I kept a little running tab of questions Amy Coney Barrett said she couldn’t possibly answer without compromising her future Supreme Court tenure. I’m sure I missed a lot of them, but here were six: One: Lindsey Graham asked her if there existed a constitutional right to polygamy. She couldn’t say. Two: Pat Leahy asked if a president could self-pardon. Couldn’t touch that one. Three: Amy Klobuchar asked if she thought mail-in ballots were legitimately democratic. That’s a policy position, I can’t express a view. Four: Richard Blumenthal asked if Obergefell was properly decided and asked her to consider its being […]
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The Medinet Habu temple was built in honour of pharaoh Ramses III, considered to be the last great monarch of the Egyptian Empire. Ramses III played a key role in Egypt’s victory over invaders known as the Sea Peoples. A mural that has been recently discovered in an Egyptian temple sheds light on the Kingdom of “one of Israel’s greatest enemies” – the Philistines, said Tom Meyer, professor of Bible studies at Shasta Bible College and Graduate School in California. According to Meyer, the 3,200-year-old mural gives an insight “into the fashion, employment, clothing, weaponry, instruments, modes of transportation and livestock […]
James Murdoch says he quit his father’s media empire because they were ‘legitimizing disinformation’ and slams ‘crazy’ Trump for ‘infecting the US with cruelty’ and downplaying COVID The youngest son of media mogul Rupert Murdoch told the New York Times about his decision to break free from the family business James Murdoch, 47, said he ‘pulled the rip cord’ from the family empire because he was ‘increasingly uncomfortable’ with News Corp and Fox He accused the news organization of ‘legitimizing disinformation’ suggesting it ‘hides agendas’, ‘sows doubt’ and ‘obscures fact’ He said he also clashed with the family empire’s denial of climate […]
The statement below was issued by over 70 former senior Republican national security officials on August 20, 2020, and 60 additional senior officials have now signed on, including many who served in the Trump Administration. Since its release, Donald Trump has continued to demonstrate that he is unfit to serve as president, reportedly calling Americans who served in our armed forces “losers” and “suckers,” admitting that he deliberately downplayed the threat from the coronavirus, and, alarmingly, now refusing to commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he loses the election. We are former national security officials who served during the administrations of Presidents […]
VT: The single biggest violator, Israel, is totally left out of this film While COVID-19 has disrupted many of the routines of normal life, many high school students will be returning to find the same college admissions milestones placed in front of them, with the due date for Early Decision/Early Action applications ranging from November 1st to November 15th, as per normal. Before applying, however, students might want to watch a new film produced by the Clarion Project, Covert Cash which provides stunning information that might not be readily available to the American public about the foreign funding that has gone into shaping the education offered […]
We Gawk At Nonsense Political Theater While The Real Enemies Go Unnoticed By Lee Camp, Consortium News. August 27, 2020 We Gawk At Nonsense Political Theater While The Real Enemies Go Unnoticed2020-08-272020-08-27https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/woman-face-thoughts-media-head-question-mark-circle-tree-structure-e1598549191470.jpg200px200px Looking beyond the distractions, one can see what really matters, like detecting cancer. Donald Trump speeches. Celebrity tweets. Corporate news repetition. Chaos. Vapidity. Manufactured dissent. Graphic fighting sports. This is what fills our field of vision. It consumes our thoughts, overflows our brains with anti-intellectual mud. Yet most of these things are the bug splatter across the windshield. They are not the actual highway, the path forward, actually deserving […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/08/14/1080223714_51:0:1321:714_1200x675_80_0_0_0092bcfb10367e50b5a38cb34de7bac4.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/viral/202008201080223342-frog-shows-how-to-keep-enemies-closer-with-its-ride-on-snake–video/ A famous saying goes keep your friends close, but your enemies closer and the same fits for a video of a frog taking a ride on a snake. The amphibian and the reptile are known for their enmity as frogs remain prey for snakes. A video of a frog casually sitting on a snake’s back, slithering around on the ground, is going viral on social media. Netizens are hailing the frog for a “survival technique”, using its enemy to protect itself. Frogs and snakes are known for their enmity and pictures of them swallowing each […]
The United States and Russia are not enemies and cannot afford to stop talking to one another, Russian Ambassador to the US Anatoly Antonov has said. Speaking on Russia-US relations during a video conference organized by the Washington-based Center for the National Interest on Wednesday, he said: “There is an ongoing debate on who is more at fault for their current deplorable state.” “There are contrasting views on who should take the first step towards the other side,” the diplomat noted. Currently, this process “resembles walking in a circle without any clear perspective of finding common ground,” he said. “On many […]
The ancient missive reportedly shows how the rivals of ancient Egyptians had to seek the latter’s help in the face of the looming calamity. A request for aid sent by the Queen of the Hittites to legendary Egyptian pharaoh Ramses II over three thousand years ago provides additional insight into the nature of the crisis that plagued the region back then, the Daily Express reports. Citing the “Egypt’s Unexplained Files” TV series, the newspaper notes that around 1,250 BC, the region in question was ravaged by “an extreme drought”, and the queen sent this missive, written on a clay tablet, despite […]
The Rebellion Against Police Repression Must Guard Against All Enemies By Danny Haiphong, Black Agenda Report. June 21, 2020 The Rebellion Against Police Repression Must Guard Against All Enemies2020-06-212020-06-21https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/haiphong_845x400_1.jpeg200px200px The terrain of struggle will need to expand for the movement to avoid a Democratic Party-induced slumber. “The movement’s enemies in blue not only include the cops but also the entire Democratic Party.” The masses are in motion and public opinion about U.S. policing has rapidly shifted in three short weeks. George Floyd and Breonna Taylor’s assassination at the hands of U.S. police departments unleased a flood of anger toward the special […]
The Movement Gets Big – And Its Enemies Reveal Themselves By Glen Ford, Black Agenda Report. June 8, 2020 The Movement Gets Big – And Its Enemies Reveal Themselves2020-06-082020-06-08https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/glen_845x400.jpeg200px200px The decrepit racial capitalist order appears to be unraveling under the weight of coronavirus, economic depression, and a quantitative leap in people’s willingness to confront power through the politics of the street. “The Black Misleadership Class’s identification with Power has become all but complete.” The scope and intensity of the convulsion that has shaken the United States since the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis on Memorial Day, is breathtaking. Hundreds […]