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Chains are only as strong as their weakest link – and, as Visual Capitalist’s Nicholas LePan notes in detail below, recent COVID-19 shutdowns have affected every link in the gold supply chain, from producers to end-users. Increased investor demand for gold coupled with a constrained supply has led to high prices and a bullish market, which has been operating despite these pressures on the supply chain. Today’s infographic comes to us from Sprott Physical Bullion Trust and it outlines the gold supply chain and the impacts COVID shutdowns have had on the gold market. The Ripple Effect: Stalling a Supply Chain Disruptions to […]
Dan Yaseen, host of Speaking Truth to Empire, speaks with Professor Shireen Al-Adeimi. Shireen Al-Adeimi is an assistant professor of education at Michigan State University. Having lived through two civil wars in her country of birth, Yemen, she has played an active role in raising awareness about the U.S.-supported, Saudi-led war on Yemen since 2015. Through her work, she aims to encourage political action among fellow Americans to bring about an end to U.S. intervention in Yemen. Shireen Al-Adeimi Host Dan Yaseen was born in Karachi, Pakistan and immigrated to the United States in 1974. He received MS in Electrical Engineering […]
The Pentagon has accused Moscow of testing a new space weapon, insisting that such “aggression” validates the importance of the US’s Space Force. In reality, however, Russia merely used a scanning device on its own satellite. The latest Cold War-style ‘Russians are coming’ scare was issued by the US Space Command chief Gen. John W. Raymond on Thursday. The force said it has “evidence” that Moscow conducted a “non-destructive test of a space-based anti-satellite weapon” on July 15, allegedly releasing an object from one of its satellites towards another. “This is further evidence of Russia’s continuing efforts to develop and test […]
(Natural News) The National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) is pushing to end standardized testing at schools because, according to its members, the ACT and SAT tests are inherently “racist.” The organization put out a statement alleging that standardized testing inhibits the ability of some of its players to gain entry into prestigious schools, thus constituting the “longstanding forces of institutional racism.” University of South Carolina coach Frank Martin and Harvard University coach Tommy Amaker, both of whom chair the NABC’s committee, claim that SATs and ACTs “no longer have a place in intercollegiate athletics or education at large.” Eliminating these […]
Portland’s Mayor Tear-Gassed By Militarized US Police July 23, 2020 Portland’s Mayor Tear-Gassed By Militarized US Police2020-07-232020-07-23https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/federal-police-spray-chemical-irritants-at-protester-outside-the-mark-o.-hatfield-us-courthouse-july-22-2020.-by-noah-berger-ap.-e1595539611410.jpeg200px200px The mayor of Portland, Oregon was tear-gassed by U.S. government agents as he stood outside a federal courthouse during another night of protests against the presence of federal police sent by President Donald Trump to quell the city’s ongoing unrest. Mayor Ted Wheeler, a Democrat, appeared slightly dazed and coughed and said Wednesday night it was the first time he’d been tear-gassed. He put on a pair of goggles someone handed him and drank water but did not leave his spot at the front of the […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/07/12/1079923235_0:-1:1200:675_1200x675_80_0_0_d722b521befe61cc0ca7968b1739cc08.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/world/202007231079968614-initial-black-box-analysis-on-downed-ukrainian-jet-complete-canada-says/ TORONTO (Sputnik) – A team of international investigators has completed the download and preliminary analysis of the black box data from the downed Ukrainian jet in Iran, Canada’s Transportation Safety Board said in a statement. “A team of investigators from the affected States, including two TSB investigators, met at the Bureau d’Enquetes et d’Analyses pour la Securite de l’Aviation Civile (BEA), in Paris, France, on 20 July 2020 to begin the readout of the flight recorders onboard PS752. In the course of a busy week, data from these flight recorders were successfully downloaded and […]
CNN anchor Brianna Keilar tore into Fox News medical contributor Dr. Marc Siegel on Thursday, taking aim at Siegel’s Trump-friendly coronavirus coverage and downplaying of the pandemic while labeling him a “sycophant.” Coming off an obsequious interview with President Donald Trump that saw the president telling Siegel he was his coronavirus “guide,” the Fox News doctor on Thursday gushed over the president’s ability to recall five words. “In a sense, that interview was a cognitive test. As you know, he is extremely sharp on every second,” Siegel said on Fox & Friends. “And he did a test on TV where he […]
The campus of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Beth J. Harpaz/AP hide caption toggle caption Beth J. Harpaz/AP The campus of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Beth J. Harpaz/AP One of the country’s leading business schools — the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania — has never had a woman or a person of color as its dean since it was founded nearly 140 years ago. Until now. Erika James was named as Wharton’s 15th dean in February and officially started the job earlier this month. The business world has […]
Thursday was an up day for both bitcoin and ether prices. Bitcoin (BTC) trading around $9,590 as of 20:00 UTC (4 p.m. EDT). Gaining 2% over the previous 24 hours. Bitcoin’s 24-hour range: $9,364-$9,686 BTC above 10-day and 50-day moving averages, a bullish signal for market technicians. Bitcoin trading on Coinbase since July 21.Source: TradingView Read More: 3 Reasons Bitcoin’s Price Could Soon Rise to $10K Bitcoin prices rose for a third straight day to its highest price in a month, reaching $9,686 Thursday. George Clayton, managing partner of New York-based Cryptanalysis Capital, expects it to go much higher. “We are […]
Twitter on Tuesday banned THOUSANDS of QAnon accounts for some reason. “Twitter Safety” said it was because QAnon accounts have “the potential to lead to offline harm.”Not sure what that means.They don’t offer any examples. Twitter went on to say they will: 1. No longer serve content and accounts associated with QAnon in Trends and recommendationsKeycap digit two2. Work to ensure we’re not highlighting this activity in search and conversationsKeycap digit three3. Block URLs associated with QAnon from being shared on Twitter TRENDING: UPDATE: Navy Is Investigating Uniformed Sailor Sarah Dudrey for Busting into Pro-Trump Rally, Harassing Protesters while Screaming “F**k […]
A full lockdown will be imposed across Iraq during the Eid Al-Adha holiday which starts on 31 July to prevent the spread of the COVID-19, the Ministry of Health announced yesterday. The Director General of the Public Health Department at the Ministry of Health, Riyad Abd Al-Amir, said the High Committee of National Health and Safety headed by Prime Minister, Mustafa Al-Kadhimi has approved the Health Ministry’s request to impose a comprehensive lockdown throughout Eid Al-Adha to prevent the spread of coronavirus. Abd Al-Amir explained that the country witnessed a surge in the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases one week after […]
The Johnson County Indiana Sheriff’s Office announced on Thursday that it will not be enforcing the governor’s mask order, informing residents that they will only “continue to enforce the law as guided by the Constitution of the United States.” “Governor Holcomb has enacted an executive order to mandate mask wearing in public places beginning Monday, July 27, 2020. As your elected Sheriff, I want to address this executive order and my stance on it,” Sheriff Duane E. Burgess wrote in a statement shared to the sheriff’s office Facebook page on Thursday: The Johnson County Sheriff’s Office will NOT be enforcing the executive […]
WASHINGTON — As defense spending flattens, it may be difficult for the Defense Department to further push down the unit cost of the F-35 joint strike fighter, the head of the Pentagon’s joint program office said Wednesday. “Overall, as you’re looking to the service budgets and as you look into the service spend plans, you see that the numbers of aircraft in those years are not rising as they did in lots 10 through 14, but they’re a little bit more flat,” said F-35 program head Lt. Gen. Eric Fick during a House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing. “Some of the […]
New York City’s Phase 4 reopening should be a turning point for the area, hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic. However, it’s not… On Wednesday morning (around 8:00 ET), EarthCam’s live feeds of the Charging Bull statue in the Financial District of Manhattan to Times Square to Broadway reveal a continued ghost town. Similar to what we showed last week. Charging Bull Times Square Times Square (street cam) Times Square (another view) Times Square (south view) Broadway Traffic data from New York City (provided by TomTom Traffic Index) show despite lockdowns easing in early June, congestion in the city is not returning to pre-virus levels. […]
The stock market suffered losses amid a continued rise in US unemployment and worries about how the economy would fare with increasing numbers of coronavirus infections. US stocks were down on Thursday evening, according to CNBC News. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, the broadest indicator on the New York Stock Exchange, fell 1.3 percent, or 353.51 points, to close at 26,652. The S&P 500, a barometer for the top 500 US stocks, settled up 1.2 percent, at 3,236. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite suffered its worst day since 23 June, dropping 2.3 percent to finish its trading day at 10,461. The broader […]
The Trump administration has called on Turkey to stop oil and gas drilling off the coast of Cyprus, a US Department of State spokesperson told Sputnik. “The United States is aware that Turkey has issued a NAVTEX (Navigational telex) for research in disputed waters in the Eastern Mediterranean,” the spokesperson said on Tuesday. In his statement, the spokesperson added that the US urged Turkish authorities to halt any plans for operations and to avoid steps that raise tensions in the region. On Tuesday, as part of the country’s hydrocarbon exploration activities, Turkey launched new seismic research activity with the Turkish Oruc Reis vessel in […]
President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he would cancel the in-person mass gathering of the Republican National Convention (RNC) scheduled for August in Jacksonville, Florida. “To have a big convention, it’s just not right,” he said. Trump said that the recent flareup of the coronavirus in Florida would put too many people in danger, including people traveling to the convention. “I just felt that it was wrong to have people to got to a hot spot,” Trump said. Trump said that his plans for his acceptance speech were still underway and that he would announce them in the future. The planned […]
Each company on Thursday was awarded an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract worth up to $400 million, but no seed money was immediately allocated as the firms will have to compete against each other for future orders. Through the Skyborg program, the Air Force wants to field a family of unmanned aerial systems that use artificial intelligence to adapt to battlefield conditions. The Skyborg drone should be cheap enough where losses of the aircraft in combat can be sustained, yet survivable enough so that it move into a high-end fight and function as a wingman to manned fighter jets. “Because autonomous systems can support […]
Alex Jones discovers a frequent accusation about COVID tests being spread on social media. Many Americans are claiming they are receiving a positive COVID-19 diagnosis without even being tested. With false positives sometimes making up as high as 60% of tests, labs only reporting positive cases and the counting of probable cases as actual cases, the astronomical phony numbers we are currently seeing do not reflect reality. Source link
By RetailDive, Ann Taylor and Lane Bryant owner Ascena last year pushed back on the notion that it was anywhere near bankruptcy — its interim board chief in October pointed to its “large iconic brands and a business with significant liquidity” — and it doubled down on that as recently as March. That didn’t last. The company is restructuring under Chapter 11, filing documents on Thursday in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia that include a restructuring support agreement with more than 68% of its secured term lenders, $150 million in a new term loan from existing lenders and a […]
The US is one of the worst countries in the world to raise a family, while Britain also scores badly, according to new research. America was ranked 34 out of 35 in a comparison of the world’s biggest economies, scoring three ‘F’ grades for safety, cost of living and work-life balance, a ‘D minus’ for health, and a ‘C+’ for happiness and education. Overall, it was given an ‘F’ grade for raising a family, with only Mexico coming out worse. The ‘Raising a Family Index’ was compiled from 30 studies of countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) which are advanced democracies […]
US President Donald Trump confirmed that the upcoming Republican convention event in Jacksonville, Florida has been canceled, saying “it’s just not right” during the coronavirus pandemic. “I told my team it’s time to cancel the Jacksonville, Florida component of the GOP convention,” the president announced during a press conference Thursday evening. #BREAKING: President Trump says he has canceled the Florida component of the Republican National Convention“I told my team it’s time to cancel the Jacksonville, Florida component of the GOP convention.”“To have a big convention, it’s just not right.” pic.twitter.com/P4zAHmrabV — Breaking911 (@Breaking911) July 23, 2020 The plan was to have […]
(Natural News) The lengths to which the lawless, George Soros-funded prosecutors in St. Louis are going to in order to convict a couple arrested and charged merely for defending their home against a Left-wing mob of Black Lives Matter supporters has become readily apparent. In an interview with Newsmax TV’s Greg Kelly on Tuesday, Mark and Patricia McCloskey discussed the felony charges leveled against them by local prosecutor Kim Gardner, who claims that, in spite of state law recognizing their right to arm up in defense of threats, St. Louis law prohibits residents from ‘standing their ground’ with firearms. Near the […]
New Tech Labor Movement Unites Office And Gig Workers By Tyler Sonnemaker and Allana Akhtar, Business Insider. July 23, 2020 New Tech Labor Movement Unites Office And Gig Workers2020-07-232020-07-23https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/employee-activism-at-major-tech-companies-like-amazon-and-google-has-been-on-the-rise-especially-since-the-pandemic.-e1595538254838.jpg200px200px Above photo: Employee activism at major tech companies like Amazon and Google has been on the rise, especially since the pandemic. Tech workers across pay scales, job types, geographies, and companies have joined together in unprecedented shows of solidarity. Google was one of the first. Last September, 80 Google contractors working for HCL Technologies voted overwhelmingly to unionize. Engineers at the company advocated for a union a month later, and were later fired. On New […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/07/17/1079967946_0:70:1280:790_1200x675_80_0_0_a9e5751e0b31d2d5de9633b91bda0670.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202007231079967602-unrest-continues-in-portland-despite-deployment-of-federal-forces—video-photos/ Protests, which erupted in the US city following the death of black man George Floyd in Minneapolis, have got out of control, with rioters launching fireworks, setting fire to police precincts and vandalising city property. Nightly protests have continued in the US city of Portland, Oregon, where President Donald Trump sent federal law enforcement agents to help maintain law and order and to protect the federal courthouse, the focus of ongoing protests over the last several weeks. Dozens of reporters have been injured by law enforcement officers while reporting on the unrest in the […]
President Donald Trump on Thursday announced during a White House briefing that he was ordering the cancellation of the Republican National Convention in Jacksonville, Florida, saying that “it’s not the right time” in light of the massive coronavirus outbreak in the state. Trump said the RNC’s delegates would still meet in Charlotte, North Carolina, and that he would still hold a convention speech, albeit “in a different form.” The president cited his duty to “to protect the American people” from the coronavirus, for which he used the racist epithet “China virus,” as superseding his desire to hold a “top of the […]
Protesters walk through chemical irritants deployed by federal agents in Portland, Ore. The inspector general of the Justice Department says he is investigating federal officers’ roles in responding to protests in Portland and Washington, D.C. Noah Berger/AP hide caption toggle caption Noah Berger/AP Protesters walk through chemical irritants deployed by federal agents in Portland, Ore. The inspector general of the Justice Department says he is investigating federal officers’ roles in responding to protests in Portland and Washington, D.C. Noah Berger/AP The Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General has opened an investigation into allegations that DOJ personnel have improperly used force […]
In the American epic, Lonesome Dove, by Larry McMurtry, there are two characters who can see much further than the other members of their gang: Captain Gus McCrae and Joshua Deets. McCrae’s co-captain, Woodrow Call, and their fellow cowboys learn to take Deets and McCrae at their word when they say they see something out where the Earth bends. Listening to Filecoin founder Juan Benet is like that. When he’s really trying to peer into the future of the internet, what he sees is hazy and chimerical, but he’s seeing something, anticipating either what must be built or the consequences of […]
President Trump on Thursday cancelled the Jacksonville portion of the RNC Convention in Jacksonville, Florida. Watch: President @realDonaldTrump explains why he’s cancelled the RNC in Jacksonville: “Timing on this is not right… I have to protect the American people…” pic.twitter.com/ovD2RHC4Ly — TV News HQ (@TVNewsHQ) July 23, 2020 Advertisement – story continues below Trump told White House made the announcement at his Coronavirus Briefing on Thursday. TRENDING: UPDATE: Navy Is Investigating Uniformed Sailor Sarah Dudrey for Busting into Pro-Trump Rally, Harassing Protesters while Screaming “F**k Trump!” President Donald Trump: “For me, I have to protect the American people. That’s what all […]
Some one million Turks are at risk of losing their German citizenship because authorities believe they hold dual nationality which was obtained after they were naturalised, duvaR reported. Germany’s Interior Minister of State of North Rhine Westphalia sent a circular asking municipalities for identifying those who became German citizens after 2000 and to check if they had subsequently obtained a Turkish nationality. Germany’s post-2000 law made it possible for the country to withdraw citizenship from those who had taken up another nationality following their naturalisation in Germany. The rule does not apply to nationals of EU member states. About a million Turks are […]
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) is pushing the Department of Justice (DOJ) to probe whether search giant Google is in violation of antitrust laws on a number of fronts, a new letter he wrote to Attorney General Bill Barr provided to Breitbart News exclusively shows. “In recent weeks, news outlets have reported that the Department of Justice is nearing a decision about whether to take enforcement action against Google for anticompetitive behavior that violates U.S. antitrust law,” Cotton wrote to Barr, citing a recent Politico report on looming DOJ action against Google. “I ask that the Department also investigate whether Google’s dominance […]
WASHINGTON — Despite numerous warnings of critical problems from experts within and outside the government over roughly 10 years, the cost to develop the now-canceled Redesigned Kill Vehicle program for homeland missile defense more than tripled, and the program’s schedule slipped by four years, a new U.S. government watchdog report reveals. “At the time [the Defense Department] canceled the RKV program in August 2019, MDA [the Missile Defense Agency] had spent a total of $1.21 billion on RKV development — $340 million more than the agency’s original estimate for the entire RKV development effort, including eight initial production kill vehicles,” according […]
Yesterday, the FBI revealed to the press that a senior PLA researcher wanted by the US federal law enforcement agency is believed to have been granted refuge at a Chinese consulate in San Francisco. The bombshell report followed other shocking news: that the Trump Administration had ordered a Chinese consulate in Houston – the first PRC mission to be established in the US – to close within 72 hours over allegations that the consulate is – as Marco Rubio said – a den of spies. Over the past 18 months, the DoJ has arrested several Chinese researchers and charged them with […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/07/17/1079967276_0:78:3000:1766_1200x675_80_0_0_25c626083840ce12e2f955a8e235cc74.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202007231079967314-us-arrests-3-chinese-researchers-seeks-fugitive-at-san-francisco-consulate-justice-department-says/ WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The US federal authorities have arrested three Chinese researchers for failing to disclose their links to China’s military, and a fourth individual is a fugitive harboured at the consulate in San Francisco, the Justice Department said in a press release on Thursday. “Four individuals have recently been charged with visa fraud in connection with a scheme to lie about their status as members of the People’s Republic of China’s military forces, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), while in the United States conducting research”, the release said. “Three of these individuals have […]
The US told Israel to ‘earmark’ land for a future Palestinian state, Ex-US Middle East envoy Jason Greenblatt told Israel’s Army Radio, i24 News reported. Greenblatt insisted that whilst US President Donald Trump’s so-called ‘deal of the century’ allows Israel to take 30% of the West Bank for itself, the deal also stipulates that land should be ‘earmarked’ for a future state of Palestine, in return for US approval to begin annexation. This comes after reports in Israeli media that the US asked Israel to hand half of Area C to the Palestinian Authority while applying its laws to the other half. Area […]
“Out of an abundance of caution, Marines who may have had contact with the infected Marine have been removed from the detachment,” Butterfield said, noting that the infected Marine was never in direct contact with the president’s helicopters, which are referred to as “Marine One” when he is aboard. “No impact is expected to the President during his trip to Bedminster, N.J.” A White House official confirmed that the Marine “had no contact with the president or any administration personnel.” This marks the latest instance of coronavirus hitting close to the president. This week, the cafeteria and another eatery at the […]
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver has made the maximum personal donation allowable to Joe Biden’s campaign for president, according to Federal Election Commission records. The donation appears on the FEC’s website of itemized receipts for donations to the Biden for President committee, OutKick the Coverage reported. Biden has repeatedly come to China’s side during this latest run for the White House. Biden slammed the president for calling the coronavirus the “Chinese virus,” and recently said that Trump is “racist” for using the term. In other comments, Biden said that he wants to make China stronger. And a July 20 article about Biden’s […]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. State Department has cleared Chile to purchase modernization upgrades for its F-16 fleet, with a potential $634.70 million price tag. Chile currently operates 46 F-16s. That include 10 Block 50 models purchased in the early 2000s, as well as 36 older models bought second-hand from the Netherlands. Reports that Chile would look to upgrade their existing F-16 fleet first emerged in 2017, but final details had not been made public. Analysts have also speculated that Chile may look to buy a small number of new F-16s to supplement its fleet. The upgrades included in this potential sale […]
Sex toy manufacturers in China have seen notable increases in the number of orders they receive since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, especially from other countries. According to the South China Morning Post, Libo Technology, a sex toy manufacturer based in the eastern Chinese province of Shandong, has seen a 30% increase in exports and domestic sales since the closures and lockdowns began around the world. The manufacturer’s overseas sales manager, Violet Du, said that the company has increased its production line staff by around 25% to close to 400 staff members since they returned to work at the end […]
Authored by Ivan Pentchoukov via The Epoch Times, A growing number of Americans feel that the political climate is preventing them from sharing their views, according to a new survey by the Cato Institute. The institute surveyed 2,000 Americans and found that 62 percent are reluctant to share their views due to the political climate. In 2017, 58 percent of people surveyed expressed the same opinion. Republicans are much more likely to be afraid to share their opinions than Democrats and independents, the survey found. More than 3 in 4 Republicans—77 percent—said they are afraid to share their views compared to 52 percent of the […]
As reparations become a more and more popular topic while anti-police and anti-racism protests rage across the US, rapper Ice Cube wants to see Hollywood studios take part and give yearly payments to black-owned companies. “I think these studios that we know and love should kick in to a studio that’s ran by black people with no outside influences, and whose movies and projects are owned by those black people,” the musician and actor told radio show ‘The Breakfast Club’. These studios, he claims, have “contributed in our narrative, in our pain, in our misrepresentation.” First making waves as a rapper […]
Thursday, July 23, 2020 by: Mike Adams Tags: CIA, covert budgets, deep state, Kevin Shipp, military technology, patriots, President Trump, shadow government, space weapons (Natural News) Today we bring you a hard-hitting interview with former CIA officer and whistleblower Kevin Shipp (KevinShipp.com). Kevin Shipp is a high-IQ individual with decades of experience in the intelligence community. When he tried to warn the CIA about a hacking vulnerability that exposed records of CIA agents to […]
Time Is Not On Our Side In Libya By Vijay Prashad, Globetrotter. July 23, 2020 Time Is Not On Our Side In Libya2020-07-232020-07-23https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/female-protestors-in-tripoli-protest-against-calls-to-separate-the-country-into-three-autonomous-regions-march-2012.-by-magharebia-cc-e1595536090251.jpg200px200px Above photo: Female protestors in Tripoli protest against calls to separate the country into three autonomous regions, March 2012. Magharebia CC. Ahmed, who lives in Tripoli, Libya, texts me that the city is quieter than before. The army of General Khalifa Haftar—who controls large parts of eastern Libya—has withdrawn from the southern part of the capital and is now holding fast in the city of Sirte and at the airbase of Jufra. Most of Libya’s population lives along the coastline […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/07/17/1079965200_0:0:2854:1606_1200x675_80_0_0_42c81a6973885dfbcf5ece984efcc199.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202007231079965235-us-secretary-of-state-mike-pompeo-delivers-speech-on-china-following-consulate-closure-order–/ The US government has ordered China to vacate its diplomatic premises in Houston by the end of the week amid intellectual property theft concerns. China has denied the accusations and criticised the United States for violating international law and inciting hatred toward Chinese nationals. Sputnik is live from Yorba Linda, California where US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is delivering remarks on China in a speech titled “Communist China and the future of the free world”. Already tense US-China relations hit another low after the United States ordered China to close its consulate in […]
“REQUEST YOUR ABSENTEE BALLOT TODAY,” reads a mailer sent to North Carolina Republicans earlier this week by the North Carolina Trump Victory campaign, the Trump campaign’s joint field operation with the Republican National Committee in the state. The mailer, part of a push to contact more than three million voters in the state, calls voting by mail “easy and secure,” and urges recipients to use the “Official Republican Party Absentee Ballot Application to safely and securely request your ballot.” “All North Carolina voters are eligible to vote absentee—no matter the reason,” states the mailer, which contains step-by-step instructions for applying for […]
“From day one, any discussion of herd immunity or survival of the fittest or, you know, ‘Say farewell to the elderly,’ are the things that just did not sound right for us,” Jordan’s Prime Minister Omar Razzaz tells NPR. “So we went for a very different model in Jordan, based on social solidarity.” Jane Arraf/NPR hide caption toggle caption Jane Arraf/NPR “From day one, any discussion of herd immunity or survival of the fittest or, you know, ‘Say farewell to the elderly,’ are the things that just did not sound right for us,” Jordan’s Prime Minister Omar Razzaz tells NPR. “So […]
Out of the nearly $8 billion in deposit growth that Signature Bank saw in the second quarter of 2020, $1 billion was raked in by the firm’s digital assets team, according to the bank’s most recent earnings report. While Signature doesn’t break out its total deposits by business line, the increase is a record for the New York-based, crypto-friendly bank. On an earnings call, Signature CEO Joseph DePaolo also attributed deposit growth to an increase across every business line in the bank, including the blockchain-based payment platform Signet. The crypto industry is often a rich source of low-cost, non-interest bearing deposits […]
Michael Horowitz Obama-appointed Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz on Thursday announced an investigation into ‘use of force allegations’ involving Department of Homeland Security officers who were deployed to Portland to quell weeks of non-stop riots. Horowitz is also investigating actions of federal agents in Lafayette Square in DC last month to quell the violence. Horowitz cited “Congressional requests, complaints received by the OIG, and a referral from the US Attorney in Oregon.” Horowitz said that additionally, the DOJ OIG is initiating a review to examine the DOJ’s and its law enforcement components’ roles, responsibilities, training, rules of engagement, use of […]
The Knesset voted through sweeping powers to the Israeli government to manage coronavirus on Wednesday, i24 News reported. The new law, which passed 48-35 in its third reading, will go into effect on August 10. The new ‘coronavirus law’ will allowed new regulations and restrictions passed by the cabinet to be imposed for a duration of 28 days. The law will allow the Israeli government to extend the state of emergency at 60-day intervals, up from 45 -a power which will apparently expire by June 30 2021. This move will strip Israel’s current Coronavirus Committee of its power and put the […]
The letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray — authored by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and the top Democrats on the House and Senate intelligence committees — also included a public request that the bureau brief all lawmakers. It came amid increasingly vocal warnings from Democrats, including from Biden’s presidential campaign, about foreign interference in the 2020 race and fear of another Kremlin-led effort to boost Trump’s reelection prospects. Republicans were not asked to join the Democrats’ push for a briefing and they have since rejected it as a partisan effort. The classified addendum to the public […]
Rapper T.I. called for $44 trillion to be paid out as “reparations” to all black descendants of slaves in the United State on Tuesday’s edition of The Breakfast Club. “This is my goal,” the Ant‑Man and the Wasp actor declared. “My goal is to get every black person in America that’s a descendant of slavery one million dollars, at least. That’ll take about 44 trillion. So that’s my goal, so I’m working up on 44 trillion.” T.I., who has over 120 acting credits to his name and whose net worth is an estimated $50 million, echoed rapper Ice Cube’s recent call for race-based economic appropriations while […]
WASHINGTON ― The White House and Senate Republicans are nearing an agreement on a $1 trillion-plus economic rescue proposal that would also seek $21 billion for defense, according to a draft obtained by the New York Times on Thursday. The emerging GOP proposal would include $11 billion in payments to contractors under the Section 3610 of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act, which allowed firms serving the federal government to seek reimbursement for pandemic-related expenses. However, amid reports of internal divisions―over the defense money and other aspects―Republicans delayed the rollout to at least next week. Defense trade associations, along […]
Intel beat top- and bottom-lines in tonight’s earnings: Intel 2Q Rev. $19.7B, Est. $18.54B Intel 2Q Adj EPS $1.23, Est. $1.12 Intel CEO Bob Swan proudly celebrated the quarter: “It was an excellent quarter, well above our expectations on the continued strong demand for computing performance to support cloud-delivered services, a work- and learn-at-home environment, and the build-out of 5G networks. In our increasingly digital world, Intel technology is essential to nearly every industry on this planet. We have an incredible opportunity to enrich lives and grow this company with a continued focus on innovation and execution.” The outlook was solid: […]
Sex toy manufacturers in China have seen notable increases in the number of orders they receive since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, especially from other countries. According to the South China Morning Post, Libo Technology, a sex toy manufacturer based in the eastern Chinese province of Shandong, has seen a 30% increase in exports and domestic sales since the closures and lockdowns began around the world. The manufacturer’s overseas sales manager, Violet Du, said that the company has increased its production line staff by around 25% to close to 400 staff members since they returned to work at the end […]
Libya on Thursday revealed a list of suspects involved in mass graves discovered in Tarhuna city and areas south of the capital Tripoli, Anadolu Agency reports. The list released by the country’s prosecutor general’s office will be distributed to corresponding institutions to arrest the suspects, a source at the office told Anadolu Agency on condition of anonymity due to restrictions on speaking to media outlets. The source noted that in the list are names of leaders of the pro-Khalifa Haftar 9th Brigade known as Kaniyat. On June 5, the Libyan army liberated Tarhuna, a focal location used as an operation and supply center by […]
Republicans acknowledged the bickering, even as they tried to downplay the episode. “We have to resolve some of the conflicts with the administration. They moved in our direction.” said Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), who faces a tough race in November. “It’s a normal part of the sausage factory.” “Nothing surprises me in the United States Senate,” added Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.). But privately, GOP lawmakers were flabbergasted that they’ll likely have to wait until next week to unveil even an initial proposal. “You just got to get something out there,” complained one Republican senator. “It will be insufficient to the task, […]
Police have arrested three suspects who belong to the Hells Angels gang and charged them on Tuesday for allegedly killing a rival gang leader in May. Authorities on Tuesday arrested Anthony Destefano, 27, and Hells Angels Motorcycle Club members Frank Tatulli, 58, and Sayanon Thongthawath, 29. Each of them was charged in connection with the fatal shooting of Francisco Rosado, 51, who was supposedly the leader of the Pagan’s Motorcycle Club, the New York Post reported. The gunmen allegedly waited four hours outside the 51-year-old’s home before firing at Rosado, hitting him twice in the head, WABC reported. Police said Rosado was […]
WASHINGTON — The Defense Innovation Unit has selected Ball Aerospace to develop a new prototype antenna for the U.S. Navy’s new stealth destroyers, the company announced July 21. The low-observable antenna will allow the DDG 1000 Zumwalt-class destroyers to communicate over multiple frequency bands without compromising the ships’ stealth features. Ball will develop the antenna architecture, beamforming approach and the prototype itself. “We are pleased to partner with DIU and the U.S. Navy to explore ways to quickly and cost-effectively increase the capabilities of the DDG 1000,” said Jake Sauer, vice president and general manager of tactical solutions at Ball. “Our […]
As the nationwide coin shortage continues to rage, a southeastern Wisconsin bank is offering above face value for coins. Last week, the Community State Bank (CSB) launched a coin buy-back program to assist local businesses affected by the shortage. The bank is offering customers a $5 bonus for every $100 worth of coins turned in at any of its seven locations. “The response has been tremendous,” CSB President and CEO, Scott Huedepohl, said in a release. “We’ve had people contacting us not only from our community but all over the United States. Our goal was to generate enough coin inventory to […]
Authored by Sven Henrich via NorthmanTrader.com, You know where I stand: Markets have been bloated to high heaven via unlimited and unprecedented liquidity injections creating the illusion of a bull market when there is none. Yes indices such as $SPX and $NDX show incredible strength driven by a few single stocks, but as we discussed the rest of the market is far from bullish. Equal weight keeps lagging: …while virtually all market gains are driven by a handful of stocks: In fact the broader markets has gone nowhere since mid April: But still the few stocks are running overall market valuations […]
Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz announced today that: In response to Congressional requests, complaints received by the OIG, and a referral from the U.S. Attorney in Oregon, the DOJ Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has opened an investigation into use of force allegations involving DOJ law enforcement personnel in Portland, Oregon in July 2020. The DOJ OIG will coordinate our investigation with the Department of Homeland Security OIG. In addition, in response to requests from Members of Congress and members of the public, the DOJ OIG is initiating a review to examine the DOJ’s and its […]
The US Army has finally logged off Twitch after its questionable efforts to connect with gamers were met with major pressure from online activists and suggestions that its dubious activity even fell foul of the Constitution. The military’s esports gaming team has “paused” its Twitch streaming and social media interactions following negative media coverage and “potentially unconstitutional bans,” journalist Rod Breslau first reported on Thursday. new: sources tell me due to recent media coverage of fake giveaways and potentially unconstitutional bans, the US Army esports team has paused social activity, streaming on Twitch, and official activations with Twitch including participating in […]
(Natural News) The House of Representatives has been busy going through various appropriations bills to be added to the final budget. And the Democrat-controlled branch of the federal government has perhaps un-shockingly voted in favor of depriving newborn survivors of abortion their right to live. Various amendments that would have protected newborn baby lives from being murdered after leaving the womb when attempted abortions go awry were repeatedly shot down by Democrats, who appear to be trying to make infanticide the new abortion. The party of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is hellbent on destroying as many unborn and newborn lives […]
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/202007231079967027-israeli-fighter-jet-makes-aggressive-pass-over-iranian-passenger-plane-in-syrian-airspace—report/ According to reports in Iranian media, an Israeli aircraft made an “aggressive” close pass near an Iranian airliner that was flying through Syrian airspace on Thursday. MORE INFORMATION TO FOLLOW… Source link
Thank you to the House of Suntory for partnering with Half Full and sponsoring this Bartenders At Home cocktail video. What inspired you to create this cocktail? “I wanted to emphasize the delicate, smooth, and mildly silky characteristics of the vodka, partnering it with other delicate Japanese ingredients (yuzu, sake, rice vinegar), to create a crisp, simple, yet nuanced cocktail.” When would you serve this drink? “I’d want to serve this drink as the first (or second) cocktail of the evening, prior to enjoying an umami driven Japanese meal. If no meal was planned, it makes a perfect accompaniment to a […]
Mayor Quinton Lucas talks to demonstrators during a rally on the steps of city hall in Kansas City, Mo. on June 5. Charlie Riedel/AP hide caption toggle caption Charlie Riedel/AP Mayor Quinton Lucas talks to demonstrators during a rally on the steps of city hall in Kansas City, Mo. on June 5. Charlie Riedel/AP Quinton Lucas, the mayor of Kansas City, Mo., says he found out about President Trump’s plan to send federal law enforcement officers to his city over social media. “I learned about Operation Legend from actually someone on Twitter who had notified me that it was occurring,” the […]
Over the past four years, nChain chief scientist Craig S. Wright’s layers of attempts to prove that he created Bitcoin have grown more complex. But according to cryptography experts consulted by CoinDesk, assessing Wright’s recent claim about how Bitcoin message signing works is straightforward – it’s just wrong. Since 2016, Wright has tried to use cryptographic evidence to prove that he is Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin. But the pieces of proof Wright has provided, at least so far, have been vigorously disputed by experts in these forms of mathematical proofs. (Back in 2016 for instance, White Ops chief […]
A judge ruled Thursday that Michael Cohen will be released Friday to home confinement, declaring that the government acted in a “retaliatory” manner by taking President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney into custody this month. “The purpose of transferring Mr. Cohen from furlough and home confinement to jail is retaliatory and its retaliatory because of his desire to exercise his first amendment rights to publish a book and discuss anything about the book or anything else he wants on social media and others,” Judge Alvin Hellerstein ruled during a telephonic hearing. Cohen, who was sent home in May amid coronavirus fears, […]
A group of Palestinian cyclists were attacked Saturday by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank after a trail app landed them on a remote path dotted with Jewish settlements, Reuters reported. Avid cyclist Amer Kurdi and four others set out on what was supposed to be an 80-km ride, using the hiking app Komoot to chart a path north from the Palestinian village of Birzeit. Over an hour into their ride, Kurdi said Komoot led them east towards a rocky path near the Israeli settlement of Shilo, where a group of Israeli settlers approached them and asked where they were from. Kurdi, 30, replied that they […]
The measure would kick off a process forcing the Pentagon to scrub names, monuments and paraphernalia honoring the Confederacy and its leaders from military bases and assets over the next three years. The House defense bill passed Tuesday, would force the renaming of bases within a year. The effort, sponsored by former presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), comes amid protests over systemic racism and policy brutality across the country. Ten Army bases are named for Confederate military leaders. Trump has said his administration won’t consider renaming bases — labeling it an attempt to rewrite U.S. history — contradicting Pentagon leaders […]
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s (D) most recent mask mandate, which orders three-year-olds to cover their faces, exempts lawmakers and government employees while they are “on duty.” Bowser issued the order Wednesday, mandating everyone over the age of two wear a mask in both indoor and outdoor settings. “Under the new Mayor’s Order on masks, people must wear a mask when they leave their homes if they are likely to come into contact with another person for more than a fleeting moment,” the mayor’s office states. While masking mandates across the nation, and in D.C., typically contain several exceptions — exempting the […]
Don’t take down those Fort Bragg road signs just yet. Republicans and Democrats in both the House and Senate voted overwhelmingly this week to back legislation forcing the Defense Department to rename military bases honoring Confederate leaders, including Fort Bragg in North Carolina, Fort Hood in Texas and Fort Benning in Georgia. The moves came despite repeated veto threats from President Donald Trump over the issue and parallel new Defense Department orders banning the display of the Confederate battle flag on all installations, amid a military-wide reckoning over divisive symbols from the Civil War. Despite the bipartisan backing in Congress, however, […]
As the CEOs of the big platform tech giants prepare to sit for a (virtual) Congressional hearing later this month, that multiple states are investigating the consumer tech giant for allegedly deceiving customers, according to documents obtained by Axios. The Cupertino-based tech behemoth is no stranger to investigations despite its sterling reputation. The company is already facing antitrust investigations from Democrats in the House, as well as the European Union (though a judge recently struck down a finding that would have forced Apple to pay billions of dollars in back-taxes to the government of Ireland. States have also stepped up their […]
Newly surfaced cellphone footage has placed the spotlight on a California resident who recently went out of her way to block a Postmates deliveryman from entering an apartment complex and bringing an order to a customer. Footage of the bizarre confrontation was recorded and shared on social media Wednesday by part-time Postmates contractor Jordan Gipson. At the time of recording, Gipson was completing a delivery for a customer in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles when he was suddenly confronted by an unidentified white woman at the entrance of a building. The initial confrontation shows the pair standing at the entrance […]
The French foreign minister on Thursday said that his country is ready to help Lebanon overcome the critical situation caused by the escalation of the ongoing economic crisis, Anadolu Agency reports. “France is ready to mobilise its efforts for Lebanon’s side, therefore serious and credible corrective measures must be adopted and implemented. Help us help you,” Jean-Yves Le Drian said in a joint press conference with his Lebanese counterpart Nassif Hitti in Beirut. Le Drian arrived in Lebanon on Wednesday for a three-day visit. “I came to bring you a message that time is critical, Lebanon is facing a very critical crisis, and […]
Pop superstar and The Voice host John Legend accused President Donald Trump of “waging war” on America’s neighborhoods after the president announced plans to increase the presence of police in crime-ridden cities across the country. On Wednesday, President Trump ordered the Department of Justice to “surge” the number of federal law enforcement officers in Chicago, a city that has seen, as of July 19th, 414 murders, a staggering 50 percent rise in the number of killings at this same time in 2019. Trump’s announcement was his first official remarks about Operation Legend, which was set up in response to the tragic death of four-year-old LeGend Taliferro, […]
WASHINGTON – The Defense Innovation Unit has selected Ball Aerospace to develop a new prototype antenna for the U.S. Navy’s new stealth destroyers, the company announced July 21. The low-observable antenna will allow the DDG 1000 Zumwalt-class destroyers to communicate over multiple frequency bands without compromising the ships’ stealth features. Ball will develop the antenna architecture, beamforming approach and the prototype itself. “We are pleased to partner with DIU and the U.S. Navy to explore ways to quickly and cost-effectively increase the capabilities of the DDG 1000,” said Jake Sauer, vice president and general manager of tactical solutions at Ball. “Our […]
Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) voted with House Democrats on legislation to remove Confederate statues from Washington, D.C., and defended the decision on social media by claiming that the Confederacy represents the Democratic Party’s “racist past” and he was happy to help them “confront” such previous wrongdoings. On Wednesday night, Crenshaw sided with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), who recently called for 11 statues of Confederate leaders from the Capitol building. Of the statues, 9 represent individuals who at some point were registered Democrats. As Just the News notes, “The other two Confederates, Edmund Kirby Smith and Robert E. Lee, did not […]
After years of controversy, the NFL team formerly known as the Washington Redskins has finally abandoned its moniker, simultaneously beloved by its fandom and loathed by white progressives and SJWs across the US. But with the 2020-2021 season just a month away, the team has decided that – until a more suitable name can be chosen – it will be going by “the Washington Football Team.” Effective immediately, Washington will call itself the “Washington Football Team”, pending adoption of a new name, sources tell ESPN. This is not a final renaming and rebranding for team; this is the name it wants […]
Health Editor’s Note: The U.S. is banned from traveling to countless countries due to our raging rates of sickness and deaths from coronavirus. If you actually were willing to chance COVID-19 by being confined to an airplane, you are not given that chance to tempt viral fate. Now, we have states that ban other states from entering unless residents from those states maintain a 14 day quarantine upon entering New York. New Jersey and Connecticut have similar bans for travelers from other states. Not sure how a trip to New York, say for business or maybe even pleasure will work out […]
MotoGP world champion Marc Marquez has incredibly been declared fit to race at this weekend’s Andalusian Grand Prix, despite breaking his arm in a huge crash during a race last weekend. Marquez recovered from an early setback during Sunday’s Spanish Grand Prix at Jerez before producing a brilliant comeback, only to then spectacularly crash his Repsol Honda at Turn 3. Marquez coped well with the heavy landing, but was then hit by his bike, which left him with a broken humerus in his right arm. Earlier this week he had surgery to fix a titanium plate to the outside of Marquez’s […]
(Natural News) Multiple teams of military medics have reportedly been deployed to both Texas and California in response to a claimed deluge of new Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) cases. The nation’s two most populous states have each reported about 10,000 new cases of the virus, though these may simply be non-symptomatic people who decided to get tested and turned up positive, possibly with false results like what is currently happening in Florida. Florida and Arizona are also said to be seeing higher rates of the virus, along with California, which has prompted Governor Gavin Newsom to announce that children in many of […]
Julian Assange and WikiLeaks have repeatedly denied allegations that the emails belonging to the Democratic National Committee which they published in 2016 were provided to them by Russian or any other state actor, but rather than they were leaked to the organisation via “official circles in Washington DC”. Democratic National Committee (DNC) documents published by WikiLeaks in 2016 and could not have been obtained through hacking, according to a new assessment co-authored by National Security Agency (NSA) whistelblower Bill Binney. Mr Binney, speaking via an online press conference on 23 July 2020, said that he and a team of other former intelligence […]
In the week leading up to his announcement of a “surge” of hundreds of FBI, Justice Department, and Homeland Security personnel to Chicago, Donald Trump wanted a bigger, more public, more violent fight on the streets of the Windy City. According to three people familiar with the president’s private remarks, Trump previously envisioned an ostentatious, camera-ready show of force. He wanted to go after what he saw as violent gang leaders, flush them out of hiding in ways that would have them “shaking in their boots” like they never had before, and have alleged perpetrators marched out in front of the […]
Members of the Puget Sound John Brown Gun Club hold a memorial service for Willem van Spronsen on July 28, 2019, at the site where he was killed by law enforcement outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Tacoma, Washington. Jim Urquhart for NPR hide caption toggle caption Jim Urquhart for NPR Members of the Puget Sound John Brown Gun Club hold a memorial service for Willem van Spronsen on July 28, 2019, at the site where he was killed by law enforcement outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Tacoma, Washington. Jim Urquhart for NPR News of an […]
At least three federal agents may be permanently blinded by Antifa-BLM protest mob this week.The mob was pointing lasers at their eyes.FOX News reported: At least three federal officers in Portland may not recover their vision after earlier this week demonstrators, who have shown up in crowds of over 1,000 for more than 50 consecutive nights, shined lasers in their eyes and threw fireworks at a federal courthouse, officials said. During Monday night’s confrontation, one person also threatened to cut off the water supply to federal officers inside the building. Federal Protective Service (FPS) Deputy Director of Operations Richard “Kriss” Cline […]
Israeli forces on Tuesday demolished a Palestinian coronavirus testing centre at the entrance of the city of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, Anadolu Agency reported. Construction of the facility, designed to contain the spread of the virus in the city, began nearly three months ago. As the structure was nearing completion, Israeli bulldozers destroyed it. Hebron witnessed the worst outbreak of the deadly virus in the West Bank, which has been struggling over the past two weeks to cope with a second wave of COVID-19 infections. This comes one day after Israeli soldiers demolished a Palestinian security checkpoint set up at the entrance of the city of Jenin to test […]
“I could not allow my nieces, I could not allow the little girls that I go home to, I could not allow victims of verbal abuse and, worse, to see that — to see that excuse and to see our Congress accepted as legitimate and accept it as an apology and to accept silence as a form of acceptance, I could not allow that to stand,” Ocasio-Cortez said, adding, “This is not new. And that is the problem.” Then, Ocasio-Cortez yielded the floor to more than a dozen of her Democratic colleagues, mostly women, to deliver their own floor speeches rebuking […]
A bipartisan bill being introduced in the Michigan House of Representatives on Thursday requires the state treasurer to tabulate the cost of the coronavirus outbreak to the state and send an invoice to China. State Rep. Beau LaFave (R-Iron Mountain) tells Breitbart News the bill, HB 6025, will be filed and assigned to a committee today. According to the legislation, which is cosponsored by two Democrats, the proposed law will “provide for the reimbursement of this state for the actions of the People’s Republic of China in causing the outbreak and spread of the coronavirus.” The bill calls on the state […]
Navigation Brief WASHINGTON – Good Afternoon, Drifters My dear friend Claude Berube over at the Naval Academy Museum put on a fantastic event last night, the second NavyCon. NavyCon is a group of people sitting around talking about Sci-Fi, how it has been influenced by the Navy and what lessons we can draw from it in the future. I’ll post the link next week so you all can watch it. Instead of the normal format this week, I thought I’d send you the detailed version of my presentation for the vast majority of you who didn’t watch last night. My talk […]
The feud continues… For those who have not been paying attention to this dramafest, it began on Monday when Republican congressman Ted Yoho reportedly called Democratic congressowman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) “disgusting” and “out of her freaking mind” after she asserted that the riots and looting across America was because of poverty and unemployment: “Maybe this has to do with the fact that people aren’t paying their rent and are scared to pay their rent and so they go out, and they need to feed their child and they don’t have money…so they feel like they either need to shoplift some bread […]
The latest incident comes less than a day after Russian warplanes intercepted NATO spy planes flying near Russia’s borders in the Black and Baltic Seas. A Russian Aerospace Forces Sukhoi Su-27 fighter was scrambled to intercept and shadow a US P-8A Poseidon spy plane over the Black Sea, Russia’s National Defence Management Center announced Thursday. “The crew of the Russian fighter jet approached to within a safe distance of the aerial object, identified as an American P-8A Poseidon reconnaissance aircraft,” the Center said in a statement. The Su-27 was said to have returned to its airfield after the US plane turned […]
The catastrophic news that war is possible between Egypt and Turkey in Libya passed almost without notice, not least because Saudi Arabia is using the name of Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, in its frantic struggle to win the race to be the Arab country which is most normalised with Israel. I am not talking about an amateur blogger looking for fame or a free holiday in the Holy Land from the Zionists. Nor am I talking about a retired general competing for an advanced position in the Saudi-Israeli normalisation market that was initiated officially with Donald Trump’s visit to […]
During an exchange with an undercover agent posing as an intermediary for a fictional Arab sheikh, Myers was infamously recorded saying “money talks in this business and bullshit walks.” He was subsequently convicted of bribery and conspiracy charges, and sentenced to serve three years in prison in 1981. Myers is now charged “with conspiring with and bribing” former Philadelphia Judge of Elections Domenick Demuro, who pleaded guilty in March and was convicted in May for “his role in accepting bribes to cast fraudulent ballots and certifying false voting results during the 2014, 2015, and 2016 primary elections” in the city, according […]
The FBI is accusing the Chinese consulate in San Francisco, California, of harboring a fugitive University of California, Davis, researcher charged with visa fraud for lying about her connections to the Chinese military. Prosecutors said in a U.S. District Court filing in San Francisco that biology researcher Tang Juan fled to the Chinese consulate after the FBI questioned her about her visa application on June 20. Tang stated on her application that she is not a member of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and has never served in the Chinese military, but investigators discovered a photo of her wearing the uniform […]
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Navy is over the halfway mark in certifying the new carrier Gerald R. Ford’s 11 advanced weapons elevators, which have been at the center of an ongoing controversy over the delays in getting the Navy’s most expensive-ever warship ready for its first deployment. In a press release Thursday, the Navy announced it had certified Lower Stage Weapons Elevator 1, the sixth certified working elevator. LSWE 1 moves bombs from the forward magazine up to a staging area beneath the flight deck, where the weapons are armed and sent to the Upper Stage Weapons Elevators that go to […]
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. goes head to head with attorney Alan Dershowitz on the topic of forced vaccination. Do not miss this! RFK Jr. and Dershowitz debate the nation’s hottest issue. Related: Dr. Carrie Madej, an Internal Medicine Specialist with over 19 years of experience, claims that the COVID-19 vaccine could be a Trojan Horse used to patent human beings, as it will change one’s DNA. Also: Alex Jones breaks down how Vanderbilt researchers describe the process of nanotech viruses taking over every cell in the human body. Source link