Unstable property rights mean Black southerners may survive a flood but lose their home, and it’s causing the racial wealth gap to grow larger. Margaret Alston doesn’t remember the night that Hurricane Matthew hit, but she remembers how afraid she was of the flooding that followed. The biggest hurricane to hit South Carolina since 1999, the storm caused massive inland flooding across large swaths of the south-east. In Bucksport, the small, unincorporated town where Alston grew up, the Wacamaw River overflowed, inundating the street Alston’s house is on and making it impassable. “The water was everywhere,” she says. “And when I say everywhere, […]
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More Than 14 Million May Have Lost Health Coverage By Samantha Liss, Health Care Dive. November 10, 2020 More Than 14 Million May Have Lost Health Coverage2020-11-102020-11-10https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/target.jpg200px200px Above photo: From Target. As many as 7.7 million U.S. workers with employer-sponsored health insurance coverage lost their jobs by June as the fallout from the outbreak of the novel coronavirus — and the country’s inability to contain it — dramatically slowed the economy, according to the latest analysis from the Employee Benefit Research Institute, The Commonwealth Fund and W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research. About 6.9 million dependents also were covered by the employer-sponsored insurance held by those […]
‘Let The World Remember How We Lost Palestine’ November 2, 2020 ‘Let The World Remember How We Lost Palestine’2020-11-022020-11-02https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/balfour.jpg200px200px Above photo: M. Torokman/Reuters. The 103rd anniversary of Balfour Declaration. Occupied Palestine – Today, Palestinians and human rights advocates around the world are marking 103 years since the Balfour Declaration was issued on November 2, 1917. Using the hashtag #Balfour103, Palestinian and pro-Palestine activists have called to participate in a campaign they launched to commemorate the 103rd anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, rejecting the ominous promise. The Balfour Declaration was issued by Britain when Arthur James Balfour, Former Prime Minister of the […]
Dear Judge Barrett, Everyone who knows you says that you are a person of principle, conscience, and strong moral character. Having read much of your writing, I am inclined to agree with them. I therefore urge you to reflect on the profound moral questions that your judicial nomination process raises. I believe that if you do so, you will make the painful but necessary decision to withdraw. Source link
It was earlier reported that more than 15,000 positive COVID-19 tests had been “lost” in Britain’s tracking system since the NHS test and trace app was launched in September. The problem is currently under review. UK Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Therese Coffey on Monday said that the issue with “lost” COVID-19 tests won’t be repeated as a glitch in the system has now been found and fixed, she told Sky News. “The glitch has been found and fixed and I’m sure that the changes are brought in straight away to make sure this sort of problem doesn’t happen […]
With President Trump in Walter Reed Army Hospital, the public was inevitably going to worry, wonder, and speculate about his current and longer-term health. But his doctors are making a bad situation much worse with a cascade of confusing statements, half-truths, and rosy assessments at a time when transparency is vital. At best, his team is inviting confusion and fear after getting caught up in a White House trying to reassure the public but doing the opposite. At worst, they are misleading the public about the president’s infection with a virus, one the president has long downplayed himself. At a televised […]
With the first Trump–Biden debate now smoldering behind us, the betting markets have picked their winner. That also means they’ve decided on a loser: President Donald Trump. Tuesday marked the first time the incumbent squared off face-to-face against his rival, Democratic nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden. The two septuagenarians bickered, insulted, belittled and at times screamed at one another at almost regular intervals, all in hopes of convincing the American public each is the best choice to control the world’s largest deployed nuclear arsenal. And while conventional, real-time polling may have been unavailable during the roughly hour and a […]
Back in early spring, Khristan Yates worked as a quality assurance analyst at a marketing company and loved her job. “I had one of the best jobs of my career,” recalls Yates, 31, a resident of Chicago. Yates, who’s a mother of two children, had moved into a bigger apartment just before the pandemic hit because she wanted to give her kids more space. At the time, she felt like she was “at the top of her world.” But as the economic effects of the pandemic hit the marketing industry among others, she lost her job in May. Yates is among […]
Tuesday’s “debate” was a trainwreck. A national embarrassment. A disgrace. If Joe Biden were looking for a pretext to skip the next two debates, he found it. It would be hard to blame him for concluding this is simply a waste of everyone’s time. We’ll see. From the start of this debate, Donald Trump interrupted Biden. Repeatedly. For a while there, it looked like Biden was going to get destroyed—that Trump would simply run over him and Biden would be left sitting there, with that far away look in his eyes. But Biden rallied. He embraced the shit-show format, grew stronger […]
Dr. Joseph Varon notifies the family of a patient who died inside the coronavirus unit at Houston’s United Memorial Medical Center on July 6. Varon tells NPR he’s “living on adrenaline.” David J. Phillip/AP hide caption toggle caption David J. Phillip/AP Dr. Joseph Varon notifies the family of a patient who died inside the coronavirus unit at Houston’s United Memorial Medical Center on July 6. Varon tells NPR he’s “living on adrenaline.” David J. Phillip/AP The U.S. marked 100,000 recorded deaths from COVID-19 on May 27. Now it’s preparing to reach 200,000. Though the number of daily fatalities has gone down […]
US diplomacy is turning into the not-so-subtle art of making demands and ultimatums, Sergey Lavrov has lamented, as the Americans go it alone in restoring anti-Iran sanctions under a 2015 deal that no longer legally applies. Washington’s reasoning behind bringing back the UN sanctions against Iran looks “funny,” as the majority of UN Security Council members – 13 out of 15 – do not support activating the ‘snapback’ mechanism, the Russian Foreign Minister said, in an exclusive interview with the Al Arabiya news channel. The council “clearly stated that there is no legal position or moral reasons for anything close to […]
A baby turtle is released into the ocean in Bali, Indonesia, Tuesday, June 9, 2020, part of a campaign to save the endangered Lekang sea turtles. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati) Firdia Lisnawati/AP hide caption toggle caption Firdia Lisnawati/AP A baby turtle is released into the ocean in Bali, Indonesia, Tuesday, June 9, 2020, part of a campaign to save the endangered Lekang sea turtles. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati) Firdia Lisnawati/AP Human activities have caused the world’s wildlife populations to plummet by more than two-thirds in the last 50 years, according to a new report from the World Wildlife Fund. The decline is happening […]
Hours after it was revealed that President Donald Trump intentionally misled the American public about the threat posed by the coronavirus pandemic that has claimed nearly 200,000 lives nationwide, the president explained his actions by saying that he didn’t “want to scare people.” The daughter of a Trump supporter who died from COVID-19 told reporters on Thursday morning that she would rather her father have been frightened than dead. “Sure, my dad did not panic, but instead, he died,” said Kristin Urquiza, founder of Marked By COVID, a group founded in honor of her father, Mark Anthony Urquiza, who died from […]
…from SouthFront.org A video, allegedly showing a Russian-speaking pilot in Libya waiting for an evacuation helicopter after his aircraft had supposedly crashed, appeared online on September 7 causing a wave of speculation in mainstream media and among military enthusiasts. The clip shows a white-and-orange parachute on the ground, in a desert-like environment, and the Russian-speaking person claims that his aircraft was shot down at around 70km and that he ejected from it at about 40km from the airfield. He claims that he is waiting for an evacuation group of helicopters while the enemy is searching for him. After a break the […]
Frances Coppola, a CoinDesk columnist, is a freelance writer and speaker on banking, finance and economics. Her book “The Case for People’s Quantitative Easing” explains how modern money creation and quantitative easing work, and advocates “helicopter money” to help economies out of recession. The 2008 financial crisis created an extraordinary financial melting pot. Into the soup went the legacy system, now shown to be unfit for this purpose: new ways of transacting in old currencies and new types of money. This witches’ brew has now been stewing for over a decade, but the type of potion it will eventually produce is […]
Coming to a town near you — By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor and Jeff Smith ———————- Under Bill Richardson’s watch at DOE………………An apathetic approach towards reducing the inherent dangers of plutonium stored in unsafe and highly unstable forms;Incompetence bordering on negligence in caring for more than 12,000 plutonium pits; Secretly developing new capabilities for plutonium pit production while touting dual-use plutonium processing facilities as “nonproliferation missions;” While DOE has continued to declassify information and more information is available than ever, this is not the true mark of openness. Openness and honesty is characterized by up-front revelations about the real hazards, uncertainties, […]
As Kenosha, Wisconsin, continues to reel from the police shooting of Jacob Blake, residents are increasingly turning their anger to so-called outside agitators who some say invaded the city to sow chaos amongst the protests—and even kill demonstrators. “They [outsiders] tore up our neighborhood, this is our neighborhood, this is where we shop at. These are not Kenosha people,” Lonnie Stewart, 60, told The Daily Beast. “They’re coming to Kenosha, Wisconsin to destroy our city.” Immediately after a Kenosha police officer shot 29-year-old Blake in the back several times as he tried to get into a van with his kids on […]
Rachel-Rose O’Leary is a cryptocurrency writer and trainee C++ developer at PolyTech. Currently a contributor to CoinDesk and the Defiant newsletter, she has written about cryptocurrency since 2015. She holds an MA in digital art and philosophy. These days I spend most of my time tweaking the code of a bitcoin wallet that runs in Terminal. Based on Libbitcoin, it’s built to work over Nym Technologies’ anonymizing mixnet. I call it the Dark Renaissance wallet. It’s mostly a learning exercise to hone my C++ skills, but the Dark Renaissance wallet is a harbinger for what is to come. Working with a […]
…from SouthFront.org The shaky stability established in Syria after the end of the Turkish attack on the Syrian Army in Idlib in February and March of 2020 has collapsed. Just a day after the confrontation between the US military and the Syrian Army in the province of al-Hasakah, US troops deployed at the Koniko gas fields on the eastern bank of the Euphrates River came under rocket attack. According to local sources, at least 3 unguided rockets fell near US positions. Nonetheless, the attack led to no casualties. A few hours earlier, two combat drones of the US military crashed in […]
As sentiment supporting Scottish withdrawal from the United Kingdom begins to rise following the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union, the ruling Conservative Party in Westminster is looking to promote the strength of the union. Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned on Monday that Britain would be weakened should any constituent part of the UK leave the union, in an effort to combat Scottish nationalism. “The union of the United Kingdom is, for me, it’s the greatest political partnership the world has ever seen,” Johnson told reporters, after asking what the union mean to him. “It would be such a shame to lose […]
Nobody Accurately Tracks Health Care Workers Lost To COVID-19 By Nina Martin, ProPublica. August 3, 2020 Nobody Accurately Tracks Health Care Workers Lost To COVID-192020-08-032020-08-03https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/tracking-health-care-workers-by-yann-kebbi-special-to-propublica-e1596474763862.jpg200px200px Above phto: Tracking health care workers by Yann Kebbi, special to ProPublica. Anesthesiologist Claire Rezba started tracking lost health workers almost instinctively. Researchers and industry professionals say the lack of good official data on these deaths is “scandalous” and is putting lives in danger. When police discovered the woman, she’d been dead at home for at least 12 hours, alone except for her 4-year-old daughter. The early reports said only that she was 42, a mammogram technician at a […]
On July 28, 2020, Mattel announced it would be releasing its seventh presidential Barbie. They have released one in nearly every cycle since 1992, but of course, America has yet to see Barbie in the Oval Office. But this year, for the first time, Mattel gave her a campaign team. Candidate Barbie 2020 came with a campaign manager, a fundraiser, and one (1) voter. There was renewed hope in the Barbie camp that this could be the year she won. Flash forward to Nov. 4, 2020. In an alternate universe somewhere, the four women discuss with NPR how Barbie lost the […]
New federal rules for reporting data have caused confusion and delays for state officials trying to monitor the pandemic. Dr. Lee Norman, Secretary of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, discussed the resurgence in coronavirus cases in Kansas on July 15 in Topeka. Norman called the resurgence “awful.” John Hanna/AP hide caption toggle caption John Hanna/AP New federal rules for reporting data have caused confusion and delays for state officials trying to monitor the pandemic. Dr. Lee Norman, Secretary of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, discussed the resurgence in coronavirus cases in Kansas on July 15 in Topeka. […]
I have spent most of my life as an attorney traveling to scores of countries around the world, but only recently did I set about systematically asking people what they thought of my country, the United States. It was just after the midterm elections in 2018, when a great many voters showed that they desperately wanted to move America in directions different from the ones the Trump administration had charted for them. Opinions were so divergent and so bitterly divided. It struck me that by posing a series of questions to thoughtful people in dozens of countries—people who had some experience […]
Speaking about health check-ups ahead of the November polls, Trump bragged about his “unbelievable” results in cognitive testing, insisting his rival Joe Biden would fail it if he took it. President Donald Trump said in an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity that he recently took a cognitive test and “aced” it, inviting Joe Biden, his Democratic rival in the upcoming presidential vote, to take the “same test”. He specified that he underwent the check-up at the Walter Reed Medical Center, but didn’t mention the type of cognitive test he took. “I actually took one, very recently, when I was – you […]
Cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex will have to face allegations from New York State that it hid millions in lost funds, according to a ruling by the State Supreme Court’s Appellate Division on Thursday. iFinex, which operates both Bitfinex and Tether, argued the funds had been deposited with a Panama-based company and were later seized by authorities in different countries. The firm had earlier also said that it has been working to recover the funds seized by the Portuguese, Polish and American governments. In its decision, the appeals court rejected the argument that Tether was neither a commodity nor a security, and affirmed […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107983/37/1079833777_0:0:3012:1695_1200x675_80_0_0_89b00d54c304b246bb3681c1a564089b.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/world/202007081079833700-auditor-generals-report-reveals-canadian-authorities-lost-track-of-tens-of-thousands-of-deportees/ TORONTO (Sputnik) – A report from Canada’s Auditor General on immigration removals revealed that the country’s authorities do not know the whereabouts of thousands of individuals set for deportation. “In April 2019, we determined that there were about 50,000 individuals with enforceable removal orders. Two-thirds of these – 34,700 cases in the wanted inventory – involved individuals whose whereabouts were unknown”, the report said on Wednesday. The Auditor General said in the report that the majority of the orders have been enforceable for years and a share of them involve criminal cases. In addition, […]
Fever checks are a flawed way to flag Covid-19 cases. Experts say smell tests might help by Sharon Begley/STATnews Workplaces do it. Newly reopened public libraries do it. LAX does it. Some restaurants, bars, and retail stores started doing it when governors let them serve customers again: Use temperature checks — almost always with “non-contact infrared thermometers” — to identify people who might have, and therefore spread, the infectious disease. Unfortunately, temperature checks could well join the long list of fumbled responses to the pandemic, from the testing debacle to federal officials’ about-face on masks. Because many contagious people have no […]
In one of the most moving Hannity Shows ever, the father of a son slain in the CHOP zone in Seattle spoke out. It was a very emotional interview for Hannity and viewers who could see the pain the father felt after losing his son so senselessly. Hannity held one of his most riveting interviews of all time last night when he brought on his show the father of a teen slain in Seattle’s CHOP zone a few weeks ago. Hannity provided the father ample time to share his story and feelings about losing his son so senselessly. Horace Lorenzo Anderson […]
Recent Harvard grad Claira Janover posted a video Wednesday saying she lost her job offer from Deloitte as a result of her ‘I’ma stab you if you have the caucasity to say all lives matter’ video went viral this week. Janover had posted a disclaimer with the video that read, “for legal reasons this is a joke”. In the new video, the once tough talking Black Lives Matter activist has a tearful meltdown, sobbing as she blames Trump supporters for losing the job she says she worked so hard to get. Harvard grad Claira Janover says she’s lost Deloitte job over […]
Cartoonist Scott Adams has received a barrage of criticisms from ‘woke’ Twitter users angered by his claim that he’s lost three jobs due to being white, one being on the cancelled adaptation of his comic strip ‘Dilbert’. “I lost my TV show for being white when UPN decided it would focus on an African-American audience,” Adams tweeted. “That was the third job I lost for being white. The other two in corporate America. (They told me directly.)” Adams was responding to ‘Star Wars’ actor Ahmed Best (best known as the voice of Jar Jar Binks), who is black, tweeting about his […]
A new survey by the International Trade Centre (ITC) has found that international trade dropped across all four quarters of 2019, with declines intensifying in early 2020 in a “ripple effect that started in China.” According to the report, Chinese exports sank around 21 percent in February compared with a year earlier. While they recovered slightly in March, the pandemic started hitting exports from other countries. Statistics showed that exports from European countries and the United States decreased by eight percent and seven percent respectively, year on year. “The full effects of the crisis are not yet visible, as most countries […]
Lost Manuscript Of Eyewitness Account Of Tulsa Race Massacre By Allison Keyes, Smithsonian Magazine. June 19, 2020 Lost Manuscript Of Eyewitness Account Of Tulsa Race Massacre2020-06-192020-06-19https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/01_greenwood-1076×588.jpg200px200px Above photo: The Booker T. Washington High School parade processes along Greenwood Avenue in Tulsa, Oklahoma.Greenwood Cultural Center. Note: With President Trump holding a campaign rally in Tulsa, OK on June 20, 2020, we thought it would be good to republish this article on the Tulsa Massacre, often referred to as the Tulsa Race Riot. It was a white rampage in the successful black community of Greenwood, also known as Black Wall Street.The Oklahoma Historical […]
As the tear gas clears across America, the nation is facing an unprecedented reckoning about systemic racism and, particularly, the criminal justice system. What makes this moment even more unique, though, is how it’s unfolding not because of presidential leadership—but, almost uniquely in American history—in spite of the president. There are moments when history unfolds quickly, when America’s foundational quest to strive toward becoming a more just and equitable nation overcomes inertia and major shifts happen in weeks and months after years and decades of delay. In the summer of 2015, in the two weeks after Donald Trump’s escalator ride down […]
Far left political activist and social critic Cornel West was invited on Hannity on Tuesday to debate fellow leftist Leo Terrell on defunding the police in America. Since the leftist riots and looting started last week across America Leo Terrell was a surprising voice of sanity defending the police and railing at the violent leftist protesters. During the discussion Cornel West filibustered when asked if he supports defending the police. Leo then attacked West for not answering the question knowing that West, a far left radical, supported the idea of no funding for police. That’s when all hell broke loose. Cornel […]
Breathing slowly and deeply through the nose is associated with a relaxation response, says James Nestor, author of Breath. As the diaphragm lowers, you’re allowing more air into your lungs and your body switches to a more relaxed state. Sebastian Laulitzki/ Science Photo Library hide caption toggle caption Sebastian Laulitzki/ Science Photo Library Breathing slowly and deeply through the nose is associated with a relaxation response, says James Nestor, author of Breath. As the diaphragm lowers, you’re allowing more air into your lungs and your body switches to a more relaxed state. Sebastian Laulitzki/ Science Photo Library Humans typically take about […]
BlockFi said an attacker got hold of users’ data by compromising an employee’s phone and taking control of their phone number through a sim swap attack. The New York-based crypto lending platform announced in a memo to users on Tuesday that a hacker – whose identity remains unknown – gained access to some of its retail marketing systems for just over an hour early on May 14. “On May 14th, there was a data incident at BlockFi that exposed certain client account information for a brief period of time. While no information was accessed that would enable the intruder to access […]
Resilience. It’s the word of the hour. Weeks into the coronavirus pandemic, many people are wondering: How do you find the strength to keep going when everything seems bleak? How do you stop thinking, “What did I do to deserve this?” Manyang Reath Kher, a Sudanese refugee now living in the U.S., shares his moment of deepest despair — and how he pulled through. Malaka Gharib/ NPR Malaka Gharib/ NPR Enlarge this image Malaka Gharib/ NPR Malaka Gharib/ NPR Malaka Gharib/ NPR panel 5 Malaka Gharib/ NPR hide caption toggle caption Malaka Gharib/ NPR Malaka Gharib/ NPR Malaka Gharib is an […]
Trump Must Choose Between A Global Ceasefire And US’s Long Lost Wars By Medea Benjamin, CODEPINK. May 6, 2020 Trump Must Choose Between A Global Ceasefire And US’s Long Lost Wars2020-05-062020-05-06https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/ilitary-e1588810922167.jpg200px200px Above photo: As of May 1, there were 7,145 cases of COVID-19 in the US military, with more falling sick every day. Military Times. As President Trump has complained, the U.S. does not win wars anymore. In fact, since 1945, the only 4 wars it has won were over the small neocolonial outposts of Grenada, Panama, Kuwait and Kosovo. Americans across the political spectrum refer to the wars the U.S. has launched since 2001 […]