Joint List lawmakers expressed outrage and condemned Blue and White Chairman Benny Gantz for forming a new unity government that would keep the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in power. The faction knew nothing about the move to nominate Gantz to the post of Knesset speaker, reported Israel Hayom. The former Israel army chief of staff was elected speaker of the Knesset yesterday in a surprise move […]
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Courtesy of BIG newsletter author and monopoly researcher, Matt Stoller, here is an ever expanding list of every industry and entity that has floated bailout demands in what Stoller dubs the “CoronavirusCoup” – which if allowed to continue will make America’s big business bigger and more entrenched than ever, and crush most of the country’s small business. Why? Because from Defense contractors, to billionaires like Elon […]
Another Blue and White parliamentarian has reportedly expressed opposition to the formation of a minority government supported from the outside by the Arab-dominated Joint List. According to the Times of Israel, citing reports by Channel 12, MK Omer Yankelevich has informed Blue and White (Kahol Lavan) chair Benny Gantz of her position. Yankelevich now joins fellow Blue and White members Yoaz Hendel and Zvi Hauser – […]
US equity futures are limit up this morning after an impressive rally from ugly depths during Asian trading overnight. So, what, or who, is responsible for this massive comeback? Admittedly – after the 5th worst daily drop in history of the S&P 500 – one might have expected a bounce… But, as Nomura’s Charlie McElligott details below, there was an armada of stimulus plans suggested overnight […]
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has slammed legislation introduced by House Democrats to tackle coronavirus as an “ideological wish list” which he vowed to block because it creates a “thicket of bureaucracy.” McConnell said that instead he wants a smaller, non-controversial coronavirus response package. * U.S.. SENATE MAJORITY LEADER MCCONNELL CALLS HOUSE DEMOCRATS’ CORONAVIRUS BILL ‘IDEOLOGICAL WISH LIST’ * MCCONNELL SAYS HE SEEKS SMALLER, NON-CONTROVERSIAL […]
Events across the world are being canceled and or postponed because the liability via organizers to have a mass Covid-19 outbreak would be devastating for their image. It’s also due to governments banning public gatherings to arrest the spread of the virus. This could mean, most large events with thousands of attendees are likely to be canceled for the first half of the year. So far, the fast-spreading virus […]
The first meeting between MKs belonging to the Joint List and the Blue and White bloc due to take place yesterday has been postponed until today, Arab48 reported. Reporting Arab MK Mansour Abbas, the news site said that the meeting was delayed as there was insufficient time for discussions. Sources from Blue and White (Kahol Lavan) said the discussions would centre around civil issues only. Abbas […]
Sudan has called on the United States to remove it from the list of state sponsors of terrorism to allow banks and financial institutions to deal with Sudan and facilitate financial transfers. This came during a meeting held yesterday between the Sudanese Foreign Minister, Asma Mohamed Abdullah, and Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing U.S. Department of the Treasury, Marshall Billingslea, in the capital, Khartoum. During the […]
The outpouring of grief after Sen. Elizabeth Warren suspended her campaign this week was visceral. Supporters flooded social media with their sorrow at the last viable female candidate dropping out, in a race that saw a historic number of women vie for the nomination. Even those who weren’t vocal supporters shared their anger and disbelief: at the patriarchy, at misogyny, at those obnoxious debates over “electability.” […]
With just one per cent of ballot papers left to count, the Arab-dominated Joint List is said to have received 87.2 per cent of votes in Arab cities. Arab48 reported that this was an increase from 80.4 per cent in the previous election. According to the Elections Committee, 4,579,931 eligible Israeli voters, including Arabs in Israel, cast their votes, noting that the turnout was 1.6 per […]
Over the past 7 days, which came just after the stock market hit an all time high, and which turned out to be the worst week for the S&P since the vomit-inducing days of the 2008 financial crisis, and also saw the fastest 10% correction from a market peak on record… … we tried to put together the pieces of the “liquidation puzzle” to find out […]
A Manhattan-based facial recognition company that uses artificial intelligence to collect data from unsuspecting social media users has reported that its entire client list has been stolen. The company, Clearview AI, has developed an app which allows anyone to snap a picture of someone which is then compared to a database of more than 3 billion photos that the company has scraped off Facebook, Venmo, YouTube […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has continued his campaign of defamation of the Joint List alliance by publishing a picture of one of its members with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The picture posted today, which shows Arab-Israeli MK Ahmad Tibi shaking hands with Erdogan had the caption, “Gantz’s partners,” referring to opposition leader Benny Gantz who heads the Blue and White (Kahol Lavan) alliance. Tibi […]
Facial-recognition tool Clearview AI has had its client list stolen, though the secretive corporation, which boasts billions of scraped photos in its archive, insists no servers were breached and that the security flaw is fixed. The hacker “gained unauthorized access” to Clearview’s customer list, the shadowy firm told customers on Wednesday in an email obtained by the Daily Beast, explaining the intruder had accessed the number […]
Arab Israeli MK Yousef Jabareen has called for Arabs in Israel to beat Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by voting for the Joint List, Arabi21 reported yesterday. He called on them to punish Israel’s longest serving prime minister by preventing him from continuing his reign in power. Speaking to Al-Arab TV, Jabareen said that the Arab community in Israel “has an opportunity to achieve a big […]
Pakistan won an extra four months to meet international anti-terrorism financing norms on Friday after a global dirt money watchdog decided to keep the country off its blacklist for now. Islamabad missed multiple previous deadlines, and the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) said it was concerned that the country had again failed to complete an internationally agreed action plan. “The FATF strongly urges Pakistan to swiftly […]
The European Union (EU) has decided, on Monday 17 February, to add eight prominent Syrian businessmen and two entities linked to them to the list of European sanctions imposed on the Syrian regime and its supporters. The Council of the European Union revealed in a statement that eight prominent Syrian businessmen and two entities linked to those businessmen have been added to the sanctions list due […]
Global ecommerce company Amazon has been accused of discriminating against Palestinians by offering free shipping to illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank but not to Palestinians living in the same area. In findings released in an investigation by the Financial Times, the newspaper discovered that by taking all of the illegal settlement addresses and entering them into Amazon’s delivery portal, the company extends its website’s offer […]
UN Releases List Of Companies With Ties To Jewish Settlements By Staff , Telesurenglish.net February 13, 2020 UN Releases List Of Companies With Ties To Jewish Settlements2020-02-132020-02-13https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/02/a_worker_carries_boxes_containing_wine_bottles_for_export_at_shiloh_wineriesx_north_of_the_west_bank_city_of_ramallah_november_8x_2015_.jpg_1718483346.jpg200px200px Above Photo: A worker carries boxes containing wine bottles for export at Shiloh Wineries, north of the West Bank city of Ramallah Nov. 8, 2015. | Photo: Reuters Among the companies listed were Airbnb, eDreams, TripAdvisor, and Motorola. The […]
The US government will not provide information to the UN for its list of companies operating in occupied Palestinian territories, US State Secretary Mike Pompeo has said, accusing the international body of anti-Israel bias. The long-delayed document, which names 112 companies operating in the West Bank and Golan Heights, was released by the watchdog on Wednesday. It says that some business activity in the Occupied Palestinian […]