Holding General Mills Accountable For Profiting From Occupation October 21, 2020 Holding General Mills Accountable For Profiting From Occupation2020-10-212020-10-21https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/gm-e1603287226822.jpg200px200px Above photo: Protesters call on General Mills to stop manufacturing Pillsbury products on an illegal settlement in the occupied Palestinian territory. Emma Leigh Sron / AFSC. AFSC and partners took our campaign to boycott Pillsbury to the corporation’s boardroom. Earlier this fall, we launched our No Dough […]
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The Stryker’s manufacturer, General Dynamics Land Systems, has released new video footage of Interim Maneuver Short-Range Air Defense (IM-SHORAD) system test it carried out in cooperation with the U.S. Army earlier this year. Video posted on Twitter to show fire test of main armaments of IM-SHORAD vehicle, which includes Hellfire missiles, Stinger missiles and a 30mm cannon. As noted by the company, the IM-SHORAD vehicle is […]
Famed Hummer maker, AM General has unveiled its new version of the legendary HMMWV or Humvee tactical vehicle at the Association of the U.S. Army’s (AUSA) annual exhibition. The automaker has demonstrated a new light tactical vehicle with MRAP-level protection, called the NXT 360. As noted by the company, the NXT 360 is the next generation of Humvee light tactical vehicle configuration for maximum commonality, simplified maintenance, […]
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra has sent a cease-and-desist letter to Republican Party officials demanding that unauthorised ballot drop off boxes be removed. Becerra, as well as California Secretary of State Alex Padilla, have demanded that Republicans provide a list of voters whose ballots have been collected using the “unauthorised” boxes. Anyone who tampers with the vote is tampering with free and fair […]
Every element of the criminal system is implicated in the failure to secure justice for Breonna Taylor. The cops, per the judge who signed off the warrant that set the events leading to Taylor’s murder in motion, likely obtained that paperwork using fabricated information. Shoddy police work saw Louisville law enforcement raid Taylor’s home despite the fact that the suspect they sought was already in their […]
TeleTracking was awarded a contract to collect COVID-19 data from the nation’s hospitals despite no previous experience working on this sort of data collection. And its system has been plagued by inconsistencies and errors. Westend61/Getty Images/Westend61 hide caption toggle caption Westend61/Getty Images/Westend61 TeleTracking was awarded a contract to collect COVID-19 data from the nation’s hospitals despite no previous experience working on this sort of data collection. […]
General Dynamics Land Systems was awarded a $1.2 billion contract to produce, test and deliver Interim Maneuver Short-Range Air Defense (IM-SHORAD) systems, according to the U.S. Department of Defense contract announcements. Per the contract, work locations and funding will be determined with each order, with an estimated completion date of Sept. 30, 2025. IM-SHORAD is an Air Defense Artillery capability which moves and maneuvers in direct […]
The UK government is well-known for being coy about revealing information on its cyber warfare powers. Therefore, the military official’s comments were rather unprecedented. The only acknowledged cyber campaign to date to have been carried out by British forces was aimed shutting down Daesh’ internet presence. The UK has developed offensive cyber warfare capabilities that have the power to destroy national power grids and other such […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/19/1080569744_0:0:3072:1728_1200x675_80_0_0_d3d04d2a685f1842bb210dd6207f801a.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/world/202009251080569794-day-4-of-75th-united-nations-general-assembly—video/ The jubilee session is largely being held in a remote format because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. However, several world leaders arrived in New York in person to deliver their speech. Sputnik is live from New York City as the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly begins its fourth day. This year the global leaders mainly chose to […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/19/1080566302_0:70:3072:1798_1200x675_80_0_0_898e72c855cc92411a6b3349964c7a77.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202009251080566333-us-attorney-general-says-sub-source-of-steele-dossier-was-probed-for-alleged-russia-ties/ WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – US Attorney General William Barr, in a letter to Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham, said the primary sub-source of the Steele Dossier was investigated by the FBI in 2016 for alleged ties to Russian intelligence. “A footnote in the Inspector General’s report contains information, which up till now has been classified and redacted, bearing on the […]
From the robotic arms of the Shuttle era and the International Space Station to synthetic aperture radar programs and satellites studying critical elements of Earth’s changing climate to telecommunication needs in the northern parts of the country, Canada has been a mainstay of space exploration from the beginning. While many champion the current “golden age” of commercialization of space, that very commercialization is what has always […]
The payments processor facilitated millions of dollars of PlexCoin investments before shuttering accounts in September 2017. Source link
U.S. Attorney General William Barr, seen here in Phoenix Sept. 10, called his colleagues at the Justice Department a “permanent bureaucracy,” in a speech Wednesday. Bob Christie/AP hide caption toggle caption Bob Christie/AP U.S. Attorney General William Barr, seen here in Phoenix Sept. 10, called his colleagues at the Justice Department a “permanent bureaucracy,” in a speech Wednesday. Bob Christie/AP Updated at 8:22 am ET Attorney […]
The New York Attorney General’s office is losing patience with Bitfinex and Tether. NYAG senior enforcement counsel John Castiglione filed a letter Monday ahead of a conference between the regulator and the two cryptocurrency firms arguing it is way time they complied with a 17-month-old document production order detailing financial information within the next two months. For their part, counsel representing the two firms argue the […]
…from SouthFront.org A Turkish general died of a heart attack in the combat zone of the Syrian province of Idlib, the Turkish Defense Ministry reported on September 9. According to Turkish state media, the general started to feel bad in the combat zone and was evacuated to a hospital. However, he died despite doctors’ best efforts. Afterwards, his body was moved to the Turkish province of […]
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The US Justice Department’s operation to crack down on inner-city violence has led to a significant reduction in homicides in Chicago, Attorney General William Barr said on Wednesday. “I am pleased to report that Operation Legend is working. Crime is down and order is being restored,” Barr said at a press conference in the Windy City. “Operation Legend’s success is perhaps most dramatic […]
Fresh off of publicly encouraging his supporters to commit voter fraud and vote for him twice, President Trump on Tuesday issued a memo announcing the federal government’s plans to cut off “lawless zones” from federal funding. The five-page document, sent to Attorney General Bill Barr and director of the Office of Management and Budget Russell Vought, claims that “anarchy” is taking over Democratic-run cities and calls […]
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy testifies during a House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing on Monday. Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Imag hide caption toggle caption Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Imag Postmaster General Louis DeJoy testifies during a House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing on Monday. Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Imag Postmaster General Louis DeJoy promised some of the nation’s top election […]
General Dynamic announced that its wholly owned subsidiary General Dynamics European Land Systems-Santa Bárbara Sistemas (GDELS-SBS) has received orders totaling $870 million from the Spanish Ministry of Defense for newest 8×8 Wheeled Combat Vehicles (VCR). The contract award from Spanish Ministry of Defense to a joint venture of General Dynamics European Land Systems-Santa Bárbara Sistemas (GDELS-SBS) and three other companies to deliver 348 VCR, their maintenance […]
Democrats have labored to make the case that Postmaster General Louis DeJoy knowingly acted as a henchman for President Donald Trump’s designs on the U.S. Postal Service. But during a high-profile congressional hearing on Monday, they might have made a different point more successfully: that he doesn’t know what he’s doing. When he took over the Postal Service’s top job in June, DeJoy, a former logistics […]
Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA) had five minutes to question President Donald Trump’s hand-picked Postmaster General Louis DeJoy on Monday afternoon and she didn’t waste a second of it. The congresswoman’s first question seemed like a softball. “What is the cost of a first-class postage stamp?” she asked. DeJoy got that one right by answering $0.55, but it went downhill fast from there. He didn’t know how […]
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy departs from a meeting in the Capitol in early August. Caroline Brehman/CQ-Roll Call Inc via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Caroline Brehman/CQ-Roll Call Inc via Getty Images Postmaster General Louis DeJoy departs from a meeting in the Capitol in early August. Caroline Brehman/CQ-Roll Call Inc via Getty Images Postmaster General Louis DeJoy is set to take questions from senators on Friday […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/08/15/1080232400_0:-1:3640:2048_1200x675_80_0_0_3595b460a486afd8b1c7564be6e69db9.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/africa/202008211080232430-new-malian-authorities-arrest-general-responsible-for-state-security–reports/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The new Malian authorities, who came to power after the recent coup, have detained the state security director, General Moussa Diawara, according to Malian media. Diawara is believed to have played a great role in the government of President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, who was also detained by organizers of the coup, the aBamako news outlet reported […]
Aiding in the theft is, among others, Timothy Shea, acting director of the Drug Enforcement Agency. Shea was appointed US Attorney by Trump and is one of Attorney General William Barr’s closes persona friends. Trump may allow him to continue running America’s anti-drug efforts from prison, we have yet to hear from the president on this current massive scandal. Former Trump administration chief strategist Steve Bannon was […]
U.S. Special Operations Command awarded a $48,9 million contract modification to General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems for its production of Ground Mobility Vehicle 1.1. The contract modification award from Special Operations Command raises the contract ceiling to $613,850,752 and extends the contract by two years for a total performance period of nine years. The work will be performed in Anniston, Alabama, and is expected to be […]
A senior Russian military adviser with the rank of major general has been killed in an attack in Syria’s eastern Deir ez-Zor province, the Defense Ministry has confirmed. Two more Russian servicemen were injured in the incident. A Russian military column was struck by a blast on Tuesday while en route from the Deir ez-Zor area, where the military had carried out humanitarian operations. A roadside […]
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/middleeast/202008181080207189-russian-general-killed-two-troops-injured-in-roadside-blast-in-syria/ The incident was said to have taken place in Deir ez-Zor province, northeastern Syria. A Russian major-general was killed and two troops were injured in Syria Tuesday after vehicles they were traveling in were hit by an improvised explosive device. DETAILS TO FOLLOW Source link
A group of protestors hold a demonstration in front of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s home in Greensboro, North Carolina on August 16, 2020. LOGAN CYRUS/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption LOGAN CYRUS/AFP via Getty Images A group of protestors hold a demonstration in front of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s home in Greensboro, North Carolina on August 16, 2020. LOGAN CYRUS/AFP via Getty Images Postmaster […]
President Trump teased reporters on the flight back to Washington last night that he will be making a major announcement today and pardoning someone big. He said it won’t be General Flynn or Eric Snowden. CBS reporter Weijia Jiang shared last night: NEW: On the flight home from Wisconsin, the President told us he plans to pardon someone “very, very important” tomorrow who is not Edward […]
Demonstrators prepare to march Saturday to the home of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy in Washington, D.C. Eric Lee/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Eric Lee/Bloomberg via Getty Images Demonstrators prepare to march Saturday to the home of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy in Washington, D.C. Eric Lee/Bloomberg via Getty Images Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has agreed to appear for a U.S. House Oversight Committee hearing […]
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) on Friday sent a letter to Postmaster General Louis DeJoy demanding documents and answers by August 21 on changes they say could damage the USPS’s ability to process mail-in ballots. The Democrat-media complex exploded a couple weeks ago and accused President Trump of “destroying” the US Postal Service after the President’s newly appointed Postmaster […]
The General Flynn Hearing before the DC Circuit Court of Appeals is live this morning. CSPAN is carrying the hearing live. The post General Michael Flynn Hearing Before DC Circuit Court of Appeals — LIVE NOW — VIDEO appeared first on The Gateway Pundit. Source link