Above Photo: Francisca Lita Sáez (Spain), An Unequal Fight, 2020. We Look for Compassion. These are deeply upsetting times. The COVID-19 global pandemic had the potential to bring people together, to strengthen global institutions such as the World Health Organization (WHO), and to galvanize new faith in public action. Our vast social wealth could have been pledged to improve public health systems, including both the surveillance of outbreaks of illness and the development of medical systems to treat people during these outbreaks. Not so. Studies by the WHO have shown us that health care spending by governments in poorer nations has been relatively […]
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Above Photo: Demonstrators protest the police killing of Patrick Lyoya in Grand Rapids, Michigan. It is not surprising that a settler colonial state would practice racism for centuries or that race would be the major factor determining who lives and who dies. It is no secret that the United States is an organized death cult. The U.S. is the unquestionable leader in total COVID-19 deaths. Life expectancy has been trending downward for the past several years. Mass shootings are a common occurrence. And U.S. foreign policy is marked by an obsession with violent and destructive interventions for hegemony and corporate profit. […]
Above Photo: Pro-Ukraine demonstration in Washington, Feb. 25. (John Brighenti, Flickr, CC BY 2.0) Americans don’t merely acquiesce to the imperium’s wars, interventions, collective punishments and assorted other deprivations. They actively embrace them. The other day I ventured forth from my remote village to a lively market town called Great Barrington to shop for Easter lunch — spring lamb, a decent bottle of Bourgogne. Easter is much marked in my household, one of the few feasts we allow ourselves, and it is a reminder this year of a truth that could scarcely be more pertinent to our shared circumstances: After all […]
Above Photo: On April 7, the government of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro celebrated the delivery of 4 million homes to citizens as part of the Great Housing Mission of Venezuela (GMVV). Nicolás Maduro / Twitter The Great Housing Mission of Venezuela (GMVV), launched by Commander Hugo Chávez in 2011, provides decent homes to low-income families at a low cost or free of charge, depending on their income. On April 7, the socialist government of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro celebrated the delivery of a record 4 million homes to its citizens as part of a social housing program called the Great Housing […]
We Are in a Period of Great Tectonic Shifts By Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. March 18, 2022 We Are in a Period of Great Tectonic Shifts2022-03-182022-03-18https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/220318-6.jpg200px200px Above Photo: Chiharu Shiota (Japan), Navigating the Unknown, 2020. The war in Ukraine has focused attention on the shifts taking place in the world order. Russia’s military intervention has been met with sanctions from the West as well as with the transport of arms and mercenaries to Ukraine. These sanctions will have a major impact on the Russian economy as well as the Central Asian states, but they will also negatively impact the […]
In These Days of Great Tension, Peace Is a Priority By Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. March 4, 2022 In These Days of Great Tension, Peace Is a Priority2022-03-042022-03-04https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/220304-5.jpg200px200px Above Photo: Konstantin Yuon (USSR), People of the Future, 1929. It is impossible not to be moved by the outrageousness of warfare, the ugliness of aerial bombardment, the gruesome fears of civilians who are trapped between choices that are not their own. If you read this line and assume I am talking about Ukraine, then you are right, but of course, this is not just about Ukraine. In the same week that […]
Above Photo: Man passes in front of a shop that is closing down in Wood Green, London. February 5, 2021. Wei Huang / Shutterstock.com. The implosion of neoliberal globalization is not just a moment of regression, but potentially a phase of re-internalization, which the left should exploit. The current political era is best understood as a “great recoil” of economic globalization. It is a moment when the coordinates of historical development seem to be inverting, upsetting many of the assumptions that dominated politics and economics over the last decades. This moment corresponds to the “second movement” socialist economic historian Karl Polanyi […]
Above photo: ‘No one calls it a general strike. But in its own disorganized way it’s related to the organized strikes breaking out across the land.’ Evert Nelson/AP. The best definition of a strike is when ‘workers withhold their labor’ for better wages and working conditions. The conventional wisdom is that unions go on strike. But that is incorrect. Workers go on strike and they don’t necessarily need to be members of unions. That fact is evident today as millions of US workers are refusing to return to their jobs. They are ‘withholding their labor’ searching for better pay and a […]
Undefeated lightweight Teofimo Lopez says that the boxing community will be stunned when he beats the man regarded by most as the world’s best boxer, Vasyl Lomachenko, on Saturday night. Pound-for-pound great Lomachenko heads into the fight against the 15-0 Lopez as a 4/1 favorite, but Lopez says that the pre-fight odds don’t reflect what he expects to unfold when the world’s consensus top two lightweight fighters collide in Las Vegas, Nevada. Also on rt.com ‘I want to improve my legacy’: Vasyl Lomachenko targets another title ahead of Teofimo Lopez showdown (VIDEO) “Man, they’re gonna use every excuse in the book,” […]
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – US President Donald Trump said at the first campaign rally he held since announcing his COVID-19 diagnosis that he was feeling great. Speaking without a face mask, Trump told his supporters in Sanford, Florida, on Monday that he was “in great shape” and “energised by your prayers and humbled by your support.” “We are going to take whatever the hell they gave me and we are going to distribute it around the hospitals”, Trump said. “I’ll kiss the guys and the beautiful women. I’ll just give you a big fat kiss”, Trump added later on in his speech. […]
Dr Michael Head, a senior research fellow in global health at the University of Southampton, said the declaration was “a very bad idea” and doubted that vulnerable people would be able to avoid the virus if it was allowed to become widespread. “Ultimately, the Barrington Declaration is based on principles that are dangerous to national and global public health,” said Head. Guardian: An open letter that made headlines calling for a herd immunity approach to Covid-19 lists a number of apparently fake names among its expert signatories, including “Dr Johnny Bananas” and “Professor Cominic Dummings”. EXCLUSIVE: Great Barrington Declaration on ‘herd […]
Manchester United fans are divided after the club announced the capture of former Paris Saint-Germain striker Edinson Cavani on a free transfer on Monday. The club confirmed the Uruguayan, who was a free agent after he left PSG when his contract expired in June, has signed a two-year-deal at Old Trafford. Cavani bagged 200 goals and 43 assists in 301 matches for PSG, although last season he struggled for fitness and played just 22 times, scoring seven goals. While United have not had to shell out a transfer fee, Cavani will reportedly earn £10.4 million ($13.5 million) a year, amounting to roughly […]
President Trump sent the mainstream press and other foes into freak-out mode by making a surprise visit to supporters outside Walter Reed hospital, with critics saying the stunt proved he still wasn’t taking Covid-19 seriously. “He still does not seem to understand the seriousness of a highly contagious and deadly disease,” CNN’s Maeve Reston wrote, calling the incident a “photo op.” She went on to call the White House’s handling of Trump’s Covid-19 diagnosis and subsequent treatment “a textbook example of how not to handle a deadly virus.” The White House press pool was already cranky on Sunday, after Trump’s doctors […]
🎥 𝗩𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗼 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄 – Open Source, Pedophilia, Trump, and More 👇👇📧 𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝗙𝗥𝗘𝗘 𝗘𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗹 𝗔𝗹𝗲𝗿𝘁𝘀 & 𝗨𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝘁 https://bit.ly/3gKjVPR🤝 𝗛𝗲𝗹𝗽 #𝗨𝗡𝗥𝗜𝗚 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺 𝗮𝘁 https://TheSteeleReport.com💥 𝟱𝗚 𝗗𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿 & 𝗘𝗠𝗙 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘆𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗮𝘁 https://bit.ly/34schWS 𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗩𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗼 Robert David Steele is interviewed by Jodie with Amelia Love. Jodie From London Lover of truth Studying metaphysics and consciousness, Child & human trafficking activist Instagram @eyeswideopenofficialFacebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/251412326312555/?ref=share Amelia was walking and talking at 9 months, left home at 16, grew up in London, England within the music and entertainment industry, has defeated massive medical challenges while reading thousands of books by others. Today she […]
President Trump speaks at a campaign rally on Friday in Newport News, Va. Trump announced an expansion of his moratorium on offshore drilling. Steve Helber/AP hide caption toggle caption Steve Helber/AP President Trump speaks at a campaign rally on Friday in Newport News, Va. Trump announced an expansion of his moratorium on offshore drilling. Steve Helber/AP President Trump expanded a ban on exploratory drilling this week off the coasts of North Carolina and Virginia, his latest extension of an existing offshore drilling moratorium in the Gulf of Mexico. The memorandum, which Trump signed Friday, “prevents consideration of this area for any […]
America’s Current Jobs ‘Great Depression’ September 11, 2020 America’s Current Jobs ‘Great Depression’2020-09-112020-09-11https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/line-food-bank-e1599870392277.jpg200px200px Above photo: Stephanie Keith, Getty Images. “Two well-known and highly respected mainstream economists, Carmen Reinhart, a chief economist for the World Bank, and Vincent Reinhart, chief economist for Morgan Stanley bank, have recently published an article in the widely read capitalist source, Foreign Affairs, entitled ‘The Pandemic Depression’. Arguing primarily from a global perspective, the economists have concluded the US economy as of the 3rd quarter 2020 is not merely now experiencing a ‘great recession’ but now qualifies as another Great Depression. There is another perspective, however, from […]
Fox Business host Lou Dobbs is well known for his over-the-top sycophancy for President Donald Trump, praising the “greatest president ever” for making weekends “possible for us all” and claiming Trump’s set a standard “that most mortals won’t be able to meet.” Dobbs, who also serves as an informal presidential adviser, ratcheted up the “Dear Leader” adulation even further Wednesday night while simultaneously ignoring the day’s bombshell revelations that Trump intentionally downplayed the coronavirus pandemic. Hours before Dobbs took to air, audio recordings were released from legendary journalist Bob Woodward’s slate of interviews with Trump earlier this year for his upcoming […]
Republican Senator Ben Sasse is at the center of a national online discussion after his ideas to reform the US Senate according to the Founding Fathers’ supposed wishes were critiqued as both undemocratic and simply “weird.” Sasse’s Wall Street Journal opinion piece, published on Tuesday and titled “Make the Senate Great Again,” most notably made the case for repealing the 17th amendment of the constitution. This change would put an end to US senators being elected by statewide popular vote. The Nebraska legislator would like the country to go back to the pre-1912 amendment rule, where state legislatures voted on the […]
The new Katy Perry is a lot like the old one—or at least one of the old ones in her era-defined pop career. Her album Smile, released on Aug. 28, feels like a B side to her third album Prism, released seven years ago, that found her healing from a short-lived marriage to Russell Brand and the intensity of her record-smashing Teenage Dream run. Instead of pursuing personal happiness amid commercial success and public heartbreak this time, Perry is rehabilitating from the crash and burn of her previous album Witness that left her “depressed” and “insecure” after failing to impress critics […]
The Wall Street Crash And The Great Depression By James Kilby, Marxist.com. September 8, 2020 The Wall Street Crash And The Great Depression2020-09-082020-09-08https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/capture.png200px200px Lessons for today. With mass unemployment on the cards, many are comparing the current crisis to the Great Depression of the 1930s. In both cases, however, these crises were not ‘accidental’, but a product of capitalism’s insoluble contradictions. Capitalism is entering into what looks set to be its deepest crisis ever. Although COVID-19 provided the trigger, a deep slump has been in the making for many years. With the stock market in turmoil, mass unemployment, and the perspective […]
Diego Maradona has reacted angrily after Napoli, the club where he spent seven sensational years at the peak of his career, appeared to ignore the 30th anniversary of a memorable cup final in which he led them to a resounding win. Maradona, a two-time Serie A winner in Naples, captained the team at their San Paolo home as they thrashed Juventus 5-1 on September 1, 1990, asserting their eminence after they had won Serie A the previous season. Napoli humiliated the Bianconeri on the day but have not won the league since that year and have arguably never had a player as great as […]
Daily Beast: Mary Trump, niece of President Donald Trump, shared new recordings of her family late Friday that captured Maryanne Trump Barry, sister of the commander-in-chief, bashing Ivanka Trump. “When that damn Ivanka puts this picture of the Madonna and Child on Instagram when the big news of the day was how children are getting ripped away from their parents. I couldn’t blame—I’d never heard of Samantha Bee, but I couldn’t blame what she said,” Trump Barry said. Ivanka Trump had posted a happy picture of herself hugging one of her children on social media, and comedian Samantha Bee derided her […]
🎥 𝗩𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗼 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄 – Aga Khan & UK Enemies of the USA? 👇🤝 𝗛𝗲𝗹𝗽 𝗥𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘁 #𝗨𝗡𝗥𝗜𝗚 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺 𝗮𝘁 https://TheSteeleReport.com📧 𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝗙𝗥𝗘𝗘 𝗘𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗹 𝗔𝗹𝗲𝗿𝘁𝘀 & 𝗨𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗥𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘁 𝗮𝘁 https://bit.ly/3gKjVPR 𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗩𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗼 Believe nothing you read about this man at Wikipedia — he is a counter-revolutionary and top counterintelligence mind on the cultural subversion of America and equally informed about the degree to which the UK is the near enemy of the USA and the Aga Khan is the key British agent in going after control of the New Silk Road being built by China. Unanswered is the degree […]
America’s Great Ambassador First Lady Melania Trump spoke at the RNC 2020 on Tuesday night. Melania is the most gracious and beautiful First Lady in American history. Melania has been a rock for this president and a courageous example to all American women. Melania Trump, “It is my greatest honor to serve you… Thank you to all who serve our country in our military.” TRENDING: Media Blackout: North Carolina Man Arrested For Shooting at Crowd of Trump Supporters, Which Included Children Melania spoke about her trips to Europe and Africa and her visit to the slave coast. And she called out […]
When you visit Maypop on O’Keefe Street, a popular “American South meets Southeast Asia” eatery in New Orleans, you’ll see a huge 3-dimensional accordion-like mural on the wall. It’s also reminiscent of a giant Vietnamese folded fan. If you’re on one side of the restaurant, you’re looking at a map of The Mississippi Delta. If you walk to the other side, your view is a map of The Mekong Delta in the southern part of Vietnam. After a dozen visits to New Orleans spanning from the late 1990s through its tricentennial, it’s noticeable to me that New Orleans’ three hundred-plus years […]
President Trump speaks on the South Lawn of the White House, accompanied by First Lady Melania Trump, on July 4. He’ll deliver his main convention speech from the same location on Thursday. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images President Trump speaks on the South Lawn of the White House, accompanied by First Lady Melania Trump, on July 4. He’ll deliver his main convention speech from the same location on Thursday. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images The last three American presidents all won reelection, and they all knew voters would reward them, not for […]
The organisation bills itself as an international aid agency that provides humanitarian relief to over 40 countries in the world irrespective of gender, race, or religious belief. Former Foreign Secretary David Miliband once described the organisation as representing “the values that bind Britain together as a liberal democracy.” The full board of the UK’s largest Muslim charity set to resign on Sunday following revelations that one of its directors praised terrorists and engaged in anti-Semitic slurs on social media, according to The Times. Islamic Relief Worldwide (IRW), which is based in the city of Birmingham, has admitted that a number of […]
Despite the stock market returning to all-time highs, many can’t shake the feeling that all is not well in the economy. Today on The Breakdown’s Weekly Recap: People aren’t buying “the Great American Recovery” Let’s stop considering the economy as one thing Dave Portnoy doesn’t care about your principles DeFi is the Wild West and saved only by the fact that no normie understands what the hell is going on Bitcoin is being compared to the dollar not stocks and that’s serious progress This week on The Breakdown: Disclosure The leader in blockchain news, CoinDesk is a media outlet that strives […]
BlockFi has raised a Series A, B and C within a 12-month span, an ICO’s investors can’t find the people they’re trying to sue and stablecoin demand may become unbalanced by traders ditching a “market-neutral strategy.” You’re reading Blockchain Bites, the daily roundup of the most pivotal stories in blockchain and crypto news, and why they’re significant. You can subscribe to this and all of CoinDesk’s newsletters here. Top shelf Semper BlockFi?Crypto lender BlockFi closed a $50 million Series C led by Morgan Creek Digital and with participation from Peter Thiel’s Valar Ventures – the lead investor in BlockFi’s A and B rounds – Castle […]
Much has been made of the Extreme Telethon Energy of the virtual Democratic National Convention, which aired its third night Wednesday with segments shot from all over the country. Billie Eilish and Jennifer Hudson sang. Hillary Clinton, Elizabeth Warren, Barack Obama, and, in a brief standout moment, Gabrielle Giffords delivered moving speeches. Kamala Harris made history. Moderating it all, an inspired choice of A-list actress in an inspired pin-stripe pantsuit, was Kerry Washington, in full Olivia Pope mode, staring into the camera and pleading with earnestness typically reserved for when there is a toll-free 1-800 number on the bottom of the […]
Prices for ren, the token for the RenVM DeFi network, surged by more than 100% over the past week. That’s because the total amount of renBTC, a tokenized bitcoin that is locked in RenVM, broke 10,000 on Monday, according to data collected by DeFi Pulse. Source link
New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern has announced that she’s delaying the general election by a month citing a surge in coronavirus cases. The move has attracted attention in the US where Donald Trump floated a similar idea earlier. Ardern has announced the postponement of the election, from September 19 to October 17 on Monday after the country’s biggest city, Auckland, was forced into lockdown due to a growing number of coronavirus cases. Also on rt.com Trump moots delaying 2020 election over mail-in poll concerns ‘until people can properly, securely & safely vote’ New Zealand’s Director general of health Dr Ashley Bloomfield […]
US Defense Secretary Mark Esper said the mammoth explosion that rocked Beirut was likely an accident, pouring cold water on a theory floated by the president, who claimed the Pentagon assessed that a “bomb” had set off the blast. “[We’re] still getting information on what happened,” Esper told the Aspen Security Conference on Wednesday, but added “most believe it was an accident as reported, and beyond that I have nothing further to report on that. It’s obviously a tragedy.” Also on rt.com ‘A bomb of some kind’? Trump says US military officials think deadly Beirut blast was an ATTACK Hours after […]
Filmaker and journalist Pablo Navarrete followed John Shipton, the father of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, over a number of months as he campaigns to prevent his son from being extradited to the United States and secure his release from Britain’s Belmarsh maximum-security prison. Pablo Navarrete is a British-Chilean journalist and documentary filmmaker. He is the founder and co-editor of www.alborada.net which focuses on Latin American politics, media and culture, and is co-editor of Alborada Magazine. Mr Navarrete explained to Sputnik why he has made a new documentary called No Extradition, about WikiLeaks publisher and founder Julian Assange, his father John Shipton and […]
‘We Are On The Cusp Of Something Great’ August 2, 2020 ‘We Are On The Cusp Of Something Great’2020-08-022020-08-02https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/wdc-e1596383837807.jpg200px200px Above photo: Demonstrators march down Pennsylvania Avenue near the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., on June 3. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images. A Black Liberation Organizer on Next Steps for the Movement. An interview with Nikita Mitchell. Since the nation erupted after the May 25 police killing of George Floyd, Black organizers and community members have been working around the clock to channel mass protests into tangible victories. Nikita Mitchell, 26, is national coordinator of The Rising Majority, formed in 2017 by the Movement for Black […]
Shortly before the summer kicked off, Donald Trump was hopeful. The president, his campaign, and his top lieutenants in his administration were busy branding Trump the face of an upcoming American rebirth. He and his White House staff made a big push to position him as the frontman for economic revival, as summertime employment upticks seemed on the horizon and as experts and politicians kept their fingers crossed that the season’s heat would help spur a respite from the global pandemic. Trump and his 2020 team kept promising that they were doing everything they could to get him back on the […]
While Zionism is clearly a nationalist ideology, that narrow framing does the term an injustice as it is so much more. Zionism is more accurately described as a strategy for targeting thought and emotion as a means to influence behavior. Naïve Jews were its first victims when induced to identify with an enclave in the Middle East that President Harry Truman, a Christian Zionist, was induced to recognize as a “state.” Zionism is first and foremost a mental state that manifests as a dispersed form of internalized nationalism—a Diaspora—that binds to an extremist enclave those who may never set foot there. […]
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The Heritage Foundation is now collecting donations for the reconstruction of the 400-year-old organ in the Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul in Nantes that was damaged by a violent blaze on Saturday. “The gothic Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul of Nantes suffered a serious fire in the morning of Saturday, July 18, 2020. So that the great organs of Nantes cathedral are rebuilt and resonate again, the Heritage Foundation, in coordination with the Ministry of Culture, is appealing for generosity,” the foundation said in a statement. According to the release, the great organ of […]
The Great American Firewall: On The Question Of Censorship By Danny Haiphong, Black Agenda Report. July 17, 2020 The Great American Firewall: On The Question Of Censorship2020-07-172020-07-17https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/01/46852660991_7fba1c6a37_c.jpg200px200px Above photo: A close-up on an abstract design of a display, which is warning about a cyber attack. Multiple rows of hexadecimal code are interrupted by red glowing warnings and single character exclamation marks. The image can represent a variety of threats in the digital world: data theft, data leak, security breach, intrusion, etc… It should not surprise anyone that China would take protective measures against the threat of US imperialism in the realm of […]
As the Trump kids struggle with the realization of their father’s diminished station within the Republican Party and the world, they continue their signature missteps. Yes, the president’s large adult children aren’t taking their father’s unraveling in stride. In fact, the presidential spawns, who have long considered themselves the future of the Republican Party of which they’ve only been members since 2016 are now like violinists on the Titanic serenading daddy as he continues to kill his constituents. Ivanka Trump continues her nebulous work creating “initiatives.” First there was the great “success” of her Women’s Global Development and Prosperity Initiative, which […]
I remember when I first was told we’d be working from home. I was excited — no more commuting, pajamas all the time, breaks by the fridge, my fridge. It was all exciting at first, and yet, as time has gone on, little things have begun to annoy me. If I’m being honest, the one thing I miss most about the office is some peace and quiet. That can be hard to come by these days, especially if you have kids, or even just a partner who is almost constantly on the phone for their job. Thankfully, noise cancelling headphones exist. Sennheiser […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/07/0b/1079858894_0:79:2941:1732_1200x675_80_0_0_72ddf935e0846f33c978c56695174621.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202007111079858923-erdogan-says-conversion-of-hagia-sophia-into-mosque-step-towards-making-turkey-great/ ANKARA (Sputnik) – The decision to convert Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia into a mosque is a step towards making Turkey great and the opinions of other countries do not matter, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday. “We made a decision to change the status of the Hagia Sophia, based on the opinion of our people and not those who say things about us”, Erdogan stated during an appearance on Turkey’s NTV broadcaster. During his television appearance, Erdogan added that the country will continue to “take the right path, in order to build a […]
The difficulties in building the pyramids are believed to have sparked various technological advances at the time of their construction 4,500 years ago, with one of them supposedly being a method for shipping huge limestone blocks along the Nile River. Cutting-edge isotope analysis has enabled researchers to shed light on breakthrough solutions used by the Ancient Egyptian civilisation and, in particular, the origins of the Great Pyramid of Giza, the grandest landmark of the Cairo outskirts and one of the Seven World Wonders, as revealed by Amazon Prime’s “Egypt’s Unexplained Files”. “Investigators begin considering how in a time before people know […]
Notre-Dame Cathedral: Volunteer carpenters aim to settle reconstruction debate A group of volunteer carpenters are hoping to settle the debate over how Paris’s fire-ravaged Notre-Dame Cathedral should be rebuilt by constructing a replica of part of the structure’s roof entirely by hand using traditional techniques and materials. Armed with axes and hand saws, the team of 25 craftsmen and women, who belong to a collective called Carpenters Without Borders, managed to build one of the 25 trusses that made up the wooden roof of Notre-Dame that they say is identical to the original. “It is a demonstration of traditional techniques on […]
More great news ignored by the media. The number of coronavirus related deaths in the US on the 4th of July reached the lowest numbers since the beginning of the China coronavirus pandemic back in March. The number of deaths attributed to the China coronavirus (both actually tested and presumed) reached the lowest number of cases since the beginning of the crisis. On Saturday July 4th the number of cases recorded dropped to 254 deaths. TRENDING: “Tell My Family I Love Them” – Not Making Headlines Today: Last Words of Murdered Police Officer Anthony Dia to Police Dispatch March 23, 2020, […]
US President Donald Trump has argued that the recent surge in coronavirus cases is explained by “massive” and ramped up screenings for the illness, while celebrating the fall in daily fatalities as “great news.” The president took to Twitter late on Thursday night to repurpose what has been widely deemed gloomy news about the course of the pandemic, saying the case spike is, in fact, a function of expanded testing around the country. “There is a rise in coronavirus cases because our testing is so massive and so good, far bigger and better than any other country. This is great news, […]
Meet BlackRock, The New Great Vampire Squid By Ellen Brown, Web of Debt. June 23, 2020 Meet BlackRock, The New Great Vampire Squid2020-06-232020-06-23https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/blackrock-protest-e1592935856581.jpg200px200px Above photo: BlackRock Protest from the Action Network. BlackRock is a global financial giant with customers in 100 countries and its tentacles in major asset classes all over the world; and it now manages the spigots to trillions of bailout dollars from the Federal Reserve. The fate of a large portion of the country’s corporations has been put in the hands of a megalithic private entity with the private capitalist mandate to make as much money as possible for […]
New NDAA Omits COVID19, Escalates Great Power Conflict By Brandon Valeriano, Lauren Sander and Eric Gomez, Defense One. June 18, 2020 New NDAA Omits COVID19, Escalates Great Power Conflict2020-06-182020-06-18https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/rimpac-e1592497516553.jpg200px200px Above photo: RIMPAC, the Navy’s largest military exercise is still on despite COVID-19. RIMPAC. Note: The US needs a radical reversal in military spending as approximately 65 percent of federal discretionary spending goes to weapons and war. The crises at home are being exposed — inadequate public health infrastructure that cannot handle a pandemic, neglect of urban areas leading to police behaving as an occupying army, tens of thousands of deaths annually […]
A Bloomberg senior editor today argued there were six reasons why 2020 was bad for bitcoin. Here’s the opposite case. Bitcoin is up more than 30% on the year. After a crash alongside equities, it has proved incredibly resilient. There are famous new entrants to the space like Paul Tudor Jones II. So how can a Bloomberg editor argue the year has been bad for bitcoin? In this response podcast, NLW argues that most of the arguments are about narrative, not the underlying fundamentals. He presents six reasons why not only has it not been a bad year, but the exact opposite […]
Scientists have long been engaged in a debate on what factors impact the growth of mountains – a process quite fascinating for science, albeit lengthy, and often taking billions of years. A new study claims to have revealed the main driving force behind the growth of mountains, which regulates how big they become. According to the research published in Nature on 11 June, “megathrust shear force controls mountain height at convergent plate margins”, and tectonic forces underneath mountains determine to what dimensions they grow. Thus, for mountains located near tectonic plate collision zones, maximum mountain height is chiefly decided by an […]
President Trump’s mega MAGA rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma is the hottest ticket ever! By Friday afternoon, more than 300,000 people signed up for tickets to attend Trump’s first rally after the COVID-19 lockdowns. The MAGA rally is scheduled for Friday, June 19 at the Bank of Oklahoma Center in Tulsa. Trump’s campaign manager Brad Parscale said they are looking at a 2nd event in town to get more people to be with President Trump. TRENDING: JUST IN: Minneapolis City Council Unanimously Votes to Replace Police with ‘Community-Led Public Safety System’ Correction now 300,000! Going to be epic! https://t.co/36wBjA7duT — Brad Parscale […]
This is a preview of our pop culture newsletter The Daily Beast’s Obsessed, written by senior entertainment reporter Kevin Fallon. To receive the full newsletter in your inbox each week, sign up for it here. The Muggles Are Acting Up If you’re a person in this world, there is a high probability that something you like was canceled this week. Maybe it was the creator of a beloved series of young adult books who cemented her bigoted views about the transgender community. Maybe it was quaint cooking videos on YouTube with institutional blind spots toward race that were plain to see, […]
(Note: Thank you for your support for American businesses like the one below and Gateway Pundit. We appreciate you!) Father’s Day is just 10 days away. If the father in your life is Trump fan, we found the perfect gift. It’s a Trump-like message, said in a way only he can, and emblazoned on a coffee mug (Gateway Pundit directly benefits from orders through this link and the links below): TRENDING: “I Should Never Have Been There” – Gen Mark Milley Stands with the Mob – Apologizes for Walking to Torched St. John’s Church with President Trump (VIDEO) HERE IS A […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107819/56/1078195683_0:163:2422:1525_1200x675_80_0_0_9c3177c4c93e9a7836d80386e4d785a1.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/environment/202006091079570467-bottom-feeder-living-great-white-sharks-feed-closer-to-seabed-aussie-researchers-find/ A new study published by University of Sydney researchers in the journal Frontiers in Marine Science has found that great white sharks off the Australian east coast spend more time feeding near the seabed than previously believed. “Within the sharks’ stomachs we found remains from a variety of fish species that typically live on the seafloor or buried in the sand. This indicates the sharks must spend a good portion of their time foraging just above the seabed,” said lead author Richard Grainger in a June 7 news release. “The stereotype of a shark’s […]
This is a preview of our pop culture newsletter The Daily Beast’s Obsessed, written by senior entertainment reporter Kevin Fallon. To receive the full newsletter in your inbox each week, sign up for it here. There are many tools at our disposal to activate, demand change, inform, and amplify right now, including your television. There is no equating it to the work being done on the streets, in protests, at the ballot box, through petitions and grassroots campaigns, and with donations. But there is action and amplification—and therefore change you can advocate for—through the content choices you make. Now, especially, is a […]
For the past week the left has been protesting, rioting, looting, shooting officers, beating innocents, torching national landmarks across the United States. This is the fruit of the American left: pain, chaos, suffering, violence, fear and arson. Their mob violence has spread across the country. Tonight we want to highlight what liberal Democrat leadership has done to three great American cities. 1.) Minneapolis – War zone of the left Minneapolis is looking like the aftermath of a war after the Democrat party organized peaceful protests… pic.twitter.com/pHAr9pNkUK — Eddie Donovan (@EddieDonovan) June 6, 2020 TRENDING: CNN Guest Proposes Abusing White Children in Wake […]
The coronavirus outbreak has forced some farmers and producers to do as was done during the Great Depression and simply get rid of their products or consider measures to prevent them from rotting amid lack of demand. When the pandemic just began to infect counties one by one, people rushed to hoard supplies – from toilet paper to food – fearing shortages in the future. After the initial shock faded and parts of those ‘doomsday’ stockpiles ended up in the trash bin untouched, another problem emerged – too much food was left in the hands of the producers, forcing them to […]
Murder 100,000 people and expect no one to notice… Is the Mossad sending an extraction team? White House on Lockdown, Police Car Torched as George Floyd Protests Continue https://t.co/jWZzVT7LLU — TMZ (@TMZ) May 30, 2020 Volatile situation outside WH https://t.co/8zH6byFSVX — Jim Acosta (@Acosta) May 29, 2020 JUST IN: White House goes on lockdown after […] Source link
Out of the hundreds of koalas that volunteers and staff have rescued, many are being raised in captivity. Older koalas are released into intact eucalyptus plantations. (David Maurice Smith) The Great Koala Rescue Operation by Ceridwen Dovey; Photographs by David Maurice Smith/Smithsonianmag.com I arrived on Kangaroo Island bracing myself for the sight of acres of blackened trees and white ash, but I had not expected the parasitic bright green vines wrapped around almost every charred trunk, glowing phosphorescent in the sunlight. This was no parasite, I learned. It was epicormic growth, bursting directly from the burnt trunks themselves, a desperate bid […]
Editor’s note: One of our editors, we won’t say who, has a horse farm not that far away. (All boots and hat, no horses) The story here, which is a good read, is far from what could be written about the area. Local constable there is a neighbor and pretty nice person who bothers nobody. The sheriff was arrested for murder back in the late 90s, not that unusual either. The key to the region is or was methamphetamine. Now its Fentanyl. There are two types of people in Kentucky, church goers who are respectable and generally decent and the others, […]
Unemployed people wait outside the state Labor Bureau in New York City in 1933. The current economic crisis has drawn comparisons to the Great Depression, but experts say this downturn should be shorter. AP hide caption toggle caption AP Unemployed people wait outside the state Labor Bureau in New York City in 1933. The current economic crisis has drawn comparisons to the Great Depression, but experts say this downturn should be shorter. AP With the U.S. economy in free-fall, a lot of forecasters have been digging deep into the history books, looking for a guideposts of what to expect. Often, they’ve […]
Catherine the Great did not fuck a horse. That is the official position of The Great, Hulu’s zany period piece chronicling Russia’s longest-ruling female as she first arrives in the country and enters a loveless marriage to Emperor Peter III, theirs a shitty relationship that plants the seeds to a fruitful reign of power. Scandalous rumors about the empress’ sexual proclivities—that she was a nymphomaniac, a voyeur, had a bestiality fetish—are as close to urban legends as there comes in the grand scheme of 18th century aristocratic history. Make of it what you will that, when presented with one of the […]
Ben Kelly was brought to shore but could not recover from injuries sustained in an attack that is thought to have made him the first victim of a giant great white shark off the Manresa State Beach since 2004. Authorities had kept the beach closed during the day as part of attempts to curb the spread of COVID-19, but experienced surf addict Ben Kelly could not resist heading off the shore of the North Carolina coast – despite footage showing schools of sharks in the vicinity just days earlier. Rescuers could not save the 26-year-old Santa Cruz resident, who was around 100 yards from […]
This is what you get when you lockdown the greatest economy in history for two months – via Zero Hedge. Advertisement – story continues below The US labor market continues to be rocked by the COVID-19 pandemic . The US Department of Labor announced on Friday that the US unemployment rate rose to 14.7% from just 4.4% in March. 20.5 million jobs were lost in April — devastation not seen since the Great Depression. BREAKING: Unemployment hits 14.7%, highest rate since the Depression, as U.S. shed 20 million jobs in April from viral outbreak. https://t.co/ZXGyHmNyv5 — The Associated Press (@AP) May […]