Anita Hill speaks onstage at the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit in October 2018 in Laguna Niguel, Calif. Phillip Faraone/Getty Images for Fortune hide caption toggle caption Phillip Faraone/Getty Images for Fortune Anita Hill speaks onstage at the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit in October 2018 in Laguna Niguel, Calif. Phillip Faraone/Getty Images for Fortune Both Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Anita Hill became […]
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US President Donald Trump’s administration says that on Saturday (2000 EDT/0000 GMT Sunday) all United Nations sanctions on Iran have to be restored and a conventional arms embargo on the country will no longer expire in mid-October. But 13 of the 15 UN Security Council members, including long-time US allies, say Washington’s move is void and diplomats say few countries are likely to reimpose the measures, which […]
For his part, Graham said Saturday that he “will support President [Trump] in any effort to move forward regarding the recent vacancy created by the passing of Justice Ginsburg,” citing Democratic treatment of Kavanaugh and former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) decision to nix the 60-vote threshold for lower court nominees. (McConnell took it a step further and got rid of the 60-vote threshold for […]
Pop superstar Selena Gomez publicly shared a private message she sent to Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, arguing the social media giant has a “serious problem” spreading “hatred and misinformation.” “Facebook and Instagram are being used to spread hate, misinformation, racism, and bigotry,” said Gomez, who boasts an enormous combined social media following on Facebook and its subsidiary Instagram of 270 million people. “I am calling […]
Well-known journalist Glenn Greenwald has once again sparked intense debate on the Left by refusing to conform to any level of group-think. On Friday he mused about the ongoing Julian Assange extradition trial in London, offering an explanation as to why mainstream US media has seemingly dropped Assange from its radar, despite during the early years of the most bombshell WikiLeaks revelations working closely with Assange […]
Trumpsters blocking access to polls for early voting run afoul. “I throw hands” (enjoy) https://twitter.com/ReesusP/status/1307412846033084417?s=20 VT Editors is a General Posting account managed by Jim W. Dean and Gordon Duff. All content herein is owned and copyrighted by Jim W. Dean and Gordon Duff ATTENTION READERS Due to the nature of independent content, VT cannot guarantee content validity.We ask you to Read Our Content Policy so […]
(Natural News) California is going after a very dangerous agricultural pesticide that has been linked to brain damage in children. At the end of this year, farmers will no longer be allowed to use chlorpyrifos in a move that Governor Gavin Newsom characterized as a “big win for children, workers and public health in California.” Chlorpyrifos is widely used on popular crops such as walnuts, almonds, […]
‘Extreme Option: Overthrow Allende’ By Peter Kornbluh, Portside. September 19, 2020 ‘Extreme Option: Overthrow Allende’2020-09-192020-09-19https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/handwritten_instructions-e1600520490593.jpg200px200px Fifty Years Ago, President Richard Nixon ordered the CIA to organize a coup against Chile’s elected President Salvador Allende. Here is the story, with the just-declassified documents recording the genesis of this infamous directive. Washington, DC – On September 15, 1970, during a twenty-minute meeting in the Oval Office between 3:25 […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/07/1080390880_0:104:1920:1184_1200x675_80_0_0_51bf2a017604360613028b71498cf352.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202009191080516270-active-shooter-reported-at-mall-in-pennsylvania/ Shots were heard at the Lehigh Valley Mall around 4:50 pm local time on Saturday before police arrived at the scene. No victims have been reported so far. The police are investigating an active shooter situation reported at a mall in Pennsylvania. A witness at the Lehigh Valley Mall shared a video online, showing apparently a SWAT team running while […]
Libya’s National Oil Corporation (NOC) declared on Friday that it will not allow Wagner mercenaries to be part of the oil industry in the country. This came in a statement issued by NOC Chairman of the Board of Directors Mustafa Sanalla, as he objected to what he called: “Politicising the petroleum sector, and using it as a bargaining card in fruitless negotiations for political gain.” Foreign […]
Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) has planted herself on the fence in the debate over the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s empty Supreme Court seat, saying that the Senate should wait until after the November election to vote on the nominee, while adding that she has “no objection” to the Senate Judiciary Committee starting the process of filling the vacancy. The senator said that she believes the decision over […]
During a briefing with reporters at the White House on Saturday, President Trump confirmed that he had signed off on a proposed deal that would involve spinning off TikTok’s global business into a standalone, US-based company owned by Oracle, ByteDance, Wal-Mart, a group of Silicon Valley VC firms and other investors from China. “I have given the deal my blessing, if they get it done that’s […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/13/1080516178_0:0:3072:1728_1200x675_80_0_0_0f72a55e47a9d112a0987dd1f307abcf.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202009191080516208-dwayne-johnson-tears-down-his-gate-due-to-power-outage—video/ US movie star Dwayne Johnson, 48, known as ‘The Rock’, is famous for his roles in The Scorpion King (2002), Hercules (2014), San Andreas (2015), Rampage (2018), and the Jumanji franchise. The 48-year-old Johnson said on Friday that he ripped down his own front gate after a power outage caused by a severe storm made it inoperable. “I pushed, pulled, […]
Chief Justice John Roberts called Ginsburg “a jurist of historic stature.” Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Chief Justice John Roberts called Ginsburg “a jurist of historic stature.” Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Supreme Court justices, both current and former, are remembering their colleague Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died Friday at the age of 87. “Our Nation has lost a jurist of historic stature. […]
Lebanon’s army said it had found 1.3 tonnes of fireworks during a search of Beirut port, which was devastated last month in a huge blast that was blamed on a large quantity of chemicals kept in poor condition. The army said in a statement, released on its website on Friday, that 1,320 kgs of fireworks were found in 120 boxes in a warehouse during a search […]
Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said on Thursday that Joe Biden’s (D) pro-lockdown policies will “not play well” in Florida. Florida is continuing in its gradual reopening process, allowing bars to reopen at a 50 percent capacity this week. This month, DeSantis vowed that officials in the state will “never do any of these lockdowns again,” adding, “I hear people say they’ll shut down the country, and […]
“If the script were being written, this would be the plot-twist that would drop jaws in the theater…” That is the dramatic (and rightfully so) introduction to a tweet thread by Jake Sherman describing the potential playbook for the next few months as election campaigning and the SCOTUS-nomination-process mutate into what could potentially be a “nuclear option” for markets into year end… and the start of […]
New Report: Private Health Insurers Overpay Hospitals September 19, 2020 New Report: Private Health Insurers Overpay Hospitals2020-09-192020-09-19https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/healthcare-e1600521786693.jpg200px200px NOTE: Many studies by both progressive and conservative groups have found that national improved Medicare for all (NIMA) would decrease healthcare costs in the United States while covering everyone. This is commonsense when one understands that the United States spends twice as much per person per year on healthcare […]
(Natural News) A report from the New York Times is alleging that Attorney General William Barr had asked federal prosecutors to consider the possibility of placing criminal charges against Seattle’s mayor, Jenny Durkan, a Democrat, for allowing the Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP), a self-declared “police-free autonomous zone,” to exist for so long under her watch. The continued existence of CHOP, they argue, allowed crime to fester in the […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/106287/62/1062876229_0:202:3887:2389_1200x675_80_0_0_5adea5366fb10bce00a7da9ce0d0d1ee.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/asia/202009191080515914-qantas-flight-to-nowhere-tickets-sell-out-within-10-minutes—reports/ The company has promised passengers that they will enjoy special onboard entertainment and that a surprise celebrity host will be flying with them on the Boeing 787 Dreamliner flight. People bought all 134 available seats within 10 minutes, with tickets, ranging from economy to business class, priced between $575 and $2,765, media reported, citing a Qantas spokesperson. “It’s probably the […]
Turkey rejected on Friday the human rights violations claims in northern Syria laid out in a report by the United Nations Commission of Inquiry and following criticism. We categorically reject the baseless allegations of human rights violations claimed against the Syrian opposition… and concerning our country in relation to them, the Turkish foreign ministry said on Friday. On Tuesday, UN war crimes investigators said Turkey must […]
Eleven people were shot, one fatally, between Friday 6 p.m. into Saturday morning in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago. ABC 7 reports that a shooting that occurred Saturday morning left a 16-year-old boy hospitalized with a gunshot wound to the chest. The boy was standing on the sidewalk “in the 5000-block of West Monroe Street” around 2:15 a.m. when an occupant of a vehicle in an […]
Left-wing fundraising organization ActBlue raised a staggering $50 million by 4 p.m. ET on Saturday following the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, according to the Associated Press. Hey reporters wondering if this SCOTUS news is motivating Democrats. Here is a chart of donations to our fund to help elect Democrats to the Senate. Donate (or watch the number go up) here: https://t.co/KGWmpELi2L pic.twitter.com/XCEk21Wnyh […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/0e/1080455272_0:320:3072:2048_1200x675_80_0_0_4d6e69f4fa60f99de422d5e38f135093.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202009191080515967-trump-approves-tiktok-oracle-deal—–/ Software company Oracle earlier beat several other candidates, including Microsoft, in the bid to acquire the Chinese app’s US operations from ByteDance. President Donald Trump has approved the deal between Oracle and the video-sharing app TikTok. “I have given the deal my blessing”, Trump told reporters in North Carolina on Saturday. “I approved the deal in concept”. Trump earlier […]
Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins listens during a Senate hearing on Sept. 9. Greg Nash/The Hill/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Greg Nash/The Hill/Bloomberg via Getty Images Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins listens during a Senate hearing on Sept. 9. Greg Nash/The Hill/Bloomberg via Getty Images Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins says the nomination of a Supreme Court justice to fill the vacancy left […]
The Israeli occupation army announced the full closure of the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip for the Jewish Rosh Hashanah holiday, Quds Press reported on Friday. According to Quds Press, the complete closure will start from Sunday at midnight until Tuesday. During this period, all crossings between Israel and the occupied territories will be closed with the exception of humanitarian or medical emergencies, and […]
Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, listens during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing to discuss vaccines and protecting public health during the coronavirus pandemic on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020, in Washington. (Greg Nash/Pool via AP) | Greg Nash/Pool via AP Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said on Saturday that the Senate should not vote on the nomination of a new Supreme Court Justice […]
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said that he is supporting President Donald Trump “in any effort to move forward” concerning the vacancy left by the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. As chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Graham would preside over confirmation hearings for the president’s choice to fill Ginsburg’s seat. Graham, who posted his comments to Twitter on Saturday afternoon, said that his decision to […]
Authored by Ben Zeisloft via Campus Reform, Southeastern Legal Foundation sent letters to three public universities, demanding they stop discriminating against students because of their conservative viewpoints. SLF, a public interest law firm that advocates limited government, individual liberty, and free enterprise, is asking Florida Atlantic University, East Carolina University, and the University of South Florida to consider how its selective COVID-19 enforcement confuses and discriminates. […]
(Natural News) If you assume your tap water must be safe to drink because you haven’t heard otherwise, you could be gambling with your health. Seven years ago, the American Society for Civil Engineers issued a warning that most of the country’s drinking water infrastructure was “nearing the end of its useful life.” Not much has been done since then to resolve the problem, and now […]
Venezuela Foils CIA Terror Plot; Pompeo On Regime Change Tour By Alan Macleod, Mintpress News. September 19, 2020 Venezuela Foils CIA Terror Plot; Pompeo On Regime Change Tour2020-09-192020-09-19https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/tarek-william-saab_edited-e1600522819529.jpg200px200px Above photo: Venezuela’s Attorney General Tarek William Saab holds a photo of bullets he says were seized with other weapons in connection with what the government calls a failed attack over the weekend aimed at overthrowing President Nicolás Maduro, […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/12/1080503656_0:168:3000:1856_1200x675_80_0_0_054c3c623c7b8a37cec79d80f5f8d747.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202009191080515636-tiktok-wechat-downloads-rise-ahead-of-sundays-ban/ On 18 September, the US Department of Commerce prohibited US citizens from downloading the Chinese-owned apps TikTok and WeChat starting on Sunday, 20 September. TikTok and WeChat downloads in the US soared on Friday, with TikTok downloads increasing by 12% to 247,000 and WeChat downloads by 150% to 10,000 in comparison with the previous day, mobile apps tracker Sensor Tower data […]
French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday called on Turkey to reopen a “responsible dialogue” on the Eastern Mediterranean, reports Anadolu Agency. In Ajaccio, we sent a clear message to Turkey: let’s reopen a responsible dialogue, in good faith, without naivety. This call is now also that of the European Parliament. It seems to have been heard. Let’s move on, Macron said in a tweet in Turkish. Turkey […]
An USAF Boeing C-17A (callsign RCH223, reg. 09-9205) left Ramstein today at 16:11 CEST and follow one of the usual routes followed by previous flights to Libya. The aircraft disappeared from all tracking site around 19:22 CEST over central Mediterranean sea. At 21:12 CEST the Globemaster is reappeared off Libya in flight westbound. Source link
Law enforcement agents intercepted a package addressed to the White House containing the toxic poison ricin earlier this week according to CNN and the New York Times. The package was addressed to President Donald Trump. A facility outside the White House typically screens all mail before it is delivered to the White House. An official speaking to the New York Times said the letter is believed […]
Another day, another set of market takes, warning that the recent advent of helicopter money – which resulted in a mind-boggling $21 trillion in policy stimulus, roughly a quarter of global GDP, in just the past 6 months – will lead to a 1970’s style stagflation, runaway inflation and – perhaps for some – the trade of a lifetime. In his latest Bear Trap Report, author […]
The double-humped camel was found to be best-suited for deployment in the high-altitude areas at the India-China border, as they can carry a load of upto 170 kg and go without water for 72 hours. The Indian Army will deploy doubled-humped camels for patrolling and transportation purposes in eastern Ladakh amid the standoff with the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) in the region, said a report in the […]
The flag flies at half-staff Saturday at the Supreme Court on the morning after the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. J. Scott Applewhite/AP hide caption toggle caption J. Scott Applewhite/AP The flag flies at half-staff Saturday at the Supreme Court on the morning after the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. J. Scott Applewhite/AP Judges Amy Coney Barrett, Barbara Lagoa and Amul Thapar are being […]
With Ethereum 2.0’s much-anticipated move to Proof-of-Stake getting closer, CoinDesk Research Analyst Christine Kim spoke with Ethereum developer Danny Ryan and Liz Steininger, CEO of blockchain security company Least Authority on what users and investors should expect. The highly-anticipated launch of Ethereum 2.0 is expected to have little to no impact on users and decentralized applications (dapps) currently operating on Ethereum. But in the years after […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has stated that Palestinians will resume negotiations with Israel if current US President Donald Trump is re-elected, Israel Hayom reported on Friday. Speaking from behind closed doors, the Israeli daily informed that Netanyahu expressed that signing the normalisation deals with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain has left Palestinians with no options but the negotiating table. Netanyahu noted that if […]
On Saturday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany called on 2020 Democratic presidential nominee former Vice President Joe Biden to put out a list of potential Supreme Court nominees. McEnany said, “Well look, the former vice president, in all due respect, instead of telling the current president what to do, he needs to tell voters where he […]
Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, A new study by Princeton University’s US Crisis Monitor shows that the U.S. experienced 637 riots between May 26 and Sept. 12, and 91% of those riots were linked to the Black Lives Matter movement. In other words, BLM was responsible for 9 out of 10 riots across the country. Riots are defined by the project as “demonstrations […]
(Natural News) Attorney General William Barr called lockdown measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus “the greatest intrusion on civil liberties in American history,” comparing it to slavery. He also likened stay-at-home orders to being put under “house arrest” and warned that a medical pandemic “doesn’t give a blank check” to executive rules that infringe on civil liberties. The attorney general made these comments Sep. […]
The Super-Rich Are Raking In Billions By David Cay Johnson, DC Report. September 19, 2020 The Super-Rich Are Raking In Billions2020-09-192020-09-19https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/r.mahaux-trump-family-e1600530891499.jpg200px200px Above photo: One-Percenters Donald and Melania Trump with their son Barron in their Manhattan penthouse in 2010. Our Analysis of IRS Data Shows Trump’s Presidency Has Been Very Good for the Richest Americans. If you are in the 99% here is how well you are faring […]
Trump’s remarks come as the White House moves to ban WeChat and TikTok from US app stores. Having told reporters that he has conversed with top executives at Oracle, Walmart and Microsoft regarding the possible purchase of video-sharing app TikTok, US President Donald Trump also explained what has to be done in order for that social media app to operate in the United States, The Hill […]
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has hired thousands of mercenaries and deployed 450 of them in Yemen to carry out high-profile assassinations, the International Institute for Rights and Development, and the Rights Radar Foundation revealed on Thursday. These remarks came in a statement that the International Institute for Rights and Development and the Rights Radar Foundation read during the 45th session of the United Nations (UN) Human […]
Left-wing Hollywood filmmaker Rob Reiner is declaring war on Republicans over who will replace the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court. He has also accused Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of disrespecting Ginsburg by vowing to give President Trump’s nominee a floor vote in the Senate. The Princess Bride director made the fiery comments in a tweet on Saturday morning. “Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s body isn’t […]
Via AdventuresInCapitalism.com, On Monday, I return to work from an extended vacation (I didn’t miss much it seems). I’m refreshed and ready for what will likely be one of the craziest periods for the markets since the COVID Crash. I realize I’m the guy who has gone out there and said you have a free shot on goal ever since late March. I even called it “Project Zimbabwe,” as it […]
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Spain’s Deputy Prime Minister and leader of the left-wing Unidas Podemos political party Pablo Iglesias said on Saturday that the current corruption scandal involving the royal family represents a “historic moment” for Spain to become a republic. “I think that, as republicans, we need to be able to understand the historic moment of crisis faced by the Spanish monarchy and the model of […]
Sen. Lindsey Graham has walked back repeated statements that a Supreme Court should not be filled in a presidential election year. Jim Bourg/AP hide caption toggle caption Jim Bourg/AP Sen. Lindsey Graham has walked back repeated statements that a Supreme Court should not be filled in a presidential election year. Jim Bourg/AP Almost immediately upon learning of the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, […]
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Friday criticised the US’ “demonisation” of Iran and stressed that US sanctions on the country “will not work”. Speaking in a lengthy interview with Sputnik, Lavrov indicated that the problem with Iran is that the “US authorities have demonised it” and it “got labelled as the main problem of the region in question.” He also clarified that: “Iran gets accused […]
Left-wing ActBlue raised a record amount of money from Friday evening until Saturday morning following the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. According to ActBlue’s website, which keeps track of donations, Democrat candidates and causes raised nearly $31 million over a 12-hour period, which spanned from 9:00 p.m. Eastern to 9:00 a.m. Eastern on Saturday. The online web tracker for donations was estimating $100,000 per minute for […]
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) told her 6.6 million Instagram followers last night that Democrats should ‘radicalize and fight’ following the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. “Let this moment radicalize you,” she said. “Let this moment really put everything into stark focus. Because this election has always been about the fight of and for our lives.” “I need you to be ready,” she added. […]
RT/Moscow: The US pullout from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty was a threat to Russia’s security and risked “zeroing” its nuclear arsenals, prompting Moscow to design unparalleled hypersonic projectiles, President Vladimir Putin said. Moscow, which claims primacy in the worldwide race to develop the ultra-fast weapons systems, faced an urgency to maintain strategic parity with its near-peer opponent Washington, the Russian president recalled on Saturday. “The […]
(Natural News) Though most U.S. social media platforms are based in our country, there is nothing ‘American’ about them. In fact, they are about as anti-American as they can get. Take Twitter, for instance. The platform’s speech Nazis just censored a Chinese scientist who published a paper alleging that the COVID-19 virus was actually created in a laboratory in Wuhan city, where the current pandemic is […]
Kafka On Acid: The Trial Of Julian Assange By Felicity Ruby, Arena Online. September 19, 2020 Kafka On Acid: The Trial Of Julian Assange2020-09-192020-09-19https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/julian.png200px200px Julian Assange needs to wake before dawn to get from Belmarsh Prison to the Old Bailey courthouse, where his extradition hearing resumed on 7 September, for four weeks. He gets dressed for court only to be strip-searched before being placed in a […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Andrei Dergalin. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/viral/202009191080515220-student-makes-soviet-soldiers-dance-to-modern-tunes-videos/ The author’s interest in the subject, which eventually led to the creation of these music videos, reportedly stems from a previous “20th century Russian history coursework” of his. It appears that the famous dancing exploits of Soviet servicemen have recently taken on a slitely different hue online, thanks to the efforts of one Twitterian who uses the […]
Dismissed Fatah leader Mohamed Dahlan, who resides in the United Arab Emirates and serves Crown Prince Mohamed Bin Zayed, asserted on Friday that Palestinians need an elected leader. Dahlan commented on remarks made by US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman who announced that the US is considering replacing Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas with Dahlan. “The leader who is not elected by his people cannot lead,” […]
That there are so few potentially in play lawmakers reflects the hyper-partisan nature of the political landscape in 2020. With less than 45 days left until the election, both sides have largely retreated to their respective sides. In the coming days, these senators will be forced to answer several important questions. Would you vote to confirm a Supreme Court nominee before the election? If a confirmation […]
More than three-quarters of Catholic Democrats support legal abortion, the Pew Research Center revealed this week. In a series of recent articles and discussions, prominent progressive Catholics have insisted that it is okay for Catholics to vote for a pro-abortion candidate such as Joe Biden because Catholics should not be single-issue voters, and their own opposition to abortion is taken for granted. It turns out, however, […]
Submitted by Ronan Manly, BullionStar.com ‘Beginning in at least May 2008 and continuing through at least July 2013 (the “Relevant Period”), Defendants James Vorley (“Vorley”) and Cedric Chanu (“Chanu”) engaged in a manipulative and deceptive scheme (the “Scheme”) while placing orders and trading in the precious metals futures markets on a registered entity.’ So begins the civil enforcement action filed by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on 26 January 2018 against two former Deutsche Bank […]
This comes as the UK has confirmed 4,422 new daily cases of the COVID-19 infection on Saturday, which is the highest daily total since early May. Clashes were reported between police officers and some of the protesters in London’s Trafalgar Square earlier in the day after the law enforcement tried to disperse the crowd during an unauthorised rally. Thousands of people took part in the protest […]
Camille Camdessus/AFP via Getty Images Camille Camdessus/AFP via Getty Images Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, stopped outside the Supreme Court Saturday morning, following the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. “Justice Ginsburg was a titan—a relentless defender of justice and a legal mind for the ages,” Harris said in a tweet. “The stakes of this election couldn’t be […]
Curve, the robot decentralized exchange for stablecoins, is kicking off a new dividend program for holders of its governance token, CRV. “We’ll start moving towards a cashflow-based protocol because the numbers are too sweet to not do it,” Curve founder Michael Egorov told CoinDesk in an email. In order to participate in governance, users need to stake their CRV to the voting contract, exchanging CRV for […]
A senior Iraqi official announced on Friday that Iraq has decided to compensate 90,000 civilians harmed by the “liberation battles” in the Nineveh governorate, in the north of the country. This came in a statement made by Mohammed Mahmoud, director of the sub-committee for compensating people affected by war operations in the Nineveh Governorate, to Anadolu Agency. Mahmoud explained that: “It was decided to compensate 90,000 civilians in the […]
ROME — Pope Francis has called for universal distribution of vaccines for COVID-19, insisting that the “richest” individuals should not be first in line to receive them. “The recent experience of the pandemic, in addition to a major health emergency in which almost a million people have already died, is turning into a serious economic crisis, still giving rise to poor people and families who do […]
Authored by Ryan McMaken via The Mises Institute, This year’s stay-at-home orders and lockdowns imposed by governments on their populations represent a watershed moment in the history of the modern state. Before March 2020, it is unlikely that many politicians – let alone many ordinary people – thought it would be feasible or likely for government officials to force hundreds of millions of human beings to […]
First published 18 September 2020 Donald Trump has announced he will contest the presidential election if he loses, a bizarre statement from someone who may well have taken on a “life’s work” few might guess. Trump, the virtual “stepchild” of “Red Baiter” Roy Cohn, a man whose hatred of Russia was notorious, may well not be the friend of Russia that so many in the Pentagon […]
New Fossil Fuel Projects Meet Indigenous Resistance By Randall Hyman, Truthout. September 19, 2020 New Fossil Fuel Projects Meet Indigenous Resistance2020-09-192020-09-19https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/new-mexico.png200px200px Above photo: Navajo Tribal Council Member Daniel Tso and Mario Atencio of Diné CARE study a map of oil leases in the Nation’s Eastern Agency. The Bureau of Land Management’s new guidelines will allow up to 3,000 more frack wells in the Greater Chaco region. Randall Hyman. […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/0f/1080466011_0:0:3072:1728_1200x675_80_0_0_c6be2e7cf23e3f86cad179ff0c54226a.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202009191080514882-irans-revolutionary-guard-chief-vows-to-hit-those-responsible-for-soleimanis-death/ MOSCOW, (Sputnik) – The head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Maj. Gen. Hossein Salami, has said on Saturday that Tehran is committed to enacting revenge against those responsible for the death of Qasem Soleimani, the top Iranian military commander who was killed in Iraq earlier this year. “We will hit the people who, directly and indirectly, played a […]
Renowned for its breathtaking white sand beaches, crystal clear waters, and sunny weather, the eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus is a fascinating destination for politics and history enthusiasts and has much more to offer visitors than picturesque coastal towns and villages. Populated by both Greek and Turkish Cypriots, the island was split into two parts not long after the Republic of Cyprus gained its independence from […]
Former President Barack Obama inserted himself Friday night in the political fight over former Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s replacement. After celebrating Ginsburg’s legacy, the former president reasserted in a statement that Ginsburg requested that President Donald Trump not be the one to name her replacement. “[S]he also left instructions for how she wanted her legacy to be honored,” Obama wrote. According to her granddaughter, […]
Picking RBG’s Successor: The Who & The When Tyler Durden Sat, 09/19/2020 – 12:25 The political battles over who will succeed Ruth Bader Ginsburg as Supreme Court Justice have already begun with some demanding delays, some pushing urgency, others urging more radicalism, and all of this being super-amplified by every mainstream and social media feed, happy to use any old piece of fake news to make […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/13/1080512139_0:0:1200:675_1200x675_80_0_0_4570ef1dcd75ca712c17d3becaf06673.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/videoclub/202009191080512574-let-us-in-baby-foxes-ask-hooman-to-open-the-door/ Though some people have tried to make pets of foxes, it is still a wild animal. However, they’re usually friendly to people and, every now and again, have even been known to turn to them for help. A video shared on Instagram shows two fox cubs waiting for someone to open a door in the house for them. One […]
President Trump speaks about the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg after a campaign rally on Friday. Evan Vucci/AP hide caption toggle caption Evan Vucci/AP President Trump speaks about the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg after a campaign rally on Friday. Evan Vucci/AP When President Trump learned Friday night that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had died, he told reporters she was […]
The Trades Union Congress (TUC) this week agreed a motion proposed by the general union Unite, opposing Israel’s plan to annex much of the West Bank, and calling for sanctions against the occupation state. The motion was historic in more ways than one. Significantly, it twice used the word “apartheid” to describe the situation in the West Bank. I am told by a source that the […]
Today we recorded two Italian missions on the Libyan theater. The first is a logistic mission for the Italian military hospital in Misrata (MIASIT): an Italian Air Force C-130J (reg. MM62193 – callsign IAM4669) took off in Pratica di Mare AB at 11:22 CEST this morning heading south and disappeared from the tracking sites south of Lampedusa. The same aircraft then reappeared in the Malta FIR […]
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) said there is precedent for confirming a U.S. Supreme Court judge in a short period of time, providing her remarks Friday on Sirius XM’s Breitbart News Tonight with host Jerome Hudson. Blackburn joined Breitbart News Tonight just a few hours after the Supreme Court announced the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who had served on the Court since 1993 and was […]
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Navy, beset by maintenance delays, is making progress on getting its ships out of the shipyards on time, fleet officials say. Over the past three years, the Navy is on track to more than double the percentage of ships getting out of maintenance on time this fiscal year, key to the service’s efforts to make deployments more sustainable for its ships and […]
Summary: US reports nearly 50k cases France sees sudden jump in deaths Russia tops 6k new cases for first time since mid-July UK PM considers whether to “go further” with new restrictions Indonesia reports record jump in new cases * * * US cases accelerated again on Friday, with the US adding nearly 50k, or 49,299 new cases (+0.7%), bringing the total for the country to […]
Mother Jones: During the 2016 campaign, Donald Trump was burdened with lawsuits that accused him and his Trump University of defrauding students who had paid thousands of dollars to learn the supposed secrets of Trump’s financial success. Though the Trump U controversy raised questions about Trump’s fitness for office, he managed to score two legal victories in the case as it proceeded. He won a postponement […]
Venezuela: The 2016-2020 National Assembly – Part Of The Plan By Pasqualina Curcio, Resumen English. September 19, 2020 Venezuela: The 2016-2020 National Assembly – Part Of The Plan2020-09-192020-09-19https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/vzna.jpg200px200px Above photo: Noticias al Dia. It’s hard to decide which of all the actions of the Venezuelan opposition representatives was the most shameful. Was it Ramos Allup giving the legitimate elected President Nicolas Madura a 6-month deadline to leave […]
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Russia calls on the European Union to reconsider its policies towards Minsk and believes that they lead to erosion of the fundamental rules of the international legal order and prevent the normalization of the situation in the country, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Saturday. According to Zakharova, Brussels does not respect Belarus’ domestic political realities and, while performing its policies, […]
Yemeni Human Rights Minister Mohamed Askar has announced that the military escalation by the Houthi forces in different areas in Yemen, including the latest offensives in Marib, Al-Jawf, and Ad-Dali provinces, is concerning and can have negative repercussions on the humanitarian situation. He explained that statistics indicate that nearly 700 civilians have been killed and wounded, and more than 11,000 families have been displaced during the […]
“Through her expansive mind, sound temperament and unwavering judicial integrity, she plied the Constitution as a living instrument of American life, lending it meaning in the life of us all,” said Gina McCarthy, president of the Natural Resources Defense Council and former EPA administrator. “Our communities are safer, healthier and more free because of RBG,” said League of Conservation Voters President Gene Karpinski. Ginsburg was clearly […]
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) urged Senate Democrats to stand strong and “not back down” in the wake of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) subsequent vow that President Trump’s nominee to replace her “will receive a vote on the floor of the United States Senate.” Waters expressed her condolences to Ginsburg’s family Friday evening following the news of the justice’s […]
We’re still waiting for the ‘October Surprise’ that Democrats are hoping will derail Trump’s quest for a second term (although it didn’t exactly work out that way back in 2016), but the passing of Ruth Bader Ginsburg last night has certainly shaken things up, with only 45 days left until the election. VP Joe Biden sounded dejected last night as he delivered his statement on Ginsburg’s […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/106916/67/1069166709_0:420:1920:1500_1200x675_80_0_0_61b819937a21b5d27466cde49037141e.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Andrei Dergalin. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/world/202009191080514418-billionaires-urged-to-help-feed-millions-of-starving-people-amid-humanitys-greatest-crisis/ The WFP chief warned that there are some 30 million people out there who “rely solely” on the organization for survival. The global hunger crisis, “caused by conflict” and further compounded by the coronavirus pandemic, is now moving into a “new and dangerous phase – especially in nations already scarred by violence”, and it may be a […]
President Trump shakes hands with Neil Gorsuch, his first pick for a spot on the U.S. Supreme Court, on Jan. 31, 2017. The president will likely have the opportunity to name a replacement for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died Friday. Carolyn Kaster/AP hide caption toggle caption Carolyn Kaster/AP President Trump shakes hands with Neil Gorsuch, his first pick for a spot on the U.S. Supreme […]
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has stated that Turkey regrets the decision of Head of the Libyan Government of National Accord (GNA) Fayez Al-Sarraj to resign from his position, stressing that he has no objection to holding meetings with the Egyptian authorities, Reuters reported. Speaking to reporters after Friday prayer in Istanbul, Erdogan added: “The warlord Khalifa Haftar will be defeated sooner or later,” adding that […]
President Donald Trump’s pro-American curbs on migration are pressuring New York’s parochial elite to accept out-of-state young Americans into the city’s economy. “The main driver of both new business formation and population growth in New York has historically been international immigration,” says a September 17 Axios.com article. “So long as immigration remains suppressed, New York will suffer,” says the article, titled “The math of New York […]
Britain used 6 giant batteries manufactured by Tesla to “help balance supply and demand” in the electricity market for the first time this week, according to Bloomberg. The 6 batteries comprise a plant that can store energy from renewable sources that can then be tapped at times of peak consumption. The National Grid Electricity System Operator uses the backups to balance supply and demand. Costs of […]
Mainstream US Reporters Silent About Being Spied On By Max Blumenthal, The Grayzone. September 19, 2020 Mainstream US Reporters Silent About Being Spied On2020-09-192020-09-19https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/extradite-assange-e1600523734855.png200px200px Reporters spied on by apparent CIA contractor that targeted Assange. Despite being spied on and having their privacy invaded by the UC Global firm that targeted Assange, reporters from major US news outlets have said nothing in protest. Meanwhile, new evidence of […]
Teenage environmental activist Greta Thunberg repeatedly accused world leaders of “not doing enough” to tackle climate change. Last year, her strongly worded “how dare you” speech in the UN attracted worldwide attention and made some politicians promise to act more swiftly to fight global warming. “We’ll plant 2 billion trees over the next ten years. That’s it. That’s the tweet”, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wrote […]
Egyptian security forces have been deployed in several areas across the main Egyptian cities, preparing themselves for possible anti-regime protests called for by exiled opposition figure Mohamed Ali, Anadolu Agency reported on Friday. Ali, a former close contractor for the Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, who has fled Egypt, has revealed several cases of corruption and called for anti-Sisi protests on 20 September of last year. […]
President Donald Trump on Thursday will speak at a campaign rally at an airport in Bemidji, MN. The event is scheduled to begin at 6:00 p.m. CDT. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the president is delivering campaign speeches with a limited crowd at airports around the country. Source link
Authored by Stephen Lendman, Alice’s “curiouser and curiouser” remark in Lewis Carroll’s Adventures in Wonderland applies to dubious twists in the Navalny novichok poisoning hoax. No evidence or motive links Russia to what happened to him. Was the August 20 Tomsk, Russia incident made-in-the-USA? Was Germany pressured, bullied or bribed to go along — at the expense of its own self-interest? Clearly Angela Merkel, other German […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/13/1080510809_0:102:2048:1254_1200x675_80_0_0_b772559577383e2db29acca7958cc0ca.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/photo/202009191080511820-soviet-fashion-trendy-autumn-outfits-for-women-in-the-1960s-and-1970s/ As September comes to an end, we should start preparing for long cold evenings. Warm and cosy clothes are essential at this time so it could be useful to hunt for some sources of inspiration before we start our autumn shopping. The clothes we wear to a great extent depend on the climate in which we live. In Russia, […]
A crowd gathers at the U.S. Supreme Court to mourn the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Friday. Tyrone Turner/WAMU hide caption toggle caption Tyrone Turner/WAMU A crowd gathers at the U.S. Supreme Court to mourn the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Friday. Tyrone Turner/WAMU On the steps of the Supreme Court building, soft cries and the low murmur […]