Communities Of Color Hurt The Most By Postal Service Attack By Taryn MacKinney, the Union of Concerned Scientists. October 21, 2020 Communities Of Color Hurt The Most By Postal Service Attack2020-10-212020-10-21https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/usps-1-e1603283726449.png200px200px The Postal Service is Under Attack. Our Research Shows Who This Hurts Most. With just weeks until the 2020 election, the USPS is racing to prepare for a historic surge in mail-in voting. Our recent analysis of USPS records, which we received via Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, suggests that the number of mail-delivery complaints has risen since March, especially in communities of color. For nearly 250 years, the United States […]
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This week the U.K.’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), which regulates the country’s financial services, issued a ban on the sale of crypto derivatives and ETNs to retail investors. While this may not seem particularly material to crypto asset markets overall – U.K. retail investors weren’t that much into crypto derivatives anyway, and the market hardly reacted at all – it is worth paying attention to for the alarming message contained within. This message loudly says: “We don’t like crypto assets.” In case you think I’m exaggerating, the policy statement opens with the sentence: “There is growing evidence that cryptoassets are causing […]
A Chicago man known as the “Census Cowboy” faces a felony charge after riding his horse more than 7 miles down a freeway without the proper footwear, severely injuring the animal, which prosecutors say may have to be euthanized. Adam Hollingsworth, 33, was arrested earlier this week on charges linked to animal cruelty, reckless conduct, trespassing and other traffic offenses after staging a stunt on the Dan Ryan Expressway on horseback, shutting down the freeway as he rode the animal at galloping speed on rough pavement, critically wounding it. Speaking publicly for the first time after bailing out of Cook County […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/07/14/1079935068_0:137:1920:1217_1200x675_80_0_0_58f74e0bda12e2fee0cf0f2022e63805.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Pratibha Sharma. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/india/202008281080304510-now-shots-wont-hurt-indias-top-tech-institute-develops-painless-vaccination-device/ New Delhi (Sputnik): This type of technology has been used in the United States and several other countries. This method involves micro-needles that are too thin to induce a painful reaction, like ordinary needles which touch the nerves in the skin. The Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur has developed micro-needles and micro-pumps that enable medications to be administered in a painless way. Do invasive medications make you anxious because of the pain? You may not have to worry anymore – microneedles and micropump developed by IIT Kharagpur will enable your medications to […]
New Delhi (Sputnik): The worst border skirmish between India and China in the last 50 years has cast a dark cloud over the economic, diplomatic, and cultural ties of the two countries, with traders, businessmen, and consumers bearing the brunt of strained relations. Indian acupuncturists underscore politics should not be intermingled with medicine. “For me, it’s nothing less than magic”, exulted Jahnvi Tyagi, 53, who has seen a “huge change” from multiple migraine attacks per weeks to just one or two minor ones in 15 days after receiving several sessions of acupuncture in the Green Park area of New Delhi. Tyagi […]
Videos posted online show the chilling moment a young protester falls to the ground during clashes with police in Belarus. His death has sparked outrage across the country grappling with post-election protests. A clip first released by AP shows police officers in full riot gear lined up on the street. A man in a bloodied white T-shirt, who was believed to be Taraikovsky, collapses on the ground. WARNING: DISTURBING VIDEO Videos filmed from other angles and published in local media show the same man approaching the officers with his hands up in the air. He then falls to the ground after […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/07/19/1079984085_0:0:3072:1728_1200x675_80_0_0_cc800927da0f9e29601d01dc2c09159b.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202007251079984114-three-hurt-in-accidental-shooting-at-louisville-protest—reports/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Three people received non-life-threatening wounds after a gun accidentally went off at a protest against racial injustice in the US city of Louisville on Saturday, media said. Hundreds of so-called NFAC demonstrators gathered downtown to demand justice after the fatal police shooting of Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old black American woman, the Courier-Journal reported. A rival rally was held nearby by another group called the Three Percenters. Both groups carried guns. The paper quoted Louisville Metro Police Chief Robert Schroeder as saying that all those involved in the accidental firearms discharge were […]
FOX News weather forecaster Janice Dean lost both of her in-laws last month to the coronavirus. Dean’s in-laws were both at assisted living homes and BOTH DIED from the coronavirus. Janice Dean is convinced the reason they are no longer living is because of Governor Cuomo’s nursing home policy. The actions of New York’s governor Andrew Cuomo have led to thousands of coronavirus deaths in the state. TRENDING: BREAKING: Joe Biden and Barack Obama’s Twitter Accounts HACKED… Along With Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Kanye West and MORE New York state was the epicenter of the coronavirus. The state totaled over 32,000 […]
Ten members of the National Guard of Ukraine were injured when a Spartan armored personnel carrier hit a roadside bomb in Avdiyivka, Donetsk region, the press service of the prosecutor’s office of Donetsk region said Tuesday. “A pretrial investigation found that at about 9:30 a.m. on June 9, 2020, during the travelling of a military vehicle in the area of the Palace of Culture of Avdiyivsky Coke and Chemical Plant, the last Spartan car in the convoy was blown up on an unidentified explosive device,” said in a statement on an official Facebook account. The Kyiv Post has reported that as […]