WASHINGTON — By the end of 2020, F-35 fighter jets rolling off Lockheed Martin’s production line will be equipped with a modified lightning protection system that will fix problems discovered earlier this year, the company’s head of production said. In June, the government’s F-35 Joint Program Office imposed flight restrictions on the F-35A conventional-takeoff-and-landing variant — the model used by the U.S. Air Force and most […]
Daily Archives: October 13, 2020
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The US Department of Justice claims the author of “Melania and Me: The Rise and Fall of My Friendship with the First Lady” breached her non-disclosure agreement (NDA) and that she failed to submit a draft copy of the book for government review. The DoJ filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against 49-year-old Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, a former White House aide and close friend of first lady […]
The man who fired the first shots from behind Kyle Rittenhouse during the fatal incident in Kenosha has been charged. Joshua Ziminski, 35, has been charged with disorderly conduct and use of a dangerous weapon for firing his weapon during the incident on August 25. According to the charging document, obtained by The Gateway Pundit, while investigating the shooting by Rittenhouse, Kenosha detectives obtained videos in […]
Palestinian Authority (PA) Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh yesterday expressed concern if US President Donald Trump were to be re-elected into office in November, according to the Jerusalem Post. “The election is very important. God help us, the EU and the whole world if there are four more years of Trump,” he told European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee. “Trump has wasted four years of everyone’s time,” he […]
“With all due respect, you really don’t know what you’re talking about,” Pelosi told Blitzer, acknowledging that her Democratic chairs — who also came out against the GOP offer — stood behind her decision. “So do a service to the issue and have some level of respect for the people who have worked on these issues, written the bill to begin with.” Blitzer then asked Pelosi […]
Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) questioned Judge Amy Coney Barrett on Tuesday on her use of the term “sexual preference” during her Supreme Court confirmation hearing, instead of the politically correct term “sexual orientation.” The term “preference” implies a degree of choice, whereas current intellectual orthodoxy in the LGBTQ community considers sexuality and gender identity to be inherent. Earlier, Barrett had used the term “sexual preference” — […]
FORT BRAGG, N.C. — The U.S. Army’s special operations forces have benefited from new waveform capabilities thanks to a push by the service to modernize the its tactical network. The effort is led by the Army’s Network Cross-Functional Team and Program Executive Office Command, Control, Communications-Tactical. Lt. Col. Brian Wong, once the Network CFT’s chief of market research, now commands the 112th Special Operations Signal Battalion, […]
Days after recovering from coronavirus, the president is hitting the campaign trail with a stop in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Check out the rally, courtesy of Right Side Broadcasting: And stay tuned for Infowars’ Election Countdown Taking Back America, live weekdays from 7-9PM CT. Source link
…from SouthFront.org As of October 13, clashes between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces continue in the southern part of the contested Nagorno-Karabakh region, while on the other parts of the frontline Baku and Yerevan limited their military activity to exchange of artillery and aerial strikes. The humanitarian ceasefire signed by the sides in Moscow formally remains in force, but the terms of the ceasefire are not fulfilled […]
Ghislaine Maxwell’s sworn testimony on her ties with convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein must remain sealed to ensure she receives a fair hearing in her own criminal case, her lawyer told a federal appeals court. Attorney Adam Mueller urged the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals in New York on Tuesday to reverse an earlier federal court ruling to unseal Maxwell’s deposition. The British socialite is […]
(Natural News) To hear Democrats and their propagandists in the ‘mainstream media’ tell it, the most pressing domestic security threat our country faces comes from “right-wing extremist” groups. Nazis, skinheads, KKK members, and one of the newest — the Boogaloo Boys — number in the tens of millions, are all white males, and are just itching to unleash on America. These same Democrats and media propagandists […]
On Contact: Yugoslavia/USA Déjà Vu October 13, 2020 On Contact: Yugoslavia/USA Déjà Vu2020-10-132020-10-13https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/oncontact.png200px200px On the show this week, Chris Hedges discusses what happened three decades ago in Yugoslavia when the country broke into brutal warring factions, and the parallels in the US today, with Croatian author and journalist, Slavenka Drakulić. Drakulić’s book ‘They Would Never Hurt a Fly’ is about the war criminals from the former Yugoslavia […]
Lawyers from the US Department of Justice told a federal judge on Tuesday the department had no intention of totally declassifying documents related to the Russiagate investigation, despite US President Donald Trump’s tweets to that effect, since it hadn’t been given an official order to release unredacted files. On October 6, Trump tweeted he had “fully authorized the total Declassification of any & all documents pertaining […]
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi lost her cool on Tuesday during an interview with CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer, calling the veteran newsman a Republican “apologist” and claiming he didn’t know what he was “talking about” after he pressed her over the long-stalled stimulus package. With the White House, House Democrats, and Senate Republicans still at a stalemate over the much-needed coronavirus relief funds—made worse by the president’s […]
Supporters of President Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden wave flags prior to Biden’s arrival for a townhall in Miami, Florida. Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images Supporters of President Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden wave flags prior to Biden’s arrival for a townhall in Miami, Florida. Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images More than $1 […]
Venture capitalist Tim Draper’s investment office Draper Goren Holm is sinking larger investments in virtual currency-only startups. Draper Goren Holm, a cryptocurrency investment firm in Los Angeles, told CoinDesk that it raised $25 million for its first venture capital fund to buffer its startup accelerator and back blockchain companies at higher investment valuations. The venture fund, announced last week, is planning to invest $250,000 to $500,000 […]
At the height of Israel’s preoccupation with the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic and the increased internal criticism of the government’s failure to deal with it and stop its spread, internal protests against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have intensified, and calls for his resignation have increased. These calls are being made either due to suspicion of corruption on his part, or his failure to adopt a successful […]
Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) asked Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett if she has ever sexually assaulted a person. On the second day of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s confirmation hearings for Barrett, Hirono asked the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals judge if she had ever been involved in sexual assault or disciplined for sexual assault. The exchange went as follows: Hirono: I ask each nominee these […]
If a major event happened in the United States or even overseas this year, the Army National Guard probably had a piece of it. The Guard responded for overseas operations, hurricanes, wildfires and other disasters and multiple civil unrest scenarios that required quick-reaction forces to back up local police departments. All of that came, of course, in the midst and, of course, the unprecedented impact of […]
According to insider reports, US President Donald Trump has ordered the Pentagon and his senior national security advisers to begin drafting plans for a total withdrawal of US forces from Somalia. The US has between 650 and 800 troops in the war-torn East African nation, where it has waged an undeclared war since 2007. “People familiar with the matter” told Bloomberg on Tuesday that the Pentagon […]
The Senate Judiciary Committee began day two of their confirmation hearing for Trump Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett. As expected, Democrat Senators are using this hearing as an opportunity to abuse Amy Coney Barrett, a devout Catholic and mother of seven who is already a vetted judge. There’s stupid, and then there’s Democrat Senator Mazie Hirono (HI). Hirono on Tuesday asked Amy Coney Barrett if […]
Violent protests erupted in the city of Sbeitla, western Tunisia, today, after a citizen was killed under the rubble of his “unlicensed” shop during the execution of a demolition order. Dozens of angry protesters in the city set fire to tyres and blocked major roads, according to the Tunis Afrique Presse (TAP). Some demonstrators tried to break into government facilities to protest against the citizen’s death. TAP reported […]
Judge Amy Coney Barrett testifies during her Supreme Court confirmation hearing on Tuesday. | Samuel Corum/Pool via AP Amy Coney Barrett apologized Tuesday for referring to sexual orientation as a “preference” during the second day of her Supreme Court confirmation hearing. “I certainly didn’t mean and would never mean to use a term that would cause any offense to the LGBTQ community,” Barrett said, after questioning […]
Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) on Tuesday suggested the FBI and CIA are attempting to cover up something “embarrassing” in their emails regarding the Russia scandal. This comes on the heels of declassified documents showing former CIA Director John Brennan briefed former President Barack Obama about 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s “plan” to distract from her email scandal by alleging Russian collusion by then-candidate Donald Trump. Grassley warned […]
WASHINGTON — U.S. Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy reported in his speech at the Association of the U.S. Army conference that the Pentagon’s hypersonic missile hit within 6 inches of its target. “Hypersonic missiles are hitting their targets with a variance of only a mere 6 inches,” he said during his speech at the virtual opening ceremony Oct. 13. The Common-Hypersonic Glide Body, or C-HGB, launched and […]
Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden talked nonsensically about Alzheimer’s disease during another boring and halting campaign speech Tuesday. Speaking before a small crowd of seniors in Sanford, Florida, Biden went off on a bizarre tangent about Alzheimer’s, while appearing to suffer from some symptoms of the disease himself. “If we do not find an answer to Alzheimer’s, within the next 19 years every single solitary bed […]
Happy Columbus Day America! Are you celebrating yet? Do you think Columbus is a great man or a mythological creation of history to support conquest? I mean, if Columbus was alive today, would he be a Trump Supporter? I say let’s take a serious real historic look at the man and NOT the myth. And then we can decide if he would be a Trumpster. First, […]
The US has signed a treaty with seven countries governing exploration and exploitation of the Moon and its resources. While many signatories never even landed there, Russia and China were – perhaps unsurprisingly – not invited. The Artemis Accords, proposed in May to set reasonable boundaries for the growing number of countries eager to stake a claim to Earth’s only satellite, have been officially unveiled on […]
(Natural News) A decade ago, then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said something so politically stupid she should have been run out of politics altogether. But she wasn’t because then, like now, the garbage ‘mainstream media’ was in the tank for her Democrat Party, and so enamored with the god-king president, Barack Obama. In a March speech to the 2010 Legislative Conference for the National Association of […]
Health Justice And Black Liberation: Shay-Akil McLean By Gwendolyn Wallace and Roberto Sirvent, Black Agenda Report. October 13, 2020 Health Justice And Black Liberation: Shay-Akil McLean2020-10-132020-10-13https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/mclean_845x400.jpeg200px200px Black health is directly connected to the displacement and dispossession of our ancestors and the conditions of our neighborhoods. “State violence differentially distributes morbidity and mortality to those that are deemed enemies of the state.” In this feature, we ask organizers […]
MOSCOW 13 (Sputnik) – The French authorities have cancelled the Paris International Agricultural Show 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the RTL radio broadcaster reported on Tuesday. According to the media outlet, the 58th agricultural exhibition, which was to be held from 27 February to 7 March of the next year, has been postponed to 2022. Regional agricultural competitions and farmers’ markets will still take place […]
The three space travelers of the Soyuz MS-17 mission are making their final preparations ahead of a six-month stay aboard the International Space Station. The flight is scheduled to lift off on a Soyuz 2.1a booster from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Site No. 31/6, in Kazakhstan at 05:45:04 UTC on 14 October (01:45:04 EDT), lofting its international crew to space for a very fast, two orbit, three […]
After spending hours swatting away Democratic questions about her personal judicial views, Judge Amy Coney Barrett made a significant admission on Tuesday afternoon: that she did not consider the landmark Roe v. Wade abortion ruling to a settled legal matter, or a “super-precedent,” at the U.S. Supreme Court. While Barrett did not signal that she intends to vote to undo Roe if given the opportunity, she […]
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden speaks about his vision for older Americans Tuesday in Pembroke Pines, Fla. President Trump won the senior vote four years ago. Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden speaks about his vision for older Americans Tuesday in Pembroke Pines, Fla. President Trump won the senior vote four years ago. […]
The Italian Banking Association claims that about 100 local banks are now operating on a blockchain network designed to speed up interbank transactions and processes. Source link
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said on Tuesday he believed that only a change in Turkey’s stance on Nagorno-Karabakh could prompt Azerbaijan to halt military action over the tiny region. But, in his first interview since a ceasefire deal was agreed in the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh was agreed in Moscow on Saturday, he gave no indication to Reuters that he saw any sign of Ankara shifting […]
Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) noted when he had the opportunity to question Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett that the desk where she sat on Tuesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee was virtually empty. “Most of us have multiple notebooks and notes, and books, and things like that in front of us,” Cornyn said. “Can you hold up what you have been referring to in answering […]
WASHINGTON — General Atomics and Boeing are teaming up to build a new high-energy laser for air and missile defense, the companies announced Oct. 13. Under the agreement, the companies will create a 100 kilowatt laser that will be scalable to 250 kilowatts, the companies stated in a news release. The weapon will be able to be employed as a standalone system or integrated onboard ground […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/0d/1080761974_0:231:3072:1959_1200x675_80_0_0_03b7bdb1555f0f1cfa785f7f0a490e25.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/world/202010131080761876-us-remains-hopeful-russia-will-join-artemis-space-coalition-to-moon-nasa-administrator-says/ WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The United States remains hopeful that Russia will join its Artemis program to return humans to the surface of the Moon by 2024, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Administrator Jim Bridenstine told a virtual press conference on Tuesday. Seven states participating in US lunar exploration efforts have joined the United States in signing the “Artemis […]
Joe Biden traveled to the battleground state of Florida on Tuesday since he’s up by 16 points in the polls. Sleepy Joe Biden spoke to an audience of 10 community leaders and TWO DOZEN members of the press at a senior center in Pembroke Pines. According to a Broward County reporter for the Sun Sentinel, an estimated 60 people total were in the room (including reporters, […]
The governor of Tunisia’s Kasserine province was sacked on Tuesday following protests over the death of a local resident during the demolition of his unlicensed store, reports Anadolu Agency. Three other officials, including two security chiefs, were also dismissed over the death, the government said in a statement. The dismissals came after scores of angry residents took to the streets to protest the death. According to […]
Judge Amy Coney Barrett said unequivocally during her Supreme Court confirmation hearing Tuesday that she has not promised President Donald Trump or anyone that she would vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) if confirmed — despite Democrats’ repeated insistence that she will. Democrats have repeatedly claimed Barrett plans to repeal the ACA, despite her insistence that she has no agenda and will decide fairly […]
WASHINGTON ― Over recent months, the U.S. Defense Logistics Agency has awarded hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts for the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic, but that’s not necessarily benefitting the Defense Department’s usual vendors. In fact, the Pentagon contracting arm is seeing fewer small businesses in its traditional supplier base competing for contracts in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, the director of […]
The Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen, the first publicly accessible art depot in the world, has just completed construction in Rotterdam’s Museumpark. Designed by MVRDV, the bowl-shaped building draws the eye with its 6,609 square meters of exterior glass subdivided into 1,664 mirrored panels that reflect the surroundings and help blend the 15,000-square-meter building into the leafy park. In addition to an expansive art collection that will […]
Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, In the hyper-real casino, everyone has access to the terrors of losing, but only a few know the joys of the rigged games that guarantee a few big winners by design. Readers once routinely chastised me for over-using simulacrum to describe our economy and society. The problem is this word perfectly describes the hollowed-out, rigged economy and social order we inhabit and so […]
Syrian Militants Delivered Chlorine Barrels to Stage Provocation in Idlib – Russian Military …from Sputnik News, Moscow [ Editor’s Note: Here we go again with another White Helmets attempted clorine attack to stir things up against the Assad regime. One would think that with their track record they would stay away from the staged gas attacks. But then on the other hand, when you have built […]
US health regulators have paused drug firm Eli Lilly’s trial of an antibody treatment for Covid-19, due to safety concerns. The setback comes a day after a separate vaccine trial was halted due to an “unexplained illness.” “Out of an abundance of caution, the ACTIV-3 independent data safety monitoring board (DSMB) has recommended a pause in enrollment,” an Eli Lilly spokeswoman told reporters on Tuesday. While […]
(Natural News) For years — years — we’ve known that the campaign of Hillary ‘Rotten’ Clinton and the Democratic National Committee were responsible for financing the widely debunked “Steele Dossier.” We’ve also known that its author, Christopher Steele, a former British spy, collected the ‘intelligence’ for his dossier from Russian sources. That part of the scandal was finally proven beyond a shadow of a doubt earlier […]
Scheer Intelligence: Wrestling Back Privacy From The Jaws Of Big Tech By Robert Scheer, ScheerPost.com. October 13, 2020 Scheer Intelligence: Wrestling Back Privacy From The Jaws Of Big Tech2020-10-132020-10-13https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/privacy-scaled-1-e1602620355792.jpg200px200px Above image: By Mr. Fish. The Common Sense Media founder is taking on Mark Zuckerberg and other tech barons. He wants to empower the rest of us to do the same. Over the course of just a […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/0d/1080761554_0:26:3071:1754_1200x675_80_0_0_8de3e4fa318215e49ef2542afc7d843c.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/africa/202010131080761526-tunisia-closes-entries-to-riot-ridden-city-of-sbeitla-as-clashes-continue—reports/ CAIRO (Sputnik) – Tunisian police have closed the entrances to the city of Sbeitla in the western province of Kasserine due to mass protests and clashes between demonstrators and law enforcement officers, the Sky News Arabia broadcaster reported on Tuesday. A mass rally rocked Sbeitla after a resident died in the early hours of Tuesday when his kiosk was […]
The Department of Justice has filed a complaint against Melania Trump’s former best friend for not submitting a draft of her tell-all book to the federal government for pre-publication review. Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, the planner of President Donald Trump’s 2017 inauguration, penned Melania and Me about the sudden souring of her relationship with the first lady. The look into Melania’s inner circle painted an unflattering portrait […]
“I voted” stickers at the Arlington Art Center in Arlington, Virginia. Several prominent Virginians including Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax are calling for an extension to the voter registration deadline. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images “I voted” stickers at the Arlington Art Center in Arlington, Virginia. Several prominent Virginians including Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax are calling for an extension to the voter […]
New reports on digital currency design principles and regulatory standards show just how quickly the world’s bankers are moving. Source link
Years after busy Mogadishu roads were closed causing traffic snarl-ups, Somalia on Tuesday opened the streets that had been blocked to contain terror attacks from al-Qaeda affiliated al-Shabaab militant attacks, reports Anadolu Agency. The militants have frequently used vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices on the busy Mogadishu roads claiming dozens of innocent lives. Radio Garowe in Somalia quoted the Horn of African country’s new prime minister who […]
Virginia’s voter registration system went down on the last day to register before the November election after a cable was accidentally cut Tuesday. Virginia election officials say *this* accidentally cut wire in Chesterfield County is likely why Virginia’s entire voter registration system is down… On the final day to register to vote.@WUSA9 @CBSNews #VOTE https://t.co/J7axn996jQ — Mike Valerio (@MikevWUSA) October 13, 2020 The fiber cut near Route […]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force has completed preliminary design review of its new Wideband Global SATCOM satellites, bringing the program one step closer to beginning production. “This engineering design review is a key milestone because it means we are one step closer to delivering this groundbreaking satellite to the wa rfighter in record timing, significantly improving capacity and coverage to soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines.” […]
Fresh from her “ordeal” of almost being kidnapped by a couple of white supremacists leftist, BLM-supporting militia nuts, overnight there was more bad news for Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer when on Monday a conservative majority in the Michigan Supreme Court denied her request to extend the emergency powers which she invoked to curb the spread of the coronavirus, declaring it unconstitutional. Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer wears […]
Israel’s Coronavirus National Information and Knowledge Center revealed Monday that vitamin D deficiency might be linked to an increased risk of contracting COVID-19. According to the center’s report, published Monday and reviewed by the Jerusalem Post, research studies have shown a circumstantial link between vitamin D levels and the risk of contracting the novel coronavirus. Despite the lack of a known causal relationship between the vitamin […]
Joe Biden brushed off reporters as he boarded a flight to South Florida on Tuesday. Biden is heading to the Pembroke Pines senior center and then head over to Miramar for an event. Advertisement – story continues below He immediately brushed off reporters standing on the tarmac and told them, “We’ll have plenty of time to talk in Florida.” Biden is getting hammered by reporters for […]
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Tuesday calls for a ceasefire in Nagorno-Karabakh are reasonable but must include an Armenian withdrawal from Azeri lands, and he floated holding talks that would include Ankara. Speaking at a news conference with his Swedish counterpart Ann Linde in Ankara, Cavusoglu said a meeting including all 11 members of the Minsk group – formed to mediate the conflict and […]
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) on Tuesday demanded that Judge Amy Coney Barrett pledge to recuse herself from “any cases involving the 2020 election.” During the second day of confirmation hearings for the Supreme Court nominee, Schumer took to social media, demanding that Barrett “immediately pledge to recuse herself from any cases involving the 2020 election.” “She is refusing to stand up to President [Donald] […]
Security force assistance brigades don’t view the race for military partnerships in Asia as a zero-sum game, SFAB leaders said during a telephone call with reporters Tuesday. The 5th SFAB out of Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, is now dedicated to the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command region, and the unit has already started working with Thai and Indonesian troops from there. SFAB advisers are training foreign militaries as […]
October is the heart of apple season, so now is the time to pick or buy fresh apples and get baking. Did you know that apples are part of the rose family, and that more than 7,000 varieties are grown around the world? Maybe 2020 is the year to expand your repertoire of vegan apple recipes. Picking the best baking apples What makes a good baking […]
A study by the CDC examining adults infected with COVID-19 concluded the vast majority wore face masks or coverings frequently in the weeks leading up to becoming ill. “In the 14 days before illness onset, 71% of case-patients and 74% of control participants reported always using cloth face coverings or other mask types when in public,” the report states. 14% of those surveyed said they wore […]
Trains that have been designed to literally vacuum New York’s 665 miles of subway tracks could actually be doing more harm than good. We know, you’re surprised that the MTA could be doing anything that winds up being counter-intuitive, right? Even better, they are (of course), doing it with taxpayer money, according to The Daily News. The “VakTraks”, as the trains are called, were bought using […]
from Gordon Duff and Mike Chester, we present; In the last few months, demand for our offerings has increased dramatically and we have completely sold out of our “basic” special model. There is a severe shortage on the availability of parts which resulted in the price we pay for parts to sharply increase. Parts for the “Basic” if they were even available, would now cost more […]
Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign media director Zerlina Maxwell was ridiculed online for seemingly mixing metaphors, and trying to present conservative Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett’s face mask as a “dystopian” symbol. Maxwell, now an MSNBC contributor, tweeted a picture on Tuesday of Amy Coney Barrett wearing a medical mask at her Senate confirmation hearing on Monday. The commentator also added two screen grabs from the […]
(Natural News) Peter Beinart, editor-at-large of Jewish Currents, recently penned an op-ed for The New York Times calling on the United Nations to stage an “international intervention” in order to stop Donald Trump from winning the Nov. 3 election. Echoing the sentiment expressed by George Soros operative Zack Ford, a queer atheist social justice warrior (SJW) who wants to “fix” America through a foreign invasion, Beinart […]
Native Americans Tear Gassed, Arrested On Indigenous Peoples’ Day By Kenny Stancil, Commondreams. October 13, 2020 Native Americans Tear Gassed, Arrested On Indigenous Peoples’ Day2020-10-132020-10-13https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/oodham.jpg200px200px Above photo: A dozen land and water protectors were arrested after Border Patrol and Arizona State Troopers used tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse a Native American ceremony on Indigenous Peoples’ Day on October 12, 2020. Rafael Samanez/O’odham Anti Border […]
Tennessee’s Metropolitan Nashville Police Department is on the hunt for an unidentified individual who was filmed over the weekend attacking a photojournalist with the WSMV local news station. The attack unfolded on Sunday in front of Nashville’s Napier Elementary School, where broadcast journalist Caresse Jackman and a station photojournalist were filming for an upcoming segment, according to a release published by WSMV. Mediate reported that the […]
President Donald Trump’s official super PAC is shopping around opposition research to members of the media on The Lincoln Project, a political group founded by NeverTrump Republicans who have run millions of dollars in ads this year attacking Trump and vulnerable Senate Republicans. America First Action, an ostensibly independent outfit supporting the president’s reelection, recently circulated a memo to “interested parties” breaking down the Lincoln Project’s […]
Afghans flee to Lashkar Gah, Helmand’s provincial capital, during fighting between Taliban and Afghan security forces on Monday. Local authorities estimate that some 35,000 people have been displaced into Lashkar Gah since a Taliban offensive began in Helmand. AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption AFP via Getty Images Afghans flee to Lashkar Gah, Helmand’s provincial capital, during fighting between Taliban and Afghan security forces […]
“Money legos” might be an apt metaphor for what decentralized finance (DeFi) does, but since the summer another one has applied: jackpot. Money legos is the term used to describe the way Ethereum allows different financial services to be plugged into each other, also known as composability. That used to be mostly a buzzword, but over the past year composability has become a very real competitive […]
Palestinian and Israeli human rights groups voiced concern on Tuesday over the condition of a Palestinian who began a hunger strike 79 days ago against his detention without charge by Israel. Maher Al-Akhras, 49, is now in an Israeli hospital suffering from heart pain and convulsions and has slipped occasionally into a coma, his wife said. A resident of the city of Jenin in the north […]
CLAIM: Abraham Lincoln made the “wise decision” to delay a Supreme Court appointment before an election. VERDICT: MISLEADING. Lincoln had no choice: the Senate was out of session. Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) said during the confirmation hearing for Judge Amy Coney Barrett at the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday: “The last time we had a vacancy so close to an election was when Abraham Lincoln was president. […]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army has demonstrated the ability to remotely control electronic warfare sensors through an over-the-air data link and feed the information back to a central battle management tool. Previously, sensors were connected to the Electronic Warfare Planning and Management Tool. The tool — a command-and-control planning capability that allows forces to visualize the potential effects of electronic warfare in the field and chart […]
By Michael Every of Rabobank Real Clear Politics? It seems only appropriate. The Nobel Prize for Economics, which is not actually the Nobel Prize for Economics, was just awarded to Bob Wilson and Paul Milgrom… and the latter was fast asleep and had to be woken up to hear the good news. The two got the gong this year for their work on auctions, which are […]
On Monday night, Donald Trump held his first campaign rally since recovering from the coronavirus, with the election event coming after his physician gave the president the all-clear for being around other people again. President Trump’s performance at Monday’s campaign rally in Sanford, Florida was a make-or-break opportunity for him to contrast his vitality against former Vice President Joe Biden’s lack of vitality, and he seems […]
The Senate Judiciary Committee began day two of their confirmation hearing for Trump Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett. Democrat Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (RI) went on a crazy 30-minute rant about dark money funding the GOP. Sheldon Whitehouse mansplained for 30 minutes and didn’t let Amy Coney Barrett speak. He actually made Adam Schiff look somewhat sane. TRENDING: CDC First Said Not to Wear Masks, Then […]
Lebanese Christian politician Gebran Bassil criticised Sunni former prime minister Saad al-Hariri on Tuesday for putting himself forward to lead a government that would champion a French initiative to resolve the country’s deep economic crisis. Hariri has begun consultations with the president, parliamentary speaker, and Lebanese political blocs about forming a government that would implement President Emmanuel Macron’s roadmap for reforms and unlock international aid. He […]
An Italian Customs ATR P-72B (MM62311) made this afternoon a long patrol mission over Ionian Sea and southern Adriatic Sea. The aircraft is departed at 14:57 CEST from Pratica di Mare AB, south of Rome, and, finally, is landed in Brindisi around 19:30 after over 6 hours of flight. In the last weeks the same aircraft was deployed, as Frontex asset, in Kalamata AB, southern Peoloponnese […]
For at least the sixth time, Joe Biden argued during a television interview on Monday that Americans should not vote for him. 1. A reporter from WKRC in Cincinnati brought up a recent Gallup poll that found 56 percent of respondents say they are better off than they were four years ago. “56% of Americans said that they are better off today than they were 4 […]
In the next two years the Army will conduct a brigade-sized live training event at the National Training Center in Fort Irwin, Calif., while simultaneously running portions of that event in virtual and simulated methods at the Combined Arms Training Center at Fort Riley, Kan. That is just one of a number of evolutions of the training to prepare for multi-domain operations in large-scale combat, using […]
Israel has announced plans to ban the use of animal fur and skin. In announcing the new regulations, the minister for environmental protection Gila Gamliel termed the use of animal fur and skin, particularly in the fashion industry, as “immoral.” If the ban does become law, anyone intending to use such products in the country will have to apply for a permit, which will only be […]
The World Health Organization’s Regional Director for Europe Hans Kluge says governments should stop enforcing lockdowns, unless as a “last resort,” because the impact on other areas of health and mental well-being is more damaging. In an interview with Euro News, Kluge cautioned against the imposition of more lockdowns unless they are “absolutely necessary.” NEW: WHO Europe Director, Hans Kluge tells me, no government should enforce […]
Authored by Peter Schiff via SchiffGold.com, While most people generally understand that the stock market and the economy do not move in lockstep, there is still an underlying belief that a strong market reflects a strong economy. But according to that logic, our current economy must be historically strong. If this strikes you as strange, given that we are in the midst of a destabilizing and […]
BREAKING: A severed fiber optic cable shuts down Virginia’s online voter registration system, the last day to register before the November general election. https://t.co/PAnYn7DzJn — The Associated Press (@AP) October 13, 2020 Daily Beast: The entire Virginia voter registration system has crashed on the last day for voters to register before Election Day—and officials have blamed it on a cable being cut accidentally, according to […]
A massive ‘Tallboy’ bomb dropped during a British Royal Air Force attack on a Nazi warship in 1945 has exploded underwater while being defused in northern Poland. No one was hurt, but buildings ashore were shaken by the blast. Navy sappers were trying to neutralize the 5.4-ton device – found last year at the bottom of the Piast Canal, which connects the Baltic Sea with the […]
(Natural News) The looming threat of a second wave of lockdowns in response to an alleged second wave of the Wuhan coronavirus (covid-19) has prompted the World Health Organization (WHO) to urge governments not to make the same mistake they did back in the spring by keeping everyone locked up inside their homes for weeks on end. Speaking to The Spectator in a powerful interview that […]
The position of America’s currency has been far from solid in recent months, prompting analysts to suggest that the dollar will slide even further in relation to the euro throughout next year. Analysts from Goldman Sachs have recommended a bet on the dollar’s depreciation amid the risks associated with coronavirus vaccine trials and forthcoming US elections that they believe are pushing it down, according to a […]
SEOUL—Let the missiles fall where they may, President Trump is still smitten by North Korea’s Kim Jong Un. Trump, who famously said he and Kim “fell in love” in their summit in Singapore in June 2018, proclaimed Kim “100 percent sharp” at a campaign rally in Florida this week. It was part of a dig against the Democratic candidate, Joe Biden, saying “We have someone running […]
Chairs are stacked outside a restaurant in Montreal on Sept. 29 as the Quebec government orders restaurants, bars and casinos to close for 28 days effective midnight Sept. 30, after a recent spike in new daily coronavirus cases. Christinne Muschi/Reuters hide caption toggle caption Christinne Muschi/Reuters Chairs are stacked outside a restaurant in Montreal on Sept. 29 as the Quebec government orders restaurants, bars and casinos […]
CoinDesk is preparing for the invest: ethereum economy virtual event on Oct. 14 with a special series of newsletters focused on Ethereum’s past, present and future. Every day until the event the team behind Blockchain Bites will dive into an aspect of Ethereum that excites or confuses us. Today’s intro is written by CoinDesk research analyst Christine Kim. This year, 2020, is proving to be wildly successful for Ethereum in terms […]
Turkey’s foreign minister angrily dismissed European Union calls to withdraw troops from northeast Syria on Tuesday, accusing it of double standards and trying to lecture Ankara on human rights and international law. At a tense news conference after talks in Ankara, Swedish Foreign Minister Anne Linde reitereted the EU’s calls for Turkey to withdraw troops it sent to northestern Syria a year ago against Kurdish fighters […]
“If I express a view on a precedent one way or another … it signals to litigants that I may tilt one way or another on a pending case,” Barrett added. Supreme Court nominees typically avoid answering specific questions about how they would rule in cases that could come before the court. But Barrett’s responses stymied Democrats, who have zeroed in on health care as their […]
The Michigan Supreme Court handed Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) another legal defeat on Monday when a majority ruled her coronavirus orders are no longer in effect. On October 2, the Court ruled that the 1945 law Whitmer has been using to justify a “state of emergency” and her lockdown orders was unconstitutional, effectively negating any executive orders related to it. Whitmer attacked the Court and claimed […]
The Army secretary started this year’s Association of the United States Army with a bang, announcing the service will be reducing the demands of rotational deployments and decreasing requirements for brigade- and battalion-level training. Events over the past year have taxed the force, including a rapid deployment of paratroopers and air defense artillery to the Middle East during tensions with Iran, an unprecedented global pandemic and […]
It comes as no surprise, that on the same day Apple is set to unveil the new 5G iPhone, a report surfaces via the Nikkei, outlining how key iPhone suppliers have ramped up production of the new smartphone. Sources told Nikkei that top iPhone assemblers, Foxconn and Pegatron, have been running at “full production speed” in the last couple of weeks, especially during Mid-Autumn Festival and […]