegal situation.” Along with this tweet, Trump shared a video clip of a speech given by conservative blogger Michelle Malkin, who likewise has been taking […]
Five Myths About The Venezuelan Opposition By Tatuy TV & Venezuelanalysis.com. May 25, 2020 Five Myths About The Venezuelan Opposition2020-05-252020-05-25https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/trump-and-guaido-at-the-white-house.-from-reuters.-e1590420691625.jpg200px200px Above photo: President Donald Trump raising his thumb during his meeting with Venezuela’s opposition leader Juan Guaido at the White House in Washington, DC. By Kevin Lamarque for Reuters. The latest video produced by VA and Tatuy TV explores the “myths” that sustain the mainstream media’s favorable coverage of the Venezuelan opposition. The corporate media is almost unanimous in its support for US regime change plans in Venezuela. This support naturally extends to the US-backed Venezuelan anti-Chavista opposition, which in the […]
Europe 15:38 GMT 25.05.2020Get short URL MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Stanislas Guerini said he was convinced that former health minister and current LREM candidate Agnes Buzyn in the municipal elections in Paris, is determined to win the second round of the elections set for 28 June, though her position has weakened following her criticism of how the government is handling the COVID-19 crisis. “Agnes Buzyn is determined, and we [the LREM party] are determined to bring together a project [election campaign] for Paris”, Stanislas Guerini, the head of the French LREM party, said on Europe 1. Guerini recalled that during the pandemic, Buzyn […]
When Tara Trunfio stepped off her flight from Boulder to Maui, she didn’t see the leis and grass skirts that so many visitors expect. Instead, the 23-year-old saw masked officials warning that visitors who don’t comply with the islands’ 14-day quarantine requirement would be arrested. A Hawaiian get-away sounds magical to the millions of cooped-up Americans who want to trade in their virtual beach background for the real thing. But a trip to the beach can quickly turn into a stay in jail. That’s just what happened to Trunfio, who drew national attention this month after being arrested for allegedly violating […]
Muslim worshipers in Kabul offer prayers Sunday at the start of Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. The Taliban announced a three-day ceasefire during the holiday, a surprising move after months of bloody fighting. Wakil Kohsar/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Wakil Kohsar/AFP via Getty Images Muslim worshipers in Kabul offer prayers Sunday at the start of Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. The Taliban announced a three-day ceasefire during the holiday, a surprising move after months of bloody fighting. Wakil Kohsar/AFP via Getty Images […]
The credibility of Craig Wright – the Australian tech entrepreneur who controversially claims to be bitcoin’s pseudonymous inventor, Satoshi Nakamoto – has taken another blow. After a list of bitcoin addresses Wright had provided as being his holdings in an ongoing court case were briefly and “inadvertently” made public by plaintiffs on May 21, 145 of the addresses were used to sign a public message both calling Wright a “fraud” and making it plain that he does not in fact own or control them. The court case was brought by Ira Kleiman, the brother of Wright’s former business partner, David Kleiman, […]
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot lashed out at President Trump on Friday as “foolish” after he deemed all churches and synagogues and places of worship as “essential.” Lightfoot says President Trump has no power to override her local lockdown on churches and businesses. Chicago police fined three churches last weekend for holding worship services. South Side Churches cheered President Trump’s announcement on Friday. TRENDING: BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Deep State FBI Asked George Papadopoulos’s Wife, Simona Mangiante Papadopoulos, to Spy On Her Husband! On Sunday the Chicago mayor defied President Trump and sent an armed police squad to a Black Baptist Church on the […]
Members of the East Libya-based parliament on Monday rejected an attempted coup by the warlord Khalifa Haftar. This came in a statement issued by 11 prominent members of the Tobruk-based parliament in which they stressed support to a peace initiative proposed by its speaker Aguila Saleh. The parliament “fully supports Saleh’s initiative as a final political solution to the Libyan crisis.” Notably, the parliament currently holds its sessions with only some one-fifth of its 200 lawmakers. The lawmakers called on all sides to accept the initiative, asserting it comprises “a mechanism of selection and decision-making, a fair distribution of wealth between […]
PRAGUE – A coal mine in the north-eastern Czech Republic near the border with Poland has halted work after a major Covid-19 outbreak among the miners. In recent days, tests of some 2,400 people revealed a total of 212 positive for coronavirus, mostly miners from the Darkov mine in the town of Karvina and their family members. It´s currently the biggest local outbreak in the country. Ivo Vondrak, the head of the regional government, said Monday that only workers who are necessary to deal with ventilation and water pumping remain in the mine. Local health authorities have limited public gatherings in […]
The Italian government announced intentions Sunday to create an army of social distancing snitches, saying it will recruit 60,000 people to monitor their friends and neighbours’ activities and make sure they are adhering to social distancing policies. Reports indicate that the government will reach out especially to the unemployed for the roles, in particular those who have applied for benefits recently. It wants them to become “civic assistants”, who will report infractions on the use of face masks and other state ordered rules in the wake of the coronavirus lockdown. The informants will not be given uniforms or badges, and will simply […]
Shares in Bayer AG surged on Monday morning following a report the German life science company reached a verbal agreement to resolve most of its lawsuits related to its glyphosate-based Roundup weedkiller, sources told Bloomberg. Bayer shares jumped 8.4% to EUR 62.50 on Bloomberg’s report of significant headway has been made in settling lawsuits. The report said the deal would cover an estimated 50,000 to 85,000 lawsuits, which would end the expensive legal battle and force the company to shell out upwards of $10 billion. “We’ve made progress in the Roundup mediation discussions under the auspices of Ken Feinberg, but in keeping with the confidentiality of this process, the company […]
David Farrier looks at the way two conspiracy theories have merged into something very nasty online and into real world violence. Over the weekend we saw another suspicious fire at a cellphone tower, this time in South Auckland. This comes off the back of a string of arson attacks over the last six weeks: 10 in Auckland, and another four in Wellington and Northland. The attacks led the New Zealand Telecommunications Forum to put out a press release last week, asking for Kiwis to be extra vigilant in reporting suspicious behaviour. Vodafone, Spark and 2Degrees were on board with the messaging, […]
Russian figure skating trailblazer Alexandra Trusova has been included in the Guinness Book of World Records as the first female skater to successfully land a quadruple flip jump at an international competition. “The first quadruple flip jump in a figure skating competition by a female was achieved by Alexandra Trusova (Russia) on 7 December 2019 at the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final in Torino, Italy,” the statement said. Also on rt.com Mind-blowing! Watch Russian 11-year-old figure skating prodigy Sofia Titova effortlessly landing QUADS on hard ground (VIDEO) “The quad flip was one of five quad jumps included in Trusova’s […]
Is Hong Kong US Or Chinese Territory? May 25, 2020 Is Hong Kong US Or Chinese Territory?2020-05-252020-05-25https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2019/08/62-e1567359839783.jpg200px200px Above photo: Protesters hold a placard featuring U.S. President Donald Trump and U.S. flags as they take part in a march at Victoria Park in Hong Kong, July 21, 2019. Vincent Yu for AP. Note: To help understand the recent protests in Hong Kong we recommend these two articles: Liberal Confusion About The Hong Kong Protests And The US Role by KJ Noh. Hong Kong In The Crosshairs Of A Global Power Struggle by Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers We Are Not Fooled By The […]
India 14:06 GMT 25.05.2020Get short URL https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107757/23/1077572303_0:0:3076:1731_1200x675_80_0_0_819a09dcdca34a509f7fa547ef1efe1b.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/india/202005251079412841-indian-court-orders-seizure-of-south-korean-multinational-lg-polymers-plant/ New Delhi (Sputnik): A gas leak at a South Korean multinational LG Polymers plant in southern Andhra Pradesh on 7 May killed 11 people and made over 500 people sick in the neighbouring villages in Visakhapatnam. The High Court of Andhra Pradesh on Monday ordered the seizure of the premises of the LG Polymers plant on the outskirts of Visakhapatnam. It also barred company directors from leaving the country without the court’s permission. A two-member bench of the High Court has barred anyone except those appointed to investigate […]
After years of development and testing, Virgin Orbit is preparing to conduct its first orbital launch attempt. The maiden flight of the air-launched LauncherOne rocket is scheduled for Monday, May 25, in a window from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PDT (17:00 to 21:00 UTC). (Lead photo via Jack Beyer for NSF/L2) The attempt was originally scheduled for Sunday, May 24, but operations were scrubbed due to a sensor issue. The rocket was fueled completely, and all other components of the countdown were proceeding smoothly prior to the scrub. Fuel was offloaded to address the sensor issue, which has since been resolved. […]
ABUJA, Nigeria—U.S. President Donald Trump is not the only figure threatening the World Health Organization while endorsing dubious coronavirus treatments. In Africa, news outlets and social media posts notorious for spreading Russian-created disinformation and conspiracy theories are leveling all sorts of allegations against the WHO, ranging from incompetence to fraud. “The herbal remedy’s biggest booster is Malagasy President Andry Rajoelina, a 45-year-old media entrepreneur elected in 2018 with help from Russian President Vladimir Putin.” At the center of the attacks is what appears to be a coordinated campaign promoting an herbal concoction the Moscow-backed government of Madagascar claims will cure COVID-19. The […]
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe leaves a news conference Monday in Tokyo, after lifting the country’s nationwide state of emergency over the coronavirus. Kim Kyung-Hoon/Pool/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Kim Kyung-Hoon/Pool/AFP via Getty Images Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe leaves a news conference Monday in Tokyo, after lifting the country’s nationwide state of emergency over the coronavirus. Kim Kyung-Hoon/Pool/AFP via Getty Images Japan has completely lifted its nationwide state of emergency. The country’s prime minister, Shinzo Abe, announced Monday that officials have loosened the coronavirus restrictions in the last five of the country’s 47 prefectures: Tokyo and its […]
Telegram has thrown in the towel in its court battle against the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and will no longer be fighting the ban on its blockchain token project. In a filing on Friday (see bottom), the messaging app provider said it was withdrawing its appeal over a previous court decision that backed the SEC in prohibiting the issuance of “gram” tokens to investors both in and out of the U.S. The new document filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit states: “The parties in the above-referenced case have filed a stipulation withdrawing this appeal […]
As the ballot scandal in Oregon continues to garner more and more attention, local and national media outlets are taking notice. And they’re rushing to the aid of the state officials while dismissing and belittling the thousands of disenfranchised voters who were denied their right to vote in the primary for they party. Our original article was flagged by Facebook and Twitter as “misinformation” even though we sourced dozens of people making these initial claims. Oregon officials worked with Facebook and Twitter to scrub the story, and now Politifact has chimed in as well, also taking everything the state officials word […]
Iran on Monday confirmed 34 more fatalities from coronavirus over the past 24 hours, bringing the nationwide death toll to 7,451, reported Anadolu Agency. A further 2,023 people have tested positive for COVID-19, raising the overall count to 137,724, said the Health Ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour. He said 107,713 patients have recovered and been discharged from hospitals so far, while 2,585 patients remain in critical condition. In Iran, one of the countries in the Middle East hardest hit by the disease, COVID-19 was first detected in the city of Qom on February 19 and then spread throughout the country. Since first […]
FILE – In this Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2018, file photo a logo of the car manufacturer Volkswagen is pictured on top of a company building in Wolfsburg, Germany. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, file) Consumers affected by the Volkswagen emissions cheating scandal are eligible for damages that could total the entire cost of the vehicle, Germany’s Federal Court of Justice ruled Monday. That means thousands of motorists affected by the so-called Dieselgate scandal can claim compensation from the carmaker, although the total amount should be dependent on kilometers driven, the court said. Advertisement According to the ruling “the buyer of a vehicle with […]
Twitter appears to have removed its blue “verified” checkmark from a number of users on the platform over the past few days, a purge that included Rudy Takala, a journalist for Mediaite who reported on former President Obama’s abuse of government surveillance powers. Takala reported that Twitter removed his “verified status” an hour after he tweeted out his column about the Obama spying allegations. “I tweeted this column about the Obama administration spying on journalists at 5:47 Thursday,” said Takala. “Around an hour later, my verification badge magically disappeared.” I tweeted this column about the Obama administration spying on journalists at […]
Futurist Peter Singer explains the role of artificial intelligence in his new book, “Burn-In, a Novel of the Real Robotic Revolution.” Source link
Doctors at a hospital in California say they have recorded more deaths from suicide than coronavirus, with a year’s worth of suicides and suicide attempts being recorded in a 4 week period. “Doctors at John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek say they have seen more deaths by suicide during this quarantine period than deaths from the COVID-19 virus,” reports ABC 7. Dr. Mike deBoisblanc, the head of trauma at the hospital, said that he’d never seen suicide at this rate and that the numbers were “unprecedented.” He now says its time to fully end the lockdown. “I think, originally, this […]
Authored by Marcus Wong, EM market strategist who writes for Bloomberg Emerging-market equities are looking more fragile as valuations appear out-of-sync with earnings, especially given the increasingly bleak narrative surrounding virus cases and U.S.-China trade tensions. Something akin to a Jenga game nearing its end, with players wondering which move will be the one to bring everything crashing down. EM valuations appear close to a historical pivoting point, given the MSCI gauge is more than 13 times forward earnings on a 12- month blended basis. The index corrected on four occasions over the past five years when valuations approached or breached […]
The father of Russian quad-jumping prodigy Anna Shcherbakova said he would be upset if his daughter is forced to retire at an early age, after spending just a few seasons at senior level. Stanislav Shcherbakov outlined that along with executing incredible technical content his daughter also produces stunning artistic impressions, creating a true spectacle on the ice. READ MORE: ‘I will do a quad next season’: Elizaveta Tuktamysheva vows to challenge Eteri Tutberidze’s young skating champions In contrast to many skaters who fully concentrate on technical aspects of their routines, Shcherbakova has always been praised for the unforgettable images she creates on […]
Facebook Told My Followers I Was Spreading Misinformation About Government Surveillance May 24, 2020 Facebook Told My Followers I Was Spreading Misinformation About Government Surveillance2020-05-242020-05-24https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/1_mr_fpdvq2oowkephgd3hnw.jpeg200px200px Above photo: Evan Greer, Deputy Director of Fight for the Future. I wasn’t. Calling for more censorship — or for Big Tech companies to become the arbiters of truth — will ultimately backfire. We need to address the problem of viral disinformation at its root. Okay I’ll admit it. I still use Facebook. When I logged on last night I saw something I had never seen before: a notification that read “Partly false information found in your […]
Viral 12:30 GMT 25.05.2020Get short URL https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107941/20/1079412011_0:12:1247:713_1200x675_80_0_0_db805a8874f620d516e38d60450a6d16.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/viral/202005251079412173-indian-actor-turned-politician-shamed-on-twitter-for-violating-lockdown-norms-to-play-cricket/ New Delhi (Sputnik): India has been under a national lockdown since 25 March as a containment measure to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. The federal government relaxed the norms on 19 May. But Uttar Pradesh and Haryana have decided to keep their borders with Delhi sealed as the entire national capital is still in the red zone. National ruling Bharatiya Janata Party politician Manoj Tiwari, a former actor and singer, has come under fire for flouting lockdown norms by crossing the Delhi-Haryana border which is currently sealed by the […]
As former Vice President Joe Biden’s advisers struggle with ways to heighten the visibility of their candidate in these bizarre political times, they should avoid the trap that has ensnared many other campaigns: making promises that can undermine campaign operations and the work of governing if you win. The long road to chaos or defeat is littered with many of them. Most notable may be George H. W. Bush’s “Read my lips, no new taxes!” pledge in 1988. When forced to raise revenues with even a modest tax increase he was bludgeoned by conservatives and ultimately defeated for re-election. While campaigning […]
Get friendly with community leaders; be prepared to be judged by others. Disease detectives from California and Liberia share their best insights. (Image credit: Jana De Brauwere; Rachel Saykpah) Source link
With bitcoin’s price losing altitude again, small investors appear to be seeking exposure to the top cryptocurrency by market value. Prices fell by 9.8% last week to register bitcoin’s biggest weekly decline since the second week of March, according to CoinDesk’s Bitcoin Price Index. A two-week low of $8,630 was registered early on Monday, with prices last seen at $8,730 – down over 11% from the post-halving high of $9,960 registered on May 18. Despite the price drop – or perhaps because of it – the number of addresses holding smaller amounts of bitcoin has continued to rise. The number of unique […]
Happy Memorial Day Weekend! The Naples Daily News reported: From canoes to yachts, over 500 boats decorated with U.S. and Trump 2020 flags navigated Collier County waters Saturday in support of President Donald Trump’s reelection. Boaters departed after 10 a.m. from the City Dock in Naples to a recording of the song “God Bless the USA” and the national anthem. They then navigated Naples Bay and farther south to the Jolley Bridge on Marco Island. About 530 boats participated in the parade, said Jamie Mosbach, a spokeswoman for the Collier County Sheriff’s Office. “We didn’t have any incidents,” she said. From a boat filled with […]
The first of five Iranian tankers carrying fuel to Venezuela has moored at Venezuela’s El Palito refinery, Iran’s English-language Press TV reported on Monday. Iran ignored warnings of retaliation from the US as the first of five Iranian tankers entered Venezuela’s exclusive economic zone on Saturday. Iran is sending five tankers, loaded with a staggering 1.53 million barrels of gasoline and components to Venezuela, in a move criticised by US authorities as both nations are under US sanctions. “The Iranian oil/chem Handymax tanker, FORTUNE, which loaded 43 million liters of gasoline during mid-March at Port Shahid Rajaee, Iran, has now moored […]
President Donald Trump’s last big demand in a funding bill, the border wall, led to the longest-ever government shutdown, and that was nearly two years before his reelection. And this year’s defense policy bill is already attracting attention from House progressives, who say they want to cut Pentagon funding to shore up domestic programs amid the pandemic. Then there’s the less frequent but equally challenging bills that also come due this year, such as a massive federal highway bill, flood insurance and water infrastructure. That’s on top of the long-delayed reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act. What’s more, the House […]
Sunday on MSNBC’s “Kasie DC,” Democratic strategist James Carville weighed in on the 2020 presidential election following Democratic presidential nominee frontrunner former Vice President Joe Biden catching flak this week for telling African-American President Donald Trump voters that they “ain’t black.” After saying Trump’s “Access Hollywood” tapes and Biden’s recent comment are not “in the same solar system” and what Biden said will not “amount to diddly squat” when it comes to the election, Carville said that the “American people are turning on” Trump “by the day.” He also advised Trump to go play golf if he wants to turn around the […]