Democrats have described Johnson’s probe as a politically motivated smear campaign against President Donald Trump’s challenger that has already been discredited and tainted by Russian propaganda. The intelligence community has identified a pro-Kremlin Ukrainian lawmaker, Andriy Derkach, as an agent of a Russian disinformation campaign intended to denigrate Biden. “This ‘investigation’ is obviously designed to boost the president’s campaign and tear down his opponent, while our own intelligence community warns it is likely to amplify Russian disinformation,” Engel said in a statement. “We’re going to make sure the American people see the whole picture, not just cherrypicked information aimed at breathing […]
Daily Archives: September 18, 2020
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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died, the Supreme Court announced Friday evening. Source link
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 and risks to your prosperity. Today, we are starting with some stories that are not amusing, but simply tragic. Unborn baby dies due to absurd Covid lockdown rules This one highlights the sad reality of crushing people’s basic rights. An Australian woman was in childbirth a few weeks ago when it became clear she needed highly specialized medical care. Unfortunately her small town of Ballina, located in the Australian […]
According to realtors, the median home price in California surpassed the $700,000 mark, going up 6.1 percent from July and 14.5 percent from August 2019. Real estate prices rose dramatically in August, a report published by the California Association of Realtors (CAR) said. The median price for an existing, single-family home increased 1.7 percent from July and 18.7 percent from August last year, reaching a record high of $1,068,000. Total sales in August went above the 400,000 level, rising 6.3 percent from July and were up 14.6 percent compared to the previous year. According to 2020 CAR President Jeanne Radsick, prices have been climbing recently, […]
Some passengers don a disposable suit over their clothes to help shield themselves from the coronavirus. Is that helpful? What about gloves, face shields and goggles? Also: A blanket idea! (Image credit: Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP via Getty Images) Source link
DeFi is short for “decentralized finance,” an umbrella term for a variety of financial applications in cryptocurrency or blockchain geared toward disrupting financial intermediaries. DeFi draws inspiration from blockchain, the technology behind the digital currency bitcoin, which allows several entities to hold a copy of a history of transactions, meaning it isn’t controlled by a single, central source. That’s important because centralized systems and human gatekeepers can limit the speed and sophistication of transactions while offering users less direct control over their money. DeFi is distinct because it expands the use of blockchain from simple value transfer to more complex financial […]
A committee specialising in the seizure of assets belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt has filed a lawsuit to nationalise the funds of 89 members of the group, including the heirs of the deceased President Mohamed Morsi, according to local sources. The government has set up a committee to count and manage the funds of the Muslim Brotherhood since the group was declared a “terrorist organisation” in December 2013. The pro-opposition news website, Mada Masr, cited legal sources who said “a lawsuit has been filed before the Court for Urgent Matters, calling for the disposition and transfer of ownership of funds […]
Hostile foreign actors, violent extremists, and domestic criminals are taking advantage of the “unique and unprecedented” impact the Chinese coronavirus pandemic is having on the FBI workforce to wreak havoc in the U.S. on several fronts, the bureau’s director, Christopher Wray, warned Thursday. In written testimony prepared for a hearing on worldwide threats facing America hosted by the House Homeland Security Committee, FBI Director Christopher Wray explained: While the COVID-19 [coronavirus disease] pandemic has presented unique and unprecedented challenges to the FBI workforce, I am proud of their dedication to our mission of protecting the American people and upholding the Constitution. […]
Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Those who don’t see the fragmentation, the scarcities and the battlelines being drawn will be surprised by the acceleration of the unraveling. I recently came across the idea that inflation is a two-factor optimization problem: inflation is necessary for the macro-economy (or so we’re told) and so the trick for policy makers (and their statisticians who measure the economy) is to maximize inflation in the economy but only to the point that it doesn’t snuff out businesses and starve workers to death. From this perspective, households have to grin and bear the negative consequences of inflation […]
Cave Bear Is So Well-Preserved It Has a Recognizable Nose Scientists at the North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk, Russia, announced on Saturday the discovery of a well-preserved cave bear on the New Siberian island of Bolshyoy Lyakhovsky. https://t.co/kBZJHjZRTe — Smithsonian Magazine (@SmithsonianMag) September 18, 2020 Health Editor’s Note: Because this cave bear is so well preserved its DNA will provide information about what it ate, where it grew up, and more. You can even recognize its nose.This find is very exciting and a potential window into the lives of animals that are now extinct…..Carol Carol graduated from Riverside White Cross […]
(Natural News) Repeated exposure to low levels of fluoride may be toxic to the kidneys and liver of children, found a study published in the journal Environment International. Researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai examined how fluoride levels in water and blood may relate to renal and liver health. They found that small levels of fluoride ingested throughout time could cause adverse changes in the two major organs. This finding has great implications for policy making. The majority of the United States water system has fluoride in them as the result of a shift in public policy in […]
TUC Calls For Israel Sanctions To “End Apartheid” By Asa Winstanley, Electronic Intifada. September 18, 2020 TUC Calls For Israel Sanctions To “End Apartheid”2020-09-182020-09-18https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/trades-union-congress-2020_0-e1600440109463.png200px200px Above photo: The Trades Unions Congress held its 2020 conference online only. TUC. The British Trades Union Congress has condemned Israel’s annexation plan, calling it “another significant step in the creation of a system of apartheid” in the West Bank. Passed on Tuesday, the motion is thought to be the first time the British trade union umbrella body has described Israeli policies as apartheid. The TUC motion calls for the UK to “take firm and decisive measures, including sanctions” against Israel […]
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/202009181080508683-iraqi-soldier-injured-by-blast-that-hit-international-coalition-convoy/ CAIRO (Sputnik) – An Iraqi serviceman has been injured by an explosion that hit a convoy of the international coalition in the northern part of the country, the national security services said. “As a result of the explosion one serviceman sustained slight injuries”, the security services said in a statement on late Friday, as quoted by the INA news agency. According to the statement, the convoy was transporting equipment of the international coalition, when it was hit by the explosion near the town of Ishaqi in the province of Saladin. The number of attacks […]
A meeting between the Yemeni government and Houthi rebels on swapping prisoners and detainees have started in Geneva, the UN’s envoy to Yemen announced on Friday, Anadolu Agency reports. “My message to the Parties is: conclude discussions, release detainees swiftly, bring relief to thousands of Yemeni families,” Martin Griffiths said on Twitter. Yemen has been beset by violence and chaos since 2014, when Houthi rebels overran much of the country, including the capital, Sanaa. The crisis escalated in 2015 when a Saudi-led coalition launched a devastating air campaign aimed at rolling back Houthi territorial gains. Tens of thousands of Yemenis, including civilians, are believed […]
A California family has accused Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) and Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) of trespassing on their property for a photo opportunity after wildfires ravaged their home. “The California lawmakers visited Fresno County Tuesday to survey the damage of the flames engulfing much of the West Coast, and received a briefing from Cal Fire and U.S. Forest Service officials,” Fox 29 reported. The two reportedly stopped at Pine Ridge Elementary in Auberry, then walked across the street to the family’s residence. Spent time surveying a burn site with @GavinNewsom in an area that has been devastated by the recent wildfires in […]
Authored by Pedro Almeida Jorge via AustrianCenter.com, The Spanish flu of 1918 is an event that, unsurprisingly, is being revisited by many observers today. And yet, at the same time, another major event occurred a century ago which we would also do well to remember: namely the largely forgotten economic depression of 1920. We all hear, from time to time, about the ghost of the 1929 crash, of the dreadful decade of the thirties, of the Great Depression from which the world (supposedly) only recovered at the cost of a new world war. In the covid-19 context of today, it is even […]
A Tesla owner in Canada’s Alberta province has been charged with speeding and dangerous driving after he set his car to Autopilot and took a nap while traveling at speeds of 93 mph, authorities said. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) released a statement saying that on July 9, it received a complaint of a 2019 Tesla Model S speeding near the town of Ponoka in Alberta. After the vehicle was located, officers noted that the vehicle “automatically” accelerated once the patrol car’s emergency lights were activated and that at that moment a police radar detected the Tesla reached the speed […]
Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei, shown at an event marking the country’s independence earlier this week, tested positive for COVID-19 Friday. Moises Castillo/AP hide caption toggle caption Moises Castillo/AP Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei, shown at an event marking the country’s independence earlier this week, tested positive for COVID-19 Friday. Moises Castillo/AP Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei said Friday he’s tested positive for the coronavirus. Giammattei made the announcement to Sonora, a local radio station. He said he feels well, is showing typical symptoms of high fever and body aches and has been treated at the Centro Medico Militar, one of the hospitals designated […]
Kava Labs has launched its first application: a yield-generating decentralized finance (DeFi) platform for bitcoin (BTC) and other non-Ethereum assets. The product, called Harvest and built on the Kava blockchain, allows users to stake their crypto so it can be lent out to other users. Harvest will initially support deposits of BTC, BNB, BUSD and XRP. Soon, Kava Labs plans to debut automated market makers (AMMs) like Uniswap and robo-advisors like Yearn.Finance on the blockchain as well, said Kava Labs CEO Brian Kerr. Similar to DeFi platform MakerDAO, Kava will allow users to create collateralized debt positions (CDPs) on the Kava […]
US Ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, said that America is considering replacing Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas with Fatah’s dismissed leader, Mohammed Dahlan. Friedman made the comments yesterday in an interview with Israel Today, which is known to be close to the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. When asked whether the US administration is considering nominating Dahlan, who currently lives in the UAE, as the new Palestinian leader, Friedman replied: “We are thinking about it, but we have no desire to engineer the Palestinian leadership.” The newspaper pointed out that according to reports, the United States may support Dahlan in order remove Abbas. […]
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) has introduced a plan to effectively ban ballot harvesting ahead of the 2020 presidential election. This week, Gabbard introduced the Election Fraud Prevention Act, co-sponsored by Rep. Rodney Davis (R-IL), that would amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to ban federal payments to states that allow ballot harvesting. Ballot harvesting, which a Michigan judge cleared for use in the election on Friday, allows political operatives to collect and deliver as many ballots as they want so long as they are not paid based on the number of ballots they deliver. The loophole allows these operatives to […]
Authored by Mike Whitney, “A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.” Marcus Tullius Cicero The Transition Integrity Project (TIP) is a shadowy group of government, military and media elites who have concocted a plan to spread mayhem and disinformation following the November 3 presidential elections. The strategy takes […]
Wray told the Senate Judiciary Committee that the FBI has recorded about 100 domestic terrorism arrests in the last nine months. “A majority of the domestic terrorism cases we’ve investigated are motivated by some version of what you might call white supremacist violence,” he told the panel. Wray said the number of the domestic terrorism arrests has increased and is now close to the number of international terrorism arrests the bureau has made. Wray’s testimony followed a House Homeland Security Committee hearing in May, where FBI counterterrorism chief Michael McGarrity testified that the bureau was investigating 850 potential domestic terrorism cases. McGarrity said […]
NEW YORK, September 19 (Sputnik) – The rout on Wall Street continued for a third straight week with the technology-laced Nasdaq Composite index leading losses again amid concerns about overvaluation for big tech companies and worries about economic recovery from the COVID-19. Nasdaq, which lists tech giants such as Facebook, Apple, Apple, Netflix and Google, closed Friday’s trade on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) down 117 points, or 1.1 percent. It ended a touch lower for the week, adding to the losses of 4.1 percent and 3.3 percent in two previous weeks. The S&P 500, a barometer for the top […]
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov announced today that his country is willing to mediate in the crisis between Qatar and the Gulf countries led by Saudi Arabia, if a request is made for him to do so, Anadolu has reported. “Some time ago, members of the Gulf Cooperation Council along with Egypt, started to boycott Qatar,” Lavrov told the Russian news agency Sputnik. “We are ready to be involved as mediators to solve any conflict upon request from all parties, but we have not been asked to get involved yet.” The Russian minister pointed out that Moscow maintains good relations with […]
A self-identified ex-Democrat, who gathered in Bemidji, Minnesota, on Friday ahead of President Trump’s rally, said he was “floored” by the size of the conservative LGBT community and spoke against the narrative that the left’s view of LGBT “is the only view and there’s nothing else.” That narrative, he added, is “not the case.” Chris, who identified himself as an ex-Democrat, described the community of Trump supporters as “so welcoming.” He told Breitbart News’s Ali-Jae Nicolai that he joined a MAGA group on Facebook and was “floored by how big of an LGBT community there is on the conservative side.” “Like […]
Authored by Amelia Janaskie via The American Institute for Economic Research, Most people know South Dakota for the distinguished faces carved onto the side of the Black Hills mountain. Mount Rushmore reminds us of four American leaders who instilled values of freedom and hope in this country. These values are under attack in our tumultuous coronavirus days. Lockdowns have assaulted core values that we believed were sacrosanct: property rights, in the right to run a business; freedom of association and movement, in the right to travel, gather, work, consume, have fun, and so on. In short, the right to pursue happiness. […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/12/1080507796_0:320:3072:2048_1200x675_80_0_0_11adb05b15e3efaf0339ad4bd542924d.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Asya Geydarova. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/us/202009181080507762-watch-long-lines-of-early-voters-seen-in-virginia-ahead-of-november-election/ The in-person early voting kicked off in four US states on Friday, with Minnesota – a critical “battleground” state – also registering a high turnout, prior to the visits of presidential candidates Donald Trump and Joe Biden. A large number of Virginians have lined up for in-person early voting across the state, ahead of the 3 November presidential election. Pictures and videos shared on social media show long lines of Virginia voters, mostly wearing masks and complying with social distancing rules. There may be 6+ weeks until Election Day 2020, but early […]
The Trump administration announced on Friday that it will award nearly $13 billion in infrastructure grants to Puerto Rico, to help the island recover from a hurricane that struck three years ago. Ramon Espinosa/AP hide caption toggle caption Ramon Espinosa/AP The Trump administration announced on Friday that it will award nearly $13 billion in infrastructure grants to Puerto Rico, to help the island recover from a hurricane that struck three years ago. Ramon Espinosa/AP Puerto Rico is being promised nearly $13 billion in federal disaster funding to repair its electrical and education infrastructure, three years after it was devastated by Hurricane […]
Bitcoin has lost its market momentum. Meanwhile, the amount of cryptocurrency locked in decentralized exchange Uniswap was nearly doubled on Friday. Bitcoin (BTC) trading around $10,867 as of 20:00 UTC (4 p.m. ET). Slipping 0.42% over the previous 24 hours. Bitcoin’s 24-hour range: $10,812-$11,039 BTC below its 10-day and 50-day moving averages, a bearish signal for market technicians. Bitcoin trading on Coinbase since Sept. 16.Source: TradingView Bitcoin was only able to eclipse the $11,000 level briefly Friday before dropping to as low as $10,812 on spot exchanges such as Coinbase. “Markets are looking weak on drying-up liquidity on exchanges while BTC […]
The political chief of Palestinian group Hamas on Friday discussed how to confront the problems facing the Palestinian cause with a delegation from another resistance group, Anadolu Agency reports. Ismail Haniyeh met with the Palestine Liberation Front delegation, led by Secretary-General Abu Nidal Ashqar, in the Lebanese capital Beirut, according to a statement by Hamas. The parties stressed the necessity of developing a common vision to counter the Zionist project which has been receiving unprecedented support from the US, the statement said. During the meeting, the two sides also condemned the recent normalisation of ties with Israel by the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain amid […]
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) is charging forward with the state’s reopening process, announcing that businesses in 19 of 22 regions will be permitted to expand capacity next week. On Thursday, Abbott announced he is allowing businesses in most areas of the state, including restaurants, retail stores, and gyms, to increase their occupancy from 50 percent to 75 percent. The governor is using hospitalization metrics to make the determinations on which areas are permitted to increase capacity: This metric focuses on areas with high hospitalizations — referring to any Trauma Service Area (TSA) that has had seven consecutive days in which the number of COVID-19 […]
Authored by Tom Luongo via Gold, Goats, ‘n Guns blog, Being a vandal and a politician, but I repeat myself, means having zero shame. Case in point the leadership of the City of Nashville. They were caught red-handed suppressing the data of COVID-19 transmissions to support their draconian business closure edicts. And yet they still persist in demanding citizens commit economic hari kiri and cover their faces to keep them from losing theirs. Having first implemented contact tracing measures of dubious legality and then finding out that bars and restaurants were not major vectors of virus transmission the Mayor’s Office chose to keep […]
Trump can’t afford to talk about the country’s biggest problems because he is primarily responsible for them. Windsor Mann, Opinion columnist USA Today: Like most Americans, I didn’t watch President Trump’s town hall on Tuesday night. I was too busy doing anything else. #Trump can’t afford to talk about the country’s biggest problems because he is primarily responsible for them. #Election2020 https://t.co/eaBl9jJLK6 — 𝕄𝕖𝕥𝕣𝕠 ℕ𝕐 𝕁𝕖𝕣𝕣𝕪 (@JBucknoff) September 18, 2020 Two days later, I capitulated and watched it on demand. Five minutes later, Joe Biden’s town hall began. The contrast was startling. If we want to end Covid, we must end […]
Friday, September 18, 2020 by: Mike Adams Tags: Big Tech, Brighteon, Censorship, free speech, freedom, Liberty, Social media, tech giants, UNCENSORED Bypass censorship by sharing this link: https://www.clearnewswire.com/459248.html (Natural News) Since launching the beta version of Brighteon.social, the new social media alternative to Twitter, thousands of people have joined the network and are expressing all sorts of positive comments about being able to speak without censorship. […]
A Cold War Power Play At The Inter-American Development Bank By Yj Liao, Qiao Collective. September 18, 2020 A Cold War Power Play At The Inter-American Development Bank2020-09-182020-09-18https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/iadb.png200px200px The election of former Trump advisor Mauricio Claver-Carone as president of the Inter-American Development Bank is a sign of the Trump administration’s intent to turn Latin America into an unwilling partner in the New Cold War on China. Having launched his presidential campaign by labeling migrants from south of the U.S.-Mexico border as “rapists and criminals,” Latin America was perhaps one of the last places President Donald Trump expected to rely on as […]
In yet another lawsuit, Facebook is now being accused of allegedly spying on Instagram users through the cameras on their mobile phones. The lawsuit was filed Thursday in a US federal court in San Francisco, California, by New Jersey-based Instagram user Brittany Conditi and accuses Facebook, Instagram’s parent company, of employing users’ mobile cameras while they are using the photo-sharing app to collect “lucrative and valuable data on its users that it would not otherwise have access to.” The lawsuit came after an Apple iOS 14 privacy feature showed that Instagram was apparently activating iPhone cameras and microphones even when they […]
Some 200 detainees in Beirut’s Roumieh prison have contracted the coronavirus, the Lebanese Order of Physicians announced. President of the Lebanese Order of Physicians, Charaf Abou Charaf, said at a press conference: “There are 200 confirmed infections in Roumieh prison in Beirut suburb.” “We are afraid the infection situation could get worse, and we request equipping private and public hospitals if the number of infections increases,” he added. The security forces have recently declared that 22 infections had been registered, including 13 inmates and nine guards, inside Roumieh prison. According to local media, there are 4,000 inmates in the prison, four times its […]
House Foreign Affairs Chairman Eliot Engel is also probing President Donald Trump’s decision earlier this year to fire State Department inspector general Steve Linick. | Jacquelyn Martin/AP Photo House Foreign Affairs Chairman Eliot Engel has subpoenaed Michael Pack, President Donald Trump’s appointee to lead the U.S. government’s foreign broadcast media arm. Pack, CEO of the U.S. Agency for Global Media and a close ally of former Trump aide Steve Bannon, has been sharply criticized by Democrats in recent months as he’s moved to reshape the leadership of the news organizations under his purview, including Voice of America. Democrats worry that he […]
Joe Biden blamed Donald Trump for all the people who died of coronavirus during CNNLOL’s fake town hall Thursday night. “If the president had done his job, had done his job from the beginning,” a barely conscious Biden yelled, “all the people would still be alive. All the peoples — I’m not making this up — just look at the data. Look at the data.” Biden claims Trump is responsible for every single person who has died from COVID-19: “If the president had done his job, had done his job from the beginning, all the people would still be alive. All […]
Authored by Jeffrey Wernick, op-ed via CoinTelegraph.com, Why the government should make a monetary transition to Bitcoin, and the problems that cryptocurrency would help solve, such as preemptive war and national debt. image courtesy of CoinTelegraph As an anarcho-capitalist, I hold that property rights are sacred and that violence is acceptable only when our natural rights, as embedded and enshrined in the Constitution and Bill of Rights, are under a direct and imminent threat, and only in self-defense. I might be the first anarchist, anarcho-capitalist, or minarchist you’ve ever met. Those labels may sound scary to some — that’s fine. Democrats […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/0c/1080442302_0:0:3072:1729_1200x675_80_0_0_b8b479e56a41d47aff5ee99a6083851f.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Morgan Artyukhina . Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/us/202009181080507275-trump-claims-doses-of-covid-19-vaccine-will-be-available-to-every-american-by-april-2021/ US President Donald Trump told reporters on Friday there would be enough doses of a COVID-19 vaccine to vaccinate every American by April 2021. Earlier this week, Trump said that a vaccine for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes the COVID-19 novel coronavirus, could begin being distributed to high-risk persons within a month’s time. On Friday, he expanded that, saying, “we expect to have enough vaccines for every American by April.” He said on Wednesday that the vaccine would be made available for free to every American. Scott Atlas, a Hoover Institute […]
The National Book Foundation released its annual book award longlists on Friday. Pornsawan Sangmanee / EyeEm/Getty Images/EyeEm hide caption toggle caption Pornsawan Sangmanee / EyeEm/Getty Images/EyeEm The National Book Foundation released its annual book award longlists on Friday. Pornsawan Sangmanee / EyeEm/Getty Images/EyeEm Perhaps you’re an avid reader — or you’re just stuck at home and suddenly have more time to read. Either way, if you’re looking for reading recommendations, why not start with one of the 50 pieces of literature contending for a National Book Award. The National Book Foundation released its annual book award longlists on Friday featuring work […]
You’re going to have to wait a little longer for the liquidity mining–powered savings account from Korean stablecoin maker Terra. The savings account’s returns will be based on various proof-of-stake currencies, plus additional yield over the first five years in the form of its growth token. The system is called Anchor and was originally expected to go live in October; the latest update from the company has pushed that back to late November. That said, the project is riding forward on a wave of momentum. The firm’s Chai payments app, in which the Terra stablecoin is prominently featured, now has over […]
Former Lebanese footballer Mohamad Atwi was killed by a stray bullet in Beirut September 18, 2020 at 8:11 pm Beirut: Gunman robs pharmacy as crime rates rise Related Source link
A man is in critical condition after two suspects allegedly beat and slashed him outside a deli in the Bronx on Wednesday. “The NYPD says it happened at the Bronx Zoo Deli on Southern Boulevard on Sept. 16, 2020,” Fox 5 reported, adding that the 19-year-old was leaving the building when the two men approached. WANTED for an assault in front of 2325 Southern Boulevard. #Bronx @NYPD48pct on 9/16/20 @ 2:50 PM Reward up to $2500 Seen them? Know who they are?Call 1-800-577-TIPS or DM us!Calls are CONFIDENTIAL! pic.twitter.com/tfOb0iUZTb — NYPD Crime Stoppers (@NYPDTips) September 18, 2020 Surveillance footage showed the […]
Wikileaks was invented to support Roy Cohn’s ‘gayboy’ lovers that the Kosher Nostra put into the White House. This is the simple truth of it and Cohn is still somewhere laughing his ass off as the US is torn apart by a second acolyte of Cohn’s, another bumbling moron in a dress… Roy Cohn and Donald Trump at a cross dressing gala in New York (the real reason Trump never went to Vietnam) VT: Wikileaks is the listed source for the US/UK invasion of Iraq in 2003. Wikileaks is the source for current US policy on Iran. Wikileaks is the source behind the […]
(Natural News) If Americans vote him into office, Joe Biden has promised that there will be no more fires, floods, hurricanes or other major climate events. Speaking during a livestream event on Periscope, Biden pretty much promised the world, noting that if “climate arsonist” Donald Trump wins reelection, then the United States can expect plenty more “hellish” events to occur. “If you give a climate arsonist four more years in the White House, why would anyone be surprised if we have more of America ablaze?” Biden asked, as prompted by his teleprompter. “If you give a climate denier four more years […]
Will A Biden Foreign Policy Make A Difference For The World? By Ajamu Baraka, Black Agenda Report. September 18, 2020 Will A Biden Foreign Policy Make A Difference For The World?2020-09-182020-09-18https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/baraka845x400.jpeg200px200px For the people of the world the real fascism of anti-democratic, brutal regimes supported by the U.S., murderous sanctions, and right-wing coups will continue unabated. The reoccupation of the Executive Branch by the Democrats will not bring any change in U.S. behavior in the global South.” The “left” rationalization for collaborating with the neoliberal wing of the Democrat Party is premised on the argument that a win for the national […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/12/1080504898_93:0:1293:675_1200x675_80_0_0_57182fd04aa5fc57e2936ca02d90693e.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/videoclub/202009181080503752-splish-splash-splosh-bird-having-kitchen-shower-will-bring-you-cheer—video-/ Most birds love water and enjoy taking baths. It is said this bathing not only removes their dirt but also keeps their skin moist. A video of a bird beating the scorching heat and taking a cool shower is going viral on social media. The colourful bird in the video is seen in a kitchen sink. It is revelling in a gentle shower from the tap, flapping its little wings and hopping about repeatedly. My bird always begs to go in the sink for baths. He also frequently tries to grab the water with […]
A France-based Christian group has allegedly been supporting a militia in Syria loyal to the Bashar al-Assad regime and accused of war crimes in the western Hama province, local media reported, Anadolu Agency reports. Though claiming to have come to the aid of the Christians in Syria without intervening in the conflict, SOS Chretiens d’Orient (Christians of the Middle East) has backed militias known by the Assad regime as the Mhardeh National Defense Forces (MNDF) since 2013, according to French news website Mediapart. The group is considered a “partner organization in national defense” by the French Ministry of Defense. France: Three French nationals and an Iraqi freed in […]
Microsoft founder and billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates said President Donald Trump’s coronavirus travel ban “accelerated” the spread of the pandemic. In a preview clip from a “Fox News Sunday,” Gates said that the travel ban “seeded the disease here.” Gates said, “We created this rush, and we didn’t have the ability to test or quarantine those people, so that seeded the disease here. You know, the ban probably accelerated that, the way it was executed.” Anchor Chris Wallace asked, “I just want to pick up on that. You’re saying that the travel bans made this situation worse, not better?” Gates replied, […]
Over the past 6 months, special attention has been paid to Tesla and – more specifically – euphoric call-buying in the name that undoubtedly helped propel a gamma squeeze that has seen Tesla’s equity scorch higher since the beginning of the year (something we discussed first in May in “Are Mysterious Call Option Purchases Forcing Tesla Stock Higher?”). Weeks ago we learned that Softbank was helping along the broader market rally with a strategy of buying OTM call spreads in a handful of high beta tech stocks – a strategy that netted Softbank upwards of $4 billion. Goldman CEO DJ-Sol Now […]
In a letter Clooney penned to UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, the former explained that it has become “untenable” of her to “urge other states to respect and enforce international obligations while the UK declares that it does not intend to do so itself”. Amal Clooney, prominent human rights lawyer and wife of famous American actor George Clooney, has ended up resigning from her position as UK envoy on media freedom, after the House of Commons passed the Internal Market Bill earlier this week. The new legislation, seeks to scale back some of Britain’s obligations under the Withdrawal Agreement, related to […]
U.S. Park Police and other federal officers held a perimeter near the White House on June 1, 2020 as demonstrators gathered to protest the killing of George Floyd. Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images U.S. Park Police and other federal officers held a perimeter near the White House on June 1, 2020 as demonstrators gathered to protest the killing of George Floyd. Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images The Government Accountability Office is investigating the Pentagon’s interest in deploying a ‘heat ray’ to control crowds around the White House, part of a broader review […]
Once the registration statement becomes effective, Enigma would be required to file annual and quarterly reports with the regulatory body for its token. Source link
Egyptian YouTubers Ahmad Hassan and his wife Zeinab were arrested on Wednesday at the request of the Public Prosecution, over allegations of “terrorising” their one-year-old daughter Eileen as a prank in a video posted on their YouTube channel, which has almost six million subscribers. The pair have also been accused of exploiting their child for financial gain and profiting off her trauma. They could face jail time following one such prank video showing their daughter’s reaction to seeing her mother Zeinab in “blackface”, where the child is seen crying while her parents laugh. The video prompted an angry response from social […]
The new plan will draw on findings from the Joint Staff’s “in-stride” review of the Covid-19 response, completed a few weeks ago and viewed by POLITICO, which detailed some of the military’s shortcomings in responding to the pandemic and recommendations for future crises. The results of the study have not been previously reported. In confronting Covid-19, the Pentagon failed to initially account for the “global nature” of a modern pandemic — how far and fast the virus would spread — and had difficulty distributing key medical supplies, the Joint Staff found. The military has relied on Northern Command’s 2013 playbook, officially […]
The National Rifle Association (NRA) raised more money in August 2020 than during any month of 2016. Fox News reports that the NRA’s Political Victory Fund raised $1,725,700 million in August 2020 alone, which is roughly $300,000 more than it raised in August 2016. Moreover, the $1,725,700 million raised in August 2020 is $240,000 higher than what was raised in March 2016, the best month of fundraising during 2016. NEWS: NRA raised more in August than any month of 2016, as @JoeBiden–@realDonaldTrump showdown nears https://t.co/dtxwvJx6QK — NRA (@NRA) September 18, 2020 NRA spokeswoman Amy Hunter spoke to the August 2020 financial […]
WASHINGTON — U.S. Central Command needs industry’s help in designing a network infrastructure that provides improved secure information sharing with allies and partners, its top IT official said Sept. 17. Brig. Gen. Jeth Rey, director of command and control, communications, and computer systems at CENTCOM, said his team is working to establish a data-centric architecture that uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to limit access to data based only on what a user needs. “What I have the team looking at is working in that transport agnostic, looking at a data-centric connection, and then how can we then use attributes to […]
Instagram founder Kevin Systrom and others have warned that the White House’s crackdown on TikTok – the Chinese-owned social media platform that has attracted some 100 million American users – is a net negative for the app’s American rivals, even as shares of Facebook and Snap popped as the Trump Administration publicized its plans for barring new downloads of both TikTok and WeChat, two companies that had been targeted in an executive order last month. It’s the first step toward a total ban, if a deal isn’t worked out by Nov. 12 (at least, as far as TikTok is concerned). As […]
The story of how British Vulcan bombers successfully penetrated US air defences in the early 1960s to conduct mock nuclear attacks on American cities. Dr. Mark Felton is a well-known British historian, the author of 22 non-fiction books, including bestsellers ‘Zero Night’ and ‘Castle of the Eagles’, both currently being developed into movies in Hollywood. In addition to writing, Mark also appears regularly in television documentaries around the world, including on The History Channel, Netflix, National Geographic, Quest, American Heroes Channel and RMC Decouverte. His books have formed the background to several TV and radio documentaries. More information about Mark can […]
(Natural News) Retired U.S. Army Reserve Col. Lawrence Sellin (Ret.) has penned an article calling for a full investigation into the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), its leader Anthony Fauci, and the communist Chinese regime, as it appears the three conspired to unleash the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) into the world. Writing for the Citizens Commission on National Security (CCNS), Sellin presents a compilation of evidence to suggest that Fauci played a key role in not only exposing the world to the plandemic, but also in getting it funded through large, taxpayer-funded grants given by his department to the […]
Changing The Washington Guard By Roger Harris, Popular Resistance. September 18, 2020 Changing The Washington Guard2020-09-182020-09-18https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/biden.jpeg200px200px What a Democratic Sweep in November Portends. At the risk of counting chickens before they hatch, what would the return of Team Blue portend? As is patently obvious, the US is in trouble. Climate driven heat waves and fires grip the nation. An already faltering economy with deep contradictions could only tank given the shock of the pandemic that has necessitated varying degrees of sequestering. In fact, the downturn had already started before COVID-19 hit. An already largely privatized healthcare system run for profit and […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/12/1080506497_0:10:1280:730_1200x675_80_0_0_bfcee716936fa2c9f155903fc655c8de.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/military/202009181080506580-russias-su-27-scrambled-to-escort-us-patrol-aircraft-over-black-sea/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Russian fighter jet Su-27 was scrambled to escort a US patrol aircraft over the Black Sea, the Russian Defense Ministry’s National Defense Control Center said on Friday. “Russian airspace control systems detected an air target approaching the Russian state border over neutral waters of the Black Sea … a Su-27 fighter from the air defense forces of the Southern Military District was scrambled. The crew of the Russian fighter identified the air target as an aircraft base patrol aircraft P-8A Poseidon of the US Navy and escorted it over the Black […]
Turkish and Russian officials are close to reaching an agreement on a settlement and ceasefire in Libya, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said in interview with CNN Turk on Wednesday. Cavusoglu added that talks were held in Ankara about Libya, and that Turkey is also having deliberations with Syria. “We can say that we are close to [reaching] an agreement on the criteria for a ceasefire in Libya.” The Russian delegation to the talks was headed by Foreign Minister Sergey Vershinin. The Russian and Turkish delegations included officials from the two countries’ foreign and defence ministries as well as a number of other government bodies. […]
Democrats are fighting for a contentious provision that would extend the Census Bureau’s Dec. 31 deadline to turn over apportionment data used to divvy up House seats to the president — potentially punting the final handling of census data to Democratic nominee Joe Biden if he’s elected this November. They’ve argued that it would ensure an accurate 2020 census, while noting that Senate Republicans like Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) have already endorsed legislation to this effect. Democrats have also pushed for $3.6 billion in election security grants. Republicans want an anomaly requested by the White House, which Democrats […]
Actor John Leguizamo said he will boycott Sunday’s Emmy Awards over the lack of Latino representation among this year’s nominees, saying that Latinos are the largest minority group in the United States and will “decide who is president this year.” The anti-Trump actor, who isn’t nominated this year, said in an interview with Yahoo Entertainment that it isn’t worth it for him to watch the ceremony. “I’m boycotting,” he told the news outlet. “If you don’t have Latin people, there’s no reason for me to see it. What’s the point?” He added: “It’s unbelievable that our stories aren’t being told and […]
After reaching initial operational capability, Joint Force Command Norfolk was stood up on Thursday — becoming the only operational NATO command on the North American continent. The joint multi-national operational command, based out of Norfolk, Virginia, is designed to reinforce NATO readiness in the Atlantic with its “extensive maritime expertise,” and bolster communications between Europe and North America. The command maintains air, surface, and subsurface capabilities and will be involved in planning and conducting air, land and sea operations. “The establishment of this command confirms enduring cohesion with NATO and its ability to face all challenges,” commander of JFC Norfolk Navy […]
Tesla has won a court case against whistleblower Martin Tripp, who was fired from the company for hacking company data and transferring it to third parties. Tripp was a former Tesla process engineering technician who claimed that Musk had defamed him after he revealed problems at the company’s Gigafactory and filed a whistleblower complaint with the SEC. Tesla filed suit against former employee Tripp in 2018, alleging that he had admitted to writing software that hacked Tesla’s vehicle operating system, according to Reuters. Tripp then transferred several gigabytes of data to third parties and made false claims to the media, Tesla […]
According to seismologists, the epicentre of the quake was located at a depth of 40.5 kilometres southwest of Arvi. A 5.4-magnitude earthquake hit the Greek island of Crete on Friday, the Athens Geodynamic Institute said. The quake was registered at 16:28 GMT, with the epicentre located at a depth of 40.5 kilometres southwest of Arvi, seismologists said. No injuries or damage has so far been reported. Source link
Student teams from around the country have partnered with NASA to test prototype tools for upcoming Artemis missions. This week, students remotely directed divers at the Neutral Buoyancy Lab to test their designs, which addressed a variety of NASA’s needs through the Micro-g NExT program. This year’s testing was impacted significantly by the COVID-19 pandemic, delaying the test week from June to September. The student teams also did not control the tests from the Neutral Buoyancy Lab’s Test Conductor Room as usual, but rather remotely from mission control centers on their campuses. Despite these obstacles, and much like other NASA programs […]
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden speaks to reporters before boarding his plane in Florida on Tuesday. Biden leads by 9 points against President Trump, who continues to face an uphill reelection battle. Drew Angerer/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Drew Angerer/Getty Images Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden speaks to reporters before boarding his plane in Florida on Tuesday. Biden leads by 9 points against President Trump, who continues to face an uphill reelection battle. Drew Angerer/Getty Images Former Vice President Joe Biden continues to lead President Trump in the 2020 presidential election nationally by a substantial margin, according to the latest […]
When Satoshi Nakamoto invented Bitcoin in 2009, we began to envision decentralized finance as an alternative to traditional banking. A little more than a decade later, we are starting to see that technologies behind Bitcoin can be used to create a fully reimagined internet – one that leverages our collective computing capacity, data and devices to become far more powerful and resilient than it is today. To say the internet has created astounding pathways for opportunity and success is an understatement. It has democratized access to information, created boundless economic opportunities and connected people worlds apart. In 1990, fewer than 1% […]
The Israeli parliament, the Knesset, has rejected a bill presented by Yousef Jabareen on behalf of the Arab Joint List intended to ensure full equality for all of Israel’s citizens, regardless of their ethnicity or religious affiliation. Jabareen presented his bill in advance of the 20th anniversary of the Aqsa Intifada, which has became a cornerstone in the collective consciousness of Israel’s Arab citizens, who make up 20 per cent of the population. They suffer from institutional discrimination, exclusion and hostility. Despite the bill highlighting the need for human rights and democracy to be available to all in the Zionist state, […]
U.S. Attorney John Durham. | Anna Moneymaker-Pool/Getty Images Four House committee chairs are asking the Justice Department’s top watchdog to open an “emergency” review of Attorney General Bill Barr’s handling of an investigation into the origins of the FBI’s Trump-Russia probe, questioning whether that probe — led by U.S. Attorney John Durham — is complying with DOJ rules intended to avoid influencing an imminent election. “We are concerned by indications that Attorney General Barr might depart from longstanding DOJ principles to take public action related to U.S. Attorney Durham’s investigation that could impact the presidential election,” write House Judiciary Committee Chairman […]
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has suggested U.S. presidential hopeful Joe Biden does not understand Britain’s negotiations with the European Union, after the Democrat intervened on Brexit on the EU’s side. The 77-year-old former U.S. vice president butted into the Brexit talks to threaten he would block a British-American trade deal if the United Kingdom undermines the Belfast or Good Friday Agreement which brokered peace between the British state and the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) terror organisation in Northern Ireland, which is part of the United Kingdom. The EU and its sympathisers are claiming that Johnson’s current push for legislation to […]
A 4th fiscal deal remains far off according to Nancy Pelosi who spoke on Bloomberg TV and said that she is sticking to her demand for at least $2.2 trillion in the next covid relief bill, clarifying that “state and local” is critical and adding that “something is not necessarily better than nothing” on aid, an argument which both millions of people and markets may have an argument with. And speaking of the latter, stocks legged lower, and after staging a modest rebound in the past hour, dropped back under the 50DMA and to session lows following Pelosi’s comments, while QQQs […]
It appears as if Saudi de facto ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, is on a mission to destroy the world oil giant by one after the other ill-conceived economic decisions. Now, as MBS orders yet new desperation cuts in Saudi oil prices, his economy is imploding from all sides—from the stupid Vision 2030 plan to even the traditional oil sector, the source for 87% of the Kingdom budget. The economic decline of Saudi Arabia will have huge geopolitical consequences beyond the Middle East. As if it had learned nothing from its 2014 oil price war, then targeting the growing USA […]
Scheer Intelligence: How Today’s Uprisings Compare To The 1960s Rebellions By Robert Scheer, ScheerPost.com. September 18, 2020 Scheer Intelligence: How Today’s Uprisings Compare To The 1960s Rebellions2020-09-182020-09-18https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/losang-e1600445188454.jpg200px200px Above image: “Los Angeles Revolution.” By Mr. Fish. The movements of the sixties, which are captured in detail in “Set the Night on Fire,” are seen as wildly successful. Is it possible Black Lives Matter will be even more so? The 1960s live on in U.S. memory as an era of counterculture rebellions and the civil rights movement that changed the course of the nation’s history. The mass uprisings that took place from coast to […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/12/1080506042_0:312:3072:2040_1200x675_80_0_0_4c7aa807f29babd7b4db23d4aca19e5c.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202009181080506080-in-person-early-voting-kicks-off-in-four-us-states/ WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – Polling centres opened in the US states of Minnesota, Virginia, South Dakota and Wyoming on Friday to allow voters to cast early in-person ballots for the 2020 presidential election. “The Early Vote Center at 980 E. Hennepin Ave opened at 8 a.m. [CST] sharp. In the first 30 minutes, we served 44 Minneapolis voters,” Minneapolis Elections and Voter Services said in a tweet. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has complicated the electoral process with a far higher proportion of mail-in ballots expected as voters seek to avoid risking virus contagion by visiting […]
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced that Turkey has no problem with meeting with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. In a press release after Friday prayers, Erdogan said: “We have no problem in meeting the Greek Prime Minister, but the most important question is what are we going to discuss and in which context we will be meeting?” The Turkish president stressed that the withdrawal of the Oruc Reis exploration vessel to the port of Antalya is “a well thought step”. He confirmed that the vessel would sail again in the Eastern Mediterranean waters after the end of maintenance work. On Turkey’s relations with Cairo, Erdogan […]
A House Intelligence Committee official said the panel is still planning to hear from Murphy on Monday and had not yet formally postponed the deposition. Murphy’s 24-page complaint, delivered earlier this month to the House and Senate intelligence panels, described a series of alleged abuses by top DHS officials, including seeking to suppress intelligence about Russia because the reports would make “the president look bad.” Murphy described over a dozen meetings in which he raised concerns with senior officials across government about his concerns. The intelligence community has publicly said that the Kremlin is attempting to interfere in the 2020 election, […]
President Donald Trump reached a 53 percent job approval rating on Friday — a figure not seen since House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) announced the impeachment inquiry last September, Rasmussen Reports revealed. The president’s job approval has been on the upswing in recent weeks, reaching a high of 53 percent on Friday. Of those, 44 percent “strongly” approve. Trump has not experienced a job approval percentage that high since September 24, 2019, the same day Pelosi announced the House’s formal impeachment inquiry — an effort that ultimately failed: Reader Alert: The last time @POTUS daily job approval % reached today’s level, […]
COLOGNE, Germany – The defense ministers of Germany and France have pushed for speedy progress in the Eurodrone program, urging member nations to initiate the aircraft’s development phase before the end of the year. The high-level endorsement means a shot in the arm for a weapons program that has slipped under the radar since Airbus, Dassault and Leonardo unveiled a mock-up drone at the April 2018 Berlin Air Show. While French Defense Minister Florence Parly said she hopes to see the next phase begin by year’s end, her German counterpart, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, expressed hope any outstanding issues, which mostly involve cost, […]
A Michigan judge on ruled on Friday that the state must accept ballots that arrive within two weeks of the election, as long as they are postmarked by November 2nd. The judge also said that the state – which was decided by 10,000 votes in 2016 – cannot restrict who can help voters return an absentee ballot. This is very significant and the second ruling this week in a key swing state extending the ballot receipt deadline. The Pennsylvania supreme court ruled yesterday that ballots in the state must count if they are postmarked by election day and arrive by Friday […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/12/1080505895_0:135:3072:1863_1200x675_80_0_0_2ae4d7f097eb00a76765f51b5c557b4a.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/society/202009181080505930-russian-developer-of-covid-drug-areplivir-discussing-deliveries-to-latin-america-africa/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Russian pharmaceutical company Promomed is in talks with neighbouring countries, Latin America, and Africa to supply them with Areplivir drug that can help in the COVID-19 treatment, the director-general of the company, Andrey Mladentsev, said. “We are in talks about the delivery of the medication to the countries of Latin America, such as Mexico, South Africa and Commonwealth of Independent States,” Mladentsev said. According to Mladentsev, Areplivir will be available in internet pharmacies in Russia on Saturday and may appear on the shelves of regular pharmacies in Moscow on Monday. “The […]
Rabbi Yehonatan Adouar (R) teaches a student during a shofar blowing course in Rambam Synagogue in Ramat Gan, Israel. Daniel Estrin/NPR hide caption toggle caption Daniel Estrin/NPR Rabbi Yehonatan Adouar (R) teaches a student during a shofar blowing course in Rambam Synagogue in Ramat Gan, Israel. Daniel Estrin/NPR Never before has Israel had such a high need for those schooled in the rarefied art of shofar blowing. The wail of the Biblical shofar — made from the horn of a ram or a certain antelope species — is a hallmark of prayer gatherings on Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, which […]
Earlier this week, analysts with the cryptocurrency analysis firm Arcane Research were musing that new developments appeared to have slowed in the fast-growing blockchain arena of decentralized finance, known as DeFi. But they predicted any lull was likely to be temporary. “A new boost for DeFi tokens could be right around the corner,” Arcane wrote Tuesday in a report. “The sector seems determined to grow further.” As if on cue, the decentralized exchange Uniswap late Wednesday made a surprise delivery of its new governance tokens to anyone who had ever used the project. Traders each got at least 400 of the UNI tokens, worth about $1,200 – […]
Some 84 per cent of Canadians want a war crimes probe into Israel, a new poll surveying views over several issues, including a potential International Criminal Court (ICC) investigation of alleged Israeli war crimes, and the possibility of moving Canada’s embassy to Jerusalem, has found. The survey, sponsored by Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJME), Independent Jewish Voices Canada and the United Network for Justice and Peace in Palestine-Israel, found that the vast majority of Canadians wish to see Israel treated the same way as any other country, with 84 per cent of those polled saying they […]
Donald Trump and Joe Biden are virtually tied in a critical poll about the presidential election—and have been for months. In the University of Michigan consumer sentiment poll released Friday, forty-eight percent of consumers forecast a Biden victory and 47 percent forecast a Trump victory. This virtual tie has existed in data from July through September. The University of Michigan’s consumer sentiment survey approaches political polling differently than most other polls. Instead of asking consumers who they prefer or intend to vote for, it asks who they think will win the election. “The data from July to September indicate a virtual […]
Democrats with dreams of bread-lines and poverty who worry that a Biden administration won’t be socialist enough – never fear. According to Democratic socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), progressives will “likely” be able to swing the former Vice President in a more progressive direction should he win the election, according to Fox News. “We’re different people, and clearly I, in the primary, one of the reasons why I was supportive of Senator Sanders was because of how progressive his stances are, but, you know, the primaries are over, and right now what is most important is to make sure that we […]
Soldiers of the Russian military police and the Turkish military during a joint patrol of the M-4 highway in Idlib province in Syria (© PHOTO : RUSSIAN DEFENCE MINISTRY) First published 18 September 2020 During this interview with Sputnik, Russia’s top diplomat has weighed in on a wide array of subjects that define the state of international affairs on a global scale at the moment – from tense presidential campaign in the US, to security in the turbulent Persian Gulf and the tumultuous relations between Russia and the US and the European powers. On 17 September, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov […]
(Natural News) A video clip shows a grandmother confronting a teacher over the phone about how she told a student she didn’t have a right to an opinion because she was “white” and “blonde.” (Article by Paul Joseph Watson republished from Summit.news) The footage starts with the grandmother explaining to the teacher that her granddaughter is crying and hasn’t been to school because of this “BLM crap.” She then accuses the teacher of telling her granddaughter that she had no right to express an opinion on the issue because she’s British, white and has blonde hair. After being told there is […]
Wise People Know Winning A War Is No Better Than Losing One By Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. September 18, 2020 Wise People Know Winning A War Is No Better Than Losing One2020-09-182020-09-18https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/liu-bolin-china-guernica.jpg200px200px Above photo: Liu Bolin (China), Guernica, 2016. Dedicated to Soni Prashad, 1929-2020, who spent her life looking for a better world. US President Donald Trump and his ‘war council’ – led by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo – have amplified their aggression against China. What began as a trade dispute in the 1990s has now escalated into the United States making an existential challenge against China. The threat against China […]
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/russia/202009181080505139-driver-detained-after-crashing-into-gate-of-us-ambassador-residence-in-moscow/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – A car crashed at the gate of the US Ambassador’s residence in Moscow on Friday, the Russian national, who was driving, was detained, the spokesperson for the embassy, Rebecca Ross, said. Source link
An investigation is underway after an attempted armed robbery at a pharmacy in the Lebanese capital Beirut on Wednesday, Saida Online reported. CCTV footage shared on social media shows the thief breaking into the pharmacy and pointing his gun at an employee demanding he hand over all cash available. A member of the Lebanese army happened to be passing by when the event occured. He restrained the thief before confiscating his weapon. According to Internal Security Forces (ISF), crime rates in Lebanon have been on the rise since the deadly explosion which rocked the capital on 4 August against the backdrop of the […]
Irish singer-songwriter Morrison has released three new protest songs railing against the ‘pseudoscience’ surrounding Chinese Coronavirus and accusing the UK government of being ‘fascist bullies disturbing our peace.’ On one track, No More Lockdown, he sings: No more lockdown / No more government overreach / No more fascist bullies / Disturbing our peace … No more taking of our freedom / And our God-given rights / Pretending it’s for our safety / When it’s really to enslave …” The Astral Weeks singer also attacks “Imperial College scientists making up crooked facts” – presumably a reference to the discredited computer modeller Neil Ferguson […]
Another top American official is on a three day visit to Taiwan, and China has made its anger known by once again buzzing the island with fighter jets. But this time it was an almost unprecedented show of air power in recent times. Just a day after US Undersecretary for Economic Affairs Keith Krach arrived in Taipei for talks on Thursday, China sent what it called a “necessary response” in the form of an usually large group of 18 jets flying near the island. Sep. 18, two H-6 bombers, eight J-16 fighters, four J-10 fighters and four J-11 fighters crossed the midline of […]
India launched a rural-employment guarantee scheme in 2005, to safeguard the livelihood of people living in rural areas by promising at least 100 days’ paid work a year to every adult member of each family. Aside from economic security, the scheme also created rural assets. India’s Rural Development Minister, Narendra Singh Tomar, revealed on Friday that “there has been an increase of 52.11 percent in total employment generation” through the Mahatma Gandhi rural job scheme during the COVID-19 lockdown period. The scheme was launched by Manmohan Singh of the Indian National Congress Party, in 2005, shortly after he was elected Prime […]