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 only a few days, and to enormous shock on the part of people who had previously taken their freedom and rights for granted. Despite enormous pressure from Washington, eight states did not lock down or used a very light touch: South Dakota, North Dakota, South Carolina, Wyoming, Utah, Arkansas, Iowa, and Nebraska. After […]
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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 Systems of Woburn, Massachusetts is being awarded a sole-source contract in the amount of $2,271,181,543 under the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) program to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia”, the release said on Friday. Under the contract, Raytheon will provide seven Army/Navy Transportable Surveillance and Control Model 2 radars, radar spares, obsolescence […]
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, unconfirmed accounts of what happened and of the number of those detained. Some sources claim that the detainees were transferred to a prison under the supervision of the PMF. Others have suggested that they were handed over to US forces, while yet others have said that all have in any case […]
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 bathroom.” Reports claim multiple HAR members had raised concern about the term “master”, which has also come under fire before. “The MLS Advisory Group regularly reviews the terms and fields used in the MLS to make sure they are consistent with the current market environment,” a statement from HAR obtained by […]
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 strings that poke holes in other cells and the virus passes through the tube from cell to cell,” said UCSF’s Director of the Quantitative Biosciences Institute, Professor Nevan Krogan. “Our hypothesis is that these speed up infection.“ The images taken by scientists at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) laboratory in […]
…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 patterns. Rochelle Gutierrez is a math education instructor at the University of Illinois. Back in 2017, she promiscuously argued that mathematics “operates as whiteness” and is therefore racist. “Who gets credit for doing and developing mathematics, who is capable in mathematics, and who is seen as part of the mathematical community […]
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 the virus in frozen samples of the city’s wastewater collected as early as March 12, 2019. The group, led by Rosa Maria Pintó and Albert Bosch, was exploring the potential of wastewater analysis in early warning systems and the prevention of future Covid-19 outbreaks when it made the surprise discovery. Also […]
(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 be a false alarm or an outright hoax. Photos released by NASCAR do show that a garage door pull-rope at Garage 4 was indeed tied into a noose. However, federal investigators later found footage that revealed that it had been there since October 2019, when the garage had been assigned to another driver. Once news […]
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 has long used mercenaries to do its bidding. They have provided Washington distance and deniability for unsavory operations. During the Cold War, the U.S. hoped this would limit domestic and international protest. Policymakers also discerned mercenary alternatives to bloody, expensive quagmires like the Vietnam or Iraq Wars. Traditionally, most of these […]
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 of a task force devoted to countering anti-government extremists”, Barr said in the memorandum on Friday. Barr went on to say that in recent weeks anti-government extremists have undermined peaceful protests and attacked police officers, government officials, destroyed public and private property and threatened innocent people. According to the Attorney General, […]
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 launch to the International Space Station — which is right now slated to occur in 2021 with a launch on ULA’s Vulcan rocket. The Thermal Protection System (TPS) tiles are one of the major hardware components used on Dream Chaser and cover nearly the entire craft to protect it from the […]
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 an inflatable flamingo sipping and getting their groove on!” What music would you pair it with? “The song “Canned Heat” by Jamiroquai. If the drink won’t get you grooving, this tune with its thumping bass lines, syncopated beats and dance centric lyrics definitely will!” What food would you pair it with? […]
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 was changing hands around $9,300 on spot exchanges such as Bitstamp. After putting in the Friday high of $9,291, bitcoin failed to rally from Thursday’s sell-off to $8,990 from $9,650 and continued to trade hands between $9,000 and $9,200. Bitcoin trading on Bitstamp since June 22Source: Source: TradingView Trading volume on […]
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 barricades in CHOP zone | KOMO https://t.co/WZB378L3hU — Donny Clark⭐⭐⭐ (@Clark51Austin) June 26, 2020 TRENDING: EXCLUSIVE: Police Source: Woman Who Framed Former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens Guilty of Perjury, Bribed With Cash Payment. Officials hoped to clear out tents and vehicles later today. Advertisement – story continues below Seattle Mayor Jenny […]
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 who are not recognised as Jews under Israeli law, marking them as potential converts. Commanders are able to be approached to encourage soldiers under their command to attend the Nativ course which, according to its website, “deals with defining and strengthening Israeli-Jewish-Zionist identity.” This exposes students “to a rich world of […]
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 transfer of funds,” said the 2:1 decision in Sierra Club, Southern Border Communities Coalition vs. President Donald J. Trump. The decision continued: The panel noted that the Appropriations Clause of the U.S. Constitution exclusively grants the power of the purse to Congress. The panel held that the transfer of funds violated […]
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, when the same issues of content moderation, privacy, free speech, and the dark side of cyberspace first surfaced. At that time, James Exon, a little-known senator from Nebraska, advanced a proposal for federal regulation of every user of the Internet — and almost everyone else involved in its architecture and delivery. […]
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 a US court to being involved in a cybercrime organisation, the Justice Department said in a press release on Friday. “One of the leaders of the Infraud Organisation pleaded guilty today to RICO conspiracy”, the Justice Department said. Infraud was an Internet-based cybercriminal enterprise engaged in the large-scale acquisition, sale, and […]
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 Matter and refugees. Diana Buttu who served as a legal adviser to the Palestinian negotiations team from 2000-2005,Daniel Levy, who served as an adviser to the Israeli government led by Prime Minister Ehud Barak and renowned historian Professors Ilan Pappe, will be among those joining the panels during the two-day event. Visitors can […]
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. At the same time, data from the New York Times COVID-19 dataset, obtained on GitHub, shows that death rates in Texas and Florida are falling, at least for now. Death rates were calculated by dividing the number of deaths by the number of confirmed cases, as of each date reported. They are expressed […]
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 hundred and some odd days that we should all wear face masks — inside and out. Here’s what I say: Don’t be a sheep.” Another Ohio Sheriff, Bob Songer of Klickitat County, called Inslee an “idiot” on Wednesday and said he’s “overstepping his bounds, violating people’s constitutional rights.” Sheriffs in Clark […]
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 is July 1st. “President Trump pledged to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the Jewish communities there and in the Jordan Valley,” Netanyahu said. And just this week, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo responded to an urgent United Nations appeal not to go through with it ahead of the July 1 target date […]
by Jim W. Dean, VT Editor, …with New Eastern Outlook, Moscow,…and the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a research institution for the study of the countries and cultures of Asia and North Africa. [ Editor’s Note: The dust has settled on the Tulsa disaster. The Trump campaign has put it into a box, not to be mentioned again, but planners for the Jacksonville convention are on notice to not have a repeat debacle. That story surprised me because the convention in not a public rally by any means. And after his two hour rant in Tulsa one could wonder […]
US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to protect American monuments, after calling off a weekend trip to New Jersey to remain in DC amid ongoing protests, insisting “agitators” will be “brought to justice.” I just had the privilege of signing a very strong Executive Order protecting American Monuments, Memorials, and Statues – and combatting recent Criminal Violence. Long prison terms for these lawless acts against our Great Country! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 26, 2020 “I was going to go to Bedminster, New Jersey, this weekend, but wanted to stay in Washington, DC to make sure LAW […]
(Natural News) The Black Lives Matter movement has begun actively targeting Christian statues and churches, expanding their historical revisionist drive, which initially only targeted statues of and places named after former Confederate officers. In Washington, D.C., protesters have vandalized and illegally occupied St. John’s Episcopal Church, which is located across the street from the White House, and is where President Donald Trump, several weeks ago, held up a Bible after vandals occupied it. BHAZ — Black House Autonomous Zone — has been spray painted on the columns of the historic St. John’s church outside the White House. pic.twitter.com/or2C2myVSX — Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) […]
Inside The US’s Largest Maximum-Security Prison, COVID-19 Raged By Anat Rubin, Tim Golden, and Richard A. Webster, ProPublica. June 26, 2020 Inside The US’s Largest Maximum-Security Prison, COVID-19 Raged2020-06-262020-06-26https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/covidangola-e1593186256873.png200px200px Above photo: Terry Rogers holds a photo of Michael Williams, her brother, in front of her home in Bridge City, Louisiana, on May 17, 2020. Kathleen Flynn/ProPublica. Outside, Officials Called Their Fight a Success. Inmates at Angola prison in Louisiana told ProPublica of widespread illness, dysfunctional care and deadly neglect as the coronavirus outbreak hit. By the time he persuaded the guards to let him call his family, Michael Williams could feel his life slipping away. His body […]
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Thank you Bulleit Bourbon and the TipsFromHome Initiative for partnering with Half Full on the Bartenders At Home cocktail video series. What inspired you to create this cocktail? “The reverse Manhattan is a favorite drink of chef Jacques Pépin. It was preceded by the Reverse Martini, a drink I had lots of calls for in the two decades right after I started bartending—a dash of gin in a chilled vermouth. I worked Jacques’s charity fundraiser for his foundation and the Reverse Manhattan was his choice for one of the evening’s cocktails.” When would you serve this drink? “Like the Martini this […]
“What makes this pandemic so scary is all the unknown factors,” writes 40-year-old Mohammed Monsuri. Lisa R. Cohen hide caption toggle caption Lisa R. Cohen “What makes this pandemic so scary is all the unknown factors,” writes 40-year-old Mohammed Monsuri. Lisa R. Cohen Mohammed Monsuri is an incarcerated student and musician who is serving a 25-year sentence at Sing Sing Correctional Facility in Ossining, N.Y. In this essay, dictated to journalist Daniel A. Gross, Monsuri writes about the impact of the coronavirus inside the prison system. You can hear him in conversation with Robert Pollock, his friend and manager of PEN […]
Mutual fund giant Vanguard has completed another blockchain pilot that aims to change the risk profile of foreign exchange (FX) transactions. The Valley Forge, Pa.-based investment firm ran the pilot on Symbiont’s Assembly blockchain with participation from State Street, BNY Mellon and investment firm Franklin Templeton. Vanguard and Franklin Templeton acted as dealer banks and State Street and BNY Mellon acted as counterparty banks as well as custodians, said Symbiont’s foreign exchange lead, Joe Ziccarelli. Symbiont believes the foreign exchange platform will go into production in the third quarter of 2020, Ziccarelli said. “The pilot has helped to prove out some […]
The communist agitators in Portland once again took to the streets to protest whatever the outrage-of-the-week is, and again tried to copy-cat Seattle by setting up an “autonomous zone.” They tried that last week near vichy “mayor” Ted Wheeler’s apartment, but the police actually did their job and broke up the party. This time, the protesters targeted Portland police’s north precinct. They did all their usual stuff, such as tagging the police building, setting up pallets and barricades, and lighting random stuff on fire, before the police moved in and actually did their job for the second time in a week, […]
Syria faces an unprecedented hunger crisis with over 9.3 million people lacking adequate food while the country’s coronavirus outbreak, though apparently controlled for now, could still accelerate, U.N. aid agencies said on Friday, Reuters reports. The World Food Programme (WFP) told a briefing in Geneva that the number of people short of essential foodstuffs had risen by 1.4 million in the past six months. Food prices had also soared by more than 200% in less than a year due to the freefall in neighbouring Lebanon’s economy and COVID-19 lockdown measures in Syria, WFP spokeswoman Elisabeth Byrs said. After nine years of armed conflict, more […]
Stocks plunged on Friday as infections rose in several states, the White House relaunched its coronavirus taskforce, and Texas pulled back on the reins of its reopening. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 730 points, 2.84 percent, to 25015.55. The S&P 500 declined 2.42 percent. The Nasdaq Composite dropped 2.59 percent. The yield on ten-year Treasuries, often viewed as a safe haven for investor cash, dropped to 0.64 percent. Yields move down when bond prices move up. All 11 sectors of the S&P were down. The worst performing sector was communication services, a tech heavy category that includes Facebook, Google parent […]
The wrap up of a long-planned series of military exercises in Europe as President Donald Trump threatens to reduce troops in Germany shows the importance of the military partnerships and raises concerns about the ability to counter Russia should U.S. support dwindle. A former Baltic state defense chief told Military Times that moving U.S. troops out of Europe would be a ‘fatal mistake.’ This month the United States finished the largest multinational military exercise on the continent, called Defender Europe 2020. The umbrella exercise contained a series of smaller, partner and ally exercises to showcase the deployment capabilities of the United […]
Authored by Simon Black via SovereignMan.com, Are you ready for this week’s absurdity? Here’s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, risks to your prosperity… and on occasion, inspiring poetic justice. Today we tackle the woke… NYC’s inspiring breakthrough in the science of contact tracing “Contact tracing” is a tactic whereby public health officials attempt to track where you’ve been, and who you’ve been in contact with, in their efforts to contain a pandemic. And we’ve seen a lot of contact tracing efforts lately. New York City hired thousands of […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202006261079731747-multiple-explosions-heard-across-gaza-hours-after-missiles-fired-toward-israel/ Multiple explosions were reported late Friday night in the Gaza Strip. Several hours earlier, several projectiles had been fired from the territory toward Israel. Explosions have been reported in multiple locations across the self-governing Gaza Strip late on Friday night. “Heavy bombing” was reported in the area of Khan Yunis, and four rockets were reportedly fired by Israel Defense Force (IDF) aircraft at Fajr, to the west of Khan Yunis. Local reported an observation post east of the Jabaliya cemetery had been targeted by IDF drones, as had the city of Deir Al-Balah. Palestinian journalist […]
France said on Friday it would download the black boxes from a Ukrainian airliner downed by an Iranian missile in January, easing a stand-off over where they should be read, Reuters reports. France’s BEA crash investigation agency said it was acting at the request of Iran, which remains responsible under global rules for conducting a formal accident probe after acknowledging that the Boeing 737 was downed by its forces. The Ukraine International Airlines flight was shot down on Jan. 8 by an Iranian ground-to-air missile, killing 176 people in what Tehran termed a “disastrous mistake” at a time of heightened tensions with the United States. […]
The request this week — a follow-up from December, when the panel asked the same former officials for documents and testimony during the impeachment inquiry into Trump’s Ukraine dealings — followed the Tuesday release of former national security adviser John Bolton’s memoir, in which he confirmed that Trump withheld military assistance aid to Ukraine last year in exchange for the promise of an investigation targeting the Bidens. And on Monday, Ukrainian lawmaker Andrii Derkach, an associate of Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani with links to Russian intelligence, held a press conference to announce the release of new recordings he says he […]
Protesters in Washington, DC, taunted a black police officer on Thursday evening in yet another night of demonstrations, calling him a “f*ggot” and “bitch” as he calmly stood among a group of fellow officers. “You a bitch. You a bitch,” one protester said, pointing to a cluster of police officers in footage captured by Breitbart News. Activists chanted “Who do you protect?” several times before a few began taunting a black officer, specifically. They hurled several insults, calling him a “f*ggot” and repeating, “Your bitch ass ain’t coming over here.” The officer refused to engage, standing firmly as protesters continued with […]
Following a U.S. Army-led assessment, the Department of Defense will be narrowing the number of different Counter-Small Unmanned Aircraft System solutions being deployed by the joint forces from close to 40 to just eight. The Secretary of Defense delegated the Army to lead an effort to reduce redundancy in the development and fielding of various Counter-Small Unmanned Aircraft System (C-sUAS) solutions by the services back in November. The Army subsequently set up the Joint C-sUAS Office (JCO) to conduct that assessment, and over the last few months the office has worked to narrow down the dozens of counter drone systems currently […]
During his Town Hall style interview with Sean Hannity, President Donald Trump referred to John Bolton’s brief time in the administration as a mistake, and said that his new book, which claims to be an insider’s view of the Trump administration, violates the law. In the wide ranging event, President Trump was eventually asked about what he hopes to achieve in the second administration. The president noted that his first four years have been fraught with bad actors, and that he looks forward to going into a second term with the team he has built over the past four years. “You […]
Today Bank of America published its eighth annual Gold and Gold industry primer, and extremely useful report chock full of information including sections on economic drivers, gold supply and demand trends, industry fundamentals and sector valuations. But the main reason why this year’s edition is remarkable, is because with gold trading at $1,770, it is just $100 away from its record hit in Sept 2011, an all time high price which even the skeptics say will be in the rear-view mirror in short notice as a result of the insanity taking place with central bank money printers. Which is why we […]
NC lieutenant governor warns he may sue governor over coronavirus response by Louis Casiano/Fox News North Carolina Lt. Gov. Dan Forest said in a letter Thursday to Gov. Roy Cooper that he intends to sue him over his executive orders issued during the coronavirus pandemic. Forest, a Republican, alleges that Cooper, a Democrat, issued a series of orders without seeking input from the Council of State, a group of 10 lawmakers that includes the secretary of state and attorney general. “The Emergency Management Act requires that you seek and receive concurrence from the Council of State prior to exercising the most expansive statewide emergency powers of the Governor,” Forest wrote. […]
A Turkish court has handed down life sentences to 121 people found guilty of trying to overthrow the country’s president back in 2016. The failed coup has triggered a massive purge, with thousands of Turks being fired or jailed. The verdicts were announced by the court in Ankara on Friday. It found the defendants guilty of attempting to “violate the constitution” three years ago. Some 35 individuals were given a life sentence for the crime, while another 86 received “aggravated” imprisonment for life. One of the defendants, a former military colonel, has been given a whopping nine “aggravated” life terms, plus […]
(Natural News) If you still believe that the “Black Lives Matter” movement is just a peaceful attempt at bringing about some police and criminal justice reforms using the constitutional system bequeathed to us by our founders, get rid of that notion because it isn’t true. How do we know? Because a BLM leader himself has admitted as much. In an interview with Fox News’ Martha MacCallum on Wednesday, New York City BLM chapter leader threatened to “burn down” the existing “system” if the organization as a whole doesn’t get what it wants. “You … have said that violence is sometimes necessary in these […]
Bolton Weaves A Tall Tale In His Venezuela Chapter By Leonardo Flores, Popular Resistance. June 26, 2020 Bolton Weaves A Tall Tale In His Venezuela Chapter2020-06-262020-06-26https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/maduro_may_1.jpg200px200px Above photo: President Nicolás Maduro addressed hundreds of thousands of supporters on May 1, 2019, a day after Guaidó’s attempted coup. From the first paragraph of “Venezuela Libre”, the ninth chapter of John Bolton’s upcoming book, The Room Where It Happened, it is obvious that the tale Bolton spins is full of fabrications, half-truths, propaganda and the occasional kernel of truth. The chapter is a 35-page screed in which the infamous warmonger places blame for the […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107233/53/1072335380_0:86:1280:806_1200x675_80_0_0_819371348c74f94f158b9f5b9cf5a150.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/military/202006261079731393-uk-defence-ministry-failed-to-account-for-final-cost-of-aircraft-carriers-public-watchdog-says/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The UK’s Ministry of Defence has not counted all future costs of operating its two aircraft carriers in the upcoming budgets, a report by a public spending watchdog has concluded. The National Audit Office said in a 61-page report published Friday that the Ministry did not know how much its aircraft carrier project would cost over time and identified this lack of clarity as an obstacle to the ships achieving their full operational capability. “It has not established a clear view on the future cost of enhancing, operating and supporting Carrier […]
When federal prosecutors charged Jack Abramoff on Thursday with an illicit conspiracy to promote a cryptocurrency, they alleged that the disgraced lobbyist hired writers to help him with his scheme. The indictment did not name names. But new court documents point squarely to an employee of The Daily Caller and other conservative media outlets. Abramoff, who served almost four years in prison for his wide-ranging Washington influence peddling schemes, found himself in legal hot water again this week for his attempts to promote AML Bitcoin, a supposedly “anti-money laundering” cryptocurrency created by Texan businessman Marcus Andrade. As part of his duties, Abramoff […]
The death of Ahmaud Arbery, who was killed while jogging, prompted renewed calls for Georgia to pass a hate crimes law. Gov. Brian Kemp signed House Bill 426 on Friday, giving the state its first hate crime law in 16 years. Stephen B. Morton/AP hide caption toggle caption Stephen B. Morton/AP The death of Ahmaud Arbery, who was killed while jogging, prompted renewed calls for Georgia to pass a hate crimes law. Gov. Brian Kemp signed House Bill 426 on Friday, giving the state its first hate crime law in 16 years. Stephen B. Morton/AP Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has signed […]
Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Compound saw its governance token, COMP, skyrocket in price when it launched last week. Now, decentralized options marketplace Opyn has launched put options on COMP that will provide a safety net of sorts by helping holders mitigate some of the risk should COMP’s fortunes take a turn for the worse in the next few days. “We’re excited to launch @compoundfinance COMP put options! You can protect yourself if COMP falls to $150 or lower before July 3rd,” Opyn’s official handle tweeted early Friday. Several hours later, Universal Market Access (UMA) announced it is creating the ability to […]
Image via TMZ A Black Lives Matter activist lost one of his testicles after getting shot in the balls by rubber bullets during George Floyd riots in Los Angeles. Bradley Steyn says he plans on suing the LAPD after law enforcement officials shot him in the scrotum on May 30 during a ‘protest.’ TMZ reported: Bradley Steyn — a South African man who protested apartheid back in the day — claims he was maimed by law enforcement during a May 30 George Floyd protest in L.A.’s Fairfax District. TRENDING: EXCLUSIVE: Police Source: Woman Who Framed Former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens Guilty […]
Turkey’s intelligence services have helped in the rescue operations to free 170 hostages – including foreigners – over the past eleven years, the agencies announced yesterday. The country’s National Intelligence Organisation (MIT) has in that period helped to rescue 138 Turkish citizens and reunite them with their families. It has also taken part in the rescues of 32 foreign hostages. The hostages, both nationals and foreigners, were rescued mainly from conflict zones within Syria as well as other countries in the Middle East and Africa. READ: Turkey intelligence chief pays secret visit to Iraq The foreigners who were rescued by the […]
Social media giant Facebook announced this week that it will be introducing a warning for users if they attempt to share content that is more than 90 days old. Techcrunch reports that Facebook recently announced that it would be introducing a notification screen warning for users if they try to share content that is more than 90 days old. The users will be given the choice to “go back” or continue to share the story after being notified that it may be “outdated” The notification is an attempt to prevent the spread of misinformation on the platform as according to Facebook, […]
WASHINGTON — The flood of departing defense officials continues as the U.S. Navy’s chief learning officer — a newly created position championed by former Navy Secretary Richard Spencer and acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly — announced he is leaving his post this summer to take positions at a think tank and a venture capital firm. John Kroger took to LinkedIn this week to announce his departure, eight months after taking the job in September. “I will be leaving the Department of the Navy and my civil service position as the Chief Learning Officer later this summer,” Kroger wrote. “It has been […]
That felt weird eh? A down week for stocks? Bad news was not good news and dips weren’t bought? Nasdaq was the least worst on the week as Dow, S&P, and Small Caps all fell in line… That’s the second down week in the last three – WTF is happening!!! Three reasons stand out (yes, we know the deluge of virus resurgence and China tension headlines may have catalyzed it but it’s not like that’s anything the market hasn’t completely shrugged off for two months): First, the ‘hard data’ jobs picture refused to confirm the ‘soft data’ surveys that a V-shaped […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107964/52/1079645241_0:0:3071:1729_1200x675_80_0_0_c3af36d0d74368e3c8fb2d5748ff1303.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202006261079730872-united-nations-shocked-after-video-of-people-having-sex-in-one-of-organisations-cars-goes-online/ The global body said that it has launched an investigation into the incident and is close to identifying the people who were in the car. According to media reports, those involved are members of the peacekeeping organisation in Israel. The United Nations says it is shocked by a video that shows a man in a car with the organisation’s markings apparently having sex in the back seat. The footage caused anger after it was recently uploaded on social media (warning: the footage may be disturbing for some viewers). “We are shocked and concerned and […]
A UN human rights expert on Friday urged the EU to use its “economic weight, diplomatic expertise and aid, trade and investment leverage” to forestall looming Israeli plans to annex parts of the West Bank and Jordan Valley, Anadolu Agency reports. Michael Lynk, the Special Rapporteur on human rights in Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967, said in a statement that annexation would “lead to a marked worsening of the human rights situation in the occupied Palestinian territory and daily lives of millions of Palestinians.” He said the planned annexation after July 1 was a continuation of Israel’s “illegal extension of sovereignty over Palestinian […]
Members of Washington State’s Edmonds School Board voted unanimously to end contracts with law enforcement agencies, thereby removing police presence from three schools in the district, deeming officers a “real risk” to students. The Edmonds School Board this week voted to sever ties between three law enforcement agencies and three high schools — Meadowdale, Mountlake Terrace, and Edmonds-Woodway — effectively removing school resource officers (SROs) from the educational facilities. The decision follows pressure from Black Lives Matter activists, many of whom have called for the defunding — and in some cases, abolishment — of the police. Board President Deborah Kilgore attributed the decision to […]
Later this year, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is expected to launch a series of risk reduction payloads into orbit to help pave the way for an experimental program known as Project Blackjack. With Blackjack, DARPA wants to demonstrate the military utility of a large constellation of small satellites operating in low earth orbit. These satellites will connect with each other on orbit over optical intersatellite links, forming a mesh network in space. That network will be able to deliver sensor data collected on orbit to terrestrial war fighters in near-real time. And while Blackjack won’t transition to a program […]
The study, published recently in Circulation Research and led by a team from King’s College London, has investigated how nitrogen dioxide can impact the cardiovascular system. The study examined the blood chemistry and cardiovascular changes of 12 healthy volunteers. They sat next to a domestic gas cooker for ninety minutes followed by ninety minutes with normal background nitrogen levels. On another occasion, the volunteers were exposed to normal background nitrogen dioxide levels for three hours. The period next to a gas cooker increased nitrogen dioxide levels in the air 10-fold and subsequently lowered blood pressure by 5 mm Hg from 45 […]
Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, It didn’t take long. Over the last several years, we have discussed the risk of excessive monetary policy inflating a bubble in a variety of assets from debt, to real estate, to stocks. In March, it appeared as if the bubble had finally popped. However, the Fed’s quick response and massive monetary interventions ceased the asset bubble’s deflation and reinflated it. Another Bubble The idea of another bubble was put forth recently by Jeremy Grantham of GMO fame: “At GMO, we dealt with three major events before this crisis, and rightly or wrongly, we felt ‘nearly […]
Facebook will change its policies to ban “hate speech” in advertisements on the platform, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced, after activists brigaded a number of major corporations to pull their ads from the platform. “I am committed to making sure Facebook remains a place where people can use their voice to discuss important issues,” Zuckerberg said on Friday. “But I also stand against hate or anything that incites violences or suppresses voting, and we’re committed to removing that content too, no matter where it comes from.” This will include ads critical of “immigrants, migrants, refugees and asylum seekers” CNBC reported Zuckerberg as […]
(Natural News) Early on when the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic was first taking shape, Anthony Fauci told the American public that face masks were not necessary to protect against infection. But he has since changed his tune, now claiming that face masks are needed but that they were simply in short supply previously. Flip-flopping as is typically the case, Fauci is insistent that face masks are needed when venturing out in public to avoid spreading the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19), despite having earlier stated that masks are merely a “symbol” of good behavior and complying with government recommendations. While Fauci says that […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107973/04/1079730418_0:231:2049:1383_1200x675_80_0_0_0fe1f4b482ef0aa392244550a20cdde4.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/uk/202006261079731017-i-was-trying-to-compress-maintenance-guys-wound-witness-details-hotel-stabbing-in-glasgow/ The police have indicated that they are continuing their investigation into the incident, however, they added that it is not being treated as a terrorist act. It comes five days after 25-year-old Khairi Saadallah, who came to the United Kingdom from Libya, stabbed to death three people in a park in Reading. A man who earlier today witnessed a stabbing attack that left six people injured in Glasgow described the incident as absolute carnage. John, who works in the delivery service, stumbled on the scene as he was coming down the stairs in the […]
Vice President Mike Pence defended President Donald Trump’s drive to hold rallies with sparse public health measures Friday, even as officials and health experts are sounding alarm bells that a resurgent coronavirus is causing problems in states across the country. “Well, the freedom of speech, the right to peaceably assemble is enshrined in the Constitution of the United States and we have an election coming up this fall,” Pence said when asked how the administration could justify the events. “And President Trump and I believe that taking proper steps, we’ve created screening at recent events and giving people the very best […]
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, shown here in Brussels in February, has postponed her wedding due to a European Council meeting. NurPhoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption NurPhoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, shown here in Brussels in February, has postponed her wedding due to a European Council meeting. NurPhoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has postponed her wedding due to a European Council meeting to discuss coronavirus recovery efforts and budget issues. The meeting was scheduled for July 17, which, according to Frederiksen, was the day she and her fiance Bo Tengberg […]
The future of the U.S. federal securities regulator, and perhaps the direction of cryptocurrency policy, is up in the air. Last week, President Donald Trump announced his intention to nominate Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Jay Clayton to the post of U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, asking Congress to approve the one-time corporate lawyer to become one of the nation’s most powerful financial crimes prosecutors. If – and that is a big if – he is confirmed to become the new U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, the president will likely appoint one of […]
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Friday called George Floyd by the wrong name during a press conference less than 24 hours after House Democrats passed police reform legislation. 80-year-old Pelosi referred to George Floyd, the black man who was killed by a Minnesota police officer, as “George Kirby.” “I only will do that if you tell me that this legislation is worthy of George KIRBY’s name.” said Pelosi. Either Pelosi hit the bottle early on Friday or age is catching up to her. TRENDING: EXCLUSIVE: Police Source: Woman Who Framed Former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens Guilty of Perjury, Bribed With […]
Palestinian resistance group Hamas on Friday called on the UN to put pressure on Israel to stop torturing Palestinian prisoners, Anadolu Agency reports. This came In a statement by Abdul Latif al-Qanoua, the group’s spokesman, on the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture being marked today. “The continuous torture of prisoners of war by Israel requires a diplomatic action to take its leaders to international courts,” al-Qanoua said. According to a report issued by the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS), 95% of Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons have suffered torture. READ: Hamas military wing vows to make Israel ‘regret’ annexation move “Detainees […]
But Democrats bristled at the GOP’s rationale for opposition. “That shouldn’t be how we have enfranchisement in our country — what’s the nature of our vote?” Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) told reporters. “They talk about the ‘toos’ — too black, too Democrat, whatever.” “The fact is people in the District of Columbia pay taxes, fight our wars, risk their lives for our democracy and yet, in this state they have no say, they have no vote in the House or Senate about whether we go to war and how those taxes are exacted,” Pelosi continued. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) […]
A federal grand jury has returned a second superseding indictment of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange with offenses related to Assange’s alleged role in one of the biggest compromises of classified information in U.S. history. The new indictment does not add charges against Assange, but broadens the scope of conspiracy of Assange’s alleged computer crimes against the government. A recent release from the Department of Justice states that Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been indicted by a federal grand jury charging Assange with offenses related to his role in one of the largest compromises of classified information in the history of the […]
The Army program executive office responsible for network modernization awarded Leonardo DRS a $206 million contract to provide vehicle installation kits for network systems, the company announced June 25. The indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract, awarded by Army PEO Command, Control, Communications-Tactical and Project Manager Mission Command, has a performance period of three years with seven option years. Leonardo DRS will provide “cables, brackets and other associated hardware” to support the installation of the next-generation Mounted Family of Computer Systems II, which includes tablets, processors and ruggedized displays. “These are mission-critical components of the Army’s Mission Command capability. We are proud […]
Following today’s release of the latest Personal Income and Spending data, Wall Street was predictably focused on the changes in these two key series, which showed a record jump in personal spending (to be expected one month after the savings rate in the US hit a whopping 32% annualized), and a record drop in personal income (as government benefits and stimulus checks slowed substantially). But while the change in the headline data was indeed notable, what was far more remarkable was less followed data showing just how reliant on the US government the population has become. We are referring, of course, […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Tim Korso. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202006261079730930-two-missiles-fired-from-gaza-strip-towards-israel/ The attack comes less than a week after Hezbollah threatened to strike all regions in Israel using precision-guided missiles and just days ahead of the planned annexation of certain West Bank territories by Tel Aviv. The Israel Defence Forces announced via Twitter that two “rockets” were fired from the Gaza Strip towards Israel, without specifying which region specifically was targeted. DETAILS TO FOLLOW Source link
Whether or not Israel’s government goes through with the annexation of any part of the occupied West Bank starting in July as the newly formed Israeli government has declared, one thing is clear, this is not an existential threat to the Palestinian people. It is an existential threat to the two-state solution. The land and people of Palestine will not disappear. Occupation, colonisation and discrimination may continue. But our national identity, ancient civilisation and historical narrative will carry on undimmed. So will our struggle for freedom, justice and rights. What will happen is that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will secure […]
The Chinese government still refuses to publish the full text of the “national security law” it will soon impose on Hong Kong. Former Hong Kong Secretary for Justice Elsie Leung, a supporter of the regime, said Thursday that Beijing is keeping the law under wraps because publishing it might “trigger public events and strong opposition,” including “destructive behavior.” “Beijing does not want to cause violent behavior of this kind,” said Leung in an interview with Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK). Leung argued the Chinese government has already released sufficient details of the national security law, including a broad description of the crimes […]
WASHINGTON ― Lockheed Martin has sent $1.1 billion in accelerated payment to support its network of suppliers amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the company announced Friday. The defense contracting giant has also hired 8,300 employees since the crisis began in March, with plans to hire 3,200 more before the end of the year. The hires mark a contrast with the rest of the U.S. economy, which saw the unemployment rate hit 13 percent this month and began a recession in February. “In this volatile environment, it is more important than ever before to maintain the operations of the defense industrial base and […]
The growing number of companies that are pausing ads on Facebook in response to the social media giant’s handling of hate speech and violence is starting to have a notable effect on the company’s share price. Today’s addition is perhaps a straw to break the camel’s back as consumer-good giant Unilever joins Verizon as two major companies pausing ads on the social network in a grand virtue-signaling show. “Based on the current polarization and the election that we are having in the U.S., there needs to be much more enforcement in the area of hate speech,” said Luis Di Como, Unilever’s […]
Authored by Sven Henrich via NorthmanTrader.com, First they dismiss you as a conspiracy theorist then they join you. The secret is out, the Fed is busted: Central banks have distorted asset prices far above the economy. I’ve been harping about the market cap to GDP ratio for a while and even called the Fed’s asset price distortion operation a direct threat to the economy. Now it appears the IMF agrees: “This disconnect between markets and the real economy raises the risk of another correction in risk asset prices should investor risk appetite fade, posing a threat to the recovery” Posing a threat […]
Coronavirus may have infected 10 times more Americans than reported, CDC says by Steve Holland/Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Government experts believe more than 20 million Americans could have contracted the coronavirus, 10 times more than official counts, indicating many people without symptoms have or have had the disease, senior administration officials said. The estimate, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is based on serology testing used to determine the presence of antibodies that show whether an individual has had the disease, the officials said. The officials, speaking to a small group of reporters on Wednesday night, said the estimate […]
A seemingly random combination of words “oxygen” and “frequency” has triggered Twitter to automatically flag tweets with a Covid-19 fact-check warning. Users responded by gaming the algorithm into absurdity. The strange message began appearing under tweets on Friday. Within hours, people were testing it with random posts that mentioned the trigger words but weren’t related to the coronavirus in the least. “Post anything random about oxygen and frequency and Twitter slaps a weird editorial note on your post,” journalist Tim Pool tweeted, along with perfectly reasonable sentence about scuba diving. Sure enough, it got flagged. Others were quick to jump into […]
(Natural News) Upcoming research on new drugs and vaccinations will be made possible by the abortion industry and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which just approved 70 new embryonic stem cell lines for scientific research. The research will be funded by taxpayers and will go out in the form of grants. The NIH, led by director Francis Collins, and supported by the Office of the Director, Dr. Anthony Fauci, are giving out grants to scientists so they can use one of the seventy new lines of human fetal tissue. These new cell lines are derived from human embryos. After procurement […]
Scheer Intelligence: For Many Young People, Socialism Is As American As Apple Pie June 26, 2020 | Educate!, Featured Campaign Scheer Intelligence: For Many Young People, Socialism Is As American As Apple Pie2020-06-262020-06-26https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/bernie-etc-scaled-e1593193423966.jpg200px200px Above image: By Mr. Fish. Bernie Sanders may never make it to the White House, but, just when we need them most, socialists like “Bigger than Bernie” co-author Megan Day have picked up his torch. In the devastating aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, many young Americans who felt betrayed by capitalism were introduced to socialism by Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaigns. Meagan Day, a staff writer for the popular […]
Quasars are the most energetic objects in the universe and emit tremendous amounts of energy as they are powered by supermassive black holes that, in turn, are surrounded by accretion disks that they feed off. An international team of scientists has discovered the most massive quasar known in the early universe, which contains a monster supermassive black hole with a weight equivalent to 1.5 solar masses. It was formally dubbed J1007+2115, but since it was discovered via telescopes on the mountain Mauna Kea in Hawaii, the scientists decided to give it a Hawaiian name – Poniuaena, which means “unseen spinning source […]
Something I’ve noticed about masks is that having them fit snugly on your face can be a little tricky. Your nose can just push the mask up, leaving the mask ill-fitting and you’ll find yourself breathing out of the sides of the mask, which is pretty annoying. Thankfully, some genius out there invented the nose wire, which wraps around your nose to both give the mask added security on your face and to help it fit more snugly. If you’re looking for a mask with a nosewire, we have some of our favorite picks to make your search a little easier. […]
Bar owner Petros J Markantonis changes the marquee outside his bar to “Closed Again” at the West Alabama Ice House in Houston. Mark Felix/AFP /AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Mark Felix/AFP /AFP via Getty Images Bar owner Petros J Markantonis changes the marquee outside his bar to “Closed Again” at the West Alabama Ice House in Houston. Mark Felix/AFP /AFP via Getty Images Texas Governor Greg Abbott imposed new limits on bars and restaurants Friday, one day after declaring he didn’t want to move backwards and shut down businesses. But many people aren’t waiting. Faced with a growing […]
The founder of the AML Bitcoin project claims the U.S. government is “extorting” him after being indicted on money laundering and wire fraud charges. The Department of Justice (DOJ) and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed suits against Rowland Marcus Andrade on Thursday, claiming he misled investors while raising funds for a 2017 and 2018 initial coin offering (ICO) for AML Bitcoin, a crypto token that was supposed to be designed to be compliant with anti-money-laundering (AML) and know-your-customer (KYC) regulations. Alongside Andrade, notorious D.C. lobbyist Jack Abramoff was also indicted, though he has already pled guilty and faces potential jail […]
Conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch obtained Secret Service records for the first five years of the Obama Admin showing Hunter Biden took 411 flights and visited 29 countries. The Secret Service did not disclose, as requested by Judicial Watch, if Hunter Biden flew on Air Force One, Air Force Two or other government planes or whether other family members were in attendance. The records reveal Hunter Biden visited China 5 times. The new documents also show that Hunter Biden never visited Ukraine prior to being hired by Burisma Holdings, a corrupt Ukrainian natural gas company. TRENDING: EXCLUSIVE: Police Source: Woman Who […]
Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi yesterday sacked a senior judge from his post as deputy head of the State Lawsuits Authority, which represents the interests of the state in various areas. The decision to oust Mohamed Sabri Ahmed Taqseerah was revealed in the official gazette. Last March, Al-Sisi issued a decree referring another senior judge, Deputy Head of State Council Essam-Eddin Kahilah, to retirement based on a ruling by the council’s disciplinary board. A controversial law issued in 2017 grants Al-Sisi significant powers in appointing top judges. Al-Sisi became president in 2014 after he led a military coup a year earlier ousting the […]
More than 1,000 tech professionals have published a public letter criticizing a forthcoming paper which describes the development of a facial-recognition system that claims that it can predict if someone is likely to commit a crime. The New York Post reports that earlier this week, a group over more than 1,000 tech professionals, including many working in artificial intelligence and machine learning, published an open letter criticizing an upcoming paper that claims to detail a facial recognition system claiming it can predict if an individual is likely to be a criminal. The tech professionals have named themselves the Coalition for Critical Technology […]
LONDON — Britain’s Royal Navy took delivery of two new aircraft carriers, but a government report on the ships achieving operational capability has laid bare some obstacles toward making a fully effective carrier strike group. In a report released June 25, the National Audit Office pointed to delays in developing the Crowsnest airborne early warning radar and contracting to build the logistics ships destined to support the 65,000-ton carriers as ongoing problems for the Royal Navy. The NAO also raised questions about future funding. The Ministry of Defence is making slow “progress in developing the crucial supporting activities that are needed […]
Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, The Black Lives Matter Global Network distanced itself from an organizer of a Black Lives Matter group, claiming the chapter isn’t officially part of the network. “Hawk Newsome has no relation to the Black Lives Matter Global Network,” the network’s managing director Kailee Scales told the Associated Press late Thursday. Newsome made incendiary remarks during a cable news interview late Wednesday, stating in part: “If this country doesn’t give us what we want, then we will burn down this system and replace it.” President Donald Trump responded earlier Thursday, sharing the quote and adding: “This is Treason, Sedition, Insurrection!” Trump […]
Cressida Dick shouldn’t just be carpeted by Priti Patel over the Brixton riots she should be sacked. And whilst Priti is at it she should also sack the Chief Constable of Avon and Somerset who allowed his officers to stand by whilst an anarchic mob, hiding within the Black Lives Protest, pulled down the statue of the slave trader Colston. This would send a clear signal to all the other PC Chief Constables around the UK that the days of rainbow laces, Pride painted panda cars, dancing in the street and skateboarding on London’s bridges with extinction rebellion are over. Running […]
Iraq’s death toll from the novel coronavirus pandemic hit 1,559 on Friday, with 122 additional fatalities, the highest daily toll in the country since the first case was reported in February, Anadolu Agency reports. The Health Ministry said 2,054 more cases have been registered, taking the total infections to 41,193, while the number of recoveries reached 18,859. Last May, the Iraqi government re-imposed a nationwide curfew which is now in effect until a further notice, due to the recent spike in the infection rate. Fears prevail in Iraq over the possible collapse of the health system in case the numbers continued to rise. […]
Cohen also complained about Barr’s involvement in the Justice Department’s decision to change the sentencing recommendations for Roger Stone, a longtime associate of President Donald Trump who was convicted of obstruction, lying to Congress and witness tampering. Federal prosecutors had originally sought a prison sentence of seven to nine years for Stone, but Barr later softened those recommendations. A lead prosecutor in the case ended up leaving DOJ after the episode. And Cohen referenced Barr’s role in the controversial decision to remove protestors from Lafayette Square during a June 1 rally over police brutality. Trump later crossed the square for a […]
NBA star LeBron James says that the National Football League owes Colin Kaepernick a full, official apology. In an interview with Bloomberg Businessweek released on Thursday, James said that the NFL needs to issue that apology to prove the league is “listening” to the players. James took aim at the NFL after being asked about the “I Can’t Breathe” he and other NBA players had been wearing during warmups. “As far as the NFL, I’m not in those locker rooms, I’m not with those guys, but I do understand that an apology — I have not heard a true, official apology […]
The government of Japan’s recent decision to suspend work on its Aegis Ashore installation has raised concerns about the U.S.-Japan alliance and generated protests from missile defense advocates. Critics of the decision argue the system is needed to protect Japan from a North Korean ballistic missile attack and can do so more efficiently than today’s approach of using a flotilla of Aegis destroyers rotationally deploying to the Sea of Japan. The critics are partly right, as the program’s cost doubled from the government’s original optimistic estimates. However, at about $1.8 billion each, the two planned Aegis Ashore facilities are less expensive […]