I got a tension headache from watching the vice presidential debate. I recognized the source instantly, because it felt exactly like the throbbing pain I’ve felt every time I’ve had a man shout me down, cut me off and interrupt me during what’s supposed to be a public conversation. And I honestly cannot imagine that millions of women didn’t also instantly recognize the same feeling after watching Mike Pence’s performance on the debate stage. People spend a lot of time emphasizing the supposed odd-couple pairing of Vice President Pence and the president—contrasting the corrupt evangelicism of the former with the corrupt […]
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With only several weeks left before the 3 November presidential election, the contradictions between the Democrats and the Republicans are peaking in the stand-off between Trump and Biden. The president faces pressure from Democrats who criticise him for downplaying the threat of the coronavirus pandemic, the state of the country’s economy and his response to nationwide anti-racism and anti-police brutality protests. Sharing with Sputnik her opinion on the ongoing presidential race, conservative pundit DeAnna Lorraine rolled out her concerns on a possible “chaos and anarchy” that “the left” might cause in America, and advocated Trump policies amid the challenges of his […]
26 September is commemorated as international day for the total elimination of nuclear weapons, reminding the global community that 75 years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, atomic bombs still pose a threat to global stability. Over the years, the realisation of how risky nuclear energy can be has prompted some governments to shut down their reactors. Such was the case in Germany, which decided to phase out all its reactors following the Fukushima disaster of 2011; and such was the case in Italy, which has rejected any plans to resume the construction of nuclear plants on its soil. But there were also […]
MicroStrategy is prepared to HODL its bitcoin for at least a century. Or so said the business intelligence firm’s founder and CEO, Michael Saylor, in an interview with CoinDesk on Tuesday, shortly after he announced on Twitter that MicroStrategy was doubling down on the godfather cryptocurrency with the purchase of $175 million more BTC. “I want something that I could put $425 million into for 100 years,” Saylor told CoinDesk. In the last two months Saylor has transformed his company’s once-sleepy cash surplus into a nearly half-billion-dollar bet on bitcoin, the “digital gold” Saylor is certain will outlast his tenure. “If […]
IKOM, Nigeria—Stella Immanuel, the Houston doctor who praises hydroxychloroquine and says that face masks don’t necessarily stop the transmission of the highly contagious coronavirus, recently earned the nickname ‘Demon Sperm Doc’ based on her claims that illnesses like cysts and endometriosis are in fact caused by people having sex in their dreams with demons and witches. But those convictions don’t come out of thin air. While Dr. Immanuel’s assertions may have deep roots in early Jewish and Christian stories, her beliefs, according to people from her hometown in Cameroon, can be traced to an age-long assumption that infertility in women is […]
Peter Strzok, then an agent at the FBI, speaks during a joint House Judiciary, Oversight and Government Reform Committees hearing in Washington, D.C. on July 12, 2018. Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Bloomberg via Getty Images Peter Strzok, then an agent at the FBI, speaks during a joint House Judiciary, Oversight and Government Reform Committees hearing in Washington, D.C. on July 12, 2018. Bloomberg via Getty Images Peter Strzok omits a few important things from his new memoir, Compromised: Counterintelligence and the Threat of Donald J. Trump. Strzok, one of the most notorious FBI officials in history, wants […]
Stephen Colbert opened his show Wednesday night with a confession. “Now, full disclosure: I did not watch much of the convention tonight. And fullest disclosure: I did not watch any of it,” the Late Show host said. “Because right now in America, we’re facing a global pandemic that has killed 180,000 Americans, heavily armed Rambo wannabes are murdering people in our streets, the strongest hurricane in the history of the Gulf Coast is making landfall as I speak, and the RNC’s message is: Who’s up for four more years?” “I know by not watching the RNC I didn’t do my job […]
It’s hard to participate in the influencer economy from Cuba, but YouTuber Erich García Cruz is making it work. “We do not have access to Visa cards or Mastercard products because of the [U.S. trade] embargo,” Cruz explained. “We are monetized through YouTube.” Bitcoin is one of many tools he uses to turn those dollar earnings, in foreign bank accounts, into rent and grocery money in Cuba. Most of the freelancers around the world using bitcoin as borderless money appear to be programmers or other types of technical workers. However, Cruz is among the slowly growing number of content creators relying […]
Trevor Noah is feeling pretty good about Joe Biden’s decision to go with Kamala Harris as his running mate. “Say what you want about Joe, but the man went Black and he is not going back,” the Daily Show host joked. He then explained how “impressed” he was with the former vice president’s choice despite the fact that Harris “destroyed” him at their first debate last year. “In fact, part of me thinks he only picked her so that she can just never dust his ass in public again,” Noah continued. “This isn’t a VP pick, this is an insurance policy.” […]
The grids I used on four of last week’s five puzzles all had something in common: they contained eight six-letter entries, which is a lot for a small crossword grid. This was on purpose. Why? Because six letters is what I call “breakout length” in crosswords. Entries of three, four, and five letters are extremely common, of course, and there are relatively few of these words in the language due to their short length. This means the same ones get repeated all the time in puzzles – ERA and ERE, ERIE and ARIA, EERIE and ARENA – you know the ones […]
Savvy attackers might be able to “loot” bitcoin from others by way of the Lightning Network if users aren’t careful, a new cybersecurity report warns. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem computer scientists Jona Harris and Aviv Zohar have taken a closer look at a “systemic” Lightning Network attack that could lead to loss of funds. The attack, which they describe in their new paper, “Flood & Loot: A Systemic Attack on the Lightning Network,” preys on Bitcoin congestion. The problem with the Bitcoin blockchain is that it’s slow to settle payments and it only supports a few transactions per second. The […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107805/88/1078058854_0:0:3006:1691_1200x675_80_0_0_1e2b87b17f80804086ff68d9b69847d2.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/society/202006301079753492-anne-hathaway-explains-christopher-nolans-chair-thing/ Hathaway, one of the highest-paid actresses in the world in 2015, worked with director Christopher Nolan in two movies: the 2014 ‘Interstellar’ and the 2012 ‘The Dark Knight Rises’, in which she portrayed Batman’s purring nemesis, Catwoman. American actress Anne Hathaway recalled on Monday her joint work with British-American filmmaker Christopher Nolan during an interview on Variety’s Actors on Actors magazine issue, co-hosted by fellow actor Hugh Jackman. The 37-year-old Hollywood star also recalled her staring in Nolan’s ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ and his advice to her to train in order to make herself […]
The US spy agencies did not find any intelligence about Moscow offering bounties for American troops in Afghanistan that would be credible enough to inform him or his Vice President, US President Donald Trump said. In another blow to a volley of anonymously sourced claims, President Trump tweeted on Sunday night that US intelligence has “just reported to me that they did not find this info credible, and therefore did not report it to me or [Vice President Mike Pence” Possibly another fabricated Russia Hoax, maybe by the Fake News NYT, wanting to make Republicans look bad!!! Also on rt.com New […]
The figures are “a starting point” for further research and investigation which must be carried out whilst those who are most at risk are given the protection that they require, says Dr Andrew Clark of the London School of Tropical Hygiene and Medicine. 22 per cent of the world’s population,1.7 billion people, are at increased risk of “severe COVID-19” if they’re infected with the virus as a result of having at least one underlying health condition, according to a new study published in the Lancet Global Health journal that uses data from 188 countries. Dr Andrew Clark, with the London School of Tropical Hygiene and […]
A server wears a protective face mask while attending to customers amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Bethesda, Md., on June 12. Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images A server wears a protective face mask while attending to customers amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Bethesda, Md., on June 12. Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images Across the country, states are loosening the restrictions that had been put in place to curb the spread of COVID-19 — with varying results. New cases are decreasing in some states, including New York, Michigan and Colorado, while case numbers and hospitalizations have swelled recently in […]
The British government has released documents detailing parts of the relationship between the National Health Service and for-profit surveillance firms such as Faculty and Palantir and global consultancies such as McKinsey, following the threat of court proceedings brought by openDemocracy and Foxglove. Phil Booth, coordinator of the organisation medConfidential that campaigns for patient confidentiality and consent in Britain, explains the “devastating” revelations in the documents as well as what is still unknown about how the private information of millions of people is being handled. Sputnik: The last time we spoke you explained that NHS data was at risk from for-profit-surveillance firms. Since […]
Atlantic writer Anne Applebaum draws parallels between regimes in Eastern Europe and the Trump White House. She says our democracy can be destroyed — unless people fight back. Source link
The US Defence Secretary has faced heavy criticism after accompanying President Donald Trump in a prearranged photo opportunity in front of St. John’s Episcopal Church, where protesters had been dispersed with tear gas, rubber bullets and flash-bang grenades ahead of the president’s visit. US Defence Secretary Mark Esper, a Trump appointee, on Tuesday said that he was not aware of the destination of President Donald Trump when he accompanied the president on a walk from the White House across Lafayette Square to St. John’s Episcopal Church, where the president posed for a widely-criticized photo-op in front of the historic church. “I […]
Ushering in bitcoin’s third “halving,” by far the most highly awaited cryptocurrency event of the year, mining pool F2Pool rooted a mysterious message into the blockchain that will now reside there forever. Preceded by a fish emoji signifying the company’s logo, the mining pool added the text to a headline from The New York Times: “NYTimes 09/Apr/2020 With $2.3T Injection, Fed’s Plan Far Exceeds 2008 Rescue.” To bitcoin OGs, the significance is clear. It’s a reference to a similar newspaper heading that bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto embedded into the first-ever block slyly referencing the 2008’s momentous financial crisis, implying that bitcoin […]
So I was asking Sherrod Brown about going back to work in the United States Senate last week, and he gave me the most Sherrod Brown answer you could imagine: “McConnell summons us back,” he told me. “Think about this. Forget about senators and our safety. And most of us aren’t bringing any staff in, except maybe one person, or zero. There’s the generally well-paid floor staff and some professional people. But most of them are food-service—the Republicans are going ahead with their lunch this week, apparently every day. They’re the food-service workers, mostly middle aged women of color. Then there’s […]
Longtime Amazon VP Explains Why He Quit Over Treatment Of Amazon Whistleblowers May 6, 2020 Longtime Amazon VP Explains Why He Quit Over Treatment Of Amazon Whistleblowers2020-05-062020-05-06https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/timbray-e1588809071718.jpg200px200px Above photo: Tim Bray. May 1st was my last day as a VP and Distinguished Engineer at Amazon Web Services, after five years and five months of rewarding fun. I quit in dismay at Amazon firing whistleblowers who were making noise about warehouse employees frightened of Covid-19. What with big-tech salaries and share vestings, this will probably cost me over a million (pre-tax) dollars, not to mention the best job I’ve ever had, working with […]