Above Photo: Giammarco Boscaro / Unsplash. Many politicians, academics, media pundits are wont of invoking the “rule of law”, a “rules-based international order”, “values diplomacy” etc. But what do all these benevolent-sounding slogans actually mean in practice? Who makes the rules, who interprets them, who enforces them? What transparency and accountability accompany these noble pledges? In a very real sense, we already have a “rules based international order” in the form of the UN Charter and its “supremacy clause”, article 103 of which grants it priority over all other treaties and agreements. The norms established in the Charter are rational, but […]
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WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – US President Donald Trump will take part in the upcoming third round of presidential debates despite the fact that the Commission on Presidential Debates has decided to change the rules allowing for the muting of microphones, Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien said. Stepien said in a Monday statement that the president “is committed to debating Joe Biden regardless of last minute rule changes.” Stepien said the debates commission was “biased” and was trying to “provide advantage to their favored candidate.” Earlier on Monday, the commission issued a statement saying that Trump and his Democratic rival Joe Biden will […]
A federal judge has tossed out a controversial USDA rule that would have limited food stamps, noting that during the pandemic, “SNAP rosters have grown by over 17 percent with over 6 million new enrollees.” Here, a sign alerts customers about SNAP food stamp benefits at a Brooklyn store in New York City. Scott Heins/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Scott Heins/Getty Images A federal judge has tossed out a controversial USDA rule that would have limited food stamps, noting that during the pandemic, “SNAP rosters have grown by over 17 percent with over 6 million new enrollees.” Here, a sign […]
8 Oct, 2020 20:18 Follow RT on US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is setting the stage for yet another attempt to remove President Donald Trump from office, preparing a bill to create a commission that could rule on whether he’s too sick to continue as president. Follow RT on Source link
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107829/68/1078296826_0:0:980:607_1200x675_80_0_0_0d00d51ad85032b2aafbd522c1197783.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/uk/202010011080628685-jeremy-corbyn-and-his-wife-may-get-250-fine-each-for-breaking-rule-of-six—photo/ Coronavirus restrictions previously led to mass protests across the UK, with at least 10,000 people rallying in London’s Trafalgar Square a month ago, for which Piers Corbyn – an older brother of the ex-opposition leader – was fined 10,000 pounds (around $13,000). Ex-Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn faces a 200-pound fine (over $250) for breaking the “rule of six” by visiting a dinner party at a friend’s house. A photo from the party shows Corbyn and his wife Laura Alvarez sitting at the table, as at least nine people are present at the event. This […]
Last week, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that the country had reached a “perilous turning point” in the fight against COVID-19 as he announced a new set of restrictions in England. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s recent confusion over the new coronavirus restrictions added fuel to the fire of a Tory revolt, The Telegraph reports. The newspaper cited an unnamed Conservative lawmaker in northeast England as saying that “what happened with Boris [Johnson] only strengthened the argument for greater Parliamentary scrutiny of new rules”. “He can’t work out what the rules are because there is no logic to them. It’s […]
“I also was quite surprised,” Joe Lo Truglio admits when I ask how in the world he ended up getting cast as former Attorney General Jeff Sessions in Showtime’s The Comey Rule. For one, the Brooklyn Nine-Nine star is almost entirely known for comedy and the new two-part series—based in part on former FBI Director James Comey’s book A Higher Loyalty—is deadly serious. On top of that, Lo Truglio is about a quarter-century younger than the septuagenarian Alabama politician. “You know, it’s not like I’m super good looking, but I’m also not 70 years old,” the actor jokes on this week’s […]
Last week, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that a ban on social gatherings of more than six people will be re-imposed in England as of 14 September, after more than 3,000 confirmed coronavirus cases had been recorded there for the third day in a row. UK Policing Minister Kit Malthouse has called on Brits to report their neighbours to the police if they see them violating the government’s new “rule of six” COVID-19 restriction. “During lockdown we did see a surge in reports coming through to police. If people are concerned, if they do think there’s been a contravention, then […]
An Ethereum smart contract feature that offers rebates for fees has developers scratching their heads, wondering if they should toss the old code in light of an exponential rise in transaction costs. Called gas tokens, these smart contract loopholes are a way to send transactions on the cheap by “tokenzing” gas, the fees paid for running computations on-chain. The feature allows an Ethereum user to buy up transaction fees when they are low, store them and then spend them when the fee price inevitably rises again. While the matter is still under discussion, some developers worry tokenized gas could one day […]
Earlier it was reported that British patriotic songs such as “Land of Hope and Glory” and “Rule Britannia” could be dropped from the setlist of the Last Night of the Proms amid Black Lives Matter protests and anti-colonial sentiment. The scandal over whether such popular patriotic songs as Rule Britannia and Land of Hope and Glory should be scrapped from the setlist of Last Night of the Proms in three weeks’ time spiraled further, as the centuries-old anthems were pronounced ‘racist propaganda’ in a debate on ITV’s Good Morning Britain on Monday. The BBC is reportedly considering dropping the songs, which […]
U.S. District Court Judge Frederic Block Stops Administration From Enforcing Regulation Monday’s preliminary injunction from U.S. District Court Judge Frederic Block in Brooklyn bars the administration from enforcing the regulation until the case can be heard in court and decided. https://t.co/sAWU7jLBM5 — WTVG 13abc (@13abc) August 18, 2020 Health Editor’s Note: Trumps administration’s regulation that would roll back health care protections for transgender people has been blocked by a federal judge. This regulation, from the federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) was to have gone into effect today. The Supreme Court had ruled in June that sex discrimination against […]
The Lyons Press Lyons Press is proud to announce the September 2020 release of The Hidden Hindenburg: The Untold Story of the Tragedy, the Nazi Secrets, and the Quest to Rule the Skies, by Michael McCarthy. ISBN: 978-1-4930-537—4, 328 pages. By the author of Ashes Under Water (Lyons Press), here is one of the great untold stories of World War II. The Hidden Hindenburg at last reveals the cause of aviation’s most famous disaster and the duplicity that kept the truth from coming to light for three generations. It also finally catches up with a German legend who misled the world about the Hindenburg to bury his own […]
Politicians who attended the funeral for congressman John Lewis in Georgia won’t have to worry about Washington’s new quarantine rules as they return to the city because they’re deemed too essential to lock down. A Who’s Who of Democrat politicians attended Thursday’s funeral in Atlanta, despite a state ban on gatherings of more than 50 people. Fifty members of Congress attended, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senator Kamala Harris, a leading candidate to be Joe Biden’s vice presidential running mate. Georgia is among 27 states that Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser deemed coronavirus hotspots and therefore subject to her July 24 […]
States Sue Over Rule Limiting Them From Blocking Pipeline Projects By Rebecca Beitsch, The Hill. July 24, 2020 States Sue Over Rule Limiting Them From Blocking Pipeline Projects2020-07-242020-07-24https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/pipeline.png200px200px Above photo: Tom Anderson. A coalition of 20 states is suing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over a rule that weakens states’ ability to block pipelines and other controversial projects that cross their waterways. The Clean Water Act previously allowed states to halt projects that risk hurting their water quality, but that power was scaled back by the EPA, a move Administrator Andrew Wheeler said would “curb abuses of the Clean Water Act that have held our […]
Crypto companies enthusiastically building solutions to bring the industry in line with anti-money laundering (AML) benchmarks may be creating their own interoperability problem. There are a number of promising and popular solutions coming to the fore, but If a virtual asset service provider (VASP) using one solution is unable to talk to a counterparty using another, the Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF) requirement to leave an identifiable trail when transferring funds becomes pointless. To remedy this “Travel Rule” conundrum, Netki is adding a system of “translators” to its TransactID protocol that the company says creates “an interoperability bridge” between VASPs, having […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/07/17/1079959901_0:0:2912:1638_1200x675_80_0_0_9c727fec7adc52eb1583a6c0fc887b91.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202007231079959930-trump-does-not-rule-out-closing-additional-chinese-diplomatic-missions/ WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – US President Donald Trump said during a press briefing at the White House that he does not rule out closing additional Chinese diplomatic missions in the United States. “As far as closing additional embassies, it’s always possible”, Trump said on Wednesday when asked if he planned to close more Chinese diplomatic missions in the country. During the press briefing, Trump asked why Chinese consulate staff in Houston were burning documents in the courtyard of the diplomatic mission after being ordered to close the consulate. China’s Foreign Ministry countered the media reports […]
Brendan Smialowski/Getty Given the death toll from COVID-19 and the continuing public outcry over police brutality in the United States, it may have gone largely unnoticed that on June 11, President Trump issued an executive order targeting the International Criminal Court (ICC), the Hague-based war crimes tribunal that the United States has refused to join. The order, which has prompted harsh condemnation from the international justice community and other concerned stakeholders, comes on the heels of a recent ruling by the ICC authorizing an impartial investigation into war crimes and crimes against humanity alleged to have been committed by the various parties […]
Pedestrians in Harvard Yard in 2019. Schools and businesses have gone to court to stop the Trump administration from barring online-only international students from entering or staying in the United States. Charles Krupa/AP hide caption toggle caption Charles Krupa/AP Pedestrians in Harvard Yard in 2019. Schools and businesses have gone to court to stop the Trump administration from barring online-only international students from entering or staying in the United States. Charles Krupa/AP One week ago, the Trump administration announced it would ban international students from attending U.S. colleges in the fall if they only take online classes. Now hundreds of colleges […]
Former New York City Mayor and Trump Attorney Rudy Giuliani joined Maria Bartiromo on Sunday Morning Futures this morning. During their conversation Rudy weighed in on the Soros-funded district attorneys who are destroying law and order in American cities. Rudy Giuliani: Look at the DAs we have now. We have Soros-elected anarchist DAs. They’re not there to prosecute the law. They’re there to undermine the law. He put them there. Why would Soros pay for DAs other than to undermine our government. He got people elected who released criminals, don’t prosecute cases. In Philadelphia they won’t even bring a case to […]
[ Editor’s note: In the New Mexico rancher piece below, it is their opinion that Trump’s EPA didn’t go far enough. However, attorneys general from 18 states and New York City wrote in their Complaint, “the 2020 Rule is arbitrary and capricious and not in accordance with law.” “The 2020 Rule harms the States and Cities by limiting the waters subject to the Act’s protections, thereby exposing the States’ and Cities’ waters to pollution entering from jurisdictions that are less protective of their waters; putting the States and Cities at a competitive disadvantage by incentivizing industry to relocate to upstream states with […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu shake hands at this month’s Victory Day military parade marking the 75th anniversary of Nazi Germany’s defeat in World War II. Alexei Nikolsky/TASS hide caption toggle caption Alexei Nikolsky/TASS Russian President Vladimir Putin and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu shake hands at this month’s Victory Day military parade marking the 75th anniversary of Nazi Germany’s defeat in World War II. Alexei Nikolsky/TASS A newly unveiled World War II monument towered behind Vladimir Putin as the Russian president made a final pitch for a July 1 vote on a raft of constitutional changes that […]
Filmmaker Christopher Nolan has stoked rage online after it emerged that he doesn’t allow actors to use chairs on his sets. Apparently running out of stars to denounce, cancel-happy netizens did not take the news sitting down. The director’s name came up during a webchat for Variety’s ‘Actors on Actors’ on Monday, in which stars Anne Hathaway and Hugh Jackman discussed the style of various filmmakers, eventually coming to rules on set, with Hathaway noting that Nolan allows neither phones nor chairs. “Chris also doesn’t allow chairs. I worked with him twice,” she said. “His reasoning is, if you have chairs, […]
Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn is assistant professor of International Political Economy at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. He is editor of the book Bitcoin and Beyond. Moritz Hütten is researcher on blockchains and the future of work at Darmstadt Business School, in Germany. The Travel Rule officially extends to ‘virtual asset services providers’ (VASPs) this month. It requires that VASPs, such as crypto exchanges, collect the names of both transaction senders and receivers, as well as the national IDs of the former. See also: Inside the Standards Race for Implementing FATF’s Travel Rule For the crypto sector, whose main value proposition is […]
The Freightliner eCascadia and the eM2 are two of the first electric semi-trucks to hit the highways for test driving Courtesy of Daimler Trucks North America hide caption toggle caption Courtesy of Daimler Trucks North America The Freightliner eCascadia and the eM2 are two of the first electric semi-trucks to hit the highways for test driving Courtesy of Daimler Trucks North America In another first-in-the-nation move to tackle climate change, California will require automakers to sell more electric trucks starting in 2024. The measure, approved unanimously Thursday by the California Air Resources Board, says that by 2045 all new trucks sold […]
New York’s financial watchdog has warned crypto companies that their BitLicense applications could be thrown out without warning if its feedback is not heeded. In an update Wednesday, New York’s Department of Financial Services (DFS) said a new three-strikes rule would authorize it to deny any applications that didn’t address or consider any deficiencies highlighted by the regulator. The warning reads, “[I]f all deficiencies involving a particular application requirement or set of requirements have not been fully and effectively addressed by the end of the response period for the third deficiency letter … the DFS may, without further notice, deny the […]
Platinum records are coming to cryptocurrency with a new integration between rapper Ja Rule and social currency startup Roll. Announced Tuesday, Billboard Hot 100 artist Ja Rule has inked a deal with Roll, an Ethereum-based protocol that allows content creators to control their own platforms using cryptocurrency’s native digital scarcity. “I’ve been following Roll and blockchain technology for a while actually on the sidelines,” Ja Rule said in a statement. “I think it’s the perfect time to partner with a company that can take blockchain technology mainstream. I see it happening in the next few years with the right partners and […]
Prime Minister Boris Johnson earlier said that the COVID-19 outbreak in the UK was diminishing, as the country’s coronavirus disease alert level was downgraded from four to three. UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to announce a reduction in the two-metre social distancing rule and plans for the reopening of businesses on Tuesday, as part of efforts to restart Britain’s economy amid the pandemic. On 23 June, Boris Johnson is set to update Parliament on the next stage of lockdown easing and whether pubs, restaurants, hotels could reopen in UK from 4 July. The easing of restrictions on 4 July marks […]
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin did not rule out running for office again. A constitutional amendments package, that is set to be voted on in Russia soon, would grant him such an option if adopted. Asked whether he will run for president again or not, Putin avoided an affirmative answer – but did not rule out such a possibility either. “We’ll see,” Putin told Russian state television on Sunday. “I have not decided anything for myself yet.” Russia’s president also refused to say whether he considered finding himself a ‘successor’, explaining that it would only disrupt the government’s work. Everyone in the government, […]
Little social distancing was seen at an enormous rally in Brooklyn, which ironically took place just as the New York State governor signed-out bars and restaurants as the grossest violators of the Covid-19 lockdown rules. Thousands of white-clad protesters have filled the courtyard of the Brooklyn Museum in solidarity with the black transgender community, and to draw attention to the deaths of transgender people in prisons and police custody. The crowd, however, appeared to be completely ignoring social distancing rules put in place to slow down the spread of Covid-19 – prompting many to wonder how this stands with New York […]
The Prime Minister is set to take full control of the social distancing guidelines and is reviewing the two metre rule, as leading restaurateurs warn that if these restrictions aren’t relaxed the hospitality sector will be hit by millions of job losses. Prime Minister Boris Johnson is set to review the two-metre social distancing rule in a bid to save the hospitality industry, amid calls for it to be scrapped. Businesses and some Tory MPs have warned that large parts of the hospitality industry will not be able to operate with the two metre rule in place and leading restaurateurs have […]
The situation in the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) in Seattle is about what you would expect about now.They built a border wall and established segregated gardens. Advertisement – story continues below Today the CHAZ Community leader told all white people to give $10 to a black person.Considering most of the people in CHAZ haven’t held a job in a while this could be quite a sacrifice. The black person in the video is seen clapping and cheering. TRENDING: Biden Narrows VP Pick Down to Six Women — But Look Who’s NOT on the List! Revenge is great! Via Ian Miles […]
Udall, Heinrich, Urge DeVos to Rescind Harmful Title IX Rule and Focus on Student Safety by Carol A. Clark/Los Alamos Daily Post SENATE News: Secretary DeVos’ new rule governing how schools handle allegations of sexual harassment and assault will weaken protections for survivors WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich, along with 35 Democratic senators, are condemning Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos’ final Title IX rule, which will weaken protections for student survivors of sexual harassment and assault. In a letter to Secretary DeVos, the senators stressed that it was inappropriate to ask schools to implement this new […]
EPA’s ‘Secret Science’ Rule Meets With An Outpouring Of Protest By Marianne Lavelle, Inside Climate News. May 20, 2020 EPA’s ‘Secret Science’ Rule Meets With An Outpouring Of Protest2020-05-202020-05-20https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/epa.jpg200px200px Above photo: Andrew Wheeler (center), Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, arrives for a House Appropriations Committee hearing in the Rayburn House Office Building on March 4, 2020. Credit: Drew Angerer/Getty Images. On Last Day for Public Comment. Among those opposing the proposed rule were nearly 40 top scientific organizations and academic institutions which jointly submitted a letter to the agency. As the deadline approached for public comment on a controversial “transparency” […]
Society 13:38 GMT 18.05.2020Get short URL Although keeping a face mask on, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has continued to defy the key WHO rule to curb the spread of the novel virus – social distancing, as he mingled with the crowd during a recent rally near the presidential palace in the country’s capital. Jair Bolsonaro, who has been continuously calling out the global quarantine measures, in opposition to his countries’ ministers and governors, eagerly joined in a genuine carnival atmosphere on Sunday, as people blew horns and let off fireworks here and there while protesting against the COVID-19 lockdown in Brasilia. In an […]
Washington state Governor Jay Inslee announced a controversial rule earlier this week that would wipe out restaurants in his state. The governor said he will require restaurants to keep a log, including contact information, on every customer who dines at their establishment. Advertisement – story continues below Inslee also wants all restaurants to open at half capacity. This crazed tyrant wanted to be president. TRENDING: BREAKING: Video Surfaces of Joe Scarborough Joking About Having Affair With Intern and Having to Kill Her This was another example of pure liberal insanity. Here’s the update—On Friday the governor of Washington walked back his […]
A new messaging standard released today is designed to help cryptocurrency firms comply with anti-money laundering regulations from the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). The standard, called IVMS101, defines a uniform model for data that must be exchanged by virtual asset service providers (VASPs) alongside cryptocurrency transactions. The standard will identify the pseudonymous senders and receivers of crypto payments, with such information “traveling” with each transaction. Getting industry players to agree upon an interoperable data standard is a significant step towards a more regulated crypto space. The standard messaging format now needs to be incorporated into the various solutions being built […]