A new report by Reuters alleges a major attempted hack of the World Health Organization (WHO) during the worldwide coronavirus pandemic linked to Iranian state entities. WHO officials described “a sustained digital bombardment” by hackers described as seeking internal information on the deadly coronavirus, further said to be “more than doubled” compared to prior hacking attempts of the United Nations health agency. Iran has vehemently denied that […]
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President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign is threatening to file lawsuits against local news outlets in several battleground states if they continue to air a political ad full of his attempts to downplay the coronavirus. Priorities USA, a liberal super PAC, crafted the ad entitled “Exponential Threat,” and it splices audio of Trump from recent weeks as he made dismissive comments about COVID-19’s severity. At the same […]
Not too long ago, Tom Steyer, the billionaire Democrat who flooded the airwaves with an incessant push to impeach President Trump, was virtually everywhere. Now, he’s hardly visible. As the coronavirus pandemic continues to spread rapidly, some of the nation’s wealthiest individuals are evaluating ways to help those most in need. Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who spent nearly $1 billion to self-fund his […]
The worsening tit-for-tat exchange of blame for the spread of coronavirus between Washington and Beijing continues, as on Wednesday Secretary of State Mike Pompeo slammed China’s “intentional disinformation campaign” behind the “Wuhan virus” — something Pompeo says was discussed among the Group of Seven (G7) big economies in a virtual meeting. Pompeo not only emphasized China’s ‘propaganda’ but that it fueled the pandemic by intentionally and recklessly delaying crucial information […]
'Qatar created coronavirus' says online disinformation campaign Coronavirus: Iraq pilgrims ignore official warnings and flock to shrine Source
With the deluge of headlines blaring the latest crisis sparked by the spread of the coronavirus, Mediaite has decided to dedicate at least one story per day to good news coming in from around the world. Social media campaign “The Great American Takeout,” which encourages people to support their local restaurants amid the coronavirus outbreak, successfully went viral on Tuesday. The food industry has been devastated […]
A group of business leaders, tech giants, and celebrities, including Arnold Schwarzenegger, have teamed up to launch a GoFundMe campaign to help combat the medical supply shortage amid the coronavirus pandemic. The Frontline Responders Fund—organized by Schwarzenegger, filmmaker Edward Norton, philanthropist Ron Conway, and Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen—launched on Tuesday and is seeking $5 million in donations in order to deliver personal protective equipment (PPE) to […]
Authored by Soeren Kern via The Gatestone Institute, The Chinese government has been fast-tracking shipments of medical aid to Europe, which has become the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic that first emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan. The largesse appears to be part of a public relations effort by Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Communist Party to deflect criticism over their responsibility for the […]
Associated Press White House reporter Jonathan Lemire stated on MSNBC’s Deadline: White House Monday afternoon that his reporting shows President Donald Trump is becoming increasingly irritated over not being on the campaign trail. The AP correspondent added that Trump is ignoring advisors and is searching for an economic forecast which he likes to advance him politically come 2020. “And lastly, the president himself is deeply frustrated,” […]
A former organizer for Mike Bloomberg filed a class-action suit against the former New York Mayor’s 2020 presidential campaign Monday morning. The complaint argues that campaign workers, like Donna Wood who filed the complaint, were laid off eight months earlier than expected. “People are going from a pretty generous health care benefit to projected 20 to 30 percent unemployment,” Wood’s lawyer Sally Abrahamson told the New […]
In a little over a month, the three pillars underpinning President Trump’s argument for reelection have crashed: “the greatest economy ever;” running against Bernie Sanders and demonizing socialism; and “draining the swamp” of big government as the administration combats the virus with big government and attempts to revive the economy through corporate bailouts, said CNBC’s Christina Wilkie. President Trump’s entire reelection campaign was built on the “greatest […]
Photo credit: Brett Carlsen, Getty Images Former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg announced Friday morning that his 2020 campaign would not create an independent political organization to aid Democrats to beat President Donald Trump . Instead, the billionaire is set to lay off campaign staffers. Bloomberg has announced he will toss the Democratic National Committee (DNC) $18 million as a contribution on Friday. “While we considered creating […]
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, the sole woman remaining in the Democratic Primary race, has suspended her campaign and endorsed Joe Biden. The endorsement is a coup for Biden, since Gabbard’s decision to endorse Sanders during the 2016 primary helped boost her national profile and set her on the path to her own run. Gabbard published the announcement on Twitter, where she released a video explaining her decision […]
19 Mar, 2020 15:02 Hawaii congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard has suspended her presidential campaign and endorsed Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden, citing the establishment favorite’s primary victories and the coronavirus as her reasons. Source
Renowned British filmmaker and anti-racism campaigner, Ken Loach, has been forced to withdraw from the panel of judges in a children’s art competition, as a result of “aggressive and abusive campaign” by some of Israel’s leading advocates in the UK. Loach was expected to co-judge the 2020 Show Racism the Red Card’s (SRtRC) anti-racist school competition with a former children’s laureate Michael Rosen, despite pressure on […]
Spokespeople for Bernie Sanders’ 2020 campaign are pushing back on chatter that the Vermont senator is about to end his pursuit of the Democratic presidential nomination. Ever since former Vice President Joe Biden bolstered his lead on Sanders by winning the Tuesday night primaries in Florida, Illinois and Arizona, there has been an uptick in conversation about how much longer Sanders will stay in the 2020 […]
Bernie Sanders will be “having conversations” with his supporters to “assess” the viability of his campaign after Joe Biden racked up three more big primary wins in Arizona, Illinois and Florida. Biden swept the board in Tuesday’s primaries, significantly expanding his delegate lead over Sanders and appearing to effectively wipe out the Vermont senator’s chances of a comeback. The former VP crushed Sanders in Florida, leading […]
Sen. Bernie Sanders is going to “assess” his campaign with supporters following three more crushing primary defeats, according to Sanders’ campaign. On Wednesday morning campaign manager Faiz Shakir released a statement saying Sanders will “assess” his campaign between now and the next scheduled primaries. “The next primary contest is at least three weeks away. Sen. Sanders is going to be having conversations with supporters to assess his […]
A campaign aiming to collect the signatures of as many Palestinian refugees as possible from all over the world has been launched by the London-based Palestinian Return Centre in cooperation with national and international Palestinian partners. The initiative “Return is my right and my decision” began last month in Beirut, Lebanon, and seeks to collect the largest number of signatures through a platform on its website […]
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) has come under renewed fire after marrying Tim Mynett – head of political consulting firm E Street Group, which made approximately $586,000 for a “range of services that included digital advertising, fundraising consulting, digital communications and design,” as well as banging their clients behind their wives’ backs, apparently. Mynett was personally paid $7,000 directly for fundraising before his firm was hired. Payments […]
Currently, Sanders is lagging just behind his main rival, Joe Biden, by a mere 154 delegates. The Vermont firebrand’s next chance to narrow the gap will take place on 17 March, as four states vote for the 2020 US Dem presidential candidate. Democratic Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders shared that his campaign has had to adapt to the new reality of the ongoing coronavirus outbreak in the […]
Chinese state media conspiracy theories and allegations which have suggested it was actually the United States that first infected Wuhan province with deadly coronavirus via a US Army covert operation were “made official” this week by words of Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Lijian Zhao. Lijian Zhao claimed in a tweet that “It might be US army who brought the epidemic to Wuhan,” citing prior televised testimony by […]
Chinese ambassador to Washington US Cui Tiankai was summoned to the State Department after a spokesman for the foreign ministry in Beijing tweeted that the deadly coronavirus could have been seeded in Wuhan by the US military. Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs David Stilwell summoned Cui on Friday over what he called a “blatant, global” disinformation campaign about the Covid-19 coronavirus. The ambassador […]
Nicholas Kamm /AFP The Trump campaign promoted and quoted a Washington Times column on Twitter, agreeing that Democratic candidate Joe Biden a “rotting corpse” and a “dead guy.” Joe Biden is the same rotting corpse of a candidate he was three weeks ago. It’s just that Democrats have decided that they would be better off with the dead guy than with Crazy Bernie.https://t.co/YZ6gQGJrP4 — Team Trump (Text […]