Over the weekend Rep. Sean Casten (D-IL) suggested militia service is the litmus test for gun ownership and noted that “having small genitals is not sufficient reason to own a gun.” Casten’s comments were captured by his challenger, West Point Graduate Jeanne Ives (R). Ives posted video of Casten making the comments during a webinar: Ives responded Casten’s comments: “Maybe [he] thinks overgrown frat boys are […]
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Submitted by Ronan Manly of BullionStar.com In a move which has gone entirely unnoticed in the precious metals markets, but which signals gold and silver bar delivery constraints for the COMEX gold and silver futures contracts, Chicago Mercantile Exchange Group (CME), operator of the New York based COMEX, has quietly and under the radar, hugely expanded its lists of eligible refinery gold and silver bar brands […]
The CoronaVirus molecule COVID-19: A Scientific Quest To End Pandemic We are tracking 200 experimental vaccines aimed at ending the pandemic, a scientific quest moving at record-breaking speed. https://t.co/5pupOOgpcN — Post Graphics (@PostGraphics) August 21, 2020 Health Editor’s Note: This is a neat and very understandable sitrep on what is happening with COVID-19 vaccine development…..Carol Carol graduated from Riverside White Cross School of Nursing in Columbus, […]
Eight schoolteachers from Meadowlawn Elementary School in Indiana have sued the local sheriff’s department after a traumatizing course of “active shooter” training allegedly left them physically and psychologically scarred. Active shooter training with the White County Sheriff’s Department was “one of the most terrifying experiences of [their lives],” the educators alleged in a lawsuit filed last week, claiming they were shot at point-blank range with airsoft […]
Belarus Opposition Candidate Revealed As Western Regime Change Puppet By Steve Topple, Peace Data. August 25, 2020 Belarus Opposition Candidate Revealed As Western Regime Change Puppet2020-08-252020-08-25https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/st-e1598397061790.jpg200px200px Above photo: Svetlana Tikhanovskayas (center). AP. Belarus’s political and social landscape grows more complex and precarious as time passes, with the aftermath of the recent election still unfolding. But what has already become apparent is that in this game of […]
Despite Daesh losing its territory in the Middle East around two years ago, over 10,000 of the group’s fighters remain active “in small cells” between the countries of Syria and Iraq, according to new statements from Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Office Vladimir Voronkov. Speaking before the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on Monday, Voronkov detailed that not only are there more than 10,000 Daesh […]
Hours before she was set to speak at the Republican National Convention on Tuesday night, Mary Ann Mendoza took to Twitter and urged her followers to investigate a supposed Jewish plot to enslave the world. “Do yourself a favor and read this thread,” Mendoza, who is a member of the Trump campaign’s advisory board, tweeted to her more than 40,000 followers early Tuesday morning. Mendoza, an […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko greet a group of World War II veterans in the Russian village of Khoroshevo on June 30. Mikhail Klimentyev/Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP hide caption toggle caption Mikhail Klimentyev/Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP Russian President Vladimir Putin and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko greet a group of World War II veterans in the Russian village of […]
Less than a year has passed since the IRS first sent taxpayers cryptocurrency “soft letters.” Source link
A Black Lives Matter protest that began in Columbia Heights on Monday night confronted white diners outside D.C. restaurants, chanting “White silence is violence!” and demanding White diners show their solidarity. A black woman Monday night led several hundred protesters through DC’s Columbia Heights to protest the shooting of alleged sex offender Jacob Blake in Kenosha. The black activist asked the white protesters to step forward. […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has apparently accepted an offer from the Blue and White Party headed by his rival Benny Gantz that would prevent the dissolution of the Knesset. “Out of national responsibility,” explained Netanyahu, “I decided to accept the compromise proposal of [Zvi] Hauser MK.” Hauser’s proposal pushes the budget deadline back 100 days until a long-term solution is reached. Netanyahu stressed that it […]
The Lebanese military released a statement on Monday that said teams of its investigators, assisted by French experts, have discovered 25 containers of hydrochloric acid and 54 containers of other dangerous materials at the Port of Beirut, which was devastated on August 4 by a massive explosion blamed on an improperly stored stockpile of ammonium nitrate. The Lebanese Army statement warned that leakage of these additional […]
Footage captured a group of Black Lives Matter protesters confronting an elderly man after failing to block him from pumping gas at a local station where police shot a black man earlier this week. Video from Monday shows BLM in Lafayette, Louisiana, forming a human-chain to prevent a driver from accessing the pumps at a Shell convenience store. Despite more than seven people linking arms to […]
Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog, This week it was Kenosha, Wisconsin and next week it will probably be somewhere else. Yet another senseless police shooting was followed by more rioting, looting and violence. Of course rioting, looting and violence have basically become a nightly occurrence in America at this point anyway. The protests never seem to end in some cities, and crime […]
(Natural News) More violence is erupting in America’s streets, this time in Kenosha, Wisconsin, where “protesters” are reportedly now showing up armed to demonstrate against the local police department. After another alleged police-involved shooting resulted in a black many dying, Antifa and Black Lives Matter (BLM) extremists staged a standoff where they blocked an armored police car from proceeding down a street. Reports indicate that at […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/106369/08/1063690823_0:100:1920:1180_1200x675_80_0_0_3cd98dfc078ab69bbfa9fdcd1cd795cb.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/society/202008251080277641-russian-national-charged-with-allegedly-introducing-malware-into-us-companys-network/ A Russian national was arrested on August 22 for allegedly introducing malware into a US company’s network. Egor Igorevich Kriuchkov, 27, was charged with one count of conspiracy to “intentionally cause damage to a protected computer,” according to a Department of Justice (DoJ) press release. He was arrested in Los Angeles and made his first initial appearance in federal […]
The president of the UN Security Council, Indonesia, said on Tuesday it was “not in the position to take further action” on a US bid to trigger a return of all UN sanctions on Iran because there is no consensus in the 15-member body. Thirteen council members expressed their opposition on Friday, arguing that Washington’s move is void given it is using a process agreed under […]
Two Michigan groups filed lawsuits simultaneously Monday seeking to allow in-person campaigning and ensure election laws are not suspended in November as they were during the August primary. The Thomas More Society is representing One Nation and the Election Integrity Fund in the suits. “The rights of the citizenry to assemble and speak in pursuit of jointly held political goals as enshrined in the First Amendment […]
WASHINGTON — The Army is turning to small business innovators to figure out a way to increase the rate of fire of self-propelled howitzers, according to an Aug. 25 service statement. The effort is being worked through an Army Small Business Innovation Research pilot that brings government and industry best practices to help drive innovative solutions, according to the release. “This rate of fire aspect is […]
Authored by Ethan Young via The American Institute for Economic Research, I’m sure we all remember that fateful month of March. One after another states began to issue lockdown orders, closing businesses, restricting travel, and ordering people to stay home. That was the month when the United States went from viewing COVID-19 as a minimal threat to issuing some of the most draconian lockdown measures in […]
Robert David Steele asks me “Where’s US going culturally over the next 90 days to 4 years?” I explain that political liberalism—the doctrine that society should protect each individual’s private pursuit of happiness, without any shared vision of God or the good — is in crisis. The collapse of American democratic-republican liberalism, exemplified by the JFK and 9/11 coups, is accelerating. The complete collapse of liberalism […]
Disturbing videos have emerged online showing Black Lives Matter demonstrators screaming and yelling at restaurant patrons in Washington DC., demanding that they raise their fists in support of the protest movement. In one scene which spread like wildfire on Tuesday, a large group of white protesters can be seen crowding around the table of a white woman at a Washington DC restaurant and demanding that she […]
NAARPR Calls For Justice For Jacob Blake By the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression. August 25, 2020 NAARPR Calls For Justice For Jacob Blake2020-08-252020-08-25https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/jacob-blake-protests-e1598391724903.jpg200px200px Above photo: Protest for Jacob Blake in Times Square. From NY1. Once again the hour of tragedy strikes for another Black family, in another Black community caught in the grip of the pandemic crises of COVID-19 and racism. First of all, […]
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – Lawyers for the Kenosha, Wisconsin police shooting victim Jacob Blake said they were filing a civil lawsuit to seek financial remedy for the man that a video clip showed being shot at least seven times from behind by police officers apprehending him. “He has a long road to recovery. We are going to hope and pray for as good a recovery as we […]
The James Webb Space Telescope — a collaboration between NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) — has successfully completed a critical pre-flight milestone and test that paves the way for continued final testing of the most complex telescope ever built. At present, James Webb remains on track for a launch from the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana, on […]
As Kenosha, Wisconsin, braces for a third night of protests against the shooting of Jacob Blake, the 29-year-old’s family on Tuesday decried racial injustice while calling for peace and the “healing of our country.” “My son has been fighting for his life, and we just really need prayers. As I was riding through here, through the city, I noticed a lot of damage. That doesn’t reflect […]
President Trump said he would nominate Chad Wolf, his acting secretary of Homeland Security, for Senate confirmation. Evan Vucci/AP hide caption toggle caption Evan Vucci/AP President Trump said he would nominate Chad Wolf, his acting secretary of Homeland Security, for Senate confirmation. Evan Vucci/AP President Trump, in a tweet Tuesday, said he will nominate Chad Wolf, the acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, to […]
Everyone may be talking about governance on Ethereum, but the yet-to-launch stablecoin startup Liquity is taking a contrarian view: zero governance. That doesn’t mean it won’t offer a yield farming option, though, because there’s no good reason not to deploy the popular growth hack when it’s working so well elsewhere. Liquity has started running ideas for farming schemes by its early supporters, including organizing a public […]
China released the coronavirus sometime in late 2019. By early March China was pushing countries around the globe to put in place economic shutdowns similar to what the CCP did in Wuhan. They clearly wanted the world to suffer economically from the virus. One individual on Twitter put together a lengthy Twitter thread outlining the efforts China took to ensure the rest of the world would […]
A South African court ruled on Tuesday that a Kuwaiti firm could ship thousands of sheep to the Middle East, dealing a blow to animal welfare activists seeking to ban such exports on concerns that extreme heat could kill the animals en route. In the high court case, South Africa’s National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (NSPCA) sought an interim injunction to prevent […]
Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) called Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s pre-recorded Republican National Convention address from Jerusalem “appalling.” Pelosi said, “It’s appalling. Of course, we have not seen this by anyone, as you’ve said, as records show, Democratic or Republican, who would have the secretary of state engaged, and as the secretary, himself cautioned employees at the State Department that […]
WASHINGTON — To stay at the cutting edge of technology and ahead of budding adversaries, U.S. Cyber Command is trying to increase its partnership with the commercial technology sector. In an article published in Foreign Affairs on Aug. 25, Gen. Paul Nakasone, head of the National Security Agency and Cyber Command, and Michael Sulmeyer, senior adviser to the commander, argued that partnering with the government is […]
A large gathering of protesters yelled “pedophile” at the gates of Buckingham Palace in London, the home of the royal family. So far, major mainstream outlets – particularly BBC and Sky News – have been silent on covering the incident. “Just thought I’d share what is happening in London outside Buckingham palace since you won’t see this on the news because the first news channel that […]