Above photo: National Geographic/cc. And How One Man Did. These are dark days for both our nation and the world. Climate change is wreaking havoc everywhere, a global pandemic continues its onslaught, our nation’s experiment in democracy is threatened by a slow-motion insurrection and, to top it all off, our nation has taken the lead in pushing Russia toward a war over Ukraine that is capable of going off the rails into a full-scale nuclear war (and that is not hyperbole!). At least four or five U.S. OHIO Class “Trident” ballistic missile submarines are currently at sea on “hard alert” in […]
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Above Photo: Mining Cryptocurrency, 2021. As the last private plane takes off from the Glasgow airport and the dust settles, the detritus of the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP26, remains. The final communiqués are slowly being digested, their limited scope inevitable. António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, closed the proceedings by painting two dire images: ‘Our fragile planet is hanging by a thread. We are still knocking on the door of climate catastrophe. It is time to go into emergency mode – or our chance of reaching net zero will itself be zero’. The loudest cheer in the main hall did […]
Above Photo: Israel’s Iron Dome system is launched to intercept a rocket from Gaza on 17 May 2021 (AFP) US funding for Israel’s missile interception system is part of its wider efforts to shore up a military system of global domination Battles in the US Congress that erupted again this week, holding up an extra $1bn in military funding for Israel, underscored just how divorced from reality the conversation about US financial aid to Israel has become, even among many critics. For 48 hours last month, a small group of progressive Democrats in the US House of Representatives succeeded in sabotaging a measure to pick up […]
Saving Nature And Humanity Without Sacrificing Either By Charles Whitaker, Climate Conscious. November 15, 2020 Saving Nature And Humanity Without Sacrificing Either2020-11-152020-11-15https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/frankfurt.jpeg200px200px Above photo: Bicycle and pedestrian only highway in Frankfurt, Germany. Threading the Needle Part II. Saving nature without sacrificing modern life is the preeminent challenge of our time. Here’s how we do it. Saving nature without sacrificing modern life is the preeminent challenge of our time. It is a complicated problem that must be attacked simultaneously from multiple angles. Failure to act on one angle will invalidate efforts on other angles. This problem must be addressed in two distinct […]
Hurricane Eta: Nicaragua Prioritizes Saving And Improving Lives By Nan McCurdy, The Alliance for Global Justice. November 5, 2020 Hurricane Eta: Nicaragua Prioritizes Saving And Improving Lives2020-11-052020-11-05https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/nicara-e1604593383790.jpg200px200px Above photo: From Twitter. How is it that there were only two lives lost during a level 4 Hurricane that affected Nicaragua beginning Nov. 2 on the Caribbean Coast? Nicaragua is constantly preparing and training people to save lives in disasters: thousands of people have participated in simulations for hurricanes, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and more, and this happens a number of times during the year in every municipality. Nicaragua is among the first countries […]
𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗩𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗼 David Rodriguez is a champion boxer and spiritual warrior known for his short video commentary about pedophilia and his book When the Lights Go Out: From Survivor to Champion. He co-hosts Dark to Light with Laura Eisenhower and is a motivational speaker. https://www.davidninorodriguez.com/https://www.etsy.com/shop/NinoCornerStorehttps://www.patreon.com/darktolightshowhttps://www.amazon.com/exec.obidos/ASIN/0998308005/ossnet-20https://www.synergyscience.com/shop/?afmc=euhttps://mypatriotsupply.com/pages/rs-repdig-4-week-emergency-food-supply-david-nino-rodriguez-may-2020?rfsn=1750310.2a7b74&subid=david.nino.rodriguez Robert David Steele is the conceptualizer of integrated election reform (#UNRIG) and the integration of holistic analytics, true cost economics, and Open Source Everything Engineering (OSEE) such that we can achieve a prosperous world at peace at 10-20% the cost of the failed Western economic model burdened by banks and lawyers. A former US […]
Saving Local Newspapers Squeezed By Hedge Funds By Steven Waldman, Journalism and Liberty. September 28, 2020 Saving Local Newspapers Squeezed By Hedge Funds2020-09-282020-09-28https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/news.jpg200px200px Above photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images. A Replanting Strategy. Hundreds of newspapers are languishing in the hands of hedge funds and chains. It’s time to replant them with community nonprofit groups and mission-driven owners. Download this white paper as a pdf The conversation about the crisis in local news has tended to focus on two solutions: helping create local news startups and supporting local newspapers still in existence. Each approach has limitations and promise. Birthing nonprofit news organizations is […]
Huobi, the third-largest crypto exchange by derivatives trading volume, is now giving users a way to earn relatively attractive interest rates on a bitcoin or USDT savings account. The product, launched Sept. 7, is the exchange’s latest bid to beat its competitors as it boosts its assets under management. Huobi’s addition targets retail traders less interested or involved in day-to-day trading activities but still willing to receive a certain amount of returns from their digital assets, said Ciara Sun, the vice president of Huobi Global Markets, during an exclusive interview with CoinDesk on Sept. 8. “Huobi has millions of users but […]
Rescuers Penalized For Saving Lives At The World’s Deadliest Border August 31, 2020 Rescuers Penalized For Saving Lives At The World’s Deadliest Border2020-08-312020-08-31https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/rescue-ship-the-louise-michel.-by-chris-grodotzki-e1598888708230.jpg200px200px Above photo: Rescue ship, The Louise Michel. By Chris Grodotzki. The Sea Watch 4 takes on 150 more refugees and continues to wait for Europe to provide it with a port to disembark the rescued. Humanitarian organizations are being penalized for fulfilling responsibilities abandoned by European governments at the world’s deadliest border, activists have warned after an eventful weekend in the Mediterranean. Late on Friday, the Louise Michel rescue ship was alerted by a charity reconnaissance plane Moonbird to a boat carrying […]
Portland became a battleground on Saturday as patriots clashed with the militant left Antifa and Black Lives Matter rioters. In one of the more hilarious videos to come out of the chaos, a Black Lives Matter militant can be heard whining about how the police are “just standing there” as the extremist leftists got their butts handed to them by the patriots. Portland pic.twitter.com/lZ6sXw8N5s — special agent viti (@selfdeclaredref) August 22, 2020 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! The day was […]
New York City Councilman Paul Vallone came out this week and credited Hydroxychloroquine for saving his life. The New York Post reported: A Democratic New York City Councilman says hydroxychloroquine saved his life after a near-fatal run-in with COVID-19 in March. Paul Vallone, who represents northeast Queens, took the drug along with a standard Z-pack — given for bacterial infections — and came back from the brink almost immediately. TRENDING: EXCLUSIVE: Killer Cuomo Not Only Murdered Thousands of Elderly In Homes, He Also Targeted Adult Care Facilities and Group Homes for People with Disabilities “I couldn’t breathe, very weak, couldn’t get […]
New Delhi (Sputnik): India, the second largest smartphone market in the world, is projected to witness a 13-15 percent sales decline as a side effect of slow production and ongoing tensions with China. To foreign tech players thriving in India, just when losses seemed near, the hope of profit came disguised as a rise in TV sales. Amid the lockdown, Chinese and South Korean tech players in India including Xiaomi, LG, and Samsung recorded substantial sales in the television category, a market analysis report by research firm Counterpoint said on Thursday. In the January to March quarter of 2020, Xiaomi managed […]