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 […]
Daily Archives: September 19, 2020
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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 […]