According to the GAO, the number of F-35 parts delivered late skyrocketed from less than 2,000 in August 2017 to upwards of 10,000 in July 2019. Source link
A woman’s genetic make-up may cause her to gain weight when using a popular form of birth control, according to a study from researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. “For years, women have said that birth control causes them to gain weight but many doctors failed to take them seriously,” said the study’s lead author Aaron Lazorwitz, MD, assistant professor of Obstetrics/Gynecology and […]
Authored by Jonathan Turley, We have been discussing litigation of strip clubs denied pandemic relief, including a recent ruling in favor of such clubs in Nevada. I have been highly critical of such denials. Now, another judge, has ruled correctly in favor of these businesses. District Judge Matthew Leitman in Flint, Michigan, issued a preliminary injunction barring the Small Business Administration from excluding businesses that present live […]
France urging EU partners to consider firm response to Israel’s West Bank annexation …by PressTV, Tehran [ Editor’s Note: France taking the lead here is nice to see, but it looks like Israel has planned ahead to cut the EU off at the pass by having a fix in with a couple of its members to block any serious consequences from Bibi doing anything he wants […]
Herd immunity may be an unrealistic tactic for dealing with Covid-19, new research has warned, calling into question the strategy of several countries – such as Sweden – who shied away from quarantine measures in its favor. Europe is a long way from reaching the levels of exposure required for herd immunity, according to a new study published by the Italian Institute for International Political Studies […]
Honduras During The COVID19 Pandemic By Karen Spring, Task Force on the Americas. May 12, 2020 Honduras During The COVID19 Pandemic2020-05-122020-05-12https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/honduras-e1589310702293.jpg200px200px Why We Shouldn’t Go Back to “Normal.” On May 5, a group of Afro-indigenous Garifuna men stood guard at the entrance of La Travesía community in the department of Cortes in northern Honduras. The men were fumigating vehicles, documenting the traffic transiting through their community, […]
The total number of recoveries from coronavirus in Turkey is now nearly 99,000, or 70% of total confirmed cases in the country, the health minister said on Tuesday. “The increase in the number of new cases is within predictable limits, 70% of total cases recovered,” Fahrettin Koca said on Twitter. A total of 3,109 coronavirus patients have recovered over the last 24 hours, bringing the total number […]
“Now I’ve heard Joe Biden’s explanation. I think it’s sufficient,” Schumer continued. “I think he will be a great candidate. I think he will be a great president. And I think he will help us take back the Senate.” Democrats up and down the ballot have argued that Biden has appropriately responded to the allegations, even as they say Reade has the right to be heard […]
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany will hold a press briefing on Tuesday as President Donald Trump’s administration continues to answer questions about fighting the coronavirus in the United States. The press briefing is scheduled for 2:00 p.m. EST. Source link
So the overwhelming message from Fauci today was “we’re all going to die” if you even dare to re-open the economy and judging by the budget deficit charts (and coming a day after Bitcoin’s big event), it would appear that any second wave-driven lockdown will be “The Fuckening” for America… (either Dems block any Republican stimulus; or Republicans have to agree to a 100 trillion bailout […]
(Natural News) Just as planned, shortages of meat in some areas of the country are driving some desperate consumers to purchase meat alternatives such as “Beyond Meat” instead, even though such products are filled with chemicals, genetically modified organisms (GMOs), and other poisons. Reports indicate that sales of Beyond Meat products have soared in recent days as customers in certain areas are unable to buy their […]
The wreck of the World War II battleship USS Nevada has been discovered off the coast of Hawaii more than 15,000 feet down in the Pacific Ocean by underwater archaeological specialist company SEARCH Inc. and marine robotics firm Ocean Infinity. In a statement Monday, the two private firms said they discovered the battleship wreck about 65 nautical miles southwest of Pearl Harbor. Photos of the wreck […]
A masked pedestrian passes a sign honoring healthcare workers in the window of The Massachusetts General Hospital’s North End Waterfront Health center in Boston amid the coronavirus pandemic. House Democrats are proposing hazard pay for frontline workers in a new relief bill. Steven Senne/AP hide caption toggle caption Steven Senne/AP A masked pedestrian passes a sign honoring healthcare workers in the window of The Massachusetts General […]
The value of assets for all stablecoins surpassed $10 billion Tuesday, having surged by over 70% in just two months, according to Coin Metrics. Stablecoin supply growth comes as more cryptocurrency traders choose to trade alternative cryptocurrencies (or altcoins) using dollar-backed digital tokens instead of bitcoin. Most of the stablecoin growth comes from tether, which represents almost 90% of the total stablecoin supply. The largest tether […]
A restaurant owner in Colorado has had enough. Despite an order to close and threats to burn the place down, Jesse Arellano decided to keep his restaurant, C&C Breakfast and Korean Kitchen in Castle Rock, open on Monday. “I had one person call me a Nazi and a white supremacist, and I said well I’m not even white so… I’m Spanish and Korean. We’ve had people […]
The world’s tallest building, Dubai’s 828-metre Burj Khalifa, has become a glowing charity donation box, raising money for food for United Arab Emirates residents suffering the economic impact of the new coronavirus pandemic. Each of the tower’s 1.2 million external lights was ‘sold’ for 10 dirhams ($2.70), enough to buy one meal. As donations came in, the tower ‘filled up’, and people could also bid to […]
The $2 trillion aid package Congress passed in March requires the new inspector general to notify lawmakers if he is impeded in his investigative work, but Trump said during the bill’s signing that any new watchdog would not be permitted to report to Congress without “presidential supervision.” Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) grilled Miller on whether he would comply with the president’s wishes during a two-hour […]
Dr. Anthony Fauci on Tuesday warned during a Senate hearing that the coronavirus was not under control in the United States. Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Tuesday asked Dr. Fauci during a Senate health committee hearing about whether he believed the virus was contained. “Right now it depends on what you mean by containment,” Fauci replied. “If you think that we have it completely under control, we […]
Anticipated increases in the frequency of space launches will soon require careful consideration for use of crowded airspace. Source link
Customers taped donations to the window of a coffee shop in Colorado which was ordered closed Tuesday after they defied the governor’s lockdown order and opened over the weekend. A photo circulating on social media shows the front window of the C&C Breakfast and Korean Kitchen in Castle Rock plastered with donations. Support for C&C Coffee & Kitchen in Castle Rock displayed in CASH taped to […]
Now that event quant signals suggest that the current 30% bounce from the March 23 low is nothing more than a bear market rally (as discussed earlier) the debate is whether policy and positioning can trump fundamentals, which according to Bank of America, “are already stretched to near historical extremes (despite near record earnings uncertainty).” Furthermore, as we discussed over the weekend, many positioning measures suggest […]
COVID Survivors’ Blood Plasma Is A Sought-After New Commodity by JoNel Allecia/Kaiser Health News Diana Berrent learned she had tested positive for COVID-19 on a Wednesday in mid-March. Within a day, she had received 30 emails from people urging her to donate blood. Friends and acquaintances, aware of her diagnosis, passed along a pressing request from New York’s Mount Sinai Health System, one of the first […]
Some 24,000 Android applications have been leaking sensitive data – including mobile phone numbers and passwords – through improperly configured storage on Google’s Firebase development platform, a new study has found. The critical lack of security was uncovered by a research team at Comparitech.com, an expert group focusing on information security and privacy. The Firebase platform is the most popular storage solution for Android apps, used […]
Botched Infiltration Of Venezuela Leaves Guaidó Tainted Beyond Repair By Leonardo Flores, Popular Resistance. May 12, 2020 Botched Infiltration Of Venezuela Leaves Guaidó Tainted Beyond Repair2020-05-122020-05-12https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/chuao-bolivar-e1589311237244.jpg200px200px Above photo: The townspeople of Chuao, Venezuela, being honored for their role in the capture of eight mercenaries. The latest chapter in the ongoing effort to overthrow the Venezuelan government reads like a bad spy thriller: a group of mercenaries piloted […]
Algeria will extend measures aimed at restricting movement by 15 days until May 29 to cope with rising cases of infections with the novel coronavirus, Prime Minister Abdelaziz Djerrad said on Tuesday. The government last month decided to extend until May 14 restrictions on movement including a nationwide night curfew and closures of universities, schools, and mosques. Public transport and air travel are still suspended. READ: […]
Visitors will probably have to wear masks once Disney reopens its U.S. theme parks, CEO Bob Chapek said Monday. Although it remained unclear how long the Florida and California parks would remain shuttered due to the coronavirus pandemic, Chapek told CNBC that when they do reopen, guests should expect some changes. He stated: Along with social distancing, one of the things that we’re likely going to require […]
Talks between the 27 EU member countries over their next long-term budget have been blocked for more than a year, well before the coronavirus hit Europe. Source link
Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, “The stock market is not the economy.” Such is the latest rationalization to support the “bull market” narrative. The question, however, is the validity of the statement. As I noted in this past weekend’s newsletter: “There is currently a ‘Great Divide’ happening between the near ‘depressionary’ economy versus a surging bull market in equities. Given the relationship between the two, they both can’t be right.” There […]
US 19:00 GMT 12.05.2020Get short URL The first three months of the year have seen record numbers of US citizenship renunciations. One expert argues that the current surge in Americans abandoning their US citizenships can be explained by two factors: tax returns and the COVID-19 novel coronavirus pandemic. A total of 2,909 Americans renounced their US citizenships within the first three months of 2020, according to […]
(Natural News) President Trump and top Trump administration officials are setting the stage for wartime retaliation against communist China for China’s launching of biological warfare against the United States. The goal of this effort is to cause the collapse of the communist regime, which is widely known as the most evil, dishonest and malicious government on the planet. Consider what we know so far: The Wuhan […]
You might think of Tim Kaine as a fairly vanilla figure in national politics. He has bushy eyebrows, an “aw shucks” grin, and plenty of red and blue ties. He is non-threatening and mild-mannered with hobbies like “reading or jamming on the harmonica.” He was dubbed “America’s stepdad” during the 2016 election. You might imagine Tom Hanks playing him in an inevitable Hillary Clinton biopic. But […]
Many counties in Georgia may not have enough hospital beds to treat a new wave of COVID-19 patients. Photo from a barbershop in Atlanta, Georgia, Monday, April 27, 2020. Dustin Chambers/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Dustin Chambers/Bloomberg via Getty Images Many counties in Georgia may not have enough hospital beds to treat a new wave of COVID-19 patients. Photo from a barbershop in […]
R3, the company behind distributed ledger technology (DLT) platform Corda, is edging ever closer to Ethereum, with news of a partnership with blockchain-in-the-cloud startup Kaleido. The announcement comes following Kaleido’s emergence as a standalone company last month. The startup revealed Tuesday it was spun out of ConsenSys, the Ethereum-based venture studio founded by Joe Lubin. “We spun out April 1. It’s been exciting for us to […]