Protest Marks One Month Anniversary Of Lekki Massacre In Nigeria By the Pan-African Community Action, Popular Resistance. November 21, 2020 Protest Marks One Month Anniversary Of Lekki Massacre In Nigeria2020-11-212020-11-21https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/img-20201120-wa00061-e1605997940968.jpg200px200px Above photo: From Pan-African Community Action. NOTE: Listen to the recent Clearing the FOG interview with Abiodun Aremu, secretary of the Joint Action Front in Nigeria, about the recent protests and the conditions that exist in […]
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https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/15/1080528464_0:45:3073:1773_1200x675_80_0_0_7445effd01dcf62ef7c466ffac9c3e22.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/russia/202010151080779256-russia-can-register-third-covid-19-vaccine-in-one-month-public-health-watchdog-says/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Russia can register its third vaccine against the coronavirus in a month, Anna Popova, the head of the national public health watchdog, Rospotrebnadzor, said on Thursday. “I want to say that the Russian Federation has two vaccines, and I’m sure that the third vaccine will be registered in a month”, Popova told the Russian Union of […]
A four-week ‘circuit breaker’ lockdown has been announced in Northern Ireland to curb soaring Covid cases. The restrictions are the toughest introduced anywhere in the UK. On Wednesday, First Minister Arlene Foster announced strict new measures to tackle the Covid pandemic in Northern Ireland. The move sees pubs, restaurants and bars shut for a month, effective from 6pm on Friday, while schools will close for two […]
“That was the worst SNL monologue I’ve seen in years.” “@nbcsnl please never let this bill person host ever again.” “Bill Burr can fuck off. #SNL” “I can’t believe I’m able to tweet after clawing my eyes out.” It probably is worth noting that those are the immediate reactions of gay men on social media after comedian and King of Staten Island star Bill Burr’s Saturday […]
The Japanese financial group is also mulling other business lines around tokenized securities. Source link
With Covid-19 cases soaring in the Belgian capital, the premier of the Brussels region, Rudi Vervoort, has announced that bars and cafes will have to close for one month starting from Thursday. The regional government is taking additional steps to tackle the coronavirus pandemic as cases continue to rise in the Brussels-Capital Region, Minister-President Vervoort told a news conference on Wednesday. From Thursday, all bars and […]
Derivative exchange BitMEX’s legal issues with U.S. regulators took a toll on bitcoin’s price while DeFi gave Ethereum miners more fee revenue than ever. Bitcoin (BTC) trading around $10,582 as of 20:00 UTC (4 p.m. ET). Slipping 1% over the previous 24 hours. Bitcoin’s 24-hour range: $10,427-$10,931 BTC below its 10-day and 50-day moving averages, a bearish signal for market technicians. Bitcoin trading on Coinbase since […]
Three years after its $257 million ICO, decentralized data storage provider Filecoin has said mainnet will go live in mid-October. Source link
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American whiskey makers must have been feeling good in 1970. After suffering through Prohibition and a shutdown for World War II, they were finally back on track, boasting record sales that year. Little did they know the next 30 years would be one hell of ride…straight down. The year 2000 offered a glimmer of hope that whiskey wasn’t completely doomed; a new generation of drinkers who […]
Bitcoin prices tumbled 6.2% Thursday, falling below $11,000 for the first time in a month. The price drop trimmed the largest cryptocurrency’s 2020 rally to 50% and sent digital-asset market traders and analysts scrambling to explain the sell-off. Here are three reasons cited by analysts: 1. Bitcoin slid in sync with traditional markets The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index of large U.S. stocks retreated Thursday after […]
New Month Brings Added Urgency To Minneapolis’ Housing Needs By Jenn Schreiter, Unicorn Riot. September 3, 2020 New Month Brings Added Urgency To Minneapolis’ Housing Needs2020-09-032020-09-03https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/parkboard-sept-2-cover.png200px200px Minneapolis, MN – Advocates for people without housing are meeting today outside of the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board headquarters, hours after a sanctuary encampment in the Phillips area was cleared by police. They’re demanding immediate sanctuary for the Safe […]
The Ethereum Classic blockchain suffered a 51% attack Saturday evening, its third 51% attack this month, noticed by mining company Bitfly, which also spotted the first attack on Aug. 1. (UPDATE 23:03 UTC): Adding comment from ETC Cooperative in third bullet point. Source link
During the year, media reports circulated that raised concerns over the health of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Since spring, conspiracies have emerged suggesting that he was in “grave danger”, close to a “vegetable” state or even dead. Speculation stopped after the leader made a public appearance, and then returned again. Kim Yo Jong, the sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, is said […]
A governance token for DeFi investment protocol yEarn Finance has shot up to over $11,000 despite barely being a month old. Source link
Bitcoin trading is weak Tuesday while volumes on DeFi are as high as they have ever been. After wild Sunday action that saw the price of the world’s oldest cryptocurrency fall as low as $10,050 on spot exchanges like Coinbase, bitcoin is trading relatively flat, at around $11,200 Tuesday. “The asset is trading in a narrow range of $11,080 to $11,220,” said Constantine Kogan, a partner […]
Crypto traders didn’t need to work too hard to make money last month. They just had to be in the market. Every digital asset in the CoinDesk 20 ended the month in the black. Bitcoin benefited from bets against the U.S. dollar while ether, the native cryptocurrency of the Ethereum blockchain, gained from speculation over the future of “decentralized finance,” known as DeFi. Source: CoinDesk/Coin Metrics […]
With all major pre-launch preparations complete, United Launch Alliance stands ready to launch NASA’s latest mission to Mars: the Perseverance rover and accompanying Ingenuity helicopter. Liftoff of the third of our world’s three missions to Mars during the current interplanetary transfer window is targeted for Thursday, 30 July 2020 in a two hour launch window that opens at 07:50 EDT and closes at 09:50 EDT (11:50–13:50 […]
The US on Thursday set yet another record in daily COVID-19 cases, with more than 75,600 new cases reported, according to a New York Times database. With almost 1,000 deaths reported on Thursday alone across the nation, state and local leaders issued ominous warnings. “If you do the math, it is easy to see why the alarm,” Barbara Ferrer, the public health director in Los Angeles […]
This Month, Three Countries Are Heading Off to Mars by Tony Reichardt/Smithsonianmag.com. June 2020 Every 26 months or so, when the planets are favorably aligned, spacecraft can be sent to Mars at a discount—in terms of the rocket fuel required. NASA, which has a lot of experience in this area, rarely misses the chance. U.S. spacecraft have been dispatched to Mars during six of the last […]
The Portuguese capital, Lisbon, is to host a special mini-tournament to decide the winner of this season’s Champions’ League. The holders, Liverpool, were knocked out by Atletico Madrid just days before the coronavirus lockdown began. Barcelona will play Bayern Munich or Chelsea in the quarter finals of the Champions’ League if they can get past Napoli. The draw has been complicated by the fact that the […]
The Supreme Court belatedly disclosed Tuesday night that Chief Justice John Roberts, 65, fell and was hospitalized overnight last month. A seizure was ruled out by doctors with the fall being blamed on dehydration and Roberts’ injury to his forehead from the fall needing sutures, according to a Supreme Court spokeswoman. Roberts fell from a seizure in 2007 and had a seizure in 1993, according to […]
The government wants to “eliminate the confusion of cryptocurrency activists” with its call for mass mining registration. Source link
The United Kingdom has started to wind down many of the measures introduced to give people a stable income amid the coronavirus pandemic. Nearly a quarter of a million private renters in England are at risk of losing their homes following the end of eviction bans in August, according to estimates from a leading UK housing charity on Monday. A survey by Shelter discovered that 3% of […]
Black Lives Matter and Antifa cohorts riot and torch historic church in Washington DC. Leftists torched the historic St. John’s Church, vandalized the WWII monument, vandalized the Korean War monument, vandalized the Lincoln Memorial, attacked police and national guard members with rocks, bottles and fireworks. General Mark Milley confirmed this week that National Guard troops sent to Washington DC to protect America’s historical monuments during violent […]
Blockchain predictions platform Augur is launching a new version of its protocol next month, but users will have to migrate to a new token if they want to use it. The company announced Monday the “v2” rollout has been slated for release on July 28, and will represent an entirely new deployment of the Augur core protocol on the Ethereum network. Augur v1 will continue to […]
After a month of rioting, arson and looting in cities across the US President Trump’s approval in the black community continues to grow. Approval for Donald Trump from black voters remains at 28%.And Trump’s approval among black voters has remained on average over 20% (22.8%) since late May. This is devastating news for the Democrat Party.It is impossible for Democrats to win a national election if […]
United States: Over 400 Attacks On Press Freedom In Under A Month June 21, 2020 United States: Over 400 Attacks On Press Freedom In Under A Month2020-06-212020-06-21https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/pressmpls.jpg200px200px Above photo: Journalists are experiencing ‘unprecedented’ aggression from authorities, according to CPJ findings. Police have targeted journalists on live TV during the George Floyd protests. Courtney Radsch of the Committee to Protect Journalists talks about what’s behind this development and […]
Gold output in Russia continued to grow, surging by 9.6 percent from January to February compared with the same period of last year, said the country’s Ministry of Finance. The volume of bullion production amounted to 39.71 tons against the 36.3 tons in 2019. Production for the period included 31.75 tons of mined gold, the ministry reported. Accompanying mining rose to 2.85 tons, while secondary mining […]
Over a recent 30-day period, the total open interest for CME bitcoin options increased more than tenfold, from $35 million on May 11 to $373 million on June 10. Moreover, open interest made a new all-time high on six consecutive days from June 5-10. Significant growth in CME futures points to rapidly growing interest by institutional investors in trading regulated bitcoin derivatives products. Despite this growth, […]
Shares of Canaan Creative, one of the few publicly traded crypto miner manufacturers, plummeted below $2, their lowest after going public in November. The Nasdaq-listed stock has been steadily falling since the bitcoin halving on May 11, according to data from Yahoo Finance. It closed at $1.98 at the end of the trading session Monday, down 3.9%. The China-based crypto miner maker is trying to make […]
While a picture of the popular Bikini Bottom dweller was attached to a tweet hinting he may represent the LGBTQ+ community, the channel did not say straight that he is gay. Nickelodeon thrilled netizens on Saturday after it posted a tweet to celebrate Pride month with the LGBTQ+ community and their supporters. Apart from SpongeBob SquarePants, the post featured Schwoz Schwartz from Henry Danger and Korra from Avatar: The […]