PM Boris Johnson has faced an angry backlash for failing to shut down construction sites, following his order of a three-week nationwide lockdown as part of “social distancing” measures to combat the spread of the deadly virus. After Johnson’s address to the nation on Monday night, UK Housing Communities and Local Government Secretary Robert Jenrick tweeted that construction sites could stay open as long as social […]
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Over the past week there has been a groundswell of populist anger aimed at companies that used roughly $4 trillion in cash over the past decade to repurchase shares instead of, say, putting the money away for a rainy day fund (one which would be quite useful now that most companies are begging for a taxpayer bailout as a result of plunging liquidity). And while Senate […]
Authored by Soeren Kern via The Gatestone Institute, The German government has promoted a fake news story asserting that the United States is trying to gain exclusive access to an experimental coronavirus vaccine being developed by a German biotech firm. The story — which has sparked anti-American furor in Germany and elsewhere in Europe — has been swiftly debunked by the company, which denied that it […]
US futures traded limit up overnight, plunge back to the lows of the day, soared back above overnight highs, dumped again, ripped again, then slumped… 1000s of Dow points in the swings on the back of various political and monetary headlines of ever-increasing bailouts (and warnings)… that is malarkey! So, some (brief, perhaps) exuberance in stocks. BUT… Despite The Fed’s CPFF, banking system liquidity worsened… Source: […]
ABC political analyst and former Bush strategist Matthew Dowd encountered furious social media antibodies with a now-deleted tweet in which he wrote about attending a large gathering during the coronavirus pandemic, and advised “Let us not let fear change who we are.” On Friday night, Dowd went for some cultural uplift, writing “Went to a fundraiser tonight in wimberley for 2 friends of mine who are […]
UK lawmakers are to enjoy a salary increase next month of almost £2,500 and will see their pay packets rise above inflation to almost £82,000, prompting anger online from those insisting low-income workers are being forgotten. The automatic pay rise that was announced by The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) on Thursday, means UK MPs’ basic salary – currently £79,468 (nearly $103,000) – will increase by […]
Five days after the Trump administration promised to be “aggressively transparent” about its response to the coronavirus outbreak, the White House ignited backlash and condemnation after it banned the press from any audio or video recording of its latest briefing on the public health crisis. The controversial decision came just hours after yet another huge drop in the stock market and after a series of awkward […]
President Donald Trump’s decision to task Mike Pence with heading up the federal government’s coronavirus response triggered an immediate backlash as critics noted the vice president’s record of doubting scientific evidence and his role in exacerbating an HIV outbreak in Indiana while he was governor. Trump said Pence has “a certain talent for this” and specifically cited the “Indiana model” in the Wednesday evening press conference […]
Viral 14:12 GMT 26.02.2020Get short URL https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107840/85/1078408521_0:0:1201:675_1200x675_80_0_0_ffd7acfac0911aa2d43520a99208158f.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/viral/202002261078409148-im-ending-you-today-us-hip-hopper-talib-kweli-calls-russian-rappers-nazis-it-backfires-badly/ Veteran of the American hip-hop scene, Talib Kweli Greene, known for his collaborations with the world’s most famous rappers and his eight solo albums, has had a few rough days after trading insults with Russian musicians on Twitter. The rap star even accused them of having racist views. It all started with a […]
Backlash Forces UCLA To Abandon Plans For Facial Recognition Surveillance By Fight for the Future, Medium.com. February 23, 2020 Backlash Forces UCLA To Abandon Plans For Facial Recognition Surveillance2020-02-232020-02-23https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/02/0_ofkus4jhy09ubtsb.png200px200px Before the administration reversed its position, we tested facial recognition on UCLA sports teams and faculty. The results were disturbing. UCLA is known for its strong academics and winning sports teams. But the school almost became known […]
It looks like Beijing has finally grown tired of journalists like Epoch Times’ Jennifer Zeng circulating shocking videos depicting the true depth of the crisis on the ground in China – and the government’s almost unbelievably heavy handed response. For an example, see this video which Zeng tweeted yesterday: It’s relatively mild by outbreak standards. During #CoronavirusOutbreak, #CCP gives you very detailed instructions including whether you […]
A disgruntled Brexit voter has triggered EU Remainers on social media after complaining that he had to wait in a passports queue for nearly an hour at a Dutch airport, claiming: “This isn’t the Brexit I voted for.” Colin Browning, who describes himself as one of the 17.4 million people who voted for Brexit, expressed his fury in a tweet on Thursday, together with a picture […]
Just a day after buying the most expensive home in America, Jeff Bezos had another win today as a judge just ordered a temporary block on the JEDI cloud contract in response to a suit filed by Amazon. After losing The Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, or JEDI, cloud contract to Microsoft last October, Amazon has been protesting the move, saying that it was driven in part […]