Above Photo: (Reuters / Handout). The fixation with Ukraine essentially is but a gloss pasted over the realities of a global order in decomposition. The First World War signaled the end to a mercantilist order that had evolved under the aegis of European powers. One hundred years later, a very different economic order was in place (neoliberal cosmopolitanism). Believed by its architects to be universal and everlasting, globalization transfixed the world for an extended moment, but then started the subsidence from its zenith – precisely at the moment the West was giving vent to its triumphalism at the fall of the […]
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Above Photo: Getty Images. The Industry Is Wildly Fudging The Numbers To Make Itself Look Like A Major Job Creator. We Shouldn’t Be Fooled. For years now, any discussion about climate action or the need to move off fossil fuels has run headlong into a familiar quandary: The industries fueling the climate crisis create good jobs, often in areas of the country where finding work that can support a family is incredibly difficult. This leaves activists gesturing towards well-intentioned goals like a “just transition,” a promise that likely rings hollow for workers and many labor unions because it’s hard to see where this has actually happened — even […]
Above Photo: The Hanford Site by the Columbia River in Washington State was built during World War II as part of the Manhattan Project and used to produce plutonium for nuclear weapons. It is currently the most contaminated nuclear site in the country but the DoE doesn’t yet have a long-range plan for handling waste at the decommissioned site. Scott Butner. The estimated cost of handling the degrading radioactive material is rising steadily — $512 billion at last count. A year-and-a-half after a scathing Government Accountability Office (GAO) report revealed that the US Department of Energy (DoE) has no coherent plan in […]
Above Photo: Corporate crime can be difficult to detect and hard to prosecute. Federal prosecutions of white-collar crime dropped by more than a third from 1998 to 2018, with corporations often able to pay fines rather than go to court. (Michael Morganstern / Knowable Magazine) ) Corporate criminal law doesn’t exist. And it never has. That’s the conclusion of two rising young stars in the corporate crime academic world – Iowa Law School Professor Mihailis Diamantis and Michigan Ross School of Business Professor Will Thomas in a new article titled – But We Haven’t Got Corporate Criminal Law! “For more than a […]
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday that the European Union had adopted the US style of threatening and punishing states with sanctions. “People who are responsible for the Western foreign policy and do not understand the need for mutually respectful dialogue, we probably have to suspend dialogue with them for a while. Especially since [President of the European Commission] Ursula von der Leyen is saying that the geopolitical cooperation with the current Russian authorities is not working. So let it be if that’s what they want,” Lavrov said at a session of the Valday discussion club. […]
Ripple’s Chris Larsen threatened to leave the U.S. if the country’s stance on crypto doesn’t soon change, Fortune reported. Source link
President Trump was being treated in the hospital for COVID-19 on Saturday, and at least nine of his party’s top officials had contracted the virus—but it made no difference to many GOP officials and campaign aides who continued to flout social distancing guidelines and host maskless, indoor events. On Saturday, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), who tested positive for COVID-19 late Friday night, doubled down on his criticism of mask mandates. While they may help mitigate infection risk, he claimed, they are “certainly not a cure-all.” Instead, Johnson pointed to “individual responsibility.” After his test on Friday night, Johnson said he didn’t […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/02/1080647444_0:80:1280:800_1200x675_80_0_0_82f7c7537ae50d2d659f1542c452877f.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Morgan Artyukhina . Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/military/202010021080647488-us-navy-establishes-first-training-squadron-for-stingray-tanker-drones-it-doesnt-have/ On Thursday, the US Navy officially “stood up” its first squadron to operate MQ-25 Stingray aerial refueling drones. The unmanned aerial vehicles will one day be based on aircraft carriers, but right now, the service doesn’t even have a prototype Stingray, just a demonstrator. According to Navy documents obtained by The Drive, the US Navy established Unmanned Carrier Launched Multi-Role Squadron 10 on Thursday. The unit is based at Naval Base Ventura County in southern California and will primarily serve as a training unit to supply the fleet with capable drone […]
“Not enough alcohol in the world right now,” Lewis Black tweeted Tuesday night during the first presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden. Like the rest of the country, the comedian was horrified by what he was watching. He just happens to be better than most Americans at putting that horror into words. “What happened last night was unconscionable on so many levels,” Black tells me during our taping for this coming week’s episode of The Last Laugh podcast. “Every so often in my life, I’ve regretted not having children,” he adds. “But basically I feel like I made that […]
Former Hillary Clinton aides, ex-intelligence officials and Senate Democrats are accusing Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe of laundering Russian disinformation before an election after Ratcliffe suggested Clinton attempted to manufacture a scandal about Russian interference in the 2016 election on behalf of President Trump. On Tuesday, Ratcliffe, a loyalist whom Trump placed atop U.S. intelligence in the spring, sent Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) a letter claiming that in late July 2016, U.S. intelligence acquired “insight” into a Russian intelligence analysis. That analysis, Ratcliffe summarized in his letter, claimed that Clinton had a plan to attack Trump by tying him to […]
As previous surveys have indicated, nearly four out of ten Danish Muslims would like to have the country’s laws at least partly based on Sharia law, and over 10 percent even said Denmark’s laws should be solely based on Sharia law. Source link
Thanks in no small part to the bloviating from politicians ranging from Boris Johnson to Donald Trump, talk of herd immunity has been inescapable during the coronavirus pandemic. Herd immunity is the theory that once a certain percentage of the population is immune to an infection, the infection can no longer find new people to claim and will effectively disappear. We also call that “exhaustion of susceptibles,” meaning that once there are no more susceptible people, the infection dies out. That’s the common way communicable diseases are controlled either naturally, or through vaccination. President Trump has flogged the concept as part […]
People have argued online that forcing UK drinking establishments to close by 10pm would be ineffective against the coronavirus. The government is expected to propose new restrictions amid a surge in Covid-19 cases. Pubs, bars and restaurants in England will be forced to close their doors by 10pm starting from Thursday, UK media reported. Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to announce the new rule in parliament on Tuesday evening, along with other additional measures to fight Covid-19. Britain’s coronavirus alert level was recently upgraded from three to four (out of five), with medical officials warning that the cases are “rising […]
Blockchain-based lending and trading systems known as “decentralized finance,” or DeFi, have dominated recent cryptocurrency-market headlines, with collateral locked into the semi-automated platforms surging 10-fold this year to more than $9 billion. DeFi trading platforms like Uniswap, Curve and Balancer have appealed to cryptocurrency traders with their low cost and ease of use, and they’re now starting to steal a growing and no-longer-negligible share of market trading volumes from bigger, established exchanges like Binance, Coinbase, Huobi and OKEx. These “centralized” exchanges — the term is sometimes tossed around with a sneer — are rolling out new business initiatives they describe as decentralized, in an apparent bid to cash in on the trend and stanch a further […]
Legendary journalist Bob Woodward expressed extreme concern on Tuesday night over his belief that President Donald Trump can’t tell the difference between reality and fiction, prompting CNN anchor Anderson Cooper to say that is “pretty terrifying.” Appearing for an hour-long interview on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 to discuss more eye-popping details from his new Trump blockbuster Rage, Woodward talked about one conversation he had with the president after he was done reporting for the book. Recalling that Trump called him roughly a month ago to see if he could get the peace deal between United Arab Emirates and Israel into the […]
Senators pressed Google executive Donald Harrison over whether the tech giant wields too much power over advertisers and publishers in the digital ad market, amid widening scrutiny of the company’s dominance. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Senators pressed Google executive Donald Harrison over whether the tech giant wields too much power over advertisers and publishers in the digital ad market, amid widening scrutiny of the company’s dominance. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images A Google executive faced bipartisan grilling in the Senate on Tuesday over the company’s dominance in digital advertising, in a preview of arguments the tech giant […]
Give the players credit. The first two teams to take the field for the 2020 NFL season—the Kansas City Chiefs and Houston Texans— knew a lot of eyes would be on them Thursday night. After a summer of athlete protests, including postponed NBA, MLB and NHL games, they could have refused to play. They could have all taken a knee during the national anthem. But instead they played, and played it cool. The Texans stayed in their locker room during the playing of both the national anthem and “Lift Every Voice”—also known as the Black national anthem. Only one player on […]
After The Atlantic reported on Thursday that Donald Trump had privately trashed American war dead as “suckers” and “losers,” the White House, the president’s 2020 campaign, and a broad array of Trump loyalists activated to aggressively denounce the report as fictitious and absurd. In The Daily Beast’s interviews with eleven senior administration officials, Trump aides, Republican operatives, and former and current friends of the president, several of them mounted a curious defense of Trump. Yes, they admitted, the commander in chief at times makes callous, tone-deaf comments about American military personnel behind closed doors. But it’s because he hates the wars […]
MSNBC host Joy Reid on Wednesday night said she should have been more “sensitive” two days earlier when she seemingly compared radicalized Trump supporters to “the way Muslims act,” remarks that sparked outrage among Muslim activists and organizations. More specifically, it was a non-apology. “For decades, America’s Muslim community has endured blanket portrayals that focus on one thing, not their families or individual achievements or even anything about Islam,” she said Wednesday. “Nope, just one thing: terrorism. Particularly after 9/11, profiling became a near American obsession for anybody Brown—god forbid with a beard or headscarf, whether they were Muslim or not, […]
Citing President Donald Trump’s supposed refusal to condemn Kyle Rittenhouse, the youth who shot three rioters in Wisconsin, some mainstream media reporters and Democrats argue there’s no need for them to disavow Antifa now. During the Monday evening press conference at the White House, Trump said he was “looking” at what he described as a “an interesting situation,” when asked to condemn Rittenhouse. “You saw the same tape as I saw and he was trying to get away from them, I guess, looks like. And he fell and then they very violently attacked him and it was something that we’re looking […]
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/202008291080310241-trump-vows-to-go-in-and-take-care-of-portland-if-mayor-wheeler-doesnt-get-control-of-city/ Earlier, US President Donald Trump questioned “Are you listening Portland?”, when touting that the city of Kenosha, Wisconsin, saw no violence after the National Guard troops were deployed there amid a series of violent protests sparked after the shooting of a black man Jacob Blake by the police officers. As Portland has been seeing continued unrest, President Donald Trump promised to “go in and take care of matters the way they should have been taken care of 100 days ago” in case Ted Wheeler, the Mayor of Portland, “does not get control of his […]
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Marc P. Bernegger started his first internet company in 1999 and had two successful exits. He began working with Bitcoin in 2012, is on the board of Crypto Finance Group, Swiss Blockchain Federation and CfC St. Moritz and is a member of the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Expert Network for blockchain. The recent CoinDesk opinion article “10 Reasons Quant Strategies for Crypto Fail” by Jesus Rodriguez makes for a great headline, but it overlooks relevant developments and key data in the sector. While Rodriguez makes reasonable points about the weakness of quant technology for crypto, a growing number of professional crypto […]
Ex-President George W. Bush’s Democratic rival and Bill Clinton’s vice president, Al Gore, has thrown his weight behind mail-in voting – an initiative put forth by Democrats in light of coronavirus concerns that Donald Trump has repeatedly blasted as inherently fraudulent. When the 2000 presidential election was resolved in favour of George W. Bush, who won in a number of states by a very small margin, former Vice President Al Gore conceded defeat, something the politician doesn’t believe President Trump will do if he loses to his Democratic challenger Joe Biden. © REUTERS / KEVIN LAMARQUE Former U.S. Vice President Joe […]
Stephen Colbert opened his show Wednesday night with a confession. “Now, full disclosure: I did not watch much of the convention tonight. And fullest disclosure: I did not watch any of it,” the Late Show host said. “Because right now in America, we’re facing a global pandemic that has killed 180,000 Americans, heavily armed Rambo wannabes are murdering people in our streets, the strongest hurricane in the history of the Gulf Coast is making landfall as I speak, and the RNC’s message is: Who’s up for four more years?” “I know by not watching the RNC I didn’t do my job […]
Before the NBA kicked off its rebooted season in Disney World, promises were made. The league and Commissioner Adam Silver swore that despite being ensconced in a semipermeable bubble in Orlando, Florida, players would in no way be hindered from participating in the nationwide uprising against police brutality and state-sanctioned violence largely inflicted upon people of color. In fact, their voices would not only be heard, but amplified, according to Silver, as long as they continued to both literally and figuratively play ball. At the time, some players weren’t convinced. They voiced concerns that once the vast bulk of the sports-loving […]
From the coronavirus pandemic to the A-levels fiasco, the current UK government has been in crisis management mode for months. However, Boris Johnson doesn’t look eager for a major reshuffle until after Brexit is (finally) done. Prime Minister Boris Johnson does not plan to reshuffle the government in the autumn despite growing pressure from within the Conservative Party, The Telegraph reports, citing Whitehall sources. “There are no plans for a reshuffle in September”, a government source told the newspaper, adding that Johnson “has full confidence in the Education Secretary”. Gavin Williamson has faced a lot of backlash from the public and […]
A Moscow laboratory offering coronavirus tests to residents has had its premises ransacked and staff frightened by an apparent Covid denier. The aftermath of the rampage was caught on film. The troublemaker targeted the Gemotest clinic in southeast Moscow. Described as a “tanned man clad in a leather jacket” by the media, he burst into the building on Sunday, pushing aside visitors and medical staff. Yelling ‘coronavirus doesn’t exist’, he started trashing the lab’s interior. Footage of the aftermath was published by the Telegram channel Mash. A man on the video can be heard saying: “If I come back and you’re […]
Bill Maher warned his audience Joe Biden’s “lead” over President Trump is too slim and that Hillary was up even more. The “Real Time” host is worried Slow Joe may be in for an upset like Crooked Hillary. Ya think?Are Democrats going to be able to hid senile Joe until the election?Are voters really telling pollsters their preference in the days of cancel culture? TRENDING: Multiple People Arrested For Not Wearing Masks in OC Grocery Store – Store Manager Locked Them in and Called Police! (VIDEO) FOX News reported: “Real Time” host Bill Maher expressed his concern that Joe Biden wasn’t […]
On Friday, The US Department of Justice confirmed a Thursday report by The Wall Street Journal, that US authorities had “successfully” disrupted a “multi-million dollar fuel shipment” by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), after seizing four oil tankers in international waters carrying alleged Iranian gasoline bound for Venezuela. Iran’s Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, on Saturday refuted allegations by the Trump administration about a US seizure of four Iranian oil tankers with fuel bound for Venezuela, saying that the vessels involved in what he described as an act of “piracy” were not Iran-flagged and the fuel on board belonged to […]
What a disappointment Kamala Harris is, not to the progressives who are falling in line if not in love, but to Donald Trump, who has no strong women around him and knows little about the type, except that he can’t really stand them. As late as Sunday night returning from his two hundredth and something golfing day, Trump believed the veep choice would be Spyin’ Susan Rice, or Kuba Kommunist Karen Bass, easy for him to reduce to avatars of the radical left out to destroy the suburbs, defund the police, raise taxes, turn cities into killing fields, and put kale […]
www.pinterest CDC Investigation Update: Multistate Salmonella Outbreak Continues to Grow; Now Linked to Red Onions CDC Newsroom CDC, several states, and FDA continue to investigate a rapidly growing outbreak of Salmonella Newport infections. Red onions have been identified as the likely source. An update is posted here: https://www.cdc.gov/salmonella/newport-07-20/index.html. Key points: CDC is advising consumers, restaurants, and retailers not to eat, serve, or sell any onions from Thomson International, Inc., or food made with these onions. This advice applies to red, white, yellow, and sweet onions. Although red onions have been identified as the likely source, other types of onions may be contaminated due to […]
At least 360 Democrat delegates, mostly Bernie Sanders supporters, have signed a pledge to vote against a Democrat national platform that does not include medicare for all. According to Politico’s delegate tracker, Biden has 2,632 delegates and Sanders currently has 1,076. The Dems are holding a ‘virtual’ DNC in Milwaukee in just three weeks and it looks there may be a repeat of the 2016 convention. In 2016, Bernie supporters booed Hillary Clinton at the convention after WikiLeaks released DNC emails proving the primary was rigged in Hillary’s favor. TRENDING: We Asked Our Readers to Send Photos of the Democrat Party […]
White House trade adviser Peter Navarro on Monday said he has no regrets over his op-ed blasting top infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci, taking the opportunity to further mock Fauci over the doctor’s botched first pitch at the Washington Nationals’ season opener. Amid a concerted White House effort earlier this month to discredit the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Navarro published a column in USA Today trashing Fauci, claiming the public-health expert “has been wrong about everything” on the coronavirus pandemic. The White House, meanwhile, attempted to distance itself from Navarro’s op-ed, claiming the Trump […]
The mainstream media doesn’t care about the truth – they only care about promoting liberal lies and lunacy in order to place and keep liberals in power. The Trump-Russia collusion scandal is just another excellent example of this. The MSM clearly doesn’t care about the truth. The major media outlets are constantly pushing lies and liberal gaarbage to further the power of those opposed to America and the American way of life. The Trump – Russia collusion scandal is a case in point. Legal scholar Jonathan Turley made this point over the weekend in an oped at The Hill entitled: More […]
Doctor Robert Hariri was on with Judge Janine last night and he confirmed what we have been saying for months regarding the severity of the coronavirus and its impact on children. Dr. Robert Hariri, Celularity Founder and CEO, joined Judge Jeanine Pirro on Saturday night on Justice with Judge Jeanine. When asked about the mortality of the China coronavirus, Dr. Hariri said this: The first information we got from China was terrifying. If you remember early on we thought this might be a virus that could have a mortality of 5 or 10 percent. That means somebody you know is going […]
Preston Byrne, a columnist for CoinDesk’s Opinion section, is a partner in Anderson Kill’s Technology, Media and Distributed Systems Group. He advises software, internet and fintech companies. His biweekly column, “Not Legal Advice,” is a roundup of pertinent legal topics in the crypto space. It is most definitely not legal advice. Among the libertarians, I am something of an odd duck in that I am not a journalist, yet I have a blue check mark. I am proud of my blue check mark. I’m not sure how I got it. Back in the day, Twitter had a form you could fill […]
Days after the $15-million-a-year star was criticized for playfully taking a nap in the stands while his side played, Gareth Bale cut an isolated figure in Real Madrid’s celebrations as they secured their 34th Liga title. Bale celebrated his 31st birthday as an unused substitute during Real Madrid’s 2-1 win at home to Villarreal that secured the trophy with a match of the season to spare, only joining his teammates on the pitch in the aftermath of their decisive victory at the modest Alfredo Di Stefano training ground. READ MORE: Real Madrid WIN La Liga for first time in three seasons with […]
Fox News host Melissa Francis admitted on Thursday that she doesn’t trust her own network’s polling—conducted by a group considered among the industry’s most trustworthy pollsters—while also claiming on-air that she deliberately misleads pollsters when they call her. With President Donald Trump trailing former Vice President Joe Biden by double digits in many national and battleground state polls, a narrative has formed that there are so-called “secret Trump voters” who don’t feel comfortable expressing their support for the president. A recent Monmouth poll in Pennsylvania, which finds Biden up by 13 points, shows that a majority of voters in the state […]
Trevor Noah returned from a two-week July 4th break with a very big guest: Hillary Clinton. The Daily Show host began his remote interview by asking the former Secretary of State what she’s been up to during quarantine. “Because I know if I was in your position, I would spend most of my time tweeting ‘I told you so’ and I would walk around the street just looking at people saying, ‘It could have been me, it could have been me.’” “Well, you know, before the lockdown I was doing all of that,” Clinton joked in response. “I mean there’s probably […]
Fox News contributor Marc Thiessen insisted that President Donald Trump’s continued embrace of Confederate memorials and bases named after Lost Cause generals has nothing to do with any “love” for the Confederacy but rather the desire to defend them from “cancel culture.” Thiessen, a Washington Post columnist who recently held court with Trump for an obsequious interview, appeared Friday on Fox News’ America’s Newsroom to discuss some of the revelations from his friendly chat with the president. Besides claiming Trump is apparently unconcerned about his plummeting poll numbers because the president “remains confident” due to his own internal polling, Thiessen weighed […]
Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver DeSean Jackson said he doesn’t hate Jews on Monday. This came after DeSean posted an anti-Semitic quotes attributed to Adolf Hitler. Is anybody buying that? Here is what DeSean Jackson posted on Instagram over the holiday weekend. TRENDING: Black Lives Matter Leader Toronto Believes White People are Subhuman, Calls Them ‘Genetic Defects’ – Begs ‘Allah’ to Help Her ‘Not Kill White Folks’ Jackson also praised Louis Farrakhan. DeSean Jackson has been promoting anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan on his Instagram page. He hasen’t trended for even second today. Wtf @Eagles @nflcommish @NFL pic.twitter.com/HMw4tzRhj1 — Greg Price (@greg_price11) July 7, […]
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__________Politics.co.ukJohnson and Trump now share the same covid policy: Pretend it doesn’t exist By Jonathan Lis It is perhaps no coincidence that, before they became world leaders, both Boris Johnson and Donald Trump made cameo appearances as themselves on soap operas. In 2009 Johnson propped up the bar of the Queen Vic, while in 2005 Trump appeared in Days of Our Lives. Both men have short attention spans and love performing. The main appeal of soap, of course, is that things constantly happen but never for too long. New characters arrive, storylines get tidied up, and events that captivate viewers one […]
Democrats have asked Congress to consider new sanctions against Moscow over media claims that Russia has been paying Taliban-affiliated militants to kill American and other coalition troops serving in Afghanistan. Russian officials have vocally denied the allegations, and accused those pushing them of trying to further undermine Russia-US ties. US President Donald Trump resumed his attack on what he termed “the discredited @nytimes” on Wednesday morning over last week’s story about alleged Russian efforts to put contracts out on US and NATO servicemen in Afghanistan. The Russia Bounty story is just another made up by Fake News tale that is told […]
Last Friday’s New York Times piece citing anonymous intelligence officials on an alleged Russian plot to offer rewards to Taliban-linked militants to kill US and coalition troops in Afghanistan has been criticized and condemned from all sides, with Moscow, the White House and even the Taliban itself dismissing the newspaper’s claims. Senior White House officials have been aware of ‘classified intelligence’ on alleged Russian bounties encouraging the Taliban to kill US personnel in the country since early 2019, and not since early 2020 as previously claimed, the Associated Press has reported, citing unnamed US officials said to have direct knowledge of […]
In early May, Bill Gates argued that US coronavirus testing data was “bogus” because of its inaccuracy and slow turnaround. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has warned of a substantial increase in coronavirus cases across the US this autumn if the country’s actions pertaining to the problem do not change. Speaking to CNN on Friday, Gates said that “as you get into October and November, this thing [COVID-19] will be back in big numbers if we don’t restrain our behaviour more than it looks like we are right at the moment; our behaviour and our contact tracing is not working well”. He […]
A few years ago, when MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini was leading an interactive digital art project, she found the facial recognition technology it employed was far better at recognizing her lighter-skinned MIT colleagues. The discovery sent Buolamwini on a mission. She founded the Algorithmic Justice League and started doing research that builds awareness about biases in software algorithms. One paper she co-authored with Timnit Gebru, the technical co-lead of the Ethical Artificial Intelligence Team at Google, found facial-analysis software had an error rate of 34.7% for dark-skinned women versus just 0.8% for light-skinned men. Facial recognition is the tip […]
Black Lives Matter greater New York Chair Hawk Newsome issued what many have interpreted as a terroristic threat during his appearance on Fox News Wednesday evening. Mr. Newsome told Fox News host Martha MacCallum that if Black Lives Matter doesn’t get what they want, they will burn the system down. “If this country doesn’t give us what we want, then we will burn down this system and replace it.. I could be speaking figuratively. I could be speaking literally. It’s a matter of interpretation.” said Newsome. WATCH: TRENDING: BREAKING: JUDGE SULLIVAN ORDERED TO SHUT DOWN GENERAL FLYNN CASE! — DC Appeals […]
The president of the United States is facing a vexing problem: the racism he ran on is no longer in style. In fact, “76 percent of Americans—including 71 percent of white people—called racism and discrimination ‘a big problem’ in the United States.” This is an enormous shift in the America Donald Trump was elected to govern just three years ago. And while Trump’s base may be the same as it always was, the optics of the world have changed. This puts pressure on Trump to pretend to be less racist than he is. But even if the country is “theoretically” less […]
Tom Petty posed in New York in 1976. On Saturday, Petty’s estate issued a cease and desist order to the Trump campaign after it used his song at a rally. Richard E. Aaron/Redferns hide caption toggle caption Richard E. Aaron/Redferns Tom Petty posed in New York in 1976. On Saturday, Petty’s estate issued a cease and desist order to the Trump campaign after it used his song at a rally. Richard E. Aaron/Redferns The family of the late American rock legend Tom Petty has sent a cease and desist letter to the Trump campaign, after it blasted the song “I Won’t […]
In the wake of protests against deeply entrenched racism, statues of slave traders and Confederate leaders are being torn town and toppled both in the U.S. and abroad. The dismantling of Confederate statues in this particular moment are not spontaneous acts of destruction; they follow decades of debate and peaceful protest about the significance and messaging around the public display of symbols of the Confederacy. Some, however, worry that the removal of public monuments will equate to the erasure of our collective history. None of this is anything new. As University of Iowa historian Sarah Bond has written, the practice goes […]
Coronavirus is ravaging the globe, canceling presidential primaries in the U.S. and calling into question the wisdom of having lawmakers, many of them elderly, sitting close together as votes are held in Congress. Lawmakers, especially Democrats, have sought to expand mail-in voting, and perhaps give some voters the opportunity to vote digitally through their laptops or even their smartphones. Polling on the latter idea has shifted during the pandemic, with more people prepared to trust cyberspace with their vote. Forty-two percent of U.S. voters were “confident that votes cast online would be counted accurately,” according to a March Morning Consult poll, […]
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The grotesquely obese orange genocidal maniac could not look more bored…. [Editor’s note: If you voted for Trump, you are an accomplice in this genocide. I hope you feel proud of yourselves. Ian] _________Mother JonesThe Coronavirus Is Still Killing Thousands of Americans Every Week, But Trump Isn’t Very Interested by David Corn He would rather fight imaginary threats. In the past week, the coronavirus has killed more than 5,000 Americans. Yet during this stretch, Donald Trump has said nothing about these lost souls. And since the gruesome 100,000 mark was hit at the end of last month, Trump has tweeted about […]
Invoking an unwritten blame game playbook, Rick Scott, a China hawk in the US Senate, claimed there’s proof Beijing tried to frustrate the Western search for a coronavirus vaccine – but there’s also no way you could ever see it. Scott, a senator from Florida, made the headline-grabbing remark while speaking to BBC’s Andrew Marr this Sunday, telling him that the US and the West have to roll out their Covid-19 vaccine, no matter what Beijing is up to. We have got to get this vaccine done. Unfortunately we have evidence that communist China is trying to sabotage us or slow […]
The old Wall Street maxim “sell in May and go away” is detrimental to bitcoin investors, market data from Messari suggests. The largest cryptocurrency generated positive returns during eight of the past 10 Mays, outperforming its monthly average for that year during six of them. “Sell in May” refers to an old investment strategy that advises against holding investments during summer months, starting in May. While there may be truth to the adage for traditional markets, some bitcoin investors don’t give the idea much credence. “It’s just a meme to me,” said Qiao Wang, a cryptocurrency startup investor and former quantitative […]
HONG KONG—Typed on screens, painted as graffiti, and yelled out loud, the idea of “burning together” (laam chau in Cantonese) is invoked by some Hongkongers who believe a scorched earth attitude is the only reasonable response to desperate times. “The youngest person I saw in police custody… was in her school uniform, carrying a bookbag. As she was led into a police van, she was calm. The children expect this treatment now.” Decades of nonviolent demonstrations have barely moved the needle in their quest for self-determination, and as the legal and political climates have begun to shift at a much more […]
________Byline Times100,000 People Are Dead But America Doesn’t Mourn Black and Brown Lives by CJ Werleman The United States surpassed 100,000 COVID-19 related deaths on Wednesday. The victims are not nameless. They are overwhelmingly elderly, but also predominately poor, black and Latino, which goes a long way to explaining why their deaths have imparted relatively little emotional impact on a majority of the country or, more specifically, on White America. The US is known for honouring its fallen like no other nation on earth, but the lives of 100,000 Americans have passed without notice, remembrance or even a moment of silence. […]
President Trump said Sunday he’s not even sure Joe Biden “knows he’s alive.” Biden, 77, on Friday told a black radio host, “if you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black.” Weird. The comment was so bad that even the mainstream media took note. TRENDING: BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Deep State FBI Asked George Papadopoulos’s Wife, Simona Mangiante Papadopoulos, to Spy On Her Husband! Trump appeared on a local DC show Sunday, where host and superb reporter Sharyl Attkisson asked what Biden’s strongest feature was as a political opponent. “Well, I would have said experience, […]
The bitcoin market sold off more than 7% Wednesday, according to Bitstamp market data, after a Twitter bot alleged a recent bitcoin transaction came from a wallet possibly belonging to Satoshi Nakamoto, the protocol’s creator. But almost nothing supports the rumor the coins indeed belong to Nakamoto. “Whale Alert,” a popular Twitter bot account that tracks on-chain transactions for multiple blockchains, tweeted that 40 BTC were transferred from a “possible Satoshi owned wallet.” The price dipped as the tweet quickly went viral. Commenting on the market’s reaction, Hunter Merghart, head of U.S. operations at Bitstamp, said sellers on the exchange “got […]
Judge Jeanine went off on FBI Director Chris Wray on Monday accusing him of covering for the deep state which he is a part of. Chris Wray has a lot to hide himself. Wray previously promoted the corrupt DOJ lawyer Andrew Weissmann and pushed to hide exculpatory evidence that exonerated General Michael Flynn. Judge Jeanine Pirro: Well, Sean I have to tell you, you’re actually too good to him when you say he’s basically taking his time. He’s not taking his time, he is resisting. He is no different than the people he is trying to cover for. Sean, I’ve said […]
Germany’s chancellor has lamented what she says was irrefutable proof of a Russian “hacking attack” on her Bundestag office, adding that she is working day and night to fix relationships with Moscow despite the “painful” incident. Chancellor Angela Merkel addressed the hacking allegations while speaking to MPs on Wednesday. “I can honestly say that it hurts me,” she said of the perceived Russian involvement in a computer network attack on her Bundestag constituency office back in 2015. “I’m striving towards better relationships with Russia every day,” Merkel said, arguing that there is “hard evidence” that some unspecified “Russian forces” were behind […]
And Then They Stopped Talking to Me: Making Sense of Middle School, by Judith Warner Crown hide caption toggle caption Crown And Then They Stopped Talking to Me: Making Sense of Middle School, by Judith Warner Crown Middle school spans those tween and early teenage years when, for many, puberty hits. Bullies seem to reign supreme. And we begin to grow into ourselves. Like most, writer and reporter Judith Warner was once a middle schooler. She’s also the mother of two former middle schoolers. In her new book, And Then They Stopped Talking To Me, she investigates why the middle-school years […]
Binance CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao really doesn’t want to tell you where his firm’s headquarters is located. To kick off ConsenSys’ Ethereal Summit on Thursday, Unchained Podcast host Laura Shin held a cozy fireside chat with Zhao who, to mark the occasion, was wearing a personalized football shirt emblazoned with the Binance brand. Scheduled for 45 minutes, Zhao spent most of it explaining how libra and China’s digital yuan were unlikely to be competitors to existing stablecoin providers; how Binance’s smart chain wouldn’t tread on Ethereum’s toes – “that depends on the definition of competing,” he said – and how Binance […]
This was awkward. Biden’s latest stunt didn’t go so well. 77-year-old Joe Biden wore a face mask at the beginning of his livestream on Friday, then struggled to take it before speaking. “Good afternoon,” said Biden after yanking the mask off of his ear. TRENDING: So Good! Kayleigh McEnany DESTROYS Liberal Hack Yamiche Alcindor and Fake News Media at Friday Presser (VIDEO) Why would Biden wear a face mask while he is in his own home? WATCH: This has to be the fakest stunt Joe Biden could have possibly pulled during his NowThis News live stream. Biden then even struggled to […]
As nationwide protests continued Friday over the slaying of 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery, Georgia authorities say hate-crime charges against his killers may not happen—because the law doesn’t exist in the state. “There’s no hate crime [law] in Georgia,” Georgia Bureau of Investigation Director Vic Reynolds said at a Friday press conference. “I think it’s one of four or five states left in the union that doesn’t have a hate crime [law].” The Georgia Bureau of Investigation on Thursday charged Gregory McMichael, 64, and his son Travis McMichael, 34, with murder and aggravated assault, two days after graphic footage emerged of them shooting […]
The best of the new Netflix show The Eddy, about an eponymous jazz club and its multicultural house band in Paris, is not at all in Whiplash and La La Land director Damien Chazelle’s first two episodes (he is also an executive producer of the series, along with writer Jack Thorne and lead actor Andre Holland). Instead, the show’s brief streak of brilliance can be found in Divines director Houda Benyamina’s following two episodes. It’s Benyamina, and not Chazelle, who understands what jazz can and should do, and is able to advance the show well beyond its tedious crime subplot and […]