Above Photo: The U.S. military test fires an unarmed intercontinental ballistic missile at Vandenberg Air Force Base, some 130 miles northwest of Los Angeles, California, early on May 3, 2017. RINGO CHIU / AFP Via Getty Images Since The Pandemic Started, The United States Has Prioritized Funding For Nuclear Arms And The Military Over Global Vaccines. Since the pandemic began, the United States has spent 7.5 times more money on nuclear weapons than on global vaccine donations. Stated another way, the money put towards global vaccine donations has amounted to just 13% of the money put toward nuclear weapons. The comparison shows that, even […]
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Above Photo: A child holds a Palestinian flag during a rally to commemorate the 46th Palestinian Land Day anniversary in Gaza City. Land Day marks an incident in 1976 when Israeli troops shot and killed six people during protests against land confiscations. Yousef Masoud / SOPA Images/LightRocket Via Getty Images. Several gunshot bangs pierced the sky. Israeli soldiers shot a Palestinian protester with live ammunition. Chants and cheers from Israeli settlers from Modi’in Illit rang out through the air as they stood upon a mound of dirt overlooking the Israeli apartheid wall. Israeli soldiers fired multiple rounds of tear gas into […]
Democrats Quietly Cut $5 Billion In Global Covid Aid—With Biden Already Behind On Vaccine Donations By Sarah Lazare , In These Times. March 11, 2022 Democrats Quietly Cut $5 Billion In Global Covid Aid—With Biden Already Behind On Vaccine Donations2022-03-112022-03-11https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/220311.jpg200px200px Above Photo: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) speaks at her weekly news conference at the Capitol building on August 6, 2021. (Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images). The Biden Administration Would Actually Have To Increase Its Donations 50% To Meet Its Pledges. As the Biden administration falls woefully behind on its pledges to donate Covid vaccines to the world, on Wednesday, the […]
Above Photo: A worker finalizes details to start the production at the recently inaugurated CIGB Industrial Biotechnological Complex in Mariel, Cuba, on November 5, 2021. Yander Zamora / AFP via Getty Images. “A European bank, established in the Netherlands, has decided to put the interests of the U.S. government above the lives of millions of people.” Progressive International recently asked for contributions so they can send a delegation to Havana next week to promote Cuba’s effort to vaccinate the world against Covid-19. But in an apparent genuflection to the illegal U.S. embargo against the island, Dutch multinational bank ING has blocked all donations supporting the trip, […]
[ Note: New Mexico’s veterans comprise 9.1% of the state population. The state’s veteran population is 146,147. ] by: Anna Padilla for KRQE TV, October 16, 2020 ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Throughout the month of October, the Veteran’s Integration Center and Albuquerque Involved, is holding a donation drive for veterans. This year because of social distancing regulations, VIC staff will be deployed throughout Albuquerque to conduct a day of service that will take place on Friday, October 23. The VIC will deploy several mobile outreach teams to provide critically needed items including food, socks, and cold weather gear as we prepare for the winter months. Additionally, […]
The FBI has arrested an Atlanta activist on fraud charges, after he set up a ‘Black LIves Matter’ group to enrich himself to the tune of $200,000. As donations poured in, the suspect bought himself tailored suits and a new house. Sir Maejor Page was arrested on Friday and charged with fraud and money laundering, with the FBI accusing him of misappropriating $200,000 in donations to his organization: ‘Black Lives Matter of Greater Atlanta.’ The organization was founded by Page – a well-known local activist – in 2016, but took in more than $466,000 in donations this June, July, and August, […]
Supporters can now send the congressman crypto donations via BitPay for his 2020 reelection campaign. Source link
Discover, one of the largest US credit card issuers, has blocked donations to GiveSendGo, a crowdfunding site where supporters of Kenosha, Wisconsin, shooter Kyle Rittenhouse have raised nearly $400,000 for his legal defense. The financial services company said it terminated payments to GiveSendGo for violating its operating regulations, Forbes reported Thursday. Discover declined to say what regulations the Christian fund-raising site violated, saying it “makes no judgment about customers’ use of their funds” and that as a payment processor, it terminates acceptance only in cases where merchants violate its regulations. Rittenhouse’s legal defense fund had raised more than $398,000 on GiveSendGo, […]
Minnesota Representative Tom Emmer will accept crypto donations for his campaign. The Chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) and member of the Congressional Blockchain Caucus opened his first cryptocurrency town hall on Thursday with the announcement, telling CoinDesk that BitPay will process all donations. The town hall, announced last week, was held in conjunction with the Chamber of Digital Commerce (CDC) to celebrate innovators in the crypt industry and to encourage engaged voters to participate in political discourse. CDC founder and president Perianne Boring told CoinDesk that contributors can make donations to Emmer’s campaign using any one of the […]
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The Heritage Foundation is now collecting donations for the reconstruction of the 400-year-old organ in the Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul in Nantes that was damaged by a violent blaze on Saturday. “The gothic Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul of Nantes suffered a serious fire in the morning of Saturday, July 18, 2020. So that the great organs of Nantes cathedral are rebuilt and resonate again, the Heritage Foundation, in coordination with the Ministry of Culture, is appealing for generosity,” the foundation said in a statement. According to the release, the great organ of […]
When Gyam Queen heard Nigeria would enter a 14-day lockdown, her first thought was about her studies. Queen, who is 26, is pursuing a Hospitality Management course at Wavecrest College in Lagos and aspires to open a restaurant offering Nigerian cuisine. Thanks to a donation from the WONDER Foundation, a crypto-backed U.K. NGO, hundreds of girls like Queen can now see their dreams become a reality. ”I have got a smartphone and internet access, and now I can do online studies and surf the internet without spending a single penny,” said Queen speaking from Lagos, which is still under lockdown. Cryptocurrencies […]
We reported on May 30th the recent riots in Democrat-led cities around the country were coordinated and related to three main groups: 1) US based Islamist Organizations, 2) Domestic terrorists, and 3) Others related to the Democrat Party. Today we uncover a fourth major contributor, a Clinton pardoned member of the Weather Underground, Susan Rosenberg. There clearly was no reason for the mass riots taking place around the country after the death of the individual at the hands of the police in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Everyone who saw the police brutality was appalled and outraged at the sight of the policeman kneeling […]
A quiet rebellion against copyright is being waged on a single website by a freelance coder, using cryptocurrency where PayPal won’t do. Bitcoin as a censorship-free money has been used by outlaws of all sorts, but this time the outlaw is a young scientist from Kazakhstan breaking through the paywalls of academic journals. Alexandra Elbakyan, a 31-year-old freelance coder, neurobiologist and phylologist, is running a database of over 80 million articles from academic journals that are normally available only through subscriptions. What started out of frustration when she was a graduate student became a free research service funded only through donations. […]