Joe Biden read pre-written answers from a teleprompter when asked about Tara Reade’s sexual assault allegation by a Florida reporter. A Florida reporter on Thursday asked Joe Biden about Tara Reade’s interview with Megyn Kelly. Tara Reade accused her former boss then-Senator Joe Biden of sexually assaulting her in 1993. Reade said in 1993, then-Senator Joe Biden pushed her up against the wall and penetrated her […]
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The EU yesterday reiterated its political and financial support for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), a press release said. In a phone call, the High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy of the European Union/Vice-President of the European Commission, Josep Borrell, reiterated this stance to the new UNRWA Commissioner-General, Philippe Lazzarini. Both officials, the press release said, […]
Around 15 sailors who came into contact with the first presumed positive individual were also taken off the ship and quarantined around the same time, Rieger said. The other sailor who tested positive for coronavirus was out of the state and had not been on board the ship when they fell ill. That person has since recovered. Vice Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Hyten said during a […]
A woman was arrested Wednesday after she allegedly shot at three McDonald’s restaurant employees in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, after they told her the dining room was closed due to the coronavirus pandemic. Wednesday evening, the Oklahoma City Police Department (OKCPD) received a call about a shooting at the restaurant located at 9001 S. Pennsylvania Ave., the department wrote on its Facebook page. The post continued: The […]
Former FBI Director James Comey launched a cryptic tweet rallying “career people” in the government to keep fighting after criminal charges against Gen. Michael Flynn were dropped by the DOJ. The Justice Department concluded that not only Flynn’s interview with the FBI should never have taken place, but the interview itself was “conducted without any legitimate investigative basis.” Comey’s Thursday tweet lamented the DOJ had “lost […]
On Monday Secretary of Defense Mark Esper said that for the Pentagon and armed services a “new normal” should be expected for “an extended period of time”. This after the Pentagon has now for many weeks been down to what’s essentially a skeleton crew of reduced personnel working on site. “The long-term view is: What do we do over the next 6, 12, 18 months?” Esper […]
By Gordon Duff The folks in the White House mostly went to business school. They had statistics classes and they all know numbers. You can’t steal without being able to count or at least without being able to hire someone who counts, as in Trump’s case. We began with 2000 predicted deaths from COVID. Then it went to 3000 then to 30,000. All the while they […]
A 10-year-old boy and his younger sister sparked a bizarre GTA-style car chase in the Siberian city of Tomsk after the pair grabbed hold of the family vehicle and went for the ride of their lives, which police won’t soon forget. On a seemingly typical evening in Tomsk, a city of half a million people in western Siberia, the unsuspecting parents of the duo were busy […]
Palestinian Authority (PA)’s Envoy to the UN Riyad Mansour yesterday asked the UN Secretary-General António Guterres to halt Israel’s plan to annex large swathes of the occupied West Bank, Al-Sharq Al-Awsat newspaper reported. The London-based newspaper reported that the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP) slammed the Israeli annexation plan as a “flagrant violation of international law”. Mansour spoke with Guterres asking him to […]
Who is contributing ideas? They’re largely coming from our scientific and engineering workforce. For the most part, we asked for ideas in three specific areas. One around personal protective equipment, one around ventilation and one around monitoring and forecasting of Covid-19 spread and environmental and societal impacts. The nature of those topics draws from our scientific and engineering workforce. We did invite any other ideas folks […]
Former Vice President Joe Biden is promising to scrap newly proposed guidelines by Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos meant to ensure that individuals being accused of sexual misconduct on college campuses receive due process. Biden, who most notably led the Obama administration’s “It’s On Us” campaign as vice president, criticized the education secretary on Wednesday for making college campuses “less safe.” In particular, the former vice […]
In response to my piece on Masks in Sweden, I received the following fascinating note, by James Cooper, reproduced with his permission, which compares the attitude in Sweden with that in the United States. I think readers will find this very interesting. Dr. Klein, Thank you for your recent article on Sweden’s response to COVID-19. I would just like to add my thoughts to the ongoing public discussion. […]
(Natural News) The vaccine industry is busy concocting a new jab for the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19), but radio talk show host Michael Savage is having none of it. During a recent broadcast, Savage announced that he plans to refuse any Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine that ends up being foisted on the masses because it will be “ineffective and dangerous.” “I would join a militia before I […]
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Three days after May the 4th, the Trump campaign decided to embrace the dark side. “For nearly three years we have been building a juggernaut campaign (Death Star). It is firing on all cylinders. Data, Digital, TV, Political, Surrogates, Coalitions, etc,” the president’s 2020 campaign manager Brad Parscale tweeted, along with a GIF of Darth Vader’s planet-destroying weapon. “In a few days we start pressing FIRE […]
A pedestrian walks by a closed shop in Grosse Pointe, Mich., on Thursday. The Labor Department is expected to report on Friday that the U.S. lost millions of jobs last month because of the coronavirus pandemic. Paul Sancya/AP hide caption toggle caption Paul Sancya/AP A pedestrian walks by a closed shop in Grosse Pointe, Mich., on Thursday. The Labor Department is expected to report on Friday […]
Bixin, one of the earliest bitcoin miner operators and wallet startups, is dedicating 6600 bitcoin, worth $66 million, to a new fund of funds. The company announced the fund of funds with its proprietary capital on Friday and said it aims to invest in global quantitative trading funds whose strategies are based on arbitrage, bitcoin futures contracts and trend analysis. By providing additional liquidity and market […]
On Thursday–** The Justice Department announced it was dropping its case against former Trump administration National Security Advisor Mike Flynn. ** DNI Richard Grenell and Intel Chair Adam Schiff both released the 53 hidden transcripts from the Mueller hoax investigation. ** Then Ed Henry broke the news tonight that DNI Richard Grenell walked a “satchel of documents” over to the Department of Justice on Thursday. Henry […]
Sailors assigned to the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt move ready-to-eat meals for sailors who have tested negative for Covid-19. | Julio Rivera/U.S. Navy via AP Photo By LARA SELIGMAN 04/13/2020 09:25 AM EDT Updated: 04/13/2020 11:11 AM EDT A sailor assigned to the virus-stricken aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt who was admitted to the intensive care unit last week died of coronavirus-related complications today, the […]
A woman was arrested for allegedly having virtual sex with her incarcerated boyfriend while a child was in the room on March 25 in Clermont, Florida. Police said 32-year-old Noelle Rascati engaged in a 12-minute live video chat with Tathan Holt Fields who was imprisoned at a jail in Santa Rosa, California, according to the Orlando Sentinel. During the video call, the couple went from sexual […]
President Trump on Thursday slammed the Obama administration Justice Department as “treasonous” after the DoJ dropped its case against former national security adviser Gen. Michael Flynn. Taking questions in the Oval Office during a meeting with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, Trump discussed the DoJ’s dismissal of Flynn’s charges, labeling the Obama administration “human scum” and saying he hopes those responsible for Flynn’s malicious prosecution “pay a […]
Authored by John Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “Those who created this country chose freedom. With all of its dangers. And do you know the riskiest part of that choice they made? They actually believed that we could be trusted to make up our own minds in the whirl of differing ideas. That we could be trusted to remain free, even when there were very, very […]
By Henry Kamens for VT and New Eastern Outlook The world has rarely, if ever, seen anything like this Covid-19 crisis. Consequently there are few signposts for how to deal with it. But we are still human beings, and on that basis alone, there are certain things we know. Trump is dealing with it by trying to hold back money due to the WHO, which he […]
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has said that evidence will soon reveal the US leader himself was behind the failed incursion attempt, noting that Washington severed all remaining ties with Caracas thereafter. In an interview with Uruguayan reporter Jorge Gestoso on Thursday evening, Maduro said the freshly-appointed Ambassador James Story – the first formal US envoy to the country in some 10 years – and other senior […]
A government military source announced on Thursday that a Houthi movement’s Special Forces Commander was killed in battle against the Yemeni army. The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told Anadolu Agency that: “Special Forces Commander Major General Mohammed Al-Hamran was killed during clashes with the army.” Houthi activists mourned Al-Hamran, known as “Abu Youssef”, on social media platforms, without specifying where or how he was killed. […]
“The ship is following protocols and taking every precaution to ensure the health and safety of all crewmembers and patients on board,” Fage said. The San Diego Union-Tribune first reported that the number of cases had reached seven. The 1,000-bed Mercy docked in Los Angeles in late March to relieve the pressure on local hospitals by treating non-coronavirus patients. The Mercy, along with its twin the […]
On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “All In,” House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) reacted to the dropping of charges against former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn by stating the move “really puts us back in the category of almost an emerging democracy, where the rule of law is not yet firmly established, where prosecutorial decisions are made on the basis of politics.” Schiff said, “I […]
Have you ever wondered where the country’s energy comes from, and how exactly it gets used? Well now, thanks to Visual Capitalist’s Jeff Desjardins, we have the answer as The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) crunches the numbers every year, outputting an incredible flow diagram that covers the broad spectrum of U.S. energy use. The 2019 version of this comprehensive diagram gives us an in-depth picture […]
(Natural News) Iranian authorities reported an upswing in new coronavirus cases, as the country reported 1,680 new cases on Wednesday, making it the latest country to have a total caseload above 100,000. “We are witnessing a rising trend in the past three or four days, which is significant,” said Ministry of Health spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour in a televised news conference. Iran has 103,135 confirmed COVID-19 cases, including 6,486 deaths and 82,744 recoveries as of […]
India 03:21 GMT 08.05.2020(updated 03:29 GMT 08.05.2020) Get short URL https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107923/71/1079237188_0:74:1200:749_1200x675_80_0_0_73d92b25d08a4148fe93b846d97393e5.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/india/202005081079236988-at-least-17-killed-several-injured-as-train-runs-over-workers-sleeping-on-track-in-india/ New Delhi (Sputnik): Initial information suggests that the incident involving a freight train occurred due to a group of workers in the southern Indian state of Maharashtra sleeping on railroad tracks. As many as 17 people were killed and many injured after a train ran over them in the […]
With the Justice Department announcing Thursday that it would drop the case against Michael Flynn, officials close to President Donald Trump are already gaming out ways to bring the former national security adviser back onto the national political stage. Of the nine senior Trump administration officials, campaign staff, outside advisers, and longtime associates of the president reached on Thursday, all said that they wanted Flynn to […]
Carlos Escobar-Mejia, 57, had been in ICE custody since Jan. 10, when he was stopped in a car by the Border Patrol in Chula Vista, Calif. Before then, he had been living in the U.S. for 40 years. (Image credit: Elliot Spagat/AP) Source link
Paul Tudor Jones, a pioneer of the modern hedge fund industry, is ready to bet on bitcoin’s price as an inflation hedge. Jones’ Tudor BVI Global Fund, managed by Tudor Investment Corp., has been authorized to hold as much as “a low single-digit percentage exposure percentage” of its assets in bitcoin futures, according to a note sent to investors this month. The firm manages $38 billion, […]