US Observers Endorse Venezuela’s Election Legitimacy December 9, 2020 US Observers Endorse Venezuela’s Election Legitimacy2020-12-092020-12-09https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/12/telesur.png200px200px Above photo: International observer tests a voting machine in Caracas, Venezuela, Dec. 6, 2020. Twitter/ @AgenciaRPN. The elections are being monitored by 1,500 observers and 300 representatives from 34 countries. U.S. political actors observing Venezuela’s parliamentary elections Sunday ratified the process’ legitimacy, despite the U.S. administration’s attempts to discredit it. After visiting several voting centers in Caracas, New York Public University professor Danny Shaw highlighted the people’s massive turnout on Election Day. Taking part as an observer in these elections “has been an interesting experience. I […]
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Venezuela Wins Simply By Holding An Election By Vijay Prashad and Carlos Ron, People’s Dispatch. December 4, 2020 Venezuela Wins Simply By Holding An Election2020-12-042020-12-04https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/12/psuv-e1607090096292.jpg200px200px Above photo: PSUV campaign rally in Portuguesa. PSUV. The upcoming legislative elections in Venezuela are going to be held in a context of great adversity are an important step in the democratic recuperation of the country’s institutions from the US-backed opposition. On December 6, the Venezuelan people will vote for a new National Assembly. Ordinarily, there is nothing unusual about this, nor would this be newsworthy outside Venezuela. Ever since the election of Hugo Chávez to […]
Upcoming Venezuelan Election Is Another Rejection Of US Imperialism By Margaret Flowers, Clearing the FOG. November 30, 2020 Upcoming Venezuelan Election Is Another Rejection Of US Imperialism2020-11-302020-11-30https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/vzvote-e1606699861916.jpg200px200px On December 6, Venezuelans will vote for a new National Assembly. Just as it has done for the past twenty years, the United States is interfering in the election process and has already falsely claimed the elections are rigged. The last National Assembly election in 2015 was marred by a vote-buying scheme in one remote region. Upon an order from the Supreme Court to redo those races, right-wing parties refused, putting the entire National […]
US Intervenes As Venezuela Prepares For High Stakes Election By Roger D. Harris, Popular Resistance. November 27, 2020 US Intervenes As Venezuela Prepares For High Stakes Election2020-11-272020-11-27https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/vzvota-e1606492456194.jpg200px200px Above photo: A woman attends to an electoral college during the second mock-vote, Venezuela, Nov. 16, 2020. EFE. The US finally appointed an ambassador to Venezuela after a decade hiatus and in the runup to the Venezuelan National Assembly elections. The new ambassador, James Story, was confirmed by US Senate voice vote on November 18 with Democrats supporting Trump’s nominee. Ambassador Story took his post in Bogotá, Colombia. No, this is not another example […]
How Postal Workers Saved The Election By Jane Slaughter, Labor Notes. November 26, 2020 How Postal Workers Saved The Election2020-11-262020-11-26https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/po.jpg200px200px Above photo: Postmaster General Louis DeJoy wants to slash 64 million work hours next year, but his plan isn’t the only one on offer. A working group of rank and filers has compiled all the ways his vision is antithetical to the green, expanded, universal Postal Service the public deserves: bit.ly/postalvision. Jim West/jimwestphoto.com. The story of mail ballots in 2020 is the story of a union postal workforce willing to go to extraordinary lengths to make sure that every vote got delivered. […]
What If They Called An Election And Nothing Changed In The War State? By Danny Sjursen, Tom Dispatch. November 24, 2020 What If They Called An Election And Nothing Changed In The War State?2020-11-242020-11-24https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/bidenbush.jpg200px200px Above photo: Joe Biden gives George Bush the Liberty Medal. What President Biden Won’t Touch. Foreign Policy, Sacred Cows, and the U.S. Military. In this mystifying moment, the post-electoral sentiments of most Americans can be summed up either as “Ding dong! The witch is dead!” or “We got robbed!” Both are problematic, not because the two candidates were intellectually indistinguishable or ethically equivalent, but because each jingle […]
Crying Wolf On Election Fraud Is OK At NYT By Alan Macleod, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. November 23, 2020 Crying Wolf On Election Fraud Is OK At NYT2020-11-232020-11-23https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/maduo.jpg200px200px Above photo: President Nicolas Maduro. ACTION ALERT: You can send a message to the New York Times at letters@nytimes.com (Twitter:@NYTimes). Please remember that respectful communication is the most effective. If Targets Are Official Enemies. President Donald Trump’s categorical refusal to accept what seems like an inevitable and increasingly crushing election loss has many in media rightly worried about the political repercussions of such a move, with some sounding the alarm over a potential coup d’etat in […]
After This Election, We Should Not Come Together By Yannick Giovanni Marshall, Al Jazeera. November 17, 2020 After This Election, We Should Not Come Together2020-11-172020-11-17https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/trumpsters.png200px200px Above photo: Supporters of President Donald Trump cheer on stage as they attend a ‘ Stop The Steal ‘ rally at the Oregon State Capitol protesting the outcome of the elections, Saturday, November 14, 2020 in Salem, Ore. AP Photo/Paula Bronstein. Black people would better spend their energy on international solidarity than on reconciliation with Trump supporters. Again, millions of non-white people crouched over their mobile screens. We crouched just as earlier generations of Black people […]
What Biden’s Election Means For Venezuela By Anya Parampil, The Grayzone. November 14, 2020 What Biden’s Election Means For Venezuela2020-11-142020-11-14https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/bidenvz.jpg200px200px Leo Flores of CODEPINK joins Anya Parampil to discuss what the election of Joe Biden will mean for US Venezuela policy, and the importance of Venezuela’s upcoming parliamentary elections in preserving the country’s sovereignty. Anya Parampil: In July you wrote a piece for The Grayzone and CODEPINK exploring candidate Joe Biden’s vision for Venezuela, determining it is “virtually indistinguishable from Trump’s.” How do you think the fact that Biden lost Florida and that some Latinos in the state, particularly Cubans and […]
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 […]
Confronting Bipartisan Repression And The US-led Axis Of Domination Beyond Election Day By Ajamu Baraka, Black Agenda Report. November 5, 2020 Confronting Bipartisan Repression And The US-led Axis Of Domination Beyond Election Day2020-11-052020-11-05https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/baraka_845x400.jpeg200px200px No matter who sits in the white peoples’ house, we will have to continue to fight for social justice, democracy, and People(s)-Centered Human Rights. “Our survival depends on seeing this violent, barbarian behemoth for what it is.” Chaos, violence, legal challenges, voter suppression and party suppression all culminated in the pathetic display of democratic degeneration on Election Day. After two decades of losing wars, plus the economic collapse […]
The Contours Of Resistance Beyond The Election By the Black Alliance for Peace. November 4, 2020 The Contours Of Resistance Beyond The Election2020-11-042020-11-04https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/bap-e1604512785310.jpg200px200px Take Action: Black People’s March on the White House. Saturday, November 7, 2020. Starts with a rally from 11:30 am to 2:00 pm at Malcolm X Park near 16th and W Streets, NW. No matter which party wins the White House on November 3, one thing is certain: The objective crisis of the system will force the winning political party to be guided by a logic that concludes domestic repression and warmongering abroad are necessary. From occupied Philadelphia […]
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 […]
Standing By: Right Wing Militia Groups And The US Election By The Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project. November 2, 2020 Standing By: Right Wing Militia Groups And The US Election2020-11-022020-11-02https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/militia-e1604327008114.jpg200px200px Above photo: A member of the Proud Boys fires a paint ball gun into a crowd of anti-police protesters on August 22, 2020 in Portland, Oregon. Nathan Howard/Getty Images. In this joint report, ACLED and MilitiaWatch map militia activity across the United States and assess the risk of violence going into the 2020 election. Access data directly through the US Crisis Monitor and check the US methodology brief for more information about coding […]
Deception 2020: It’s Not The Most Important Election By Eleanor Goldfield, Art Killing Apathy. October 30, 2020 Deception 2020: It’s Not The Most Important Election2020-10-302020-10-30https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/eugene-e1604082821880.png200px200px In this fifth installment of the Deception 2020 Series, we dig into that trite line about “the most important election of our time!” You’ve likely heard it before – chances are you’ll hear it again. For some historic and political context, we sit down with Eugene Puryear to further highlight the fallacy of this claim, and discuss what really makes any year – regardless of elections – politically important. Source link
A small asteroid is headed towards Earth at over 25,000 miles per hour just in time for the US election, but if something kills us all in 2020, it won’t be this particular space rock, famed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson says. With an estimated diameter of 2 meters (6.5 feet, or roughly one ‘refrigerator’), the asteroid known as 2018VP1 is just “not big enough to cause harm” when it buzz-cuts within 5,000 kilometres of Earth on November 2, celebrity scientist deGrasse Tyson wrote on Twitter and Instagram. So if the World ends in 2020, it won’t be the fault of the […]
After giving a deadline to the Trump administration to reach an agreement for a Covid-19 stimulus plan, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-California) slammed officials for wording changes she says are “unacceptable.” In a letter sent out to House Democrats on Sunday, the House Speaker did not sound optimistic on a stimulus deal being reached anytime soon. The specific disagreement at the moment appears to come down to funding for coronavirus testing and contact tracing. “The White House had assured Democrats that they would accept our language on testing with a ‘light touch,’” Pelosi wrote, presumably referring to a Saturday talk with Secretary […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/07/15/1079944610_0:59:1435:866_1200x675_80_0_0_fdad5aac18f56af0c68e53d89d699e7e.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Jason Dunn. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/uk/202010181080809062-mother-of-harry-dunn-appeals-to-joe-biden-to-bring-sons-killer-to-justice-if-he-wins-election/ Following the case of the death of 19-year old motorcyclist Harry Dunn in 2019, his mother has appealed to presidential candidate Joe Biden to reverse the subsequent diplomatic immunity granted to his alleged killer by the US government. The mother of Harry Dunn has urged former US Vice President Joe Biden to aid bring her son’s alleged killer to justice in the event that he wins the November presidential election. In her video message, observed by the PA news agency, Charlotte Charles called on the Democratic presidential contender to end the diplomatic […]
Dr. Madelaine Tully and medical assistant Marshae Love hold up their VotER badges at Progressive Community Health Center in Milwaukee. VotER is an initiative to register new voters at ERs and clinics. Sarah Francois/Courtesty Of Progressive Community Heath Centers. hide caption toggle caption Sarah Francois/Courtesty Of Progressive Community Heath Centers. Dr. Madelaine Tully and medical assistant Marshae Love hold up their VotER badges at Progressive Community Health Center in Milwaukee. VotER is an initiative to register new voters at ERs and clinics. Sarah Francois/Courtesty Of Progressive Community Heath Centers. This year, there aren’t as many large public events with volunteers signing […]
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Bolivia’s Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) has decided not to use a new computer system for vote counting in the upcoming presidential election, TSE head Salvador Romero has announced. “The Supreme Electoral Tribunal has been testing the preliminary results distribution system (DIREPRE) in recent weeks. And we want to inform the country that the test results do not allow us to ensure the security of full data distribution. That’s why … TSE has decided to withdraw the system for the current elections,” Romero told reporters on Saturday. He assured that vote counting will be carried out transparently and in […]
A ballot drop box is shown where voters can drop off absentee ballots instead of using the mail in Detroit. Paul Sancya/AP hide caption toggle caption Paul Sancya/AP A ballot drop box is shown where voters can drop off absentee ballots instead of using the mail in Detroit. Paul Sancya/AP Ballots received after 8 p.m. on Election Day in Michigan cannot be counted, an appeals court ruled on Friday, a reminder that election rules in many states remain in flux just over two weeks before the election. A lower court had previously ruled that ballots postmarked by Nov. 2 and received […]
Bolivia: First Election Since US-Backed Coup Creates Divisions By Oliver Vargas and Alan Macleod, Mintpress News. October 17, 2020 Bolivia: First Election Since US-Backed Coup Creates Divisions2020-10-172020-10-16https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/bolivia-1.jpg200px200px Above photo: An opponent of former President Evo Morales fights a supporter of the Movement Towards Socialism Party in La Paz, Bolivia, Oct. 5, 2020. Juan Karita | AP. Pits Right against Left, Rich Against Poor and White against Everyone Else. This coming Sunday represents Bolivia’s best chance to secure lasting peace, with a widely anticipated MAS victory expected to be a repudiation of last November’s US-backed military coup. Eleven months after a U.S-backed military […]
Bolivian Couper Stalk International Election Observers By Ben Norton, The Grayzone. October 16, 2020 Bolivian Couper Stalk International Election Observers2020-10-162020-10-16https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/union-juvenil-crucenista-bolivia-fascists.jpg200px200px Above photo: Members of Bolivia’s extreme-right Santa Cruz Youth Union (Unión Juvenil Cruceñista, or UJC), and Luis Fernando Camacho (on right). Launch violent incitement campaign. By the time a team of electoral observers arrived in Bolivia – including members of The Grayzone – right-wingers had already published a flood of online threats, smearing them as “terrorists” and circulating photos captured while stalking them in the airport. Santa Cruz, Bolivia – Contributors to The Grayzone including Max Blumenthal, Anya Parampil, and Ben […]
Daily Beast: The Trump administration has appointed two political operatives to posts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in an attempt to control the messaging on the coronavirus pandemic, the Associated Press reports. President Trump’s assertion that 85% of mask-wearers get coronavirus is false. The CDC said this interpretation of a recent report is incorrect. We followed both town halls tonight. See all of our fact checks here. https://t.co/locXrMNxNF pic.twitter.com/u1O4lYm7ck — The New York Times (@nytimes) October 16, 2020 The appointees arrived on the job without clear assignments or even offices before Nina Witkofsky was named acting chief of […]
VT: The FBI is investigating Steve Bannon and Rudi Giuliani for their involvement with Russian intelligence officers in an operation involving a laptop computer loaded with fake emails. FBI intelligence recently questioned one VT editor for hours on Russian intelligence operations in Ukraine, including on scenarios deeply similar to the one being played out through arch-zionist Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post. The “pointed” emails are similar to emails that were fabricated within Wikileaks material, which was confirmed by the FBI. Much of the case against Assange isn’t related to leaks or hacking but rather espionage and fabricating materials.g NBC: “The New […]
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The US company Fortitude Ranch will operate its three vacation condos as survival communities on November 3 in anticipation of possible civil unrest that may follow the presidential and general elections, the company’s Vice President for Sales and Business Development Alicia Cachuela told Sputnik. “We are going to open up as a survival community on November 3 and spanning out for several days after that for the members… just in case of civil unrest, social unrest, the potential of a civil war,” Cachuela said. The United States has experienced protests and riots after the death of George Floyd, […]
Supporters of Kyrgyzstan’s Prime Minister Sadyr Japarov attend a rally in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, on Thursday. President Sooronbai Jeenbekov announced his resignation in a bid to end the turmoil that has engulfed the Central Asian nation after a disputed parliamentary election. Vladimir Voronin/AP hide caption toggle caption Vladimir Voronin/AP Supporters of Kyrgyzstan’s Prime Minister Sadyr Japarov attend a rally in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, on Thursday. President Sooronbai Jeenbekov announced his resignation in a bid to end the turmoil that has engulfed the Central Asian nation after a disputed parliamentary election. Vladimir Voronin/AP The president of the Central Asian nation of Kyrgyzstan resigned Thursday, […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/0d/1080753198_0:462:2446:1838_1200x675_80_0_0_96ab1f9479c70d1f13237af3e72ebe4b.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202010151080780873-trump-says-election-result-should-be-available-on-november-3/ WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – US President Donald Trump said in an interview on Thursday that the result of the upcoming November 3 presidential election should be available on Election Day. “It should be,” Trump said when asked whether he expects there should be an election result on November 3. “We’ve won a lot of the case,” Trump said. “A lot of cases that we’ve won, they have to give a result… we’ve won a lot of cases where November 3 is becoming a very important date.” Trump emphasized that all he wants is a fair […]
A New Zealand political party, Advance NZ, has cried foul after its Facebook page was removed, allegedly for containing falsehoods about the coronavirus pandemic. The ban comes just two days before a general election. In a statement, Facebook said that the page had been scrubbed due to “repeated violations” of its policy prohibiting misinformation about Covid-19 that could lead to physical harm. The move comes just two days before New Zealand holds a general election. A spokesperson for Facebook insisted that the decision was in keeping with clearly laid out guidelines and was not politically motivated. Party co-leader Billy Te Kahika […]
FBI Director Christopher Wray, testifies before the Senate’s Homeland Security Committee on Sept. 24. Wray and other national security officials say they’ve taken extensive safeguards to protect this year’s election. This message is often in sharp contrast with President Trump, who has repeatedly questioned the integrity of the vote. Tom Williams/AP hide caption toggle caption Tom Williams/AP FBI Director Christopher Wray, testifies before the Senate’s Homeland Security Committee on Sept. 24. Wray and other national security officials say they’ve taken extensive safeguards to protect this year’s election. This message is often in sharp contrast with President Trump, who has repeatedly questioned […]
Nearly all parts of the US were shaken by a wave of unrest after the death of George Floyd on 25 May. The riots went on for weeks, with many stores looted, public property damaged and thousands of arrests made. New York Police Department is preparing for a new wave of protests in the run up to the presidential election and has urged all its uniformed officers to get ready for deployment from 25 October onwards, according to an internal memo obtained by the New York Post and CNN. The document, reportedly written by NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea, describes the forthcoming […]
The outcome of next month’s U.S. presidential election may not matter much for bitcoin’s price: Economic stimulus in the trillions of dollars is likely no matter who wins, bolstering the largest cryptocurrency’s appeal as a hedge against inflation. President Donald Trump over the past week has reversed his opposition to another big government-spending bill following April’s $2 trillion coronavirus-aid package. He signaled his eagerness to strike a deal with leaders of the opposition Democratic party, who have proposed a $2.2 trillion stimulus bill. According to Axios, he told senior lawmakers in his own Republican party that he wants “a big deal.” If Trump wins in November, he’s likely to […]
As the U.S. presidential election gets closer, market “predictions” are showing up in stocks from energy to private prisons. How markets are trading the U.S. presidential election in November. A look at what different stock and other market preferences suggests about who Wall Street expects to win the 2020 election, including: Source link
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/0d/1080753634_0:145:3074:1875_1200x675_80_0_0_31720840ab7eece61dc4bcb4060b3155.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/world/202010131080753689-trump-expects-iran-to-call-him-first-if-he-wins-november-election/ WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – US President Donald Trump says Iran will be eager to make a new deal with the US if he wins the November election. At the end of last month, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he hoped Washington would continue with its current policy on Iran regardless of the outcome of the November presidential election. “I withdrew from the last administration’s disastrous nuclear deal”, Trump said at the Monday campaign rally in Sanford, Florida, adding “Probably the first call I’ll get after we win the election will be from Iran […]
Famous rapper and musician Kanye West announced his 2020 United States presidential election campaign on Twitter on 4 July. President Trump said he would watch the run “very closely”. Kanye West is urged voters to support him as a write-in candidate in the musician’s first political ad as part of his presidential run. “We as a people will revive our nation’s commitment to faith”, the ‘ Yeezus’ star said in the clip released on Monday. “By turning to faith, we will be the kind of nation, the kind of people, God intends us to be”, the rapper said in front of […]
Swing state’s governor Gretchen Whitmer has raised concerns after she refused to say when the votes from her state in the November election would be announced, claiming deadlines are set by “people with political agendas.” “Michigan will be able to announce results, but we are not going to have artificial deadlines set by, you know, people with political agendas,” the governor told CBS’ ‘Face the Nation’ on Sunday. “We’re gonna get this right.” Whitmer claimed the announcement will come “soon after the polls close,” but she refused to commit to a time or even day, simply insisting “we’re gonna get it […]
Donald Trump is a uniter—just not in the way he had hoped. His presidency has brought American Jews and Muslims together to defeat him in 2020. It has also increased each respective community’s support for fellow minority groups. Those are the findings of a new report by the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU), a nonpartisan organization created in 2002 that focuses on issues impacting the Muslim American community. As ISPU found, Jews and Muslims are the two religious groups that, by far, least approve of Trump. Only 34 percent of Jews and 30 percent of Muslims say Trump is […]
In this May 2020 photo, a voter casts her mail-in ballot at in a drop box in West Chester, Pa., prior to the primary election. On Saturday a federal judge blocked a Trump campaign lawsuit to limit the use of drop boxes in the state. Matt Rourke/AP hide caption toggle caption Matt Rourke/AP In this May 2020 photo, a voter casts her mail-in ballot at in a drop box in West Chester, Pa., prior to the primary election. On Saturday a federal judge blocked a Trump campaign lawsuit to limit the use of drop boxes in the state. Matt Rourke/AP A […]
Donald Trump is losing it in a big way, and the polls are widening. Still, I say don’t get overconfident. This may yet be close—close enough that Trump can challenge the results in some key states and try to steal it. And if Trump and the Republicans can get away with it, they can produce some outlandish scenarios. Maybe one in which a minority of House members decides Trump won re-election. Maybe one in which there is no president next Jan. 20. Maybe even one in which Mike Pence just decides, against the will of Congress, that he and Trump won—and […]
While all eyes are locked on the presidential debates and the competition between Trump and Biden, a no less important battle is to take place on 3 November, in which the future of 35 seats and control of the US Senate will be decided. The main struggle for dominance in the Senate, currently controlled by the GOP, will take place in six states where Republican and Democratic candidates have toss-up chances of winning the vote, the Cook Political Report said, in its latest assessment of the situation. All six toss-up seats are currently held by the GOP Senators. In three of these […]
House Democrats have tabled a bill to establish a Congressional panel to exercise powers under the 25th Amendment to remove the president if he or she becomes mentally or physically unfit to hold office. Donald Trump has claimed Democrat moves to set up a panel to judge the US presidents’ capacity to govern is aimed at removing an “out of it” Joe Biden if he is elected. Trump tweeted the incendiary comment yesterday within hours of Democratic Congress representatives, led by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, introducing a bill modifying the 25th Constitutional Amendment to establish the panel to determine the sitting president’s physical […]
Detroit News: Detroit Magistrate Joseph Boyer set bond Thursday for conservative operatives Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman at $100,000 in a voter intimidation case, even as the attorney general’s office argued for a $1 million bond and Burkman’s lawyer called the charges “a publicity stunt.” Wohl and Burkman on Thursday turned themselves in at the Detroit Detention Center. Assistant Attorney General Richard Cunningham said they “made a mockery of our system of government” and came with a camera crew and hundred dollar bills to pay the bond. The evidence will show there have been ongoing efforts by Burkman and Wohl to affect […]
A YouGov poll focusing on 1,000-plus respondents across Europe has outlined citizens’ preliminary political preferences regarding the 46th US president, and they appear to be quite muted as an absolute minority believe the electoral process will be as clean as a whistle. Fewer than one in ten Europeans believe that the upcoming US presidential election will be completely free and fair, with an absolute majority saying they would prefer Joe Biden to win over Donald Trump, according to a new YouGov tracker survey. It was run between 15 September and 4 October with a representative sample of 1,000-plus people in a range […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/04/1080661882_0:320:3072:2048_1200x675_80_0_0_3de01cefc4f5bf49d7775a138861c5ff.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202010081080702451-osce-to-deliver-accurate-assessment-of-us-election-despite-covid-19-limits-spokesperson-says/ WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) will provide an accurate assessment of the US presidential election despite the pandemic’s impact on the composition of the observer mission, Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) spokesperson Katya Andrusz told Sputnik. “While the COVID-19 pandemic has been challenging for ODIHR’s election observation activities and we were unable to deploy a mission to the US general elections that was as comprehensive as we had planned, our observation will result in an accurate and objective assessment as in all other countries across […]
With more people voting by mail this year, Facebook and other social media companies are preparing for a potential delay in election results. Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images With more people voting by mail this year, Facebook and other social media companies are preparing for a potential delay in election results. Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images Facebook said on Wednesday it would crack down on efforts to intimidate voters, amid growing concerns over potential confrontations at polling places and calls from the Trump campaign for an “army” of poll […]
Asked in a recent interview how things were going as Election Day draws near, a state elections director paused, searching for the right words. “I feel like I’ve got democracy in a boat,” the director told The Daily Beast, “and my staff is bailing water out while people are drilling holes in it.” That official, who spoke anonymously to discuss the situation candidly, sums up how many election officials around the country are feeling right now. In normal times, they’re a group of professionals used to getting the job done with what meager funds they typically get—proud of it, even. Few, […]
US President Donald Trump tore into the Food and Drug Administration over a new set of vaccine guidelines which, if followed, would make a pre-election inoculation unworkable, slamming the rules as a “political hit job.” “New FDA Rules make it more difficult for them to speed up vaccines for approval before Election Day. Just another political hit job!” Trump tweeted on Tuesday night, tagging FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn on the post. New FDA Rules make it more difficult for them to speed up vaccines for approval before Election Day. Just another political hit job! @SteveFDA — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October […]
Conservative critics of South Korea’s government persist in pressing claims of widespread fraud in the country’s April elections, pointing to what they say is new evidence—in the form of alleged electronic distortions and mail-in balloting irregularities—to suggest the country’s ruling party won its majority in the National Assembly with expertise and advice from China. The ongoing controversy comes as U.S. President Donald Trump and his Justice Department claim interference from China, not Russia, is the biggest threat to voting in the U.S. Facebook has already taken down a slew of China-linked pages targeting both Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden. (Meanwhile […]
Leaked FBI Report Warns Of Far-Right “Boogaloo” Violence Before Election October 5, 2020 Leaked FBI Report Warns Of Far-Right “Boogaloo” Violence Before Election2020-10-052020-10-05https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/rally-e1601924470552.jpg200px200px Above photo: Virginia 2nd Amendment Rally (2020 Jan). Texas – A leaked September 29 Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) intelligence report prepared by the Dallas, Texas, field office warns that leading up to the November election, “boogaloo adherents” and “militia violent extremists” are increasing “violent and criminal activity” in the Dallas area. The assessment was made the same day President Donald Trump, in the first presidential debate with his Democratic opponent, Joe Biden, refused to condemn white supremacists […]
A Washington Post editor provoked an onslaught of online ridicule after he opted to compare and contrast the real-life 2020 presidential race with TV series ‘The West Wing’, beloved by US liberals for its ideological outlook. Glenn Kessler, chief writer of Washington Post’s Fact Checker section, which rates the supposed veracity of political statements by assigning them a ‘Pinocchios’ score, pondered on Monday the meaning behind the ongoing election season being very unlike the 1999 TV show ‘The West Wing’. Kessler rushed to Twitter with his observation that the structured somber stories in Aaron Sorkin’s White House drama were quite different […]
The Supreme Court, which begins its new term Monday, is confronting cases related to the election, the Affordable Care Act and religious rights, among others. J. Scott Applewhite/AP hide caption toggle caption J. Scott Applewhite/AP The Supreme Court, which begins its new term Monday, is confronting cases related to the election, the Affordable Care Act and religious rights, among others. J. Scott Applewhite/AP The U.S. Supreme Court opens a new court term Monday, while across the street at the Capitol, Republicans are seeking to jam through, before the Nov. 3 election, President Trump’s nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the court. […]
Unmasked Trump supporters called upon to ‘protect America from excess voting’ Trump’s positive test for COVID-19 throws U.S. presidential campaign into ‘confusion’ by Jim W. Dean, VT Editor, …with PressTV, Tehran [ Editor’s Note: The American slang term, ‘the doo doo has hit the fan’, is so appropriate for this event, and I will use it despite my typically staying away from bodily function terms. The stakes are so high in this election that politeness can be shelved for a bit, particularly so because Trump has had it off the shelf for almost four years as he has relished being offensive. […]
With 243 seats at stake, Bihar’s parliament is set to face an election on 28 October during the Covid-19 pandemic, with results out on 10 November. Stakes are high for both the ruling alliance of Janata Dal-United and Bharatiya Janata parties and on the other side Rashtriya Janata Dal and Congress in a state well-known for caste-ridden politics. With blaring loudspeakers and colourful hoardings at the main crossroads in Bihar’s capital city Patna, electioneering has returned to the State despite widespread fear of contracting Covid-19 amid a surging caseload. The State is quickly gearing up for a crucial full-fledged legislative assembly […]
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 […]
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US drugmaker Moderna revealed Wednesday that it won’t seek an emergency use authorization (EUA) for its COVID-19 vaccine before November 25, more than three weeks after the US election. “November 25 is the time we will have enough safety data to be able to put into an EUA file that we would send to the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) – assuming that the safety data is good, i.e. a vaccine is deemed to be safe,” Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel said in a statement to the Financial Times. Bancel also told the outlet that the company’s vaccine won’t be available before […]
MEXICO CITY (Sputnik) – Venezuela considers unacceptable the conditions put forward by the European External Action Service for sending a mission to monitor the country’s general election, the Foreign Ministry said on Thursday. The EEAS published on Wednesday a statement on the recent visit of its officials to Caracas, saying that conditions for holding fair and democratic election are not in place, thus making it impossible to send its observation mission until the conditions are improved. “It is lamentable that, in response to the official invitation of the election authority to join the observation process, the European Union responded with a […]
After spending most of the first presidential debate shouting incoherently, Donald Trump finished it off with a crystal clear message. “I’m urging my supporters to go into the polls and watch very carefully,” he said, stoking fears of potentially violent election day interference. At home in Chicago, Kayleigh Glaza missed Trump’s comment at first. “There was so much yelling and other stuff happening,” she said. One of her friends mentioned it later in a debate night group chat. Glaza, a former writer for a food magazine who was furloughed during the pandemic, felt “scared” when she read the text. She plans […]
With the first Trump–Biden debate now smoldering behind us, the betting markets have picked their winner. That also means they’ve decided on a loser: President Donald Trump. Tuesday marked the first time the incumbent squared off face-to-face against his rival, Democratic nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden. The two septuagenarians bickered, insulted, belittled and at times screamed at one another at almost regular intervals, all in hopes of convincing the American public each is the best choice to control the world’s largest deployed nuclear arsenal. And while conventional, real-time polling may have been unavailable during the roughly hour and a […]
Authorities in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania admitted that a laptop and several memory sticks used to program voting machines were stolen from a warehouse, but insisted that the integrity of the election is not in question. Election officials scrambled to investigate the theft from an East Falls warehouse and make sure the machines would not be compromised on election day, after city authorities confirmed the theft to the Philadelphia Inquirer newspaper. They initially refused to do so, according to the Inquirer, until the paper told them it intended to run the story based on anonymous sources briefed on the incident. “This matter should […]
The truck-revving, banner-waving, loudspeaker-blaring pro-Trump rally took place, conveniently, on Sept. 19, the first Saturday of early voting in the swing state of Virginia, in a parking lot where voters in Democratic-leaning Fairfax County were lined up to cast their ballots. Some Trump supporters drove circles around the voters while others—many without face masks—mingled with the line, chanting and waving flags. “We had a couple poll observers there that had to actually escort voters in because we saw people that would get to the edge of the parking lot, and see this giant group of Trumpers yelling and screaming,” Jack Kiraly, […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/1e/1080615549_0:40:3072:1768_1200x675_80_0_0_75e3e6c3b8473103826f77c936f92ffc.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202009301080615460-first-presidential-debate-between-donald-trump-and-joe-biden-ahead-of-2020-us-election/ The debate will be moderated by the anchor of “Fox News Sunday”, Chris Wallace, who is expected to pressure Trump and Biden on the coronavirus pandemic, US economy, anti-racism protests, a Supreme Court nomination, and the election itself. President Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden are facing questions at the first presidential debate held in Cleveland, the state of Ohio, on Tuesday. The two candidates are set to discuss six topics chosen by Wallace, 15 minutes for each, without any breaks. Every segment will start with a question by the moderator. Follow Sputnik’s […]
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is warning Democrats of an exceedingly rare scenario where the House may need to decide the presidential election in January. Jose Luis Magana/AP hide caption toggle caption Jose Luis Magana/AP House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is warning Democrats of an exceedingly rare scenario where the House may need to decide the presidential election in January. Jose Luis Magana/AP House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., is warning Democrats that they must win the majority, not just of the House of Representatives but a majority of each state delegation, in case the House is called upon to decide the election in […]
by Salman Rafi Sheikh, with New Eastern Outlook, Moscow, …and the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a research institution for the study of the countries and cultures of Asia and North Africa [ Editor’s Note: Goepolitical watchers have kept a close eye on Trump wanting to play the war commander card at a politically advantageous time, and where Iran would be the number one scapegoat target on his list. Depending on the target inside Iran, or seizing its vessels, the Iranian military has always promised a forceful repsonse as a way of discouraging any such attacks, and it has […]
The Left And The Election Crisis By Larry Holmes, Workers World. September 27, 2020 The Left And The Election Crisis2020-09-272020-09-27https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/indiagenstrike-e1601214806270.jpeg200px200px Above photo: Two-day All-India General Strike, Jan. 8-9, 2019. The ‘elephant in the room’. The head of the U.S. Postal Service is sabotaging delivery of ballots through the mail. Trump is acting like he won’t step down even if he’s defeated in the elections. And it appears that right-wing and neo-fascist forces, who have guns, are getting ready to go into the streets after the elections to support an attempted coup. Every group and activist ready to fight fascism in the streets […]
President Trump and Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett walk along the Rose Garden Colonnade on Saturday. The focus on the court just weeks before the election could help energize conservatives in key states. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images President Trump and Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett walk along the Rose Garden Colonnade on Saturday. The focus on the court just weeks before the election could help energize conservatives in key states. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Supporters and opponents of Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the Supreme Court wasted no time launching a high-pitched battle over […]
A recent story in The Atlantic suggested Donald Trump was working to appoint his supporters to the Electoral College so they can help swing the election his way, but one of the interviewees is now slamming the story as fake news. “The story is pure conjecture,” Pennsylvania Senate Majority Leader Jake Corman told the Washington Examiner. Corman says he spoke to Atlantic writer Barton Gellman last month and the conversation turned to a handful of hypothetical scenarios regarding the Electoral College. The story insinuates that Trump’s campaign is working with Republican state legislators to appoint electors who support him to the […]
This is a preview of Right Richter, our newsletter about the extreme right wing. To receive the full newsletter in your inbox, sign up for it here. The election is less than 40 days away. Donald Trump is refusing to commit to a peaceful transfer of power. And now the Trumpworld hunt is on for material that can be used to discredit any election results that show Joe Biden winning the election. On to this week’s newsletter! This week: James O’Keefe and associates circle voter registration groups. Bogus ballot “destruction” story blows up on the right Liberal groups fear election infiltration from […]
As the US presidential election approaches, the Democratic party is ramping up speculation about “Russian interference”, with Moscow allegedly attempting to undermine the campaign of Democratic candidate Joe Biden. Joe Biden warned there would be “consequences” for Russian President Vladimir Putin for “violation of our sovereignty” when asked by MSNBC host on allegations that Russia is conducting “interference [in the US presidential election] to hurt you and cause chaos”. “My message to Vladimir Putin is that if I get elected, I’m coming”, Biden said. “Because here’s the deal, it’s a violation of our sovereignty. I made it clear before, and I’ll […]
Civil rights groups and other critics say the social network has not done enough to curb misinformation, hate speech and voter suppression ahead of the U.S. presidential election. Thibault Camus/AP hide caption toggle caption Thibault Camus/AP Civil rights groups and other critics say the social network has not done enough to curb misinformation, hate speech and voter suppression ahead of the U.S. presidential election. Thibault Camus/AP The civil rights groups behind this summer’s Facebook advertiser boycott are joining other critics to pressure the social network to do more to counter hate speech, falsehoods about the election and efforts to delegitimize mail-in […]
President Donald Trump has now explicitly stated that he may not accept the outcome of a presidential election that he does not win and Seth Meyers doesn’t understand why Democrats aren’t doing more to stop him. “The president last night refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of power, effectively threatening violence unless ballots are thrown out and he’s allowed to stay in office,” the Late Night host said before playing the clip of Trump telling reporters just that this week. “Our democracy hasn’t been healthy in a long time, but now it’s in a death spiral,” he added. “The president […]
A screenshot of an Instagram post Facebook linked to Russia’s Internet Research Agency. United World International was a phony website created by the Russian operation and promoted on social media. Facebook hide caption toggle caption Facebook A screenshot of an Instagram post Facebook linked to Russia’s Internet Research Agency. United World International was a phony website created by the Russian operation and promoted on social media. Facebook Facebook and Twitter said on Thursday they had removed several hundred fake accounts linked to Russian military intelligence and other Kremlin-backed actors involved in previous efforts to interfere in U.S. politics, including the 2016 […]
WASHINGTON (Times of Israel) — US President Donald Trump on Wednesday again declined to commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he loses the Nov. 3 presidential election. “We’re going to have to see what happens,” Trump said at a news conference, responding to a question about whether he’d commit to a peaceful transfer of power. “You know that I’ve been complaining very strongly about the ballots, and the ballots are a disaster.” Trump has been pressing a monthslong campaign against mail-in voting this November by tweeting and speaking out critically about the practice. More states are encouraging mail-in voting […]
In a video message released Tuesday, UK Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle, the latter a US citizen, called on Americans to “reject hate speech, misinformation and online negativity”, urging them to vote on 3 November in the “most important election of our lifetime”. Many viewed the comments as directed against US President Donald Trump. US President Donald Trump on Wednesday criticized Prince Harry and his American spouse, Meghan Markle, for their involvement and interest in the 3 November presidential election. In a press conference at the White House, Trump was asked by reporters about the Duke and Duchess of […]
President Donald Trump on Wednesday blatantly refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of power following November’s general election. “We’re going to have to see what happens, you know that I’ve been complaining very strongly about the ballots and the ballots are a disaster,” Trump said when pressed by a reporter to commit to ensuring a peaceful transfer of power. As the same reporter further pressed the president, Trump said, “We want to … get rid of the ballots and we’ll have a very peaceful, there won’t be a transfer, frankly, there’ll be a continuation.” “The ballots are out of control, […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Max Gorbachev. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/us/202009231080551985-fbi-warns-foreign-actors-and-hackers-could-spread-misinformation-on-results-of-presidential/ Both Republicans and Democrats have previously warned that foreign actors may attempt to influence the upcoming presidential election scheduled for 3 November by using various means. In response to these claims, tech companies such as Facebook and Twitter have introduced new rules to prevent election interference. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has released a public service announcement warning the American public about foreign actors and cybercriminals that could spread misinformation about the results of the upcoming presidential election. “Foreign actors and cybercriminals could create new websites, change existing websites, and create or […]
Later this week, President Donald Trump is expected to announce his choice for Supreme Court justice to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died on 18 September due to cancer complications. Democrats insist that the new justice should be nominated after the 3 November presidential election. The American news website Axios has quoted finance experts as saying that US President Donald Trump’s resolve to nominate a new Supreme Court justice in the coming days may add to Wall Street’s concerns over market volatility before the 3 November election. Priya Misra, head of global rates strategy with the Canadian TD Securities investment bank, […]
Senate Republicans have released their controversial report on Joe Biden and his son Hunter’s former dealings with Ukraine in a politically-charged move to taint Biden’s campaign weeks out from Election Day. The investigation, which was spearheaded by Sens. Ron Johnson (R-WI) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) focuses on Hunter Biden’s work for Ukrainian gas company Burisma Holdings—a key issue in last year’s impeachment of President Donald Trump. The probe was launched despite no evidence of any wrongdoing by Hunter Biden ever being established. The report contains little that wasn’t already known. Its headline finding is that two Obama administration officials raised some […]
Facebook says the fake accounts it removed focused mainly on Southeast Asia. But they also included some content about the U.S. election, which did not gain a large following. Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images Facebook says the fake accounts it removed focused mainly on Southeast Asia. But they also included some content about the U.S. election, which did not gain a large following. Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images Facebook says it has taken down a network of China-based fake accounts whose posts included content about the U.S. presidential election. Most of the […]
The November U.S. presidential election could be contentious, yet the bitcoin market is pricing little event risk. Analysts, however, warn against reading too much into the complacency suggested by the volatility metrics. Bitcoin’s three-month implied volatility, which captures the Nov. 3 election, fell to a two-month low of 60% (in annualized terms) over the weekend, having peaked at 80% in August, according to data source Skew. Implied volatility indicates the market’s expectation of how volatile an asset will be over a specific period. Bitcoin’s expected volatility over the next few months, as implied by the options market, has been falling. Source: […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/17/1080543893_0:0:3121:1757_1200x675_80_0_0_d11ba5484f4bc88b2a049bd939bee61a.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Evan Craighead . Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/us/202009231080543925-facebook-prepared-to-restrict-content-circulation-if-us-election-descends-into-online-chaos/ Facebook will take an array of measures to “restrict the circulation of content” if the November 3 US presidential election devolves into chaos and unrest, according to a Tuesday report by the Financial Times. Former UK member of parliament Nick Clegg, Facebook’s vice president for global affairs and communications risk management, told the Financial Times that risk management is one of the company’s utmost concerns related to the upcoming presidential election. Without getting into explicit details, Clegg noted that Facebook, which also owns the social media platform Instagram, has formulated a […]
In seeking to explain Monday’s sell-off across traditional markets and cryptocurrencies, the digital-asset firm QCP Capital rattled off a list of seven major market events that occurred in Septembers past, from the 1929 stock-market crash to the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy in 2008. There might be some deep human connection with the fall equinox — when the days turn shorter than nights in the northern hemisphere and summer turns to fall, according to the firm. “The human nervous system typically undergoes major measurable perturbations” during this period, QCP wrote Monday in its daily market update. The outlook is cloudy but there’s a risk of a steep […]
Labour Leader Keir Starmer’s speech, in which he suggested his party deserved to lose the 2019 election under Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership, has been ridiculed online as being self-defeating and full of “meaningless platitudes.” “When you lose an election in a democracy, you deserve to,” Starmer said during a Tuesday press conference. He added that his fellow Labour officials should ask themselves “what [were they] doing” for it to come to this. The opposition leader then lamented the losing streak his party is currently on, having lost four general elections in a row. Starmer also tried to pitch himself and Labour to […]
A voter stands by for her ballot as people wait more than four hours for early voting Friday in Fairfax, Va. Andrew Harnik/AP hide caption toggle caption Andrew Harnik/AP A voter stands by for her ballot as people wait more than four hours for early voting Friday in Fairfax, Va. Andrew Harnik/AP The night of Nov. 7, 2000, was cold and wet in Austin, Texas. “Nobody cared,” remembers Republican lawyer Ben Ginsberg, who worked for Texas Gov. George W. Bush’s presidential campaign. “We had just won the presidency of the United States.” That excitement quickly evaporated. As the night stretched on, […]
The Black Lives Matter activism group has deleted a page called “What We Believe” from its website, disappearing such objectives as disrupting the “Western-prescribed nuclear family structure” as the Nov. 3 election nears. The manifesto was published on BLM’s “What We Believe” page at least as long ago as on February 2 but was no longer available as of last Friday. The page is now blank, except for an error message indicating that it can’t be found. BLM gave no explanation for its missing manifesto; nor did it offer a comparable replacement, forcing all those curious about the movement’s goals to […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/15/1080525131_0:93:1389:874_1200x675_80_0_0_ec77ed135911c1d9f31fcc9a8f556966.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sergei Gridnev. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/world/202009211080524920-hungarian-pm-orban-endorses-donald-trump-in-upcoming-us-election/ Earlier this month, Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban expressed support for incumbent US President Donald Trump in the upcoming election after the two officials held a telephone conversation. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has endorsed Donald Trump’s re-election bid in the upcoming US presidential vote, saying that the Democrats have forced “moral imperialism” on the international community. “We root for Donald Trump’s victory because we know well American Democratic governments’ diplomacy, built on moral imperialism. We have been forced to sample it before, we did not like it, we do not want […]
POTUS has repeatedly hinted that “sleepy” Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden is mentally unfit to be at the helm of the US, while the former vice president’s medical assessment described him as a “healthy” and “vigorous” individual. Speaking at a campaign rally in Fayetteville, North Carolina, on Saturday night, President Donald Trump told voters that he may ink an executive order to prevent Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden from running as POTUS’ opponent in the upcoming 3 November election. “We can joke, we can play games, we can have fun. You can’t have this guy as your president. […] Maybe I’ll […]
NPR’s Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks to New Jersey Democratic Senator Cory Booker about the Republican push to replace Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg before the presidential election. Source link
Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins listens during a Senate hearing on Sept. 9. Greg Nash/The Hill/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Greg Nash/The Hill/Bloomberg via Getty Images Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins listens during a Senate hearing on Sept. 9. Greg Nash/The Hill/Bloomberg via Getty Images Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins says the nomination of a Supreme Court justice to fill the vacancy left by the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg should be made by whichever candidate wins the presidential election. Citing the proximity to Election Day — now just weeks away — she said in a statement Saturday: […]
Scott Ritter, former UN weapons inspector, assesses the outlook for agreement with Iran. Source link
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/12/1080507796_0:320:3072:2048_1200x675_80_0_0_11adb05b15e3efaf0339ad4bd542924d.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Asya Geydarova. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/us/202009181080507762-watch-long-lines-of-early-voters-seen-in-virginia-ahead-of-november-election/ The in-person early voting kicked off in four US states on Friday, with Minnesota – a critical “battleground” state – also registering a high turnout, prior to the visits of presidential candidates Donald Trump and Joe Biden. A large number of Virginians have lined up for in-person early voting across the state, ahead of the 3 November presidential election. Pictures and videos shared on social media show long lines of Virginia voters, mostly wearing masks and complying with social distancing rules. There may be 6+ weeks until Election Day 2020, but early […]
Twitter is making a host of new security measures compulsory for accounts belonging to users considered influential in the upcoming election. Source link
Dotcom also bashed Biden over the closure of the file-hosting system Megaupload, which occurred when the latter was the vice president of the United States. As the presidential election in the United States looms closer and closer, Internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom has delivered a verbal jab online against one of the contenders, Democratic candidate Joe Biden. In a tweet he posted on 17 September, Dotcom shared a video of Biden delivering the following line: “Cause if you could take care, if you were a quartermaster, you can sure in hell take care running a, you know, a department store—thing, you know, […]
Back in October 2016, just several weeks before the US presidential election, several women came forward to accuse Republican candidate Donald Trump of inappropriate sexual behaviour that allegedly took place decades ago. Former model Amy Dorris has accused US President Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her in his VIP box during the US Open tennis tournament back in 1997, the incident has left her feeling “sick” and “violated”, the woman told the Guardian in an exclusive. Dorris, now 48, said she got introduced to the former businessman at his office in Trump Tower on 5 September 1997 by her then boyfriend, Jason […]
The Senate and House intelligence committees say the director of national intelligence, John Ratcliffe, has agreed to resume face-to-face briefings on threats to the November election. Ratcliffe said last month he was canceling the briefings because the information was leaked to the media. He’s shown here at his confirmation hearing in May. Gabriella Demczuk/AP hide caption toggle caption Gabriella Demczuk/AP The Senate and House intelligence committees say the director of national intelligence, John Ratcliffe, has agreed to resume face-to-face briefings on threats to the November election. Ratcliffe said last month he was canceling the briefings because the information was leaked to […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107830/84/1078308472_0:0:3640:2048_1200x675_80_0_0_890fe97df5474d4ca4128089ab3574f4.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/world/202009111080430627-tehran-refutes-microsofts-claims-that-iranian-hackers-targeted-us-election-candidates/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Microsoft’s claim that Iranian hackers launched cyberattacks targeting candidates in the upcoming United States presidential election are untrue, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said in a statement to the CNN broadcaster. “United States of America has interfered for decades in the elections of other countries including Iran … US is leading disinformation campaigns against other countries. Therefore US is not in a position to have such claim,” the foreign ministry spokesman said. For Tehran, it does not matter who wins the US presidential election, Khatibzadeh said in the statement, adding […]
LA County’s public health chief has come under fire after saying that local schools would not reopen until after the 2020 presidential election, prompting criticism that officials are putting politics ahead of science. The county’s health director, Barbara Ferrer, recently told local educators that schools would remain shuttered until the beginning of November, repeatedly referring to the upcoming election, according to leaked audio obtained by LA radio station KFI AM 60. “We don’t realistically anticipate that we would be moving to either tier 2 or to reopening K-12 schools at least until after the election, in early November,” Ferrer said on […]
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The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) has added three Russian nationals and a host of cryptocurrency addresses to its sanctions list on allegations of election interference. OFAC alleges the three individuals, Artem Lifshits, Anton Andreyev and Darya Aslanova, are employees of the Internet Research Agency (IRA), a Russian company and “troll farm” that tries to influence events. The IRA attempted to influence the 2018 midterm elections in the U.S., and OFAC alleged Thursday this work has continued. “The IRA uses cryptocurrency to fund activities in furtherance of [its] ongoing malign influence operations around the world,” a press […]