Submitted by Voima Gold Rumors are making rounds the Chinese central bank stores gold at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. If true, this would be crucial in the trade war between the U.S. and China. However, according to my analysis it’s false. An old rumor resurfaced in May, 2020, on news outlet the Global Times. A Chinese analyst consulted by the Global Times, states […]
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A Seattle Man Received a $1.1 Million Bill for His COVID-19 Treatment Time BY MADELEINE CARLISLE AND TARA LAW After spending months hospitalized for COVID-19 at Swedish Medical Center in Issaquah, Wash., Michael Flor, 70, says that he knew his stay would be pricey. He’d spent 62 days in an intensive care unit, including weeks in an induced coma, and come so close to death that his family […]
US President Donald Trump has said his ex-national security advisor John Bolton will run afoul of the law if he pushes ahead with the release of his new book, arguing all presidential conversations are “highly classified.” With days left until Bolton’s controversial book – ‘The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir’ – is set to hit the shelves, Trump indicated that his administration will […]
(Natural News) A new study that looked at the effects of face masks on the spread of the coronavirus in a town in Germany revealed that using face covering can reduce transmission by as much as 40 percent. The study, which was authored by the IZA Institute of Labor Economics, analyzed the city of Jena in the central province of Thuringia. During the height of the coronavirus outbreak in Germany, […]
Unfinished Revolution: Where Do The George Floyd Protests Go From Here? By Tosh Anderson, Josephine Lee, Zishun Ning, The Indypendent. June 15, 2020 Unfinished Revolution: Where Do The George Floyd Protests Go From Here?2020-06-152020-06-15https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/an-anti-police-violence-protester-is-arrested-in-midtown-manhattan.-photo-by-sue-brisk-e1592228607644.png200px200px Above photo: A protester against racism and police violence is arrested in Midtown Manhattan. Photo by Sue Brisk. It takes but a few minutes for the ruling elite to recast collective calls for […]
China is preparing to launch the final Beidou satellite, completing its orbital navigation constellation. However, the launch of the Beidou-3GEO3 satellite that was to place from the LC2 Launch Complex of the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, Sichuan province on Tuesday was delayed a few hours ahead of launch due to “technical issues”. The launch will use the Long March-3B/G2 ‘Chang Zheng-3B/G2 (Y68) rocket. The Beidou-3GEO (Beidou-3G) […]
In a new, massive federal survey of novel coronavirus cases in the United States, a report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offers an in-depth breakdown by gender, race, ethnicity, and health factors. Among 1,320,488 laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 cases considered by the CDC between January 22 and May 30, 2020—of which only 45 percent had race or ethnicity data—33 percent were Hispanic or Latino of […]
Police officers and demonstrators get into a scuffle during a protest that took place in May, over the killing over George Floyd and police brutality. Mike Stewart/AP hide caption toggle caption Mike Stewart/AP Police officers and demonstrators get into a scuffle during a protest that took place in May, over the killing over George Floyd and police brutality. Mike Stewart/AP Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announced […]
SIMBA Chain, a blockchain-as-a-service company with deep ties to the Department of Defense, has two years and $1.5 million to research and develop a blockchain for supply chain logistics for the U.S. Air Force. The South Bend, Ind., firm said on Monday it has entered Phase II of its Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) USAF project with a renewed mandate to investigate blockchain’s military supply chain […]
external hack attack are coming from all around the US for the T-Mobile outage. Verizon, AT&T, and Sprint users are also reporting issues today as well but the biggest impact to service seems to be with T-Mobile and Metro PCS so far. We need to stop depending on China pic.twitter.com/ss2ej3kyQH — Agustin Pardo (@AgustinPardo15) June 15, 2020 Apparently, T-Mobile’s network is down and it’s affecting calls […]
Former Iranian judge and prosecutor, Gholamreza Mansouri, who was known for jailing journalists in the Islamic Republic, has been arrested in Romania. According to a report by the Times, Mansouri, who was a prosecutor at the notorious Evin prison in Iran and later presided over the press court, surrendered to authorities at the Iranian Embassy in Romania’s capital, Bucharest, on 10 June. The former judge stands accused of accepting more than […]
“We are writing to bring to your attention an issue that could impact the ability of the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee (PRAC) and federal Inspectors General to provide effective oversight of over $1 trillion in pandemic-related funds, as well as transparency to the public about how those monies are being spent,” Horowitz and Westbrooks wrote. At issue is the structure of the CARES Act, which split […]
Code-hosting portal GitHub is reportedly working on replacing the programming term “master” with a neutral term such as “main” in an effort to avoid references to slavery. The move is part of a leftist push to change the language of coding by removing terms deemed racist, sexist, and otherwise “offensive.” ZDNet reports that the code-hosting platform GitHub is planning to replace the term “master” on its […]
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded Raytheon $37 million to develop sensors for Project Blackjack, according to a June 12 contract announcement. Project Blackjack is a demonstration constellation being developed and fielded by DARPA to show the military utility of an on-orbit mesh network made up of satellites operating in low Earth orbit. The agency expects to launch flight demonstration satellites this fall before […]
Those who have christened neocon ultra-hawk John Bolton of all people a resistance hero are no doubt waiting with bated breath for his book “The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir,” to hit shelves, given it’s expected to be filled with “multiple revelations about Trump’s conduct in office,” which will ‘go beyond Ukraine’ as one source recently put it to Axios. President Trump hit back on Monday, slamming […]
As attempts to collect videos of police violence quickly became unwieldy, two activists created a public database comprising what has become hundreds of cases. However, one technologist told Sputnik the list is just a drop in the bucket, and the practice is much older than cellphone videos. Lawyer T. Greg Doucette and mathematician Jason Miller have formed a publicly accessible database in Google Sheets of video […]
A third detainee has died of suspected coronavirus in detention in Egypt. Saad Abdelal, 48, was detained in Tora Prison before he died. The rights organisation We Record had already reported that coronavirus infections have spread to two out of four cell blocks in Tora Prison. Saad’s death follows the passing of Hassan Ziada who died of suspected COVID-19 a week ago in Al-Mahalla Public Hospital in […]
Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), also a member of Republican leadership, concurred. He also said he does not think the two-week July 4 recess would be canceled. “I’d be surprised if it happens before the July recess,” Blunt said in a brief interview. Scott, for his part, said it would be a mistake to wait. He is urging Senate leaders to take swift action, on the heels […]
Bishop Aubre Shines writes in the Washington Times about systemic racism in America, which he attributes to the historical Democrat Party dating back to the post-Civil War era, the Jim Crow laws, and their enforcer: The Ku Klux Klan: These past couple of weeks have been some of the saddest I’ve seen in my lifetime as an African-American. It began with the tragic, needless, death of […]
WASHINGTON – The US Navy will need to develop a roadmap for developing future fighter aircraft years after it had become apparent that the Navy’s mainstay F/A-18 Super Hornet would struggle to keep the carrier outside be effective against Chinese anti-ship missiles. A provision in the Senate Armed Services Committee’s mark of the National Defense Authorization Act told the Navy to come up with a concrete […]
The US’ three main phone carriers have all suffered outages across the US, with customers on both coasts reporting dead signals. No explanation was immediately provided for the outages, which came amid widespread protests. T-Mobile and AT&T users reported the outages on Monday afternoon, according to DownDetector, a website that tracks the availability of communications services and websites. Verizon users also reported issues, as are a […]
Authored by Simon Black via SovereignMan.com, Every week we bring you some of the most ridiculous stories we found throughout the week that are threats to your liberty and prosperity. This week we are focused on “cancel culture” also known as mob-rule. Here’s how it is killing any remaining freedom of thought and discussion in our society. Mob punishes soccer player because of his wife’s Tweet […]
Health Editor’s Note: Harbaugh has very valid points….Carol Baltimore Ravens Head Coach John Harbaugh Says NFL Health Protocols ‘Humanly Impossible’ To Follow CBS Baltimore BALTIMORE (WJZ) — NFL teams are getting closer to a full reopening of their facilities and in preparation, the league has sent out guidelines and protocols to attempt to ensure the health and safety of players and coaches while the coronavirus pandemic continues […]
The New York Police Department has liquidated its anti-crime unit, reassigning some 600 plainclothes cops to neighborhood policing and detective work as protesters nationwide demand reforms in the wake of the George Floyd killing. NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea announced the disbanding of the unit in a press conference on Monday, calling it “a seismic shift in the culture of how the NYPD polices this great city.” […]
(Natural News) As the world starts to recoup its losses over the economic carnage brought on by measures to stop the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19), it’s becoming clear that recovery will not be easy. A new study from the World Bank states that low-income and emerging market economies will remain deeply damaged five years after the pandemic. The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has already plunged the world into a severe recession. The World Bank‘s […]
Minneapolis Is Trying To Punish Transit Workers Who Wouldn’t Help The Police By Sarah Lazare, In These Times. June 15, 2020 Minneapolis Is Trying To Punish Transit Workers Who Wouldn’t Help The Police2020-06-152020-06-15https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/protesters-with-bus-from-getty-images-e1592234517307.jpg200px200px Above photo: A man raises his arm inside a bus in support of protests in upper Manhattan on June 7, 2020 in New York, NY. Pablo Monsalve/VIEWpress via Getty Images. In late May, as […]
The release of a book of former White House National Security Advisor John Bolton, titled “The Room Where It Happened”, was set to take place on 12 May, but the date has been pushed to 23 June as the administration of US President Donald Trump halted the memoir for a prepublication security review. US President Donald Trump on Monday said that former White House National Security […]
Monday’s landmark ruling by the Supreme Court that LGBTQ discrimination is illegal sex discrimination means that the U.S. military is now the last employer discriminating against transgender people. While the ruling in Bostock v. Clayton County doesn’t automatically kill the military’s transgender service ban, several attorneys said today’s ruling is the ban’s death knell —including one who will soon argue against the ban in court later. […]
Looking west from this overlook in the George Washington National Forest in central Virginia, the pathway of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline would be visible along the valley floor running to the north. Becky Sullivan/NPR hide caption toggle caption Becky Sullivan/NPR Looking west from this overlook in the George Washington National Forest in central Virginia, the pathway of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline would be visible along the […]
This summer, the U.S. Supreme Court will consider how to interpret the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, a key data protection law. The court’s decision could criminalize common but technically prohibited computer-related conduct, put limitations on a powerful law that punishes insider data theft and abuse like exchange hacks, or come down somewhere in the middle. At issue in United States v. Van Buren is […]
THOUSANDS of ‘black trans lives matter’ protesters gathered outside of the Brooklyn museum on Sunday. The protesters were shoulder-to-shoulder in the hot sweaty sun and not practicing social distancing – at all! Maybe you should start here: pic.twitter.com/SDMt2p09Fz — Douglas Karr (@douglaskarr) June 15, 2020 TRENDING: Oh Brother… Stacey Abrams: “A Man Was Murdered Because He Was Asleep in a Drive-Through” (VIDEO) But this same liberal […]
Sudan’s public prosecutor on Monday announced the discovery of a mass grave east of Khartoum suspected to contain the remains of students killed in 1998 as they tried escaping military service at a training camp. An investigation had been launched, the prosecutor said, adding that some of the suspected killers belonging to the ousted administration of Omar al-Bashir had fled. A source in the investigators’ team […]
Roughly 35,000 U.S. troops are stationed in Germany, where force levels are allowed to go as high as 52,000. Trump noted that Germany was not devoting 2 percent of its gross domestic product to defense and criticized its trade relationship with the U.S. through the European Union. “They are delinquent of billions of dollars, this is for years delinquent,” Trump said. “So we are putting the […]
A statue of Thomas Jefferson, the United States’ third president and author of the Declaration of Independence, was defaced and torn down on Sunday evening outside a high school in Portland, Oregon. Photos obtained by Oregon Live show the base of the monument was spray-painted in black with “slave owner” and “George Floyd.” Protesters take down Thomas Jefferson statue in front of Portland’s Jefferson High School https://t.co/TZIq5s1wY9 […]
SEATTLE — For decades, the U.S. Navy’s leading supplier of high-strength steel for submarines provided subpar metal because one of the company’s longtime employees falsified lab results — putting sailors at greater risk in the event of collisions or other impacts, federal prosecutors said in court filings Monday. The supplier, Kansas City-based Bradken Inc., paid $10.9 million as part of a deferred prosecution agreement, the Justice […]
According to state-owned news agency KCNA, North Korea’s military is “studying an action plan” to advance into zones that were demilitarized under an agreement with South Korea. KCNA cites a statement from the army’s General Staff, who confirmed the North Korean army is “fully ready” to implement government orders and is on “high alert” to carry out “external measures” coming from the government. “Our army is […]
North Korean military leaders announced on Tuesday they were reviewing plans to reoccupy parts of the inter-Korean border disarmed by a previous agreement with Seoul. The moves comes amid continued deterioration of relations between the two Koreas fueled by the activities of North Korean defectors in the South. “Our army is keeping a close watch on the current situation in which the north-south relations are turning […]
The banning of deadly police practices by many American states and cities following the murder of an African American man, George Floyd, at the hands of Minneapolis police officers is, once more, shedding light on US-Israeli collaboration in the fields of security and crowd-control. From California to New York, and from Washington State to Minneapolis, all forms of neck restraints and chokeholds that are used by […]
On the same day that thousands of protesters gathered around the Brooklyn Museum in New York to show their support for blacks who want to live as the opposite sex, Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Sunday warned that customers flocking to restaurants and bars in the state could lead to another coronavirus lockdown. “Governor Andrew Cuomo warned New Yorkers against triggering a second wave of the coronavirus, singling […]
The delivery of a new KC-46 Pegasus tanker aircraft to Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in North Carolina has been delayed after foreign object debris was found inside the plane by Boeing inspectors. The delayed aircraft was to have been one of the first two KC-46s delivered to Air Force Reserve Command at Seymour Johnson on June 12. But while the first was successfully delivered, debris […]
[Editor’s Note: this article is adapted from a 2003 essay in the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics entitled “New Keynesian Monetary Views: A Comment.” As economists abandon theory in favor of makeshift plans to flood the economy with stimulus, Hülsmann here provides some helpful reminders of the fundamental problems behind the current economic consensus on money.] The essential fallacy of John Maynard Keynes and his early disciples was […]
Authored by John Solomon via JustTheNews.com, A recently declassified annex to the Obama administration’s intelligence report on Russian election interference took great pains to make clear it did not use Christopher Steele’s deeply flawed dossier to make any assessments about Moscow’s intentions. The Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) found Steele’s evidence “highly politically sensitive” and minimally corroborated and thus not worthy of including in its analysis of […]
The fat orange Fuhrer’s sole remaining braincell has succumbed to dementia, so he has been deposed,in secret of course, and he is far too moronic to even realise it [Editor’s note: Today, our own mini-Trump, the equally horrendous, truly disgusting and utterly corrupt pig of a man Boris Johnson has allowed non-essential shops and businesses to re-open, leading to huge crowds of extremely stupid, incredibly shallow, […]
The US’ three main phone carriers have all suffered outages across the US, with customers on both coasts reporting dead signals. No explanation was immediately provided for the outages, which came amid widespread protests. T-Mobile and AT&T users reported the outages on Monday afternoon, according to DownDetector, a website that tracks the availability of communications services and websites. Verizon users also reported issues, as are a […]
Monday, June 15, 2020 by: Mike Adams Tags: Big Pharma, corruption, criminality, drug cartels, evil, FDA, health freedom, medical fascism, monopoly, Quack Hack, Twisted, Tyranny (Natural News) (Natural News exclusive) The FDA is running a covert program called “Quack […]
To Deal With Police, We Must Understand Why They Even Exist By Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, Clearing the FOG. June 15, 2020 | Featured Campaign, Podcast To Deal With Police, We Must Understand Why They Even Exist2020-06-152020-06-15https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/police-e1592235215895.jpg200px200px The recent protests across the country following the murder of George Floyd have elevated the demands to defund and abolish the police. This comes on the heels of […]
China activated a Level-IV emergency response on Saturday after strong winds whipped across the eastern coast as Typhoon Nuri made landfall, hitting Guangdong Province and major cities including Hong Kong. Footage has emerged of a gigantic crane weighing an estimated 10 tonnes, and being toppled over by high winds on Friday before crashing into the sea in eastern China. The terrifying scene shows the heavy machine off the […]
Between the novel coronavirus pandemic and, now, the protests that have erupted demanding justice for Black people murdered by police, it’s a pretty awkward time to have a movie coming out. Jon Stewart, who will debut his new film Irresistible on demand June 26, knows this well. “It’s like showing up to a plane crash with a chocolate bar,” the comedian told The New York Times […]
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo discusses newly signed police reform legislation and how reopening is going in the state as the coronavirus pandemic continues. Source link
Bitcoin took a hit Monday, only to recover as many market participants see price weakness ahead. Bitcoin (BTC) was trading around $9,426 as of 20:00 UTC (4 p.m. ET), gaining less than a percent over the previous 24 hours. At 00:00 UTC on Monday (8:00 p.m. Sunday EDT), bitcoin was changing hands around $9,327 on spot exchanges such as Coinbase. It then dipped 5% to as […]
Armed militants guarding the “CHAZ,” [Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone] a six square block ‘police free’ zone in Seattle hijacked by BLM and Antifa terrorists, threatened an Uber driver who was simply waiting for a pickup outside of the autonomous zone. This is what the far-left Seattle mayor calls a ‘summer of love with potlucks and drum circles.’ The Uber driver told two reporters how the armed […]
Italian and Turkish submarines on Monday conducted a joint maritime drill in the Mediterranean, said Turkey’s Defense Ministry on Monday. In a tweet, the ministry said the two navies have the most effective submarine force in the Mediterranean Sea and will continue to improve the interoperability with maritime training. Turkey and Italy are two regional powers that share common interests, common history, and common values in the […]
Facts: America is accused of racism, of holding racial minorities back by way of system-wide white supremacism, and yet Jews, black Nigerians, Indian Americans (from India), and Asians are more successful in America than whites, and their respective imprison rates are lower than whites. How is it possible in a country that we’re told is riddled with the cancer of white supremacism for those four groups to enjoy a higher standard […]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Air Force’s new MH-139 Grey Wolf helicopter, which will replace the UH-1N Huey that guards nuclear missile fields, is at risk for bursting over its weight limit, a congressional watchdog said earlier this month. The Grey Wolf — built by prime contractor Boeing and based on Italian aerospace firm Leonardo’s AW139 helicopter — appears to be gliding through its development phase, having […]
Foreign holdings of U.S. government debt fell to a four-month low in April, as the COVID-19 pandemic shut down most of the global economy. Foreign TSY sales eased from $299BN in March to $177BN in April and while foreigners bought $10.9BN in corporate bonds in April, up from $3.2BN in March, they sold $5.6BN in corporate stocks in April, from $7.1BN in purchases in March, and […]
As the United Kingdom seeks to loosen national lockdown restrictions introduced to slow the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, concerns of a second wave are being raised. Countries that appeared to have successfully beaten back the pandemic are also raising the alarm as new cases are reported. An Oxford professor told peers on Monday that he would be “very surprised” if the UK was to avoid […]
Iraq on Monday confirmed 45 fatalities from the novel coronavirus, bringing the death toll to 652, reports Anadolu Agency. The Health Ministry said 1,106 more cases have been recorded, taking the total infections to 21,315, while the number of recoveries reached 9,271. The ministry announced Saturday that a new curfew will be imposed from 6 pm to 5 am (1500-0200GMT) for a week starting from Sunday. […]
A sheriff’s deputy in Berkeley County, South Carolina, is being honored for saving a baby’s life when her mother thought all hope was lost. When Berkeley County Sheriff’s Deputy William Kimbro pulled over a speeding car on June 11, 2019, he found a young mom holding her newborn who had stopped breathing, according to KCTV. Moments later, Kimbro took action and performed CPR on little Ryleigh until […]
WASHINGTON ― Economic shock waves from the coronavirus pandemic are threatening U.S. arms sales to its allies and partners, who may suddenly have less to spend. U.S. defense exports, through either the Foreign Military Sales process (which is government-facilitated) or the Direct Commercial Sales process (from a firm to a nation), are a means for the U.S. to strengthen ties with friendly countries and, as President […]
A post that appeared on the subreddit for the Seattle ‘CHAZ’ autonomous zone that has been taken over by left-wing extremists suggests rounding up all the white people and organizing them into forced work brigades. That’s right. Some of the very same people protesting against racism and slavery want to enslave people based on their skin color. So progressive! The discussion appears to be focused around […]
Disappointing China macro data, a “very serious” second wave virus breakout in Bejiing (and Guangzhou), and increasing concerns about the rise in US cases across several states… all led to some serious selling overnight with Small Caps down 5% and Dow futures down over 1000 points from Friday’s cash close… But then Europe opened, US opened, Florida’s COVID case rose very slightly less than the 7 […]
Study: People who hoard toilet paper are just looking for a symbol of safety by Jennifer Ouellette/arsTechnica Back in March, we reported on the strange phenomenon of people scrambling to stockpile toilet paper as the coronavirus pandemic led to widespread adoption of shelter-in-place and social-distancing policies. Now German scientists have pinpointed a couple of key personality traits that appear to be linked to this kind of hoarding behavior, […]
Lightweight contender Tony Ferguson has publicly called out rival Conor McGregor for the first time since his brutal defeat to Justin Gaethje at UFC 249, repeating his claim that the Irishman is soft via a social media animation. The former interim champion showed himself running with a wolf and a bear before producing an animation changing the look of a title scene from video game Grand Theft Auto […]
(Natural News) Working for a tech giant like Google is a dream come true for many people – after all, this was the company that brought products and services such as the Android Operating System, the Chrome ecosystem, and even media platforms like YouTube and Google Play. This was the case for Zach Vorhies. A software engineer, Vorhies started out as a developer for LucasArts, the […]
Will The Death Of George Floyd Mark The Rebirth Of America? By Nick Turse, Tom Dispatch. June 15, 2020 Will The Death Of George Floyd Mark The Rebirth Of America?2020-06-152020-06-15https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/george-floyd-new-yorker-cover-full.png200px200px Above photo: “Say Their Names,” by Kadir Nelson. The New Yorker 2020. For a close-up interactive version of this cover in which the murder of George Floyd embodies the history of violence inflicted upon black people in America visit the […]
Thank you Bulldog® Gin for partnering with Half Full on the Bartenders At Home cocktail video series. Why do you like making and serving this classic cocktail? “With everyone on stay-at-home orders, we have all become our own bartender. So often we want to create an interesting cocktail, but don’t have access to fresh berries. I wanted to show how jam can be used in a […]
Amazon confirmed to NPR on Monday that it would make Jeff Bezos available to testify at a hearing with other CEOs this summer. Eric Baradat/AFP/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Eric Baradat/AFP/Getty Images Amazon confirmed to NPR on Monday that it would make Jeff Bezos available to testify at a hearing with other CEOs this summer. Eric Baradat/AFP/Getty Images After long resisting calls for Jeff Bezos […]
A Bloomberg senior editor today argued there were six reasons why 2020 was bad for bitcoin. Here’s the opposite case. Bitcoin is up more than 30% on the year. After a crash alongside equities, it has proved incredibly resilient. There are famous new entrants to the space like Paul Tudor Jones II. So how can a Bloomberg editor argue the year has been bad for bitcoin? In […]
Tens of Thousands of ‘black trans lives matter’ protesters gathered outside of the Brooklyn museum on Sunday. The protesters were shoulder-to-shoulder and not practicing social distancing. NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio responded to the massive protest by welding the gates at the biggest park in the Jewish community (Borough Park, Brooklyn). TRENDING: Oh Brother… Stacey Abrams: “A Man Was Murdered Because He Was Asleep in a […]
Two suspects arrested in a Turkish operation were remanded in custody Monday over their alleged links to the terrorist group Daesh, according to judicial sources, reports Anadolu Agency. The suspects had been caught by Turkish security forces in the southeastern Mardin province, said the sources, who asked not to be named due to restrictions on speaking to the media. When the suspects appeared in court, they […]
President Donald Trump declared Monday morning that nearly one million people have registered for his rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Saturday. “Almost One Million people request tickets for the Saturday Night Rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma!” Trump tweeted Monday morning: Almost One Million people request tickets for the Saturday Night Rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 15, 2020 Trump’s rally was initially scheduled […]
Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, For the last several years, Robo-advisors have been touted as the “holy grail” of investing. Unfortunately, the first major review reveals they all failed their first big test of benchmark performance. Before I get into the study, we need to review the “active vs. passive” debate that has been raging over the last several years. I previously discussed an article on this issue […]
As the coronavirus pandemic spreads throughout Venezuela, the Latin American nation is looking to access gold reserves which are being held by the UK’s central bank. Due to Westminister not recognising the government of Venezuela as legitimate, the country’s legal representatives are looking to justify their claim to its national assets. The Bank of England (BoE) has been accused of “putting lives at risk” after denying […]
Construction is underway on a major new ring road for Jerusalem that Israeli officials say will benefit all of its residents, but critics of the project say is another obstacle to Palestinian hopes to make East Jerusalem the capital of a future state. The bypass, called The American Road, will connect Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank that are north and south of Jerusalem. The […]
More than 30 people were shot, two fatally, as gun violence raged in the city of Chicago over the weekend. NBC 5 reported that the shooting started Friday around 1:30 p.m. and continued through Monday morning. In many of the cases, the wounded included those standing outside when vehicles pulled up and the occupants opened fire. Shootings also took place when occupants of one vehicle opened […]
India is the third-biggest military spender in the world after the US and China; it spent at $71.1 billion (up 6.8 percent) in 2019. But the country lags behind its arch-rivals, China and Pakistan, in terms of its nuclear arsenal as per the report by Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) Yearbook 2020 has found that despite an overall decrease in […]
Authored by Pater Tenebrarum via Acting-Man.com, Printing Until the Cows Come Home… It started out with Jay Powell planting a happy little money tree in 2019 to keep the repo market from suffering a terminal seizure. This essentially led to a restoration of the status quo ante “QT” (the mythical beast known as “quantitative tightening” that was briefly glimpsed in 2018/19). Thus the roach motel theory […]
Launch rehearsal for the Birds of a Feather launch, Rocket Lab Launch Complex, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand. ________The SpinoffThe spy chief and the payload: The story behind NZ’s first US spy satellite launch by Ollie Neas In January a US spy satellite was launched from New Zealand for the first time. Ahead of the launch of another three satellites for the National Reconnaissance Office, Ollie Neas […]
FIFA has responded to a threat to boycott US football matches by President Donald Trump, urging the world to “say no to racism and violence” after the latest row over athletes who take a knee during the American national anthem. Trump tweeted that he would stop following US soccer after learning that a policy requiring players to stand during the national anthem had been dropped, insisting: […]
(Natural News) The canceling of Christopher Columbus and Robert E. Lee is just not enough. The leftist mob now wants to also tear down the statues and memory of Thomas Jefferson and even George Washington, America’s first president, simply because these individuals were white and, according to the history books, owned slaves. During a recent segment on the fake news laughingstock network, CNN‘s Angela Rye called […]
Growing Revolt Among Black Journalists By Betsey Piette, Workers World. June 15, 2020 Growing Revolt Among Black Journalists2020-06-152020-06-15https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2013/08/Malcolm-X-on-the-Media3-150×117.jpg200px200px In a historic week that has witnessed demonstrations, too numerous to count, against police brutality in the aftermath of the brutal murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police on May 25, another anti-racist movement is growing. As reports surface of police intentionally targeting journalists across the U.S, especially Black […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107951/23/1079512320_0:153:3073:1881_1200x675_80_0_0_3b01fab6caacd1a72869c093f29e381d.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202006151079622968-us-food-and-drug-administration-revokes-emergency-use-of-covid-19-drug-hydroxychloroquine/ WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said in an alert on Monday that it has revoked the emergency use of hydroxychloroquine, the drug touted by President Donald Trump as an effective treatment for the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19). “Based on FDA’s continued review of the scientific evidence available for hydroxychloroquine sulfate (HCQ) and chloroquine phosphate […]
As the novel coronavirus began to tank the stock market in early March, President Donald Trump went on Fox News to assure the country that the economy remained strong. That same day, Trump’s chief of staff unloaded hundreds of thousands of dollars in publicly traded securities. Mick Mulvaney, then the acting White House chief of staff and the director of the Office of Management and Budget, […]
The U.S. Embassy in Seoul draped a Black Lives Matter banner on its building over the weekend “in solidarity with fellow Americans grieving and peacefully protesting to demand positive change.” Lee Jin-man/AP hide caption toggle caption Lee Jin-man/AP The U.S. Embassy in Seoul draped a Black Lives Matter banner on its building over the weekend “in solidarity with fellow Americans grieving and peacefully protesting to demand […]
Fintech bank Revolut will give its users legal control of their cryptocurrencies on July 27, but the U.K.-based bank is tightening its hold on how they can actually wield it. There is a catch, though: that crypto still cannot leave Revolut’s client ecosystem. Users “can’t transfer cryptocurrency to anyone who is not a Revolut customer,” the updated terms and conditions read, detailing that while users “have […]
By Wayne Allyn Root First, let’s start with the new name of downtown Seattle. The anarchist/communist terrorists call it “CHAZ” for “Capital Hill Autonomous Zone.” I’ve changed the name to “CATZ” for “Communist Anarchist Terrorist Zone.” I’m talking, of course, about the new “country” formerly known as Seattle. The domestic Antifa terrorists in charge have set up borders, roadblocks and armed guards. They are holding six […]
France wants talks with NATO allies to discuss Turkey’s increasingly “aggressive” and “unacceptable” role in Libya, a French presidential official said on Monday, underscoring increased tensions between Ankara and Paris. The comments came after Turkey, which backs the internationally recognised government in Tripoli, cemented a foothold in the country helping repel an assault on Tripoli by the Libyan National Army (LNA) of eastern commander Khalifa Haftar, […]
Today we’ve tracked an intense aerial activity over central Mediterranean Sea. Italian Air Force aircraft made different missions A Beechcraft B.350ER (MM62300) departed from Pantelleria AB made an ISR mission off Misrata An ATR P-72A (MM62279) departed from Sigonella AB made a surveillance mission over southern Ionian Sea In the same area we’ve tracked also a Gulfstream E.550 CAEW (MM62293) made a similar mission Note that […]
According to a statement posted by Reed’s family on a website they made to draw attention to his case, Reed was initially charged on the night of August 15 with a minor violation of failing to properly register at his Russian girlfriend’s apartment, which Reed admitted to by signing a Russian-language document without an interpreter present, according to his family. Reed spent the night in jail, […]
Last month, ESPN saw its lowest ratings in the network’s 41-year history as “WokeCenter on steroids” takes over, Outkick’s Clay Travis noted on Friday. On his popular Outkick the Coverage site, Travis insisted that the cable network’s ratings crash was not because of the coronavirus, but instead because it has allowed itself to, once again, become all about politics in place of sports. “The network, which […]
In late February, no lessor healthcare official that the US Surgeon General took to Twitter to demand Americans “STOP BUYING MASKS!” claiming that they’re not effective in preventing the general public from catching COVID-19. Seriously people- STOP BUYING MASKS! They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus, but if healthcare providers can’t get them to care for sick patients, it puts them and […]
Last week, the statue of Robert the Bruce, a Scottish king who lived in the 14th century, was spray painted with the word “racist”. Despite the timing of the vandalism, many now speculate that Black Lives Matter activists had nothing to do with the graffiti. Netizens are currently debating online whether the defacing of the Robert the Bruce statue in Borestone, Scotland could have been an […]
Abu Dhabi has extended a ban on movement in and out of the emirate and between its major cities by a week to further curb coronavirus infections, state news agency (WAM) reported on Monday. The week-long ban on movement between the cities of al-Ain, al-Dhafra, and Abu Dhabi applies as of Tuesday to all residents and nationals of the emirate, the largest and wealthiest member of […]
With America already steeped in a hot and divisive debate about race relations, Hollywood actress Rosanna Arquette took to Twitter on Monday to declare that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas “has always been a pig.” “No surprise Clarence Thomas has always been a pig.” Rosanna Arquette said. It’s unclear what the Pulp Fiction and The Whole Nine Yards actress meant by “no surprise.” But her attack on Justice Thomas comes […]
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court unilaterally redefined “sex” in federal law to mean “sexual orientation” and “gender identity.” In Bostock v. Clayton County (2020), a 6-3 majority ruled that discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity violates Title VII’s prohibition on sex discrimination. While a technical error has made the ruling inaccessible, the ruling represents an utter rejection of the original meaning […]
Authored by Bilal Hafeez the CEO and Editor of Macro Hive. He spent over twenty years doing research at big banks – JPMorgan, Deutsche Bank, and Nomura, where he had various “Global Head” roles and did FX, rates and cross-markets research. The investment bank or sell-side financial sector has experienced major shocks in recent decades. Some have been positive, like the repeal of US legislation (Glass-Steagall) […]
Watch FFWN above. And check out the list of all 37 stories we covered. By Kevin Barrett, Veterans Today Editor Was the murder of George Floyd a mafia killing or a human sacrifice? Though it’s too early to know all the details—which may never come out—word on the street plus circumstantial evidence strongly suggest that the actual event was a mafia hit. VT broke the story, […]
A thong-wearing Black Lives Matter activist has taken protesting to new places with a raunchy, pantless performance in front of rows of police cars with sirens flashing. Onlookers could be heard cheering with excitement as the protester put on the provocative performance, twerking and doing the splits as several police officers and numerous police vehicles stoically watched over the scene. At one point in the routine […]