US Media, Politicians Rage After Venezuela Defies US Empire By Alan Macleod, Mintpress News. December 9, 2020 US Media, Politicians Rage After Venezuela Defies US Empire2020-12-092020-12-09https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/12/vz-election.jpg200px200px Above photo: Government supporters chant for parliamentary candidates representing the Great Patriotic Pole party at a closing campaign rally in Caracas, Venezuela, Dec. 3, 2020. Ariana Cubillos | AP. Despite the fact that the election was overseen by over 4,500 international observers, US pols and media pundits alike labeled it a sham before it even took place. President Nicolas Maduro and his United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) are celebrating today, after a clear victory […]
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The Danish Parliament has revealed that a supposed online meeting featuring leading Belarusian opposition figure Svetlana Tikhanovskaya actually involved an unknown prankster, who spoke to them about “animal brothels.” In an embarrassing turn of events for Copenhagen, on Tuesday, a group of the country’s MPs were taken for a ride for an entire 40 minutes before they realized something was wrong. And that was despite the obvious giveaway that the fake Tikhanovskaya could not appear on camera, citing technical difficulties. According to local media, reality dawned after over half an hour of questioning, when ‘Tikhanovskaya’ asked a question about “brothels with […]
Wash. D.C. Politicians Have Truly Lost Their Minds! For many of Washington’s most powerful, #COVID19 public health guidance does not apply https://t.co/xGs4FxyBby #MaskUpAmerica #FineArtofSocialDistancing — Medical Society NY (@mssnytweet) October 5, 2020 Health Editor’s Note: D.C. politicians continue to believe they are immune to contracting COVID-19 and if they have it, they need not be concerned about spreading it to others. Maskless and non adherence to physical distancing is the dress and mode of the day. Is there a message that has somehow gotten lost on these people who do not seem to have two brains to rub together? Mask wearing […]
At least 34 million COVID-19 cases and 1 million deaths have been reported around the world as of 2 October, according to the WHO. US President Donald Trump and his wife recently became the latest additions to the list of prominent politicians and public figures all over the world to get infected with COVID-19 amid the ongoing global pandemic. Here’s but a brief overview of some of the more “high-profile” “victims” of the disease that’s been ravaging the world throughout this year. Donald Trump & Melania Early on 2 October, Donald Trump tweeted that he and his wife Melania both “tested […]
A group of high-profile Indian politicians have been acquitted on charges of inciting violence that led to the demolition of a famous Muslim shrine in Ayodhya 28 years ago, followed by deadly sectarian riots. The case revolved around the dramatic demolition of the 16th-century Babri Masjid mosque in Ayodhya in India’s northern Uttar Pradesh state in 1992. Hindu activists destroyed the building, believing that it was built on the ruins of a Ram temple. The incident sparked communal riots, which left 3,000 dead. But the trial began nearly 18 years after the incident and then proceeded at a snail’s pace. A […]
SushiSwap, the community-owned automated market maker (AMM), now has a new set of leaders. Nine signers of a multisig wallet controlling the project’s funds have been elected to govern SushiSwap through full decentralization. On Ethereum, a multisig has worked out to be something like a board of directors in the analog world, such that it takes any six of the nine members to approve changes to the SushiSwap code or to spend its development funds. These new leaders were chosen through a process largely inside the SushiSwap Discord server following the departure of two of the project’s three co-founders. Some stumped […]
Republican and Democrat politicians have both embraced legislation to immunize themselves and their deep-pocketed corporate donors from legal liability for ill-thought-out pandemic policies blamed for the deaths of thousands. Republicans in the Senate have all but plagiarized a controversial provision from New York Governor Andrew Cuomo that will offer legal immunity to corporations that ran the care homes in which hundreds of thousands of elderly Americans died with the coronavirus over the last six months, according to a trio of progressive journalists who compared the texts and interviewed some of the lobbyists who wrote the polarizing passages for the politicians in […]
After stirring up a controversy for calling out Bollywood’s “rampant drug culture”, actress Kangana Ranaut has now sparked an altercation with Maharashtra’s ruling party, Shiv Sena, which she claims, is daring her to return to the film city Mumbai. National award-winning Bollywood actress Kangana Ranaut will receive elite security cover (known as Y-plus) after her sister and father approached the Narendra Modi-led government demanding the same. The Y-plus plus category entails a security cover of 11 personnel and is given to VIPs in the country. Kangana thanked Indian Home Minister Amit Shah for providing her with the security and upholding the […]
Top German politicians have been venting their fury after Saturday’s massive anti-lockdown rally in Berlin ended with the surreal scenes of protesters trying to storm the Reichstag building – the seat of the national parliament. Many were baffled after footage showed one of the groups of protesters rallying against anti-coronavirus restrictions in the German capital breaking through police cordons with flags and banners and literally trying to take Reichstag by storm. Politicians all across the political spectrum have been left furious at the security lapse, but most of all at the Covid-sceptic protesters. President Frank-Walter Steinmeier slammed the incident as an “intolerable attack on […]
Former Belarusian presidential candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya has rejected claims that the opposition wants to close the frontier with Russia, rubbishing the idea that the country wishes to turn away from its eastern neighbor. “People are saying that we want to shut down the borders with Russia,” she told Polish news portal Onet. “This is nonsense.” Tikhanovskaya also refused to discuss any Russia-specific policies, noting that all decisions would be made by a future elected president. Despite encouragement from the West to turn against their long-time partner, opposition figures inside Belarus have clearly stated that the country will not be dictated to […]
New Delhi (Sputnik): The Congress party is facing a crisis of leadership after interim president Sonia Gandhi is said to have declared that she wants to resign. Her decision is said to have come after key Congress party leaders demanded an overhaul at the top of the party, complaining about policy drift. Source link
Whether fighting for reduced taxes for staking or regulatory sandboxes for tokens, these politicians break the mold when it comes to digital assets. Our main discussion is a look at the politicians on both sides of the aisle who are pro-digital currencies and, especially, pro-bitcoin. Featuring: Source link
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/08/14/1080222487_0:0:2166:1219_1200x675_80_0_0_f47b597353e0da86ec7ae8bc14b04fa9.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/africa/202008201080222473-qatar-calls-to-ensure-security-of-politicians-detained-in-mali/ DOHA (Sputnik) – Qatar’s Foreign Ministry expressed serious concern over the situation in Mali, where a military coup took place on Tuesday and called to ensure the security of detained government officials, according to the ministry’s statement. “The state of Qatar expresses serious concern about the recent events in the Republic of Mali”, the ministry said. Qatar “stresses the need to ensure the sovereignty of state institutions and compliance with the law, as well as the security of government officials currently in custody”, it added. On Tuesday, a group of Malian officers, reportedly led […]
In the 1950s Iran was one of the world’s biggest oil producers and the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company – which later became BP – owned the concession to drill oil there. So when Iran threatened to nationalise it Britain and the US took covert action. Source link
The speaker of Russia’s State Duma (parliament) has ordered the Committee on Security and Anti-Corruption to determine which lawmakers have alternative citizenships or other residence permits, after a claim by an opposition MP. A key part of Vladimir Putin’s constitutional changes, approved in a national vote earlier this month, called for a halt to top officials having foreign passports or the right to reside in other countries. The clause was popular with the public, given the number of times over the past three decades that corrupt former politicians or bureaucrats have fled abroad after milking Russia. Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin ordered the […]
In the aftermath of the Twitter hack, lawmakers are targeting lax cybersecurity, not Bitcoin. Binance is looking to consolidate bitcoin mining in Russia, ConsenSys is being accused of stealing intellectual property and a celebrated comic book artist will be hawking his wares on the Ethereum blockchain. You’re reading Blockchain Bites, the daily roundup of the most pivotal stories in blockchain and crypto news, and why they’re significant. You can subscribe to this and all of CoinDesk’s newsletters here. Top shelf Mining ConsolidationBinance is looking to consolidate more bitcoin mining hashrate to its pool in Russia and the Central Asia region. The world’s largest crypto exchange […]
Two Catalan pro-independence leaders are reportedly taking the retired chief of Spain’s official intelligence agency to court over allegations their mobile devices were monitored using the notorious ‘Pegasus’ spyware. Roger Torrent, the speaker of the Catalan parliament, and Ernest Maragall, the former regional foreign minister, announced they were filing a lawsuit against the former chief of Spain’s National Intelligence Service (CNI) Felix Sanz Roldan, local media reported on Thursday. Their legal action comes shortly after the Guardian and El Pais suggested the pair’s mobile devices were infected with Pegasus – a hacking tool developed by Israeli firm NSO Group. The papers […]
MADRID (Sputnik) – The government of Spain’s Catalonia autonomous region on Tuesday announced a decision to soften prison conditions for politicians responsible for the so-called independence referendum in 2017. Earlier this month, the administrations of three prisons, where the aforementioned politicians are serving their sentences, requested to ease their confinement status. Several months ago, they were allowed to leave prisons for several hours for work or volunteering. The government’s secretariat on penal measures has approved the proposal, meaning that the inmates in question will only have to stay in prison during nighttime and can stay at home on weekends. The decision, […]
After months of panic porn and fraudulent projections and statistics about the China coronavirus and horrible unconstitutional mandates from corrupt politicians, it’s long past time to look at the data and manage according to the facts. This is what successful business people and leaders do in the real world. Since the world was first introduced to the China coronavirus the situation became political. However, some people could see right through it. We first reported on March 17, 2020, on the controversial Ethiopian politician and Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, and his irresponsible and criminal fear […]
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is under pressure to take bigger steps to curb hate speech and crack down on harmful content on the social network. Drew Angerer/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Drew Angerer/Getty Images Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is under pressure to take bigger steps to curb hate speech and crack down on harmful content on the social network. Drew Angerer/Getty Images Updated at 8:05p.m. ET Facebook will put warning labels on posts that break its rules but are considered newsworthy, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Friday. The new policy marks a reversal for Zuckerberg and comes as more brands pledge […]
It could lead to a severe prison overcrowding crisis the likes of which has never been experienced in UK history but the time for the introduction of a specific criminal offence of lying to the public is now long overdue. It would clip the wings of politicians who use telling lies as a campaign tool to win votes or defend the indefensible and who now think nothing of spouting regular porkies in Parliament, safe in the knowledge there is no punishment for their deceit. The prevalence of dishonesty in politics is a corrosive cancer which undermines public trust and endangers the […]
If you want to fix your show, a great first step is to feature Judith Light in a starring role. If you can, it is highly recommended to pair her with Bette Midler, preferably in scenes that have them extolling the virtues of romantic throuples for women over 50, or celebrating the discovery of “spicy lube.” If Gwyneth Paltrow is already in your show as a somnambulant Santa Barbara socialite, both self-aware of her own privilege and unbothered by the entitled attitude it fosters, please continue to script her swanning around in kaftans—and also, sure, why not have her run for […]
We all know the score by now: Fossil fuels are bad; Russia is bad. So where did the worst-ever fossil fuel burn happen? You guessed it! Researchers in the US say massive coal burning in Siberia caused the world’s worst extinction. During the Permo-Triassic extinction event, our planet was hit by lethal global warming which led to 96 percent of all marine species and 70 percent of terrestrial vertebrates disappearing from the face of the Earth. Also on rt.com Dinosaur killing asteroid caused mass extinction by turning oceans ACIDIC It was long-hypothesized that the catastrophic event was caused by extensive coal […]
Antifa domestic terrorists in Portland have shut down traffic for 17 straight days and as usual, the police are no where to be found. On Saturday, Antifa rioters violently mobbed a driver on SE Powell Blvd in Portland. There is no law and order in Portland thanks to Democrat politicians. These Antifa rioters are protected by the Democrats who are refusing to enforce the law. TRENDING: UPDATE — FULL BODYCAM VIDEO Reveals Atlanta Police Being Patient, Respectful with Rayshard Brooks (VIDEO) WATCH: BLM protesters shut down traffic for the 17th straight day in Portland. As usual, police stayed away. Yesterday, rioters […]
…by Jonas E. Alexis # 3: George W. Bush A number of historians has rightly crowned George W. Bush as the worst president in the United States because he led America into the most disastrous event in the history of covert and diabolical operations: the war in Iraq. Jean Edward Smith, a biographer and the John Marshall Professor of Political Science at Marshall University, has written: “Whether George W. Bush was the worst president in American history will be long debated, but his decision to invade Iraq is easily the worst foreign policy decision ever made by an American president.”[1] Other […]
…by Jonas E. Alexis The Daily Mail reported back in 2015 that Tony Blair confessed that he screwed up Iraq really bad, that he was partly responsible for the deaths and destruction of much of the country. Listen to this: “Tony Blair has finally said sorry for the Iraq War – and admitted he could be partly to blame for the rise of Islamic State. The extraordinary confession by the former Prime Minister comes after 12 years in which he refused to apologise for the conflict. “Blair makes his dramatic ‘mea culpa’ during a TV interview about the ‘hell’ caused by […]