(Natural News) Despite advising citizens not to panic because of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, several states in America have been stockpiling food for the last few months. Officials from some of these states have also urged citizens to avoid “panic buying.” Christian Westbrook, the host of the Ice Age Farmer YouTube channel, takes a closer look at one of these reservoir warehouses to expose a sinister plan to […]
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The UK recruited agents and bribed members of the Iranian parliament in an effort to encourage them to take part in the 1953 coup which overthrew the elected prime minister and restored the shah, an unaired interview with an ex-British spy has revealed. The transcript of the unaired interview with former British spy Norman Darbyshire, who was MI6’s chief of the Persian division, laid bare the […]
At least 50 people were shot, five fatally, over the weekend in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago. ABC 7 reported that the shootings began about 6 p.m. Friday and continued until just before midnight Sunday. A 12-year-old boy and numerous teens were among the wounded. The Chicago Sun-Times reported that the 12-year-old was shot in the leg just after 8 p.m. Saturday night, while with a […]
Last month we quoted from Wolf Richter to remind readers of something we discussed several months ago when we went over the details of the forbearance process and why so many banks have chosen to use it instead of rushing to admit their balance sheets are hammered with a record surge in delinquencies and defaults. As a reminder, “mortgages that are in forbearance and have not […]
So who blew up Beirut? The chances of 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate (NH4NO3) accidentally blowing up in Beirut at this particular time do not seem to me to be high. The MSM love coincidences. Intelligence analysts do not. With every respect to those of my colleagues taking a different view I’m not thinking nuclear, nor the Israelis. Ammonium nitrate is a fertilizer. It’s not actually […]
Twitter suspended the account of parody news site The Babylon Bee after it mocked Democrat VP candidate Kamala Harris and ‘mail vote suppression’ conspiracies. It was shortly restored amid protests about censorship. The Bee went dark around 6 pm on Monday. Archives showed that their last tweet was a story about President Donald Trump “riding around in an SUV” smashing mailboxes “to make it impossible for […]
Indicators For Measuring Injustice And Societal Decay By Ralph Nader, Nader Page. August 17, 2020 Indicators For Measuring Injustice And Societal Decay2020-08-172020-08-17https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2013/12/System-failure-150×112.jpg200px200px Economic indicators – data points, trends, and micro-categories – are the widgets of the big information industry. By contrast, indicators for our society’s democratic health are not similarly compiled, aggregated, and reported. Its up and down trends are presented piecemeal and lack quantitative precision. […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/104809/48/1048094831_0:154:3008:1846_1200x675_80_0_0_21c079784a50b3fecba36c5a27d5fffa.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202008171080200173-us-cops-investigate-discovery-of-skeletal-remains-inside-winter-coat-in-vacant-home/ A potential homebuyer in Baltimore, Maryland, made a grisly discovery on Sunday when they arrived to tour a house and found a dead body inside wearing cold weather gear. The Baltimore Sun’s Maggie Ybarra reported in a Twitter thread on Sunday that a prospective homebuyer who went to a house in the 1400 block of Baltimore’s Argyle Avenue found […]
For months now, President Donald Trump has been trying to tie Joe Biden to the amorphous protest movement known as antifa—short for “anti-fascist.” Now, he’s calling the former vice president and his running mate “fascist.” Speaking to supporters on a tarmac in Mankato, Minnesota on Monday, just a few hours before the virtual Democratic National Convention was set to begin, President Trump appeared to be reading […]
A COVID-19 test is collected in Salt Lake City, Utah. A federal study published Monday found that Hispanic and non-white workers make up a disproportionate share of COVID-19 cases associated with workplace outbreaks in Utah. Rick Bowmer/AP hide caption toggle caption Rick Bowmer/AP A COVID-19 test is collected in Salt Lake City, Utah. A federal study published Monday found that Hispanic and non-white workers make up […]
Investors suing Nvidia have opposed a motion from the U.S. chipmaker that would shut out the testimony from an ex-employee. Source link
The Justice Department announced Monday that a former CIA officer was arrested and charged with espionage. 67-year-old Alexander Yuk Ching Ma was arrested on Friday and charged with spying for China. According to the DOJ, Alexander Yuk Ching Ma, beginning in 2001, conspired with a relative of his, who was also a former CIA officer, to communicate top secret material to intel agents from China. For […]
Egypt will shrink the size of its subsidized loaf of bread by 20 grams, a document seen by Reuters showed on Monday, allowing bakers to make more fixed-price loaves from the standard 100-kg sack of flour, Reuters reports. Egypt, the world’s largest wheat importer, offers bread to more than 60 million people as part of a sprawling food subsidy programme. Changes to food support are highly […]
“It’s a no-win proposition because you’re going to alienate (one or) the other group,” said Tom Kloza, analyst at the oil price service OPIS, who has not been in touch with the Trump administration. “To the extent that they can, they’ll probably stall or wait. And they can get away with it because its such an uncertain environment in terms of what volumes are going to […]
President Donald Trump on Monday criticized Fox News as “fake news” during a campaign rally in Wisconsin. “Look at all of that fake news, it’s unbelievable,” Trump said while ripping the media covering his rally. “Unfortunately Fox has become fake news too. I don’t know what happens. Do you agree?” Supporters cheered the president’s speech on an airport tarmac in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, Monday evening, which Fox […]
A pro-Trump Republican Congressional Nominee in MD-District 7 named Kimberly Klacik has dropped one of 2020’s best political advertisements. Klacik begins her video by proving the current leaders of Baltimore don’t actually care about black lives. “Walk with me. They don’t want you to see this,” she says while strolling down a dilapidated city street. Democrats don’t want you to see this. They’re scared that I’m […]
Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog, In all of U.S. history, we have never seen anything like “the mass exodus of 2020”. Hundreds of thousands of people are leaving the major cities on both coasts in search of a better life. Homelessness, crime and drug use were already on the rise in many of our large cities prior to 2020, but many big […]
(Natural News) After outlawing firearms possession by citizens, New Zealand’s government is now exploiting its power monopoly to roll out mandatory quarantine camps for people who might be infected with COVID-19. And some people will never be allowed to leave those camps, the NZ Prime Minister insists. The new medical fascism rules will ensnare family members of people who test positive for COVID-19, even though nearly […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/08/11/1080199997_0:268:3163:2047_1200x675_80_0_0_e7cdf53d9e6b6ae32f2d25db45cb2375.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/africa/202008171080199863-at-least-8-people-killed-in-al-shabaab-attack-on-military-base-in-somalia—reports/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – An attack by the Al-Shabaab radical group on a military base in the Goofgudud Burey town of Somalia’s southwestern Bay region has left at least eight people killed, local media reported on Monday, citing officials. According to the Somali Guardian news outlet, insurgents rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into the gate of the Goofgudud Burey military base […]
Turkey on Monday reiterated its support for Libya’s legitimate government, with the visiting defense minister saying, “Libya belongs to Libyans”, Anadolu reports. “We believe that we will achieve the wanted results by supporting our Libyan brothers in their just cause,” Hulusi Akar said during his visit in the capital Tripoli. Accompanied by Turkish Chief of Staff Gen. Yasar Guler, Akar is visiting Libya to review the […]
Gyms across the Empire State will finally be able to open their doors to the public as early as next week after months of closures due to the Chinese coronavirus pandemic. Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) announced that gyms, which have been shut down since March, will be allowed to reopen as soon as August 24 but at a limited capacity: Gyms can open as soon as […]
It’s emerging on Monday that Trump’s plane had a near-miss with a small drone on Sunday as it approached Washington DC for landing. Multiple people on board Air Force One reported seeing a yellow and black device flying nearby, said to be shaped like a cross, which came just off the right side of the aircraft soon before touching down at 5:54pm. Air Force One, file […]
…from SouthFront.org As it was expected, the ‘historic’ UAE-Israeli peace deal did not contribute to the stability in the Middle East. Instead, the situation has been slowly, but steadily moving towards a larger confrontation in the region. Bibi’s golden statue toppled (2016) Immediately after the announcement of the US-sponsored peace deal, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that his country is not going to fulfill one […]
The unsealed indictment against a retired CIA officer alleges he sold classified and national defense information to China for almost two decades. The case comes amid rising US accusations of Chinese espionage. Alexander Yuk Ching Ma, 67, was arrested on Friday in Hawaii. He faces charges of conspiring with a relative – another former CIA officer, who isn’t named – to “communicate classified information up to […]
Trump’s War On Arms Control And Disarmament By Melvin Goodman, Counterpunch. August 17, 2020 Trump’s War On Arms Control And Disarmament2020-08-172020-08-17https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/ban-nuclear-weapons-from-womens-international-league-for-peace-and-freedom-e1597677596732.jpg200px200px Above photo: Ban Nuclear Weapons from Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. Seventy-five years ago, the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing more than 200,000 Japanese and injuring another 100,000. The great fires that raged in each city consumed many of […]
The Israeli Air Force (IAF) is blocking its Black Hawk helicopter fleet from all non-operational flights as the military looks into a recent pattern of “technical malfunctions” – one of which involved the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) chief. “The commander of the Air Force, Maj. Gen. Amikam Norkin, decided to ground the fleet of Yanshuf [Black Hawk] helicopters from training and transport activities following a number […]
Conservative talk-radio star Rush Limbaugh added to his long history of vile, sexist attacks on prominent women by promoting right-wing stories that described Democratic vice-presidential nominee Kamala Harris as a “hoe” and “mattress,” accusing Harris of “using sex to get ahead.” During Friday’s broadcast of his top-rated radio program, Limbaugh latched onto a couple of stories revolving around the sexist smear that Harris owes her political […]
People holding placards and shouting slogans protesting during a demonstration against the mandatory use of face masks and other measures adopted by the Spanish government to prevent the spread of coronavirus. Marcos del Mazo/LightRocket via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Marcos del Mazo/LightRocket via Getty Images People holding placards and shouting slogans protesting during a demonstration against the mandatory use of face masks and other […]
Bitcoin made a major gain Monday while investors have locked over $6 billion in crypto into various DeFi services. Bitcoin (BTC) trading around $12,332 as of 20:00 UTC (4 p.m. ET). Gaining 4.1% over the previous 24 hours. Bitcoin’s 24-hour range: $11,774-$12,485 BTC slightly above its 10-day and 50-day moving averages, a bullish signal for market technicians. Bitcoin trading on Coinbase since August 15.Source: TradingView The […]
President Trump gave a man whose life was turned upside down by rioters earlier this year a wonderful gift today at a rally in Minnesota. Minnesota’s KB who spent his life savings building a sports bar had his life turned upside down on May 27th. On that day rioters viciously destroyed his bar and dreams. The black man and his wife were in Mankato today […]
A Palestinian youth was shot dead by Israeli police for allegedly stabbing a border guard in Jerusalem late Monday, Anadolu reports. According to the Israeli Broadcasting Corporation, the border guard sustained a moderate injury and was hospitalized. The Palestinian Red Crescent said police did not allow its crews to reach the Palestinian as he laid on the ground bleeding near Bab Hutta, one of the gates […]
The new bill comes as the House is preparing to interrupt August recess for a rare Saturday vote on legislation that would provide $25 billion to the U.S. Postal Service. Democrats are seeking to bolster the agency ahead of the November election, citing President Donald Trump’s attacks on mail-in voting. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said at an event in Kentucky Monday that he hoped […]