Above Photo: Demonstrators protest the police killing of Patrick Lyoya in Grand Rapids, Michigan. It is not surprising that a settler colonial state would practice racism for centuries or that race would be the major factor determining who lives and who dies. It is no secret that the United States is an organized death cult. The U.S. is the unquestionable leader in total COVID-19 deaths. Life expectancy has been trending downward for the past several years. Mass shootings are a common occurrence. And U.S. foreign policy is marked by an obsession with violent and destructive interventions for hegemony and corporate profit. […]
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Lula Counters FBI-Backed ‘Corruption’ Prosecution To Lead 2022 Race By Julian Cola, Mintpress News. March 22, 2022 Lula Counters FBI-Backed ‘Corruption’ Prosecution To Lead 2022 Race2022-03-222022-03-22https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/20220322.webp200px200px Above Photo: A giant cutout of Brazil’s former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva depicted wearing a protective face mask, towers over demonstrators during a protest against Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, calling for his impeachment over his government’s handling of the pandemic and accusations of corruption in the purchases of COVID-19 vaccines, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Oct. 2, 2021. Bruna Prado / AP. “At The Age Of 74, My Heart Only Has Room For […]
Russia, Ukraine, and the Race Problem By Danny Haiphong, Black Agenda Report. March 12, 2022 Russia, Ukraine, and the Race Problem2022-03-122022-03-12https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/220312-1.png200px200px Above Photo: Paul Robeson in the Soviet Union in 1958. The American public are inundated with anti-Russian war propaganda that is worse than in the days of the Red Scare. Russia has been the subject of intense outrage in the West following its decision to wage a military offensive against Ukraine. The military operation caught many by surprise. While the Western foreign policy establishment exploited the development as a “told you so” moment, the general public was thrown into a […]
On the show, Chris Hedges discusses America’s inner and outer wars and its nexus with capitalism and empire with Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and History at New York University Nikhil Pal Singh. The internal violence in the United States, militarized police, and the largest prison system in the world, along with America’s endemic racism, are mirrored in the foreign wars that have been fought almost continuously by the United States since the end of the 19th century. These inner and outer wars, argues historian Nikhil Pal Singh, are intimately connected. The gunning down of unarmed black people in […]
Chris Hedges discusses the nature of Islamophobia with the author and professor, Nazia Kazi. Islamophobia is not defined solely as anti-Muslim sentiment. It is not limited to hate speech and hate crimes, racial stereotypes, or discrimination against Muslim men and women. Islamophobia, in its most pernicious and deadly form, is embodied in the wars waged by the United States in the Muslim world, as well as the laws and internal security structures that turn Muslims in the United States into “the other.” These laws include the criminalization of migrants, allowing Americans to justify the violent and illegal treatment of the undocumented, and […]
Above Photo: Thousands of people protest against racism, injustice and police brutality. (Darryl Dyck / The Canadian Press via AP) Black America And White Supremacy. The United States is a contradiction. From the stirring words of the Declaration of Independence and the Preamble to the Constitution to the Statue of Liberty beckoning the “huddled masses yearning to breathe free,” the U.S. trumpets to the world – and does not hesitate to export at gunpoint – the ideals of democracy, freedom, and unbridled capitalism; yet, it is a nation that is also based upon the murderous oppression of Black, Indigenous and other […]
Health care disparities are inevitable when notions of white superiority are guiding principles in every sector of society. The term “race norming ” ought to be immediately suspected as having a nefarious intent. Anything referred to as norming in a racist society invariably ends with Black people getting the short end of the stick. The concept that Black bodies are anatomically different may be known as “race correction”, “ethnic adjustment”, or “race adjustment” and causes Black people to be undertreated for pain, undiagnosed for serious illness, and denied life saving treatments because of an idea which is inherently white supremacist and very […]
Above Photo: China has become a leader in commercial and military space technology. (AFP) The United States has been urged to join China and Russia for talks on banning weapons in outer space. In a speech to a United Nations conference in Geneva on Tuesday, Li Song, China’s ambassador for disarmament affairs, urged the US to stop being a “stumbling block”. “After the end of the Cold War, and especially in the past two decades, the US has tried its best to get rid of its international obligations, refused to be bound by new treaties and long resisted multilateral negotiations on […]
Above Photo: US Virginia-class submarine underway in Groton, Connecticut, July 2004. General Dynamics Electric Boat Public Affairs/WikiCommons. “Locking Britain into decades of nuclear escalation in the Pacific is globally dangerous, hugely expensive and totally unnecessary.” The new pact between the Australian, British and US governments is the latest escalation in a new cold war on China, and the developing world. The “enhanced trilateral security partnership called AUKUS”(1) does not name China, but every single serious commentator has interpreted it as being aimed against the People’s Republic of China. Coming exactly one month after the fall of Kabul, the announcement was a […]
As The Pentagon Drives A Hi-Tech Arms Race To Maintain Its Global Military Superiority, Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt Is The Man At The Center. Behind The Headlines’ Dan Cohen Investigates How The U.S. Empire’s Drive To Control The World Using Silicon Valley Technology Creates The Possibility Of A Devastating War. Mountain View, California – The United States is leading a new artificial intelligence arms race that could spell the end of humanity. Back in 2014, a few years before he died, Stephen Hawking warned us about artificial intelligence: The primitive forms of artificial intelligence we already have, have proved very useful. But I think […]
Supporters listen as Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden speaks during a drive-in campaign event at Riverside High School in Durham, N.C., on Sunday. Carolyn Kaster/AP hide caption toggle caption Carolyn Kaster/AP Supporters listen as Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden speaks during a drive-in campaign event at Riverside High School in Durham, N.C., on Sunday. Carolyn Kaster/AP Joe Biden’s campaign is urging its supporters not to become complacent in the final weeks of the presidential race, even as polling suggests the former vice president remains ahead of President Trump in several key swing states. “The very searing truth is that Donald Trump […]
DLT is among 20 “critical and emerging” technologies in the Trump Administration’s new strategy for preserving the U.S.’ technological edge. Source link
Daily Beast/NBC: Secret recordings of a militant neo-Nazi group show it has targeted former and active-duty U.S. military personnel to join its ranks and prepare for what it believes is society’s imminent collapse, according to a report from NBC News. “The leader of The Base, Rinaldo Nazzaro, who was born in the US, runs his operation out of his apartment in St. Petersburg, Russia, which he discusses in the recordings.”Secret tapes show neo-Nazi group The Base recruiting former members of the military https://t.co/NbBujbhPgb — K. Louise Neufeld (@ninaandtito) October 15, 2020 The network was handed the tapes by the hate-group monitor […]
A county elections board in Ohio has confirmed that nearly 50,000 voters received “inaccurate” ballots in the mail, vowing to correct the error while fending off charges from President Donald Trump that the vote has been “rigged.” Election officials in Franklin County – Ohio’s most populous region and home to the state capital of Columbus – said on Friday that tens of thousands of erroneous ballots were sent out to voters, caused by a mishap with a machine that loads the ballots into mailing envelopes. The elections board has promised to remedy the mistake in a matter of days. “The board […]
During the first presidential debate against Democratic nominee Joe Biden in Cleveland on Sept. 29, President Trump declined to denounce white supremacists. Days later he told Fox News that he condemned right-wing hate groups such as the Ku Klux Klan and the Proud Boys. Win McNamee/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Win McNamee/Getty Images During the first presidential debate against Democratic nominee Joe Biden in Cleveland on Sept. 29, President Trump declined to denounce white supremacists. Days later he told Fox News that he condemned right-wing hate groups such as the Ku Klux Klan and the Proud Boys. Win McNamee/Getty Images […]
A North Carolina Senate race has been thrown into a tailspin after the Republican incumbent tested positive for Covid-19, and the Democratic challenger admitted to sexting with a woman who is not his wife. Democratic Senate candidate Cal Cunningham, a married father of two, admitted to the text messages after a report revealed screenshots of the exchanges. The messages were between Cunningham and Arlene Guzman Todd, a public relations strategist who is also married, and included the two talking about kissing and making plans to see each other. Also on rt.com Trump’s physician saying he’s ‘doing very well,’ but cautious as […]
The text screenshots revealed that the Senate candidate discussed “kisses” and an intimate relationship with a public relations strategist from California, though he is actually married and a father of two. North Carolina Democratic Senate candidate Cal Cunningham has admitted to sending text messages of intriguing content to California strategist Arlene Guzman Todd. “I have hurt my family, disappointed my friends, and am deeply sorry”, Cunningham said in a statement on Friday. “The first step in repairing those relationships is taking complete responsibility, which I do.” The National File published the texts first, in which Cunningham describes Todd as “historically sexy” and tells her about […]
According to the head of the UK’s Armed Forces, General Sir Nick Carter, “Russia is spreading lies about COVID vaccines” in an effort to destabilise countries across the world and added that this is a propaganda tactic that reflects a strategy of “political warfare”. Political commentator George Szamuely has weighed in on whether these were typical unfounded Russophobic sentiments as well as on the prospect of a Russian vaccine in an interview with Sputnik. Sputnik: The UK’s Military Chief, General Sir Nick Carter has accused Russia of sowing disinformation about coronavirus vaccines he called it pro-Russian vaccine politics “and said it […]
After multiple agencies ignored a White House memo against using ‘critical race theory’ in diversity training, US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order banning such sessions altogether as ‘destructive’. It “shall be the policy of the United States not to promote race or sex stereotyping or scapegoating in the Federal workforce or in the Uniformed Services, and not to allow grant funds to be used for these purposes,” Trump said in an executive order signed on Tuesday evening While the order does not mention ‘critical race theory’ by name, it cites a “destructive ideology” that is “rooted in the pernicious and false belief that America is […]
Most everyone following the heated U.S. Senate contest in South Carolina recognizes that the opening of a U.S. Supreme Court seat—six weeks before Election Day—has shifted the balance of the race. Which candidate will ultimately benefit, though, depends on who you ask. Sen. Lindsey Graham was already facing a determined challenge from Democrat Jaime Harrison before Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death last Friday. Less than a day later, Graham officially discarded his stance from 2016 that high court appointments shouldn’t be made in an election year—and fully embraced his role as President Donald Trump’s warrior in securing a third Supreme Court […]
There’s a Jewish tradition that someone who dies on Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, must have been a tzaddik, a righteous person. After all, God waited all year to carry out the decree. Perhaps that offers some comfort to those mourning the loss of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Hebrew name, Yita Ruchel bat Tzirel Leah), who finally succumbed to cancer at the age of 87, after convincing many of us that she was immortal. But the themes of Rosh Hashanah offer another lesson as well: a warning to those Republican senators pondering whether or not to support Senate Majority Leader […]
A Democrat has suddenly bowed out of the US House race in Georgia citing “personal reasons,” clearing the path for Republican contender Marjorie Taylor Greene, the alleged QAnon supporter who is now running unopposed. Kevin Van Ausdal said he would pull out of the contest in a statement on Friday, leaving the race for Georgia’s reliably red 14th Congressional District uncontested, with Greene the only candidate left in the running. “I am heartbroken to announce that for family and personal reasons, I cannot continue this race for Congress,” Van Ausdal said in a statement, adding that “stepping aside would be best […]
The Crescat Capital portfolio manager gives his take on the flashing macro warning signals and why it is an explosive moment for gold, silver and (potentially) bitcoin. Tavi Costa is a portfolio manager at Crescat Capital. In this conversation with NLW, he discusses: The credit exhaustion moment in the engines of global growth The race to the bottom for fiat currencies The explosive moment for precious metals Where bitcoin might fit in this larger framework Source link
The Trump administration’s white supremacist propaganda machine removed a video on Saturday that it had posted earlier in the week. The removal came hours after this story, which has been updated, reported on its use of false migrant crime statistics and a fictionalized story about a dark-skinned migrant murdering a man with a knife. The video had been uploaded to YouTube on Thursday by Border Patrol, part of the Department of Homeland Security, which did not respond to a request for comment about it on Friday and also did not immediately respond to a request Saturday evening for comment on its […]
President Trump has ordered the federal government to stop critical race theory training. The order came even after a summer of protests for racial justice across the country. Charlie Riedel/AP hide caption toggle caption Charlie Riedel/AP President Trump has ordered the federal government to stop critical race theory training. The order came even after a summer of protests for racial justice across the country. Charlie Riedel/AP The Trump administration has instructed federal agencies to end racial sensitivity trainings that address topics like white privilege and critical race theory, calling them “divisive, anti-American propaganda.” In a letter to federal agencies Friday, the […]
According to the Russian military, NATO has increased its aerial surveillance efforts near the Russian border by 30 percent compared to the previous year. Russia is not interested in an arms race, but is forced to combat capabilities in response to unfriendly actions by NATO, Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Saturday. “All measures taken are aimed exclusively at strengthening the defense, are limited in scale and correspond to modern military dangers”, Shoigu told reporters. “We are not interested in the arms race. To reduce tensions, we intend to adhere to the maximum openness regarding military activity”, the minister said adding […]
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/202009041080367868-fraternal-order-of-police-unanimously-endorses-trump-in-us-presidential-race/ The Fraternal Order of Police has unanimously voted to endorse Donald J. Trump for the presidency of the United States. DETAILS TO FOLLOW Source link
Fox News host Tucker Carlson once again engaged in some thinly veiled dog-whistling on Thursday night, insisting that Democrats are trying to “get out the vote” by funding “race riots” or offering “mentally ill homeless” people “free cigarettes.” Carlson, whose racist rhetoric and fear-mongering over Black Lives Matter has caused internal strife at Fox, kicked off Thursday’s broadcast of Tucker Carlson Tonight by saying the Democratic Party has always had problems turning out its voters. (Forty percent of the Democratic electorate is non-white, according to Pew Research.) “On average, Democratic voters are much less likely than Republicans to vote,” the conservative […]
The Senate race in Massachusetts is blue on blue in a blue state so the seat will remain safely Democratic whatever the outcome in Tuesday’s primary. That’s little solace for Democrats torn apart by a race that forces them to choose between Joseph Kennedy III, a rising star in the party and heir to the storied Kennedy legacy, and incumbent Senator Ed Markey, a champion of progressive causes in the House and Senate for 47 years—longer than Kennedy, 39, has been alive. Kennedy has struggled to explain why he’s running, other than that he’s a Kennedy and would “leverage” the power […]
Russia may be responsible for the deadly unrest in American cities, CNN host Dana Bash has implied during an interview with Democrat’s top Russiagate figure, Adam Schiff, proving that red-baiting never goes out of vogue. Schiff, the chair of the House Intelligence Committee, came to CNN for a round of Trump-bashing over the President’s remarks on how Director of National Intelligence (DNI) John Ratcliffe “got tired of” classified information being leaking from Congress. The DNI wrote last week to the California representative and his Senate counterpart, Marco Rubio, that his office will be informing lawmakers on election security through written reports […]
Why do police murder African American men? Want the truth? We don’t think you can handle the truth. The old themes, that the light skinned “house negro” was the progeny of only the male slave owner is a hollywood concoction. Sure, some wanted to be urinated on, we know that but the real attraction was always sexual humiliation, the highest form of eroticism in Christian evangelical America, one that requires taboos and race hatred, race envy, to work. But we all know that as well, don’t we? Today we are going to raise some hard truths while discussing a sensitive subject […]
This is a preview of our pop culture newsletter The Daily Beast’s Obsessed, written by senior entertainment reporter Kevin Fallon. To receive the full newsletter in your inbox each week, sign up for it here. Suddenly I love sports. The bizarre, dark underbelly of Drag Race fandom. Tom Cruise sees a movie. Mariah Carey predicts the future. Catman. The Outrageous Drag Race Fan Bullying Scandal New York City’s stay-at-home order went into effect in mid-March, and, in the next weeks, the city became a terrifying place to live: a hot zone of fear and dread chaotically amplified by a never-ending soundtrack […]
Is Movement Journalism Needed During Reckoning Over Race And Inequality? By Tina Vasquez, Nieman Reports. August 27, 2020 Is Movement Journalism Needed During Reckoning Over Race And Inequality?2020-08-272020-08-27https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/manolia-charlotin-scaled-e1598539964895.jpg200px200px Above photo: Press On cofounder Manolia Charlotin speaks at the movement journalism track at the 2018 Allied Media Conference, which led to the formation of Press On in 2019. Press On. A movement journalist examines what it means to engage with communities and challenge the status quo. Last summer I found myself at the M.W. Stringer Grand Lodge in Jackson, Mississippi. Considered “the epicenter of the civil rights movement,” the well-worn building was once the […]
The 43-year-old Takuma Sato was the first driver from Japan to win the famous Indy 500 race back in 2017. Japanese racecar driver Takuma Sato has won the Indianapolis 500 for the second time in four years, with the race ending under the yellow caution flag. Sato, who was locked in a battle with the 2008 Indy 500 winner Scott Dixon and managed to hold him off over the final ten green-flag laps, ultimately crossing the finish line unchallenged after Spencer Pigot’s crash into the wall brought out the yellow flag, and the race ended at a steady pace under caution. […]
Scott Adams, creator of the iconic ‘Dilbert’ cartoon series, was one of the first high-profile figures in America to suggest Trump would win in 2016. He has stuck with Trump for the last four years and has been a vocal critic of the Democrats. In one of his recent podcasts, he offered some thoughts about the 2020 election and Joe Biden. He did not hold back. TRENDING: FAKE HATE: Black Democrat Faked and FILMED her Own Beating and Kidnapping… WTH? And She Did it For Votes — She Even Posted It Online! Via Real Clear Politics: Scott Adams: Brain-Dead Race Hoaxer […]
Lebron James is the latest professional athlete to trash the US, its history and its national anthem. Lebron and his fellow NBA multi-millionaires continue to kneel for the anthem of the country that gave them the opportunity to play basketball for a living. Advertisement – story continues below And recently Lebron told reporters he’s reading “The Autobiography of Malcolm X.” Unfortunately, when he was asked a simple question about the story, Lebron gave new meaning to the phrase ‘dumb jock.’ TRENDING: SHOCK VIDEO: “Mom! Call 911!” – Biden Supporters Attack 7-Year-Old Boy Outside DNC Convention For Wearing Red MAGA Hat This […]
Six-year-old Mary “Dodie” Brown holds a copy of the 1959 special Hawaii statehood edition of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin. George Bacon/Hawaii State Archives hide caption toggle caption George Bacon/Hawaii State Archives Six-year-old Mary “Dodie” Brown holds a copy of the 1959 special Hawaii statehood edition of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin. George Bacon/Hawaii State Archives When Arthur Roland Kam thinks back to 1959, he remembers how everyone around him felt a huge political shift as Hawaii became the country’s 50th state. “For a Hawaiian citizen, it was great because it had been a long time coming,” Kam describes. He was 28 years old, working […]
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has donated a “no strings attached” $10 million to Ibram Kendi’s Center for Antiracist Research. Kendi is a bestselling author who’s gotten famous by telling white people that they’re racists. Announcing the donation on Thursday, Dorsey said that the center’s research “will inform and fuel much needed and overdue policy change.” According to Boston University, which hosts the center, teams of academics, lawyers, social workers and scientists will collaborate to “track and study racial data” and “advocate for new corrective policies.” $10M to Dr. Ibram Kendi and the Center for Antiracist Research at BU. This research will […]
Byron Donalds is a conservative Republican and Trump supporter. He just won a primary in the race for Florida’s 19th district. It was a competitive race. The Blaze reports: Trump-supporting black Republican Byron Donalds wins hotly contested Florida primary TRENDING: Goodyear Bans Employees From Wearing ‘All Lives Matter,’ ‘Blue Lives Matter’ or MAGA Slogans, But Says Black Lives Matter is Allowed A black Trump-supporting Florida state House representative has advanced as the GOP’s nominee for the state’s 19th Congressional District after beating out eight other candidates in a tight election Tuesday. Byron Donalds won the primary with 23,480 votes — or […]
Cynthia Lummis, a former U.S. Representative and current bitcoin advocate, has won her primary race to join the U.S. Senate representing Wyoming. Source link
The OCC is willing to work with banks interested in custodying crypto, a Russian bank approved a token-backed loan and bitcoin has been sent… from space! 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 Next steps?The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s interpretative letter last month allows banks to provide services to crypto companies and custody cryptocurrencies directly – a sea change that could have been months in the making, writes CoinDesk regulatory reporter Nikhilesh De. It doesn’t […]
Ferrari sells cars so it can go racing; Bequant built a crypto exchange to get into prime brokerage. That’s the analogy offered by the firm’s head of institutional services, Alex Mascioli, when asked about a new banking relationship with Signature’s blockchain-based payments platform, Signet, first revealed to CoinDesk this week. Prime brokerage, Mascioli said, was always Bequant’s race to win. Prime brokers are facilitators for financing and trading for deep-pocketed institutional investors. While the digital asset space doesn’t have a lot of prime broker options currently, several crypto firms including Coinbase, BitGo and Genesis Trading have announced in recent months their […]
As President Donald Trump tightens its economic grip around Chinese operations in the United States, a number of domestic firms are racing to be the first to purchase the Tik Tok application before it is shut down in November. Oracle has added its name to the list companies looking to purchase TikTok, the popular Chinese-owned short video app that the White House has promised to ban unless a US firm acquires it by mid-November, unnamed people familiar with the situation said on Tuesday. The tech giant, which was co-founded by Larry Ellison, has held preliminary talks with TikTok’s Chinese owner, ByteDance, […]
A South Florida CBS affiliate, CBS 12, posted the primary election results for over a half-dozen races last night to their website, days before the final votes are to be counted. Florida’s final absentee ballots and in-person election day voting occurs on Tuesday from 7am to 7pm. Despite this, congressional candidate Laura Loomer, who is running in the Republican primary to take on far-left career politician Lois Frankel, found herself shocked to see that 100% of precincts reporting their tallies late Sunday night. The “results” showed the establishment candidates facing Loomer with a lion’s share of the votes and the journalist […]
Far left billionaire George Soros has been systematically targeting district attorney races throughout the United States for several years now. Many of his candidates are already in office creating havoc across the country. In St. Louis City George Soros was Kim Gardner’s biggest donor in her race for Circuit Attorney back in 2016. A Soros funded PAC even released an ad in support of this far left and unqualified activist. TRENDING: Federal Government and Yale Are Holding Clinical Trials on How Best to ‘Persuade’ Americans to Take COVID-19 Vaccines Kim Gardner may be the most radical Soros-funded Circuit Attorney in the […]
Scott Hobgood and Jason Niupulusū grew up in Webster County, Ky., and joined NPR’s David Greene for a roundtable discussion about race and social justice. Scott Hobgood, Jason Niupulusū hide caption toggle caption Scott Hobgood, Jason Niupulusū Scott Hobgood and Jason Niupulusū grew up in Webster County, Ky., and joined NPR’s David Greene for a roundtable discussion about race and social justice. Scott Hobgood, Jason Niupulusū If you spend any time on social media, you know it can be a war of words out there. Whether it’s the debate over wearing masks, the racial unrest sweeping across the U.S. or the […]
Members of the ‘Wall of Moms” lock their arms during a Black Lives Matter protest at the Mark O. Hatfield United States Courthouse on Thursday in Portland, Ore. Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP hide caption toggle caption Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP Members of the ‘Wall of Moms” lock their arms during a Black Lives Matter protest at the Mark O. Hatfield United States Courthouse on Thursday in Portland, Ore. Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP Candace Lightner became an activist 40 years ago when a drunken driver struck and killed her daughter, Cari. Today, Lightner can talk about her daughter’s death with little outward emotion. “It’s not […]
Supporters of President Trump and his Democratic challenger, former Vice President Joe Biden, talk in Kansas City, Mo. Kyle Rivas/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Kyle Rivas/Getty Images Supporters of President Trump and his Democratic challenger, former Vice President Joe Biden, talk in Kansas City, Mo. Kyle Rivas/Getty Images With now less than 100 days until Election Day, here’s where things stand: Joe Biden has the clear advantage — for now. With a majority of Americans disapproving of the way President Trump is handling the coronavirus pandemic, Biden has jumped to an 8-point lead in an average of the national polls. […]
Written by Jon Erwin and William Doyle Book Review: Beyond Valor: A World War II Story of Extraordinary Heroism, Sacrificial Love, and a Race against Time, Jon Erwin and William Doyle. Hard cover/August 18, 2020. Publisher Thomas Nelson On April 12, 1945, a fleet of American B-29 bombers flew toward Japan. Their mission was simple: stop World War II by burning the cities, factories, and military bases of the Japanese empire, thereby forcing an unconditional surrender. Yet the mission did not go as planned. On board one of the B-29s, the City of Los Angeles, a phosphorus bomb detonated inside the plane. […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his American counterpart Donald Trump on Thursday held rare phone talks, which, in contrast with the current political narrative in the US, focused on cooperation and unity. The talks revolved around strategic stability issues, the Kremlin press service said Thursday, and the two leaders agreed to continue negotiations on the crucial New START treaty. The major arms control deal is set to expire next year and its future remains uncertain. Trump has expressed hopes that the US, Russia and China will avoid an “expensive” three-way arms race, a statement from the White House has said. “President […]
MotoGP world champion Marc Marquez has incredibly been declared fit to race at this weekend’s Andalusian Grand Prix, despite breaking his arm in a huge crash during a race last weekend. Marquez recovered from an early setback during Sunday’s Spanish Grand Prix at Jerez before producing a brilliant comeback, only to then spectacularly crash his Repsol Honda at Turn 3. Marquez coped well with the heavy landing, but was then hit by his bike, which left him with a broken humerus in his right arm. Earlier this week he had surgery to fix a titanium plate to the outside of Marquez’s […]
A video of Black Lives Matter campaigner Monica Cannon-Grant, who’s been honored by Democrats in Boston shows her unleashing a racist rant against a black Republican politician, telling her to shut up as she “rides white penises.” Cannon-Grant’s work on the BLM cause has seen her honored by Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, Massachusetts Rep. Joe Kennedy, and even former presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren. She’s been lauded as a “hero among us” by the Boston Celtics. She writes for the Boston Globe, and is currently working to re-elect Rep. Ayanna Pressley and District Attorney Rachael Rollins, both progressive Democrats. A recent outburst […]
Imagine you are an explorer who has dedicated your life to conquering one of the world’s last great unknowns: the North Pole. You have given up decades in which you abandoned your family, weathered almost unimaginable conditions, and sacrificed toes in your pursuit of becoming the first to reach the great wintry apex of the world that grabbed hold of your imagination as a youth and became the single-minded obsession of your career, of your life. And, yet, after all this sweat and sacrifice, you have always come up short. Everything has led you to this one final mission, your last […]
Noose hoaxer Bubba Wallace this week was booed as he was introduced at the NASCAR all-star qualifier and cheered after he crashed. The media exploded last month after NASCAR released a statement revealing that a ‘noose’ was reportedly found in top driver Bubba Wallace’s Talladega garage stall. The FBI unleashed 15 agents on the case and ultimately determined that the ‘noose’ was actually a garage door pull rope. It was a garage door pull rope. TRENDING: NOT MAKING NATIONAL HEADLINES: Black Mass Shooter Kills Two Random Men in Indiana Before Being Gunned Down by CCW Holder (VIDEO) Fans feel duped after […]
Jamaal Bowman speaks to reporters after voting at a polling station inside Yonkers Middle/High School on June 23. John Minchillo/AP hide caption toggle caption John Minchillo/AP Jamaal Bowman speaks to reporters after voting at a polling station inside Yonkers Middle/High School on June 23. John Minchillo/AP Challenger Jamaal Bowman has defeated longtime Rep. Eliot Engel in the Democratic primary for New York’s 16th Congressional District, The Associated Press projects. The victory by the education advocate and former middle school principal is a win for New York’s progressive movement, coming two years after Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez topped another longtime Democrat in a […]
Gun sales soared in June, with 2,387,524 weapons sold, a year-over-year increase of 145.3% from June 2019, Small Arms Analytics & Forecasting reports. “Likely single handgun sales (1,511,714) increased year-over-year by 177.5% whereas single long-gun sales (690,212) increased year-over-year by 114.3%. All other likely background check-related sales (185,599) increased year-over-year by 74.0%. This includes so-called ‘multiple’ sales where the allocation between handguns and long-guns cannot be determined from the data record,” the private firm reported. Wonder why? “The new coronavirus pandemic, civil unrest after the killing of George Floyd and the ensuing movement to defund police are bringing in new buyers […]
Former Auburn football coach Tommy Tuberville defeated former Attorney General Jeff Sessions in the Alabama Senate primary race on Tuesday. The AP called the race shortly after the polls closed in Alabama. Advertisement – story continues below Tuberville is winning 67% to 37%! Decision Desk HQ projects Tommy Tuberville has won the AL Senate Republican Primary. Race called at 08:45 PM Easternhttps://t.co/cRV7UVo96S — Decision Desk HQ (@DecisionDeskHQ) July 15, 2020 TRENDING: Democrat Strategist and Hillary Clinton Crony Tells GOP Sen. Marsha Blackburn to “F*ck Off,” Calls Her “Inbred Racist Trash” For Criticizing BLM Source link
The timing for the launch of unmanned spacecraft to the Red planet is linked to the opening of a one-month window, when Mars and Earth are in alignment on the same side of the sun so as to minimise both travel time and fuel required. In an ambitious effort to probe the mysteries of the Red Planet, three countries, the United States, China and the United Arab Emirates, are sending unmanned spacecraft to Mars this week, reports AP. The series of successive launches target a one-month window when Mars and Earth line up on the same side of the sun, allowing for reduced […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/07/0c/1079864325_0:0:1200:675_1200x675_80_0_0_7056665335337f9d847a55968a51b861.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/europe/202007121079864375-mick-schumacher-loses-podium-in-formula-2-race-as-fire-extinguisher-goes-off-in-cockpit—video/ Schumaher had to stop the car and step outside to solve the problem with the out-of-control device. The racer now has the chance to regain his position in a week in Hungary. Mick Schumacher, the son of the legendary Formula 1 champion Michael Schumacher, had his hopes for victory dashed at the F2 Styrian Grand Prix after an incident with a fire extinguisher inside his vehicle botched his chances. In a video shared on social media, white smoke is seen bursting from behind the steering wheel, covering the racer’s helmet and gloves with dry […]
Ajamu Baraka: Race, Class And US Protests Today July 12, 2020 Ajamu Baraka: Race, Class And US Protests Today2020-07-122020-07-12https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/abaraka-e1594571409316.jpg200px200px American anti-war activist Ajamu Baraka has urged the public to stay vigilant against US “attempts to control the narrative” of the Black Lives Matter movement. Speaking at an event organised by the Workers’ Party, the national organiser of the Black Alliance for Peace and the 2016 Green Party candidate for vice president said that: “The current ongoing capitalist crisis has created the most serious crisis of legitimacy since the collapse of the capitalist economy during the years referred to as the Great […]
Coinbase will host its first investor day, New York State prosecutors won a jurisdictional dispute involving Bitfinex and a protocol arms race is unfolding in Latin America. Here’s the story: 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 Not Your Traditional Investor DayOn the same day Reuters reported Coinbase is looking to go public, the exchange scheduled its first-ever investor day, for Aug. 14. Investor days can often signal a planned direct listing, Jamie McGurk, a former operating partner at […]
US President Donald Trump threatened to veto this year’s proposed $740 billion defense bill if it includes an amendment requiring the Pentagon to rechristen bases named after Confederate leaders. However, the president is unlikely to veto anything regarding the military, award-winning foreign correspondent Jon Jeter told Political Misfits. “I will Veto the Defense Authorization Bill if the Elizabeth ‘Pocahontas’ Warren (of all people!) Amendment, which will lead to the renaming (plus other bad things!) of Fort Bragg, Fort Robert E. Lee, and many other Military Bases from which we won Two World Wars, is in the Bill!” Trump tweeted on July […]
President Trump joined Sean Hannity on Thursday night for a lengthy interview on politics and current events. In his final question Sean Hannity asked President Trump about Kanye West’s announcement that he may jump in to the 2020 presidential race. President Trump responded, “Well I like his voice being heard but he’s going to be for us and his wife is going to be for us. But that’s the problem that he’s missed some states. A little thing like that he missed a few states like about twelve. So you have to do that. But he’s a very good guy. He […]
Meghan Markle has ghosted her sometime best friend Jessica Mulroney after the latter was caught up in a dispute over white privilege. Mulroney now believes that being ditched by Markle may see her lose her career, according to a report in British newspaper the Sun. However, Mulroney, who was accused of trying to “silence” a Black Canadian influencer and lost her job as a TV host as a result, could exact a vicious revenge on Markle, the apparently well-sourced report suggests. In a not-very-veiled threat a source tells the Sun Mulroney “knows all her secrets and everything she’s been through. This […]
Professional cyclists have paid tribute to Niels De Vriendt, a young racer who could not be saved despite medics spending 40 minutes trying to resuscitate him after he collapsed while preparing for the season restart in Belgium. De Vriendt was racing in the municipality of Wortegem-Petegem when he fell ill during the first contest of the restart following the suspension of the cycling season in Belgium. The race was canceled as medics tried to help after he fell off his bike just eight miles from the finish. “I’ve heard from local riders that De Vriendt just fell with no contact with […]
Protesters march to the monument to Confederate general Robert E. Lee in Richmond, Va. Protesters gathered in Richmond over the Fourth of July weekend, including white nationalists and Black armed groups. Jim Urquhart for NPR hide caption toggle caption Jim Urquhart for NPR Protesters march to the monument to Confederate general Robert E. Lee in Richmond, Va. Protesters gathered in Richmond over the Fourth of July weekend, including white nationalists and Black armed groups. Jim Urquhart for NPR Robert E. Lee’s days are numbered. A landmark statue of the Confederate general installed 130 years ago in Richmond, Va., is at the […]
American rapper Kanye West, who had in the past been eviscerated by the Left over his vocal support for US President Donald Trump, has said he launched his own presidential bid, “We must now realize the promise of America by trusting God, unifying our vision and building our future. I am running for president of the United States! #2020VISION,” West wrote, breaking the news to his nearly 30 million followers on Twitter on Saturday evening. We must now realize the promise of America by trusting God, unifying our vision and building our future. I am running for president of the United […]
Epic Games, the developer of the massively popular Fortnite, has announced that it will air a series of conversations about race, featuring “prominent” black voices from various sectors. The hit game, estimated to be played by a staggering 350 million people worldwide, will host the conversation series titled ‘We The People’ on Saturday. The program will be aired in the game’s Battle Royale game mode. Viewers will hear from speakers who include Elaine Welteroth, former editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue. Welteroth headed the magazine until September 2017 and was praised for injecting more social justice and politics content into the publication. She […]
Joe Biden has an advantage over President Trump in fundraising according to the numbers the campaigns released for the month of June. Biden and the Democratic Party raised $141 million, against the $131 Trump and Republicans brought in. AP hide caption toggle caption AP Joe Biden has an advantage over President Trump in fundraising according to the numbers the campaigns released for the month of June. Biden and the Democratic Party raised $141 million, against the $131 Trump and Republicans brought in. AP A little more than four months before Election Day, the Trump and Biden campaigns each announced massive fundraising […]
Earlier this month, the US Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) advanced a measure which would reduce the time needed to conduct a nuclear test. Meanwhile, in an alarming move, the Pentagon is seeking more control over nuclear weapons funding, Kevin Kamps, the Radioactive Waste Watchdog at the organization Beyond Nuclear, told Sputnik Wednesday. The nuclear test amendment, which was offered by Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR), would provide at least $10 million “to carry out projects related to reducing the time required to execute a nuclear test if necessary,” according to a June 15 report by The Hill, citing a copy of […]
IOTA’s new testnet addresses the technical feature that nuked the blockchain-like network for nearly two weeks earlier this year. Source link
Just one day after World Asteroid Day, NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) has warned of two space rocks due to soar through the Earth’s backyard, as planetary defense preparations start to ramp up. The first of the incoming objects is the 69-foot wide 2019 AC3, an Apollo-class asteroid travelling at roughly 8,000 miles per hour and due to fly past at a safe distance of 2.5 million miles away. Later on Wednesday, at almost double the size and over twice the speed of its predecessor, the 135-foot, Aten-class asteroid 2020 MK3 will shoot past at 19,000 miles an hour. […]
Thank you to the great people of The Villages. The Radical Left Do Nothing Democrats will Fall in the Fall. Corrupt Joe is shot. See you soon!!! https://t.co/4Gg1iGOhyG — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 28, 2020 And that nasty rumor about Trumptards removing social distancing stickers in Tulsa? https://twitter.com/keithboykin/status/1277005590288531456?s=20 VT Editors is a General Posting account managed by Jim W. Dean and Gordon Duff. All content herein is owned and copyrighted by Jim W. Dean and Gordon Duff ATTENTION READERS Due to the nature of independent content, VT cannot guarantee content validity.We ask you to Read Our Content Policy so a […]
Combs was trying to break her own four-wheel land speed record when her car crashed on a dry lake bed in Oregon’s Alvord Desert last year. Guinness World Records has posthumously rewarded race car driver and TV personality Jessi Combs with the fastest land speed record for a woman. Combs died on 27 August 2019 in Oregon, attempting to hit 619 mph, but lost control of her jet-powered North American Eagle after it hit a rock, causing the car to burst into flames. She had managed to complete two high-speed runs, one at 515.346 mph and one at 548.432 mph, but Guinness verified 840 km/h […]
New York City police officers watch demonstrators in Times Square on June 1 during a Black Lives Matter protest. Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images New York City police officers watch demonstrators in Times Square on June 1 during a Black Lives Matter protest. Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images One common recommendation for reducing police brutality against people of color is to have police departments mirror a given area’s racial makeup. President Obama’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing recommended that law enforcement “reflect the demographics of the community”; the […]
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Lost Manuscript Of Eyewitness Account Of Tulsa Race Massacre By Allison Keyes, Smithsonian Magazine. June 19, 2020 Lost Manuscript Of Eyewitness Account Of Tulsa Race Massacre2020-06-192020-06-19https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/01_greenwood-1076×588.jpg200px200px Above photo: The Booker T. Washington High School parade processes along Greenwood Avenue in Tulsa, Oklahoma.Greenwood Cultural Center. Note: With President Trump holding a campaign rally in Tulsa, OK on June 20, 2020, we thought it would be good to republish this article on the Tulsa Massacre, often referred to as the Tulsa Race Riot. It was a white rampage in the successful black community of Greenwood, also known as Black Wall Street.The Oklahoma Historical […]
The New York Times building in New York. The New York Times and The Washington Post both outlined new measures aimed at improving diversity in their newsrooms and coverage. Julio Cortez/AP hide caption toggle caption Julio Cortez/AP The New York Times building in New York. The New York Times and The Washington Post both outlined new measures aimed at improving diversity in their newsrooms and coverage. Julio Cortez/AP The nation’s two top newspapers on Thursday evening separately reached the same decision: They have to address diversity and equity in their newsrooms. In separate memos to staff, both outlined initiatives to address […]
By Sajjad Shaukat for Veterans Today It is most regrettable that by ignoring the modern global trends like renunciation of war, peaceful settlement of disputes and economic development, India has accelerated alarming arms race in South Asia. In this regard, in its report, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) has revealed on February 17, 2020 that in 2019, total global military expenditure rose to $1917 billion in 2019. It said that the five largest spenders in 2019 accounted for 62 per cent of expenditure. India is among the world’s largest recipient of arms.´ According to the ‘Military Balance 2018’ report […]
When President Donald Trump announced his plan to restart his 2020 campaign rallies in Tulsa, Oklahoma on June 19, it was met with widespread disgust. Not only is the date he chose one that honors the freedom of all enslaved African Americans in the U.S., but the Juneteenth rally was to take place in a city that was home to what may have been the most brutal anti-Black slaughter in post-Civil War America, the Tulsa Race Massacre. For once, even he couldn’t ignore the outrage and moved his event to the following day. But even if his campaign had planned the […]
Answering a reporter’s question about his plan to address the problem of systemic racism in the US, President Donald Trump said that his plan is to have “the strongest economy in the world”. Dr Zalmay Gulzad, professor at Harold Washington College in Chicago, reflects on Donald Trump’s chances of bringing unity to the American people amid ongoing protests against racial inequality and explains why the majority of US citizens support Trump. Sputnik: We’re currently seeing this unrest in the country and the President just recently announced his plan to combat systemic racism. To what extent can the President unite the US […]
Earlier this month France, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands joined forces to form the “Inclusive Vaccine Alliance”, in order to have a stronger negotiating position in the race for a coronavirus vaccine. The contract agreement with AstraZeneca is the alliance’s first result in securing a potential coronavirus vaccine for European countries. The Vaccine Alliance formed by France, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands has signed a contract with British-Swedish pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca to supply a coronavirus vaccine for Europe, Italy’s Health Minister said on Saturday. The contract is for 400 million doses of the vaccine which was developed at the University of […]
A statue of Confederate States President Jefferson Davis lies on the street after protesters pulled it down in Richmond, Va., on Wednesday. Parker Michels-Boyce/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Parker Michels-Boyce/AFP via Getty Images A statue of Confederate States President Jefferson Davis lies on the street after protesters pulled it down in Richmond, Va., on Wednesday. Parker Michels-Boyce/AFP via Getty Images In 2020, things happen that never happened before. And right now they seem to be happening all at once. Atop a global pandemic and resulting recession, June has given us another dimension of head-spinning events. Following two weeks […]
Visitors stand in line during Project Unity’s “Together We Test” coronavirus testing at a Friendship-West Baptist Church campus in South Dallas, Texas on May 28, 2020. Cooper Neill for NPR hide caption toggle caption Cooper Neill for NPR Visitors stand in line during Project Unity’s “Together We Test” coronavirus testing at a Friendship-West Baptist Church campus in South Dallas, Texas on May 28, 2020. Cooper Neill for NPR Families stood in line wearing masks. White pop-up tents sheltered health care workers while they drew patients’ blood. It wasn’t the scene at a medical clinic, but the parking of a black church […]
US President Donald Trump’s campaign has issued a cease and desist letter to CNN and threatened to pursue further legal actions over a recent “anti-Trump poll” that it claims was part of an attempt to “misinform and mislead actual voters.” The cease and desist letter, issued by the campaign’s Senior Legal Adviser Jenna Ellis and Chief Operating Officer Michael Glassner, formally requested that CNN retract its “skewed [June 8] poll by publishing a full, fair and conspicuous retraction, apology and clarification to correct its misleading conclusions.” “The CNN poll out today is another skewed anti-Trump poll of only 25% Republican. It’s […]
Beating Of Reporter Raises Questions About Race And Media By Mike Elk, Payday Report. June 8, 2020 Beating Of Reporter Raises Questions About Race And Media2020-06-082020-06-08https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/cameraman-attack-e1591637739430.jpg200px200px Above photo: An unidentified black protestor attempts to stop an unidentified white protester from attacking KDKA cameraman Ian Smith. Pittsburgh Penguins surveillance cameraman. Late on Saturday afternoon, outside of the Pittsburgh Penguins’ hockey stadium, a crowd of left-leaning protesters brutally beat Ian Smith, a white KDKA TV cameraman, within fear of his life. Multiple activists, both black and white, asked Smith to stop filming people of color engaging in vandalizing of a police car. Drag Queen […]
Two nurses in the pediatric intensive care unit at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C., communicate via walkie-talkie, as one helps on floor with COVID-19 patients and her colleague stands by to assist. Eman Mohammed for NPR hide caption toggle caption Eman Mohammed for NPR Two nurses in the pediatric intensive care unit at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C., communicate via walkie-talkie, as one helps on floor with COVID-19 patients and her colleague stands by to assist. Eman Mohammed for NPR The first sign that something was wrong came with stomach pains. It was April 30, and 9-year-old Kyree McBride […]
National Guard Troops Refuse Trump’s Race War June 7, 2020 National Guard Troops Refuse Trump’s Race War2020-06-072020-06-07https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/national-guard.jpg200px200px Donate today to the National Guard and Military Objectors Defense Fund hosted by Courage to Resist Courage to Resist is currently assisting members of the National Guard who resisted Trump’s orders to violently attack people on the streets of Washington DC peacefully and lawfully protesting racial injustice. Now that Trump is threatening to use the 1807 Insurrection Act to send active-duty troops in cities across the US, it’s time for every member of the military to search their conscience. We want to make sure we’re there […]
Living proof that white supremacy is not only a myth, it is a sick joke No comment necessary, these patriots might as well be wiping their arses on the Stars n Stripes…. <sarcasm>All brought to you courtesy of a resurrected KKK created by the self same big business interests that the original Klan vowed to drive from the South. The irony would be lost on all of these shallow end of the genepool MAGA morons. The far-right have a phrase – ZOG, for Zionist Occupied Government. Again, the irony of that phrase being on the lips of the Trumptards is so […]
Sunday was the sixth night of disturbances in Minneapolis with rioting spreading to Philadelphia and Los Angeles and night-time curfews being imposed from Washington DC to Houston. Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin has been charged with third degree murder and manslaughter after he was caught on video kneeling on Mr Floyd’s neck for nine minutes after arresting him about a forged US$20 bill. “I don’t see any indication that there were any white supremest groups mixing in. This is an ANTIFA Organization. It seems that the first time we saw it in a major way was Occupy Wall Street. It’s the same mindset.” @kilmeade @foxandfriends TRUE! — Donald J. […]
The death of George Floyd, a black man in Minneapolis who was filmed while a police officer kneeled on his neck and who died shortly afterward, has led to mass protests throughout the city. Police responded to the protestors violently, using tear gas and rubber bullets, reports from the demonstration suggested. NEW: Minneapolis Mayor Frey […] Source link
The coronavirus crisis may have given one censorship-resistance project a small boost. There are several startups trying to decentralize the internet’s domain-name infrastructure, including Ethereum Name Service (ENS), Unstoppable Domains and UniLogin. So far the ENS token ecosystem has garnered 9,813 addresses and roughly 270,000 unique web names. Unstoppable Domains co-founder Brad Kam said his project has 220,000 registered domains since January 2019, with 8,000 live websites. Kam said Unstoppable domains generally sold to companies like MyCrypto and the Kyber Network for between $40 and $10,000 each, which even modest estimates indicate as income worth more than $8.8 million. This startup’s […]
Audi have confirmed that they have taken measures against German driver Daniel Abt after he used a ringer in a virtual race last weekend, in a scandal which has gripped the Formula E Championship. The team have suspended Abt for the remainder of the season after releasing an official statement confirming the move. However, RT Sport understands that his relationship with Audi has been severed entirely and the “suspension” is related to ending his contract due to a compliance failure. Also on rt.com Dan’s NOT the man: Formula E star Daniel Abt discovered CHEATING during esports race as PROFESSIONAL GAMER takes […]
The U.S. Department of Defense can’t afford to lose the global military blockchain race to Russia and China, warns a new white paper by Amazon Web Services, IBM, Deloitte and others. Organized by the Value Technology Foundation think tank and co-authored by a smattering of private sector tech companies, consultancies and blockchain firms, the briefing offers a sobering analysis of that race as it stands. “The two superpowers that pose the greatest threat to the U.S. are both heavily investing in both the research and development of blockchain technology,” the briefing said: China’s on the “economic warfare” offensive with its digital […]
The Race To Replace A Dying Neoliberalism By Walden Bello, Foreign Policy In Focus. May 20, 2020 The Race To Replace A Dying Neoliberalism2020-05-202020-05-20https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/doors-to-choose-from-shutterstock-e1589987674504.jpg200px200px Above: Doors to choose from Shutterstock. The world’s prevailing socio-political models aren’t going to survive this pandemic. What’s going to replace them? The morning will comeWhen the world is mine.Tomorrow belongs to me! From Cabaret In response to the cataclysm occasioned by the coronavirus, three lines of thinking are emerging. One is that the emergency necessitates extraordinary measures, but the basic structure of production and consumption is sound, and the problem lies only in determining the moment when things can […]
Crypto sleuthing firm Elliptic has expanded its scope to cover some 97% of digital assets by trading volume – the broadest range of any crime-fighting blockchain analytics service, the company said. Announced Wednesday, Elliptic Navigator adds 87 new crypto assets to the firm’s existing purview. That said, touting just the number of coins covered can be “fairly irrelevant,” said Elliptic co-founder Tom Robinson, because analytics shops could be including many ERC-20 tokens that nobody really uses. “More important is the proportion of all trading volume your supported assets cover,” said Robinson. “We now support just over 97% of all assets by […]
During an interview with Fox News’ Jeanine Pirro this weekend, Donald Trump’s son Eric suggested the COVID-19 shutdowns are a “cognizant strategy” meant to hurt his father’s re-election chances. “You watch, they’ll milk it every single day between now and November 3,” he said. “And guess what, after November 3, coronavirus will magically, all of a sudden, go away and disappear and everybody will be able to reopen.” “They think they are taking away Donald Trump’s greatest tool, which is being able to go into an arena and fill it with 50,000 people every single time,” he continued. “Joe Biden can’t […]
by Johnny Punish Today, I watched a super interesting fantastic fun video by Big Bang Theory Hollywood star Mayim Bialik where she takes the DNA test and discovers her origins (Mayim Bialik: My DNA Results REVEALED! Sponsored by 23andMe) In the video, she reveals she’s 99.7% Ashkenazi Jewish among some Irish, English, and broadly Europan ancestry. She correctly acknowledges that we can track our origins through mitochondrial DNA, which, in her case, reveals she’s actually, on the female side, from Souther Europe between 10,000 and 20,000 B.C. which questions the claim that 23andMe says she is 99.7% Jewish because the first […]