Brace for chaos: in a few weeks, the next person to sneeze may be arrested quietly pulled aside by the authorities and tested for coronavirus. People in the US experiencing flu-like symptoms will be screened for the latest coronavirus that originated from China, officials with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced during a briefing on Friday, adding that it will roll out 5 labs, [...]
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Expiration Of New START Means Nuclear Chaos By Global Zero, Transcend.org. February 12, 2020 Expiration Of New START Means Nuclear Chaos2020-02-122020-02-12https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/02/north-korea-launched-four-ballistic-missiles-e1581562555682.jpg200px200px Above photo: From Rawstory.com. On February 5, 2021, just one year from today, the last remaining nuclear pact between the United States and Russia will expire – ending more than a half century of arms control between the two most nuclear-armed nations on the planet. [...]
While UN initiatives are underway to gather a 5+5 military commission in Geneva for a permanent truce in Libya, eastern-based warlord Khalifa Haftar is speeding up military deployments with the support of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Egypt under the shadow of a fragile cease-fire. Concentrating his forces around the capital Tripoli and northwestern city of Misrata, Haftar since 2014 has seen the negotiating table [...]
Authored by Max Blumenthal via TheGrayZone.com, Silicon Valley billionaire Reid Hoffman funded the creation of ACRONYM, the group that sabotaged the Iowa caucus results, after bankrolling voter manipulation campaigns including the notorious online “false flag operation” in Alabama’s 2017 senate race. At the time of publication, February 6, the winner of the Iowa’s Democratic Party caucus is still unknown. Senator Bernie Sanders, the clear winner in [...]
WASHINGTON – As the country makes little progress on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, new research calls into question the supposed climate benefits of the switch from coal to fracked gas-fired power generation. That finding comes in Fracking’s Bridge to Climate Chaos: Exposing the Fossil Fuel Industry’s Deadly Spin, a new report from the national advocacy group Food & Water Watch. Over recent years, reductions in emissions [...]
During an interview with Fox Business on Thursday morning, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin tried to reassure investors that the outbreak wouldn’t seriously disrupt the supply chains of western companies, even as hundreds of factories in China plan to remain shuttered until at least mid-February, though it’s possible that these closures could last for much longer if Beijing fails to get its arms around the outbreak. “At [...]
Democratic Party insiders bankrolled the defective vote-counting app that has delayed the reporting of Iowa caucus totals so as to deny likely winner Bernie Sanders a ‘bump’ and let Pete Buttigieg claim victory, Lee Camp told RT. The party’s establishment wing and its mainstream media stenographers are colluding to memory-hole the disastrous Iowa caucus vote and prop up their preferred candidates, muscling Sanders out of the [...]
4 Feb, 2020 14:34 Iowa Democratic Party Chair Troy Price has addressed the fiasco of Monday’s caucus, insisting there was no “cyber security intrusion,” and that a “coding error” has been “identified and fixed” Iowa Dems say there was a coding issue with their precinct reporting app. This certainly raises questions about how effective an app will be for the @nvdems caucus. https://t.co/MzPU9Imzj1 — 🌞Bree Zender🌞 [...]
Monday’s sessions in both chambers of the Indian Parliament descended into chaos as opposition MPs walked out in protest over the Citizenship Act, which New Delhi says is aimed at protecting minorities. Several Indian opposition parties launched a concerted effort to protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in the parliament. Motions to adjourn all business and address the “prevailing situation in the country” were filed [...]
Starbucks announced Tuesday that it could take a big financial hit from the coronavirus outbreak in China, as it was forced to close thousands of stores in top operating markets, reported Reuters. The outbreak of the deadly disease has so far resulted in 132 deaths and over 6,145 confirmed cases. Authorities have locked down 15 cities and all transportation networks, along with 57 million people confined to their homes. Many [...]
French firefighters have joined the mass anti-government protests raging across the country, with some setting themselves on fire and fighting with riot cops while arguing for a pay raise of 25%. Des pompiers s’immolent symboliquement avenue de la République #greve28janvier #grevepompiers pic.twitter.com/P2B38SgWhc — Fabien Rives (@Fabien_Rives) January 28, 2020 Tensions en cours. Les #pompiers matraqués par la police #greve28janvier pic.twitter.com/iYozZXH0J4 — Jonathan Moadab (@MoadabJ) January 28, [...]
Striking French firefighters faced off against riot police who deployed water cannons and smoke grenades, and erected large metal barriers to block off the fire service as they protested in Paris on Tuesday. Several thousand firefighters protested understaffing, the threat to their government pensions and a lack of recognition of their work, including risk premiums that match those of the police and the gendarmerie. Police decried [...]
As a coronavirus outbreak unfolds in China, Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping convened a meeting with top officials on Saturday to issue orders that he hopes will contain and reverse the epidemic. He called the virus’ spread a “grave situation” and called for a “blocking war” to limit the contagion’s transmission. Wuhan, where people who worked at a meat and poultry market were the first [...]
Authored by US Army Major (ret.) Danny Sjursen, via TomDispatch.com, In March 1906, on the heels of the U.S. Army’s massacre of some 1,000 men, women, and children in the crater of a volcano in the American-occupied Philippines, humorist Mark Twain took his criticism public. A long-time anti-imperialist, he flippantly suggested that Old Glory should be redesigned “with the white stripes painted black and the stars replaced by the skull [...]
Chaos Erupts At Infamous Prison As Legislature Fails To Provide Funding By Jerry Mitchell, Propublica.org January 16, 2020 Chaos Erupts At Infamous Prison As Legislature Fails To Provide Funding2020-01-162020-01-16https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/01/20200103-lead-image-collage-3×2.jpg200px200px Above Photo: Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman. Left: a shower with damaged walls; top right: a shower with missing ceilings and knobs; bottom right: a backed up shower drain. One building had a single working shower for more than [...]
A war between the US and Iran would wreak “untold chaos” on the world, Jordan’s King Abdullah II warned on Wednesday during a speech to European lawmakers on tensions across the Middle East. “What if next time neither side steps back from the brink, dragging us all towards untold chaos? An all-out war jeopardizes the stability of the entire region,” the king said. “What’s more, it [...]
The Long Planned U.S. Assassinations In Iraq Will Increase Its Political Chaos By Staff, Moonofalabama.org January 15, 2020 The Long Planned U.S. Assassinations In Iraq Will Increase Its Political Chaos2020-01-152020-01-14https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/01/solmuhandis.jpg200px200px Above Photo: Soleimani and Muhandis during a battle against ISIS The Long Planned U.S. Assassinations In Iraq Will Increase Its Political Chaos The Trump administration has given various justification for its assassination of Major General Qassem Soleimani [...]
Authored by Daisy Luther via The Organic Prepper blog, Have you been glued to the news lately, nervously watching what’s going on in the Middle East? Are you concerned that World War III is about to kick off at any moment? Is the state of the economy frequently on your mind? Maybe it’s Ebola that keeps you up at night or the risk of a cyberattack [...]
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders condemned the “mass chaos” of President Donald Trump’s Iran policy, just hours after the Pentagon had to conduct damage control after publicly releasing a letter mistakenly announcing the withdrawal of all US troops from Iraq. The Defense Department’s embarrassing gaffe came in the wake of the Trump administration’s highly provocative—and roundly criticized—decision to kill Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps leader Qassem Soleimani in an [...]
Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido has been accused of pulling a PR stunt after a dramatic video showed him mounting a fence to enter the parliament, as it voted to replace him as the head of the legislature. The opposition-led National Assembly changed guard on Sunday, with the majority of lawmakers electing Luis Parra, an MP from the centrist Justice First, a party in opposition to [...]