The Taiwanese Ministry of National Defense has announced that China’s People’s Liberation Army Air Force, or PLAAF, boosting its presence in “sensitive areas” near Taiwan. The PLA sent several dozens of military aircraft to Taiwan’s air defense identification zone (ADIZ) over the past three days. Just last week, Taiwan Air Force fighters took to the air to intercept Chinese fighters and reconnaissance aircraft more than 20 times. – ADVERTISEMENT – CONTINUE READING BELOW – Asked to comment on the high frequency of Chinese intrusions, Col. Lee Ching-shi, head of Political Warfare of the First Tactical Fighter Wing admitted that the Air […]
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Dozens File Federal Suit Alleging Chicago Police Abuse This Year By Jeremy Gorner, Chicago Tribune. November 20, 2020 Dozens File Federal Suit Alleging Chicago Police Abuse This Year2020-11-202020-11-20https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/chicagopol.png200px200px Above photo: Police officers guarding the Trump International Hotel & Tower hold back protesters in the Loop on May 30, 2020, during a rally and march to remember the May 25 killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer. John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune. Chicago was still struggling with looting and violence in the wake of police protests late this spring when Amika Tendaji and Jasson Perez heard about a mellow demonstration against […]
Mischievous internet trolls signed an open letter to governments that urges a policy of ‘Focused Protection’ towards the COVID-19 pandemic in place of a blanket lockdown, with amusing hoax names like “I P Freely”. Dozens of ridiculous fake names appeared on an open letter urging governments to adopt a “herd immunity” strategy towards COVID-19. Leading signatories of the public Great Barrington Declaration, named after the US town in which it was written, include Harvard University professor of medicine Dr Martin Kulldorff, Oxford University professor Dr Sunetra Gupta and Stanford University Medical School professor Dr Jay Bhattacharya, all epidemiologists. The open letter calls on governments […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Victoria Teets . Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/us/202009291080603840-not-all-of-them-make-it-dozens-of-drowned-squirrels-wash-up-on-michigan-beach-during-migration/ In recent weeks, visitors to Michigan’s Grand Haven State Park have experienced the gruesome sight of dead squirrels floating in the water and washing ashore along the beach. Although experts do not yet have a definitive explanation as to why these incidents have occurred, such phenomena do happen rarely and appear to coincide with mass movements of squirrels from one region to another. According to Nick Kalejs, a wildlife biologist at the Muskegon State Game Area, the squirrels are likely to have drowned trying to cross the Grand River. After perishing […]
A firefighter works to put out flames of the Bobcat Fire in Juniper Hills, Calif. As of Sunday, the wildfire has grown to more than 99,000 acres and is 15% contained. Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images A firefighter works to put out flames of the Bobcat Fire in Juniper Hills, Calif. As of Sunday, the wildfire has grown to more than 99,000 acres and is 15% contained. Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images As firefighters work to contain dozens of wildfires raging across California and other western states, the Bobcat […]
Audrey Strauss, acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, points to an image of Robert Hadden during a news conference Wednesday to announce his arrest and indictment. John Minchillo/AP hide caption toggle caption John Minchillo/AP Audrey Strauss, acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, points to an image of Robert Hadden during a news conference Wednesday to announce his arrest and indictment. John Minchillo/AP For nearly 20 years, a Columbia University gynecologist in New York City sexually abused dozens of female patients, including minors, according to a federal indictment unsealed Wednesday. Robert Hadden, 62, was […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/08/1080402142_0:-1:1200:675_1200x675_80_0_0_b282ccd0d28dc764e725ea43863f12af.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Rishikesh Kumar. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/world/202009081080400480-knife-edge-situation-as-images-show-dozens-of-chinese-troops-with-spears-near-indian-post/ India and China were involved in the first outbreak of gunfire at the Line of Actual Control in 40 years on Monday. The two sides have accused each other of violating the border agreement and urged each other to exercise restraint. Images of dozens of People’s Liberation Army troops armed with spears, machetes and automatic rifles emerged on Tuesday. The move follows China’s recent accusation that Indian troops had staged a provocation by crossing the border, Government sources in New Delhi said that around 40-50 Chinese troops have moved near to an […]
Military helicopters rescued dozens of people—some of them burned—who were trapped by a northern California wildfire that devoured 36,000 acres in one day. More than 150 people were stranded Saturday around the Mammoth Pool Reservoir in the Sierra National Forest, where the Creek Fire continued to rage out of control. “We’re in the truck. The air is so black, we can’t open our eyes without it burning,” Allyson Chance, 14, and her sister, Lily, 16, texted their stepmother as they waited to be rescued, local TV station KMPH reported. Campers were told to shelter in place and wait for help—and to […]
By JoNel Aleccia, Kaiser Health News Dozens of major hospitals across the U.S. are grappling with whether to ignore a federal decision allowing broader emergency use of blood plasma from recovered COVID patients to treat the disease in favor of dedicating their resources to a gold-standard clinical trial that could help settle the science for good. As many as 45 hospitals from coast to coast have expressed interest in collaborating on a randomized, controlled clinical trial sponsored by Vanderbilt University Medical Center, said principal investigator Dr. Todd Rice. Officials at some hospitals said they are considering committing only to the clinical […]
The FBI has issued an alert to Chicago police warning that nearly three dozen street gangs may have struck an agreement to shoot any officer seen with their gun drawn in public “on-site,” according to a local news report. FBI officials in Chicago recently issued a “situational information report” to Chicago law enforcement, pointing to a possible multi-gang pact to gun down officers in the streets, a local ABC affiliate reported on Monday. “Members of these gang factions have been actively searching for, and filming, police officers in performance of their official duties,” the FBI alert said. “The purpose of which […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107357/44/1073574411_0:26:1539:891_1200x674_80_0_0_92fdc3a02d4abaa7a4f7014a7cfeabc7.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/latam/202008311080331228-venezuelas-nicolas-maduro-issues-presidential-pardons-to-dozens-of-opposition-figures/ The Venezuelan government announced on Monday that President Nicolas Maduro had pardoned more than four dozen political figures in opposition parties. Venezuelan Communications Minister Jorge Rodriguez announced on Monday that more than 50 opposition politicians had received pardons ahead of the December parliamentary elections, and assurances they would be able to participate. “We hope that all of these measures taken by the Bolivarian government help maintain the democratic focus of all of these political actors,” Rodriguez said in a press conference at the Miraflores Palace in Caracas. Many of those pardoned had been charged […]
Signature Bank extended dozens more loans under the federal Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) to cryptocurrency businesses than was previously reported. Around $20 million of the $1.9 billion in PPP loans the bank extended was given to roughly 40 firms in the digital asset space, said CEO Joseph DePaolo. The executive would not name the firms it gave PPP loans to or give an exact number of firms who took out a loan through the relief program. (Signature’s $1.9 billion in loans accounts for roughly .55% of the entire $350 billion that was disbursed through the U.S. Small Business Administration.) Public records […]
Some 50 people were evacuated from the migrant rescue boat Louise Michel that got stranded off Malta’s coast after taking more than 200 people aboard. After one person died, the crew accused Europe of ignoring its pleas for help. The vessel, which reported rescuing a total of 219 people from the sea over the past few days, including “many women and children,” had become so “overcrowded” that a life raft was attached to its side, and it lost its ability to maneuver. The crew’s Twitter feed suggests they have been desperately sending distress signals and making calls to various European maritime […]
Scientists at England’s University of Warwick recently announced they had discovered 50 new exoplanets by using a machine learning program to sift through mountains of data collected by satellite observatories. According to a group of scientists at the University of Warwick and London’s Alan Turing Institute, artificial intelligence designed by them has found dozens of new exoplanets previously missed by human astronomers. Their results have recently been published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, in which they describe how data from the Kepler space telescope and Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), both operated by the US space agency […]
Thousands of people have hit the streets of Jerusalem, as protests against PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s alleged corruption, as well as mishandling of the coronavirus crisis, continue across the country. Up to 10,000 people hit the streets of Jerusalem on Saturday, according to some estimates, as the protests against Netanyahu continue for the 9th consecutive week. The activists gathered in front of Netanyahu’s official residence, and blocked several intersections across the city. As the demonstration escalated into sporadic scuffles between police and protesters, at least 30 people were detained, local media reported. וואו איזה תיעוד של אלימות מצד סגן ניצב, ככל הנראה […]
The U.S. Air Force has moved more than dozens of aircraft from Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, N.C. in preparation for the arrival of Hurricane Isaias. Seymour Johnson Air Force Base has relocated its KC-46A Pegasus tankers to McConnell AFB, Kan. and F-15E Strike Eagles fighter jets to Tyndall Air Force Base in anticipation of Tropical Storm Isaias. Isaias touched down along the southeastern coast of U.S. East Coast as a Category 1 hurricane. – ADVERTISEMENT – CONTINUE READING BELOW – At least four people were killed as tropical storm Isaias spawned tornadoes and dumped rain Tuesday along the U.S. East […]
Dozens of FBI agents and SWAT officers have raided the sprawling California mansion of controversial YouTube star Jake Paul, seizing several weapons amid an investigation into looting and vandalism at an Arizona shopping mall. “The FBI is investigating allegations of criminal acts surrounding the incident at Scottsdale Fashion Square in May 2020,” the bureau said in a statement on Wednesday. A SWAT team seized numerous firearms from YouTube star Jake Paul’s Calabasas home today – including semiautomatic rifles and shotguns – after the FBI issued a search warrant as part of an investigation. pic.twitter.com/Mg2qJcEqEK — Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) August 5, 2020 The […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/07/12/1079921776_0:-1:1920:1080_1200x675_80_0_0_3bec0b873c20bcc1b9257d6133f3c450.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/videoclub/202007181079921835-dozens-of-ducks-stop-the-road-in-maine/ The world’s cutest traffic jam has been captured on video in Biddeford in York County, Maine, the United States. Facebook user Karen Ramunno has shared a video of a mother duck guiding her ducklings across a five-lane road. The drivers slowly stopped to let a long line of ducks cross the road, creating a traffic jam in both directions. “Proof that there are more good people in this world than bad! Not one person in the 2 lines of traffic were beeping or impatient with these guys! Even the last 2 stragglers!”, Karen Ramunno said […]
Moscow police have detained 132 people taking part in an unauthorized rally against the recently-adopted constitutional amendments. A similar protest was also held in St. Petersburg, Russia’s second-largest city. About 1,000 people gathered at the Pushkin Square in central Moscow on Wednesday evening, according to Novaya Gazeta estimates. The protesters were gathering signatures in favor of revoking the constitutional amendments, green-lighted by a nationwide vote earlier this month with solid support of nearly 78 percent. They have already been approved by the legislators as well. While the gathering was unauthorized, law enforcement did not intervene at first. The police only acted […]
On Tuesday, the U.S Air Force conducted the largest ‘elephant walk’ exercise, launching approximately 40 C-130 military transport aircraft in a row. An ‘Elephant Walk’ is a fundamental training element when preparing for global strike missions. This exercise refers to the close formation of military aircraft before takeoff. The term originated in World War II when allied bomber operations consisted of 1,000 aircraft and their attacks were carried out in a single file, nose-to-tail fashion that resembled elephants traveling to the watering hole. In a statement, the Air Force said the 317th and 19th Airlift Wings launched dozens of C-130s for […]
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/europe/202007071079820021-two-trains-collide-in-czech-republic-three-people-reported-dead-dozens-injured/ According to media reports, the accident happened on the line from Pernink to Karlovy Vary. At least three people were killed and dozens more injured after two trains collided head-on in the Czech Republic, local television reported. MORE TO FOLLOW Source link
Democrats never take responsibility for their failures. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Monday blamed the Coronavirus for her city’s rising murder rate. Last week it was reported 65 people were shot across Chicago as Mayor Lightfoot pushed for police reform and lectured the city on Coronavirus safety measures. Four children were among the 65 people shot. TRENDING: “F**k You Cracker A$$!” – Peaceful Protest: BLM Thug Harasses, Threatens White School Kids on Their Trip to DC (VIDEO) A total of 18 people died, including 2 children and a baby. There was even more violence over 4th of July weekend, but Mayor […]
Ghislaine Maxwell, ex-girlfriend of deceased sex criminal and pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, was arrested on Thursday and is currently charged with facilitating and participating in acts of sexual abuse with minors. A woman who wishes to remain anonymous said that she would nonetheless like to testify against Ghislaine Maxwell, who, she claims, raped her dozens of times, beginning when she was 14 years old, Fox News reported. “She did rape me. I would say it’s more than 20 or 30 times. She is just as evil as Jeffrey Epstein […] She is a rapist”, the unnamed woman said in her comment to […]
Dozens of residents of a St. Louis neighborhood have signed a letter condemning the actions of the couple who brandished guns at Black Lives Matter marchers on Sunday. Mark and Patricia McCloskey, a pair of personal injury attorneys, made headlines this week after they were filmed waving weapons at Black Lives Matter activists who walked in their gated neighborhood en route to a protest at the mayor’s home nearby. Residents of an adjoining gated neighborhood say the couple doesn’t represent the area. The nearly three-dozen signees live on Westmoreland Place. That street and the adjoining Portland Place, where the McCloskeys live, […]
The Hill, Trump’s fake news generator for the Ukraine Scandal and the blocked impeachment, faked Biden corruption claims, now caught/busted! Politico: The owner of the news outlet that published the columns at the center of the Ukraine scandal helped secure an unpaid White House position for his wife — a fact the publication did not disclose to readers. Jimmy Finkelstein, a wealthy Manhattanite who owns The Hill, was sufficiently involved that he personally discussed his wife’s arrangement with White House lawyers. His wife, former CNN producer Pamela Gross, is a longtime friend of Melania Trump, and she volunteered to help the […]
Rioters in Seattle set several police cruisers on fire and looted dozens of stores during the George Floyd protests. Glass was shattered along dozens of stores downtown, as looters ransacked all sorts of clothing stores. Nike, however, hired security to guard their store, so that one was spared. KOMO News’s Jonathan Choe was reporting live from the street, calling the scene “absolutely disgusting” up surveying the carnage of shattered windows of stores such as Banana Republic, Urban Outfitters, Madewell, and others, when one of the rioters start harassing him and his photog, vandalizing the camera in the process. All the while […]
At least 30 protesters in New York City were arrested after clashing with police over the death of an African-American man in Minneapolis earlier this week, as NYC mayor Bill de Blasio blamed the killing on racism. Dozens of people were taken into custody at Union Square in Manhattan on Thursday evening, local media reported. After breaking up that demonstration, the NYPD moved to check reports of other protests near the police headquarters and City Hall. Protesters reportedly threw bottles and trash cans at police, and one officer was injured. Union Square, NY right now. I’m relieved to see some white […]
US 08:34 GMT 21.05.2020Get short URL The object was likely a meteor, hundreds of which bombard the Earth’s atmosphere every day and give off a fascinating bright streak as they burn up. Dozens of Americans have said they saw a fireball streak across the sky above southern Rocky Mountains over the weekend. The American Meteor Society, a non-profit supporting the amateur astronomers’ community, has received 28 reports about the sighting over Colorado, New Mexico, South Dakota and Wyoming on Sunday. “The feeling of having witnessed this was incredible,” one spotter mused. Another said: “This event was SPECTACULAR for the two of […]
Nearly three months into the coronavirus pandemic, and despite the deaths of more than 100 nurses from COVID-19, the majority of U.S. nurses say they are still not getting adequate protective equipment. A survey of nearly 23,000 nurses, conducted by National Nurses United between April 15 and May 10, found a whopping 87 percent were still having to reuse single-use respirator masks with COVID-19 patients. More than a quarter had to reuse “decontaminated” masks—a new and relatively unstudied practice that has been proven to work for only a limited amount of time. On top of this, just 16 percent of nurses […]
A probable Iron Age or Roman enclosed settlement (red arrows) and associated field system (blue arrows), as revealed by LiDAR data (University of Exeter) Amateur Archaeologists Studying Aerial Maps of the U.K. Spot Dozens of Hidden Historical Structures by Alex Fox/Smithsonianmag.com With archaeology digs on hold due to the COVID-19 pandemic, cooped-up history buffs are making their mark. As Steven Morris reports for the Guardian, volunteers tasked with scouring aerial surveys of England for signs of human habitation have discovered dozens of previously unknown structures after studying just a tenth of the data available. Dating from the prehistoric period to the […]
A gas leak at a chemical plant in India has killed several people and put nearly 200 in hospital with breathing difficulties. Chilling images have emerged showing victims lying motionless on the ground in the wake of the tragedy. Two elderly residents and a seven-year-old girl have reportedly perished in the gas leak, which emitted from the LG Polymers plant near Visakhapatnam in the eastern state of Andhra Pradesh early on Thursday morning, according to local reports. The gas, believed to be Styrene, is highly toxic when inhaled in high enough concentrations. There have been conflicting reports as to the number of victims, […]