Appearing Monday on the Fox News Channel, Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) argued that former Vice President Joe Biden shouldn’t answer mounting questions from the media whether or not he supports packing the U.S Supreme Court because it’s “not his business.” A partial transcript is as follows: BILL HEMMER: Why won’t he answer that question? SEN. TIM KAINE: I haven’t asked him, but I have a pretty good idea: Because it’s not his business. The Constitution gives no power to the president or vice president to pack the court. I heard the Senator Ernst say he won’t pack the court. It’s not a presidential […]
Daily Archives: October 12, 2020
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YUMA PROVING GROUND, Ariz. — To put it bluntly, the U.S. Army is not exactly known for its space savviness. However, as the Army gears up for combat with near-peer competitors, it’s doing its best to leverage new space capabilities to improve its targeting and networks, greatly expanding the range it can fire at enemies effectively. And at Project Convergence 20, the service got its first high profile opportunity to show off what it can do with emergent tactical space capabilities. Project Convergence is the first iteration of the Army’s new “campaign of learning,” an effort to bring together the most […]
Billionaire Leon Black gave his longtime pal Jeffrey Epstein $50 million dollars after the deceased financier got out of prison for pedophilia. The transfer of funds was made in at least two payments, one of which Deutsche Bank flagged as unusual, according to the New York Times, citing ‘two people familiar with the matter.’ Epstein served as a director on the Leon Black Family Foundation for over a decade, and also accepted a $10 million donation for his Gratitude America foundation from Black’s “BV70 LLC” charity. “It is true that I paid Mr Epstein millions of dollars annually for his work,” […]
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – More than 20 demonstrators were arrested in Washington DC during the Senate judiciary committee’s confirmation hearings of US President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Judge Amy Coney Barrett, Fox News reports. Protesters gathered outside the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Monday, the first day of Barrett’s hearings. US Capitol Police arrested 21 demonstrators for crowding and obstruction, while another person was arrested for unlawful conduct, Fox News said. Happening now: Protesters opposed to the confirmation of conservative Judge Amy Coney Barrett are being arrested outside the Dirksen Senate Building as Barrett’s confirmation gets underway. About two dozen seem […]
On Saturday it was reported that a local Denver news producer and the news agency’s ‘bodyguard’ were taken into custody for the fatal shooting of a Trump supporter during dueling rallies on Saturday. All initial reports had indicated that it was a conflict between Antifa and conservatives, but the Denver Police later issued a statement saying that the shooter did not have any ties to the militant leftists. We reported last night that the assertion by the police may not be accurate. Kyle Clark of 9 News, a local Denver station, tweeted on Saturday evening: TRENDING: HOLY HELL! Joe Biden Looks […]
A Syrian girl who lost one of her eyes as a result of the catastrophic blast in the Lebanese capital Beirut has been given a prosthetic eye by the United Arab Emirates. As five-year-old Sama was at home with her family in Beirut on 4 August, 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate stored at the city’s port exploded in a blast that shocked Lebanon and the international community. Along with the almost 200 who were killed and 300,000 who were left homeless as a result of the blast, Sama lost her left eye when a glass shard from her home window blinded it, after which doctors said they […]
The military has strict rules against uniformed service members participating in political campaigns, and the ad is just the latest example of the president or those around him pulling the nation’s highest-ranking officer and other Defense Department officials into the political realm. “As a matter of long-standing policy, military service members and federal employees acting in their official capacity may not engage in activities that associate the DOD with any partisan political campaign or elections, candidate, cause or issue,” the DOD’s website states in a post from March 2019. Active-duty service members are prohibited from participating in fundraisers, speaking before partisan […]
President Donald Trump on Monday will host a campaign rally in Sanford, Florida, the first rally since he contracted the coronavirus. The rally is scheduled for 7:00 p.m. EST. White House physician Sean Conley said Monday that the president has tested negative for the virus for consecutive days and is no longer in danger of spreading the coronavirus. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the president is delivering campaign speeches with a limited crowd at airports around the country. Source link
The Marine Corps has created a new military occupational specialty, or MOS: the 7318 for MQ-9 Reaper pilots, according to an administrative message signed Friday. The new MOS was created as the Corps looks to expand its unmanned capabilities as it looks toward a war with China. “As a ‘stand-in’ force of the future, the Marine Corps requires a family of (unmanned aerial systems capabilities,” the Marine Corps said in its Force Design 2030 document. “We need to transition from our current UAS platforms to capabilities that can operate from ship, from shore, and able to employ both collection and lethal […]
CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta generated a pathetic comeback to Trump rally attendees in Florida who chanted “CNN Sucks!” Rather than defend his network and disagree with the chants at Monday’s Orlando rally, Acosta instead deflected to the lack of coronavirus precautions among attendees. >> @Acosta at Trump’s rally in FL: “As this crowd is chanting that there are members of the press here who suck, I should also point out, what also sucks: getting the coronavirus.” pic.twitter.com/nMUlZ8lnlB — Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) October 12, 2020 “As this crowd is chanting that there are members of the press here who suck, […]
Anybody who suspected that not making it on the ballot in most states would suppress Kanye West’s drive to be the 46th President of the United States clearly underestimated the depths of his ambition…or overestimated Kris Jenner’s ability to…handle these types of problems. Just weeks after accusing his mother-in-law of trying to get him committed via an involuntary psychiatric hold, rapper/producer/entertainer Kanye West has dropped his first campaign ad, encouraging his supporters to write in his name for president. Equal parts Calvinist sermon and social justice screed, West encouraged Americans to embrace faith as the path to America’s revival as a […]
I’m back on the grid after my legal tussle with the Solicitors Regulation Authority. Mr. Justice Murray, the nice, only American-born High Court judge, has reserved his decision, after a hard-fought day in court. Unlike the US presidential election I won’t be predicting the result, as a courtesy to the learned judge. So far as the election is concerned I’m joining that nice man Dick Morris in predicting a landslide win for the President, and yes, I know that Dick made a similar prediction as regards Mitt ‘von’ Romney! The big question this week is just exactly who tried to whack […]
After Republican Senator John Kennedy declared “racist” one of the worst insults Americans might face during Supreme Court confirmation hearings, social media took up the challenge, deluging the Louisianan with alternatives. Kennedy uttered the offending phrase in defense of Judge Amy Coney Barrett, the conservative lawmaker President Donald Trump nominated to the Supreme Court last month to fill the vacancy left by the deceased Ruth Bader Ginsburg. “I know, for someone unaccustomed to it, that it hurts to be called a racist. I think it’s one of the worst things you can call an American,” Kennedy declared in his trademark southern […]
(Natural News) It’s official: Professional sports in the United States have become the latest cultural triumph by the left, as the leagues are now nothing more than the latest ‘woke’ platforms with which to spew anti-American racism, bigotry and authoritarianism. One of the requirements — yes, requirements — is that players and athletes are not permitted to show any support at all for our president, Donald Trump, though of course, bowing down to his predecessor, Barack Obama, the god king, was also a requirement. The latest victim is a professional cyclist who has been booted from his team over his expression […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/106480/13/1064801392_0:120:1280:840_1200x675_80_0_0_df74e984b224573f9109ee3973bb1ae3.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Andrei Dergalin. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/science/202010121080751319-massive-hole-no-one-was-expecting-to-see-spotted-in-antarctic-media-says/ Scientists reportedly believe that the phenomenon was created thanks to a lake located deep below the ice sheet. A peculiar anomaly was spotted from space amid the frozen expanses of Antarctica, the Daily Express reports citing the Science Channel series What on Earth. According to the newspaper, the anomaly in question is a giant hole located near the Ross Ice Shelf, which the series narrator described as “something no one was expecting to see”. As researchers struggled to explain this phenomenon, they first considered “that warm ocean currents could have caused it […]
The nation’s top infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci demanded that the Trump campaign refrain from using him in future campaign ads, saying Monday that it would be “outrageous” and “terrible” if he was featured in another commercial and it could “come back to backfire” on Team Trump. Asked by The Daily Beast if his comments were a thinly-veiled threat to leave his post if he ended up in a new campaign spot, Fauci: “Not a chance.” “Not in my wildest freakin’ dreams,” he said, “did I ever think about quitting.” From there, Fauci went on to explain what he meant […]
A health care worker tests a patient for the coronavirus in Nevada in July. Scientists say a 25-year-old Nevada man was infected with the virus twice. It is the first confirmed case of reinfection in the U.S. John Locher/AP hide caption toggle caption John Locher/AP A health care worker tests a patient for the coronavirus in Nevada in July. Scientists say a 25-year-old Nevada man was infected with the virus twice. It is the first confirmed case of reinfection in the U.S. John Locher/AP A 25-year-old was infected twice with the coronavirus earlier this year, scientists in Nevada have confirmed. It […]
Peer-to-peer crypto marketplace Paxful said it’s partnering with BiLira, the group behind the Turkish lira-backed stablecoin bilira (TYRB), and crypto trading platform Cointral as part of a push to trade cryptocurrencies in Eastern Europe. Paxful said the move follows strong growth in trading registrations by Turkish users over the past year. Both BiLira and Cointral are based in Turkey. In an emailed statement, Paxful said it recorded an average monthly trading volume of over $65,000 in Turkey. Source link
The Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu asked his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov to press Armenia to adhere to the ceasefire. According to diplomatic sources, Cavusoglu stressed the need to send a warning to Armenia about respecting the truce it has violated after less than 24 hours of it being signed. Earlier yesterday, the Azerbaijani prosecutor’s office announced the death of nine civilians, including four women, and the injury of 34 others following an Armenian missile attack on the city of Ganja, despite the humanitarian truce, which entered into force at noon on Saturday. READ: Ceasefire due to enter force in Nagorno-Karabakh after Moscow deal A ceasefire agreement […]
Fear of Trump remains high in GOP circles, and Republicans know that their fate is inexorably tied to the president’s own results. Yet at the moment, it’s not clear Trump has the juice within his party to cut a big spending deal with Democrats. Meanwhile, there is near unanimous support for Barrett, the type of Supreme Court nominee that Senate Republicans would have confirmed for a President Rubio or a President Cruz. So some in the GOP say they should take the win in front of them and wait until after the election to pass a coronavirus relief package that would […]
UFC welterweight Jorge Masvidal joined Donald Trump, Jr. on his “Fighters Against Socialism” bus tour, as part of the younger Trump’s campaign to reelect his father. The tour made stops in Orlando, Coconut Creek, and Miami, Florida, and courted the vote of Hispanics, according to UFC news site BloodyElbow.com. “Since I was about knee-high, I’ve been hearing about the horrors of communism and socialism,” Masvidal said during one of the stops. “We either reelect president Trump and keep America great again, or we let Joe Biden and the radical left take us down the slippery slopes of socialism and misery.” “One […]
PARIS – The NATO Helicopter Management Agency, acting on behalf of France, has signed a production contract with NHI Industries for 10 NH90 Tactical Troop Helicopters, upgraded to meet the requirements of the French special forces. France’s DGA procurement agency had announced at the end of September that it wanted the final batch of 10 NH90s it had already ordered to be transformed into special forces versions, the first five of which will be delivered in 2025 and the last five in 2026. That will bring the total number of these aircraft in the French army to 74. The NATO agency […]
We’ve observed many times throughout the pandemic that the coronavirus-related lockdowns, especially as impacting restaurants, bars, theaters and other night venues, have made living in already expensive big cities like New York much less attractive. It appears this trend of people ‘escaping’ the big cities as the prime lure of being there has largely evaporated — also after a summer of chaotic race and police shooting related protests and mayhem — is poised to hit San Francisco, despite it previously witnessing steady population growth over the past three decades. New tax numbers freshly out suggest a major exodus is already in progress. But for the […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107890/07/1078900792_0:15:2716:1542_1200x675_80_0_0_39d5e512bb8fbd4a172afb3b5ec704a6.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/world/202010121080751972-un-budget-for-2021-to-require-almost-3bln-guterres-says/ UNITED NATIONS (Sputnik) – The United Nations’ budget for the next year will require as much as $2.99 billion, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Monday. In early April, Guterres informed member states about looming financial crisis that the world’s body might soon confront while providing help in fighting the novel coronavirus pandemic. “To fully implement the mandates entrusted to us, we will require a total of $2.99 billion, which represents a net reduction of 2.8 per cent compared to 2020, despite additional initiatives and mandated activities”, Guterres said at the fifth committee meeting on […]
Trump’s physician Dr. Sean Conley on Monday released an update on the President’s negative Covid test. “I can share with you that [President Trump] has tested NEGATIVE, on consecutive days, using the Abbott Binax/NOW antigen card.” “The President is not infectious to others,” Dr. Conley said. An update from President @realDonaldTrump’s physician: pic.twitter.com/XTxs2BjImt — Kayleigh McEnany (@PressSec) October 12, 2020 TRENDING: HOLY HELL! Joe Biden Looks Like Death in Erie, Pennsylvania — Something Is Wrong with Old Joe! President Trump is holding a rally tonight at 7 PM ET in Sanford, Florida and the Democrat-media complex has launched an attack on […]
In response to the protests in Tunisia against the draft law to protect police officers and security forces, parliament has postponed further consideration of the bill. The protesters include human rights activists and young people from radical left-wing political backgrounds, as well as national organisations concerned with defending human rights, combating torture and supporting transitional justice. The draft law reconsiders versions submitted in the past and carried multiple sub-headings, such as “thwarting attacks on security forces”. The protestors believe that it is an attempt to restore Tunisia as a police state and eliminate the only thing that citizens have gained from […]
National Public Radio’s (NPR) weekend news programs questioned whether Trump has recovered from the coronavirus and whether his mental state might cause him to act recklessly. On Weekend Edition Saturday, host Scott Simon spoke with left-wing Ron Elving, senior editor and correspondent at NPR who provided glowing reports on Barack Obama for eight years. “Ron, there is a growing list of people concerned about the president’s health right now in all ways, isn’t there?” Simon said. “Concerned – yes,” Elving said. “And it should be a concern for all of us.” “But among those expressing worry this week was Speaker Nancy Pelosi,” Elving […]
NEW DELHI — The flight test of India’s homemade 1000-kilometer-range cruise missile failed Monday following technical problems. Nirbhay — an intermediate-range subsonic land-attack cruise missile with terrain hugging — is an Indian version of the American Tomahawk and the Russian Club SS-N-27 cruise missiles. Defense scientists in India said the test failed within 8 minutes of the launch due to technical issues in the engine. They gave no further details. The Nirbhay missile is currently powered by the Russian Saturn 50MT turbofan engine. Its local development began in 2007 with the Defence Research and Development Organisation. A senior DRDO scientist said […]
German MP Petr Bystron brings Infowars Europe to the Berlin headquarters of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) implicated in migrant smuggling operations in the Mediterranean region and elsewhere. Within minutes, Antifa operatives monitoring the site informed their associates about the crew’s presence, prompting a quick exit. Source link
If one is to believe the most recent polls, Joe Biden is on his way to the White House to become the 46th President of the United States. Except, according to Biden himself – the man whose finger would be on the button – he’s “running as a proud Democrat for the Senate.” Think about how insane it is that we have a guy running for president who can’t even remember that he’s running for president. Joe Biden is seriously unwell. — Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) October 12, 2020 Earlier Monday, Biden couldn’t remember Mitt Romney’s name, or what state he’s in… […]
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A massive brawl erupted between Israeli troops from two different training companies over who was going to eat first at the canteen. Some 21 soldiers were injured in what the IDF called an “unusual and serious” incident. The confrontation between training companies representing the Bedouin 585th reconnaissance unit and the Shaked Battalion occurred at the Har Keren training base on Sunday. Things became so heated in the fracas that one of the troops even started loading his gun, according to one witness who was cited in local reports. The brawl lasted several minutes and involved around 30 people – some 21 […]
(Natural News) The garbage media in America either love or hate federal authorities, depending on whose political ox is being gored, as evidenced by the fact that most outlets are ignoring legitimate bombshell information that has been seeping out of the Trump administration now for weeks. In late September, for instance, the Trump administration declassified documents indicating beyond any reasonable doubt that the Obama regime went to great lengths to set up his successor, President Donald Trump, in a scandal No. 44 and his co-conspirators no doubt hoped would drive the GOP outsider from office. “Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham … […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/0b/1080739779_0:25:1463:847_1200x675_80_0_0_353ba2cd198c860a40ef9de9f6306e14.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202010121080752045-trump-tests-negative-for-covid-19-for-consecutive-days-white-house-physician-says/ The US president earlier contracted the novel coronavirus, along with his wife Melania, but the White House doctors said his condition was improving steadily. President Donald Trump has tested negative for COVID-19 for consecutive days, White House physician Sean Conley said in a statement on Monday. Earlier, Conley said that the president no longer poses risk to others in terms of coronavirus transmission. Trump tested positive for the virus on 3 October and later departed the Walter Reed Medical Center for treatment. The doctors initially reported he has had high fever and his blood oxygen levels dropped. […]
At first, the opening confirmation hearing for Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court not only sounded like the senators were in different hearing rooms—some were, in fact, due to COVID-19 concerns—but like they occupied different political universes altogether. In their opening remarks on Monday, each Democratic senator on the Senate Judiciary Committee cast the stakes of Barrett’s confirmation as nothing less than the fate of millions of Americans who could lose access to health insurance should Barrett join the high court and strike down the Affordable Care Act in a case to be heard on Nov. 10. The […]
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., speaks Monday during a confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett. Susan Walsh/AP hide caption toggle caption Susan Walsh/AP Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., speaks Monday during a confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett. Susan Walsh/AP Republicans condemned what they called inappropriate criticism and questioning about Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett’s Catholic identity as her confirmation hearing opened on Monday. Democrats did not bring up her faith in Monday’s hearing. Barrett is a devout Catholic, alumna of Notre Dame and member of a small, conservative faith group called the People of Praise. […]
Bitcoin bounced close to $11,600 before retreating a bit while ether options traders are less active than they were in September. Bitcoin (BTC) trading around $11,552 as of 20:00 UTC (4 p.m. ET). Gaining 1.7% over the previous 24 hours. Bitcoin’s 24-hour range: $11,186-$11,598 BTC is above its 10-day and 50-day moving averages, a bullish signal for market technicians. Bitcoin trading on Coinbase since Oct. 9.Source: TradingView After a flat weekend that saw the world’s oldest cryptocurrency stick to a tight $11,300-$11,400 range, bitcoin’s price jumped Monday as high as $11,598 before settling to $11,552 as of press time. Read More: […]
Tunisian divers have discovered an almost intact World War 1 era French submarine, the Ariane, which was torpedoed by a German U-boat in 1917. The Ariane was spotted last month off Cape Bon, known in Arabic as Al-Watan Al-Qabil, which is a peninsula in Tunisia’s north-east, by a local diving club as they were seeking out new sites to explore with their students. “We knew they were wrecks but we didn’t know what we were going to find,” said the diving director of the Ras Adar club, Selim Baccar. “On the first dive, we came across the submarine.” Having consulted several […]
Former Vice President Joe Biden, leading in the polls, reportedly has a short list of candidates for U.S. Attorney General — and it includes several candidates who would each pose an immediate danger to Americans’ basic liberties. Per @alaynatreene and @HansNichols, three names likely on Biden’s shortlist for attorney general:– Andrew Cuomo– Sally Yates– Stacey Abramshttps://t.co/75nyXWxYc5 pic.twitter.com/b0sQg0m4dd — Andrew Solender (@AndrewSolender) October 11, 2020 The candidates reportedly include: Andrew Cuomo: The Governor of New York is currently carrying out a crackdown on religious gatherings in New York City, focusing on the Jewish community. He has also relentlessly pursued gun control, while […]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army’s new tactical information warfare unit conducted its first training exercise specifically dedicated to maturing the formation’s concepts and tactics. The 915th Cyber Warfare Battalion was officially created by Army Cyber Command in 2019. It consists of 12 expeditionary cyber and electromagnetic (CEMA) teams (ECT) that are solely meant to support brigade combat teams or other tactical formations with cyber, electronic warfare and information operations capabilities. These “fly away” teams, as some officials call them, would help plan tactical cyber operations for commanders in theater and unilaterally conduct missions in coordination with deployed forces. Expeditionary CEMA Team […]
With all eyes on the impending election, and further as the White House has scrambled to contain the coronavirus outbreak within top administration ranks which drove world headlines after Trump’s brief hospital stint, it’s easy to forget that a major Pentagon crisis has also unfolded due to the pandemic. As of Monday it remains that six of the seven of members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff are still quarantining at home. This marks one full week since all among the Joint Chiefs except for the Commandant of the Marine Corps, who was not exposed, went into voluntary quarantine. The Department […]
According to a recent survey of adults in the US aged 18-39, almost a quarter said they believed the Holocaust was a myth, that it had been exaggerated or they weren’t sure. Institutions focused on Holocaust research and remembrance, such as Yad Vashem, have noted that Holocaust education is a key component in combatting anti-Semitism. Tech giant Facebook updated its hate speech policy on Monday to ban any content that rejects or distorts the reality of the Holocaust. The decision comes following a campaign spearheaded by Holocaust survivors around the world to target Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg this summer, urging him to […]
It’s being reported across Texas that School Districts are getting rid of remote learning. Many are like the Refugio School District: The Refugio Independent School District announced Monday they will no longer provide remote learning as an alternative to face-to-face instruction. The change goes into effect Monday, Oct. 19. The Refugio ISD Board of Trustees voted unanimously to end virtual learning throughout the district in order to “improve instruction and academic outcomes” for students. Parents who do not want to send their child back to campus must notify the campus principal that the student will either be homeschooled or transferred to […]
Iran registered a daily record 272 deaths from coronavirus in the past 24 hours, the health ministry said on Monday, taking total fatalities to 28,816 in the worst-hit country in the Middle East. Ministry spokeswoman Sima Sadat Lari told state TV that 4,206 new cases were identified in the past 24 hours, with the total number of identified cases spiking to 504,281. Iranian health officials have warned about a third wave of the pandemic, while the government has blamed the spike in infections partly on a decline in public adherence to health protocols. Mask-wearing became mandatory in public in the capital […]
CLAIM: Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) said the “rushed” Supreme Court nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett is “not normal.” VERDICT: False. Several other former justices — including former Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, Justice John Paul Stevens, and Justice William Rehnquist — had their hearings begin shortly after the announcement of their respective nominations. “Nothing about this today is normal. This is not normal. What is going on in America today, in the midst of a deadly pandemic and an ongoing election, having a rushed Supreme Court nomination hearing is not normal and we cannot normalize it,” Booker said in his […]
WASHINGTON — Israel’s Missile Defense Organization is looking to develop directed-energy capabilities, and is in early talks with the Pentagon about collaborating on those efforts, according to agency director Moshe Patel. “Directed energy is something that we — I can tell you it’s playing a major role for the future in Israel, [and in] the U.S. also. And we are looking for ways to do some more cooperation with the U.S. on that,” Patel told Defense News during an Oct. 9 interview. “We need to overcome some classification issues, some policy issues, and hopefully we can enlarge those capabilities together as […]
Rotterdam-based West 8 and Saint Petersburg-based Studio 44 have won an international competition with their design for the Tuchkov Buyan Park, a new proposed waterfront park in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Over 200 teams from 50 countries applied for participation in the competition. A shortlist of eight participants were selected, including Studio 44 and West 8; a team led by Agence Ter and Philippe Rahm architectes; Bjarke Ingels Group with BuroHappold NYC; JV Vogt and Herzog & de Meuron with ARUP; Kengo Kuma and Associates with Vladimir Djurovic Landscape Architecture; and a team led by Michel Desvigne Paysagiste and Meganom. The JV […]
The eastern Chinese city of Qingdao is set to test all of its residents for coronavirus shortly after several cases were tracked down to a local hospital dealing with people returning from abroad. Qingdao authorities have announced a citywide testing campaign that will embrace an estimated 9 million inhabitants and last for 5 days, it emerged on Monday. Images that surfaced online showed local residents waiting in queues to undergo a Covid-19 test. Some of the test counters had already started working on Sunday night The blanket move appears to be an emergency response to six new and six symptomless cases […]
In what may be the fastest successful activist campaign ever, just 3 work days after Dan Loeb lobbed a letter at Disney, urging the company to halt its $3 billion annual dividend and to repurpose the funds to expand its streaming services, the company announced after the close on Monday “a strategic reorganization of its media and entertainment businesses” although it did not concede that it was doing so under pressure from the Third Point billionaire but “in light of the tremendous success achieved to date in the Company’s direct-to-consumer business and to further accelerate its DTC strategy.” Disney said that […]
…from SouthFront.org The Armenian-Azerbaijani war in the Nagorno-Karabakh region does not show signs of nearing its end despite the humanitarian ceasefire launched in the region. The ceasefire started in the Nagorno-Karabakh region at 12:00 local time on October 10. The ceasefire deal was reached by the Azerbaijani and Armenian sides following long talks in Moscow a day ago. Russia played a key role in forcing the sides to make steps towards the de-escalation. Azerbaijan and Armenia also formally agreed to begin substantive negotiations of a peaceful settlement of a military conflict over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh that erupted on September […]
Joe Biden’s campaign stop in Toledo, Ohio was slightly overshadowed by some enthusiastic supporters of Donald Trump who drowned out his speech by chanting “four more years!” While trying to speak about the economy during a drive-in event, Biden found himself talking over Trump supporters several times. Every time he mentioned the president by name, the MAGA supporters would honk their car horns and chant things like “four more years,” “USA” and “Trump.” “Thanks for that introduction,” Biden said after trying to continue his speech. Trump supporters celebrated the interruption on social media. If you want to know what enthusiasm looks […]
(Natural News) When suspects start lashing out upon arrest, police officers will sometimes inject them with a drug known as ketamine that is intended to sedate them. But the practice is resulting in increasingly more deaths, and human rights advocates are demanding reform. While appropriate doses of ketamine can be useful for treating conditions like depression, its administration by police, who are not medical professionals, represents a form of medical assault that can, and often does, lead to tragedy. Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old black man who last year was stopped by police officers in suburban Denver for suspicious behavior, ended up […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107958/05/1079580548_0:0:3076:1731_1200x675_80_0_0_781dbdc1765a89d895d28999c60a1104.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202010121080751766-militants-conduct-15-attacks-in-syrias-idlib-de-escalation-zone-russian-military-says/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Terrorists has carried out 15 attacks in Syria’s northern province of Idlib, the deputy head of the Russian Defense Ministry’s Centre for Syrian Reconciliation said at a daily briefing on Monday. Idlib remains one of the last strongholds of terrorists and insurgent militant groups in the country, controlled mainly by terrorists from the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group (formerly known as the Nusra Front*). Militants also open fire in the Aleppo province occasionally, according to the Centre for Syrian Reconciliation. “We have registered 15 instances of shelling in Idlib de-escalation zone from […]
Less than one week after a Texas grand jury indicted Netflix over its distribution of the controversial coming-of-age film Cuties, the company’s co-CEO Ted Sarandos has hit back at what he calls a discussion of “censoring storytelling.” The film, a feature debut from Maïmouna Doucouré, follows an 11-year-old Senegalese immigrant, Amy, as she attends her new school and befriends a dance group called the “Cuties.” As her family life becomes more stressful, Amy begins to teach the group racier and racier moves—all of which are at odds with her traditional upbringing. Netflix first promoted the film with an image of the […]
Cardinal Agostino Vallini, left, holds a relic of 15-year-old Carlo Acutis, an Italian boy who died in 2006 of leukemia, during his beatification ceremony celebrated in the St. Francis Basilica, in Assisi, Italy, on Saturday. Gregorio Borgia/AP hide caption toggle caption Gregorio Borgia/AP Cardinal Agostino Vallini, left, holds a relic of 15-year-old Carlo Acutis, an Italian boy who died in 2006 of leukemia, during his beatification ceremony celebrated in the St. Francis Basilica, in Assisi, Italy, on Saturday. Gregorio Borgia/AP A teenage computer gamer and programmer from Italy who devoted the final years of his life to the church until his […]
For Coinbase users who don’t want to keep their funds on an exchange, the buying and storing crypto just became a lot easier. On Monday afternoon, the company announced that Coinbase Wallet users would now have a fiat on-ramp within the wallet itself. Previously, users holding their crypto in the non-custodial wallet would have to buy crypto on the Coinbase app (or elsewhere) and then send funds to Coinbase Wallet. This meant users trying to use, say, a DeFi dapp would have to install two separate apps to get started, the company said in an emailed statement. For decentralized app creators, […]
A Turkish foundation built 600 new houses for families in the Idlib region in northwestern Syria, the group announced on Monday, reports Anadolu Agency. Ihsan Acik, the Turkey Diyanet Foundation’s (TDV) vice president, said the first phase of the foundation’s Goodness Housing project was now complete. The project had been initiated for families displaced amid the Syrian civil war trying to survive under difficult conditions in tents. In his speech, Acik said the families received the keys to their new dwellings, adding that approximately 5,000 houses would be built for war victim families. Acik pointed out that the families would now be able to live […]
A former Democrat congressional candidate claimed on Twitter to have participated in the toppling of two statues in Portland, Oregon, Sunday night. The former candidate tweeted, “We brought down 2 statues.” During Sunday’s “Day of Rage” event, “peaceful protesters” vandalized buildings and tore down statues of former Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. “It was so fucking wet tonight,” Amanda Siebe tweeted shortly after midnight Monday morning. “But still, we brought down 2 statues. It was an amazing thing to see those statues fall! Not a damn copper in sight!” omg…It was so fucking wet tonight… But still, we brought down […]
WASHINGTON ― The Trump administration plans to sell three advanced weapons systems to Taiwan after notifying Congress of the deals on Friday, Defense News has confirmed. The administration sent Congress an informal notification Friday that it plans to sell Taiwan the systems amid rising tensions between China and Taiwan, but also the United States. First reported by Reuters, the notification follows reports the Trump administration was pushing the sale of seven large packages of weapons to Taiwan. The move is likely to further anger China, as the country claims Taiwan as its territory and has recently stepped up its threats to […]
Fifty people were shot, four fatally, since Friday evening across Chicago, according to local police. Five of those, as explained by Chicago Sun-Times, were teenagers. Chicago Sun-Times provides a breakdown of the violent weekend across liberal-run Chicago: Sunday The last reported homicide of the weekend happened about 10 p.m. Sunday in Chatham on the South Side. Jeremiah D. McCoy, 25, was riding as a passenger in a car when a blue sedan pulled up and shot the man in the head in the 8600 block of South State Street, officials said. The sedan drove away traveling northbound on State Street, police […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/0c/1080751490_0:0:3077:1732_1200x675_80_0_0_5e8f62af702724db5491c50a084ec132.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Andrei Dergalin. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/us/202010121080751520-netizens-clash-online-as-senate-confirmation-hearings-for-barrett-go-on/ As netizens proceeded to express their opinions on Barrett’s nomination, issues like the fate of the Affordable Care Act and even the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court ended up being brought into the equation. As the confirmation hearings for Amy Coney Barrett, who got nominated by US President Donald Trump for the vacancy on the Supreme Court left by late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, kicked off at the Senate on 12 October, intense debates broke out on social media where netizens discussed whether that nomination was appropriate. Trump’s nomination […]
The Senate Judiciary Committee began its SCOTUS confirmation hearing for Trump nominee Amy Coney Barrett on Monday. As expected, the Democrats used this hearing as an opportunity to abuse Amy Coney Barrett. Amy Coney Barrett, a devout Catholic and mother of 7, stood strong and her statement to the Judiciary Committee was powerful. “I would like to thank the many Americans from all walks of life who have reached out with messages of support over the course of my nomination. I believe in the power of prayer, and it has been uplifting to hear that so many people are praying for […]
A Turkish company on Monday signed a 14-year contract in Somalia to operate and rehabilitate the port of its capital city, Mogadishu, local media reported on Monday, reports Anadolu Agency. “Turkish ports operator Albayrak and the federal government of Somalia have signed an agreement that grants the company a new 14-year concession to manage the Port of Mogadishu,” said Somalia National Television. The inking of the deal came after days of discussions between the Albayrak Group and the Somali government on revenue sharing, among other key issues surrounding the deal. Ports and Marine Transport Minister Mariam Aweys Jama told reporters that the company would help […]
“The rapid success of WinRed is testament to unprecedented party unity behind the need to take on ActBlue — quickly and aggressively,” WinRed president Gerrit Lansing wrote in a memo. The boon for WinRed comes as Republicans scramble to replace many of the in-person fundraisers that filled their coffers and combat Democrats’ advantage in online donations. Democrats up and down the ballot have routinely crushed their Republican counterparts in fundraising, largely from small-dollar donors who contribute through ActBlue, a Democratic payment processor that launched in 2004 and has morphed into a fundraising behemoth. Top Republican officials have warned that the wide […]
Rocker Jon Bon Jovi has called himself the “poster boy” for white privilege, adding that he had to be “very careful” while writing his recent single “American Reckoning,” which pays homage to George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter movement. Jon Bon Jovi spoke to CBS Sunday Morning about the song and the band’s album 2020, saying that the new record is not meant to take political sides. During the interview, the 58-year-old rocker, who once called President Donald Trump an “evil genius,” also offered to atone for his race and economic status. “If I’m not the poster-boy for what could be […]
The show must go on. Although the “Army family reunion” aspect of the Association of the United States Army’s annual meeting won’t be possible due to the COVID-19 pandemic, attendees will still hear from Army leaders and defense industry representatives and visit the exhibit floor — all virtually. “This has certainly been a challenging year. 2020 has been for all of us in lots of different ways,” retired Gen. Carter Ham, president of the Association of the United States Army, told Army Times in an Oct. 6 interview. “But here at AUSA, where we have for many, many years conducted in-person […]
It’s been called a concrete jungle, but New York City is covered in trees. There are almost 700,000 street trees surrounded by the ultra-urban environment of NYC, and each one has its own story. One photographer decided to capture the spontaneous stewardship that occurs with these trees on the streets of New York every day. In a new photographic series, Matthew Jensen hopes to show everyone a little “Tree Love.” Continue reading below Our Featured Videos Jensen started noticing how the residents of New York care for their street trees as he walked around all five boroughs that make up the […]
Through constant vigilance and some good fortune, astronomers have managed to capture the moment a supermassive black hole in a galaxy 215 million light-years away tore a star apart. The so-called ‘tidal disruption event’ (TDE) is the closest such death of a star humanity has ever witnessed. Astronomers were alerted by the intense flash of light, visible hundreds of millions of light years away, just before parts of the star disappeared into the black hole’s event horizon after being ‘spaghettified’ by the immense gravity. The TDE, named AT2019qiz, was spotted in September 2019 and observed by astronomer Matt Nicholl of the University of […]
New York City slapped over 62 people, businesses and houses of worship with over $150,000 in fines during the first weekend of newly imposed COVID-19 restrictions against gatherings, as well as a mask mandate and social distancing requirements, according to the city’s Twitter account. Illustration via TheRealDeal From Friday to now, over $150,000 in fines from 62 summonses were handed out by City agents in the Red, Orange and Yellow zones, including 5 to non-compliant religious congregations. — City of New York (@nycgov) October 11, 2020 Those summoned by the New York City sheriff include at least five houses of worship […]
White House Hosted COVID-19 Superspreader Event White House hosted Covid “superspreader event”, Dr Fauci says https://t.co/W4qmAoWb3B — BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) October 9, 2020 Health Editor’s Note: Old news but we need to keep at this. Trump thinks he is too good to wear a mask or maintain physical distancing. Just more proof that Trump has no clue what he is doing and cares nothing for Americans. Who had COVID-19 at the event? Who really cares when everyone there obviously thought they were immune to COVID-19….Carol Carol graduated from Riverside White Cross School of Nursing in Columbus, Ohio and received her […]
Bolivia will be out to give Lionel Messi and Argentina a tough time on Tuesday when they face off in a high-altitude FIFA World Cup qualifying match in La Paz. “We have to avoid the Bolivian lament of being the poor little things,” Bolivia coach Cesar Farias said, according to ESPN. “Let them say that we’re nasty, it doesn’t matter. But we want to eat the liver of our opponents at altitude.” Bolivia will host Argentina at the Estadio Hernando Siles in La Paz – one of the country’s two capital cities – 3,600 meters (11,800ft) above sea level. “Playing in the Hernando Siles […]
Bypass censorship by sharing this link: https://www.clearnewswire.com/465373.html (Natural News) The Wuhan coronavirus — engineered by the Chinese military in a bioweapons lab and released upon humanity — has wreaked havoc all across the globe, but that doesn’t mean we need to let it continue to devastate our economies and freedoms. It turns out there are 10 simple solutions to the so-called covid-19 pandemic, and many of these […]
On Sunday, President Trump accused “Radical Left Democrats” of pushing Joe Biden to ‘pack’ the Supreme Court (i.e. increase the number of justices from 9 to as many as 15), and warned that doing so would “permanently destroy the Court.” Biden has refused to answer whether he would pack the court, saying voters “don’t deserve” to know his stance. The Joe Biden-Kamala Harris strategy of refusing to answer directly whether or not they would increase the number of Supreme Court justices if elected makes sense, because it’s not an issue that most Americans care about, and could alter the behaviour of […]
Amy Coney Barrett’s beet pink dress spoke before she did: it looked sensible, practical, and stoically feminine, an image she aims to project. It was a pretty dress, maybe even stylish by DC’s standards. A flat bow rested on her right shoulder, just underneath a string of pearls. The justice picked a very nice outfit for her first confirmation hearing. Too bad it was curated for such an ugly, rotten process. The dress stood out in a room full of anodyne blue and black suits; it spoke of soft prettiness when the proceedings are about the very opposite. Her outfit radiates […]
A Wisconsin judge upheld Gov. Tony Evers’ order mandating that face coverings be worn in enclosed spaces statewide, save for a few exceptions. A conservative legal group challenged the measure arguing Evers overstepped his authority in issuing successive emergency orders. AP hide caption toggle caption AP A Wisconsin judge upheld Gov. Tony Evers’ order mandating that face coverings be worn in enclosed spaces statewide, save for a few exceptions. A conservative legal group challenged the measure arguing Evers overstepped his authority in issuing successive emergency orders. AP A judge in Wisconsin has ruled that Democratic Gov. Tony Evers has the authority […]
In the seven months since India’s top court allowed banks to legally service crypto platforms, users and trade volumes at local exchanges have increased. But regulators have said little about the rules for crypto trading. Confusion can be detrimental to market growth. So to introduce more clarity, some in the Indian crypto community are pitching a way to let platforms stay active but in a cordoned part of the market, supervised by the regulators – otherwise known as a sandbox approach. Initiated by crypto exchange BuyUCoin, the sandbox proposes a regulatory framework to bring crypto assets under existing regulations while also […]
Human trials of Russia’s COVID-19 vaccine, named Sputnik V, will be held in the United Arab Emirates, the second country after Belarus to take part in the programme of which results are expected before the end of November, Moscow said on Monday. The vaccine, first licensed by Russian authorities for domestic use in August, is currently being tested on 40,000 volunteers in Moscow as part of a late-stage trial known as Phase III. The trial in the UAE has received regulatory approval from the Gulf state’s health ministry, and the process will be supported by local laboratory provider PureHealth, Russia’s sovereign […]
North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un told the audience at his address celebrating the 75th anniversary of the communist Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) this weekend that he was “really sorry” for not living up to the expectations of the North Korean public. North Korea typically celebrates the anniversary of its only legal political party, particularly those during milestone years every decade or half-decade, with lavish parades that the regime forced tens of thousands of people to partake in. Pyongyang did host a parade this year, where it claimed to debut new weaponry, but chose to stage the parade in the pre-dawn […]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army’s new pursuit for a mid-range missile will be finalized by the Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office by the end of the year, the office’s director told Defense News in an interview ahead of the Association of the U.S. Army’s annual conference. The service has set a goal to field the chosen missile in less than three years — by the fourth quarter of fiscal 2023 — which means it can’t start from scratch, said Lt. Gen. James Thurgood. “You might be able to take something that’s in the [science & technology] world already and do […]
Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, A bizarre video appears to show teens dancing back to back while wearing masks at a socially distanced prom night. The clip went viral on Twitter over the weekend, amassing over 1.6 million views. “I can’t make up my mind whether this is crazy or desperately sad,” commented the user who posted the video. “This is a Prom dance in the age of the global COVID scam! Society has entered self-destruction mode.” I can’t make up my mind whether this is crazy or desperately sad. This is a Prom dance in the age […]
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – One of the world’s largest fancy vivid purple-pink and internally flawless diamonds from Russia will be sold at Sotheby’s Geneva Magnificent Jewels and Noble Jewels auction on 11 November, media reported on Monday. The 14.83-carat diamond, named “The Spirit of the Rose,” is the largest vivid purple-pink diamond ever offered at auction and it is estimated to be worth $23-$38 million, according to Forbes. The Gemological Institute of America graded the diamond with the highest colour and clarity and classified it as a Type IIa diamond, which is the purest of all diamond crystals. This classification is usually […]
Vice Presidential nominee and Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) appeared to be reading from a teleprompter Monday during Amy Coney Barrett’s SCOTUS confirmation hearing. Kamala Harris appeared virtually for Monday’s Senate Judiciary hearing and seemed to be reading her opening statement from a teleprompter. Kamala Harris is in her office which is in the same building as the SCOTUS hearing so this has nothing to do with Covid — she just wanted to read from a teleprompter! Harris had no problem walking past a gaggle of reporters Monday morning and once again she refused to answer whether Biden would pack the Supreme […]
Jordan’s King Abdullah on Monday swore in a new government led by veteran diplomat Bisher al Khaswaneh that will seek to accelerate IMF-backed reforms as the economy faces its sharpest contraction in decades due to the coronavirus crisis. British-educated Khasawneh, 51, was appointed on Wednesday to replace Omar al Razzaz, at a time of rising popular discontent about worsening economic conditions and curbs on public freedoms under emergency laws to contain the pandemic. The new premier, who comes from a family that has long held senior political posts, has spent most of his public career as a veteran diplomat and peace […]
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said Monday that, while Democrats appear to want to make Obamacare and pre-existing conditions a focus of Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings, the reality is that “every single member of the Senate agrees that pre-existing conditions can and should be protected.” In his opening statement during the first day of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s confirmation hearings for Barrett, Cruz succinctly summarized that Republicans not only intend to protect the insurance coverage of Americans with pre-existing conditions, but also to bring down the cost of health insurance premiums — something Obamacare failed to do. Cruz said: […]
LONDON — The limitations of the British Army’s ability to field modernized armored fighting forces in the 2020s have been laid bare in evidence submitted by the military to the parliamentary Defence Committee. The Army admitted that by 2025 it would only be able to field a combat division consisting of just a single maneuver brigade and an interim maneuver support brigade. A fully capable division including a new Strike brigade will not be available for fielding until the early 2030s — more than five years late, the Army said in written evidence published by the committee Oct 9. One analyst […]
On Friday, October 9, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) released a report detailing how the world can meet the nutritional needs of everybody without destroying our planet. The report, which mainly focuses on plant-based diets, explores the possibility of feeding the entire world while conserving nature and restoring the lost beauty of Earth. Titled The Restorative Power of Planet-Based Diets, the report explores the power of reducing meat and dairy intake in favor of plants. It also takes a specific focus on certain geographical reasons and offers custom solutions based on each country. Continue reading below Our Featured Videos Although the […]
The hypocrisy of Governor Whitmer’s Executive Orders has become an exercise of infamous tyranny. A recent lockdown protest was so overwhelming something had to be done. It was only a matter of time before her hubris riddled occupancy of the Michigan Governor’s Mansion would be flipped on its head by the Democrat’s White Supremacist narrative. Source link
After taking deposits for Full Self Driving for almost a half decade and just watching Nikola’s Trevor Milton publicly skewered for delivering a semi truck that didn’t have the capabilities he insinuated that it did, perhaps a light bulb has started to go off in Elon Musk’s head that it would be wiser than not to try and deliver on some of the promises of days past he has made. And now that Tesla has been anointed a $400 billion market cap by Softbank’s options traders and the NY Federal Reserve capital markets, Musk may actually have some firepower to try and […]
VT: It is time for an independent physician, one not under NDA and threats from AG Barr, to tell us the truth. We simply believe Trump and Melania are faking it, this is their October Surprise and, as this fake illness dominates Trump’s campaign, we know they are fakes for sure. There is not one iota of proof Trump was ill at all, just more childish acting and histrionics, which he is famous for. Guardian: Of all the cornucopia of tone-deaf and offensive remarks made by the president of the United States in almost four years in office, one proposition he […]
Disgraced chess player Igors Rausis, who was banned from all FIDE-rated tournaments for cheating in 2019, has reportedly found a loophole allowing him to compete again, entering a contest in Latvia under a different name. The 59-year-old, who was stripped of his grandmaster title last year after being caught using a phone during a chess tournament in France, is said to have shown up at a local rapid tournament in Latvia on Saturday. READ MORE: Fast chess in the air: Russian grandmasters are set to play blitz game while flying in different planes Rausis – playing under the name Isa Kasimi – […]
Monday, October 12, 2020 by: Mike Adams Tags: Big Pharma, coronavirus, covid-19, goodhealth, outbreak, pandemic, real investigations, truth, vaccine wars, vaccines Bypass censorship by sharing this link: https://www.clearnewswire.com/465349.html (Natural News) With coronavirus vaccines just around the corner, it’s more important than ever to learn the truth about vaccines. Beginning tomorrow, the complete 10-episode docu-series, “The Truth About Vaccines” streams online, for free (registration required). Click here […]
At the beginning of October, young white farmer Brendin Horner was brutally murdered in South Africa’s Free State. Two black suspects have now been charged in relation to his killing, with the court hearing on the case witnessing riots from pressure groups which see Horner’s death as ethnically motivated. South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa rejected claims that recent attacks on farmers should be viewed as racial actions, according to his comments distributed in a weekly newsletter. “Contrary to the irresponsible claims of some lobby groups, killings on farms are not ethnic cleansing”, the President wrote. “They are not genocidal. They are acts […]
He’s at it again. Nashville city officials are investigating a massive gathering of thousands of maskless worshippers who tightly packed onto a local courthouse’s steps Sunday night. It was the latest stop of a “Let Us Worship” tour by a controversial musician and religious activist who has drawn ire from leaders across the country for his take on pandemic-era faith. “We have worked very hard to slow the spread of COVID by taking a measured approach to protect the community,” Brian Todd, a spokesman for the Metro Public Health Department for the City of Nashville, told The Daily Beast in a […]
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says his thinking has “evolved” on how to balance free speech and the harms of Holocaust denial. Drew Angerer/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Drew Angerer/Getty Images Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says his thinking has “evolved” on how to balance free speech and the harms of Holocaust denial. Drew Angerer/Getty Images Facebook is banning all content that “denies or distorts the Holocaust,” in a policy reversal that comes after increased pressure from critics. Just two years ago, founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said in an interview that even though he finds such posts “deeply offensive,” he […]
Since January, over $1.5 billion worth of bitcoin has been tokenized into ERC-20 tokens to use in the emerging decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem on Ethereum. These DeFi applications offer an increasingly large array of potential use cases for bitcoin investors looking for alternative ways to issue loans or make trades on new exchange platforms. Tokenizing bitcoin serves as a bridge between these two leading cryptocurrency communities and an important step forward for traders and investors taking advantage of the features offered by both blockchains. Through tokenized bitcoin projects, the powerful monetary properties of bitcoin can be leveraged in the ever-growing collection of Ethereum-based cryptocurrency applications. […]
An Iraqi Airways pilot has been suspended after allowing a female media personality into the cockpit, Rudaw reported. Images of Iraqi broadcaster Welyan Al-Baiaty posing next to the pilot mid-air circulated on social media alongside a video, believed to have been filmed in September 2020, in which Al-Baiaty jokes with the pilot about the simplicity of flying a plane. In a statement released on Wednesday, the Iraqi Civil Aviation Authority said: “The Air Safety Department of the Iraqi Civil Aviation Authority suspended one of the pilots working in one of the Iraqi national carriers, after allowing a female media worker to enter the cockpit while flying.” “It constitutes a violation of civil aviation laws that prevent cases that endanger the lives of […]
A group of women dressed as characters from the dystopian drama The Handmaid’s Tale flocked to U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to protest the confirmation process for Judge Amy Coney Barrett. About a dozen protesters joined the group of women wearing white nun’s coifs and red flowing robes as the confirmation hearings begin in the U.S. Senate. Watch below: Protesters of Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation hearing are braving the rain in Handmaid’s Tale costumes. pic.twitter.com/Mj94T6Hblq — The Recount (@therecount) October 12, 2020 Leftist protesters have taken to wearing the garb of the fictional religious order from Canadian author Margaret Atwood’s 1985 book, The […]
YUMA PROVING GROUND, Ariz. — During a recent U.S. Army exercise, the service was able to link a Marine Corps F-35B into its developmental networks, enabling the jet to both receive targeting data from satellites and send it to ground-based shooters. Not only did that connection show the flexibility of the Army’s evolving tactical network, but it demonstrated the success the armed services can have as they connect different platforms. “In some cases — I’m hesitant to use the word but I’ll use it — I think in some cases it was unprecedented,” said Willie Nelson, director of Army Futures Command’s […]
Via Birch Gold Group, Whether Trump or Biden is elected in November, they will have to decide whether or not to appoint Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell to another term. And if he is appointed again, the way he continues to handle the continuing ripple effects of the COVID-19 “shutdown” economy will be critical. So let’s examine why the decision to reappoint him is important, then take a quick tour of some of Powell’s recent performance. A piece from Paul R. La Monica provides a take on the importance of Powell’s re-appointment, beginning with the response to the market’s plummet earlier this year: The Fed quickly […]