Above Photo: Ted Eytan. The False Claims Act in the United States allows individuals with evidence of fraud against government agencies to bring lawsuits as qui tam whistleblowers. They can bring a case even if the US Justice Department has no interest in fighting the alleged corruption. But on June 21, Courthouse News Reported that the US Supreme Court will determine whether the government has the authority to dismiss a whistleblower lawsuit brought under the False Claims Act when the government has declined to intervene in the case. In other words, the Supreme Court could help corporations shut down independent whistleblower lawsuits that […]
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Above photo: Digital Trends. One of Germany’s biggest trade unions has called strikes at seven branches of online retailer Amazon. Germany is Amazon’s second-biggest market behind the United States, where the company is headquartered. The German trade union Verdi on Monday launched strikes at seven Amazon locations across the country, with up to 2,500 workers demanding higher wages and better protection of their personal data. A Verdi spokesman said strikes were underway at the two distribution centers in Bad Hersfeld as well as in Koblenz, Leipzig, Rheinberg, Graben and Werne. Some strikes would last several days, he said. Amazon has 17 distribution sites […]
Student Journalists’ Fight Against Censorship Leads To Protection Bill By Stephen Wentzell, Rabble.ca. March 17, 2022 Student Journalists’ Fight Against Censorship Leads To Protection Bill2022-03-172022-03-17https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/220317-2.jpg200px200px Above Photo: Brent Jolly, president of the Canadian Association of Journalists says, “Just because a journalist is young and doesn’t have the backing of a large news outlet shouldn’t preclude them from asking powerful people tough questions and holding them accountable for their actions.” AbsolutVision / unsplash. The Student Press Freedom Act is the first student journalism protection legislation, which is waiting to be passed by the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia. The recent occupation of […]
Above photo: The U.S. Supreme Court is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington, Saturday, July 10, 2021. AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana. The Supreme Court, in a predictable 6-3 decision, blocked OSHA’s Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) that required employees in businesses with 100 or more employees to either be vaccinated or regularly tested and masked. Dissenting were the three Justices appointed by Democratic Presidents: Breyer, Sotomayor and Kagan. The majority stated that the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHAct) “plainly” does not authorize the vaccine or masking requirements. Calling the OSHA standard no “everyday exercise of federal power” they labeled it “instead a significant […]
Above Photo: With the support of Amharan and Afar militias, the Ethiopian federal army, led by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed recaptured towns from the TPLF, forcing them to surrender. (Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia Government Communication Service). With federal government forces cornering the TPLF back into Tigray state, the TPLF has called for peace negotiations. The government has called for the disarmament of the group and the surrender of its leadership. On December 23, Ethiopian government’s Minister of Communication Service, Legesse Tulu, announced that all parts of eastern Amhara and the entire Afar state have been liberated from the occupation of […]
Above photo: President Joe Biden speaks at Mack Truck Lehigh Valley Operations on July 28, 2021 in Macungie, Pennsylvania. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images. In The Great Recoil, Paolo Gerbaudo argues that the left needs to speak to people’s fears and connect them to hope. Booked is a series of interviews about new books. In this edition, Sarah Jaffe talks to Paolo Gerbaudo, the author of The Great Recoil: Politics After Populism and Pandemic (Verso). The 2008 financial meltdown and the global economic crisis that followed put thousands of cracks into what Mark Fisher called “capitalist realism”—the idea that it’s easier to imagine the end of […]
Above Photo: An RCMP officer, Officer Charney, empties water tanks at the Gidimt’en Checkpoint. Checkpoint/Twitter. The RCMP’s definition of its so-called Community-Industry Response Group sits in stark contrast to the experiences Indigenous land and environmental rights defenders with the unit. The RCMP’s “Community-Industry Response Group” (C-IRG) could also be described as a resource extraction protection unit. It’s militarized responses to land defenders at Fairy Creek, Wet’suwet’en, or, most recently, Gidimt’en Checkpoint, have demonstrated which side of “community” versus “industry” the group is on. Here’s what we know: According to the RCMP: “The Community-Industry Response Group (C-IRG) was created in 2017 to provide […]
Above Photo: School buses at Dewar Elementary School, Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia (Wikimedia Commons) On September 3, 54 school bus drivers in the Savannah-Chatham County Public School System SCCSS) in Georgia began a rolling sickout and staged a protest at the school district offices over pay structure and lack of adequate protections from COVID-19. The sickouts forced the school board to scramble for drivers to transport students. The school relies on about 218 drivers to ferry more than 18,700 students to and from school; the 54 drivers who are protesting represent about 22 percent of the district’s drivers. A school district […]
German defense conglomerate Rheinmetall has confirmed that the 209 new Lynx infantry fighting vehicles recently ordered by Hungary from Rheinmetall of Germany will be equipped with Rheinmetall’s StrikeShield hard-kill active protection system, or APS. Hungary is the latest customer for this innovative technology, which has formed part of the Rheinmetall portfolio since 2006. It will be supplied by Rheinmetall Protection Systems GmbH. The order is worth over €140 million. Hungary’s decision in favor of StrikeShield was driven by the NATO member’s commitment to taking part in demanding missions where modern anti-tank weapon systems present a dangerous threat to their own forces. […]
Israel’s Ministry of Defense confirmed on Tuesday that the German Federal Ministry of Defense signed and signed a government-to-government (G2G) agreement to supply Israeli designed Trophy active protection system for their fleet of Leopard-2 main battle tanks. Within the agreement, Rafael Advanced Defense Systems will supply Trophy Active Defense System (ADS) to equip 17 Leopard-2 tanks. It includes the provision of systems for a company of tanks, interceptors, and spare parts as well as operational and technical training. The systems will be delivered over the next several years. The beneficiary unit is expected to be combat-ready by 2023 and join Germany’s […]
Embassy Protection Collective Members Mark End Of Federal Probation By the Embassy Protectors Defense Committee. December 2, 2020 Embassy Protection Collective Members Mark End Of Federal Probation2020-12-022020-12-02https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2019/06/1vzepccourt.jpg200px200px Above photo: Embassy Protectors and supporters after being released from detention after the arrests, May, 2019. Members will Travel to Venezuela as Election Observers. They Reiterate the call for the US to stop its illegal interference in Venezuela. Washington, DC – Today, three of the four members of the Embassy Protection Collective, Adrienne Pine, David Paul and Margaret Flowers, who stayed in the Venezuelan Embassy last year to stop its illegal handover to coup […]
Israeli privately-owned company BIRD Aerosystems has announced that it has won a contract for the delivery and installation of its missile protection system on a customer VIP and Military aircraft in Africa. Within the contract, BIRD Aerosystems will deliver its AMPS-MLRD missile protection system which to provide protection for aircraft against the growing threat of ground to air missiles including MANPADS, Laser guided threats, and Radar guided threats. According to a company statement, the system is designed to automatically detect, verify, and foil SAM attacks through the effective use of countermeasure decoys (Flares and Chaff) and additionally by Directional Infrared Countermeasures […]
The UK, and others, have criticized Facebook over its plan to introduce end-to-end message encryption, arguing it would allow pedophiles freely share child abuse materials as millions are attributed to the tech giant’s platforms. The US social media giant has found itself at the center of yet another controversy as its initiative supposedly aimed at protecting the privacy of billions of people using Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp stumbled on the vehement opposition of the UK and the US, as well as other countries. The governments argue the move would make the social networks a safe haven for pedophiles and terrorists. Also […]
Asked in a recent interview how things were going as Election Day draws near, a state elections director paused, searching for the right words. “I feel like I’ve got democracy in a boat,” the director told The Daily Beast, “and my staff is bailing water out while people are drilling holes in it.” That official, who spoke anonymously to discuss the situation candidly, sums up how many election officials around the country are feeling right now. In normal times, they’re a group of professionals used to getting the job done with what meager funds they typically get—proud of it, even. Few, […]
Samara Mayhub, a Syrian postgraduate student at Samara University, has won a Russian Foundation for Basic Research grant to develop special software systems to detect Internet network anomalies, including preventing hacker attacks, the university press service said. Samara Mayhub is going to deal with the problem of insufficient Internet network bandwidth, which is especially important for those who have switched to remote work and study due to the coronavirus pandemic. Data set delays have become especially noticeable in video conferences, when the picture on the screen, as well as the speaker’s sound, is distorted. The Samara National Research University postgraduate student […]
The brutal gang rape and murder of a 19-year-old woman in Hathras district of Uttar Pradesh state has triggered a nationwide uproar. The opposition has been demanding the resignation of the state chief over the scandal. Students from India’s top management institute have written to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi about the Hathras gang-rape, urging him to ensure that the victim’s family is not “intimidated, but supported to get justice”. The family of the girl belonging to the Dalit community – the lowest level on the Indian caste system – claims that they are being threatened by the upper caste Thakur […]
Demonstrators pose for photos with their guns during an open carry rally on Aug. 15 in Richmond, Va. The open carry rally is organized by an activist group known as BLM757 in support of the Black Lives Matter movement and the Second Amendment. Eze Amos/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Eze Amos/Getty Images Demonstrators pose for photos with their guns during an open carry rally on Aug. 15 in Richmond, Va. The open carry rally is organized by an activist group known as BLM757 in support of the Black Lives Matter movement and the Second Amendment. Eze Amos/Getty Images Editor’s note: […]
New research from RSK/IOV’s Sergio Demian Lerner reveals that Patoshi, an early Bitcoin miner assumed by many to be Satoshi Nakamoto, mined using an algorithm that was not included in Bitcoin’s first client release. This finding finally explicates why Patoshi’s hashing patterns are so much different than other, early Bitcoin miners, but raises the question: Why did Patoshi give themselves a leg up? If we take for granted that Patoshi is, in fact, Satoshi, then it’s conceivable that Bitcoin’s creator used this advantage to prevent mining attacks on the nascent network. When he first presented his research on Satoshi’s alleged treasure […]
The wife of an Australian Football League star who caused his club to be fined 45,000 Australian dollars for posting a photo from a spa break has spoken of the abuse she received, with her father accusing the league of negligence. Brooke Cotchin, the wife of Richmond captain Trent Cotchin, was caught breaking the league’s strict biosecurity protocols when she posted a photo from a day spa on the Gold Coast earlier this month. Players and club are in an isolation hub as part of an agreement allowing the 2020 AFL season to proceed, and a league investigation led to Richmond receiving the […]
Banks Have Made $18 Billion From ‘Paycheck Protection Program’ Processing Fees By Collen Boyle, In These Times. August 22, 2020 Banks Have Made $18 Billion From ‘Paycheck Protection Program’ Processing Fees2020-08-222020-08-22https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/01/jpmorgan-chase-building-nyc_credit-ben-sutherland_creative-commons.jpg200px200px Fees paid to banks eclipse funding allocated to develop vaccines, provide medical supplies and feed children. Whether or not a single job or company is saved through the CARES Act’s Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), lenders will be paid hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer money. As of mid-July, PPP lenders, including JPMorgan Chase Bank, Bank of America and Wells Fargo, had racked up $18 billion in fees—more than was allocated to other programs […]
A border wall near the wetlands in southeastern Arizona. The federal agency in charge of the refuge warned that pumping water to build the border wall would decimate the wildlife habitat New Border Wall endangers water supply of unique biodiverse wetlands First published in the Santa Fe New Mexican, August 15, 2020 By Astrid Galvan, The Associated Press A report by the Fish and Wildlife Service that was obtained by Defenders of Wildlife, another conservation group that opposes border wall construction, shows that contractors withdrew millions of gallons of water from a well located 1.5 miles from the San Bernardino National […]
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/art_living/202008101080120463-vip-protection-israeli-jeweller-works-on-15-mln-gold-diamond-encrusted-face-mask/ According to a designer, this will be an 18-karat white gold mask decorated with 3,600 diamonds and fitted with top-rated N99 filters. An Israeli jewellery company has been working on what it says will be the world’s most expensive coronavirus mask, Haaretz reported. The mask will be made of gold and will have more than 3,500 white and black diamonds encrusted in it. Its price is estimated at $1.5 million. The weight of such a luxurious face covering will be 270 grams, which is about 100 times that of an ordinary surgical mask. REAL […]
Cryo-EM reconstructions show how two different antibodies (blue) bind in different ways to the spike protein of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. David Ho / Columbia University Irving Medical Center. Potent neutralizing antibodies target new regions of coronavirus spike NIH Research Matters Scientists are racing to develop approaches to protect against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. Several vaccine candidates are now in clinical trials. Another possible approach involves antibodies, proteins made by the immune system to fight infection. Antibodies work to neutralize viruses by binding to their surface and blocking entry into a person’s cells. Antibodies that neutralize SARS-CoV-2 could be produced […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/106165/83/1061658324_0:4:1200:679_1200x675_80_0_0_954b467389a00fca37479e7b1f6b66e7.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202008051080062092-virgin-atlantic-files-for-us-bankruptcy-protection-amid-covid-19-disruptions—reports/ NEW YORK (Sputnik) – Virgin Atlantic, a London-based carrier partly owned by US-based Delta Air Lines, has filed for bankruptcy protection in a New York court, media reported. The Chapter 15 bankruptcy filing in New York allows Virgin Atlantic, founded by British billionaire Richard Branson, to reorganize as the coronavirus pandemic continues to rip through the global travel industry, the Business Insider report said on Tuesday. Chapter 15 is a form of bankruptcy designed for cases involving multiple countries, providing a mechanism for foreign-based companies undergoing bankruptcy proceedings in their own country to access […]
Top US immunologist Dr Anthony Fauci is now saying citizens are not “complete” in protecting themselves from the Covid-19 pandemic unless they go beyond wearing a mask and add in eye protection like goggles, too. In an interview with Dr Jennifer Ashton, ABC News’ chief medical correspondent, Fauci was asked if we might reach a point where masks are not only mandated, but eye protection as well. “It might,” he replied, going on to explain that the only way to have “perfect protection” from the virus is by protecting the eyes, as well as the mouth and nose. “If you have […]
A mini-golf complex in Memphis, descended into complete chaos as a mob of hundreds of teenagers trashed the business over a faulty games machine and a four-dollar refund. One irate teenager even spat in an employee’s face. According to local media reports, the Putt-Putt Fun Center was forced to close because of overcrowding Saturday evening, after parents reportedly began dropping their children off en masse. A group of some 300 to 400 teenagers became irate after staff wouldn’t issue an immediate refund after a games machine allegedly took a young girl’s four dollars. Eyewitness video from the scene shows that hell […]
Trump Administration Announces New Resources to Protect Nursing Home Residents Against COVID-19 CMS.gov Press Release As part of the unprecedented efforts taken by the Trump Administration, President Trump today announced several new Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) initiatives designed to protect nursing home residents from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). “From the moment the threat of this virus materialized, the Trump Administration has placed a priority on protecting nursing home residents,” said CMS Administrator Seema Verma. “Today’s multi-pronged intervention represents the latest efforts in fulfilling that unwavering commitment. As caseloads continue to increase in areas around the country, it has […]
Blackfeet Federation Seeks Permanent Protection For Badger Two Medicine By Clara Caufield, Native Sun News. July 22, 2020 Blackfeet Federation Seeks Permanent Protection For Badger Two Medicine2020-07-222020-07-22https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/150515_pi_b2m.jpg200px200px Above photo: Badger Creek in the Badger-Two Medicine. Tony Bynum/tonybynum.com. Recently, the Blackfeet Tribal Council, MT announced its goal of securing permanent Federal government for the Badger Two Medicine area, sacred site to them. Specifically, they are seeking a new type of federal legislation that would authorize and establish a Cultural Heritage Area, the Badger Two Medicine, 130,000 acres within the Lewis-Clark National Forest area, to be co-managed by the Tribe and USFS. “Badger Two Medicine is […]
New Delhi (Sputnik): After facing a major clampdown on predatory discount offers, e-commerce portals like Amazon, Flipkart, and manufacturers will have to pay a heavy price including jail terms in the event of delivering counterfeit goods or using misleading ads. Narendra Modi’s government rolled out a new Consumer Protection Act on Monday, with provisions that empower consumers to drag fallacious advertisers, manufacturers, and sellers to court. The act, which replaced a three-decade-old law, has broadened its grip on e-commerce giants and celebrity endorsements. The new law will tighten the noose on manufacturers, service providers and hold celebrity endorsers accountable for ads […]
The U.S. Army has deployed to Europe its first Abrams main battle tanks that fitted with modern protection systems to provide the Army’s logistics teams with the opportunity to assess and experience the dynamics of moving and installing the system in a field environment. The U.S. Army Europe tweeted images of their tanks fitted with the Trophy active protection system and the Abrams Reactive Armor Tiles. An Abrams equipped with Abrams Reactive Armor Tiles (ARAT) and Trophy system at Bergen-Hohne Training Area, Germany, prior to phase two of DEFENDER-Europe 20. Phase I of the modified DEFENDER-Europe 20 was linked exercise Allied […]
On two separate days, deputies save two lives at the same location Shortly after 11pm on Monday, June 29th, a 16-year-old girl was reported to be at the top of the parking structure across the street from the Washington County Sheriff’s Office location at 215 SW Adams Avenue in Hillsboro. Before police arrived, several deputies from the Washington County Jail quickly responded to the location. After several minutes of speaking with the girl, our deputies were able to secure her from the outside railing where she was preparing to jump. The quick actions by these jail deputies undoubtedly saved her life. […]
The U.S. Army has announced on 10 July that it is decided to mount Trophy active protection system on Abrams tanks which will deploy to Poland. According to a press release issued Friday by the U.S. Army Europe, the fielding of Trophy systems provides the U.S. Army’s logistics teams with the opportunity to assess and experience the dynamics of moving and installing the system in a field environment. “As part of the training, the unit will also mount the Trophy system on Abrams tanks,” it said in a statement. “Trophy is an active protection system that is designed to detect and […]
On Monday, the US government published a list of small business and nonprofit organisations which had earlier received loans under the Paycheck Protection Programme as a part of the Trump administration’s coronavirus relief act. The names of some of these beneficiaries turned out to be quite surprising to the public. Three branches of the Church of Scientology became recipients of small businesses forgivable loans allocated through the Paycheck Protection Programme (PPP), in accordance with the Trump administration’s CARES Act, data published by the US Treasury revealed, as cited by the Daily Beast. The churches, located in Washington D.C., New York and […]
The Church of Scientology, famed for its shadowy rituals and celebrity followers, received hundreds of thousands of dollars in government-backed coronavirus relief. Scientology branches in New York, Washington, D.C., and Belleair, Florida, received small business loans of $150,000 to $300,000, according to a full list of recipients released by the U.S. Treasury. The three churches were among tens of thousands of mosques, synagogues, and other religious institutions to receive forgivable loans as part of the Trump administration’s $2 trillion CARES Act, designed to provide economic relief during the coronavirus pandemic. The list of religious organizations to receive loans was heavily skewed […]
President Trump, pictured June 5, signs a bill extending the time period for businesses to use funds from the Paycheck Protection Program. On Saturday he signed a bill extending the deadline to apply for the program. Evan Vucci/AP hide caption toggle caption Evan Vucci/AP President Trump, pictured June 5, signs a bill extending the time period for businesses to use funds from the Paycheck Protection Program. On Saturday he signed a bill extending the deadline to apply for the program. Evan Vucci/AP President Trump signed legislation Saturday extending the deadline for small businesses to apply for the Paycheck Protection Program, enacted […]
The Sierra Nevada Corporation has announced its Louisville, Colorado production center has received the Thermal Protection System tiles for Tenacity, the first space-worthy Dream Chaser, and has started bonding them to the vehicle. This is another major milestone Tenacity has reached as she walks down the path to her first launch to the International Space Station — which is right now slated to occur in 2021 with a launch on ULA’s Vulcan rocket. The Thermal Protection System (TPS) tiles are one of the major hardware components used on Dream Chaser and cover nearly the entire craft to protect it from the […]
Seattle anarchist zone warlord Raz Simone had a meltdown this weekend over the refusal of an ambulance squad to enter the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) to respond to a shooting incident early Saturday morning until police were allowed to accompany them. Simone posted video of a Seattle ambulance squad being berated but promised protection for the squad. One man died and another was critically wounded in the shootings in CHAZ, later dubbed CHOP for Capitol Hill Organized Protest. The ambulance squad leader can be seen on the video talking to dispatch awaiting their permission to enter with police protection. In […]
While there are already a number of COVID-19 novel coronavirus vaccine trials underway, researchers have also begun looking into whether dependable tuberculosis and polio vaccines could assist in lessening the severity of symptoms experienced by those who may contract the disease. “This is the only vaccine in the world that can be given to combat COVID-19 right now,” claimed Jeffrey D. Cirillo, a professor of microbial pathogenesis and immunology at Texas A&M University’s Health Science Center, speaking of the tuberculosis vaccine to the Washington Post. Cirillo is currently leading a trial of the bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine, which he noted has […]
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has awarded Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) with a contract for two additional Multi-Role Enforcement Aircraft (MEA). “We are honored that Customs and Border Protection continues to entrust SNC with the development of this mission-critical aircraft,” said Tim Owings, executive vice president of SNC’s Integrated Mission Systems business area. “These aircraft have proven to have the endurance and special mission systems uniquely suited to meet the challenges of protecting the United States border.” The company also noted that the SNC has been the prime systems engineer and integrator for the MEA fleet since 2009. – Advertisement […]
LA City Council President Nury Martinez, who introduced a motion to cut police funding, was caught using private, round-the-clock LAPD protection at her home that may have cost taxpayers $100,000! “Today we introduced a motion to cut funding to the LAPD, as we reset our priorities in the wake of the murder of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter call that we all support to end racism. This is just one small step. We cannot talk about change, we have to be about change,” L.A. City Council President Nury Martinez said in a tweet last week. Today we intrdcd a […]
Venezuelan Embassy Protection Collective Wins Legal Victory By Anya Parampil, The Grayzone. June 6, 2020 Venezuelan Embassy Protection Collective Wins Legal Victory2020-06-062020-06-06https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/venezuelan-embassy-protectors-washington-dc-arrested-trial.jpg200px200px Above photo: Four protectors in a second floor window of the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington, DC. Front row: David Paul and Adrienne Pine. Back row: Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers. The sentencing of the final four from the Venezuelan Embassy Protection Collective marked another defeat for Juan Guaidó and his DC-based coup administration. Prior to handing it down, however, an Obama-appointed judge delivered an unhinged law-and-order tirade denigrating the defendants. On the morning of June 3, four U.S. citizens […]
US 23:51 GMT 03.06.2020(updated 23:52 GMT 03.06.2020) Get short URL The Embassy Protection Collective Four received yet another legal victory when federal charges issued by US government prosecutors were dropped on Wednesday. Popular Resistance reported on June 3 that Chief Judge Beryl A. Howell of the US District Court for the District of Columbia moved to drop the federal charges of “interfering with certain protective functions” leveled against Adrienne Pine, David Paul, Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers. “Today’s sentence marks yet another victory in the effort to protect the Venezuelan Embassy,” noted the four activists in the release. “The Embassy Protection […]
Special Introduction. Mahmoud Abbas, the head of the PLO, Fatah, and PA, announced the suspension of all contacts with Israel, an empty statement since it was not accompanied by the formal diplomatic protocol as required by international laws. The PLO leadership failed miserably in the armed revolution and failed in the never-ending “ peace process”. If I know how the PLO operate for sure, they did not think of all the consequences that have to do with transport, electricity, the water supply of materials and consumer good. Formally revoking all agreements with Israel also means the disbanding of the Palestinian Authority, […]
Tech 17:44 GMT 17.05.2020Get short URL https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107802/22/1078022271_0:128:3224:1942_1200x675_80_0_0_39fd2f9de08913543a073eb537f8c48a.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/science/202005171079333835-german-data-protection-watchdog-warns-officials-against-using-whatsapp/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Germany’s data protection commissioner Ulrich Kelber has warned federal authorities against using Facebook’s WhatsApp messenger while working from home during the coronavirus crisis, in a letter leaked by media on Sunday. “Even in these difficult times data protection should not be neglected. For this reason I would like to point out that the use of WhatsApp by a federal agency is out of the question”, Kelber said in an email published by the German digital rights blog, Netzpolitik. He warned that, although Facebook could not […]
The COVID-19 outbreak has prompted Russian health professionals to develop new methods for treating coronavirus patients. As the creation of an anti-COVID vaccine does not seem to be imminent, Russian scientists are prioritising the urgent production of drugs that activating human beings’ innate immunity. The novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 poses substantial challenge to the world’s health professionals given that a coronavirus-specific treatment and vaccines have yet to be developed. Russian researchers, infectious disease doctors and nurses are no exception. Pitfalls of COVID “Medical science has now more than ever been in demand; the hopes of all the world’s countries are linked to […]
Secretary of Education Betsy Devos, seen on March 27, has released new rules for sexual assault complaints on college campuses. Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images Secretary of Education Betsy Devos, seen on March 27, has released new rules for sexual assault complaints on college campuses. Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images New federal regulations on how schools – from kindergarten all the way through college — must respond to cases of sexual assault and harassment are drawing swift and mixed reactions. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos announced what she called historic changes Wednesday to […]