“We’ve never seen anything like it, at all,” Max Kapustin, the senior research director at the University of Chicago Crime Lab told the Chicago Sun-Times in a new shocking report published Monday. “I don’t even know how to put it into context. It’s beyond anything that we’ve ever seen before.” The group of University of Chicago researchers have confirmed numbers from Sunday, May 31, which the Crime […]
Daily Archives: June 8, 2020
Saudi Arabia could drastically limit numbers at the annual hajj pilgrimage to prevent a further outbreak of coronavirus after cases in the country topped 100,000, sources familiar with the matter said to Reuters on Monday. Some 2.5 million pilgrims visit the holiest sites of Islam in Mecca and Medina for the week-long hajj, a once-in-a-lifetime duty for every able-bodied Muslim who can afford it. Official data […]
Romney — who won praise from Democratic and Republican lawmakers alike on Monday for joining the nationwide demonstrations — said he had talked with Tim Scott of South Carolina, the only African American Republican senator, among other GOP lawmakers. The plan is in its early stages and has yet to be written into legislative text, but Romney said he’s aiming to create “supervisory” boards to determine […]
The Indianapolis, Indiana, community is honoring Chris Beaty, a 38-year-old real estate broker and former Indiana University football player, after he was murdered in riots on May 30. Beaty was shot and killed by robbers who were attempting to steal the purses of two women during riots happening in Indianapolis over the death of George Floyd. Beaty had tried to stop the robbers from stealing from the […]
Former NFL player and current Utah congressional candidate Burgess Owens slammed those who use the term “white privilege” in a Twitter post on Monday. “The most popular racist term today… ‘White Privilege’. Don’t you dare tell me my skin color holds me back. Don’t you dare tell me my skin color makes me a victim,” said Owens, a former New York Jet who is now running […]
We’ve seen various state and federal officials over the past two weeks of George Floyd protests point to a ‘foreign hand’ stirring the unrest for the purpose of creating deeper instability in American society, already unsettled by months of the coronavirus pandemic crisis. Of course the ‘nefarious Russians’ were the first to be named — with CNN spending a lot of time amplifying this paranoid claim, for example […]
The US government’s supply of the only proven Covid-19 drug runs out at the end of the month By Elizabeth Cohen and Arman Azad/CNN (CNN)The US government’s current supply of remdesivir, the only drug known to work against Covid-19, will run out at the end of the month, Dr. Robert Kadlec, a US Department of Health and Human Services official, told CNN. The government’s last shipment of […]
The Russian Defense Ministry helped put out a blaze at an oil well in the Irkutsk region by demolishing the burning wellhead with point-blank fire from an anti-tank gun flow into the remote area of Siberia. Soldiers from the Central Military District, still wearing their Covid-19 protection masks, can be seen maneuvering the T-12 cannon off a trailer, and positioning it mere 180 meters (200 yards) […]
(Natural News) It’s important to prepare for emergencies, as these can happen without a moment’s notice. For most people, that means stockpiling enough food to keep themselves fed in the event an emergency happens. But as you fill up your storage spaces with quick fixes like rice, spaghetti and survival rations, why not balance it out by adding nutritious superfoods to the mix? While having easily accessible emergency […]
Journalists Demand End To Harassment After Over 100 Attacks On The Press By Charles Davis, Business Insider. June 8, 2020 Journalists Demand End To Harassment After Over 100 Attacks On The Press2020-06-082020-06-08https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/police-face-off-with-protesters-on-manahattan-bridge-by-ap-e1591635911272.jpg200px200px Above photo: Police face off with activists during a protest march near the Manhattan Bridge on Sunday, May 31, 2020, in New York. Demonstrators took to the streets of New York to protest the […]
US 23:03 GMT 08.06.2020Get short URL https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107956/01/1079560193_0:0:3277:1844_1200x675_80_0_0_c8a2f808319e36ad2b793cd8981694e0.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202006081079560223-us-nimitz-carrier-group-deploys-after-crew-finishes-coronavirus-training-quarantine/ WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The US aircraft carrier Nimitz and elements of its strike group (NIM CSG) sailed into the Pacific after the entire crew completed a 14-day quarantine, tested negative for the novel coronavirus and practiced mitigation protocols while being tested during a pre-deployment cruise, the US Navy announced in a press release. […]
The luxury of a dishwasher is something that took me a few years to appreciate. My first apartment was without one, so I spent many hours washing and drying dishes by hand over the course of the two years of living there. There’s no denying that it kind of sucks. But, there are some things that can help keep you from wanting to curse out your […]
Florida’s COVID-19 dashboard, here in a snapshot Monday, shows an uptick of cases. Florida GIS/Screenshot by NPR hide caption toggle caption Florida GIS/Screenshot by NPR Florida’s COVID-19 dashboard, here in a snapshot Monday, shows an uptick of cases. Florida GIS/Screenshot by NPR Over the last week, Florida has seen rising numbers of new COVID-19 cases. Since Tuesday, the number of people who tested positive for the […]
The “mostly peaceful” leftist rioters in Chicago dragged police officers through the street and kicked them in the head last week. The far left rioters and looters made Chicago’s Magnificent Mile look like Chicago’s Boarded Up Mile. By last weekend the left was calling to defund the police in several US cities. This past weekend Chicago suffered its most violent weekend of the year.84 TRENDING: Wow! […]
The Yemeni Abductees Mothers’ Association said yesterday that the Houthis have prevented the entry of medicine and food to the detainees in Sana’a’s central prison despite the outbreak of the coronavirus in the facility. The association explained in an urgent statement that the families of some of the detainees in Sanaa central prison have said that the Houthis have prevented the detainees from receiving food and […]
Protesters and police officers faced off Sunday night in Seattle, Washington, following a George Floyd demonstration in the city’s Capitol Hill neighborhood. “Just before midnight, police reported that someone had thrown a glass bottle at a Washington National Guard member. Minutes later, the incident commander on site issued dispersal orders, demanding the crowd leave immediately,” according to MyNorthwest.com. In addition to the bottle, the Seattle Police […]
Authored by Tony Pasquariello, global head of HF Sales at Goldman Sachs amidst a nonfarm payrolls beat for the ages — and, alongside another central bank over-delivering — the stunning rally in risk assets continued this week. within that context, the undertone of the past few weeks is a pattern of rotation, where the dominant themes which characterized the peak crisis period have shifted, and shifted […]
Israel’s NSO Group showcased a new anti-drone defence on Monday, giving the public a rare look at its technology as it seeks to counter allegations that another of its products has aided privacy breaches and political surveillance, reports Reuters. The new system, Eclipse, commandeers intruding drones and, according to NSO, costs “hundreds of thousands of dollars” to provide stadium-sized protection. More than 10 countries have bought it to […]
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and a number of her congressional colleagues gathered to kneel on Monday for the time they say a police officer had his knee on the neck of George Floyd, but the photo op did not quite go as planned. After the 8 minutes and 46 seconds the incident lasted, the members of Congress — including 79-year-old James Clyburn — rose. But Pelosi […]
Persistently engaging in negative thinking patterns may raise the risk of Alzheimer’s disease, finds a new UCL-led study. In the study of people aged over 55, published in Alzheimer’s & Dementia, researchers found ‘repetitive negative thinking’ (RNT) is linked to subsequent cognitive decline as well as the deposition of harmful brain proteins linked to Alzheimer’s. The researchers say RNT should now be further investigated as a […]
Via Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com, While the country was distracted with the Covid-19 lockdown and economic crisis, the Federal Reserve made a huge banking requirement change never before done in history. The Fed cut “…reserve requirement ratios to zero percent effective March 26, 2020. This action eliminated reserve requirements for all depository institutions.” (Read for yourself here.) What does this profound change mean? Economist John Williams says, “The […]
The Senior Editor When we thought we had seen it all, we then get this pig faced motherfucker and his Trumpist Nazi friends. Watch him bash the head of a teenage (white) girl during an attack on peaceful demonstrators. This guy has a lifetime history of far more than the complaints on record, it goes much further with allegations yet to be proven of a police […]
Pyongyang will cut off inter-Korean hotlines with Seoul, the government has threatened, insisting the south stop defectors from sending leaflets and other material across the DMZ, North Korean media reported. Insisting the south must “pay the price” for tolerating “anti-Republican acts,” on Tuesday the North Korean government said it would begin severing communications with Seoul, starting with a number of hotlines established between the two sides. “The direct communication line […]
(Natural News) Representative Matt Gaetz, a Republican from Florida, has been censored by Twitter after tweeting about Antifa rioters being domestic terrorists. At the height of last weekend’s riots, Gaetz hypothetically asked his followers if decent Americans can now “hunt them down like we do those in the Middle East,” referring specifically to the Antifa terrorists burning down cities and inciting violence. Because “we clearly see,” […]
Confederate Monuments In Richmond Coming Down By The Virginia Defender. June 8, 2020 Confederate Monuments In Richmond Coming Down2020-06-082020-06-08https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/statue-honoring-the-slavery-defending-robert-e.-lee-was-the-first-and-is-the-largest-of-monument-avenues-monuments.-from-the-virginia-defender-e1591636381516.jpg200px200px Statement by the Virginia Defenders on the Impending Removal of Richmond’s Confederate Monuments. Richmond, VA, June 3 — The Virginia Defenders for Freedom, Justice & Equality, an all-volunteer, grassroots organization that since 2007, on the 200th anniversary of the birth of the slavery-defending Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, […]
World 21:31 GMT 08.06.2020Get short URL https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107955/97/1079559786_0:0:3072:1728_1200x675_80_0_0_bcad18cb9ddb7955a2760792793a59c8.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/world/202006081079559687-google-says-will-roll-out-covid-19-alerts-on-affected-public-transit-available-test-sites/ NEW YORK (Sputnik) – Google announced that it will soon roll out novel coronavirus alerts that will help users avoid affected public transit systems and also know in advance if they are eligible to go to a particular testing site. “Transit alerts are rolling out in Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Colombia, France, India, […]
United Launch Alliance has announced their Vulcan rocket is progressing towards its maiden launch as soon as early-2021. While an exact launch target isn’t known yet, the mission will use a newly-built Launch Umbilical Tower while sharing Atlas V’s Vertical Integration Facility and SLC-41 launch pad in Florida. When first announced in 2014 as a “new booster,” ULA stated that Vulcan’s first flight was targeting 2019. […]
Feds announced Monday that a 23-year-old man has been charged in connection to to the March 28 fire set to the Minneapolis Police Department’s Third Precinct station amid protests over the police killing of George Floyd. Branden Wolfe, of St. Paul, was charged with aiding and abetting arson at the third precinct’s station, U.S. Attorney’s Office District of Minnesota announced Monday. This is a developing story… […]
The World Health Organization, in a press conference on Monday, expressed solidarity with the demonstrations calling for racial justice — and shared advice to reduce the risk of catching COVID-19. (Image credit: Matteo Nardone/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images) Source link
Last Monday far left protesters held rallies for George Floyd in downtown St. Louis.The protests quickly got out of hand and turned into mass looting, arson and shootings. Advertisement – story continues below Four St. Louis Police Officers were shot. A retired Police Captain was gunned down at a pawn shop. And looters hit several businesses including a Chevrolet Car Dealership. St. Louis Police released video […]
Iran’s health ministry urged people on Monday to wear face masks in public areas, following warnings that the Islamic Republic could face a new wave of coronavirus infections, reported Reuters. Health officials said last week there could be a second, stronger wave of novel coronavirus infections if people ignored social distancing rules. Iran’s death toll from the coronavirus reached 8,351 on Monday, with 70 deaths in the previous 24 hours, health ministry spokesman Kianush […]
The major U.S. stock indexes rose again Monday even as the official referees of the economy announced the U.S. had entered into a recession. The Nasdaq Composite rose 1.13 percent to a new record high. The S&P 500 climbed 1.2 percent, turning positive for the year. The Dow Jones Industrial Average moved up 1.7 percent to 27,572. The National Bureau of Economic Research, the official arbiter […]
How insane is this “market”? So insane that shale pioneer Chesapeake, which for weeks has been rumored to be on the verge of bankruptcy, exploded by over 300% from Friday’s closing print of $25 to $84.75 after the close. Well, the daytrader gambler who bought at $84.75 after hours in hopes of finding an even greater idiot to sell to – such as Jerome Powell perhaps […]