GM Defense, a General Motors division launched in 2017, announced that it has started renovations of an existing GM building to support the production of the Infantry Squad Vehicle (ISV), a light and agile all-terrain troop carrier intended to transport a nine-Soldier infantry squad. According to the company, the facility, located in Concord, North Carolina, will produce ISVs for the U.S. Army as part of a […]
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Blockchains: Building Blocks Of A Post-Capitalist Future? By Hannes Gerhardt, ROAR Magazine. November 9, 2020 Blockchains: Building Blocks Of A Post-Capitalist Future?2020-11-092020-11-09https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/overcoming-market-e1604941815736.jpg200px200px Above photo: Zoran Svilar. Finding the political power to pursue a more just and sustainable economy is the hard part, but the tools to effectively execute such an economy are developing quickly. On a small boat off the coast of Thailand fishermen take stock […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202010171080801130-supporters-of-iraqs-pmf-attack-kurdistan-democratic-party-building-in-baghdad—photos-videos/ CAIRO (Sputnik) – Supporters of the Iraqi Popular Mobilisation Front (PMF), an Iran-backed conglomeration of Shia militias, attacked and set fire to the headquarters of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in Baghdad over comments made by a Kurdish leader, media reported. Images shared by national broadcaster al-Sumaria TV showed supporters of PMF gathering outside the building as smoke billowed. They […]
BERLIN (Sputnik) – Germany, France, Italy, the United Kingdom and Spain have expressed concern about Israel’s plans to built nearly 5,000 housing units in the occupied West Bank and called on Tel Aviv to stop all settlement-related activities in the region, according to the joint communique by the foreign ministries of these states. “We are deeply concerned by the decision taken by the Israeli authorities to […]
People protest beside the parliament building in Bishkek, which also houses the offices of Kyrgyzstan’s president, during protests on Monday. Vyacheslav Oseledko/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Vyacheslav Oseledko/AFP via Getty Images People protest beside the parliament building in Bishkek, which also houses the offices of Kyrgyzstan’s president, during protests on Monday. Vyacheslav Oseledko/AFP via Getty Images Protesters in Kyrgyzstan, angered by weekend elections […]
Restaurant Workers Are Building Solidarity Amid The Pandemic By Alice Herman, In These Times. October 2, 2020 Restaurant Workers Are Building Solidarity Amid The Pandemic2020-10-022020-10-02https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/rest-e1601665058621.jpg200px200px Above photo: Augie’s Coffee, a coffee chain in the Inland Empire of California, laid off 54 employees during the pandemic only a week after workers announced they would unionize, leading employees to stage a strike in July. Members of the Augie’s Union […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/world/202009251080567492-munich-security-conference-head-building-new-wall-between-russia-west-over-navalny-not-productive/ Building a new “wall” between Russia and the West over the Navalny scandal will not be productive, Wolfgang Ischinger, head of the Munich security conference, said on Friday. However, the official added that it would be “unacceptable” for Germany’s European partners to exclude Nord Stream 2 from discussions related to the blogger’s alleged poisoning. DETAILS TO FOLLOW Source link
As decentralized finance (DeFi) balloons to a roughly $10 billion market, infrastructure builders are coming up with ways to reduce the associated risks. Announced Wednesday, wallet and custodial technology provider Trustology has added a “DeFi Firewall” to its suite of institutional-investment tools. The “Firewall” is basically a set of rules or filters selected by a fund, specifying which DeFi protocols or decentralized exchanges they consider kosher. […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/16/1080532427_0:6:3072:1734_1200x675_80_0_0_ac17cdaa93ee23c18b3501c8061f1e01.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Radhika Parashar. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/india/202009221080532199-death-toll-from-building-collapse-in-india-swells-to-20-as-rescue-efforts-continue-for-over-24/ In the early hours of Monday, a three-storey residential building in Bhiwandi, a city near Mumbai in India’s Maharashtra state collapsed, leaving many people under the rubble. In the day since a building crumbled in the Indian state of Maharashtra near Mumbai, the death toll in the incident has risen to 20. The deceased include eight children […]
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The United States is building a coalition against the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in an interview. “We hope that the Nord Stream 2 pipeline won’t be completed. We’re working to make sure we build out a coalition that prevents that from happening,” Pompeo told Bild on Monday. The United States has opposed the natural […]
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The US-Cyprus agreement to construct a new regional border security training center on the island will not contribute to peace and stability in the Eastern Mediterranean, Spokesperson of the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs Hami Aksoy said. “The steps taken by the US, such as lifting the arms embargo on the Greek Cypriot Administration and including the Greek side in the military training […]
On Friday night, Bill Maher returned to his Real Time studio for the first time since the lockdowns started. He performed in front of a tested, masked, scaled-down, and socially-distanced crowd—in lieu of his giant L.A. backyard. “Boy, I picked a good week to get back to the studio with people because the forecast on my phone today said: smoke. Tomorrow’s forecast? Blade Runner,” Maher said […]
Staff Refuse To Enter Unsafe School Building By District 75 P352X Special Education Staff, Popular Resistance. September 10, 2020 Staff Refuse To Enter Unsafe School Building2020-09-102020-09-10https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/schools-e1599739012880.jpg200px200px Above photo: Twitter. NOTE: CBS News reports: Yellow water. Dead roaches. Dusty desks. That’s how teachers at a Crown Heights school for children with special needs were welcomed back Tuesday. “It just looked dirty, like we left it in March,” special […]
Actress Jane Lynch, a vocal Democrat supporter, invoked ire on Twitter after she suggested a US Senate building should be named after the late Senator John McCain – a Republican anti-Trump icon. The ‘Party Down’ star tweeted late on Monday that “as soon as the nightmare” of the Donald Trump presidency is over, “the Senate building” should be renamed after the politician who died in 2018 […]
A movement calling to “defund the police” seeks to reduce the amount of financing for law enforcement and for the dismantling of police departments amid nationwide protests against racism and police brutality, sparked by the death of George Floyd in the United States. The Michigan Republican Party said its headquarters in the city of Lansing was vandalised with “radical anti-police statements”, posting photos of graffiti on the […]
Chadwick Boseman’s hometown is already working on a statue dedicated to the late actor—but it will not replace the Confederate monument that still stands in the town square. After the actor’s tragic death from colon cancer, fans began signing a petition calling for Anderson, South Carolina, where Boseman was born and raised, to replace the Confederate statue that claims the soldiers who fought for the South […]
The city of Portland has witnessed nightly protests for the last three months, with violent attacks on police, court buildings, and federal government facilities, beginning after the death of Black man George Floyd while in police custody on 25 May. Demonstrators in Portland, Oregon have broken into the lobby of Mayor Ted Wheeler’s apartment building and staged a sit-in protest, according to photos and videos posted on […]
Historic fee pressure plaguing the Ethereum blockchain is forcing one of decentralized finance’s (DeFi) hottest projects to consider swapping tires while driving. Digital asset trust company BitGo is in the process of “reaching out” to community partners to build an Ethereum sidechain due to heightened fees, according to CTO Ben Chan in an email exchange. BitGo’s premiere product wrapped bitcoin (WBTC) is an ERC-20 token with […]
People on the scene in Kenosha, Wisconsin, are reporting that families are currently trapped inside an apartment building that was set on fire by the violent rioters. Kenosha has been under siege by leftist rioters for two days in response to an officer involved shooting of a man with a history that includes previous violence against an officer during an arrest, a sex crime, domestic abuse, […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202008211080239796-iraqi-demonstrators-set-parliament-building-afire-in-city-of-basra-reports-say/ On Friday, the country’s security forces resorted to firing live rounds in the air to disperse protesters who were demanding that a local governor be sacked following a string of killings in the region over the past week. Reuters reported on Friday, citing witnesses, that Iraqi protesters have set fire to a parliament building in the southern city of […]
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By recycling used or old rocket engines, the US Army has found a way to save up to half the money it would have spent on test rockets. After US Army rockets finish their useful lives, an increasing number of them are being given a second life – but it is an unnatural life, one in which their sole purpose is to be killed for practice. […]
Antifa-BLM militants roved into residential neighborhoods in Portland Saturday night and threatened to kill people in an apartment building. “Black Lives Matter!” the rioters chanted in the middle of the night causing residents to awaken. “We’re gonna burn your building down!” a terrorist screamed at a person who looked out their window. “We know where you live!! TRENDING: RUMORS SWIRLING: President Trump’s Recent Actions Indicate Something […]
Matic wants its incubator fund to incentivize promising DeFi projects to build on its scalable sidechain, rather than directly onto Ethereum itself. Source link
A reading of Meltem Demirors new essay “Unintended Architecture” asks some key questions about intention setting for the future of Bitcoin. Bitcoin started as a rebellious, anti-establishment technology. In many parts of the world, and for many people, it remains exactly that. At the same time, however, there is a wave of traditionalists and institutional players moving into the space. Are they buying into the revolution, or […]
In the parking lot of Regional Medical Center in Orangeburg, South Carolina, construction workers have been working around the clock to erect a series of inflatable white and blue medical tents as doctors inside scramble to contain the wave of coronavirus patients. The rural hospital, which serves a population twice the size of Rhode Island, is nearly full, forcing officials to ask the National Guard to […]
This is just stunning.Mayor Ted Wheeler and Portland, Oregon officials have made it clear whose side their on and it’s not the side of law and order. For over 50 straight nights antifa-BLM rioters have ransacked the downtown and destroyed public property. Advertisement – story continues below Portland pic.twitter.com/NlM4J3Jc0P — maria viti (@selfdeclaredref) July 25, 2020 TRENDING: Car Drives Through Mob of Protesters on Colorado Highway, […]
The Antifa-BLM mob brought a power saw with them last night to cut down the metal fence outside the Federal Courts Building in Portland, Oregon. Democrat Mayor Ted Wheeler has turned his city over to the Marxist mob. Advertisement – story continues below And the mainstream liberal media will no doubt call this another night of “mostly peaceful protesting.” Is there ANY DOUBT that these gatherings […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107641/73/1076417326_0:0:1200:675_1200x675_80_0_0_35fbd2bbd6ab858bc4c2174c31887c2d.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/viral/202007241079976898-private-pilots-photos-of-area-51-show-a-building-going-missing-media-suggests/ Earlier this year, the pilot revealed that he wasn’t “really seeing any activity” as he was flying near the famous installation. A private pilot named Gabe Zeifman, who managed to fly along the border of the legendary US military installation known as Area 51 after obtaining permission to pass through the airspace surrounding it, has spotted a peculiar development […]
Newly surfaced cellphone footage has placed the spotlight on a California resident who recently went out of her way to block a Postmates deliveryman from entering an apartment complex and bringing an order to a customer. Footage of the bizarre confrontation was recorded and shared on social media Wednesday by part-time Postmates contractor Jordan Gipson. At the time of recording, Gipson was completing a delivery for […]
Building On Victories For A Stronger Climate Justice Movement By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance. July 19, 2020 Building On Victories For A Stronger Climate Justice Movement2020-07-192020-07-19https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/frontline.jpeg200px200px While the climate justice movement has been winning important victories, stopping and slowing pipelines and other fossil fuel infrastructure, and putting the future of fossil fuels in doubt, the political system, long connected to the fossil fuel […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/07/13/1079927532_0:0:3073:1728_1200x675_80_0_0_966e2eea30becd3fe8843ed45fc13dcd.jpg.webp Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202007191079927652-portland-protesters-break-into-police-association-hq-building-setting-it-on-fire-video/ Portland, a stronghold for anarchist groups and left-wing activists has been subject to protests and riots since the 25 May death of African American man George Floyd while in police custody, with businesses suffering millions of dollars in losses from destroyed property and shoppers who stayed away, according to media reports. Portland protesters broke into the building of the […]
Portland Antifa and Black Lives Matter launched explosives at the Federal Courthouse and Justice Center while attempting to barricade agents inside on the 50th night of riots in the ultra liberal city. There was also severe violence against random citizens that they disagree with politically during Friday night’s chaos. Portland pic.twitter.com/V1CDjPLYDg — maria viti (@selfdeclaredref) July 18, 2020 TRENDING: Noose Hoaxer Bubba Wallace Booed at NASCAR […]