Above Photo: Wright County District Court in Iowa, where Direct Action Everywhere investigator Matt Johnson was prosecuted (Screen shot from Google View). An Iowa judge upheld one of the state’s “ag-gag” laws in a case brought against an animal rights activist, hours before dismissing all charges. In Iowa, a person may be criminalized for “food operation trespass” if they enter or remain on the property of a factory farm “without the consent of a person who has real or apparent authority to allow the person to enter or remain on the property.” Matt Johnson, an investigator with the grassroots animal rights […]
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Extinction Rebellion Brought Love, Police Brought Rage By Petrina Harley, Green Left. December 4, 2020 Extinction Rebellion Brought Love, Police Brought Rage2020-12-042020-12-04https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/12/xraus-e1607092475184.jpg200px200px Above photo: XR grandparents mad hatter’s tea party outside Chevron’s headquarters before it was demolished by the WA Police. Petrina Harley. Western Australia – Extinction Rebellion WA (XR) hit the streets with a Festival of Love and Rage on November 28 with a message to the Western Australia Premier: act on the climate emergency like you dealt with the COVID-19 pandemic. Labor Premier Mark McGowan has ignored pressure to open WA’s borders, applying a strict quarantine policy. There have […]
A worker at Thinova Magnet Co., Ltd. puts rare earth magnets into a press at a factory in Zhejiang province. Emily Feng/NPR hide caption toggle caption Emily Feng/NPR A worker at Thinova Magnet Co., Ltd. puts rare earth magnets into a press at a factory in Zhejiang province. Emily Feng/NPR China posted 4.9% economic growth in its third quarter as compared to the same period last year, keeping it on track to be the only major global economy to record an economic expansion this year in the midst of the novel coronavirus pandemic. Economists estimate China’s yearly GDP growth could be […]
Donald Trump is a uniter—just not in the way he had hoped. His presidency has brought American Jews and Muslims together to defeat him in 2020. It has also increased each respective community’s support for fellow minority groups. Those are the findings of a new report by the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU), a nonpartisan organization created in 2002 that focuses on issues impacting the Muslim American community. As ISPU found, Jews and Muslims are the two religious groups that, by far, least approve of Trump. Only 34 percent of Jews and 30 percent of Muslims say Trump is […]
“Cocaine is a hell of a drug,” proclaimed Dave Chappelle’s Rick James, and the same is true of gambling. For proof, just ask Craig Carton, whose world collapsed in 2017 thanks to an addiction to blackjack and the ensuing fraud he perpetrated to pay off his debts. A counselor featured in Wild Card: The Downfall of a Radio Loudmouth equates playing cards for money with snorting fine china, since both produce a high that can only be replicated through endless—and increasingly reckless—repetition. There’s clear evidence that it was a quest for that rush, and a sense of control, that did in […]
The wildfires engulfing the West Coast have become so dire in Oregon that state police have established a new type of emergency response: a mobile morgue. The state-run facility in Linn County, about two hours outside of Portland, will be operated by a 75-member regional response team that is searching incinerated properties for survivors and victims. While the wildfires have hit 10 states across the country, Oregon has been among the worst affected, with more than 30 active fires, at least 900,000 acres burned, eight deaths, and at least 50 people missing. More than 10 percent of the state’s population has […]
US President Donald Trump has postured as a peacemaker and ender of “endless wars,” but one peace activist told Sputnik that Trump had greatly increased the risk of a major war around the globe by expanding US wars and undoing vital peace agreements – and his alternative on the November ballot isn’t much better. On Tuesday, Trump hosted the leaders of Israel, the United Arab Emirates, and the Kingdom of Bahrain at the White House, where the two Arab nations signed agreements recognizing Israel as a sovereign nation and extending full diplomatic relations to it, making them the third and fourth […]
Unsecured borrowing has come to decentralized finance (DeFi). Aave, a DeFi money market that allows users to earn interest on cryptocurrency and borrow against it, introduced credit delegation in early July. This service allows someone with a lot of collateral deposited on Aave and no desire to borrow against it to delegate their credit line to a third party they trust. In return for essentially co-signing a loan to the trusted third party, the delegator gets a cut of the interest, juicing the return on their deposit. The development represents a significant shift for DeFi lending, which until now has been […]
A woman who says she was Jeffrey Epstein’s first known victim claims in a new lawsuit that the multimillionaire sex offender introduced her to Donald Trump when she was 14, saying “This is a good one, right?” Trump gave no testimony, no deposition and provided no evidence to the police. He may have called to police to say “this guys a pedo” but the investigation was launched when a 14 year old told her parents that Epstein paid her $300 for a massage. — Brian Sager (@uh_stories) July 15, 2020 Trump and Epstein “both chuckled and Doe felt uncomfortable, but, at […]
Senator Lindsey Graham shared last night on Hannity that he is forwarding information to the Durham team on former FBI official Bill Bill Priestap. Last night Senator Lindsey Graham was on the Hannity show with former Representative Trey Gowdy. In their discussion, Graham targeted former FBI official Bill Priestap. Graham shared: This is a big day for transparency and the rule of law. So Mr. [DOJ IG Michael] Horowitz — it’s not in his report, Trey, but he found a briefing document dated sometime in February 2018 that was prepared by the FBI because the Senate Intel Committee, you used to […]
The lawsuit comes after the plaintiff was previously accused by Tesla of “trespassing, stalking, harassing and endangering” the company’s employees. SpaceX founder and tech entrepreneur Elon Musk has now found himself the target of a defamation lawsuit launched by a certain critic of his, Courthouse News Service reports. The plaintiff, a doctoral student at the University of Michigan named Randeep Hothi, sued Musk in the Alameda County Superior Court on Tuesday, 4 August, though the complaint was apparently not made public until Friday, 7 August. According to the media outlet, Hothi is the creator of a Twitter account where he “fact-checked […]
Oregon’s governor claims she reached a deal with the Trump administration that will see a withdrawal of federal agents that were sent to Portland after a courthouse was attacked, but DHS says they are staying until violence stops. “After discussions with the vice president and administration officials this week, the federal government has agreed to my demand and will withdraw these officers from Portland,” Oregon’s Governor Kate Brown said. Part of the agreement will involve state troopers providing protection for federal buildings like the Mark O. Hatfield US Courthouse, which is where federal agents had been deployed after protesters attempted to […]
(Official White House Photo by Tia Dufour) Note: Sometimes when I write things, I cringe. I was talking with Russian author Andre Vltchek today about this. I have the benefit of an editorial position at VT and as a founding author at NEO. Still, everything typically written makes allowances for where it is published and this is no exception. Now when I reread it, something i don’t always enjoy, I can actually say it is correct, more than anything else written on this subject, and important, not so much for working Americans maybe but for those who work in military and […]
VT’s overall poor relationship with the Trump presidency has moved up a notch. The report Trump is referencing went, not unnoticed, but rather totally censored in the Western press, as has so much else until VT sought out the facts and published them. Now, for the second time, Trump has made sad and silly denials, this one filled with hyperbole and grandiose behavior, typical of a spectrum sociopath. March 12, 2020: In October 2019, the US brought 172 (really 369) military athletes to Wuhan for the World Military Games. Despite having the largest military in the world, tenfold, the US came […]
An officer tries to put out a fire at a police kiosk at The Grove shopping center in Los Angeles during a protest last month over the death of George Floyd. Mark J. Terrill/AP hide caption toggle caption Mark J. Terrill/AP An officer tries to put out a fire at a police kiosk at The Grove shopping center in Los Angeles during a protest last month over the death of George Floyd. Mark J. Terrill/AP U.S. Attorney General William Barr has repeatedly blamed anti-fascist activists for the violence that has erupted during demonstrations over George Floyd’s death, but federal court records […]
Some Countries Have Brought New Cases Down To Nearly Zero June 1, 2020 Some Countries Have Brought New Cases Down To Nearly Zero2020-06-012020-06-01https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/04/covid-19-will-change-the-world.-from-news-karnataka.png200px200px Above photo: COVID-19 will change the world. From News Karnataka. Over the past month, Hong Kong has averaged one new confirmed coronavirus case a day. Taiwan has reported only one case in the past three weeks. The situation is similar in Vietnam. Although the number of coronavirus cases continues to grow globally, there are places that have managed to successfully control COVID-19. New Zealand’s triumph Perhaps the greatest success story is New Zealand, which has stopped local transmission and has a […]
When Russian quad-jumping prodigy Alexandra Trusova parted ways with her famed coach, Eteri Tutberidze, she was quickly denounced as a traitor by some of her former colleagues. But how did a tiny 15-year-old girl with astonishing technical potential become an issue of such dispute that she would go on to expose the unsavory side of the national figure skating team? READ MORE: Following in Medvedeva’s footsteps? Russian quad-jumping trailblazer Alexandra Trusova sensationally QUITS Tutberidze camp There was nothing new in Alexandra Trusova’s decision to switch coaches after she failed to win her first major titles at senior level. Many of her predecessors […]