The US Senate on Wednesday thwarted an effort to block a major arms deal between the United States and the UAE. Senators voted 47 to 49 on the measure, falling short of the majority required to prevent the sale of over $23B worth of Reaper drones to the United Arab Emirates. Source link
Daily Archives: December 9, 2020
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President Donald Trump is once more seeking to overturn the results of the 2020 elections. And this time, he’s enlisting the help of a lawyer best known for questioning Sen. Kamala Harris’s citizenship and eligibility to serve as Joe Biden’s running mate and VP. In a Wednesday court filing, Trump asked the U.S. Supreme Court to allow him to intervene in a Texas lawsuit seeking to […]
Raymond Duda, FBI Special Agent in Charge in Seattle, speaks in February about charges against a group of alleged members of the neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen Division for cyber-stalking and mailing threatening communications, including the posters at right, in a campaign against journalists in several cities. Ted S. Warren/AP hide caption toggle caption Ted S. Warren/AP Raymond Duda, FBI Special Agent in Charge in Seattle, speaks in […]
Syrians in the occupied Golan Heights are taking part in a general strike today in protest against Israel's plans to install wind turbines on their agricultural land. The strike affects all facilities including schools, reports Syria's SANA news agency. The day of protest follows a meeting called by religious and social authorities among the largely Druze community. The Druze consider themselves to be Syrian citizens. Protests […]
The proposed sale, valued at $23 billion, includes 50 F-35 aircraft, 18 Reaper drones, and a massive stockpile of missiles. It is among a flurry of hasty eleventh-hour foreign policy moves by the outgoing administration, including a significant drawdown of U.S. troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. It also comes on the heels of the UAE’s peace agreement with Israel, which the Trump administration helped negotiate. While […]
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Space Weather Prediction Center issued a Geomagnetic Storm Watch across North America after a solar flare on the Sun erupted in the Earth’s direction. Southeast Michigan meteorologist Paul Gross reported: That solar flare accelerated the normal stream of charged particles that comes from the Sun to the Earth. … That charge forces the aurora ring at the North Pole […]
WASHINGTON — Simple shifts in how the Pentagon approaches its electromagnetic spectrum tools could offer the U.S. superiority needed to best adversaries that have figured out over the last decade how achieve their own advantages, leaders have said. This notion for how to achieve an affordable competitive advantage with non-kinetic capabilities looks beyond platforms, such as planes or ships, and rather at the pieces and specific […]
There’s good news and bad news for Elon Musk’s SpaceX project tonight. The good news (apparently) is that, as TechCrunch reports, SpaceX is one step closer to replacing its Falcon line of active duty spacecraft: Its Starship prototype ‘SN8’ achieved a major milestone in the ongoing spacecraft’s development program, flying to a height of around 40,000 feet at SpaceX’s development facility in southern Texas. One of […]
The US House of Representatives passed on Wednesday an emergency one-week extension of funding for the US federal government. The Senate will vote on the measure later this week, which will cover federal government expenses until December 18. Source link
Stablecoin issuer and crypto services firm Paxos has filed to become a federally-regulated bank in the U.S. The bank would operate out of New York (where Paxos is already located), according to the filing. The company, which already has a New York trust charter and a slew of licenses, currently offers cash custody, gold custody, cryptocurrency services, digital asset issuance, securities clearing, commodities trading and other […]
Many people have asked us what they can do. Below we’ve provided a list of all Congress members from the keys states in this election. You can easily copy to your email the list in the link below and send the entire list an email demanding they fight for President Trump. Advertisement – story continues below Give these State Congressmen and women a call or send […]
The authorities in Saudi Arabia have ignored appeals from the US administration and sentenced a prominent dual nationality Saudi American doctor to six years in prison on charges that included illegally obtaining US citizenship, the New York Times and Washington Post reported on Tuesday. Walid Fitaihi was educated at George Washington University and Harvard, and is well known in the Kingdom as the founder of a […]
Now, congressional leaders and appropriators are in the middle of negotiating a $1.4 trillion, 12-bill spending package that will increase agency budgets for the rest of the fiscal year, hoping to pair that funding bundle with desperately needed coronavirus relief. The stakes: Millions of Americans are set to lose a critical safety net as a number of pandemic assistance provisions expire at the end of the […]
The FTC and 48 states are set to launch a legal assault on Facebook over claims of antitrust violations. The lawsuits seek to break up Mark Zuckerberg’s social media empire. Politico reports that federal antitrust authorities and dozens of states are set to launch a double-barreled legal assault against Facebook over allegations of antitrust violations. Both lawsuits aim to force Facebook to break up its empire which […]
WASHINGTON ― The Senate narrowly voted down two measures Wednesday to block President Donald Trump’s plan to sell roughly $23 billion in weapons to the United Arab Emirates. The sale of 50 Lockheed F-35 aircraft, 18 General Atomics MQ–9B Reaper drones and Raytheon-made munitions sparked pushback from lawmakers who argued that the administration rushed the vetting of sales that could touch off an arms race in […]
By B.N. Frank High-speed internet is achievable, safer and more secure with a wired internet connection (see 1, 2). There is research that has already determined exposure to 5G and other sources of wireless “WiFi” radiation are NOT SAFE. Last year, the World Health Organization warned that high levels of Electromagnetic Fields (aka “Electrosmog”) could cause health issues in a significant percentage of the population. Electrosmog […]
Owen Shroyer reacts to breaking news from Rebel News about Justin Trudeau’s capitulation to the communist Chinese government. According to Rebel News, “Justin Trudeau invited China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) to send its troops for cold-weather training at CFB Petawawa in Ontario — and Trudeau raged at the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) for canceling the training after China kidnapped Canadian citizens Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig.” Rebel […]
While the Fed has a monopoly on most printed pieces of paper that have been assigned ridiculous valuations, they may not have the entire total addressable market. That’s because a Wayne Gretzky hockey card – in fact, a 1979 Wayne Gretzky O-Pee-Chee rookie card – is set to fetch more than $1 million at an upcoming auction. “Where’s the inflation?” people routinely still ask. And it isn’t just Gretzky cards […]
Seventeen US states have officially backed the Texas complaint to the US Supreme Court alleging that four states that certified the presidential election for Democrat Joe Biden mismanaged them in violation of the US Constitution. Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt led his colleagues from Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, and West Virginia in […]
(Natural News) Phil Kline of Team Trump has dropped another bombshell about Facebook’s treasonous efforts to direct the outcome of the 2020 election. In addition to forking over cash to the media and various far-left “third party” organizations like Rock the Vote that were given exclusive front door access to private voter rolls, Facebook also funneled money directly to local governments, including Fulton County, Georgia, where […]
Johnson, Von Der Leyen Agree Firm Decision Should Be Taken by Sunday on Future of Brexit Talks Source link
CNN anchor Jake Tapper on Wednesday went off on Republicans and President Donald Trump for their “clownish” coup attempt, branding their effort to subvert democracy and nullify the presidential election over baseless voter-fraud conspiracies as “absolutely disgraceful.” Over the past few weeks, Team Trump’s increasingly hapless legal challenges to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s victories in various key swing states have been tossed out of court, including […]
Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Wednesday apologized to the company in the aftermath of the dismissal of a prominent Black artificial intelligence researcher. LM Otero/AP hide caption toggle caption LM Otero/AP Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Wednesday apologized to the company in the aftermath of the dismissal of a prominent Black artificial intelligence researcher. LM Otero/AP Google’s chief executive Sundar Pichai on Wednesday apologized in the […]
Paris St Germain and Istanbul Basaksehir players wore 'No to racism' t-shirts before their rescheduled Champions League game, which was suspended on Tuesday when the teams walked off in protest after the Turkish club accused a match official of racism, Reuters reports. UEFA said on Wednesday that it had appointed an Ethics and Disciplinary Inspector to "conduct a disciplinary investigation regarding the incident". The incident was […]
The left-wing terrorists in Black Lives Matter and Antifa constructed a new CHAZ, another one of their so-called autonomous zones, this time in Democrat-run Portland. CHAZ stands for Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, and has become a catch-all for when these terrorists seize property that does not belong to them and declare it no longer part of the United States. I’m not sure why, after a Civil […]
WASHINGTON — The B-1B Lancer has successfully fired a stealthy cruise missile from an external pylon for the first time, adding not only another capability to the Bone’s massive arsenal but potentially paving the way for the bomber to launch hypersonic missiles in the future. During the demonstration, held Dec. 4 at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico, the B-1 launched an inert AGM-158 Joint […]
By Patrick Carroll At 11:00 a.m. on Tuesday, November 24, Adam Skelly opened his BBQ restaurant in Toronto and began serving customers. Under ordinary circumstances, this would have been unremarkable. But on that day, it was an act of political defiance, because a recent lockdown order prohibited restaurants like his from providing indoor and outdoor dining services. Skelly, a 33-year-old husband and father of two, was […]
Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, The incontestable incompetence of the USSA’s monopolies, institutions and agencies is about to take center stage in 2021. When I mention that the U.S.A. feels increasingly like the U.S.S.R., a surprising number of people tell me they feel the same way. Welcome to the U.S.S.A.: United Simulacra States of America where everything is an absurdly transparent simulation with little connection […]
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The incumbent Ghanaian President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has won the presidential election and secured his second term, the country’s Electoral Commission said on Wednesday. Source link
Bitcoin is holding just above $18,000 but analysts are mixed on where it will head, DeFi’s total value locked looks to have momentum but that might have to do with crypto market conditions. Bitcoin (BTC) trading around $18,355 as of 21:00 UTC (4 p.m. ET). Slipping 1.9% over the previous 24 hours. Bitcoin’s 24-hour range: $17,630-$18,836 (CoinDesk 20) BTC near its 10-day moving average and below […]
The FTC and 48 Attorneys General filed two separate lawsuits against Facebook on Wednesday. The suit attempts to break up the tech giant into its component parts. The lawsuit also accuses Facebook of illegally suppressing competition by purchasing rival companies that challenged its dominance. The FTC and a coalition of states have sued Facebook for allegedly violating antitrust laws https://t.co/ZroVU9WSC7 — Bloomberg (@business) December 9, 2020 […]
Lebanon's central bank asked domestic banks on Wednesday to comply with a new law allowing students abroad to transfer dollars out of Lebanon as they struggle to pay daily expenses without access to their money, Reuters reports. Thousands of university students around the world have been caught up in Lebanon's financial meltdown, which has paralysed the banking system since last year. As the currency crashed, banks […]
Documents revealed Wednesday by Canada’s Rebel News Network suggest that Canada planned to train China’s military in cold weather tactics at a military base in Ontario — and canceled the program, reluctantly, at the Trump administration’s request. Ezra Levant, who founded Rebel News Network, asked for the documents via an official information request that he filed after seeing a news report on Sputnik, the Russian propaganda site, […]
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Marine Corps is looking to equip its infantry units with a man-portable, swarming loitering munition that experts say is part of its shift toward countering China with a light and deadly seaborne infantry force. The so-called “Organic Precision Fires – Infantry Light” program is seeking ground-launched drones that can be deployed with no more than two people, have a range of up […]
By Tyler Durden A Los Angeles judge has tentatively struck down the county’s ban on outdoor dining after the Public Health Department – led by Director Barbara Ferrer – failed to provide a scientific basis for the order. According to The Real Deal, LA County Superior Court Judge James Chalfant overturned the county’s outdoor dining ban which went into effect on Nov. 25, calling it an […]
Constitutional Lawyer Robert Barnes joins The Alex Jones Show to break down the killshot Trump needs to take to defeat voter fraud. Million MAGA March 2 Scheduled for Dec. 12th, Save the Republic from Voter Fraud Source link
Well that all escalated quickly. Some disappointing comments from Washington on the COVID Relief bill appeared to combine with some algo-chaos around the insane IPO release of DoorDash to spark the market’s worst day in over a month… This didn’t help either: *FAUCI: NORMALITY MAY RETURN END OF 2021 AS HERD IMMUNITY GROWS *FAUCI: POLITICAL LEADERS ADDRESSING SOCIAL BEHAVIOR WOULD HELP *FAUCI: SOME PARTS OF U.S. […]
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) will use data from the UK and other countries on the safety of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine before giving it the go-ahead, after some concerns were flagged in Britain over allergic reactions. It comes after Britain’s own drug regulator warned on Wednesday that people with a ‘significant’ history of allergic reactions should not receive the vaccine following adverse effects in two medics […]
(Natural News) Behind closed doors, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has discussed a long list of serious health problems that will be caused by new covid-19 injections. These “adverse events” are not publicized because vaccine companies and their media cohorts need everyone to believe that the vaccines are “safe and effective.” But the list of adverse events and negative health outcomes is a matter […]
The latest move by video-sharing platform YouTube may soon see the tech giant come under fire by US President Donald Trump and Republican allies, as the commander-in-chief has refused to concede the 2020 election, instead opting to further promote allegations of voter fraud. Source link
SEOUL—Kim Jong Un’s kid sister has been thrust once more into the spotlight after launching North Korea’s latest rhetorical attack on their neighbors to the south. Kim Yo Jong, 32, four years younger than her brother, called out South Korea’s top female official for casting doubt on Pyongyang’s claims of zero cases of COVID-19 among its impoverished people. In an attempt at intimidation amid a long […]
Basaksehir’s manager Okan Buruk, right, argues with referee Sebastian Coltescu during a Champions League soccer match between Paris Saint Germain and Istanbul Basaksehir in Paris on Tuesday. Francois Mori/AP hide caption toggle caption Francois Mori/AP Basaksehir’s manager Okan Buruk, right, argues with referee Sebastian Coltescu during a Champions League soccer match between Paris Saint Germain and Istanbul Basaksehir in Paris on Tuesday. Francois Mori/AP A Champions […]
Israel received its first shipment of coronavirus vaccines on Wednesday and a distributor predicted the country would have enough for about a quarter of the population by the end of the year, Reuters reports. A cargo plane landed at Ben Gurion Airport carrying what officials said were tens of thousands of doses of Pfizer Inc. vaccines for a trial run of transportation and storage procedures. "I […]
What’s the context? Lawmakers from both sides of the aisle agree that more research into the health effects of marijuana is needed. The bill is co-sponsored by two lawmakers who stand at opposite ends of the spectrum on marijuana legalization: Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) is the unofficial cannabis czar on Capitol Hill, while Rep. Andy Harris (R-Md.) is known for his work on an appropriations rider […]
At least four families in a suburb of St. Paul, Minnesota, have received a letter from a neighbor who complained their Christmas lights are “a reminder of systemic biases” against those who don’t celebrate Christmas. In a post at Powerline Tuesday, John Hinderaker reported the families in St. Anthony received what he referred to as a letter from “a Christmas diversity Grinch” that is written in […]
By Fiona Harrigan and Peter C. Earle Yet another side effect of the government’s response to Covid-19 is shining through in recent business headlines. In a widely-touted deal last week, Salesforce acquired Slack for over $27 billion. The purchase is one of the largest ever in the software industry and is the largest cloud software deal ever. While the Salesforce acquisition is one of the highest-profile […]
Authored by Bruce Wilds via Advancing Time blog, The ramifications of online shopping during this holiday season while covid-19 rages across the land will be staggering. The fourth quarter is the time of year when retailers normally make the bulk of their annual profits thanks to holiday shopping. The National Retail Federation reported online shopping soared 44% over the five days, including Black Friday and Cyber […]
The ban was first announced in late October, with Google initially planning to keep it for seven days following Election Day, but the restrictions were prolonged on 11 November, with Facebook taking similar steps. Source link
The Messari CEO goes over the highlights of his just-released annual “Crypto Theses” report. What were the most important trends? Who were the most important people? Was it the year of Bitcoin Macro, the year of DeFi or both? Ryan Selkis is the founder and CEO of Messari. Each year he puts together a massive “Crypto Theses” report that looks at the year that was and […]
It’s really startling to see how much Obama contaminated everything in the US government. We knew four years ago how corrupt the FBI was after letting Hillary off with no charges after numerous criminal actions were found relating to her email. Before that there were numerous obvious criminal activities that took place during the Obama years: from the sale of his Senate seat to Benghazi; the […]
Two wells in a small oilfield in northern Iraq were set ablaze by explosives on Wednesday in a "terrorist attack" but overall production from the field was not affected, the Oil Ministry and officials said Wednesday, Reuters reports. The Oil Ministry gave no details about the assailants behind the explosive devices that targeted the wells in Khabbaz oilfield, 20 km (12 miles) southwest of Kirkuk. In […]
Facebook fact-checker “Lead Stories” took the social network’s system of “fact-checking” to farcical levels earlier this week when it “fact-checked” a critique of itself by the Federalist’s Molly Hemingway. An article by Molly Hemingway in the Federalist critiqued the fact-checker for its decision to fact check stories about voter fraud in Georgia: A Big Tech-backed “fact” “checking” outfit claimed to debunk explosive evidence in support of Republicans’ claims […]
WASHINGTON — The U.S Defense Information Systems Agency released its final solicitation for a highly anticipated IT consolidation contract that is potentially worth billions of dollars. The Defense Enclave Services contract, potentially worth up to about $11.7 billion over a decade, will consolidate the IT systems of Pentagon’s Fourth Estate agencies, which handle business tasks and don’t sit under a military department. The award will go […]
Along the Atlantic coast of Ghana’s Central Region in Apam, Vienna-based, trans-disciplinary lab [applied] Foreign Affairs has designed and erected a giant bamboo dome for the Haduwa Arts & Culture Institute, an open institution for artists and cultural practitioners from Africa and Europe. The large-scale project, which was built together with local experts and locals, serves as a multipurpose stage. The experimental structure was constructed with […]
By Tyler Durden Although the micro home movement isn’t necessarily new, many have put tiny homes on their radar since COVID-19. Whether it’s a weekend escape from city living, or even a tiny backyard office, these dwellings have seen a recent boom in popularity. IPX 1031 recently did an extended analysis of the sector which is presented below, but here is a summary of what they […]
Texas’ pending case with SCOTUS hinges on whether the court will uphold the US Constitution, Attorney General Ken Paxton told Fox News’ Sean Hannity Tuesday. Paxton explained the state’s complaint centers on how Georgia, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan exploited the Covid-19 crisis to bypass and ignore federal and state election laws and enact unlawful last-minute changes, thereby disenfranchising voters in the Lone Star State. “If other […]
Authored by Jonathan Turley, Christopher Krebs, has filed a lawsuit against Trump attorney Joe diGenova over this controversial joke that Krebs should be “drawn and quartered” and then “shot” for his failures as the former head of U.S. cybersecurity. The lawsuit strikes me as meritless under governing tort doctrines. While Mark Zaid declared that “no rational person” who heard diGenova calling for a person to be drawn and […]
Documents relating to the regulatory submission of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid vaccine candidate to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) were “unlawfully accessed” during a cyberattack, the pharma firms have said. The EMA confirmed earlier on Wednesday that it had been the subject of a cyberattack, but did not provide further details and said it would not do so while an investigation into the hack was ongoing. Also […]
(Natural News) On Dec. 8, 2020, the United Kingdom became the first country in the West to begin its distribution of Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines, beginning with a 90-year-old woman, whose injection was aired on the country’s major news stations. The first dose was given less than a week after British authorities granted an emergency-use authorization for the two-dose vaccine developed by pharmaceutical companies Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE. […]
The US president called on the governor to convene a special session of the state legislature after Georgia’s Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger refused to conduct a signature audit of the ballots. Source link
The creator of the online fundraising campaign for Sidney Powell’s “Kraken” lawsuits, aimed at overturning President Donald Trump’s November loss, has a patrician pedigree—and a social media profile rife with transphobia and flirtations with the far-right. Robert Matheson’s social media persona has grown so strident and extreme that Twitter banned him from its platform earlier this year after he tweeted at Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler that […]
Brittany Barnett works on behalf of people serving harsh sentences as a result of the war on drugs. Nine of her clients have been granted clemency. Her new memoir is A Knock at Midnight. Source link
The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court on Wednesday said she was dropping a preliminary probe into alleged war crimes by British troops in Iraq, even though she found a reasonable basis to believe they committed atrocities, Reuters reports. The probe never rose to the level of a full investigation and Fatou Bensouda's office concluded that British authorities had examined the allegations. The ICC only intervenes […]
On Tuesday in their private party conference call, Senate Republicans wrestled over whether cutting a deal that trades the two is even doable. Afterward, McConnell urged negotiators to drop liability reform and state and local aid from the discussion, deeming them too contentious to be workable in the breakneck lame duck session. Retiring Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), a close McConnell ally, was among those on the […]
The former president of the nation’s largest teachers’ union is making a pitch to become U.S. Secretary of Education should Joe Biden become president. Lily Eskelsen Garcia (pictured), who headed the National Education Association (NEA) up until this summer, is looking to Hispanic groups and even Republican U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander (TN) to help her effort to become the next education secretary. Garcia currently serves as […]
WASHINGTON — The annual defense policy bill would reorganize the Pentagon’s top IT responsibilities to prepare the department for operational 5G wireless networks. The fiscal 2021 National Defense Authorization Act, which the House passed Tuesday but President Donald Trump has threatened to veto, would set up a 5G cross-functional team inside the Defense Department and name the chief information officer the senior official on 5G networking […]
People who like to decorate their houses for Christmas often face a tree dilemma: should they buy an artificial, plastic tree or a real, dead one? Now, a new U.K. business saves Londoners from that choice. London Christmas Tree Rental delivers a real, pot-grown tree, lets customers enjoy it for a few weeks, then picks it up in January and takes it back to a farm, […]
Though already long tolerating such brazenly threatening actions and city section ‘takeovers’ by Antifa, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler announced Tuesday: “There will be no autonomous zone in Portland.” But it yet again appears too late as according to the Associated Press: A group of activists for months have camped at the home dubbed “Red House on Mississippi” because it is on North Mississippi Avenue — to express their […]
Relations between Israel and Turkey have soured over the past several years: while Tel Aviv has accused Ankara of supporting Hamas, an Islamist group deemed terrorist by Israel, Turkish officials have pointed the finger of blame at their Israeli counterparts, saying their policies against the Palestinians are unacceptable. Source link
Cryptocurrency exchange OKEx is seeing slight signs of activity from its mining pool after losing 99.5% of its hashrate this autumn after the exchange suspended withdrawals from trading accounts. OKEx bitcoin pool miners seemed to jump ship through late October and into November as the pool’s hashrate dropped from over 5,000 petahashes per second (PH/s) to below 20 PH/s only two weeks after the exchange suspended […]
CCP-YouTube will not allow this evidence of fraud. They announced the new rule this morning. No more videos on election fraud will be allowed. The Michigan Senate held a hearing last week on the massive voter fraud witnessed in the state during the 2020 election. One witness told the Michigan Senate about the van that pulled into the TCF Center in Detroit at 3:30 AM in […]
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) has announced that it does not oppose President Donald Trump's $23 billion arms deal with the United Arab Emirates, which the US leader called a crucial partner in the fight against terrorists. The Trump administration approved the deal, which includes F-35 fighter jets and armed drones, early last month following the UAE's normalisation agreement between the Emirates and Israel. […]
The latest version of the $908 billion package, which is being led by Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Mitt Romney (R-Utah), would expand federal unemployment benefits to $300 a week for 16 weeks. In addition, it would provide $300 billion to the Small Business Administration to fund the Paycheck Protection Program, $25 billion in rental assistance to states and local governments and extend an eviction moratorium […]
Google-owned video platform YouTube has announced plans to remove any content that questions Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 U.S. presidential election despite the fact that legal challenges involving multiple states continue. YouTube also announced it will be promoting “authoritative news sources,” such as NBC and CBS in video recommendations. In a recent blog post titled “Supporting the 2020 U.S. election,” Google-owned video-sharing platform YouTube announced plans […]
STUTTGART, Germany — After the decade that has been the year 2020, it may seem like 2040 is centuries away. But for Airbus, the scheduled in-service date for Europe’s next-generation combat aircraft and weapon system feels just around the corner. The Future Combat Air System (FCAS) industry partners have made significant progress on the pan-European, multi-system effort despite the hurdles of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, Airbus, […]
The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a landmark legislation that will see big cats protected from human mistreatment. The Big Cat Public Safety Act (BCPSA) prohibits individuals from owning big cats in their homes or in roadside zoos. The act was passed by 272 votes, compared to 114 members who voted against the legislation. The bill, which was introduced by Michael Quigley and Brian Fitzpatrick in 2012, […]
Michigan Democratic State Rep. Cynthia Johnson threatened President Trump’s supporters in a Facebook live video Tuesday, warning that the left won’t tolerate their resistance to the fraudulent election. “So this is just a warning to you Trumpers. Be careful, walk lightly, we ain’t playing with you. Enough of the shenanigans. Enough is enough,” Johnson snarls. Cynthia A. Johnson of the Michigan House of Representatives has a […]
Holy rotation Batman! After reaching $102/share last night – conferring a fully diluted valuation of roughly $41BN – and with a flurry of pre-debut reports projecting that it could surge as high as $200 in the opening minutes of trade, DoorDash opened at $182 Wednesday at roughly 1245ET. DOORDASH OPENS AT $182, IPO AT $102 — zerohedge (@zerohedge) December 9, 2020 The company raised at least […]
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has issued a plea to citizens to “follow the rules”, as the city faces being placed in Tier 3 in next week’s restrictions review, after Covid infection rates rose in 24 out of the city’s 32 boroughs. Khan and MPs have urged London’s nine million residents to follow social-distancing guidelines or risk the introduction of stricter measures, after official figures showed […]
(Natural News) Researchers from the U.S. and China suggest that drinking a serving of water, coffee or tea in place of a sugary beverage may lower Type 2 diabetes risk by up to 10 percent. In a paper published in the Diabetes Journal, they further revealed that swapping sodas and 100 percent fruit juices for diet sodas and artificially sweetened drinks did not seem to lessen diabetes […]
The world is a very different place at the end of 2020 than it was at the start. Let’s take a look back and remind ourselves how events unfolded. Source link
I’m not gonna lie, I like holiday decorations as much as the next person, but I absolutely hate putting everything away when the season is over. On one hand, it’s a partially inherited trait that I cannot seem to shake, since my mother sometimes didn’t take her Christmas tree down until February. On the other hand, she was really crazy for seasonal décor, while I can […]
Supporters arrive for a President Trump rally in Valdosta, Ga., last weekend. Fewer than half of Trump backers said they would get the COVID-19 vaccine in a new poll. Spencer Platt/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Spencer Platt/Getty Images Supporters arrive for a President Trump rally in Valdosta, Ga., last weekend. Fewer than half of Trump backers said they would get the COVID-19 vaccine in a […]
Germany has flown in a former leader of the Syrian Civilian Defence group operating in opposition-held areas known as the White Helmets, along with his family despite suspicions by security services over his alleged links to jihadist groups. According to Der Spiegal, Khaled Al-Saleh and his family arrived in Germany on a government-owned Luftwaffe plane on Monday having flown out from Jordan where he had been living since 2018 at the […]
Democrats are poised to hold the smallest party lead in over a century following reports of former Vice President Joe Biden selecting Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-OH) to lead the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Biden’s choice leaves House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) with a 220-seat majority following their losses in the 2020 election, with women and minorities primarily comprising the GOP’s freshman class. The slim majority […]
COLOGNE, Germany — The German defense ministry is eyeing something of a redo of its failed acquisition strategy for new heavy cargo helicopters, banking on the U.S. foreign military sales process to yield contracts for either the Lockheed Martin King Stallion or Boeing Chinook by the end of 2022. The strategy appears in the ministry’s latest report on major weapon systems, released this week. The previous […]
Exactly two months ago we mused rhetorically (and comically) when some hedge fund would finally go activist on the world’s formerly largest company, Exxon, which in 2020 became a shadow of its former self, seeing its value slashed in half despite a hefty 9% dividend yield (which may or may not be cut in the future) its market cap shrinking to just $180BN (which Snowflake may […]
Crypto payments firm BitPay has filed to become a national bank in the U.S. According to a Dec. 8 legal notice published by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, BitPay has applied to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to organize a federally regulated bank, dubbed the BitPay National Trust Bank, headquartered in the state of Georgia. The news was first reported by The Block. The […]
YouTube announced Tuesday it will take down videos questioning the integrity of the U.S. presidential election that millions of Americans, most notably President Trump, believe was stolen through numerous fraudulent actions, lawfare chicanery and computer manipulation. YouTube says it already has been rigging search results and algorithms to hide “misleading” election videos, describing the censorship effort as, “Limiting the reach of borderline content and prominently surfacing […]
Complaints submitted to the United Nations (UN) accuse Israel of intentionally targeting journalists in Palestine and failing to thoroughly investigate its killings of media workers. The complaints, submitted by the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the Palestinian Journalists' Syndicate (PJS) ask the special rapporteurs to secure justice and accountability for the killings and harm that has been inflicted on journalists. This includes the 2018 killings […]
Numerous members of Congress have tested positive for Covid-19 since the first two lawmakers were diagnosed in March. But some lawmakers, mostly Republicans, have remained skeptical or outright scornful of best practices meant to curb the disease’s spread. Bera, a physician and four-term congressman from the Sacramento area, went on to suggest Wednesday that the anti-mask lawmakers’ attitude toward the personal mitigation measure mirrored the opinions […]
Florida State Rep. Dan Daley (D-Coral Springs) is pushing legislation that would require a background check for all ammunition purchases in the state. The Florida Daily reports Daley’s legislation is called “Jaime’s Law,” so named after Jaime Guttenberg, who was shot and killed during the February 14, 2018, Parkland high school shooting. It is designed to require a background check for all ammunition sales across the state of […]
WASHINGTON — The Army and Navy named principal cyber advisers who will help their services become better prepared in the digital domain. The Army appointed Terry Mitchell to the position in September, a spokesperson confirmed recently to C4ISRNET. Mitchell will advise the secretary of the Army and chief of staff on cybersecurity matters to include implementation of various items tasked in the 2018 Department of Defense […]
If you look at an aerial view of Hot Springs, Arkansas, you see a few rows of buildings squeezed in between wild, green mountains. This resort town, about an hour southwest of Little Rock, is an unusual place where you can walk out the door of your downtown hotel and within minutes be shopping at boutiques, taking the waters in a historic bathhouse or hiking a […]
By Matt Agorist Several months ago, the Free Thought Project cofounders made a small donation to the groups Food Not Bombs and the Sidewalk Project who were raising funds to build tiny homes for the homeless in Las Vegas. The group raised $16,000 and built 26 tiny homes for people who had previously been living on the streets. It was an amazing feat put together by […]
The UK’s medicines and healthcare regulator has urged people with a history of ‘significant’ allergic reactions not to opt for the Pfizer vaccine, after two NHS medics, vaccinated on Tuesday, experienced severe reactions. Professor Stephen Powis, the national medical director for the NHS in England, said on Wednesday that the Medicines & Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) had issued a warning about the administering of Pfizer’s […]
Authored by Michael Lebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, “When one side of a story is heard and often repeated, the human mind becomes impressed with it insensibly” – George Washington Daughter- Can I go out with friends? Father- Have you asked your mother? Daughter- Of course I have. Father- Okay, have fun. In the plot above, the daughter only tells her father half of the truth. She fails […]
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) said on Thursday that it had been targeted in a cyberattack and was working with law enforcement to investigate it. The agency said on Wednesday that “a full investigation” has been launched “in close cooperation with law enforcement and other relevant entities” after it was the subject of a cyberattack. It said it would not provide further information “whilst the investigation […]