Via AlMasdarNews.com, The US Naval Command in the southern region announced in statements Tuesday and Wednesday that a US guided missile destroyer sailed near the Venezuelan coast, hours after an Iranian tanker was docked in the port of Caracas. According to the Southern Command’s official website, the U.S.S. Nitze sailed in an area outside Venezuelan territorial waters, which extends for approximately 12 nautical miles from its coast. US Navy Arleigh Burke Class Guided Missile Destroyer USS Nitze, via US National Archives. “Today, while peacefully operating in the Caribbean Sea, the U.S. Navy Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Nitze (DDG 94) conducted a freedom of navigation […]
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Huge Saharan Dust Cloud Could Bring Hazy Skies, Spectacular Sunsets to the United States by Sara McGreevy/Smithsonianmag.com An enormous plume of dust from the Saharan desert has blown 5,000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean and will likely reach the Gulf Coast by the middle of this week, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Every year, winds carry about 800 million metric tons of dust from North Africa across the Atlantic coast, a phenomenon known as the Saharan Air Layer, according to a statement from NASA’s Earth Observatory. So this plume isn’t altogether unusual—but “the size and visible impact of this particular plume makes it […]
Pink Floyd founder Roger Waters sees eerie similarities in Israel’s treatment of Palestinians and US police departments’ treatment of their own citizens. The legendary singer told RT it’s “about time” the world called out both. “Thank goodness there’s an uprising,” Waters told RT’s ‘Going Underground’ on Tuesday, referring to the wave of protests and riots sweeping the US since the killing of George Floyd by a police officer in Minneapolis last month. “It’s about time.” The kneeling chokehold that killed Floyd was described by Waters as “an Israeli technique, proudly developed by the IDF in the occupied territories in Palestine.” An […]
(Natural News) For years, conservatives and pro-Trump media have complained that the social media behemoth platforms we’ve all come to rely on for reach and as a big part of our revenue model were engaging in censorship of our content. In addition to anecdotal evidence, researchers proved that tech giants Google, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and others were systematically censoring, hiding or downgrading conservative content and conservative thinkers. They even have the power to change elections. Now, a new video released Tuesday by Project Veritas features content moderation contractors for Facebook admitting they not only censor conservatives and pro-Trump related content, but […]
There’s No Predicting When Movements Will Erupt By Arnie Alpert, Waging Nonviolence. June 24, 2020 There’s No Predicting When Movements Will Erupt2020-06-242020-06-24https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/wh.jpg200px200px Above photo: Jacquelyn Martin/AP/Shutterstock. Demonstrators protest, near the White House in Washington, over the death of George Floyd. NOTE: The Popular Resistance School, which is online and free here, teaches about the Movement Action Plan and more. This classic activist resource maps their path to success. With Black Lives Matter in the midst of an unprecedented moment, now is the perfect time to read “The Movement Action Plan” — a model for understanding the long arc of movements. When Claudette […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107958/05/1079580548_0:0:3076:1731_1200x675_80_0_0_781dbdc1765a89d895d28999c60a1104.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202006241079713348-militants-shell-settlements-in-syrias-idlib-aleppo-provinces-russian-military-says/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The Hayat Tahrir al-Sham* terrorist group has attacked several settlements in Syria’s provinces of Idlib and Aleppo, Rear Admiral Alexander Shcherbitsky, the head of the Russian Defence Ministry’s centre for Syrian reconciliation, said at a briefing. “We have registered one attack on the settlement of Ruaiha in the province of Idlib, one shelling of Urum al-Kubra, two attacks on Urum al-Sughra in the Aleppo province from the side of the positions of the Jabhat al-Nusra* terrorist organization”, Shcherbitsky said. According to the head of the reconciliation centre, no shelling by illegal […]
In every place I’ve lived, from my parents’ house to my college dorm to my city apartments, there has been some version of string lights. I’m not an overhead lighting kinda gal, so I need all the atmospheric light options possible. String lights give you the warmth and glow you need to, you know, actually see, but with an aesthetically pleasing set up. Whether they’re wrapped around a balcony, hung from ceilings, or used to light a backyard, we’ve rounded up a few strands to keep your space looking great. Twinkle Star 300 LED Window Curtain String Light These lights have […]
The scaled-down Democratic National Convention will no longer be held at the Fiserv Forum, but instead include events at the convention center in downtown Milwaukee. Eric Baradat/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Eric Baradat/AFP via Getty Images The scaled-down Democratic National Convention will no longer be held at the Fiserv Forum, but instead include events at the convention center in downtown Milwaukee. Eric Baradat/AFP via Getty Images The in-person Democratic National Convention will be scaled down significantly as a result of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, with the Milwaukee event now relying heavily on “live broadcasts and curated content,” organizers […]
You’ve seen it before: A site that promises instant returns on your small crypto investment. It looks legitimate with all the happy customer testimonials, FOMO-inducing promises and easy-to-use dashboards that look like so many other financial sites. The language is open, breezy but sometimes, well, odd. One site, Coindeskminers.com especially piqued our interest because it used a derivative of our brand without our knowledge, much less consent. “They say money doesn’t grow from the ground, well it does with crypto currencies [sic] because at Coindesk Miners we have assembled a group of world-class engineering, strategic cryptocurrency mining and investment logic growing investments […]
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday spread dangerous misinformation and claimed President Trump is urging people to “inject Lysol and drink bleach.” President Trump in April during a presser was referring to discussions of testing ultraviolet light on patients and possibly using the light inside the body. “And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it [the virus] out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside, or almost a cleaning, cause you see it gets in the lungs.” So Pelosi once again twisted President Trump’s words and took […]
The Court of Sidi M’hamed in Algiers issued a verdict on Wednesday on the car assembly plant case involving former Prime Ministers Ahmed Ouyahia and Abdelmalek Sellal, former ministers and businessmen. The cases are linked to the car assembly industry in the north African country and illegal financing of former president Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s election campaign. The court issued 12 years’ imprisonment against Ouyahia, while it issued three years’ imprisonment and a fine against former industry minister Youcef Yousfi, announcing his innocence of the charge of bribery. The court also issued a 20-year sentence, a fine and an arrest warrant against former […]
If you were watching MSNBC last Sunday, you may have seen Imani Perry, professor of African-American studies at Princeton University, and wondered, as I did, Why do I know that name? Professor Perry’s delightfully original point was that we need to “think in serious contemplative ways about the depth of American inequality.” So perhaps we know her from her incisive commentary! I certainly haven’t heard anyone talk about American inequality. It really made me think. But then I suddenly realized it’s that Imani Perry! The one who nearly destroyed a policeman’s life by falsely accusing him of racism! Back in February 2016, Perry launched a series of […]
Under Armour founder Kevin Plank sold his Georgetown, Washington, D.C. mansion for $17.25 million – a steep discount to its initial asking price, reported The Baltimore Sun. Plank first listed the 200-year-old Federal-style mansion for $29.5 million in 2018. Unable to sell it, he lowered the list price to $24.5 million. Plank and his wife Desiree bought the home, which was constructed in 1810, for $7.85 million in 2013. It has eight bedrooms, eight full baths, and four half-baths, and sits on a third of an acre of land in Georgetown’s ritzy area. Variety notes, the new “mysterious buyer paid cash, though his or her identity remains cloaked behind something called the […]
China has conducted over 90 million nucleic acid COVID-19 tests since the start of its novel coronavirus outbreak, the state-run Xinhua News Agency announced Wednesday. Citing remarks from Guo Yanhong, an official with China’s National Health Commission, Xinhua reported that medical sites within the country had carried out roughly 90.41 million nucleic tests. That total is three times higher than the number of tests conducted by the United States, which has completed about 30 million tests so far, according to the most recent tally by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). While China has conducted many more tests […]
The removal of Turkish aid agency’s plaque at the Yusufiye Cemetery in Jerusalem by Israeli police shows the anger towards Turkish flag, the Turkish communications director said on Wednesday, Anadolu reports. “The removal of TIKA’s plaque at the Yusufiye Cemetery by Israeli police in Jerusalem is a manifestation of deep anger at our crescent-star flag, a refuge for oppressed around the world. The reason for this hate is quite well-known,” Fahrettin Altun said. Earlier, Israeli authorities had destroyed the plaque placed by the Turkish Cooperation and Development Agency with a Turkish flag on it. The plaque was placed on the Yusufiye […]
Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn’s (Ret.) attorney, Sidney Powell, exclusively told Breitbart News that the “rule of law” prevailed after an Appeals Court ordered a lower court to grant a request by the Department of Justice to drop its case against the former National Security Adviser. Powell told Breitbart News she is “Delighted to see the Rule of Law work. The Court of Appeals decision is consistent with every other court that has addressed these issues.” She continued, “We appreciate the Integrity and professionalism of the Department of Justice that produced the exculpatory evidence that has been hidden for years, and the […]
A camera was rolling when a Party City employee discriminated against a shopper who has a health condition preventing her from wearing a face mask. In footage reportedly captured inside a North Austin-area Party City, a customer is asked to leave the store and shop online when she enters without a mask, despite claiming to have a medical condition which makes her exempt from Austin mask requirements. Another COVID “Karen” spotted in Austin TX at @PartyCity This is embarrassing🙈 pic.twitter.com/CnWNax2aZy — Arden Taylor (@NoFaceTaylor) June 24, 2020 “You’re discriminating against me because I have a medical condition,” the woman tells the […]
Authored by Jesús Huerta de Soto via The Mises Institute, The deadliest virus is the institutionalized coercion which lies in the very DNA of the state and may even initially permit a government to deny the outbreak of a pandemic. Evidence has been suppressed, and heroic scientists and doctors have been harassed and silenced simply because they were the first to realize and expose the gravity of the problem. As a result, weeks and months have been lost, at an enormous cost: hundreds of thousands of people have died due to the worldwide spread of an epidemic which, in the beginning, […]
A Georgia grand jury on Wednesday indicted the three men involved in the February slaying of 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery on charges of malice and felony murder, prosecutors said. The Cobb County District Attorney said Wednesday a Glynn County grand jury returned an indictment with nine counts against Travis McMichael, Greg McMichael, and William R. Bryan. Ahmaud Arbery’s football family made sure his slaying wouldn’t be ignored. NFL players, former high school players and his old coach helped force authorities to revisit the case. #IrunwithMaud pic.twitter.com/y3dYa3aOW0 — The Undefeated (@TheUndefeated) June 24, 2020 Breaking News: The 3 white men arrested in the killing of […]
A superseding US indictment of Julian Assange broadens the charges against WikiLeaks co-founder by accusing him of conspiring with a hacker affiliated with the groups Anonymous and LulzSec. The US Department of Justice revealed the new indictment on Wednesday, intended to “broaden the scope of the conspiracy” Assange was accused of in May 2019. The Trump DOJ’s attempt to imprison Julian Assange for working with his source to publish classified documents that exposed US war crimes is the most severe US threat to press freedom since 2016. It’s sickening to watch so many journalists ignore it, & so many liberals cheer […]
(Natural News) Texas Gov. Gregg Abbott reported Tuesday that the state recorded over 5,000 new Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) cases, setting a record for the largest single-day increase in cases. Abbot did not initially offer an exact number of new cases or tests in total. However, the Texas Department of State Health Services later confirmed that the state had 5,489 new cases and 28 deaths. The announcement comes just days after the state surpassed 4,000 new cases for the first time, over the past weekend. Hospitals running out of space Abbot revealed the daunting new record during an interview with television station KBTX where he also urged Texans to take the deadly pandemic seriously. In addition, Abbot […]
Reclaiming Work: Can Cooperatives Overthrow The Gig Economy? By Shyam Krishna, Red Pepper. June 24, 2020 Reclaiming Work: Can Cooperatives Overthrow The Gig Economy?2020-06-242020-06-24https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/reclaiming-work-documentary.-photo-courtesy-of-black-brown-film-e1593025019250.png200px200px Above photo: From Reclaiming Work documentary. Photo courtesy of Black & Brown Film. Review of Reclaiming Work, a new documentary by black and brown film that looks at how cycle courier cooperatives are using technology against gig economy giants. The pandemic has brought into focus the stark conditions and precarity faced by workers in the gig-economy. When the dust settles, can these workers who were at the frontlines of this crisis build a fairer future? The workers featured in Reclaiming Work believe so. […]
The three men involved in the death of Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man who was chased and fatally shot on February 23 while jogging through the Glynn County, Georgia, neighborhood of Satilla Shores, have been indicted by a grand jury. Travis McMichael and his father Gregory McMichael, as well as William “Roddie” Bryan, were indicted by a grand jury Wednesday on nine counts, including malice murder, felony murder and criminal attempt to commit false imprisonment, Cobb County District Attorney Joyette Holmes announced. ”This is another step forward in seeking justice for Ahmaud. Our team from the Cobb Judicial Circuit has […]
It would be hard for any attorney general to withstand a deputy attorney general of the same party calling him “the greatest threat in my lifetime to our rule of law.” It would be harder still to withstand congressional testimony from two serving Justice Department prosecutors about his subordination of justice to the wishes of the president. But Bill Barr had a fantastic day in Congress on Wednesday. That’s not because either official, antitrust prosecutor John Elias and ex-Roger Stone prosecutor Aaron Zelinsky, had their stories unravel. It’s because Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee stood enthusiastically behind Barr. And it’s […]
An Internet shutdown that began a year ago in parts of Myanmar is keeping some villages completely unaware of the global pandemic. The restrictions apply to multiple townships in the Rakhine and Chin states, site of an ongoing conflict between the country’s military and the insurgent Arakan army. Richard Sargent/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Richard Sargent/AFP via Getty Images An Internet shutdown that began a year ago in parts of Myanmar is keeping some villages completely unaware of the global pandemic. The restrictions apply to multiple townships in the Rakhine and Chin states, site of an ongoing conflict […]
Singapore authorities charged a 23-year-old woman with breaking the city-state’s ban on unlicensed bitcoin sales on Wednesday. The woman allegedly bought S$3,350 (about $2,400) in bitcoin in late February 2020 using funds the police say came from the proceeds of an online scam. The Straits Times identified the woman as a Singaporean national named “Lange Vivian” and stated Lange was associated with a loan shark named “Boss.” The charges appear to be the first instance of Singapore enforcing its updated digital currency regulations. Under the Payment Services Act of 2019, all so-called “Digital Payment Token” (DPT) service providers must receive licensure […]
Republican Senator Tim Scott (SC) went off on Democrats after they blocked his police reform bill. Senate Democrats on Wednesday blocked a GOP police reform bill on a procedural vote without debating in a 55-45 vote. The proposed bill included anti-lynching legislation, a “notification act” to address the police “no-knocks” that happen around the country and calls for more funding for police body cams. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) filed cloture on Monday, setting up a procedural vote which needed 60 votes in order to move forward. TRENDING: BREAKING: JUDGE SULLIVAN ORDERED TO SHUT DOWN GENERAL FLYNN CASE! — DC […]
Recent Black Lives Matter protests in Britain have thrown a light on the country’s history of colonialism, racism and slavery. Throughout the 17th century, and much of the 18th, the British Empire was a leading force in the transatlantic slave trade. The trade was imposed by Europe on Africa, and was a centuries-long system of barbarism unparalleled in history. Experts estimate that between 1526 and 1867, around 12.5 million Africans were kidnapped, enslaved and forcibly shipped to the Americas and the West Indies where they were sold as chattels. Out of those 12.5 million slaves, only 10.7 million survived the Atlantic […]
Former Vice President and now 2020 Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden claimed months ago that he knew “nothing” about moves to investigate former Trump National Security Advisor Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Michael Flynn, but newly-released documents proved otherwise. Biden, appearing in May on ABC News’ This Week, was asked by news anchor and host George Stephanopoulos what he knew about moves to investigate Flynn while he was vice president. Biden first responded, “I knew nothing about those moves to investigate Michael Flynn.” When confronted by Stephanopoulos that he attended a now-famous January 2017 Oval Office meeting with then-President Obama and other top […]
COLOGNE, Germany – Germany will use its turn at the helm of the European Council to launch the first-ever common threat analysis for the EU and broker a deal on non-member countries’ access to defense-cooperation projects here. The two objectives represent a push to rekindle the bloc’s nascent defense efforts which are facing growing pressure to show tangible results after a preoccupation with bureaucratic groundwork. A threat analysis with buy-in from all members of the union could provide a fresh framework from which to derive new capability requirements. Such an analysis, which is routine for many national governments, has never been […]
Authored by Egon von Greyerz via GoldSwitzerland.com, There are lies, damned lies, and economists. Whether these economists work for the government or a bank, they spend all their time on the computer extrapolating current trends with minor adjustments. If you want to understand the future, don’t spend your life preparing and constantly revising an Excel sheet with masses of economic data. Collective human behaviour is extremely predictable. But not by spreadsheet analysis but by studying history. HISTORY IS A BETTER FORECASTER THAN ECONOMISTS There just is nothing new under the sun. So why is there so much time and money wasted […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107536/83/1075368356_1:0:1274:716_1200x675_80_0_0_78b9f8f89450d817c2a12b46ca212e8c.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/military/202006241079712653-despite-namesake-f-35-fighter-jet-once-again-cant-fly-in-lightning/ Thanks to a problem with a key safety feature, Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Lightning II is once again unable to safely weather a hit from a lightning bolt. According to a memo by the plane’s manufacturer that was obtained by Bloomberg, the safety system that prevents the F-35 from exploding due to a lightning strike was found to have a problem, resulting in weeks of manufacturing delays and requiring changes to how the plane is allowed to fly. The system in question, the Onboard Inert Gas Generation System (OBIGGS), keeps nitrogen-enriched air in the plane’s […]
The head of Libya’s High State Council said on Wednesday that tribes in the country are not a political party and that the Afghan experience cannot serve as a solution to the Libyan crisis, Anadolu reports. Khalid al-Mishri was commenting on Tunisian President Kais Saied’s remarks, during his meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron on the Libyan situation. The Tunisian president in his remarks called for a new constitution based on tribal experience and constitution in Afghanistan. He said that the GNA obtained its legitimacy based on the inter-Libyan talks that lasted for months. “There is no need for more initiatives, […]
It’s nearly impossible to imagine how police reform is revived this year after Wednesday’s spectacle on the Senate floor. After begging for a debate earlier this month, Democrats rejected a motion to bring the GOP’s bill to the floor, arguing it couldn’t be saved. The bill’s author, Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), accused Democrats of being eager to derail anything that could be seen as Republican outreach to minorities. And each party took an increasingly hardened position that makes compromise unattainable. While at times a filibuster by the minority party creates a new round of negotiations on must-pass legislation, police reform appears […]
President Donald Trump never ordered reductions or slowdowns of testing for coronavirus, said Seema Verma, the administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), offering her comments on Wednesday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow. At a recent rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Trump remarked, ““When you do testing to that extent, you’re going to find more people, you’re going to find more cases. So I said to my people, ‘Slow the testing down, please.’ They test and they test.” Marlow said of Trump’s remarks, “It seemed just like trash talk to me, but the media […]
The Navy has purchased its first two MQ-9A Reaper drones, awarding General Atomics Aeronautical Systems nearly $27 million on June 22 for the unmanned air systems and associated ground control equipment. The MQ-9A Reaper is a multimission, medium-altitude, long-endurance aircraft that is remotely piloted. According to the June 22 contract announcement, the Reapers will be used for intelligence, reconnaissance and surveillance missions as well as persistent strike efforts. The contract procures two MQ-9A Reapers, one dual-control mobile ground control station, one modular data center and one mobile ground control station. This is the first time the Navy has purchased Reapers, but […]
“Mommy brain” is a long-held perception that mothers are more forgetful and less attentive. “In most studies, however, attention and memory tests are given to mothers very early postpartum,” said Valerie Tucker Miller, a Ph.D. student in Purdue University’s Department of Anthropology department. Miller is studying the effects of motherhood on attention, memory and other psychological processes. “There are few issues with that,” she added. “When you first have a child, you have a cascade of hormones and sleep deprivation that might be affecting attention and memory processes in the brain.” In a new study testing the prevalence of “mommy brain,” […]
Authored by GQ Pan via The Epoch Times, Amid nationwide calls to “defund the police,” the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) on Tuesday evening denied a trio of police reform proposals, one of which would have cut the district’s police department budget by 90 percent over the next three school years. After a marathon hearing lasting nearly 12 hours, the LAUSD Board of Education, which administers the second largest public school district in the United States, did not reach consensus on any of the three resolutions. The most radical measure came from board member Monica Garcia, who called for reducing […]
The U.S. Prosecutor’s Office of the Eastern District of Texas (EDTX) has always been known for their special investigative skills of uncovering major drug lords. In fact –they have been one of the leading U.S. Attorney’s office in the nation to carry out President Trump’s “Initiative to Stop Opioid Abuse” focusing their resources on the illegal prescribing and dispensing Opioid drugs by pharmacies and doctors. Their strategies focused on cracking down on the domestic and international drug supply chains. In 2018, Joe Brown, the U.S. attorney for EDTX, set an example of outstanding investigative work when they extradited defendants out of […]
Despite slipping off the news radar in recent weeks, the coronavirus has forced Saudi Arabian authorities to “cancel the annual Hajj pilgrimage for the first time in history.” That’s one story making headlines. It’s also untrue. The Hajj pilgrimage draws more than 2.5 million Muslims to the holy cities of Mecca and Medina every year, and is a journey every able-bodied Muslim is asked to make at least once in their lifetime. Those who do can take the honorific title ‘Hajji,’ after fulfilling one of the five pillars of the Islamic faith. However, the New York Times reported on Tuesday that, […]
(Natural News) Officials confirmed last week that Brazil has passed one million coronavirus cases, making it the second country – after the U.S. – to reach the grim milestone. To note, the U.S. still leads in global caseload, reaching two million infections early this month. The Ministry of Health also reported a record of 54,771 new cases on Friday, which the ministry attributed to system corrections in some states. Brazil’s total caseload is now at 1,106,470 as of June 22, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. According to public health experts, the upswing in new cases is linked to reopenings and social distancing measures being lifted. In […]
Arrest Of Activist Leads To Protests; At Least Four Vehicles Strike Protesters June 24, 2020 Arrest Of Activist Leads To Protests; At Least Four Vehicles Strike Protesters2020-06-242020-06-24https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/police-arrest-man-for-using-megaphone-in-madison-wi.-screenshot.-e1593026786415.jpg200px200px Above photo: Police arrest man for using a megaphone in Madison, WI. Screenshot. Hundreds of people are protesting in downtown Madison after the arrest of activist Yeshua Musa. Videos of the arrest posted to social media show as many as five police officers wrestling Musa, also known as Devonere Johnson, to the ground and carrying him to the back seat of a police cruiser, while he asks what he’s being arrested for. After officers get […]
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – German pharma giant Bayer said Wednesday it will pay up to $10.9 billion to settle a raft of lawsuits against its US affiliate Monsanto’s weedkiller Roundup, accused of causing cancer. “Company will make a total payment of $10.1 billion to $10.9 billion… to resolve current and address potential future Roundup litigation”, a statement read. Bayer bought Monsanto, a herbicide and genetically modified seed producer, in 2018, three years after the first lawsuits were filed. “First and foremost, the Roundup™ settlement is the right action at the right time for Bayer to bring a long period of uncertainty to […]
Russia’s latest Bumerang armored personnel carrier caught fire during a massive military parade at Moscow’s Red Square on Wednesday. Multiple people tweeted photos and video of the scene when the newest Russian combat vehicle caught fire. The Bumerang is the latest standardized wheeled platform for multiservice forces developed by Military Industrial Company. The platform was used as the basis for developing the K-16 armored personnel carrier, and also the K-17 infantry fighting vehicle unveiled for the public at the Victory Day Parade in Moscow’s Red Square. – Advertisement – The new modular combats vehicle was the pride of the Russian defense […]
Jamaal Bowman did what most thought was impossible for a middle school principal with no political campaign experience to do: He is set to oust Eliot Engel from Congress after 30 years in office. With an abnormally large number of absentee ballots still being counted, Bowman sits above 60 percent while Engel’s vote tally hovers at just 35 percent, and as Bowman said in a presumptive victory speech Tuesday night in Yonkers, he is set “to get to Congress and cause problems for the people in there that have been maintaining a status quo that has literally been killing our children.” […]
Gregory McMichael and his son Travis McMichael have been charged with murder in the February shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery. A video apparently shows them pursuing him in a truck as he jogged in their neighborhood. Glynn County Detention Center via AP hide caption toggle caption Glynn County Detention Center via AP Gregory McMichael and his son Travis McMichael have been charged with murder in the February shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery. A video apparently shows them pursuing him in a truck as he jogged in their neighborhood. Glynn County Detention Center via AP The three white men accused in the […]
Bitcoin started the week with a bullish run, but it has now given back all of those gains. Bitcoin (BTC) was trading around $9,296 as of 20:00 UTC (4 p.m. ET), slipping 3.5% over the previous 24 hours. At 00:00 UTC on Wednesday (8:00 p.m. Tuesday ET), bitcoin was changing hands around $9,624 on spot exchanges such as Coinbase. Price remained steady until 07:00 UTC (3 a.m. ET) when heavy sell volume sent bitcoin to as low as $9,195. Bitcoin’s price is well below its 10-day and 50-day moving averages, which is a bearish signal for market technicians. Bitcoin trading on […]
Guest post by Larry C. Johnson When it comes to the Michael Flynn case the media, along with vast swaths of the pliant public, are like a stupid dog that reflexively chases a shiny object or a phantom squirrel. The latest development is that the District of Columbia Court of Appeals ruled 2 to 1 to order crooked Judge Emmet Sullivan to accede to the Department of Justice request to drop the case against Flynn. While this ruling merits attention, the real news is that we now have documentary evidence that President Obama and Vice President Biden were involved directly and […]
France’s foreign minister on Wednesday called on its European Union partners to hold urgent talks on the bloc’s future relations with Turkey, which has clashed with Paris over its role in Libya, Reuters reports. Ties between NATO allies France and Turkey have soured in recent weeks. Paris has criticised Turkey’s military support for the internationally recognised government in Libya and its role in the Syria conflict. Turkey’s drilling operations in the eastern Mediterranean are also a point of contention. “France considers it essential that the European Union extremely quickly opens a substantive discussion, with nothing ruled out, without being naive, about […]
Joe Biden (D) holds a 14-point lead nationally over President Trump, according to a New York Times/Siena College poll released on Wednesday. The survey, taken June 17-22 among 1,337 registered voters, showed the Democrat Party’s presumptive nominee leading the president 50 percent to 36 percent. According to the Times, the results serve as a sign that Trump is “the clear underdog right now in his fight for a second term”: But among a striking cross-section of voters, the distaste for Mr. Trump has deepened as his administration failed to stop a deadly disease that crippled the economy and then as he […]
The Senate Armed Services Committee is asking the Department of Defense for greater clarity and formalization of its cyber operations. In its version of the annual defense policy bill — which passed the committee last week, though full text of the language was only made public this week — the committee takes aim at U.S. Cyber Command’s so-called hunt forward operations. Hunt forward operations involve teams from Cyber Command physically deploying to other nations to assist them with cyber defense. These operations provide American cyber teams insight into tactics that could be turned against U.S. networks or used to disrupt the […]
Via SchiffGold.com, Gold took out the April highs and rose to the highest level in 8 years on Tuesday. The rally in other safe have assets has stalled in recent weeks, but gold has continued to rise. Why is gold the only safe haven left standing? Peter Schiff explained in his podcast. Even as the price of the metal continues to climb, gold stocks lag. Peter said a lot of traders still seem to be skeptical of this rally. Ever since we got this rally, or this more recent rally, people just assume that it’s a temporary deal. ‘Oh, people are […]
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The transgender son of one of Egypt’s most famous actors is being sued for promoting homosexuality among young people after posting on Instagram in support of an LGBT+ activist who died by suicide earlier this month, Reuters reports. Two Egyptian lawyers filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against Noor Hesham Selim, son of film and television star Hesham Selim, after he posted a video on Instagram in response to the death of exiled Egyptian activist Sarah Hegazy. “It is a conspiracy against Egypt to give up on our culture and morals and let homosexuality spread among young people,” Ayman Mahfouz, one of […]
But the new tide within the caucus is forcing policy discussions further to the left, and that could affect the race for open chairmanships. Jaamal Bowman, who was challenging Engel, had already declared victory on Wednesday. Engel’s camp, however, has refused to concede the race despite Bowman’s huge lead. “With so many absentee ballots to be counted, we know that the full results of this primary won’t be known for some time,” Engel’s reelection campaign said in a statement late Tuesday night. On the Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. Brad Sherman of California is next in line on the Democratic roster, although […]
Protesters in Madison, Wisconsin, allegedly attacked Democrat State Sen. Tim Carpenter during Tuesday night’s protests after he tried to take a picture of a demonstration. Carpenter posted a video of what led up to the alleged assault, claiming that “8-10 people” attacked him. The short video shows two protesters rushing up to him and grabbing his phone. “I took this pic- it got me assaulted & beat up. Punched/kicked in the head, neck, ribs,” Carpenter said on social media. “Maybe concussion, socked in left eye is little blurry, sore neck & ribs. 8-10 people attacked me. Innocent people are going to […]
The Department of Defense would be required to establish a threat intelligence sharing program with the defense industrial base under the Senate Armed Services Committee’s version of the annual defense policy bill. The committee’s version of the fiscal 2021 National Defense Authorization Act, released June 23, also includes other several other provisions designed to give the department increased insight into the cyber hygiene of its contractors. For example, the legislation would direct the Secretary of Defense to establish a threat intelligence program “to share threat intelligence with, and obtain threat intelligence from, the defense industrial base.” This program would be required […]
Despite massive government and central bank stimuli, the global economy is seeing a concerning rise in defaults and delinquencies. The main central banks’ balance sheets (those of the Federal Reserve, Bank of Japan, European Central Bank, Bank of England, and People’s Bank Of China) have soared to a combined $20 trillion, while the fiscal easing announcements in the major economies exceed 7 percent of the world’s GDP according to Fitch Ratings. This is the biggest combined stimulus plan in history. However, businesses are closing at a record pace and unemployment has reached extremely elevated levels in many countries. There is an important risk […]
Just when you thought it was safe to buy any stock – selected at random via Scrabble letters – on any dip, with levered money you can’t afford to lose, COVID-19 reappears in size to steal the jam out of your donut. Last Friday saw surges in COVID cases across many states and news that Apple would be re-closing stores in a handful of states. That sent stocks tumbling. Today – after a few days of exuberant dip-buying, those same states hitting new record highs (and more Apple store closures) sparked an even more impressive plunge (and was not helped by […]
__________FARSUniversal Flu Vaccine May Be Quite Challenging TEHRAN (FNA)- Some common strains of influenza have the potential to mutate to evade broad-acting antibodies that could be elicited by a universal flu vaccine, according to a study led by scientists at Scripps Research. The findings highlight the challenges involved in designing such a vaccine, and should be useful in guiding its development. In the study, published in Science, the researchers found evidence that one of the most common flu subtypes, H3N2, can mutate relatively easily to escape two antibodies that were thought to block nearly all flu strains. Yet they found that […]
Mashable has joined the growing – and disturbing – chorus of influential voices urging Americans to topple “racist” statues themselves, posting a cutesy yet detailed how-to video, with a perfunctory legal disclaimer. The outlet posted the video, titled “How to take down racist statues,” on Wednesday, apparently deciding at some point to rename it “How to *hypothetically* take down a racist statue” – perhaps on the advice of its lawyers. The clip features advice from archaeologist Sarah Parcak, whose detailed “public service announcement” on how to “safely” take down obelisks went viral earlier this month. Explaining that “a lot of historical […]
(Natural News) The Mark Zuckerberg empire has once again targeted the Trump campaign with censorship, this time for its use of an alleged “hate” symbol in a social media ad calling out Antifa as a domestic terrorist movement. According to Facebook, the decision was made to remove this particular targeted ad for President Trump’s reelection this fall because it contained an upside-down red triangle with a black outline, which supposedly encourages “organized hate” due to the fact that it was also used in Nazi Germany. Even though this same symbol is commonly used today by Antifa as one of its featured […]
NYPD Enforcement Of Low-Level Offenses Accounts For Huge Department Expenditures, Racial Disparities June 24, 2020 NYPD Enforcement Of Low-Level Offenses Accounts For Huge Department Expenditures, Racial Disparities2020-06-242020-06-24https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/nypd-arrest-from-the-daily-mail.-e1593010822212.jpg200px200px Above photo: NYPD arrest from the Daily Mail. Amid explicit racism in enforcement and unprecedented budget shortfalls, NYC must redirect $1 billion of NYPD FY21 budget to impacted communities. New York City criminalizes drugs and low-level broken windows offenses at a startling rate, with enforcement in these areas accounting for a vast proportion of the NYPD’s policing activities and the city’s budget, according to a new brief from Drug Policy Alliance. DPA released the brief […]
They are one of the oldest solid materials in the Solar System and make up 86 percent of all meteorites that have been found, but scientists still don’t know how they appeared. The new research may not only shed light on chondrules but also help scientists understand how our Solar System evolved. Scientists from Wesleyan University in Connecticut claim to have found the answer to the mystery of chondrules, the tiny round grains found in meteorites. For years scientists believed that the formation of these spheres, which were described by a 19th-century geologist Henry Clifton Sorby as “droplets of fiery rain”, […]
American and Japanese naval ships, aircraft and personnel take part in bilateral exercises while sailing together in the South China Sea amid increased Chinese activities in the region. In a release late Wednesday, Command Destroyer Squadron 7 reported the Independence-variant littoral combat ship USS Gabrielle Giffords (LCS 10) and Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) Kashima class-training vessel JS Kashima (TV-3508) and Shimayuki-class training vessel JS Shimayuki (TV-3513) jointly held a naval exercise in South China Sea. In the same region, were previously spotted Chinese electronic surveillance aircraft. Japan identified Chinese Shaanxi Y-9JB (GX-8) electronic warfare and surveillance plane flying along the […]
White House counselor Kellyanne Conway flip-flopped on her previous position that the use of the racist term “Kung Flu” is “highly offensive,” defending President Donald Trump’s use of it on Wednesday while bizarrely attacking an Asian-American reporter for not having the “courage” to out a White House official who said the phrase months ago. During a White House driveway gaggle with reporters on Wednesday morning, Conway was immediately confronted by NBC News reporter Monica Alba over the president’s recent habit of tossing out the phrase and Conway’s March denouncement of the term, which the Trump adviser called “wrong” while noting she […]
Last year, Indians received 72% of H-1B visas. Thousands who’d planned to immigrate to the U.S. this year must scrap or delay their plans. But some suggest the freeze may work to India’s advantage. (Image credit: Pawan Kumar/Reuters) Source link
From markets to real estate to the dollar to retail, the data on whether the economy is recovering or not is hella confused. The economy is nothing if not confounding right now. Across every domain, from real estate to oil to retail, there are bull signals and bear signals. Signals we’re tracking: Markets – strong stock recovery vs. growth in cash deposits Employment – growth in jobs vs. persistent continuing jobless claims Retail – growth in foot traffic vs. demand destruction Oil – growth in demand (but not in economically productive diesel) Real estate – surge in mortgage applications vs. worst […]
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Turkey is not experiencing the second wave of the coronavirus and the country is still facing the impact of the first phase, the health minister announced on Wednesday, Anadolu reports. As many as 1,386 patients recovered from COVID-19 over the past 24 hours, bringing the tally to 164,234, Fahrettin Koca told a news conference following a scientific committee meeting in the capital Ankara. “Spread of virus has not slowed down, there is no scientific evidence that it has become less potent,” Koca said. “Average age of coronavirus-related fatalities increased from 71 to 74,” he added. Turkey reported 24 new COVID-19 fatalities over the past day, bringing the […]
“Even for us, this is dysfunctional,” Cramer acknowledged on Wednesday, a week after he objected to the bill’s unanimous passage on the Senate floor, after a last-minute plea from the Trump administration. According to Cramer, the White House and State Department proposed a series of “technical” corrections to the bill only a half-hour before Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) was set to ask for unanimous consent to pass his bill, the Hong Kong Autonomy Act. Cramer defended his decision to block the legislation, saying he hopes the bill eventually passes but that he wanted to try to “accommodate” the Trump administration’s […]
Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” former Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams said President Donald Trump calling coronavirus the “Kung flu” showed racism was “the core of his appeal.” In a clip, Trump said, “I said the other night, there’s never been anything where they have so many names. I could give you 19 or 20 names for that, right? Kung flu, yeah.” Abrams said, “That once again he shows that racism is the core of his appeal. It is the trope that he relies on in order to gin up his supporters. And what is deeply disheartening and deeply disturbing […]
The Senate’s annual defense bill would put an additional $120 million toward a space-based sensor layer capable of tracking hypersonic weapons, despite the fact the Department of Defense did not seek more funding for the project in its fiscal 2021 budget requests. The Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor is DoD’s answer to the growing threat posed by hypersonic weapons being developed by China and Russia. Hypersonic weapons are a major challenge to the United States’ current missile warning architecture. Not only can these weapons maneuver around ground based sensors, they’re too dim to be picked up and tracked by space-based […]
Authored by Jonathan Turley, NBC correspondent Andrea Mitchell and Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) had a bizarre encounter yesterday when a man dressed only in a bra and panties rushed then near Black Lives Matter Square and the area claimed earlier as the “Black House Autonomous Zone.” Mitchell immediately asked “where’s the police” and Norton added “where’s the police when you need them?” It is a question that many of us have been asking D.C. officials for weeks as police have stood by and watched statues destroyed and defaced around the city. This week, D.C. Chief of Police Peter Newsham stated […]
A civilian pilot with a penchant for snapping photos of the Pentagon’s most secretive locations has dropped another slew of images, this time of Beale Air Force Base in California, home to the US’ most infamous spy planes. Recent changes at the base hint that it might be preparing to host the elusive new RQ-180 spy drone. Aerial photographer and pilot Gabriel Zeifman has released new photos of the facilities at Beale Air Force Base, located in northern California and home to the 9th Reconnaissance Wing, which operates the U-2 Dragon Lady spy plane and RQ-4 Global Hawk spy drone. While […]
Qatar will be withholding funds scheduled for Gaza next month due to Israel’s decision to annex large parts of the occupied West Bank, Israel’s Channel 13 TV reported. The report cited several sources among Western diplomats as saying that Israel has been informed of the financial aid cut over the past few weeks, including at a virtual meeting of countries providing funds to the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, during which Israeli officials were present. This comes after Qatar provided $1.5 million in aid to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in support […]
Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” former Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams said President Donald Trump was perpetuating the “myth” that vote-by-mail is highly susceptible to fraud. Abrams said, “They’re relying on lies, misinformation, and mendacity, to cover up for his inability to actually do his job. We know that vote by mail works. We know that every state in the nation has vote-by-mail. The issue is the scaling of that effort. What we are seeing happen in a number of states in the stumbles we’ve seen in some elections has been that people are desperate to be able to vote by […]
WASHINGTON — The Senate Armed Services Committee is officially calling for the closure of the Pentagon’s Chief Management Officer position, only four years after creating the job in order to help streamline reform efforts inside the department. The SASC’s version of the National Defense Authorization Act says the CMO office must be broken up no later than Sept. 30, 2022. Under the senate language, the majority of authorities would transfer to the Deputy Secretary of Defense’s office. Under the DSD will sit someone designated as the chief performance improvement officer — a technical term, so it may not be that person’s […]
In a 1973 film, a New York police detective discovers that a vastly overcrowded, poverty-stricken population – sustained on processed government food called Soylent – are now eating humans who have died. That’s what Soylent Green is made of. As I covered in my article two days ago, open-source press reports reveal the “excess mortality” of 2020 is largely the result of elderly people dying in nursing homes. This has nothing to do with a virus. It has to do with patients who are ALREADY on a long downward health slide—then hit with the terror of an arbitrary and fake COVID-19 […]
Authored by Jeffrey Snider via Alhambra Investments, I guess in some ways it’s a race against the clock. What the optimists are really saying is the equivalent of the old eighties neo-Keynesian notion of filling in the troughs. That’s what government spending and monetary “stimulus” intend to accomplish, to limit the downside in a bid to buy time. Time for what? The economy to heal on its own. Fill up the bathtub, so to speak, with artificial stimulus water (aggregate demand) until such time as the basin stops leaking and it’s that much of a shorter way to go for the water […]
TONIGHT, in a late night TV exclusive, @StephenAtHome interviews Former National Security Advisor @AmbJohnBolton in a wide ranging interview about his time in the Trump Administration and why, despite voting for him in 2016, the President won’t be getting his vote in 2020. #LSSC pic.twitter.com/xamMoo8uRU — A Late Show (@colbertlateshow) June 24, 2020 The long version: https://twitter.com/sarahcpr/status/1275756796636999682?s=20 Gordon Duff is a Marine combat veteran of the Vietnam War. He is a disabled veteran and has worked on veterans and POW issues for decades. Gordon is an accredited diplomat and is generally accepted as one of the top global intelligence specialists. He […]
Talks sponsored by US President Donald Trump between Serbia and its breakaway province of Kosovo have been canceled, after Kosovo leader Hashim Thaci was indicted for war crimes by an international court in The Hague. Thaci has notified the White House that he was not coming, Ambassador Richard Grenell, Trump’s special envoy for Kosovo-Serbia talks, confirmed on Wednesday. “I respect his decision not to attend the discussions until the legal issues of those allegations are settled,” Grenell added. The President of Kosovo has just informed us that he has canceled his trip to Washington, D.C. following the announcement made by the […]
(Natural News) The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has concluded that the “noose” found in the garage of African American NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace was not evidence of a hate crime, but a rope that had been in the garage for months. Earlier this month, Wallace made headlines after he made it clear that he stood with the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. Wallace had decked out his car, the No. 43 Chevrolet for Richard Petty Motorsports, in BLM livery and spoken out against racism. “Noose” was a garage door pull rope On Sunday, June 21, Wallace’s team reported that an object that looked like […]
Why Banking Needs A Co-operative Revolution By Iwan Doherty, Mutual Interest. June 24, 2020 Why Banking Needs A Co-operative Revolution2020-06-242020-06-24https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/banking-sector-scaled-e1593023275513.jpg200px200px You’d struggle to find anyone who believes our current banking sector was the ideal one for producing and maintaining a strong and just economy. The 2008 crisis showed how unstable, and vital to the wider economy, the sector is. The fact is, credit is both necessary and central to the global economy. Economists like Lazzarato have come up with theories about how debt drives economic production and an ever-increasing economy and in an era where finance has come to dominate our […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107737/60/1077376001_0:0:1200:600_1200x675_80_0_0_e75e2653ce77c473d1ca748795390cf1.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202006241079711683-58-magnitude-quake-hits-central-california-usgs-says/ In July 2019, a 7.1 magnitude earthquake that hit southern California caused damage to several houses, while about 2,000 people lost power. A 5.8 magnitude earthquake hit central California on 24 June, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said. The quake was recorded at 17:40 GMT, according to the USGS. The epicentre was located 19.3 kilometres (12 miles) south of the city of Olancha, CA, at a depth of 2.9 kilometres. There are no reports of injuries or damages as a result of the earthquake. Prior to this, a 5.3 magnitude quake struck central […]
The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Porter (DDG 78) arrived in Batumi, Georgia, as part of the United States’ continued Black Sea presence and support to regional partners. While steaming to the Georgian coast, USS Porter was shadowed by the Russian warships and planes, according to the TASS news agency. In a statement to TASS, Russia’s National Defense Management Center told said the Special equipment of the Russian Southern Military District has begun tracking the US Navy’s USS Porter, Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, that entered the Black Sea. – Advertisement – The military agency clarified that the destroyer sailed into the Black […]
Donald Trump may be ready to move past their bruising mishandling of America’s coronavirus response, but the sweeping threat of COVID-19 is far from over. That was the point that Dr. Anthony Fauci and a host of senior administration health officials told Congress again and again over a six-hour pandemic hearing on Tuesday, Members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee hoping for good news quickly adjusted their expectations as Fauci, Centers for Disease Control Director Robert R. Redfield, Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Stephen Hahn, and Health And Human Services Assistant Secretary for Health Admiral Brett P. Giroir repeatedly warned […]
A man kneels and raises his fist in the air during a march and protest to mark the Juneteenth holiday at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial June 19, 2020 in Washington, DC. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images A man kneels and raises his fist in the air during a march and protest to mark the Juneteenth holiday at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial June 19, 2020 in Washington, DC. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images The killing of George Floyd has ignited protests and inspired conversations — and changes — across the globe. But New York Times […]
Bitcoin’s (BTC) derivatives continue to grow despite light spot trading over the past two months. The cryptocurrency’s options market is on its way to a record $1 billion monthly expiry this Friday. At press time, there are 114,700 option contracts (notional value of over $1 billion) set to expire on June 26 across major exchanges – Deribit, CME, Bakkt, OKEx, LedgerX – according to data provided by the crypto derivatives research firm Skew. Options open interest by expirySource: Skew Options are derivative contracts that give buyers the right but not obligation to buy or sell the underlying asset at a predetermined price […]
Former Obama Vice President Joe Biden may not be the only person who lied about knowledge of the General Flynn set up. It looks like Sally Yates may have known as well and lied about it under oath. We reported earlier today that the Justice Department released Peter Strzok notes from January 4th, 2017 regarding the Flynn-Kislyak calls. Now we know that Obama and Biden were directly involved in the sham Flynn investigation. Strzok’s newly released notes also suggest a secret meeting in January at that time was the reason the Flynn investigation was not closed. TRENDING: BREAKING: GENERAL FLYNN CASE […]
Western countries hope donors will provide at least $500 million at a Sudan conference to support a cash programme for poor families launched by the struggling transitional government, European diplomats said, Reuters reports. Germany and the United Nations will host the virtual conference in Berlin on Thursday to gather potential donors to help the civilian government struggling with an economic crisis after the ousting of Omar al-Bashir last year. “The aim in Berlin is to get $500 million in donations for the World Bank’s Family Support Fund,” one European diplomat said, confirming what other diplomats said. Donations of $500 million would […]
Members of the District of Columbia Army National Guard stand guard at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington in June 2020. | Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP Photo About 400 unarmed D.C. National Guardsmen are on standby at the D.C. Armory to provide backup to National Park Police to help prevent damage at “key monuments” in the city, a Defense Department spokesperson said Wednesday. Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy activated the troops to support the police in “a civil disturbance and security role around the District,” at the request of Interior Secretary David Bernhardt Tuesday. The move was approved by Defense Secretary Mark Esper, said […]
Photos circulating on social media this week caused confusion, India’s News 18 reported on Wednesday, as Indian protesters waved a banner reading “boycott China” that depicted a map of the United States. The images went viral after another incident in which anti-China protesters explained that they were burning China’s leader, “Kim Jong-un,” in effigy. “Some people in Kolkata carried out yet another #BoycottChina protest. Except they used the map of USA instead of China,” a Twitter user wrote. https://t.co/yYKgrrYDyr — News18.com (@news18dotcom) June 24, 2020 Beijing has triggered a nationwide uproar in India following an hours-long brawl on the countries’ mutual […]
Authored by John Solomon via JustTheNews.com, Attorney General William Barr is bringing increasing clarity to the focus of U.S. Attorney John Durham’s criminal investigation into the conduct of the Russia collusion investigators. In a series of recent interviews, the nation’s chief enforcement officer has dropped some big hints about what is under investigation, who is and isn’t being investigated, and what evidence uncovered by the Durham team is emerging as important. Barr also has suggested what events in the timeline are emerging as important in the 2016-17 effort to find dirt on President Trump and his campaign and transition team. Here […]
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – US Special Representative for Arms Control Marshall Billingslea on Wednesday ruled out the possibility of a moratorium on the deployment of intermediate-range missiles after the United States abandoned a respective treaty with Russia. “Simply put, it’s not going to happen”, Billingslea told reporters when asked about a moratorium, then repeated allegations that Russian violations destroyed the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty. US and Russian technical working groups on arms control will meet in the coming days in Vienna, Billingslea said during a virtual panel discussion. “Of course this is an evolutionary process, I do hope after the expert […]
European governments have been urged by a counterterrorism group to “demonstrate their commitment to justice” by reconsidering their stance on the repatriation of citizens who left their countries to join Daesh. The call was made by the Soufan Centre in an effort “to break the cycle” of extremism and radicalisation. The Soufan Centre is a “leading national security and counterterrorism” organisation, headed by former FBI agent Ali Soufan. It claims in its latest report that homegrown extremists pose a greater threat to national security than that posed by terrorists jailed in Syria and Iraq if repatriated. Leaving imprisoned Daesh fighters and […]
Three previous attempts to bring him in were aborted. The first, in spring 2019, was canceled after Barr refused to submit to questioning from committee staff, in the weeks after he released the report of special counsel Robert Mueller. The second occurred in March, when the coronavirus crisis led the House to call off most committee proceedings. The hearing was rescheduled for early June, but Barr again canceled after the White House objected, citing a prohibition on congressional testimony during the coronavirus emergency. Committee aides said Barr’s agreement to appear came shortly after Nadler reversed himself and began the process for […]
First lady Melania Trump blasted Food Network host John Henson for his “inappropriate and insensitive” swipe at the Trump’s youngest son Barron, in a Father’s Day rant. “Sadly we continue to see inappropriate and insensitive comments about the President’s son,” the first lady,’s spokesperson, Stephanie Grisham, said in a statement to The Hill on Tuesday. “As with every other administration, a minor child should be off-limits and allowed to grow up with no judgment or hate from strangers and the media.” The rebuke came on the tail of comments by Halloween Baking Championship host John Henson who chose Father’s Day to attack […]
The Senate Armed Services Committee is taking aim at the Navy’s premier aerial jamming platform that is meant to play a big role in future conflicts against technologically sophisticated adversaries. In the committee’s version of the National Defense Authorization Act, Congress is requiring a report be delivered in July 2021 on a strategy for how the Next Generation Jammer will help ensure full spectrum electromagnetic superiority. The committee passed the bill last week and released a summary, but full text of the measure was made public just this week. The Next Generation Jammer is the Navy’s and, by extension, the joint […]
Newly released notes of FBI agent Peter Strzok regarding Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn implicate former President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden in the FBI investigation against the former White House National Security Adviser. The Department of Justice on Wednesday released Strzok’s handwritten notes from January 4th, 2017, the day before the infamous closed-door Oval Office meeting between Obama, Biden, ex-FBI Director James Comey, ex-Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, former National Security Adviser Susan Rice, and former CIA Director John Brennan coordinating the FBI investigation into Flynn. Strzok’s handwritten notes reveal that Biden himself invoked the Logan Act as the basis […]