City Workers Push For Collective Bargaining Rights By Brett Hall and Jane Alvarez-Wertz, WAVY. November 19, 2020 City Workers Push For Collective Bargaining Rights2020-11-192020-11-19https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/vabeach.jpeg200px200px Above photo: WAVY. Virginia Beach, VA – While local government employees are not legally allowed to engage in collective bargaining in the commonwealth until May 1, a group of workers from public utilities and public works making known their desire to have […]
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Students Push To Remove Police By Claudio Rivera, Stephanie Knezz and Shawn Smith, Truthout. November 9, 2020 Students Push To Remove Police2020-11-092020-11-09https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/nu.png200px200px Above photo: Police investigate a report of shots fired near Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, on Thursday, March 14, 2018. Armando L. Sanchez/ Chicago Tribune. Student movements have always raised our current conception of justice and equity. From the civil rights movement and Vietnam War protests, […]
Look, I’m voting for Joe Biden. I get why white racists and millionaires—and people who stand at the intersection of those two groups—are all-in for Donald Trump, but for the rest of us, self-preservation dictates that Biden is the better choice. Thursday night’s dueling presidential town halls, which featured a belligerent Trump and a comparatively contemplative Biden, drove that all the way home. If I believed, […]
A small but expanding group of Democrats across the party’s ideological spectrum are preparing to push Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to accept the $1.8 trillion coronavirus economic stimulus plan proposed by Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin last week, citing escalating concerns about unemployment and ongoing struggles of Americans. Two members of the Democratic caucus, Reps. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA) and Peter Welch (D-VT), have privately discussed their desires […]
The representative of the US coalition, formed in May this year amid tensions in the ongoing US-China trade war, discussed key issues affecting the progress of the hardware-agnostic telecoms initiative. What is the US Approach to OpenRAN? Diane Rinaldo, OpenRAN Policy Coalition executive director and former acting administrator to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), spoke at the online OpenRAN Forum 2020 on Monday on […]
Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., gives her opening remarks virtually during Amy Coney Barrett’s Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on Monday. Greg Nash/Pool/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Greg Nash/Pool/Getty Images Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., gives her opening remarks virtually during Amy Coney Barrett’s Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on Monday. Greg Nash/Pool/Getty Images Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., called on the Senate to hold off on confirming […]
Pandemic Could Push Up To 150 Million Into ‘Extreme Poverty’ By 2021 By Jessica Corbett, Commondreams. October 9, 2020 Pandemic Could Push Up To 150 Million Into ‘Extreme Poverty’ By 20212020-10-092020-10-09https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/poverty.jpg200px200px Above photo: A man wears a face mask as a preventive measure against the spread of the Covid-19 in Manila, Philippines on March 18, 2020. Maria Tan via Getty Images. “Early evidence also suggests that […]
Residents of the southern Chinese city will have access to 10m yuan ($1.47m USD) of the country’s sovereign digital currency in a weekend lottery in a bid to trial and boost the emerging technology, media reported on Friday. 50,000 “red packets” of a state blockchain-based currency are set to be dispersed to lottery participants in Shenzhen’s Luohu district via the public services application iShenzhen, the South […]
Bloomberg/Detroit News: With Joe Biden’s lead widening in the polls and President Donald Trump’s campaign sidelined by the virus, investment strategists now say there’s less of a chance for a contested election. One thing that’s clear is that investors are starting to get very comfortable with the idea of a Biden victory, and increasingly don’t see it as a negative for stocks https://t.co/6dfuojmlL9 — Joe Weisenthal […]
…from SouthFront.org On October 2, the Armenian-Azerbaijani war entered its 5th day. Forces of the Azerbaijani military, supported by Turkey, continued their attempts to capture the contested Nagorno-Karabakh Region and to dismantle the self-proclaimed Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, which is overwhelmingly populated by Armenians. Intense artillery duels and Azerbaijani airstrikes are being reported across the entire frontline in Karabakh, and even near some parts of the Azerbaijani-Armenian border. Nonetheless, […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/07/1e/1080013557_0:452:2834:2047_1200x675_80_0_0_785eb1fde9d8fd4878b5c1fa6517a07f.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/europe/202009251080572455-merkels-view-of-nord-stream-2-unchanged-amid-us-push-for-coalition-against-project-berlin-says/ BERLIN (Sputnik) – There are no changes to German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s assessment of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project, deputy spokeswoman for the German government, Martina Fietz, said Friday. “I cannot say that there are any new developments today. We have repeatedly given full account on this topic,” the deputy spokeswoman said, adding there were no disagreements […]
Benji Backer, president of the American Conservation Coalition, testifies about climate change during a U.S. House hearing in 2019. Alex Wong/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Alex Wong/Getty Images Benji Backer, president of the American Conservation Coalition, testifies about climate change during a U.S. House hearing in 2019. Alex Wong/Getty Images Think “climate change activist” and a young, liberal student may come to mind. A recent […]
While one could fairly question how much influencers have given to us—as a species and a society—it’s undeniable that they’re real innovators when it comes to finding ways to be weird about race. Whether it’s blackfishing or posting black squares on Instagram as though that somehow supports Black Lives Matter, influencers just have a knack for being thoroughly embarrassing. And now they have a new medium: […]
Bitcoin risks falling into four figures on a continued sell-off in equities and rebounding U.S. dollar. Source link
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Spain’s Deputy Prime Minister and leader of the left-wing Unidas Podemos political party Pablo Iglesias said on Saturday that the current corruption scandal involving the royal family represents a “historic moment” for Spain to become a republic. “I think that, as republicans, we need to be able to understand the historic moment of crisis faced by the Spanish monarchy and the model of […]
Fatou Bensouda is the chief prosecutor at the international criminal court. Photograph: Eva Plevier/Reuters Mike Pompeo says ICC ‘continues to target American War CriminalsFatou Bensouda and Phakiso Mochochoko have assets blocked What doe these people have in common? Myanmar generals accused of atrocitiesSaudi officials linked to Jamal Khashoggi’s murderPresident Assad for mass abuses in SyriaICC prosecutors investigating war crimes The Trump administration has imposed sanctions on all […]
A new narrative being spun in Western media claims Russian President Vladimir Putin is the mastermind who poisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny with a chemical nerve agent from the Novichok group, reviving an old trope used to stoke Russophobia. However, one journalist advises not jumping to conclusions before all the facts are known. Kevin Zeese, editor of Popular Resistance, told Radio Sputnik’s Political Misfits hosts […]
US efforts to trigger the return of UN sanctions on Iran have been dismissed by the president of the Security Council, who cited a lack of consensus among the body’s 15 members to enact such measures. Speaking during a council meeting on the Middle East on Tuesday, the current president – Indonesia’s UN ambassador – responded to questions from Russia and China on the Iran sanctions […]
Ammon Bundy, center, who led the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge occupation, stands on the Idaho Statehouse steps in Boise, Idaho, on Monday, Aug. 24. Some protesters pushed their way past police and into one of the legislative chambers, unmasked. Keith Ridler/AP hide caption toggle caption Keith Ridler/AP Ammon Bundy, center, who led the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge occupation, stands on the Idaho Statehouse steps in Boise, […]
Embers burn along a hillside as the LNU Lightning Complex fires tear through unincorporated Napa County, Calif., on Tuesday. Fire crews across the region scrambled to contain dozens of wildfires sparked by lightning strikes as a statewide heat wave continues. Noah Berger/AP hide caption toggle caption Noah Berger/AP Embers burn along a hillside as the LNU Lightning Complex fires tear through unincorporated Napa County, Calif., on […]
Tether has adopted Ethereum scaling solution OMG Network amidst record demand for settlement space on the “world computer.” “The integration [between Tether and OMG Network] will result in a reduction of confirmation times delivering faster payments while fees will be reduced without compromising on-chain security,” Tether Inc. said in a blog Wednesday. OMG Network can handle thousands of transactions at a third of the cost of […]
How The US Helped Push Lebanon To The Brink Of Collapse By Ben Norton, The Grayzone. August 15, 2020 How The US Helped Push Lebanon To The Brink Of Collapse2020-08-152020-08-15https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/beirut-explosion-lebanon-regime-change-us.jpg200px200px Now Us Threatens More Sanctions. While the media blames the crisis in Lebanon solely on corruption, the US government unleashed a “maximum pressure” campaign to push regime change and crush Lebanese resistance with sanctions and aggressive […]
Since he was in elementary school summiting flagpoles, eating his lunch at the top of basketball hoops, and wriggling his way up the exposed seams of brick buildings, Kai Lightner has been a fearless climber. The 20-year-old professional from Fayetteville, North Carolina, has tackled some of the hardest routes in the world, ascending the formidable Era Vella in Margalef, Spain, when he was just 15. Still […]
Thursday afternoon, Marla Maples, the television personality best known as Donald Trump’s second wife, shared an Instagram photo from notorious anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. of Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates cracking up like a cartoon villain. “We get rid of cash and coins,” the overlaid text reads. “We give you a chip. We put all your money in your chip. If you refuse a vaccine, we […]
While the US is raising the stakes in its power game against the People’s Republic of China (PRC), a tiny accidental spark may lead to a catastrophe, according to Dr Heinz Dieterich, coordinator at the World Advanced Research Project (WARP), who has outlined what could help the world prevent this outcome in a short and long-term perspective. On 7 August, Hu Xijin, the editor-in-chief of Global […]
Ethereum’s biggest-ever upgrade is supposed to make the blockchain network faster and more efficient. But the new “staking” system could lock up so many of the network’s native ether tokens that investors who want to trade them may have to rely on derivatives markets. The blockchain, the world’s second-biggest, currently uses a validating mechanism similar to larger Bitcoin’s known as “proof-of-work,” where new data blocks and […]
Billionaires Push To Reopen Schools Without A Plan By G. Dunkel, Workers.org. August 2, 2020 Billionaires Push To Reopen Schools Without A Plan2020-08-022020-08-02https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/teacher-protest-covid-e1596381444630.jpg200px200px Above photo: Teachers and parents rally July 14 at the Arizona Capitol to oppose the state’s school reopening plan. Laura Gómez/ Arizona Mirror. Schools in the U.S. provide students with much more than an education. They provide child care, meals (for 14 million students), […]
Why the Fed’s strategy on inflation is changing and why the definition used by America’s central bank may be hurting regular people. Source link
An effort by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other leftists to punish Goya Foods because the ethnic foodmaker’s chief executive complimented President Trump has lost a key constituency right in the New York congresswoman’s backyard. The United Bodegas of America, a trade group for small food and variety stores that cater to Hispanic consumers, has decided to defy a boycott of Goya Foods products. Members of the group […]
Pedestrians in Harvard Yard in 2019. Schools and businesses have gone to court to stop the Trump administration from barring online-only international students from entering or staying in the United States. Charles Krupa/AP hide caption toggle caption Charles Krupa/AP Pedestrians in Harvard Yard in 2019. Schools and businesses have gone to court to stop the Trump administration from barring online-only international students from entering or staying […]
French officials have begun a new phase in an investigation over the mishandling of human bodies donated to a Paris university research center after photographs taken at the facility revealed horror-film-like conditions. An ongoing probe into “violations of the integrity of a corpse” at the Center for Body Donations (CDC) of Paris Descartes University has been transferred to magistrates by prosecutors who launched an initial investigation […]
New Delhi (Sputnik): The Indian government banned 59 Chinese apps, citing them as a “threat to the integrity and sovereignty” of the country in the wake of the border clashes with China. While new Indian apps have been launched to fill the space to promote ‘self-reliant’ India, global players are also looking to enter the lucrative new market. Several popular Chinese apps, including Tik-Tok, UC Browser and […]
Last week House Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney (R-WY) introduced the Afghanistan Partnership and Transparency Act, bipartisan legislation co-sponsored by Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO) intended to ensure that the American people and Congress are fully informed about the effects of the U.S. drawdown from Afghanistan, including its effects on national security. Liz Cheney demands that troops remain in Afghanistan.US troops have been in Afghanistan since 2001! […]
Fox News hosts Melissa Francis and Lisa “Kennedy” Montgomery suggested on Wednesday that former Vice President Joe Biden was fed questions and read his answers off a teleprompter during a recent news conference, echoing President Donald Trump’s bogus accusations. Following the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee’s Tuesday afternoon press conference, which concluded with a Fox News reporter asking Biden about his supposed cognitive decline, the president took […]
__________Daily BeastInside the New Push to Expose America’s White Supremacist Cops by Kelly Weill Fourteen years ago, the FBI documented racist infiltration of law enforcement in America. Now members of Congress want the full story. In 2006, the Federal Bureau of Investigation knew America’s police forces had a white-supremacist problem. But the internal report the agency compiled that year was so heavily redacted that almost no […]
Mike Padgham, chair of the Independent Care Homes Group (ICG), explains why many care and nursing homes in England and Wales were already on shaky ground, financially speaking, even before the outbreak of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Padgham runs four separate care homes as well as provides voluntary support and representation to other providers via the ICG. Sputnik: You have been warning of care and nursing homes […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107970/09/1079700954_0:0:3072:1728_1200x675_80_0_0_ab2c2dfb132664d0a20c2090c640343c.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/world/202006231079700986-zarif-mocks-pompeo-for-making-misleading-claim-amid-push-to-extend-iranian-arms-ban/ TEHRAN (Sputnik) – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Tuesday pointed to a glaring flaw in his US counterpart’s estimates of how far Tehran would be able to send it jets if the UN arms embargo on it lapsed this fall. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo posted a map on Twitter claiming that Europe and Asia could […]
Yesterday, it came to light that crypto functionality may come to PayPal and Venmo. If true, as substantiated by three anonymous sources and indicated by an open position for a senior blockchain research engineer, 325 million users would be able to buy and sell crypto. “If it does happen, it has the potential to be the biggest crypto on-ramp ever,” Mati Greenspan, founder of Quantum Economics, told Blockchain […]
This was the most informative interview on the attempted deep state coup of President Trump to date. Attorney General Bill Barr joined Maria Bartiromo this morning on Sunday Morning Futures. AG Barr went on to say “people are looking at” the period before the Papadopoulos conversation in a London wine bar. In other words, the DOJ is looking at the planning stages of the Trump-Russia attempted […]
Several Fox News stars have continued to peddle the claim that Shake Shack employees “intentionally poisoned” the milkshakes of three New York police officers, even after the New York Police Department found there was “no criminality” by employees. Late Monday evening, several police unions claimed the officers had been briefly hospitalized after noticing a substance in their drinks, suggesting that bleach was deliberately placed in the […]
A far left protester was critically injured on Wednesday when a leftist mob toppled a Confederate statue on top of him.The young Democrats attempted to destroy a Confederate Monument in Portsmouth, Virginia.When they knocked over one of the statues it landed on a fellow protester critically injuring the man. A witness said the protester’s skull was showing and he as convulsing on the ground. BREAKING: Protester […]
Alchemy has built a new push notification system for blockchain developers. Announced Monday, Alchemy Notify is a product designed to enhance the user experience (UX) of various crypto platforms by providing real-time notifications for transactions and events. Blockchain UX often relies on constant attention from the user, which can be off-putting for those who want to engage in a seamless transaction process. Alchemy Notify is hoping […]
Fox News hosts Lawrence Jones and Dagen McDowell on Monday took time to disagree with President Donald Trump’s anger over the NFL expressing openness towards players kneeling during the national anthem, noting that Trump needs to realize this is a “different time.” Late last week, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell openly apologized to players who have protested racial injustice, admitting the league was “wrong for not listening […]
Push Back: US Police State Faces Revolt By Aaron Maté, The Grayzone. June 5, 2020 Push Back: US Police State Faces Revolt2020-06-052020-06-05https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/horne-may-31st-1.jpg200px200px Dr. Gerald Horne on the George Floyd protests, the black freedom struggle, and Trump’s expansion of the US police state at home and around the world. Historian and author Gerald Horne discusses the US uprisings against police brutality and systemic racism sparked by George […]
With SpaceX planning to launch another set of Starlink internet satellites on Wednesday, the company will continue the deployment of the initial constellation of approximately 1500 satellites, on the way to building their 4400 satellite Ku-/Ka-band network. How far along is Starlink deployment? Ahead of the latest Falcon 9 mission, SpaceX has conducted six launches of the operational Starlink v1.0 design, for a total of 360 […]
The next Atlas V to launch a mission to Mars is at the launch site, as United Launch Alliance (ULA) moved through “Launch Vehicle on Stand (LVOS)” operations for NASA’s Mars 2020 mission. The preparations are being conducted at Space Launch Complex-41 or SLC-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS). The pad flow has begun not long after the rocket had arrived in Florida. The […]
Rep. Steve King at a townhall in Hampton, Iowa, in Summer 2019. Clay Masters/Iowa Public Radio hide caption toggle caption Clay Masters/Iowa Public Radio Rep. Steve King at a townhall in Hampton, Iowa, in Summer 2019. Clay Masters/Iowa Public Radio Weeks before the 2018 midterm, President Trump stood before a packed arena in Council Bluffs, Iowa, and singled out Rep. Steve King — then running for […]
Bitcoin broke through $9,500 Thursday and those short sellers betting on lower prices got liquidated by some crypto derivatives exchanges. That also helped push the world’s oldest cryptocurrency higher. As of 20:50 UTC (4:50 p.m. ET), bitcoin (BTC) was trading at $9,447, up 2.9% over the previous 24 hours. Trading seems to support a higher upward climb with a large session of buying around 12:00 UTC […]
One America News reporter Chanel Rion on Thursday continued her habit of promoting President Donald Trump’s favorite conspiracies via loaded questions. This time, she asked White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany whether the president could ultimately depose MSNBC host Joe Scarborough to see if he murdered a former staffer. In recent weeks, the president has repeatedly and falsely accused Scarborough of killing his congressional aide Lori […]
The price of bitcoin (BTC) shot above $9,100 Wednesday in high-volume buying at around 10:00 UTC (6 a.m. ET) thanks to traders feeling optimistic about the crypto markets. As of 20:40 UTC (4:40 p.m. ET), bitcoin was trading at $9,162, gaining 3.5% over the previous 24 hours. Trading seems to support a higher upward climb as bitcoin’s price is now above its 10-day and 50-day moving averages, […]
Thailand is teaming up with a blockchain firm to encourage peer-to-peer trading of renewable energy. Announced on Monday, Thai Digital Energy Development (TDED) – a public-private joint venture – has inked a deal with blockchain energy startup Power Ledger to develop a blockchain-based digital energy business. The deal, also in collaboration with energy suppliers in Thailand, seeks to develop solutions for peer-to-peer energy trading and environmental […]
Beijing’s recent decisions come against the backdrop of heightened diplomatic tension between China and Australia, following a push by Prime Minister Scott Morrison for an independent COVID-19 investigation amid allegations the Asian country had downplayed the seriousness of the virus. China has announced huge five-year duties on Australian barley exports, with a 73.6 percent anti-dumping tariff and a 6.9 percent anti-subsidy tariff to be applied from […]
Democratic lawmakers have passed a massive $3 trillion coronavirus aid package, the largest bill to ever move through Congress, but the Senate is likely to block the law, with Republicans deeming it a progressive “wishlist.” The 1,800-page bill passed 208-199 on Friday in a vote largely along party lines, with all but 14 Democrats voting in its favor, joined by a single GOP rep – Peter […]
On November 9, 2016 President-Elect Donald Trump shocked the world and media elites by trouncing Crooked in the presidential election. Advertisement – story continues below On November 10, 2016 President Obama met with President-Elect Trump in the White House Oval Office.The two met with the press after their meeting.Barack Obama talked about how they would “come together and work together” to do what was best for […]
In April the CDC forced states to recount their coronavirus deaths to include confirmed cases and probable cases.Several states are in the process of reassessing their numbers based on this controversial new rule. They likely did this because the initial predictions they used included the Imperial College Study out of England that predicted 2 million deaths in the US due to the virus. Of course, the […]
A bucket used to collect samples after people have been tested for COVID-19 is seen at a drive through testing site in Arlington, Va., on March 20. One group in northern Virginia is paying special attention to the coronavirus’s impact on Latinos. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images A bucket used to collect samples after people have been […]
Cryptocurrency exchanges based outside the U.S. are pushing to fill what they see as a competitive gap in the world’s biggest economy – offering more leverage to traders who have limited alternatives due to a strict domestic regulatory environment. Antigua and Barbuda-based cryptocurrency exchange FTX plans to launch its newly established U.S. unit this month. Margin trading, in which users can buy and sell assets using borrowed money, […]
The View co-host Joy Behar ripped former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Tuesday for saying Americans will need to sacrifice and accept more death in order to quickly reopen the American economy, sardonically asking whether the Republican is actually as “pro-life” as he claims. During an interview with CNN on Monday, Christie—a one-time Trump transition team member—pushed for a reversal of shelter-in-place restrictions in order […]