A world renowned journalist Shireen AbuAqleh was intentionally murdered by an Israeli sniper in Jenin. Millions of tears were shed for her including ours at the Palestne Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability (palestinenature.org). We planted ten trees in her honor. The constellation of events and circumstances and her background actually were so amazing that it provided a huge dose of sadness but also a big ray of hope for us. Jenin, where she was murdered, is a center of heroic resistance to occupation (resistance not suported by any government, international or even Palestinian). She was a journalist and wearing protective blue […]
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xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) & səl̓ilwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Territories/ Vancouver, BC – Before a courtroom packed with supporters, Tsleil-Waututh Land Defender Will George was sentenced to 28 days in jail for breaching the Trans Mountain Expansion (TMX) pipeline injunction and was immediately taken into custody. BC Supreme Court Justice Shelley Fitzpatrick deferred to the Crown’s recommended sentence and all but ignored arguments from defence counsel for why George should instead be sentenced to community service hours and probation. Today was Day 2 of George’s sentencing hearing. Yesterday, Justice Fitzpatrick stated in the morning that she had not read George’s 16-page Gladue report, which […]
In These Days of Great Tension, Peace Is a Priority By Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. March 4, 2022 In These Days of Great Tension, Peace Is a Priority2022-03-042022-03-04https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/220304-5.jpg200px200px Above Photo: Konstantin Yuon (USSR), People of the Future, 1929. It is impossible not to be moved by the outrageousness of warfare, the ugliness of aerial bombardment, the gruesome fears of civilians who are trapped between choices that are not their own. If you read this line and assume I am talking about Ukraine, then you are right, but of course, this is not just about Ukraine. In the same week that […]
January 28-30 – Call to Action to #EndEthnicCleansing On 28, 29, 30 January 2022, we call for a global mobilization in solidarity with the Palestinian people in their steadfast resistance against Israel’s forced displacement in Jerusalem’s neighborhoods of Sheikh Jarrah and Silwan, in Al-Naqab, the Jordan Valley, the southern Hebron Hills and beyond. These Global Days of Action are in response to the call by the Bedouin-Palestinian community of Al-Naqab for international solidarity to support their struggle against Israel’s ongoing Nakba. The last week has seen a dramatic escalation in the intensity and brutality of Israel’s relentless policy of expulsion that still threatens to expel thousands of Indigenous […]
Above photo: Palestinians protest in Gaza City on 3 November in solidarity with Israeli prisoners on hunger strike. Pictured protester holds a water bottle and salt, symbolizing what Palestinians consume during their hunger strikes. Youssef Abu Watfa/APA images. Israel agreed on Thursday to release a hunger-striking prisoner in four months after lengthy negotiations. Miqdad Qawasmeh suspended his hunger strike on Thursday after refusing food for 113 days to protest his detention without charge or trial after Israel agreed to release him in February 2022. His victory came after lengthy and arduous negotiations between the leadership of the Hamas prisoners’ group and […]
Facebook, Instagram, And Twitter Suspended Hundreds Of Influential Pro-Sandinista Journalists And Activists Days Before Nicaragua’s November 7 Elections. Falsely Claimed They Were Government Trolls. The Grayzone Interviewed Them To Reveal The Truth. Managua, Nicaragua – Just days before Nicaragua’s November 7 elections, top social media platforms censored top Nicaraguan news outlets and hundreds of journalists and activists who support their country’s leftist Sandinista government. The politically motivated campaign of Silicon Valley censorship amounted to a massive purge of Sandinista supporters one week before the vote. It followed US government attacks on the integrity of Nicaragua’s elections, and Washington’s insistence that it will refuse […]
Above Photo: Carlos Barria / Reuters. Just days before nationwide elections in Nicaragua, Meta has deleted more than a thousand accounts on Facebook and Instagram it claims were part of a disinformation “troll farm” run by the ruling Sandinista party. It’s just the latest example of the social media giant taking concerted actions against US enemies alongside the US government. On Monday, Ben Nimmo, the head of Facebook-turned-Meta’s global threat intelligence strategy, announced that the social media giant had taken down what he claimed was a “a troll farm run by the government of Nicaragua and the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) party.” The takedown […]
Above Photo: A protest against the UK government’s refusal to back the TRIPS waiver proposal held in London on October 12. Jess Hurd/ Global Justice Now. From October 9-13, activists organized actions to pressure the EU and various European countries to support the TRIPS waiver proposal, pointing out that people continue to die because governments do not want to stand up to Big Pharma. Health activists gathered at Geneva’s central train station on Wednesday, October 13, calling on the EU, the UK, Norway and Switzerland to endorse the TRIPS waiver proposal at the World Trade Organization (WTO). “As Europeans, we are ashamed […]
Days After Election, Trump Freezes Wages Of Farm Laborers By Jake Johnson, Commondreams. November 11, 2020 Days After Election, Trump Freezes Wages Of Farm Laborers2020-11-112020-11-11https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/farm_workers.jpg200px200px Above photo: Farm laborers from Fresh Harvest working with an H-2A visa harvest romaine lettuce on a machine with heavy plastic dividers that separate workers from each other on April 27, 2020 in Greenfield, California. Brent Stirton/Getty Images. “Many workers will suffer.” “The Trump administration is trying to get a lot of stuff like this out the door ASAP.” Just days after U.S. voters went to the polls to help deny President Donald Trump another four years in […]
DHS And FBI Spun A Dubious Russian Election Threat Days Before Voting By Gareth Porter, The Grayzone. November 3, 2020 DHS And FBI Spun A Dubious Russian Election Threat Days Before Voting2020-11-032020-11-03https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/krebs-e1604441395369.jpg200px200px A Department of Homeland Security election alert spawning new Russia fears was so incoherent and inconsistent with previous findings, it suggested a state of political panic inside the agency. Just days before the 2020 election the bureaucratic forces behind the original claim of Russian hacking of state election-related websites in 2016 launched a new drive to spawn fears of Moscow-made political chaos in the wake of the voting. The […]
TikTok discarded the offer of another American tech giant, Microsoft, before reaching an agreement with Oracle, which is expected to protect the Chinese video platform from being banned on the territory of the US over accusations of being a threat to national security. CEO of the tech giant Oracle, Larry Ellison, donated a hefty sum of $250,000 to the “Security is Strength” Super PAC, which only supports Senator Lindsey Graham’s re-election bid, three days before TikTok announced that it would strike a deal with Oracle to avoid being banned in the US. Graham, who is currently trailing slightly in the polls behind […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/0b/1080739779_0:25:1463:847_1200x675_80_0_0_353ba2cd198c860a40ef9de9f6306e14.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202010121080752045-trump-tests-negative-for-covid-19-for-consecutive-days-white-house-physician-says/ The US president earlier contracted the novel coronavirus, along with his wife Melania, but the White House doctors said his condition was improving steadily. President Donald Trump has tested negative for COVID-19 for consecutive days, White House physician Sean Conley said in a statement on Monday. Earlier, Conley said that the president no longer poses risk to others in terms of coronavirus transmission. Trump tested positive for the virus on 3 October and later departed the Walter Reed Medical Center for treatment. The doctors initially reported he has had high fever and his blood oxygen levels dropped. […]
Well, folks, I caught the COVID. And not just any type of COVID, mind you. The really scary kind. The kind that kills people. But somehow, after 99 days in a medically induced coma in ICU on a mechanical ventilator, I lived to tell uncomfortable jokes about it. Luckily, dark humor is kind of my thing. Let’s rewind the tape to when this grease fire of a year kicked off. It was late February, and I was a 31-year-old comedian struggling to pay rent on my shoebox Manhattan apartment. While visiting my parents in Massachusetts, I developed flu-like symptoms and ended […]
White House physician Sean Conley has said President Donald Trump is not contagious anymore, giving him the green light to resume public engagements. Trump is set to hit the campaign trail on Monday with a rally in Florida. Conley said that the results of Trump’s Covid-19 PCR (polymerase chain reaction) test, the president took Saturday morning, meet the “currently recognized standards” for him to no longer be considered a health risk for others. “Now at day 10 from symptom onset, fever-free for well over 24 hours and all symptoms improved, the assortment of advanced diagnostic tests obtained reveal there is no […]
Former President of Kyrgyzstan Almazbek Atambayev has been detained “in relation to riots” after he accused the secret services of plotting to kill him. He was released from prison when his supporters surrounded it on Tuesday. Atambayev is being held in relation to a criminal case about staging mass riots, according to the State Committee for National Security (GKNB). There were also reports that the former president’s two sons were detained as well, but the GKNB denied this. On Friday, Atambayev spoke at a rally in the center of the country’s capital, Bishkek. The event spiraled into scuffles between his supporters […]
A Madison Heights, Michigan, man killed by FBI agents during a still-murky standoff over a weapons warrant. Thirteen other Michigan and Delaware men arrested in state and federal busts over alleged plots to take over the state government. A Maryland man busted on federal weapons charges. A Virginia man arrested for allegedly violating a local open-carry law. At least four state and federal busts—and, in one case, a local arrest—have targeted the so-called “Boogaloo” movement over the past week. A loosely affiliated but broadly right-wing and libertarian collective, Boogaloos have been on federal radar over the past year, a period during […]
President Trump leaves the White House for Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on the South Lawn of the White House on Friday. Saturday night, he said in a video that he was feeling better as he continues to receive treatment for the coronavirus. Drew Angerer/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Drew Angerer/Getty Images President Trump leaves the White House for Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on the South Lawn of the White House on Friday. Saturday night, he said in a video that he was feeling better as he continues to receive treatment for the coronavirus. Drew Angerer/Getty Images […]
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/us/202010031080658036-trump-tweets-video-saying-feels-better-next-few-days-will-be-real-test/ The president said that when he arrived at the Walter Reed Military Medical Center, after testing positive for COVID-19, he was not feeling so well, but now he feels “much better”. President Donald Trump tweeted a video on Saturday to thank medics for “the incredible job they have been doing” now that he feels “much better”. MORE DETAILS TO FOLLOW Source link
Friday’s Space X launch of a Falcon 9 rocket, which was supposed to deliver into orbit an advanced GPS satellite for the US military, was aborted just two seconds before lift-off. The launch was scheduled for 9:43 p.m. EDT (01:43 GMT on Saturday) from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The launch sequence was aborted by mission control two seconds before ignition. Space X would not immediately report what caused the hiccup or when another attempt would be made. Standing down from tonight’s launch attempt of GPS III-4 — SpaceX (@SpaceX) October 3, 2020 The abort was the second […]
The heads of major Big Tech firms have agreed to testify to a Senate panel later this month, where they’ll address legal liability for online platforms, privacy and “media domination” just days before the US election. The CEOs of Google, Twitter and Facebook are set to testify to the Senate’s Commerce Committee on October 28. The tech bigwigs will speak to lawmakers virtually during the hearing, which is scheduled only 6 days before Americans head to the polls to elect the next president. While the Commerce Committee voted unanimously on Thursday to authorize subpoenas to force the executives to attend the […]
Two days after outrightly refusing to disavow white supremacists and right-wing extremism during Tuesday night’s disastrous presidential debate, President Donald Trump finally said he condemned the far-right group Proud Boys, the organization he previously told to “stand back and stand by.” Trump has faced intense backlash, even from some Republicans and conservative pundits, after he seemed to give a wink-and-nod to racist extremists during the debate. Several Republican senators called on the president to walk back his remarks, which the Proud Boys quickly celebrated online by appropriating the president’s comments as a new slogan. Following the debate, the president insisted that […]
According to a recent report by a London-based think tank, the Russian Armed Forces are at their strongest and most capable since the dissolution of the Soviet Union nearly 30 years ago, despite being considerably smaller. When the Cold War ended and the Soviet Union dissolved itself in the final days of 1991, the Russian Federation emerged as just one of 15 new republics that inherited many of the Red Army’s weapons of war. As the economic crisis in Russia deepened through the decade, the armed forces waned in power as well. Today, however, one UK think tank warns that more […]
Twenty Days Of Underground Protests By Olesya Orlenko, Struggle La Lucha. September 23, 2020 Twenty Days Of Underground Protests2020-09-232020-09-23https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/krivoyrog-e1600869694227.jpg200px200px Above photo: Miners protesting underground in Krivoy Rog, Ukraine. Ukraine – “This is not a strike, but a protest action.” Yuriy Samoilov, chairperson of the Krivoy Rog (Kryvyi Rih) organization of the Independent Trade Union of Miners of Ukraine, prefers to clarify this point when talking about the underground protest of local miners. Workers of the privatized Krivoy Rog Iron Ore Plant (KZhRK) are afraid to officially call their actions a “strike” because of pressure from the Ukrainian authorities. Protesters remember the sad experience of […]
US President Donald Trump is poised to announce the pullout of more American troops from Iraq on Wednesday, and from Afghanistan in the coming days, a US official reportedly told the media on board Air Force One. Senior administration official tells reporters on Air Force One to expect an announcement tomorrow on further US troop withdrawals from #Iraq and another announcement in the coming days about #Afghanistan. — Steve Herman (@W7VOA) September 9, 2020 The report comes amid Trump’s row with Pentagon’s top brass, who he accused of doing the bidding for the US military-industrial complex. In a widely-publicized remark on […]
According to the prime minister, if there is no progress by 15 October, Britain will accept a “no-deal” version of the future trading relationship with the bloc and “move on”. UK’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson is going to give the European Union 38 days to strike a free-trade deal with Britain, The Telegraph reported on Sunday. Johnson will make clear that the UK “cannot and will not compromise on the fundamentals of what it means to be an independent country” to get a trade deal, the newspaper said. According to Johnson, if the two sides don’t agree by 15 October there […]
Facebook has removed a number of pages related to the right-wing ‘Patriot Prayer’ movement. A mainstay at pro-gun rallies and street protests, the group made news recently after a member was gunned down in Portland, Oregon. A Facebook spokesman told Reuters about the removal of the pages on Friday, saying that the company pulled the pages as part of “ongoing efforts to remove Violent Social Militias from our platform.” Patriot Prayer members have frequently brawled in the streets with left-wing ‘Antifa’ rioters since the group’s formation in Portland in 2016. Though fistfights and scuffles have become the norm between these groups, […]
Ten Days Of Climate Extremes By Bob Berwyn, Inside Climate News. August 31, 2020 Ten Days Of Climate Extremes2020-08-312020-08-31https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/california-firefighters-august-2020.jpg200px200px Above: Firefighters work to protect homes surrounding residences engulfed in flames in Boulder Creek, California, on Saturday, August 22, 2020. Dylan Bouscher for MediaNews Group and The Mercury News via Getty Images. From Record Heat To Wildfires To The One-Two Punch Of Hurricane Laura. Around the world, global warming is making heat waves hotter, storms more intense and wildfires more frequent. Pick almost any slice of time in the recent past and you can find clues to how climate change is jacking up […]
Robin Williams’ self-inflicted death on Aug. 11, 2014, at the age of 63 shocked the world, not only because few knew that the acclaimed actor had been suffering in any way, but because despite his history of substance-abuse problems, his effusive, uninhibited, hyperactive spirit was so joyous and infectious that it simply didn’t gibe with suicide. With no concrete explanation for why he’d taken his own life, the media filled in the gaps with wild speculation about depression, drugs, and financial woes. None of those guesses, however, did anything to alleviate the sheer mystery of it all. It was simply incomprehensible—to […]
Donald Trump’s acceptance speech Thursday night was interminable, sprawling, and littered with superfluous lines. But it also included some finely tuned themes that were repeated over and over during the four-night infomercial called the Republican National Convention, starting with the timely issue of law and order. “If the Democrat Party wants to stand with anarchists, agitators, rioters, looters, and flag-burners, that is up to them,” Trump declared, “but I, as your President, will not be a part of it. The Republican Party will remain the voice of the patriotic heroes who keep America Safe.” At first blush, this might sound like […]
Almost as quickly as she was installed as the FDA’s spokeswoman, Emily Miller is now out. The controversial PR maven, a former reporter for right-wing cable network One America News and vocal supporter of President Donald Trump, was removed Friday by FDA commissioner Stephen M. Hahn after less than two weeks on the job, according to the The New York Times. The FDA did not respond to a request for comment, but has removed her name from the Twitter account designated for use by the FDA spokesperson. Miller’s ouster follows a contentious week at the federal agency, after officials inflated the […]
Black Lives Matter and Antifa anarchists have been ransacked Portland, Oregon for 92 straight days now. The downtown will never be the same. Several businesses and landmarks were destroyed and lives ruined. It took Democrat Mayor Ted Wheeler 73 days to call out the violent rioters. .@PressSec blasts Mayor Ted Wheeler for standing with rioters and calling federal law enforcement “paramilitary forces”. It took him 73 days to call out violent rioters. pic.twitter.com/8OO5KDi9Nm — Benny (@bennyjohnson) August 10, 2020 TRENDING: You Knew This Was Coming… Nancy Pelosi: “I Don’t Think That There Should Be Any Debates… I Wouldn’t Legitimize a Conversation […]
The video-sharing app, which has 100 million active users in the United States alone, has fallen victim to the Trump administration’s standoff with China. The president previously accused TikTok, owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, of spying on its users at the behest of Beijing, a claim the company and the Chinese authorities have denied. TikTok will sell its US operations in the coming days as the company is finalising a deal, CNBC reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The agreement will also include the sale of its operations in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand and is estimated to be […]
Robert David Steele asks me “Where’s US going culturally over the next 90 days to 4 years?” I explain that political liberalism—the doctrine that society should protect each individual’s private pursuit of happiness, without any shared vision of God or the good — is in crisis. The collapse of American democratic-republican liberalism, exemplified by the JFK and 9/11 coups, is accelerating. The complete collapse of liberalism (and with it our Constitutional freedoms) looms, and could happen from the left or the right. COVID-19, which appears to have emerged from a US-Israeli bioweapons strike on China and Iran, could be the catalyst […]
So here it is, convention week. Yes, it will be weird, without the crowds and the applause. But we’ve gotten used to a lot of weird things, and we’ll get used to this. There are many more important things about this convention to discuss than its virtual-ness. We have 80 days to go until Donald Trump and his propaganda network try to steal the election. There are no ifs here. If it looks like he’s losing—and it does—he’ll cheat. So Joe Biden and the Democrats need to spend 80 days saying two things relentlessly: one, warning the American people about his […]
…from SouthFront.org As it was expected, the ‘historic’ UAE-Israeli peace deal did not contribute to the stability in the Middle East. Instead, the situation has been slowly, but steadily moving towards a larger confrontation in the region. Bibi’s golden statue toppled (2016) Immediately after the announcement of the US-sponsored peace deal, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that his country is not going to fulfill one of its key provisions – the suspension of the annexation of West Bank territories. The prime minister emphasized that the annexation plan was just delayed, but not suspended. “There is no change to my plan […]
A South Florida CBS affiliate, CBS 12, posted the primary election results for over a half-dozen races last night to their website, days before the final votes are to be counted. Florida’s final absentee ballots and in-person election day voting occurs on Tuesday from 7am to 7pm. Despite this, congressional candidate Laura Loomer, who is running in the Republican primary to take on far-left career politician Lois Frankel, found herself shocked to see that 100% of precincts reporting their tallies late Sunday night. The “results” showed the establishment candidates facing Loomer with a lion’s share of the votes and the journalist […]
CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA—Jessica Tennyson, 34, stays inside her apartment on the southeast side of town as long as she can at night. Eventually, though, the heat is too much for her to bear, and she has to step out into the pitch-black street. “I’m always afraid that one of these times I’m going to be sitting out on my porch and somebody’s just going to go bang, bang bang,” Tennyson told The Daily Beast as she held up her fingers in a way that mimicked a gun. “And I can’t see where I’m going or where I can run.” Tennyson’s neighborhood […]
An employee tested positive for the disease just days after the club was allowed to reopen, despite tight social distancing restrictions and a mandatory mask-wearing policy for customers and staff members. You MUST leave your mask on. A strip club in downtown Toronto may have exposed as many as 550 people to COVID-19, city health officials warn. Toronto Public Health issued the warning after an employee at Brass Rail Tavern tested positive for the disease. The employee worked several night shifts from 4 August to 9 August. Authorities advised anyone who attended the club during those dates and times to monitor […]
US President Donald Trump has ordered Chinese firm ByteDance to divest from its US-based assets within 90 days and to scrub all data linked to the company’s popular app TikTok, arguing both are a threat to national security. Friday’s executive order put further pressure on the company after an earlier mandate last week, giving ByteDance some three months to sell off its American properties and to certify to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) that it had destroyed “any data obtained or derived from TikTok.” “There is credible evidence that leads me to believe that ByteDance… might […]
Editors and executives at Newsweek, a formerly prestigious and popular magazine that in recent years has suffered from self-inflicted wounds and even a criminal investigation of its business practices, are once again digging themselves out of a public relations hole. Newsweek Editor-in-Chief Nancy Cooper and the magazine’s recently-hired opinion editor, Trump-backing conservative activist and attorney Josh Hammer, apologized on Friday after nearly a week of defending a right-wing law professor’s op-ed questioning Sen. Kamala Harris’ U.S. citizenship and her eligibility to be Joe Biden’s running mate. “This op-ed is being used by some as a tool to perpetuate racism and xenophobia. […]
President Trump on Friday ordered that ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns TikTok, divest from the U.S. in 90 days. AP hide caption toggle caption AP President Trump on Friday ordered that ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns TikTok, divest from the U.S. in 90 days. AP President Trump on Friday ordered TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, to sell its U.S. assets in 90 days, stating American authorities have “credible evidence” that the Chinese tech giant could take action to imperil national security. Last week, Trump signed a separate executive order that would effectively ban the popular video-sharing app by making any […]
Health Editor’s Note: This is how the U.S. should have dealt with COVID-19. Instead we have almost 163,000 dead…..Carol 100 days without Covid-19: How New Zealand got rid of a virus that keeps spreading across the world https://twitter.com/ChiefSciAdvisor/status/1292381398448222208?s=20 Carol graduated from Riverside White Cross School of Nursing in Columbus, Ohio and received her diploma as a registered nurse. She attended Bowling Green State University where she received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in History and Literature. She attended the University of Toledo, College of Nursing, and received a Master’s of Nursing Science Degree as an Educator. She has traveled extensively, is […]
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has vowed that President Donald Trump will take action “in the coming days” to deal with Chinese software companies that the White House claims are feeding data to Beijing. Appearing on Fox News’ ‘Sunday Morning Futures’ show, Pompeo claimed the practices of the Chinese tech companies currently in the administration’s sights, including TikTok and WeChat, pose “true privacy issues for the American people.” “For a long time the US just said ‘Well, goodness, if we’re having fun with it, or if a company can make money off of it, we’re going to permit that to […]
Shortly after Mayor Lori Lightfoot conceded to allow the federal government to deploy their agents to Chicago, the city has removed the bronze Columbus statue which has been vandalized amid massive Black Lives Matter rallies. The removal operation started at Chicago’s Grant Park in the middle of the night on Friday. Workers used two heavy-duty cranes to attach metal ropes to the Christopher Columbus monument, which was wrapped tight in white tarpaulin. The statue of the Italian explorer, erected in the 1930s with funding and blessing from Chicago’s Italian-American community, was then brought down in front of onlookers watching and cheering […]
The latest incident comes less than a day after Russian warplanes intercepted NATO spy planes flying near Russia’s borders in the Black and Baltic Seas. A Russian Aerospace Forces Sukhoi Su-27 fighter was scrambled to intercept and shadow a US P-8A Poseidon spy plane over the Black Sea, Russia’s National Defence Management Center announced Thursday. “The crew of the Russian fighter jet approached to within a safe distance of the aerial object, identified as an American P-8A Poseidon reconnaissance aircraft,” the Center said in a statement. The Su-27 was said to have returned to its airfield after the US plane turned […]
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Judge Esther Salas The 20-year-old son of US District Judge of New Jersey, Esther Salas, an Obama appointee, was shot dead Sunday night and her husband was critically injured by a gunman posing as a FedEx driver. The judge’s husband, Mark Anderl, 63, a criminal defense attorney is in critical condition in a hospital. Judge Salas was recently assigned to a case linked to Jeffrey Epstein. The Judge was reportedly in her basement at the time of the shooting and unharmed, according to law enforcement officials. TRENDING: Michelle Malkin Attacked by Antifa and Black Lives Matter Thugs at Denver Back the […]
For over 40 days leftists, Black Lives Matter and Antifa terrorists have destroyed downtown Portland in nightly rioting and raids. As reported earlier — Portland has been protesting literally every night since late May. Many of these protests devolve into unlawful assemblies as violent leftists start to throw rocks and other debris at police, and it’s not uncommon for the police to declare these riots. But mayor Ted Wheeler, governor Kate Brown, and the Portland police command staff seemingly let the rioters take the city, as police are told to stand down and not impede the mob as businesses are destroyed […]
Firefighting crews are still tackling a serious blaze on board the big-deck amphibious assault ship the USS Bonhomme Richard, with the fire continuing to burn after more than three days straight. Helicopters have made more than 1,500 water drops to suppress the fire onboard the vessel, which has been engulfed in flames since Sunday morning, the US Navy said in a statement on Wednesday. The firefighting teams are continuing with their all-out efforts to extinguish the fire and quell smoldering hotspots. A video released by the Navy shows firefighting tugboats dousing the ship’s hull as helicopters drop water on its deck. […]
Launch of the Perseverance rover to Mars is nearly at hand, with United Launch Alliance entering into the final phase of pre-launch preparations for the payload and rocket. But by far the most fascinating pre-launch element of this mission isn’t its processing flow but rather the ability for United Launch Alliance to “add” at least 10 days to the end of the overall launch period. Processing to launch Processing of the Atlas V rocket for launch hasn’t gone as smoothly as teams would like, admitted Scott Messer, ULA Program Manager for NASA LSP missions. “I’d say it’s been maybe a little […]
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) – UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday that the government was deliberating on a recently widely-debated issue of whether to make face masks mandatory in shops and other confined public spaces and would deliver a statement in “the next few days.” “Yes, I think people should be wearing face coverings in shops, and in terms of how we do that and whether we make it mandatory, we will be looking at the guidance and we will be saying a little bit more in the next few days”, Johnson said at a press stakeout during a visit to […]
Roger Stone, a longtime Trump confidant convicted of lying to Congress about his connection to WikiLeaks and intimidating another witness to do the same, had his sentence commuted by President Trump on Friday—just a few days before he was set to report to jail. President Trump had raised the possibility of clemency almost immediately after Stone, 67, was convicted last November, often complaining—without evidence—that Stone had been treated poorly by law enforcement or targeted unfairly. In a statement announcing Stone’s clemency, the White House described Stone as “a victim of the Russia Hoax that the Left and its allies in the […]
US President Donald Trump has imposed a 25 percent import duty on French goods in an effort to scuttle the country’s digital services tax – making it clear that Paris has several months to rethink cutting into Big Tech’s profits. The tariff would affect some $1.3 billion worth of imported French goods like handbags and cosmetics, the US Trade Representative’s office revealed on Friday. However, France has a full 180 days to “resolve the issue,” including through multilateral fora like the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Also on rt.com Death & taxes: Big Tech lobbies not to pay much tax […]
Conservative firebrand Stefan Molyneux has had his Twitter account suspended, just a week after he was banned from YouTube. His removal from the platform comes amid a growing debate over free speech on social media. The ban came without warning, Molyneux claimed during a livestream in which he discussed the development. “It’s nice to see that Twitter is talking to tech journalists before they would talk to me,” he said. The popular right-wing pundit and intellectual suggested that he was removed from the platform after promoting a new essay that outlines his values and beliefs. “It’s not hard to understand why […]
Social media has thrown dogecoin traders a treat. Trading volumes for the Shiba Inu meme-based cryptocurrency spiked nearly 2,000% in the last two days, according to data from Messari, as videos on TikTok encouraged users to invest. The whimsical asset’s price climbed 35% to $0.035 over the same period. Dogecoin is a “joke cryptocurrency,” according to one of its founders, Jackson Palmer. As such, impromptu social media-based frenzies may be a fitting use case. Daily volume for the cryptocurrency stayed well below $5 million for the past two months. “The recent rise of dogecoin, a meme coin, should serve as a […]
A rising tide in equities is lifting all boats – including in the bitcoin market. Bitcoin (BTC) is trading around $9,295 as of 20:00 UTC (4 p.m. ET), gaining 2.7% over the previous 24 hours. Bitcoin’s 24-hour range: $8,938 – $9,345 BTC above 10-day and 50-day moving average, bullish signal for market technicians. Bitcoin trading on Coinbase since July 4.Source: TradingView Market participants are pointing to global stock markets as reasons for bitcoin’s rise in price, with the world’s oldest cryptocurrency in a narrow range just above $9,000 since July 3. “Equity markets are up across the board and so you […]
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Members of the Ethiopian military ride by on a patrol of Addis Ababa on Thursday. The Ethiopian capital has seen deadly unrest erupt in the wake of the shooting death of Haacaaluu Hundeessaa earlier this week. Tiksa Negeri/Reuters hide caption toggle caption Tiksa Negeri/Reuters Members of the Ethiopian military ride by on a patrol of Addis Ababa on Thursday. The Ethiopian capital has seen deadly unrest erupt in the wake of the shooting death of Haacaaluu Hundeessaa earlier this week. Tiksa Negeri/Reuters Mourners gathered Thursday to bury Haacaaluu Hundeessaa, a popular singer and activist whose killing has catalyzed massive protests and […]
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Monday unilaterally extended her unconstitutional proxy voting scheme for another 45 days. This is pure lawlessness and unprecedented corruption. Whatever is passed cannot become law said House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy. “Dems extend their free pass to skip work altogether while a few Members vote multiple times for districts they don’t even represent,” Minority House Whip Steve Scalise said on Monday. TRENDING: St. Louis Circuit Attorney Threatens to Take Action Against Couple Who Protected Home Against Protest Mob on Private Street 🚨 BREAKING → Nancy Pelosi just unilaterally extended her proxy voting scheme for ANOTHER 45 […]
Doug Ducey Arizona Governor Doug Ducey (R) on Monday ordered all bars, clubs, gyms, waterparks and theaters closed for at least 30 days to ‘slow the spread of Coronavirus.’ Here we go again. Just in time for Fourth of July. Rioting and looting is allowed, but no 4th of July parties. TRENDING: St. Louis Circuit Attorney Threatens to Take Action Against Couple Who Protected Home Against Protest Mob on Private Street Governor Ducey made his decision based on confirmed cases of Coronavirus soaring over the last week. According to reports, daily cases surpassed the 3,000 mark. “We’re not going back to […]
One of the first countries in the world after China to be hit by the novel coronavirus pandemic, Iran has mobilized significant resources to fight the virus, setting up makeshift hospitals and ramping up the production and testing of medical equipment, while temporarily closing down (and then reopening) public places, stores and even mosques. The coronavirus pandemic may continue to plague the planet for as much as three more years, believes Sima Sadat Lari, a spokeswoman for Iran’s health ministry. “If one takes into account the experience of previous pandemics, then, it is likely that the world will continue to be […]
As the United Kingdom – England in particular – begins to loosen lockdown measures introduced to prevent the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, new cases are beginning to flare up in specific areas, leaving the government to consider the reimposition of lockdown measures in a localised form. Home Secretary Priti Patel has confirmed that the UK government is considering a local lockdown for Leicester, as new cases of coronavirus begin to spike. While speaking to Andrew Marr on the BBC, Ms Patel said contacts Health Secretary Matt Hancock about a potential lockdown on a local level and said “extra support” would be […]
A pair of shoes and blood on the pavement outside Traders’ bar on Argyle Street in Glasgow, where police are dealing with an incident this afternoon. It’s reported a man was covered in blood and screaming. #HeartNewspic.twitter.com/mj6xbfW5ss — Heart Scotland News (@HeartScotNews) June 28, 2020 Source link
The UK city of Leicester may need to reintroduce previously lifted coronavirus restrictions, becoming the first city to do so, Home Secretary Priti Patel confirmed following media reports on the possible move. “That is correct,” Patel told The Andrew Marr show on Sunday morning when asked whether the government was considering a local lockdown. “We have seen flare-ups across the country already, just in the last three or four weeks in particular.” The Times on Sunday earlier reported that Downing Street was examining ways to impose a local lockdown in the East Midlands city, which is home to around 340,000 people. […]
This is a preview of our pop culture newsletter The Daily Beast’s Obsessed, written by senior entertainment reporter Kevin Fallon. To receive the full newsletter in your inbox each week, sign up for it here. ‘Netflix and Chill’ Is Now Actually Porn When you click on the film Love on Netflix, where it has spent the last week in the Top 10 of the service’s most-watched movies and shows, the very first thing you see is a woman dragging her nipple up and down a man’s erect penis as she masturbates him and he fingers her clitoris, which is pointed directly […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107970/02/1079700277_0:276:2241:1536_1200x675_80_0_0_73e814a383f603886713c53c5f4c5e38.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202006231079700178-seattle-protesters-will-resume-meetings-with-city-officials-in-coming-days-organiser-says/ SEATTLE (Sputnik) – Anti-racism protesters in Seattle will resume meetings in the coming days after cancelling one due to difficulty getting black representation, movement organiser David Lewis said on Tuesday. On Monday, Mayor of Seattle Jenny Durkan announced that the city intends to reclaim the neighbourhood taken over by thousands of anti-racism protesters after two shooting incidents in the area over the weekend and multiple complaints from local residents and businesses. “We had to cancel one of them [meetings] simply because getting proper representation from the specifically black community in Seattle has proven to […]
New Delhi (Sputnik): The Yoga guru claimed that the medicine titled ‘Coronil and Swasari’ is not an immunity booster but rather a cure for coronavirus. Patanjali Yogpith, a company of Yoga Guru Baba Ramdev has officially launched an ayurvedic medicine that allegedly cures COVID-19 patients. “We’ve prepared the first Ayurvedic-clinically controlled, research, evidence and trial based medicine for COVID-19. We conducted a clinical case study and clinical controlled trial, and found 69% patients recovered in 3 days & 100% patients recovered in 7 days,” said Ramdev during the launch. © Sputnik / Patanjali Ayurved has officially launched an ayurvedic medicine that […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/105512/59/1055125983_0:64:3380:1966_1200x675_80_0_0_1db0f321f699e3a99c15b8ddf7978974.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/india/202006221079689000-videos-of-intense-face-off-between-indian-and-chinese-troops-go-viral-days-after-deadly-clashes/ New Delhi (Sputnik): Over the last few days, the two Asian giants – India and China – have been involved in diplomatic talks as the situation on the border is tense following the face-off between troops from the two countries on 15 June that left 20 Indian soldiers killed and many others injured. China hasn’t confirmed any casualties so far. Undated videos showing Indian soldiers engaged in a fierce stand-off with Chinese troops supposedly at a border area in Sikkim Sector are going viral on social media. In one such video, a group of […]
French police are conducting an operation in the city of Dijon, which has seen several nights of gang violence in the past week. Local law enforcement announced the operation in the neighborhoods of Gresilles and Chenove on Friday morning, tweeting photos of officers in action. Opération de police en cours dans les quartiers des Grésilles à Dijon et de Chenôve. pic.twitter.com/XzoVq1GH4B — Préfet Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, Préfet Côte-d’Or (@Prefet21_BFC) June 19, 2020 The eastern French city has seen several nights of turmoil since last Friday, when ethnic gangs clashed with each other. The violence was reportedly triggered by the death of a Chechen […]
A nationwide coronavirus tracking app is set to launch in Canada, but while the government says its software is fully anonymous, skeptics have raised major privacy concerns, pointing to similarly intrusive programs overseas. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the new software would soon be unveiled in a press briefing on Thursday, previewing a contact tracing project spearheaded by the Canadian Digital Service, a federal agency, and e-commerce giant Shopify. “It will be up to individual Canadians to decide whether to download the app or not, but the app will be most effective when as many people as possible have it,” […]
Former national security advisor John Bolton, seen in February, is scheduled to publish a memoir of his time with the Trump administration on June 23, and the Justice Department is trying to block publication. Mark Humphrey/AP hide caption toggle caption Mark Humphrey/AP Former national security advisor John Bolton, seen in February, is scheduled to publish a memoir of his time with the Trump administration on June 23, and the Justice Department is trying to block publication. Mark Humphrey/AP Seven days before the scheduled June 23 release of a tell-all account of John Bolton’s tenure as President Trump’s national security advisor, the […]
As hundreds of protesters gathered in Palmdale, California, on Saturday to demand more investigation into the death of a 24-year-old black man found hanging from a tree, questions emerged about a similar death 10 days earlier and 50 miles away. The family of Robert Fuller, whose body was discovered by a passerby on Wednesday, said they don’t believe he would take his own life. And now relatives of 38-year-old Malcolm Harsch, who was found in a tree in Victorville on May 31, say they are skeptical he killed himself outside the city library. Harsch’s family came forward on Saturday to say […]
In April Dr. Fauci was quick to condemn the anti-Lockdown protesters who were protesting for their right to make a living and do business. Fauci tore into those protests saying ignoring his guidelines would backfire. But last week Dr. Fauci did not run to the morning shows during the George Lloyd protests and riots. Some protests are more acceptable than others. TRENDING: Antifa Domestic Terrorists Take Over 6 Square Block Section in Seattle – Set Up Security Watch – Call for Armed Volunteers Thousands of mostly leftists took to the streets to protest police.Thousands more rioted and looted several US cities. […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107957/38/1079573871_18:0:1218:675_1200x675_80_0_0_09672e98c34b9a827b17e6e5462358ff.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/videoclub/202006101079574282/ Pets also need some pool time during those hot summer days when people head outside for an afternoon of swimming. A German Shepherd from Fayetteville, North Carolina, the US has been captured on video while trying to find a way to climb into a pool. The German Shepherd and Husky mix apparently loves swimming, as it casually climbs onto the stairs of the pool, swims in cold water for some time and climbs out, jumping to the ground. Source link
A 29-year-old British man, believed to have fallen into a disused concrete well on the Indonesian island of Bali while trying to escape from a dog, was lifted out by local rescuers after spending almost one week underground. Jacob Roberts’ predicament began while he was running away from a dog which chased him through a small hamlet in Bali, as he later told rescuers. The dramatic chase ended when he stumbled into the empty four-meter well, breaking his leg. The well was nearly empty but had a small amount of water, which apparently increased Roberts’ chances of surviving, it turns out. […]
Secretary of Defense Mark Esper did the wrong thing before, days later, he did the right thing. Walking across Lafayette Park cleared by pepper gas and something called pepper-ball projectiles by troops on the order of the Attorney General William Barr, he was summoned to stand with the president, who was giving stage directions for his tableau where he would “dominate” the “battle space.” Esper was not innocent, but he did look flummoxed when Donald Trump pulled a Bible out of Ivanka’s purse and then didn’t read so much as a comforting passage. Five years ago, he famously remarked of the […]
Bitcoin has risen above $10,000 for the first time in almost a month as protests in U.S. cities continue to intensify. At around 23:05 UTC (7:05 p.m. Eastern Time), bitcoin (BTC) rose from $9,895 to around $10,429 over the course of 30 minutes as a new wave of volatility greeted the end of the daily closing period for June 1. The large spike in BTC’s price comes as violence erupts on the sixth day of protests over the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police. BTC has since cooled slightly and is currently changing hands for around $10,191, […]
Former vice president Joe Biden listens as clergy members and community activists speak during a visit to Bethel AME Church in Wilmington, Del. on June 1. Andrew Harnik/AP hide caption toggle caption Andrew Harnik/AP Former vice president Joe Biden listens as clergy members and community activists speak during a visit to Bethel AME Church in Wilmington, Del. on June 1. Andrew Harnik/AP In his first in-person campaign event in over two months, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden met with community leaders at a predominantly African American church in his hometown to address the outrage and protests surrounding George Floyd’s death. […]
US 08:52 GMT 20.05.2020Get short URL https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107604/46/1076044610_0:103:2047:1254_1200x675_80_0_0_06cd144e47cb64bfa0be32def20f7a82.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202005201079361103-us-air-force-f-35-crashes-during-routine-exercise-in-florida-just-days-after-similar-incident/ According to Eglin Air Force Base, the pilot ejected from the aircraft and is currently in stable condition. The crash did not cause any casualties or damage on the ground, the base added. A US Air Force F-35 Lightning II combat warplane has crashed in Florida during a routine training exercise, Eglin Air Force Base said on Twitter. The plane belonging to the 58th Fighter Squad crashed around 9:30 pm local time and did not cause any damage or loss of life. The base has launched an investigation into the […]
A US Air Force F-35 Lightning II combat aircraft was lost during a training mission in Florida. The incident comes just days after another military jet crashed near the same airbase. The jet belonging to the 58th Fighter Squad crashed at around 9:30pm local time while conducting a “routine” night training flight, Eglin Air Force Base in Florida said. NEWS RELEASE cont. At the time of the accident, the pilot was participating in a routine night training sortie. First responders from the 96th Test Wing are on the scene and the site is secured. The accident is under investigation. There was […]
US President Donald Trump has threatened to halt American funding for the World Health Organization (WHO) for good, giving the agency 30 days to clean up its act while insisting it mishandled the Covid-19 pandemic. In a scathing letter addressed to WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom on Monday night, Trump took the agency to task for what he said were “inaccurate and misleading” statements about the coronavirus and moving too slowly to address the crisis, while also accusing it of doing China’s bidding along the way. Also on rt.com WHO chief promises independent & ‘transparent’ review of its handling of Covid-19 […]
The Supreme Court unanimously upheld a federal law struck down by an appeals court that forbids encouraging illegal aliens to remain in the U.S. unlawfully in a decision Thursday. Advertisement – story continues below The Supreme Court ruled on the law on May 7, 2020, ten days ago. That ruling was just 10 Days ago! But that didn’t stop Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats from passing a $3 trillion spending bill that gives illegal aliens in American $1,200 stimulus check! TRENDING: Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Daughter Calls American Soldiers ‘Bitches’ Who Are ‘Killing Innocent Children Abroad’ (VIDEO) The bill passed 208 to […]
Former two-division UFC champion Conor McGregor has paid tribute to the UFC for successfully hosting three events in the space of eight days in Jacksonville, Florida. The UFC kicked off their Jacksonville triple-header with UFC 249, which took place on May 9 at the VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena in the city as they became the first major sporting event to be held in the United States since the COVID-19 lockdown. Also on rt.com ‘It’s ironic he’s on his knees’: Gaethje mocks McGregor for ‘losing clout’ as newly-crowned UFC interim champ targets Khabib During that event, Justin Gaethje defeated Tony Ferguson to […]
Russia Coronavirus Cases Highest in the World After U.S. as Country Reports Over 10,000 Infections for 10 days in a Row by Soo Kim/Newsweek Cases of the novel coronavirus in Russia have reached over 232,200, as the country begins easing lockdown measures from Tuesday. The country saw nearly 10,900 new infections on Tuesday, while the death toll stands at 2,116, according to the latest figures from Johns Hopkins University. The country’s total confirmed cases has overtaken that of Spain, just a day after it overtook the total infections in Italy and the U.K. The latest spike marks Russia’s 10th consecutive day […]
New York City’s stay at home order has been criticized as unsustainable, but the policy has one apparent benefit: it has helped reduce the number of pedestrian deaths to zero for nearly 60 days in a row. Like many other cities across the world, the Big Apple chose to close non-essential businesses and prohibit most outdoor activity in a bid to reduce the spread of coronavirus, which has struck New York particularly hard. While there is still debate about the effectiveness and sustainability of such measures, keeping people indoors has resulted in 58 consecutive days since a pedestrian was fatally struck […]
The Uplifting Magic Of Mother’s Day In These Perilous Days May 9, 2020 The Uplifting Magic Of Mother’s Day In These Perilous Days2020-05-092020-05-09https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/91hq2au4nbl-e1589037595231.jpg200px200px Above photo: From the Ralph Nader Family Cookbook. As Mother’s Day approaches, the celebration of our Mothers is overshadowed by the mounting Covid-19 casualties. Donald Trump is incapable and unwilling to provide the leadership needed to deal with the deadly pandemic attacking our communities. While we cannot afford to slow efforts to challenge the President and our Members of Congress, it is important to take a bit of time and reflect on what our parents, and in particular […]
Iran’s first case of COVID-19 was recorded on 19 February. Over a month and a half of quarantine, Iranians’ lives have changed a lot. Of course, self-isolation has affected Iranian consumers’ food preferences and habits. Sputnik has spoken to residents of Tehran and found out that Iranians have stopped buying gold and started investing their savings not in jewelry, but in stocks and securities on the stock market. However, we can’t say that the jewelry market in Tehran has completely “died” out during quarantine because many Iranians have sold their jewelry due to a lack of livelihoods. “The jewelry market hasn’t […]
Open interest for CME bitcoin futures made a new all-time high of just under $500 million on Friday, the third consecutive day of open interest records this week. Significant growth in CME futures demonstrates the intensifying contest between the stalwart institutional trading platform and crypto-native derivatives exchanges like BitMEX. Over the past month, CME’s bitcoin futures market has grown faster than nearly every other bitcoin futures market on a percentage and real growth basis. Soaring CME open interest coincides with news that prominent American hedge funds are interested in investing in bitcoin futures. As of April, Renaissance Technology’s flagship Medallion fund […]