Above Photo: Tehran, IRAN – Iran’s Vice-President for Economic Affairs Mohsen Rezaei has proposed formation of a union with participation of the resistant countries against the sanctions and the excessive demands of the bullying powers. All, with consolidation, should stand against the US sanctions and plots, Rezaei said in a meeting with Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, according to the IRNA Saturday report. In his remarks, Rezaei said that the Iranian nation and government pay special respect to Nicaragua’s resistance against excessive demands. He went on to stress that the resistant countries should make further efforts to expand their relations and friendship because […]
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Above Photo: Twitter profile of former FBI Assistant Director Frank Figliuzzi, now of NBC News. Hiding His Key Role. The Most Dangerous, And Under-Discussed, Development In Corporate Media Is The Spate Of Ex-Security State Agents Now Employed To Deliver The “News.” Two of the television outlets on which American liberals rely most for their news — NBC News and CNN — have spent the last six years hiring a virtual army of former CIA operatives, FBI officials, NSA spies, Pentagon chiefs, and DOJ prosecutors to work in their newsrooms. The multiple ways in which journalism is fundamentally corrupted by this spectacle are […]
Above Photo: Jane Holl Lute, special coordinator on improving the U.N. response to sexual exploitation and abuse, being interviewed by U.N. news outlets in 2016. U.N. Photo / Mark Garten. If Jane Holl Lute’s many endeavors outside the U.N. passed the institution’s ethics test, her latest gig became more complicated. Jane Holl Lute is in high demand. In 2020, on top of her two high-level United Nations jobs, the American diplomat has juggled other numerous executive roles on corporate and/or nonprofit boards, earning more than $900,000, according to public records. Lute was the U.N. envoy for Cyprus until she resigned in August, […]
Above Photo: Poster With The Images Of President Daniel Ortega (R) And Vice President Rosario Murillo, Nicaragua, 2021. (@SeaHawkUpdates / Twitter) With 49.25 Percent Of The Votes Counted So Far, President Daniel Ortega Achieved 74.99 Percent Of The Votes. In the early hours of Monday, Nicaragua’s Supreme Electoral Council (CSE) President Brenda Rocha released the first official results of the presidential elections held on Sunday. After saying that the Nicaraguan people “have been the protagonists of the country’s historic civic celebration,” she announced the results of the votes counted at the national and provincial levels. With 49.25 percent of the votes […]
The U.S. Was And Is Effectively Taking Part In The Established Drug Trade By Backing Drug Lords In Afghanistan. What was the Afghanistan War all about? That is the question on many people’s lips after a devastating 20-year campaign that has killed an estimated 176,000 people and displaced nearly 6 million more. Today, Watchdog host Lowkey is joined by a man who knows the war from both inside and out. Matthew Hoh was at the forefront of the American empire’s campaign in the Middle East, first serving as a captain in the U.S. Marines, then moving to the Department of Defense and […]
American plane-maker Boeing has released a new video showing its newest F-15EX fighter jet with its official U.S. Air Force livery. As noted by the company, U.S. AirForce test pilots take to the skies for the first time in the F-15EX advanced fighter aircraft. “The recent flight paves the way for delivery,” said the aerospace giant. – ADVERTISEMENT – CONTINUE READING BELOW – The new F-15EX, commonly known as Strike Eagle on Steroids, is the latest version of the world-famous F-15 Eagle fighter jet. The new fighter would be equipped with better avionics and radars and would carry more than two […]
A Typical Democratic Official On The Pentagon And War By W. J. Astore, Bracing Views. November 18, 2020 A Typical Democratic Official On The Pentagon And War2020-11-182020-11-18https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/jj.jpg200px200px Above photo: Jeh Johnson with Biden and Obama, 2013. White House photo. Jeh Johnson, formerly homeland security secretary under President Obama, showed how a typical Democratic official approaches the Pentagon and war as he spoke on ABC’s This Week on Sunday (11/15). For Johnson, the Pentagon “is typically an island of stability” in the U.S. government, but President Trump was destabilizing that island because of recent changes to Pentagon personnel. Trump’s changes could be […]
Obama Official Admits Biden Camp Is Already Working With Foreign Leaders By Glenn Greenwald, Substack. November 11, 2020 Obama Official Admits Biden Camp Is Already Working With Foreign Leaders2020-11-112020-11-11https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/rice-e1605103121872.jpeg200px200px Above photo: White House National Security Adviser Susan Rice, shakes hands with incoming White House National Security Advisor Gen. Michael Flynn, on January 10, 2017, in Washington, DC. Mark Wilson/Getty Images. Exactly What Flynn Did. In late 2016, the FBI investigated Gen. Michael Flynn when he was a transition official for the possible “crime” of talking to Russia about foreign policy. Why can Biden do this? Two weeks after Donald Trump wonthe […]
How A Key Pentagon Official Turned China Policy Over To Arms Industry And Taiwan Supporters By Gareth Porter, Global Research. October 31, 2020 How A Key Pentagon Official Turned China Policy Over To Arms Industry And Taiwan Supporters2020-10-312020-10-31https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/randall-schriver-e1604178649566.jpg200px200px Above photo: From The Grayzone. The “Fortress Taiwan” arms deal overseen by ex-Assistant Secretary of Defense Randall Schriver is one of the most provocative U.S. moves against China in years. And a big win for his think tank’s arms industry and Taiwanese patrons. When the United States finalized a set of seven arms sales packages to Taiwan in August, including 66 upgraded F-16 fighter planes […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/19/1080575729_0:0:3072:1728_1200x675_80_0_0_cd212173afedd0f64861fb545169987a.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/asia/202010161080785739-japanese-prime-minister-to-make-his-first-foreign-visit-from-october-18-21-official-says/ TOKYO (Sputnik) – New Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga will make his first foreign visit in this post from October 18-21, Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato said on Friday. The first two countries that will be visited by the new prime minister are Vietnam and Indonesia. The first official visit of previous Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was also made to these two countries. Last month, Japanese lawmakers elected Suga as the new prime minister after the former head of the cabinet, Abe, unexpectedly announced on August 28 his intention to resign due to […]
Lawyers from the US Department of Justice told a federal judge on Tuesday the department had no intention of totally declassifying documents related to the Russiagate investigation, despite US President Donald Trump’s tweets to that effect, since it hadn’t been given an official order to release unredacted files. On October 6, Trump tweeted he had “fully authorized the total Declassification of any & all documents pertaining to” the FBI’s investigation of alleged collusion between Trump’s 2016 presidential election campaign and the Russian government. The investigation, which presented its findings in a two-volume March 2019 report, found no evidence a crime had […]
Chen Yulu, deputy governor of the People’s Bank of China, said at the weekend that the digital yuan project should be accelerated as an important part of the nation’s financial infrastructure. Source link
Barcelona have begun legal proceedings in preparation for another round of wage cuts, but club vice president Jordi Moix has said players will not necessarily be subject to them, according to reports in Spain. Marca reported the reductions would be universal across all staff at the club including those in the first team squad, who are said to have been asked to choose someone to represent them in the negotiations alongside other employees on the Business Committee. Options for representatives are reported to be limited as many players are currently with their national teams during the international break. In March, the […]
An official for China’s central bank has unveiled usage statistics of state-backed digital currency trials that were conducted in three Chinese cities. Speaking virtually at the Sibos 2020 conference on Monday, Fan Yifei, deputy governor of the People’s Bank of China, said the bank opened 113,300 consumer digital wallets and 8,859 corporate digital wallets for residents of Shenzhen, Suzhou and Xiong’an to pilot a digital yuan. The digital wallets processed RMB 1.1 billion ($162 million) across 3.1 million digital yuan transactions between April and August when the pilots launched and ended, Fan said, making it the most widely used central bank […]
Lebanon is ready for US-mediated talks with Israel to resolve a long-standing maritime border dispute, the speaker of Lebanon’s parliament, Nabih Berri, said. The two nations are technically in a state of war. The talks will be held under the auspices of the United Nations, at a base near the UN-monitored boundary with Israel, known as the Blue Line, Berri told reporters on Thursday. The Lebanese military will lead the rare direct negotiations between the two nations, which will be mediated by the US. “This is a framework agreement, and not a final one,” Berri noted. Israel’s Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz […]
President Moon Jae-in has voiced his sadness and frustration over the killing of a South Korean official by North Korean troops but said the tragedy could serve as a springboard for renewed dialogue. The shooting of the civil servant, who worked for the South Korean Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries, was “regrettable and unfortunate,” Moon said on Monday. He called for further efforts to determine the circumstances leading up to the official’s death and said Seoul would work to develop “substantive” policies to ensure that a similar incident does not occur again. The South Korean leader acknowledged the shock and anguish […]
Pyongyang has said it’s organizing a search to recover the body of a South Korean official, killed by North Korean troops and demanded Seoul withdraw its warships from the area, warning a flare-up can lead to another “incident.” In a statement, carried by North Korea’s state agency, KCNA, on Saturday, the reclusive nation accused Seoul of sending a flotilla of warships in “an action presumed to be a search operation” to locate the body of the South Korean fisheries official, shot and killed by the North Korean troops earlier this week. Pyongyang said that the “many vessels” scrambled by the South […]
Seoul has called on its northern neighbor to investigate the circumstances surrounding the killing of a South Korean government official, adding that it will increase security measures in response to the incident. North Korean troops shot and killed a South Korean Oceans and Fisheries Ministry staffer after he floated into disputed waters while apparently trying to defect. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un issued a rare apology over the officials’ death, but Seoul is still seeking answers. President Moon Jae-in said in a statement that he requested that North Korea conduct a full investigation into the matter, and asked Pyongyang to agree […]
South Korean President Moon Jae-in’s office has said that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un apologized for the “unsavory” shooting of a state official earlier this week. In a formal notice sent to Seoul, Kim said that he feels “very sorry” for “disappointing” Moon and South Koreans in connection to the case, Suh Hoon, the director of national security at the president’s office, told reporters. In a statement cited by South Korean media, Kim acknowledged that the incident was “something that should not happen.” According to Suh Hoon, Kim said that the official was shot as part of the measures to fight the […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/asia/202009241080555493-south-korean-defence-ministry-accuses-dprk-of-shooting-missing-state-official-burning-body/ The South Korean official from the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries disappeared from the inspection boat in waters near the island of Yeonpyeong on Monday, according to Yonhap. South Korean Defence Ministry said in a statement that North Korea fatally shot a missing South Korean official and burned his body, demanding “to provide an explanation and punish those responsible”, state-run news agency Yonhap reported. “North Korea found the man in its waters and committed an act of brutality by shooting at him and burning his body, according to our military’s thorough analysis of diverse […]
VT: The official number is 204,878. 4.54% of those who test positive die, a number that is holding up well. This means those who were “easy pickings” are gone and of the general population who aren’t significantly compromised, a broad culling of over 4 percent of those who test positive are certain to die with a similar number, always much younger, suffering longterm or permanent disability. The total is just under 10% of all positive tests, dead and disabled. What is being kept secret is the percentages hospitalized and their outcomes. NY Times: The staggering toll comes as the pandemic spreads […]
Michael Caputo, pictured at a White House event, is taking a 60-day leave of absence from his job as lead spokesperson for the Department of Health and Human Services after alleging President Trump’s opponents have interfered in the coronavirus response. Kevin Lamarque/Reuters hide caption toggle caption Kevin Lamarque/Reuters Michael Caputo, pictured at a White House event, is taking a 60-day leave of absence from his job as lead spokesperson for the Department of Health and Human Services after alleging President Trump’s opponents have interfered in the coronavirus response. Kevin Lamarque/Reuters Michael Caputo, the top spokesperson for the Department of Health and […]
Japan is in no rush to digitize the yen but there are reasons the country should think seriously about a central bank digital currency (CBDC), said Tetsuya Inoue, formerly of the Bank of Japan (BoJ) and now a chief researcher at the Nomura Research Institute. Inoue is the author of a book on a digital yen. Source link
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/09/1080412938_0:396:2935:2047_1200x675_80_0_0_11d5022e5a4a0a07172345f4e897abe8.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/world/202009091080412968-us-wants-israel-to-strengthen-scrutiny-of-chinese-investments-state-dept-official-says/ WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The US State Department wants Israel to take stronger action to mitigate risks of China’s investments in its economy, Assistant Secretary of Near Eastern Affairs David Schenker said on Wednesday. “We discussed with Israel our ongoing concerns about China… We want to see that work continue and grow stronger,” Schenker said at a Brookings Institution webinar. He said that the issue was raised again by the Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during his latest visit to Israel in August. Initial steps were taken after a straightforward message was delivered to Israel […]
If there was ever a time to have a glass of bourbon, now is it. Back in 2007, Congress passed a resolution declaring September National Bourbon Heritage Month. On this episode of the award-winning podcast Life Behind Bars, co-hosts David Wondrich and Noah Rothbaum are joined by Trey Zoeller, founder of Jefferson’s Bourbon, to talk about why the month-long holiday was created and how to properly celebrate it. So fix yourself a glass of bourbon and listen to this episode of Life Behind Bars. Cheers! Life Behind Bars features Half Full’s editor Noah Rothbaum and its Senior Drinks Columnist David Wondrich […]
STOCKHOLM (Sputnik) – The Swedish Tax Agency has launched an investigation into Fazel Fazly, the chief adviser to the Afghan president, who is also a Swedish citizen, as the senior official is suspected of illegally receiving childcare benefits, national media reported on Tuesday. According to the Aftonbladet newspaper, citing the Swedish Foreign Ministry’s data, the 43-year-old official has lived in the European country and worked as a doctor since 2009. In late June 2018, Fazly was appointed as head of the Afghan President Ashraf Ghani’s administration, with publications featuring Fazly having appeared on the administration’s official website and related pages on […]
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has given approval for Amazon to operate its Prime Air delivery drones, an idea billionaire owner Jeff Bezos first introduced in 2013. The approval means the drones can be operated “beyond the visual line of sight” by operators. Amazon says it will soon begin testing the delivery technology, which is supposed to cut wait times for orders from days to hours and eventually minutes. The company also plans on eventually introducing the delivery practice across the globe. “This certification is an important step forward for Prime Air and indicates the FAA’s confidence in Amazon’s operating and […]
An official from the US National Security Council acknowledged on Wednesday that a day prior there had been a vehicle collision between Russian and American forces in eastern Syria. On Tuesday, four US servicemembers were reported injured with concussion-like symptoms in an incident involving Russian forces. However, White House National Security Council spokesperson John Ullyot said on Wednesday that the injuries were the fault of the Russians, and that the US servicemembers withdrew to deescalate – a far different story than that told by video footage of the event. “At approximately 10 a.m. (Syria Time), Aug. 25, a routine Defeat-ISIS Coalition […]
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BENGHAZI (Sputnik) – Libyan tribes have been invited to participate in the political process on the Libyan crisis settlement by the United Nations, Senussi al-Haleeq, the deputy chairman of the Supreme Council of Libyan Sheikhs and Elders, which supports the Libyan National Army, said on Saturday. “We received an invitation from the parliament in Tobruk, as well as an official request from the UN for the participation [in the political proces] of representatives of tribes, including me”, al-Haleeq said, adding that tribes would be represented in negotiations. The deputy chairman also said that the exact date for the start of the […]
Prior to the pandemic, the head of UN World Food Programme warned that 2020 would be the worst year since the Second World War because of the severe damage inflicted upon food systems by natural disasters and conflicts. The coronavirus pandemic will result in a “widespread famine of biblical proportions”, said David Beasley, chief of the United Nations World Food Programme, urging the international community to act now in order to avoid a catastrophe. “We are not talking about people going to bed hungry. We are talking about extreme conditions, emergency status – people literally marching to the brink of starvation. […]
White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows has raised eyebrows on social media after claiming in a discussion with CNN’s Jake Tapper that a lack of evidence of widespread voter fraud is in fact “the definition” of fraud. During the lengthy verbal battle in which neither Tapper or Meadows budged from their respective positions, the CNN host insisted universal mail-in voting in November’s presidential election will not lead to fraud because various states already engage in mail-in voting and have no issues. Meadows, meanwhile, insisted that while mail-in voting can work in some states, to do it nationwide would lead to […]
Donald Trump’s “official” super PAC has spent more than $25 million since last year to get the president re-elected. Now it’s trying a new tactic: the group, America First Action, has launched a news website. The site is called the American Herald, and it describes itself as “a conservative news platform designed to bring you all the news the liberal media doesn’t want you to know. We commit to cover national issues that impact all Americans, not just what fits the left’s political agenda.” The American Herald’s formation comes during an election cycle in which Trump’s political machine has sought to […]
The mass gathering at the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally amid the pandemic is too crazy even for the company whose name is all but synonymous with the annual event. The Harley-Davidson company has been associated with the rally in the South Dakota town of Sturgis since its inception decades ago. The big, throbbing Harley “hog” is the rally’s official motorcycle. The town’s main intersection is Main Street and Harley-Davidson Way. The plaza at the center of Sturgis is the Harley-Davidson Rally Point, and those who assemble there stand on a huge Harley-Davidson Logo. Bill Davidson, grandson of company founder William Davidson, attended […]
Twitter on Wednesday banned President Trump’s campaign from tweeting until they delete a tweet about the Coronavirus that the tech company says violates its “rules against misinformation.” This is happening in an election year during a pandemic. Where is the DOJ? Where are the Republican lawmakers? The Washington Post corrected its report that Twitter banned President Trump over his tweet of a video clip of a Fox News interview in which he said children are “almost immune” from Covid-19. Twitter banned Trump’s campaign, not the President’s account. TRENDING: “Why the Hell Would I Take a Test?… Are You a Junkie?” – […]
The secretary-general of Lebanon’s Christian Kataeb Party, or Phalange, Nizar Najarian has been killed in a powerful explosion in Beirut. Nearly a dozen more people are reported dead and hundreds injured. Two explosions rocked the Lebanese capital on Tuesday evening, killing at least 10 people and injuring hundreds more, according to local officials and the Red Cross. The blast wave damaged buildings all across the city and left the streets a rubble-strewn disaster scene. Also on rt.com ‘At least’ 10 killed, hundreds injured in Beirut explosions (VIDEOS) Najarian was caught in the blast and wounded, succumbing to his injuries a short […]
A journalist runs past federal officers during a protest against racial injustice in front of the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse on July 30 in Portland, Ore. Nathan Howard/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Nathan Howard/Getty Images A journalist runs past federal officers during a protest against racial injustice in front of the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse on July 30 in Portland, Ore. Nathan Howard/Getty Images The Department of Homeland Security has reassigned its top intelligence official, according to media outlets, following news that his office compiled intelligence reports on journalists and protesters in Portland, Ore. Brian Murphy, who had […]
US President Donald Trump has long promoted the use of the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for the ongoing coronavirus. Testing the drug for use in treating COVID-19 has, however, been blocked by international health bodies which have noted the compound’s adverse effects on patients. An official in the US government pandemic response team on Sunday affirmed that there is zero evidence that hydroxychloroquine is a workable treatment for the COVID-19 coronavirus, despite President Donald Trump’s lauding of the anti-malaria drug as a solution. Speaking on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” a Trump administration testing figure, Brett Giroir, said he is […]
In May we reported on our concerns with contact tracing and our loss of freedom as a result of this practice. We reported that contact tracers will track you and tell you what you can and cannot do. You will be a puppet of the state. You must do what they say for the greater good. Freedom will be lost forever. We reported that Democrat states were promoting the idea of “contact tracing” and when you realize what it is, you will think you are living in Orwell’s 1984. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot cheered the news that Chicago was hiring 600 […]
Russia’s foreign ministry has sent notices of protest to the Moscow embassies of the United States, Great Britain, and Canada, after the three buildings flew rainbow flags in June, recognized in some countries as LGBT Pride Month. Embassy staff of the three nations violated the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, as well as Russian law, according to Vasily Piskarev, who heads Russia’s commission investigating foreign interference. The commission noted that the LGBT pride flags appeared “during the voting period on amendments to the Russian Constitution, which enshrined provisions on the protection and preservation of traditional family values.” In late June, the […]
A director at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) thinks the private sector could bring value to the technology supporting central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), should they be adopted by nations. Disclosure The leader in blockchain news, CoinDesk is a media outlet that strives for the highest journalistic standards and abides by a strict set of editorial policies. CoinDesk is an independent operating subsidiary of Digital Currency Group, which invests in cryptocurrencies and blockchain startups. Source link
Huge crowds calling for the resignation of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rallied outside his home Saturday in Jerusalem on growing discontent over the government’s Covid-19 response, high unemployment and corruption. More than 5,000 people gathered on Balfour Street, now a frequent site of anti-government demonstrations, according to Haaretz newspaper, making it the biggest of several protests this week. Demonstrators also rallied elsewhere in Israel. Protesters’ grievances focus mainly on Netanyahu’s handling of the pandemic, including a strict lockdown that caused unemployment to surge and a spike in cases after the abrupt lifting of safety measures in May. Demonstrators also are […]
The miscounting and fraudulent numbers related to the China coronavirus just keep coming. Unrelated deaths are being counted as COVID-19 related and deaths from days and weeks ago are suddenly being attributed to today’s COVID-19 mortality counts. A CBS12 team in Florida reported: A 60-year-old man who died from a gun shot wound to the head. A 90-year-old man who fell and died from complications of a hip fracture. TRENDING: All Yankees and Nationals Players and Coaches Take a Knee Before National Anthem Opening Night A 77-year-old woman who died of Parkinson’s disease. These are some of the deaths in Palm […]
The US dollar’s status as the dominant global currency is at risk of being eroded because of mounting government debt, according to Zhu Min, former senior executive with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). His warning comes as the United States is expected to double down on its fiscal stimulus measures to soothe the economic fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic. Congress is considering a new round of relief that is likely to cost at least $1 trillion on top of the more than $2 trillion passed earlier this year. With the US Federal Reserve continuing its aggressive monetary policy of quantitative easing, […]
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Hackers gained access to the private messages of at least 36 high-profile Twitter accounts targeted in an unprecedented security breach earlier this month, the company said, among them at least one elected official. “We believe that for up to 36 of the 130 targeted accounts, the attackers accessed the [direct message] inbox, including 1 elected official in the Netherlands,” Twitter said in a statement on Wednesday, without naming the office-holder. The company maintains it has so far seen “no indication” that messages of any other current or former political figures were compromised in the attack. We believe that for up to […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202007221079959028-us-eu-dialogue-on-china-to-be-action-oriented-for-more-policy-outcomes-state-dept-official-says/ WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – US Deputy Secretary of State Stephen Biegun said he expects the US-EU dialogue on China to be action-oriented, according to Biegun’s written testimony published on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s website. “On 25 June, the Secretary [of State Mike Pompeo] announced the United States has accepted EU High Representative Josep Borrell’s proposal to create a US-EU Dialogue on China – a new mechanism for discussing the Transatlantic community’s common concerns about the threat the PRC [People’s Republic of China] poses to our shared democratic ideals”, Biegun said on Wednesday. “We anticipate it […]
Iran has executed a man convicted of spying on Major General Qasem Soleimani, who was killed in a US drone strike in January. It was alleged that the convict had shared sensitive information with both the CIA and Mossad. The death sentence was carried out against a man called Mahmoud Mousavi-Majd, local media reported, citing judiciary spokesperson Gholamhossein Esmaeili. According to the report, Mousavi-Majd had received payment from the CIA and Mossad in exchange for information about Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the Quds Force, its unit tasked with operations overseas. Among this data were the movements and locations […]
Iran in the past weeks has suffered a series of unexplained incidents at sensitive sites linked to its military and nuclear programme. Some of them have been attributed to Israel, which would not publicly confirm or deny its role. There are concerns in Europe that Israel might be trying to drag the United States into a conflict with Iran before the November general election, an anonymous EU official has told Business Insider. “I fear the Israeli plan here is to provoke an Iranian response that can turn into a military escalation while Trump remains in office,” the EU official was quoted as […]
Utah County Commissioner Tanner Ainge decided to postpone a meeting regarding a mask requirement for students in K-12 schools. This mandate set by Republican Governor Gary Herbert only applies to schools and school buses. Tanner Ainge who is the Chairman of the All-Republican Commission, was met with a crowd of people where a majority of them were unmasked in the meeting room. Ainge opened with, “This is the exact opposite of what we need to be doing.” While being booed by the crowd, Ainge also expressed his concerns, “We are supposed to be physically distancing, wearing masks. All of our medical experts, […]
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The resurgence of COVID-19 cases is hanging over the US economy like a thick fog of uncertainty, with recovery likely suppressed and job market recovery hurt by the second wave of the pandemic, Federal Reserve Governor Lael Brainard said on Tuesday. “A thick fog of uncertainty still surrounds us, and downside risks predominate. The recovery is likely to face headwinds even if the downside risks do not materialize, and a second wave would magnify that challenge,” Brainard said in a web-streamed speech entitled Navigating Monetary Policy through the Fog of COVID. “It is unclear whether the rapid pace […]
A Scrabble players group finds some words are too offensive for its approved list. Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images A Scrabble players group finds some words are too offensive for its approved list. Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images The word “slur” has a number of meanings in English, but the one that has concerned Scrabble aficionados and Hasbro, which owns the U.S. and Canadian trademark for the popular board game, means “a derogatory or insulting term applied to particular group of people.” On Wednesday, the North American Scrabble Players Association announced that derogatory language would be removed from […]
New Delhi (Sputnik): United States’ Secretary of State Michael Pompeo spoke to India’s External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar at the height of border tensions between India and China following the violent face-off between Indian and Chinese soldiers in Ladakh’s Galwan Valley. White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows has hinted that New Delhi has the support of US Military in its conflict with Beijing. “The message is clear. Our military might stands strong and will continue to stand strong, whether it’s in relationship to a conflict between India and China or anywhere else,” the White House official told Fox News. […]
The cartoon in question was branded by Kansas Governor Laura Kelly as anti-Semitic, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker reportedly described it as “another disgusting display by ignorant Republicans who fail to understand that their propaganda is costing lives”. Dane Hicks, GOP chairman for Anderson County, Kansas, has apologized for a cartoon posted on the Facebook page of a newspaper he owns, which drew parallels between the local governor’s order to wear masks in public and the Holocaust. The cartoon in question features Democratic Kansas Governor Laura Kelly wearing a face mask emblazoned with a Jewish Star of David, depicted next to a […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107979/04/1079790493_0:0:2304:1296_1200x675_80_0_0_b40f5ba44007166ff1cf23c321f5a9e8.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/world/202007031079790475-un-staffers-put-on-leave-over-video-of-sex-act-in-official-car/ The head of the United Nations was “shocked and deeply disturbed” by the contents of a video that showed an apparent sex act in a UN official car in Tel Aviv, Israel. The video quickly went viral. Two UN staffers from the Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO) have been put on an administrative leave as an investigation has been launched into a video showing what is apparently a sex act inside of an official UN vehicle in Tel Aviv. According to a statement by UNTSO, the two men are seen as “having engaged in misconduct, […]
Jean Castex, a senior official who spearheaded France’s coronavirus reopening strategy, has been named the country’s new prime minister by President Emmanuel Macron. Also on rt.com French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe resigns as Macron vows to move on with ‘new team’ DETAILS TO FOLLOW Source link
Two employees of the United Nations mission in Israel have been suspended without pay after a viral video showed a sex act in their official vehicle, as it drove down a major street in Tel Aviv. The two men were identified as staff members of the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO), a military observer mission in Israel, and were placed on unpaid leave on Thursday. The 18-second video shows a man in a white uniform, in the back seat of the marked UN vehicle, being straddled by a woman wearing a red dress as another man looks on from the […]
The New York Times on Friday published a story claiming that Russia secretly offered bounties to Taliban forces to kill US troops, citing “officials briefed on the matter.” President Trump early Sunday morning dismissed the New York Times report on the GRU-Taliban allegations. “Nobody briefed or told me, VP Pence, or Chief of Staff Mark Meadows about the so-called attacks on our troops in Afghanistan by Russians, as reported through an “anonymous source” by the Fake News New York Times.” Trump said in a pair of tweets Sunday morning. …Nobody’s been tougher on Russia than the Trump Administration. With Corrupt Joe […]
by Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio for VT Italy For the Court of Cassation there were not enough elements to put the Mayor of Bibbiano Alberto Carletti under house arrest, but for the Prosecutor of the Republic of Reggio Emilia there are enough to ask for his indictment for crimes of false and abuse of office. Andrea Carletti, Mayor of Bibbiano indicted for false and abuse of office On charge of the politician, meantime self-suspended by the Italian Democratic Party, the prosecutor Valentina Salvi has moved disputes of an administrative nature and not for issues directly related to the alleged illegal custody […]
China has conducted over 90 million nucleic acid COVID-19 tests since the start of its novel coronavirus outbreak, the state-run Xinhua News Agency announced Wednesday. Citing remarks from Guo Yanhong, an official with China’s National Health Commission, Xinhua reported that medical sites within the country had carried out roughly 90.41 million nucleic tests. That total is three times higher than the number of tests conducted by the United States, which has completed about 30 million tests so far, according to the most recent tally by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). While China has conducted many more tests […]
US Lawmakers, Top Official Clash On China’s Involvement In COVID-19 Vaccine By Jodi Xu Klein, South China Morning Post. June 20, 2020 US Lawmakers, Top Official Clash On China’s Involvement In COVID-19 Vaccine2020-06-202020-06-20https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/hirono.png200px200px Above photo: Senator Mazie Hirono appears via video link to question during the hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee in Washington on Thursday. EPA-EFE. Note: The refusal of the United States to work with China on developing a COVID-19 vaccine is another example of the US acting against both its own self-interest and the necessity of the nations of the world working together to confront this global pandemic. […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107965/90/1079659055_0:229:3071:1957_1200x675_80_0_0_c36740f6cf85853f5ac83e5f61f1723e.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202006191079658863-senior-us-state-dept-official-resigns-over-trumps-actions-on-racial-injustice/ WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – US Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs Mary Elizabeth Taylor in a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said she is resigning from her position over President Donald Trump’s comments and actions surrounding racial injustice to African Americans in the United States. “Moments of upheaval can change you, shift the trajectory of your life, and mold your character,” Taylor said as quoted in a letter obtained by The Washington Post on Thursday. “The President’s comments and actions surrounding racial injustice and Black Americans cut sharply against my core values […]
The global response and fallout from the coronavirus pandemic serves as a dress rehearsal for a worldwide climate catastrophe, the head of the UN’s sustainable business agency has warned. Lise Kingo, executive director of the UN Global Compact, insisted in an interview with The Guardian that there were “very, very clear connections” linking the current health crisis, climate change issues and the Black Lives Matter protests that have spread across the globe. The coronavirus pandemic is “just a fire drill” for what’s coming, she told the news outlet. Government actions purportedly taken to stop the spread of the virus have crippled […]
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Russia’s news conglomeration Rossiya Segodnya and media juggernaut RT are leaders in outreach and innovation with internet audiences, Russian deputy minister of digital development, communications and mass media Alexei Volin said in an interview published Monday. “I always say with pride that the professional standards of our media are very high. For example, if we talk about Rossiya Segodnya, also known as RIA Novosti and the Sputnik agency, and RT, then today they are definitely leaders in terms of working with an Internet audience. Their know-how, technologies for working on the internet and social networks are studied all […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107857/55/1078575563_0:32:2097:1211_1200x675_80_0_0_37f71f30006ef59175ab86c8347bc333.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/world/202006121079598841-russian-embassy-says-fake-statement-of-us-official-on-libya-syria-will-further-spoil-relations/ WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The Russian Embassy in the United States said the fake statement by a high-ranking US official, including recent remarks on the situation in Syria and Libya, will only spoil relations between Moscow and Washington even further. “We paid attention to another anti-Russian statement voiced by Assistant Secretary of State David Schenker at the Hudson Institute on 11 June 2020”, the embassy said in a statement on Friday. “This time he claimed that our country helps Damascus to perpetrate genocide, and also intends to establish a military base in Libya. It’s regretful […]
Jon Ossoff leaves a campaign office after meeting with supporters in Marietta, Ga., in 2017 David Goldman/AP hide caption toggle caption David Goldman/AP Jon Ossoff leaves a campaign office after meeting with supporters in Marietta, Ga., in 2017 David Goldman/AP As votes continue to be counted across Georgia following it’s Tuesday primary, the Associated Press has yet to project a winner of the state’s Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate. Georgia’s election law requires that a candidate receive a majority of votes to secure a primary nomination. Jon Ossoff currently stands at 50% of the vote, far ahead of the other […]
US 23:06 GMT 07.06.2020Get short URL The sudden resignation of the former associate administrator of NASA’s Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate, Doug Loverro, which startled the space community, took place just a week before the historic Space X launch. A former high-ranking NASA official is being investigated over allegedly giving improper guidance to Boeing Co. in relation to an agency competition for one of NASA’s moon landing contracts, the Wall Street Journal reported. NASA’s Inspector General is currently looking into communications between Boeing officials and Loverro, who is facing allegations of providing Boeing with “unusual insight” into aspects of the […]
At a press conference Sunday Minnesota Department of Public Safety commissioner John Harrington compared the methods police were using to identify protestors to those used to track COVID-19 cases. We’ve “begun analyzing the data of who we have arrested, and begun, actually, doing what you would think as almost pretty similar to our COVID. It’s contact tracing. Who are they associated with? What platforms are they advocating for?” he said. The Department of Public Safety works in partnership with local state and federal law enforcement and emergency response agencies. Public health and privacy experts reacted with alarm, saying that conflating law enforcement and contact […]
The head of Russia’s Udmurt Republic Alexander Brechalov has contracted the coronavirus, it’s been confirmed. The regional governor had recently met with Olympic champion figure skater Alina Zagitova. The official, who reportedly has mild symptoms of COVID-19, self-isolated in his residence immediately after learning of his diagnosis. READ MORE: Style queen: Russian figure skating sensation Zagitova crowned ‘Olympic style champion’ “I have tested positive for COVID-19. I’m following all doctors’ instructions and continue working in self-isolation. Right now I don’t have any reasons to stop working or be hospitalized,” Brechalov said. On May 18 he welcomed Russian figure skating star Zagitova to his […]
US 01:20 GMT 25.05.2020Get short URL Earlier in the week, US President Donald Trump sent a letter to the World Health Organization threatening to exit the international body and permanently suspend all funding, demanding that the agency “demonstrate independence” from Beijing. An exit by the United States from the World Health Organization (WHO) would be “unimaginable”, as the country and the agency have been “connected since the very beginning”, according to the organization’s assistant director-general of general management, Stewart Simonson, who outlined that the agency has “benefited from the enormous generousity of the people of the United States” and praised “the […]
by Jim W. Dean, VT Editor, …with PressTV, Tehran [ Editor’s Note: This Covid prison story came as no surprise. In both the pandemic preparation and the scramble for protection equipment and testing, the prisons and jails were at the end of the competition line. The rationale for the would be that front line health care workers were more valuable due to the pending risk of the hospitals being over flooded, which some were, and their staff going down with Covid, adding to the medical and ensuing political risk of a botched response. The US was hijacking en route protection equipment […]
Two Democrat-led committees on Capitol Hill have launched a fresh investigation into President Trump. This probe focuses on allegations that Trump fired a State Department employee for political reasons. Trump informed Congress on Friday that he intends to fire State Department Inspector General Steve Linick, claiming he “no longer” had confidence in him. By Saturday, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Eliot Engel (D-New York) and Senate Foreign Affairs Committee Ranking Member Bob Menendez (D-New Jersey) sent a letter to the White House, alleging the firing was “politically-motivated,” and announcing an investigation. Today I launched an investigation into President Trump’s firing of […]
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Russia’s Foreign Ministry will send letters to the Financial Times and New York Times demanding they retract reports which claim the actual death toll from Covid-19 in the country is much higher than the official figures. The editors-in-chief of those outlets will be handed the letters on Thursday through the Russian embassies in the UK and the US, ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said during a briefing. Moscow will also address the UN, OSCE and UNESCO on the situation, as the reports in the FT and NYT represent “an example of that very ‘infodemic’ that the UN General Secretary, Antonio Guterres, urged […]
Elon Musk says he will move his Tesla plant to Texas or Nevada after the county health official closed his plant due to coronavirus. Musk does not like the rulings by the “unelected and ignorant Interim Health Officer” from Almeda County. Tesla is filing a lawsuit against Alameda County immediately. The unelected & ignorant “Interim Health Officer” of Alameda is acting contrary to the Governor, the President, our Constitutional freedoms & just plain common sense! — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 9, 2020 Frankly, this is the final straw. Tesla will now move its HQ and future programs to Texas/Nevada immediately. If […]
Remember when Obama’s defense official Evelyn Farkas went on MSNBC and urged her ‘former colleagues’ and people on the Hill to disseminate and leak so-called intel proving Trump and his aides colluded with Russia? Farkas lied during her appearance on MSNBC and GOP lawmaker Trey Gowdy forced her to admit she lied during her sworn testimony to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on June 26, 2017. “I had a fear that somehow that information would disappear with the senior people who left so that it would be hidden away in the bureaucracy, that the Trump folks, if they found […]
Japanese internment camp during WWII And here we thought Democrats were against internment camps?Guess not. Advertisement – story continues below Ventura County officials in California announced plans to remove infected residents with the Wuhan virus from their homes and place them in quarantine centers. On Wednesday, Ventura County Health Director Robert Levin announced that the forcible quarantines are underway and will continue. TRENDING: HUGE UPDATE: Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx Used Imperial College Model — NOW CONFIRMED AS A COMPLETE FRAUD — To Persuade President Trump to Lock Down Entire US Economy! Robert Levin: Some of the people we find are […]