A comedic actor who rose to the country’s highest office in 2019, Volodymyr Zelensky was virtually unknown to the average American, except perhaps as a bit player in the Trump impeachment theater. But when Russia attacked Ukraine on February 24, 2022, Zelensky was suddenly transformed to an A-list celebrity in US media. American news consumers were bombarded with images of a man who appeared overcome by the tragic events, possibly in over his head, but ultimately sympathetic. It didn’t take long for that image to evolve into the khaki-clad, tireless hero governing over a scrappy little democracy and single-handedly staving off the barbarians of autocracy […]
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Above Photo: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) speaks during a rally in front of PhRMA’s Washington, D.C. office to protest high prescription drug prices on September 21, 2021. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images). Senator Bernie Sanders has announced that he is going to introduce his Medicare for All bill in the Senate—and hold a hearing. This is most welcome news. As Bernie campaigned for the presidency, he elevated national single payer health care, an improved Medicare for All, into the public spotlight and onto the nation’s agenda. His advocacy for Medicare for All informed millions and lifted spirits building hope that […]
Above Photo: Yemeni internally displaced children, who fled homes escaping conflict, bring water to their shelters at a displaced persons camp on the outskirts of Sana’a, on March 25, 2022 in Yemen. (Mohammed Hamoud / Getty Images). Congress Needs To Pass A War Powers Resolution To End U.S. Complicity In The Chaos And Suffering In Yemen. More than seven years after the first airstrikes were launched on Yemen by the U.S.-supported Saudi-UAE coalition, a two-month truce with Yemen’s Ansar Allah (also referred to as Houthis) was announced at the beginning of this month. This UN-mediated truce comes after weeks of negotiations in Oman and […]
Putin, Lenin, Imperialism And The (Real) History Of Ukraine By Gary Leupp, Counter Punch. March 6, 2022 Putin, Lenin, Imperialism And The (Real) History Of Ukraine2022-03-062022-03-06https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/220306.jpg200px200px The people of this country suffer, I’ve always thought, from a general ignorance of history. This is because with vast oceans for borders, and ever-friendly neighbors, and no experience of being invaded, living in a country that has always urged assimilation including the acceptance of “American exceptionalism,” schooled through an educational system that avoids teaching U.S. history with any degree of credibility so as not to upset anybody, they’ve never been encouraged to think critically […]
Above Photo: Brisbane Tool Library volunteer, Jorge, introducing the project to a visitor. Sabrina Chakori. How the Brisbane Tool Library provides an inspiring example of degrowth in action. Based on principles and practices of resource use reduction, sharing, conviviality, solidarity, and mutual aid, the Brisbane Tool Library can be considered a small-scale laboratory for a reorientation of society towards degrowth. Most of us are familiar with the social and environmental impacts of life under the Capitalocene (‘the age of capital’ — the historical era shaped by the endless accumulation of capital): inequality, commodification, imperialism, racism, and much more are already causing intragenerational suffering […]
Above photo: Operation Cyclone. For almost three months, the Western mainstream media, in a move not dissimilar to its previous assertions that Saddam Hussein had the capability to launch WMDs within 45 minutes, or that Iran was building a nuclear bomb, has repeatedly claimed that Russia is planning an ‘imminent’ invasion of its Western neighbour Ukraine – under the rule of the successive US-EU friendly governments of Petro Poroshenko and Volodymyr Zelensky since the 2014 Euromaidan, a CIA and MI6-orchestrated regime change operation launched in response to then-Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych’s November 2013 decision to suspend an EU trade deal in […]
Above Photo: Office of the President of the United States. (Public Domain). The U.S. aim is to keep them from trading with China and Russia. The Iron Curtain of the 1940s and ‘50s was ostensibly designed to isolate Russia from Western Europe – to keep out Communist ideology and military penetration. Today’s sanctions regime is aimed inward, to prevent America’s NATO and other Western allies from opening up more trade and investment with Russia and China. The aim is not so much to isolate Russia and China as to hold these allies firmly within America’s own economic orbit. Allies are to forego the […]
Above Photo: White supremacists march with tiki torchs through the University of Virginia campus on the night before the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, on August 11, 2017. (Zach D Roberts / NurPhoto Via Getty Images). When Republicans blocked the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act on January 19, 2022, they removed the last safety net preventing the U.S.’s plummet toward authoritarianism. As a result, we are at this moment in a state of free-fall, the culmination of a state-level Legislative And Enforcement Landscape that directly mirrors Jim Crow — or as fascism scholar Jason Stanley recently put it, “America is now in […]
Above Photo: “Hunter-gatherer” Art by Mr.Fish. Peter Richardson joins Robert Scheer to discuss his latest book, “Savage Journey,” on the legendary Gonzo journalist. Hunter S. Thompson, the co-founder of Gonzo journalism best known for his book “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,” is a legend in American letters. His reporting for Rolling Stone, in which he developed the subgenre of New Journalism that later became known as Gonzo because of his willingness to insert himself into the stories he was reporting, is studied in journalism schools across the country. Other significant works by Thompson include his early iconic piece “The Kentucky […]
Above Photo: A US weapons hub at a base in Poland. Each time the Pentagon holds a war-game in eastern Europe weapons are shipped from the US and stored afterward at this hub and a similar one in Norway virtually on the Russian border. When I was a union organizer with the United Farm Workers I twice served on a contract negotiating committee – as the note-taker. I learned that the very first clause negotiated in any union contract is the ‘Recognition’ by the company of the union’s right to bargain on behalf of the workers. This recent meeting between Russia […]
Above photo: Images Money / CC BY 2.0. The Fed has options for countering the record inflation the U.S. is facing that are far more productive and less risky than raising interest rates. The Federal Reserve is caught between a rock and a hard place. Inflation grew by 6.8% in November, the fastest in 40 years, a trend the Fed has now acknowledged is not “transitory.” The conventional theory is that inflation is due to too much money chasing too few goods, so the Fed is under heavy pressure to “tighten” or shrink the money supply. Its conventional tools for this purpose are to […]
An Interview With Noni Session Of East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative. East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative is based in the East Bay of California. They facilitate BIPOC and allied communities to cooperatively organize, finance, purchase, occupy, and steward properties, taking them permanently off the market. Residents, investors, community members, and EB PREC staff then co-own and co-steward the property. It creates a shift toward community controlled assets, and empowering their communities to be ecologically, emotionally, spiritually, culturally, and economically restorative and regenerative. Show Notes In this episode, I speak with executive director Noni Session about how EB PREC is […]
Above Photo: People attend a Veterans Day Rally at the Ped Mall on Monday, November 11, 2019. (Megan Nagorzanski). Some 30,000 post 9/11 service members and veterans have been desperate enough to take their own lives. A real day for veterans would provide mental and physical support services that would seek to reduce or eliminate these self-inflicted casualties. There are 40,000 homeless veterans in this country. A real day for veterans would address their physical and emotional needs and help them access permanent housing. One of every 10 post 9/11 veterans has been diagnosed with a substance abuse problem. A real day for veterans would help […]
Statement from Metropolitan Anarchist Coordinating Council (MACC) on the anarchist legacy of Occupy Wall Street on the movement’s 10th anniversary. Lenapehoking, Turtle Island (also known as New York City) – Since its demise in the Fall of 2012, various individuals, websites, social media accounts, and politicians have tried to claim the mantle of Occupy Wall Street. The associations are endless, from Bernie Sanders-aligned “socialists” to neoliberal Twitter accounts praising landlords for evicting people. Any journalist writing about the OWS movement should know its actual history, separated from the machinations of those who later tried to co-opt its message for themselves. OWS […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107753/17/1077531746_0:84:2574:1532_1200x675_80_0_0_0d837d82ed8bde8362164c6f63a4d15d.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/sport/202010181080804820-gareth-bale-only-real-madrid-player-to-refuse-pay-cut-during-season-suspension-media-reports/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Welsh football star Gareth Bale was the only Real Madrid player to refuse a salary cut due to the pandemic stoppage, media reported Saturday. According to Spanish national radio broadcaster Cadena SER, when competitions around the world were suspended earlier this year, Real Madrid was among the first clubs to propose a pay cut to players. The squad refused at first, but after players from Barcelona, Atletico Madrid and many other European clubs agreed the shrink their salaries, Real Madrid players agreed the pay cut, the radio station reported. Only Bale […]
Short video, factual, enjoyable to listen to and a clear explanation from a real expert. Problem is, this video is dated May 4, 2020. We knew it then, why are some like Trump or even Barrett, pretending they didn’t know? The body’s adaptive immune system is very powerful – but a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 will give stronger, more reliable protection, explains Andreas Radbruch, Scientific Director at Deutsches Rheuma-Forschungszentrum (DRFZ) Berlin. This video is a collaboration between the International Union of Immunological Societies (IUIS) and Frontiers. See more expert commentaries on the coronavirus outbreak: https://coronavirus.frontiersin.org/ For our text support, we turn to […]
President Trump leaves the White House for Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on the South Lawn of the White House on Friday. Saturday night, he said in a video that he was feeling better as he continues to receive treatment for the coronavirus. Drew Angerer/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Drew Angerer/Getty Images President Trump leaves the White House for Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on the South Lawn of the White House on Friday. Saturday night, he said in a video that he was feeling better as he continues to receive treatment for the coronavirus. Drew Angerer/Getty Images […]
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/202010031080658036-trump-tweets-video-saying-feels-better-next-few-days-will-be-real-test/ The president said that when he arrived at the Walter Reed Military Medical Center, after testing positive for COVID-19, he was not feeling so well, but now he feels “much better”. President Donald Trump tweeted a video on Saturday to thank medics for “the incredible job they have been doing” now that he feels “much better”. MORE DETAILS TO FOLLOW Source link
Daily Beast: The White House put the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention under immense pressure to produce more evidence that suited the Trump administration’s agenda to send kids and teachers back to school in person before the election despite the raging coronavirus pandemic, The New York Times reports. 📺 NEW VIDEO MeidasTouch and @BetteMidler and proud to present our very special version of ‘You’re Moving Out Today.’ Hasta la vista Chump! #MoveTrumpOut pic.twitter.com/sXV7xC5AtG — MeidasTouch.com (@MeidasTouch) September 28, 2020 Retweet if you think Trump writes off Lindsey Graham #ByeLindsey pic.twitter.com/twFVpwJWO0 — MeidasTouch.com (@MeidasTouch) September 29, 2020 One member of Vice President […]
The poisoning incidents in Salisbury, England in 2018 with an unusual organophosphate compound designated A-234 gave rise to wide coverage of the story that a novel class of nerve agents named “Novichoks” had been discovered in the Soviet Union in the 1980s and that development of these agents as weapons had continued in Russia in violation of bilateral agreements with the US signed in 1989 and 1990. This story, originating with the dissident Russian chemist Vil Mirzayanov, has been accepted by many scientists and officials involved with chemical arms control. Russian officials however have denied that any studies under the name […]
Does Brooklyn Nine-Nine qualify as “copaganda?” That’s a question that Joe Lo Truglio and the rest of the cast probably never imagined having to answer when they signed on seven years ago. As Lo Truglio tells me on this week’s episode of The Last Laugh podcast, the NBC comedy’s eighth season is currently scheduled to start production the day before the 2020 election. When the cast and crew finally return to the set after a longer than expected hiatus, it will be in a culture that thinks very differently about how police are portrayed on television. “I know the writers have […]
After taking the summer off and hosting the virtual Emmy Awards on Sunday, Jimmy Kimmel is back in his Hollywood theater this week. And the late-night host has a theory about why the Republican Party is so eager to replace Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg before the 2020 election. Kimmel began his monologue on Tuesday by recognizing National Voter Registration Day. “If you don’t register, you can’t vote,” he told viewers. “And if you don’t vote, you won’t get a sticker. And also, there’s a psychotic individual in the White House who could use some removing right now.” “It’s hard […]
In 2010, Forrest Fenn, an art and antiquities collector, published his memoir “The Thrill of the Chase”, in which he wrote about a chest containing a treasure that he hid somewhere north of Santa Fe, a city in New Mexico in the US. According to various estimates, since 2010, hundreds of thousands of people have attempted to find the stash. Treasure hunters and adventure-seekers still argue whether the chest containing the treasure of millionaire Forrest Fenn is real or whether the whole initiative is a hoax. Treasure hunter Reed Randall believes he found the location where the stash was supposed to […]
According to realtors, the median home price in California surpassed the $700,000 mark, going up 6.1 percent from July and 14.5 percent from August 2019. Real estate prices rose dramatically in August, a report published by the California Association of Realtors (CAR) said. The median price for an existing, single-family home increased 1.7 percent from July and 18.7 percent from August last year, reaching a record high of $1,068,000. Total sales in August went above the 400,000 level, rising 6.3 percent from July and were up 14.6 percent compared to the previous year. According to 2020 CAR President Jeanne Radsick, prices have been climbing recently, […]
Things got extremely awkward on Fox News panel show Outnumbered on Wednesday after former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich tied billionaire financier George Soros—often the focus of anti-Semitic tropes—to violence in cities, prompting the show’s co-hosts to directly confront him on why he was invoking the liberal philanthropist. Towards the end of a discussion on the property damage that’s been caused by violent protests over police brutality, Gingrich—who is now a Fox News contributor—insisted that the real issue was with local elected leaders. “The number one problem in almost all the cities is George Soros-elected, left-wing, anti-police, pro-criminal district attorneys […]
Video: Czech-born Ivana Trump, 71, tucks into lunch alongside her dog in NYC – hours after she was branded a ‘bigot’ for saying US immigrants ‘must come legally’ because some ‘don’t dress American’ and ‘rape the women’ 8/Trump supposedly sent ex-wife Ivana Trump to negotiate the blackmail video with Russiahttps://t.co/VWn7Tk8Xa5 — Neva (@NLong72) July 23, 2020 Many in #CIA believe #Russia targeted #Trump in 1977 via his first marriage to Czech-born Ivana Trump, Russia interfered in the #2016election to insure Trump was elected, Russia continues its information warfare to insure Trump’s #2020election success. https://t.co/DT0oTv0r7I — Robert Morton (@Robert4787) January 4, 2020 […]
Kenneth Nicholson Freed from the New York Fashion Week runway, designers like Kenneth Nicholson are reveling instead in forms like filmmaking. Grasp, an excellent short film he co-directed with Stefan Colson, introduces us to David (Dorion Wordlaw), who wakes up in his Los Angeles apartment after dreaming of himself as a small boy at church. That little Black boy spies a young white girl in a lemon-colored dress opposite him, and then imagines himself in the same pretty dress. As an adult, he takes a walk in sun-dappled streets, and then takes tea—and we see him encounter a range of people […]
Legendary journalist Bob Woodward expressed extreme concern on Tuesday night over his belief that President Donald Trump can’t tell the difference between reality and fiction, prompting CNN anchor Anderson Cooper to say that is “pretty terrifying.” Appearing for an hour-long interview on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 to discuss more eye-popping details from his new Trump blockbuster Rage, Woodward talked about one conversation he had with the president after he was done reporting for the book. Recalling that Trump called him roughly a month ago to see if he could get the peace deal between United Arab Emirates and Israel into the […]
How’s the first registered offering of security tokens in the U.S. going? See for yourself. In the two weeks since INX Ltd. commenced its long-awaited initial public offering (IPO), more than 350 investors’ Ethereum addresses have been added to the “white list” of approved buyers. You don’t need to take the company’s word for it, it’s all on the blockchain, viewable through block explorer sites like Etherscan. The public data doesn’t show who these registered investors are or how many of the tokens, priced at $0.90 each, any of them has agreed to buy. (INX is seeking to raise $117 million […]
Dan Forest stood on stage presiding in front of the crowd that had come to see Donald Trump in North Carolina Tuesday, a potential public health nightmare of not enough masks and too many people, and declared: “This looks like freedom.” But before he could even start rattling off all the things he’d do as governor to people who weren’t there to hear him speak, the state’s Republican lieutenant governor chose to indulge once again in a baseless, strange, and shocking idea about Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s future. “We all know that Sleepy Joe’s not gonna make it. Not very long […]
A Texas man has been charged with making terror threats after allegedly ‘Zoom-bombing’ a University of Houston lecture to threaten the school on behalf of the Islamic State terror group. He insists it was just a joke. Ibraheem Ahmed Al Bayati faces up to 15 years in prison after federal authorities charged him with making bomb threats against the University of Houston, the Justice Department revealed on Tuesday. He allegedly boasted of his Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) ties before ‘Zoom-bombing’ the class with threats of a real bombing. Also on rt.com Coronavirus-inspired terrorists are planning attacks, says DoJ report – […]
Vyvanse is going to win this for Joe. what a drug https://t.co/PoN0Shzctr — Dank Meme Themed 36th Birthday Party (@ByYourLogic) September 6, 2020 and on a sicker note, that other asshole: I’ve seen Trump sh*t his Depends on a soundstage, snort Adderall and let his 16 year-old daughter give him a lap dance and still this speech maybe the craziest thing I’ve seen. He will roll right over this election. He won’t leave WH without force. @realDonaldTrump — NoelCaslerComedy (@CaslerNoel) September 7, 2020 #TrumpPressConference = Adderall Pez dispenser time!!!pic.twitter.com/usngJOPIGp — DJ Paul V. (@DJPaulV) September 7, 2020 My guess is […]
What the fuck did we do to deserve this? Why is our so-called president so entirely batshit crazy? These are questions many, or maybe most Americans try to avoid these days. They shrug, pretend our mad king’s latest excesses and offenses are just an act, or that it will be over soon. They excuse the externalities bearing down on us as fate or bad timing, and Donald’s eccentricity and incompetence as just the icing on the political cake of America’s Annus Horribilis. (And no, Don Jr., that’s not a symptom of a bad booty bump.) To those Americans, I say: Don’t […]
MountX Real Estate Capital has licensed transfer agent Vertalo to design and launch tokens for at least 15 digital real estate projects in Mexico and Canada through 2020 and early 2021, the firms announced last week. According to a press statement, this is the third of four planned deals by Vertalo’s real estate division (VRE), launched this past June, that focuses on the tokenization of real estate assets. Vertalo is one of the few transfer agents – Securities and Exchange Commission-registered record keepers – in the crypto industry. Real estate tokenization once looked like an extremely popular blockchain use case that […]
We Gawk At Nonsense Political Theater While The Real Enemies Go Unnoticed By Lee Camp, Consortium News. August 27, 2020 We Gawk At Nonsense Political Theater While The Real Enemies Go Unnoticed2020-08-272020-08-27https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/woman-face-thoughts-media-head-question-mark-circle-tree-structure-e1598549191470.jpg200px200px Looking beyond the distractions, one can see what really matters, like detecting cancer. Donald Trump speeches. Celebrity tweets. Corporate news repetition. Chaos. Vapidity. Manufactured dissent. Graphic fighting sports. This is what fills our field of vision. It consumes our thoughts, overflows our brains with anti-intellectual mud. Yet most of these things are the bug splatter across the windshield. They are not the actual highway, the path forward, actually deserving […]
Floodwaters surround a newly constructed house for sale in Maine in 2018. Realtor.com added flood risk information to the more than 100 million listings on its site. Gregory Rec/Portland Press Herald via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Gregory Rec/Portland Press Herald via Getty Images Floodwaters surround a newly constructed house for sale in Maine in 2018. Realtor.com added flood risk information to the more than 100 million listings on its site. Gregory Rec/Portland Press Herald via Getty Images Millions of people rely on real estate websites when they’re hoping to buy or rent a home. Major sites such as Zillow, […]
What street violence? There is no stinking street violence! CNN and Don Lemon had a collective meltdown on Tuesday after Day 2 of the RNC 2020. Advertisement – story continues below Don Lemon and his guests last night ensured Americans that there is no violence in the cities today.Every thing is fine.That’s just fake news by the Trump campaign. Meanwhile, in the background the Kenosha riots are playing out in real time. TRENDING: Media Blackout: North Carolina Man Arrested For Shooting at Crowd of Trump Supporters, Which Included Children This is comedy gold. How batsh*t crazy is @cnn? This batsh*t crazy… […]
The liberal media on Tuesday led by the far left Drudge Report reported that the numbers for Sleepy Joe topped Day 1 of the Republican National Convention.The results were based on Nielsen ratings. According to Nielsen 17 million viewed Trump and the GOP on Day 1 of the RNC Convention.And 19.7 million tuned in to DNC Convention last week. But this is another trick of the liberal media — and it is disgusting! Millions of Americans tuned in to watch the historic RNC convention last night online. TRENDING: 2020 RNC Night 2 Live-Stream Video Starting at 8 PM ET — First […]
The Indian Institute of Technology Bombay held a convocation ceremony in a virtual environment by creating unique 3D avatars for more than 2,000 of its students due to gathering restrictions imposed amid the coronavirus pandemic. IIT Bombay, one of the top technical universities in India, sent off its virtual graduates on Sunday. The students’ avatars received their diplomas and medals after walking across a 3D environment designed to look like a stage. Princeton University’s Duncan Haldane, joint winner of the 2016 Nobel Prize, was an invited chief guest at the ceremony, and was also represented by a computer model. Judging by […]
…by Andre Vltchek, for VT COVID-19 is not just a disease; it is also a state of mind, a psychosis, a fear. It is an event that, all over the world, unleashed irrational behavior by the governments, individuals, and media. It triggered speculations, bizarre analyses, and selective ‘cut-and-paste science.’ Result: while there are, undeniably, few optimistic success stories, including the Russian vaccine, China’s and Vietnam’s ability to contain the pandemic without ruining economy and livelihood of the citizens, the great majority of the world is undoubtfully in disarray. Hundreds of millions of people are literally tossed into a gutter. Other billions, […]
Reforms Are Won When Social Movements Inflict Real Costs On The Economic Elite By Justin Vassallo, Truthout. August 24, 2020 Reforms Are Won When Social Movements Inflict Real Costs On The Economic Elite2020-08-242020-08-24https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/you-have-the-power-to-be-the-change-e1577647608266.jpg200px200px There’s a tendency in US progressive politics to focus on rehabilitating capitalism for working people. Elizabeth Warren’s campaign for president had the patina of an “anti-corruption” crusade, giving a populist spin to technocratic fixes that would update the embedded liberalism of the postwar era for the twenty-first century. Think tanks and public intellectuals likewise emphasize antitrust as a means to improve the welfare of consumers and workers while giving smaller […]
Much like Qanon, VT believes there are satanist plots. Our difference is that we know who they really are and have been right, year after year. Donald Trump’s sister is all of us. pic.twitter.com/5gALpe8KC1 — The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) August 23, 2020 Think Kushner or even that kid we can’t mention look like characters out of a favorite Gregory Peck film? Not an accident at all. Jared Kushner owns 666 5th Avenue. #JaredIsEvil — The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) August 24, 2020 Don Jr and Eric are merely stupid. Ivanka is as corrupt and as ruthless as her dad. But Jared? Jared […]
In the early 2010s, a famous white male writer, Colum McCann, cofounded a group calling for “radical empathy” and made a lot of money talking about this group on the speaker circuit. This was around the same time that many news outlets reported on a now-debunked scientific study that claimed literary fiction produces empathy—and the attendant opinion pieces making the case (for white audiences) that empathy was the cure for racism. Literary fiction, claimed Scientific American in 2013, “prompts the reader to imagine the characters’ introspective dialogues… undermining prejudices and stereotypes. They support and teach us values about social behavior, such […]
Winning is everything in Trump world, and the winner in the border wall fundraising scandal is a contractor who has ended up with more than $1.7 billion in federal contracts. Former Trump advisor Steve Bannon is said by prosecutors to have pocketed only a relatively modest $1 million. Brian Kolfage, who launched the “We Build the Wall” effort on GoFundMe allegedly got less than half that. Kolfage had pledged he would “not take a penny” and Bannon had declared himself “a volunteer.” Both now face fraud and money laundering charges that could result in serious time. Source link
Beware scammers. Legitimate contact tracers will never ask you for any sort of payment or seek other financial information or your Social Security number. Karl Tapales/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Karl Tapales/Getty Images Beware scammers. Legitimate contact tracers will never ask you for any sort of payment or seek other financial information or your Social Security number. Karl Tapales/Getty Images State officials and federal agencies warn there’s a new phone scam circulating: Some callers posing as COVID-19 contact tracers are trying to pry credit card or bank account information from unsuspecting victims. The grifters apparently are taking advantage of a […]
The S&P 500 has recovered to hit new all-time highs but how real is it, and how are leading finance minds interpreting the recovery? Today, NLW debuts a new format: “10 Takes in 10(ish) Minutes.” In this analysis, he looks at 10 takes surrounding the S&P 500’s return to positive territory on the year, including: Source link
Last week, Bill Maher closed his HBO show Real Time with a mock-eulogy for President Trump, joking that he taught his children “the wrong lessons of life,” including to “see the worst in people, and treat them all equally based strictly on how much money they make and what they look like.” He closed the speech with, “He died as he lived: wearing makeup and lying in front of all of us. So fly free, whiny little bitch. Fly free. May you find the peace your Twitter thumbs never could.” Trump, who once sued Maher for $5 million (and lost) for […]
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is soon expected to announce his running mate, with many now speculating that his choice so far has come down to two main candidates: California Senator Kamala Harris and Obama’s former national security advisor Susan Rice. Senator Kamala Harris should “politely decline” a vice president post if she gets such an offer from Joe Biden, former San Francisco mayor and ex-speaker of the California State Assembly Willie Brown said in his weekly column. Writing for the San Francisco Chronicle, Brown, who has previously admitted that he had dated Harris “more than 20 years ago”, argued […]
On Sunday night, a dozen Bravo stars from The Real Housewives, Married to Medicine, and Top Chef franchises gathered for a kind of programming different from what the network’s reality-TV obsessed fans are used to: a roundtable discussion on race and equality titled Race in America: A Movement Not a Moment. Outside of last year’s first-ever BravoCon convention, the historic gathering at the 2019 New York City Pride March, and Andy Cohen’s baby shower, it ranks among the largest assemblies yet of Bravo talent, taking place two and a half months after the police killing of George Floyd sparked a revolutionary […]
Real Madrid will be up against it when they face Manchester City in their Champions League last-16 second leg on Friday, and Zinedine Zidane’s team will likely need a fully-firing Eden Hazard to stand any chance of progressing. Though Zidane managed to win La Liga, taking advantage of Barcelona’s abundance of woes, there still seems to be somewhat of an uncertain feeling at the Bernabeu. There are fans who are convinced Real’s success was more as a result of Barcelona’s failures. Lionel Messi has been vocal about the fact his side aren’t performing to their usual standards. Real capitalized on that […]
The Islamic Republic has of late seen the number of COVID-19 infections skyrocket again, firmly securely first place on the list of the worst-hit nations in the Middle East. A BBC Persian service investigation, based on the government’s cited records, has found that coronavirus fatalities in Iran are almost triple what Tehran says. The latter indicate that almost 42,000 people have died, as compared with the 14,405 reported by the country’s health authorities. Per the findings, the overall number of people diagnosed with the virus is likewise almost double the official figures: 451,024 to 278,827. What the statistics demonstrate is that even […]
The editor of the Morning Navigator newsletter discusses a variety of macro topics and how to trade against a very strange market. Today on the Brief: The DXY hits a 52-week low Consumers seeking alternatives to cash Bank of England rebuilds settlement system to work with CBDCs Our main conversation is with trader and analyst Tony Greer. In this conversation, he and NLW discuss: The Federal Reserve’s role in increasing inequality How the Robinhood crowd differs from the 1999 bubble Why high-frequency traders might be the real villains when it comes to the retail bubble Why gold is surging even though […]
Guest post by Joseph Dugal The liberal media would like to portray President Clinton’s and citizen Trump’s relationships with Jeffrey Epstein as similar in nature. Nothing could be further from the truth. The real Trump-Epstein relationship is purely adversarial – Donald Trump has been fighting Jeffrey Epstein since before, during, and after the time George Bush was lenient with him and Barack Obama did nothing to him. TRENDING: Ghislaine Maxwell Documents Unsealed: Allegations Against Prince Andrew, Bill Clinton, Others — FBI Knew Had Evidence of the Crimes for Years Even the media organizations quoted here – who have no love for […]
Bill Gates says, “We don’t know if these vaccines [under development] will work. We don’t know if they’ll avoid death, or if they’ll work to avoid transmission,” in a very concise three minute interview on Covid topics, worth the listen. Source link
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/07/17/1079964385_0:22:1200:697_1200x675_80_0_0_54cb6904901ed710511ca9e1b6e0420a.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/videoclub/202007241079966134/ The higher you climb, the harder you fall, they say. This adorable pooch’s goal was rather modest – it simply tried to get on a bench. Yet even this task was beyond his capacity – after all, he is not to blame that his paws are still short and his leash is too tight. An amusing golden retriever named Leonard was filmed trying to climb onto a bench. But no matter how hard he tried to get up there, he just couldn’t. Eventually, he achieved his aim – alas, for just a moment, as […]
Who would want to live in the city of Seattle? The city has been the scene of riots for weeks, at one point culminating in the now famous ‘CHOP’ zone where people were actually killed. As you might expect, people who are able to do so are selling their homes and leaving the city. KOMO News reports: TRENDING: UPDATE: Navy Is Investigating Uniformed Sailor Sarah Dudrey for Busting into Pro-Trump Rally, Harassing Protesters while Screaming “F**k Trump!” Report: More Seattle-area residents selling their homes, leaving the area More and more people are seeking to sell their homes and move out of […]
25 million Iranians have ALREADY caught Covid-19 & figure may go way higher …from Russia Today, Moscow [ Editor’s Note: This was a shocker, with his telling us that the official virus count is vastly below the number of those who have had it. So why is he telling is not, he does not say. I have been watching the reported infections sticking to a 2500 range daily number with the dead in the 200s oer day for some time, despite all their efforts. But now we see him claiming what can only be called the real numbers, hidden up til […]
By Sajjad Shaukat for Veterans Today The term of terrorism has been so confused that there is no exact definition of terrorism. The problem is confined to political terrorism which occurs when a group, whether holding governmental office or outside government, resolves to pursue a set of ideological objectives by methods which not only subvert or ignore the requirements of domestic and international law, but also rely for their success primarily upon the use of violence or illegal practices. This definition permits regimes as well as opposition groups to be described as terrorists. However, the term terrorism can be […]
VT: Please note that although this video, and it is of exceptional importance, seems well supported, much is conjecture and based on anecdotal ‘mosaics’ which it overconnects. That said, the information on the British royals is vital and much of the Israel/Mossad material is well documented. 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 clear comprehension of […]
Gareth Bale has been accused of showing contempt for Real Madrid in recent weeks, but the scrutiny he receives is often wide of the mark. The public reaction could have been even worse had he acted as if he were a key player. While his teammates were bouncing around and launching Zinedine Zidane skywards at the Alfredo Di Stefano Stadium on Thursday night, Gareth Bale was treading a fine line whether he wanted to or not. As hard as it might be to imagine the affable multi-millionaire unduly worrying about his conduct in the aftermath of winning the 13th trophy of his […]
Mother Jones: We are in a moment of reckoning over racism, not only taking down Confederate statues to eradicate these lingering odes to white supremacy but also examining how deeply our society has been shaped by slavery and its aftermath. Last year, the New York Times’ 1619 Project traced the influence of slavery on everything from American capitalism to the American diet. Today, individuals, brands, and lawmakers are taking stock. In this reappraisal, the Electoral College is likewise due for a second look. In the last five elections, the Electoral College has handed the presidency to two Republicans who lost the popular vote: George […]
Days after the $15-million-a-year star was criticized for playfully taking a nap in the stands while his side played, Gareth Bale cut an isolated figure in Real Madrid’s celebrations as they secured their 34th Liga title. Bale celebrated his 31st birthday as an unused substitute during Real Madrid’s 2-1 win at home to Villarreal that secured the trophy with a match of the season to spare, only joining his teammates on the pitch in the aftermath of their decisive victory at the modest Alfredo Di Stefano training ground. READ MORE: Real Madrid WIN La Liga for first time in three seasons with […]
Lionel Messi showed his frustration as Barcelona fell to a 2-1 defeat against Osasuna in their final home match of the season, echoed by experts and fans as the Spanish giants surrendered the Liga title to arch rivals Real Madrid. Messi offered little more than a disconsolate hand swipe into the Camp Nou air after scoring a free-kick that would have been considered spectacular by most other players, drawing Barcelona level with midtable Osasuna in the 62nd minute of a 2-1 defeat that handed the trophy to Madrid. Zinedine Zidane’s side were far more comfortable as they went 2-0 up at […]
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https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/07/10/1079901932_0:0:3102:1744_1200x675_80_0_0_7cc3b3b4ebc189c6caf72dd7ac3aad20.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/sport/202007161079901861-view-from-outside-real-madrids-valdebebas-complex-ahead-of-la-liga-title-match-vs-villarreal-/ The club and government authorities have called on residents not to gather at the Cibeles fountain in central Madrid should the team win the title, amid coronavirus fears. Watch a live broadcast from outside Real Madrid’s Valdebebas training complex in Madrid on Thursday, just hours before the team’s decisive La Liga title match vs Villarreal at the Alfredo di Stefano stadium. Real Madrid, coached by Zinedine Zidane, secured their ninth straight win following the coronavirus pandemic break against Granada on Monday, which kept the team four points ahead of second-place rivals Barcelona, with only two rounds […]
Porn star Kendra Lust appears to still be interested in rumored former flame James Rodriguez after sending the Real Madrid star a personal message on his birthday – and astonished fans reacted with a deluge of jokes and memes. Married American actress Lust, who has starred in hundreds of adult films, was originally linked to Rodriguez when eagle-eyed fans on social media spotted that the pair had followed each other in 2018. The former webcam model and stripper then tagged Rodriguez in a video of her twerking in a gym, although the relationship between the pair appeared to have gone quiet […]
As Elon Musk settles into being richer than Warren Buffett, NLW looks at what is driving the Tesla ($TSLA) stock rally. Elon Musk is now richer than Warren Buffett. A year ago, Tesla wasn’t as valuable as Ford or GM. Now it’s more than 25% of the value of the auto market as a whole. In this episode, NLW looks at a set of possible explanations: In the end, NLW argues that in a world where 1) the new retail base is willing to engage in narrative and meme warfare and 2) where the Federal Reserve distorts prices, the narrative market […]
Gareth Bale’s Real Madrid priorities have been called further into question as the Welsh winger was filmed jokingly using his face mask to take a nap in the stands as his team took on Alaves. Bale was an unused substitute as Real recorded a 2-0 win at the Estadio Alfredo Di Stéfano thanks to goals in each half from Karim Benzema and Marco Asensio, restoring their four-point lead over Barcelona in the La Liga standings and leaving Zinedine Zidane’s team just two wins from clinching the title. For Bale, however, it was a languid evening in the late Madrid sunshine as […]
A leading economist shares why crisis-time central bank policies are saving zombie companies while hurting small businesses and startups. Our main discussion is with Daniel Lacalle. Daniel is chief economist at Tressis and is the author of numerous books including “Life in the Financial Markets,” “Escape from the Central Bank Trap” and his most recent, “Freedom or Equality.” He has been named one of the 100 most influential economists in the world by Richtopia. In this conversation, he and NLW discuss: Disclosure The leader in blockchain news, CoinDesk is a media outlet that strives for the highest journalistic standards and abides […]
The story of the economy as told by five macroeconomic indicators including Chinese stocks, New York City real estate, coronavirus cases and more. In this extended Brief, NLW tells the story of the economy through five themes: Disclosure The leader in blockchain news, CoinDesk is a media outlet that strives for the highest journalistic standards and abides by a strict set of editorial policies. CoinDesk is an independent operating subsidiary of Digital Currency Group, which invests in cryptocurrencies and blockchain startups. Source link
‘In a speech last October, Mr Zuckerberg had controversially signalled that Facebook’s interests aligned with Donald Trump’s.’ Photograph: Erin Scott/Reuters Guardian: In every political debate since Facebook began to dominate democracy, the company has placed itself on the wrong side of history. The social media firm cannot be reformed from within because its business model profits from hosting bomb-throwing circuses of hate, humbug and hogwash. The platform harvests users’ personal data to algorithmically recommend content but can’t seem to help steering people towards vilifying one another while keeping their attention. It is not good for society, but it is good for Facebook. That apparently is fine […]
Pantera’s Dan Morehead and 10T Holdings’ Dan Tapiero can’t agree on our economic future. Even so, they think it bodes well for bitcoin Source link
On May 29, 1953, Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first two people to summit Mount Everest, the highest peak in the world. But… what if they weren’t? It’s not just a historical hypothetical, but one of climbing lore’s greatest mysteries. Now, it’s a search-and-rescue mission, too, and the subject of the new National Geographic special, Lost on Everest, premiering Tuesday. In June of 1924, explorers Andrew “Sandy” Irvine and George Leigh Mallory disappeared during an attempt to be the first pair to summit Everest. They were last spotted 800 vertical feet from the top, before never […]
Speaker Nancy Pelosi called for a nationwide mask mandate on Sunday morning. Pelosi went on to say the only reason there is NOT a nationwide mandate is to “not offend” President Trump. Advertisement – story continues below Pelosi added that “real men wear masks.”Isn’t that an offensive stereotype against trans members of society and sapiosexuals? This horrible woman is insane. TRENDING: Black Lives Matter Mob Marches Through Beverly Hills Neighborhood Chanting ‘Eat the Rich’ (VIDEO) JUST IN: @GStephanopoulos: “Is it time to mandate the wearing of masks across the country?” “Definitely long overdue for that,” Speaker Nancy Pelosi says, adding that […]
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. ‘Netflix and Chill’ Is Now Actually Porn When you click on the film Love on Netflix, where it has spent the last week in the Top 10 of the service’s most-watched movies and shows, the very first thing you see is a woman dragging her nipple up and down a man’s erect penis as she masturbates him and he fingers her clitoris, which is pointed directly […]
Newser: You might call them dueling dashboards. A Florida data scientist who got fired for insubordination has set up a dashboard tallying the state’s coronavirus numbers—which eclipse the official count, the Washington Post reports. “I wanted to build an application that delivered data and helped people get tested and helped them get resources that they need from their community,” says Rebekah Jones. “And that’s what I ended up building with this new dashboard.” Fired in mid-May, Jones claims her old supervisors at the Florida Dept. of Health pressured her to alter numbers in the public-facing portal. She says the official tally underestimates the infection total […]
After Tulsa, it was a straight shot to Yuma. Sure, that sounds like the opening line of a geographically incoherent high lonesome song, but it’s really the arc of Donald Trump’s shattered ego on his failed road trip to recapture the old magic of his crowds. Today’s trip to Yuma should have been the salve he needed, but even an afternoon visit with a crowd of Trumpjugend Turning Pointers sporting red hats, cargo shorts and Charlie Kirk tramp stamps couldn’t offset weeks of utter personal and political humiliation. With more than 125,000 Americans dead on his watch, Trump two rallies in […]
VT: The real story of betrayal and how fake history, invented for the West by globalist elites from the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations. The result has been an America and Britain with generations raised in ignorance, leading to the global catastrophe we see today. Only when we understand how the precursor of Trump’s Kosher Nostra friends started World War II will we recognize how we are walking the same path, led by fake historians and the ignorant. Everything Putin writes is there for Western historians to see, were they allowed to tell that story without persecution, which they aren’t. Simply put, […]
Seventy-five years have passed since the end of the Great Patriotic War. Several generations have grown up over the years. The political map of the planet has changed. The Soviet Union that claimed an epic, crushing victory over Nazism and saved the entire world is gone. Besides, the events of that war have long become a distant memory, even for its participants. So why does Russia celebrate the 9th of May as the biggest holiday? Why does life almost come to a halt on June 22? And why does one feel a lump rise in their throat? They usually say that the war has left a deep […]
Persistent unemployment and fears of further layoffs are the real economic counterpoint to the financial market’s unbridled enthusiasm. This week’s U.S. jobless report brought bad news. Whereas economists had expected new claims to fall to 1.29 million from 1.57 million the week before, claims fell just 58,000 to 1.51 million. Continuing claims fared even worse. Economists predicted these claims would fall 600,000+ to 19.9 million. Instead, they fell a tenth of that – 62,000 – to leave total continuing claims at 20.5 million. In this episode, NLW breaks down what we can learn from these numbers when they’re combined with the […]
A shorter work week would not only make for a better work/life balance it would also increase overall productivity and the ability of citizens to more meaningfully participate in democracy, says economics professor Richard D. Wolff. World leaders, labour representatives and even some high profile business figures, such as Google co-founder Larry Page and Virgin’s Richard Branson, have been calling for the adoption of a shorter work week. Richard D. Wolff, Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst agrees that, if done correctly, a shorter work week is both realistic and desirable. Professor Wolff, whose weekly show, Economic Update, is syndicated […]
Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/asia/202006171079636010-north-korea-will-pay-if-it-takes-real-military-action—south-korean-military/ The statement comes after the People’s Democratic Republic of Korea (DPRK) destroyed an Inter-Korean Liaison office, unexpectedly raising tensions between North and South Korea. South Korean military warned that if People’s Democratic Republic of Korea (DPRK) takes real military action against South Korea, “it will pay the price”. DETAILS TO FOLLOW Source link
Currently just a flashy idea, the digital dollar is competing with more prosaic but proven 20th-century methods for the job of getting stimulus funds to every U.S. resident. That’s the takeaway from Thursday’s House Financial Services Committee (FSC) hearing, where witnesses advocated different solutions to the problem. Making the case for an electronic greenback was J. Christopher Giancarlo, former chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), now a director with the Digital Dollar Project. As he has in the past, he argued tokenization is a way to future-proof the dollar. Other countries, including China, are working to digitize their currencies, […]
American actress Kristen Bell’s debut into the world of children’s literature has gotten off to a rocky start, with her story about a “purple person” widely condemned for trivializing racism – despite having nothing to do with it. Bell says her first children’s story – ‘The World Needs More Purple People’ – is meant to encourage kids to “look for similarities before differences” and to be inquisitive and open minded toward different viewpoints. Taking ‘purple’ to be a thinly veiled reference to skin color, however, netizens soon came out in force to denounce the story for brushing racism under the rug, […]
A self-styled “warlord” of the Seattle Autonomous Zone (and local rapper) is quickly learning that policing is a tough job, struggling to maintain safety and order amid the newly minted commune’s post-revolutionary hangover. Raz Simone, self-appointed “warlord” of the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ), attempted to clear up some misunderstandings about the protest community, explaining to the Post Millennial on Thursday that his only goal for the moment was “to keep the peace and unity, honestly, that’s it.” Sort of like a police officer. “A few different organizations have different demands, and no one speaks for everyone, but everyone’s trying to […]
Agents Provocateurs Are Still A Real Threat To Our Movements By Jacqueline Luqman, The Real News. June 9, 2020 Agents Provocateurs Are Still A Real Threat To Our Movements2020-06-092020-06-09https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/store-window-being-broken-image-by-rex-from-shutterstock-e1591668579197.jpg200px200px Above photo: Store window being broken, Image by REX from SHUTTERSTOCK. ‘Outside agitators’ aren’t the cause of last week’s protests, but they are one of the forces that threaten to derail movements. Earlier this week, Saint Paul, Minnesota mayor Melvin Carter had to walk back his earlier claims that, quote, every single person who was arrested Friday night from protests over the killing of George Floyd was from out of state. The state’s governor, […]
Sport 16:58 GMT 08.06.2020Get short URL With football leagues throughout Europe set to resume amid the ongoing Coronavirus Pandemic, fans of the sport have expressed concerns about the lack of atmosphere that could be felt during matches played behind closed doors. European professional football leagues unanimously suspended their seasons in March after the Coronavirus Pandemic became too large a health and safety risk to ignore, but now after much consultation, top leagues such as England, Spain and Italy are making preparations to get back underway. During recent clashes in the German Bundesliga, the only league in the continent that has successfully […]
Editor’s note: There is no escaping this, these are Trump’s own words during a softball interview where he has a total breakdown. A child lying about strangling his little sister would be more believable. How to bunker pic.twitter.com/cu7StjllD0 — Sarah Cooper (@sarahcpr) June 6, 2020 and this one where Trump is even worse… 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 […]
Bolivia Under Dictatorship: US The Real Power By Stella Calloni, Internationalist 360. June 7, 2020 Bolivia Under Dictatorship: US The Real Power2020-06-072020-06-07https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/evo-morales.jpg200px200px Above photo: Evo Morales. An interview with Evo Morales. A little more than six months after the coup d’état (10-11 November 2019) against President Evo Morales in Bolivia, now exiled in Argentina, he warned of the serious situation his country is facing under a de facto government headed by the self-proclaimed President Jeanine Añez, who in addition to repression involving massacres against the population and persecution and imprisonment of political leaders and militants, is systematically destroying the social and […]
Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo (right) kneels as the hearse of George Floyd arrives to North Central University ahead of funeral service on Thursday. Protests in the wake of Floyd’s death while in police custody has erupted across the country. The Washington Post/The Washington Post via Getty Im hide caption toggle caption The Washington Post/The Washington Post via Getty Im Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo (right) kneels as the hearse of George Floyd arrives to North Central University ahead of funeral service on Thursday. Protests in the wake of Floyd’s death while in police custody has erupted across the country. The […]
A professor at the University of Central Florida faces calls for his removal after claiming in a Twitter rant that “black privilege is real” and insisting that the answer to systematic oppression is to “stay in school” amid nationwide protests over the death of George Floyd. Charles Negy, an associate professor in the Psychology Department, has fired off over 30 contentious tweets about race, inequality, and oppression since May 25—the day Floyd was filmed repeatedly saying he couldn’t breathe while an officer pressed his knee on his neck for several minutes. The controversial tweets, which were sent while thousands of people […]
Search for “LAPD scanner” on Twitter right now and you’ll see it—a video showing radio traffic in which two vile racists laugh and joke about killing protesters. “We gotta start shooting to kill, man. Mr Trump said so, shoot to kill,” one voice says. “Come one, come all. $100 a head. Every [n-word] you kill, $100. $50 for a Mexican,” the other responds. On Tiktok, Facebook, and Twitter, the video has racked up over a million views as users have taken the audio and added videos of their reaction to the recording. One problem: it’s not true. While the audio is […]
Recent photo (video frame), things to note (unretouched other than light, this photo was never meant to be seen): Donald must have been visiting Michigan floods, check the length of his pants. First lady, oh where do we start. Looks like she bought a ticket to the “Jowly and Gutville” antique rail road Weight estimated at 175 Thunder thighs With child? Bad hair day beyond measure If this is her, then who is the other her? 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. […]
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer is famous for her tyrannical rule, her blind ambition, her audacious behavior and her ignorance. In March crazed Democrat Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer prohibited big box retailers from in-person sale of seeds because according to her, plant seeds were non-essential. Whitmer also called on Home Depot and Lowes to close off certain sections like flooring, garden centers and plant nurseries. The tyrannical governor of Michigan also barred grocery stores and brick-and-mortar retailers from selling vegetable seeds because she could. TRENDING: Video of Biden Looking Very Frail at Veterans Memorial Sparks Concerns Over His Health .@GovWhitmer has banned […]
In a new podcast interview, breakout new Real Housewives of New York City cast member Leah McSweeney, who is enjoying one of the most celebrated debut seasons in the franchise’s history, defended controversial statements she has made criticizing key members of the #MeToo movement. Quotes from columns McSweeney had penned for Penthouse magazine accusing Asia Argento and Rose McGowan of exploiting the movement for personal gain—as well as a YouTube interview in which she defended Donald Trump—recirculated among Bravo fans when McSweeney joined the show, and were recounted in a Daily Beast article that published last month. “I’m not even sure […]
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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 numbers were much less than that. The UK study is now confirmed as a complete fraud. In mid-April New York state added 3,700 deaths to their numbers to include presumed but not confirmed cases. The […]