Authored by Edward Peter Stringham via The American Institute for Economic Research, The school closures, stay home orders, shuttering of businesses, banning of elective surgeries, closure of physical entertainment events, blocked flights, and sudden imposition of a central plan – it all happened suddenly from mid-March in the course of […]
Daily Archives: June 26, 2020
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https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107973/24/1079732440_0:316:3077:2047_1200x675_80_0_0_fe75101d615aa464e897b4ac1887d01b.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/military/202006261079732405-raytheon-wins-contract-worth-over-22-billion-to-sell-mobile-radars-to-saudi-arabia/ WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – Raytheon Integrated Defence Systems has won a more than $2.2 billion Missile Defence Agency contract under the Foreign Military Sales program to sell Saudi Arabia seven mobile radars, the Department of Defence said in a press release. “Raytheon Integrated Defence […]
Iraq’s counterterrorism agencies carried out a raid last night on the headquarters of the Iranian-supported Hezbollah Brigades, one of the most powerful factions of the Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) in southern Baghdad. At least 13 of the group’s members are believed to have been arrested, although there have been contradictory, […]
Protesters and counter-protesters are clashing in Washington, DC’s Capitol Hill neighborhood Friday over whether to tear down the Emancipation Monument in Lincoln Park. Source link
Realtors in Houston will reportedly stop using the word “master” to refer to bedrooms and bathrooms, claiming the word now has a negative connotation. The Houston Association of Realtors (HAR) switched out the terms in their property listing (MLS) database earlier this month in favor of “primary bedrooms” and “primary […]
The virus behind COVID-19 causes infected cells to sprout ‘tentacles’ which allow the virus to attack several nearby cells at once – poking holes which allow the disease to easily transfer inside. This nightmare fuel was discovered by researchers led by the University of California, San Francisco. “There are long […]
…by Jonas E. Alexis As Jim W. Dean would have put it, you can’t make this stuff up. We are living in an age where virtually everything can be construed as racism, including mathematics, which we all know is a universal language and which is based on logical and rational […]
Traces of the novel coronavirus have been discovered in Barcelona sewage water months before the first case of the dreaded disease was reported in China, claims a new study by a group of Spanish researchers. Scientists with the Enteric Virus Group at the University of Barcelona detected the presence of […]
(Natural News) The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) concluded that the “noose” found in NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace’s garage did not constitute a hate crime after footage showed it had been there since last year. The incident is just the latest example where a widely reported hate crime accusation involving a noose turned out to […]
The ‘New’ American Mercenary: A Pocket History By Danny Sjursen, AntiWar.com. June 26, 2020 The ‘New’ American Mercenary: A Pocket History2020-06-262020-06-26https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/tcipic-e1593184838472.jpg200px200px Above photo: Private mercenaries. From Nation of Change. Though the bizarre story has been subsumed by other events, last month’s aborted invasion of Venezuela should’ve hardly shocked anyone. The United States […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107973/22/1079732250_0:123:3072:1851_1200x675_80_0_0_50b5770590f0ef1592d15e7dcc937d22.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202006261079732279-us-justice-department-creates-task-force-to-counter-anti-government-extremists/ WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The US Justice Department has established a task force to counter anti-government extremists, Attorney General William Barr said in a memorandum to all the chiefs of different components in the agency and US Attorneys. “I am today directing the creation […]
The Sierra Nevada Corporation has announced its Louisville, Colorado production center has received the Thermal Protection System tiles for Tenacity, the first space-worthy Dream Chaser, and has started bonding them to the vehicle. This is another major milestone Tenacity has reached as she walks down the path to her first […]
Thank you Appleton® for partnering with Half Full on the Bartenders At Home cocktail video series. When would you serve this drink? “I’d love to serve this cocktail at a pool party: the music would be bumping, people would be grilling, while others would be in the pool floating on […]
Also: if you’re headed back to a physical workplace, how do you keep safe? And do you need to have a mask on all the time at work? (Image credit: Malaka Gharib/ NPR) Source link
After the largest options expiry in history, bitcoin ended its fifth week of bouncing around the $9,000s price range. Bitcoin (BTC) was trading around $9,180 as of 20:00 UTC (4 p.m. ET), slipping almost 1% over the previous 24 hours. At 00:00 UTC on Friday (8:00 p.m. Thursday ET), bitcoin […]
Seattle Department of Transportation trucks cleared several CHOP Zone on Friday morning. The SDOT crews then halted their work and left after speaking with the CHOP Zone squatters.The protesters blocked the crews from removing their street barriers. Advertisement – story continues below Just SMH! Protesters block city crews from removing […]
The Israel Defence Forces continue to put pressure on non-Jews to convert to Judaism, despite criticism from the country’s high court and a move to ban the practice two years ago, the Times of Israel has reported. The IDF Education Corps and military rabbinate reportedly have a list of soldiers […]
California’s Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has frozen $2 billion in border wall funding, saying the President did not have the authority to shift the funds from various programs to the building the wall. “The [three judge] panel held that the Executive Branch lacked independent constitutional authority to authorize the […]
Authored by Chris Cox via RealClearPolitics.com, A new wave of regulatory fervor is rippling through Congress as representatives and senators alike search for ways to control online content they find offensive. It is all reminiscent of the debate that took place at the birth of the Internet a quarter-century ago, […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/105409/31/1054093124_0:236:2803:1812_1200x675_80_0_0_fcacfb5612188b0b8f9cee5dee8c32f2.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/world/202006261079731849-russian-national-sergey-medvedev-pleads-guilty-for-involvement-in-cybercrime-organisation/ Medvedev was detained in Thailand in 2018 upon the request of the FBI on the grounds that the security service suspects him of hacking activities and the use of cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin, for illegal trade. Russian national Sergey Medvedev has pleaded guilty in […]
The Palestine Expo will be going online to welcome guests at its third event on 4-5 July. After a successful event at the Olympia London last year, 2020’s PalExpo will have leading specialists in the entertainment, academic and political arena. Discussions will include those covering the topics of annexation, 1948 Palestinians, Black Lives […]
The latest data show that death rates from coronavirus or COVID-19 are stable or falling in many states, including those that have shown a recent spike in the number of coronavirus cases. On Friday, Texas and Florida paused their re-openings, as both states showed a surge in new COVID-19 cases. […]
After Washington’s Democrat Gov. Jay Inslee announced a mandatory mask mandate on Tuesday, Lewis County Sheriff Robert Snaza told a group of churchgoers “Don’t be sheep.” Sheriff Snaza grabbed a megaphone and said, “In case you guys didn’t hear, Governor Inslee, in his infinite wisdom, has decided after over a […]
In late April Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shocked the region in declaring he expects that by middle of summer Israel would move to annex broad swathes of the West Bank, including the Jordan Valley, as part of Trump’s “deal of the century” peace plan. The date consistently referenced in Israeli media reports […]