Victory In Oldham. Palestine Action’s sustained campaign of direct action against Elbit Ferranti in Oldham proves ultimately successful as Elbit sell the subsidiary and pack their bags. After 18 months of sustained direct action taken at the Elbit Ferranti site in Oldham, Greater Manchester, with 36 people arrested, Elbit have now sold Ferranti technologies, with its continued operation in Oldham appearing unfeasible. Activists have occupied, blockaded, smashed, disrupted, and protested regularly at the site, ultimately succeeding in ending the factory’s production of specialist military technologies for Israel’s fleet of combat drones. In November 2021, anonymous sources revealed to Palestine Action that mass […]
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Above Photo: This Steward’s Corner is an excerpt from No Contract, No Peace! A Legal Guide to Contract Campaigns, Strikes, and Lockouts by Robert M. Schwartz, available from the Labor Notes store. Picketing stores that sell an employer’s products can publicize a strike and hurt earnings. It is also a good way to generate community support. Although the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) usually bars unions from picketing secondary (i.e., “neutral”) employers, a narrow legal exception applies to retail stores and distributors—provided the union does not interfere with operations, only asks the public not to buy struck products, does not ask […]
The U.S. Defence Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) announced that the U.S. State Department had approved the sale of four CH-47F Chinook helicopters to Australia. The announcements say that the Government of Australia has requested to buy four CH-47F helicopters with customer-unique modifications; eight T55-GA-714A aircraft turbine engines, five AN/AAR-57 Common Missile Warning Systems (CMWS); eight Embedded Global Positioning System (GPS)/Inertial Navigation Systems (INS/EGI) +429; and two EAGLE+429 Embedded Global Positioning System (GPS)/Inertial Navigation Systems (INS/EGI). “The total estimated value is $259 million,” the DSCA notice says. – ADVERTISEMENT – CONTINUE READING BELOW – Also noted that the proposed sale of this […]
On March 16, 2021, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, the Pentagon’s top arms broker, announced that the U.S. State Department has cleared a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Government of Norway of Javelin FGM-148 man-portable anti-tank missile systems and related equipment for an estimated cost of $36 million. The U.S. State Department has approved the possible sale to Norway of one hundred twenty Javelin FGM-148 Missiles and two Javelin FGM-148 Missiles Fly to Buy. The announcements say that the complete package will also include are twenty-four Javelin Block 1 Command Launch Units (CLUs) retrofit kits; spare parts; publications and technical […]
The Defense Security Cooperation Agency announced this week that the U.S. State Department has cleared a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Government of 76 M2A2 Bradley fighting vehicles. According to DSCA, the Pentagon’s top arms broker, the possible deal has an estimated value of $757 million. The proposed package includes the following according to the DSCA notice: modernization of 76 M2A2 Bradley fighting vehicles and the purchase of close to 2,000 TOW missiles, 84 M240 machine guns, M257 Smoke Grenade Launchers; ammunition; radios; simulator; special armor; Hunter/Killer technology and other equipment and spare parts. – ADVERTISEMENT – CONTINUE READING BELOW […]
U.S. military’s Defense Security Cooperation Agency said Friday it planned to sell Guyana four utility helicopters for $256-million. The U.S. State Department has cleared a possible $256 million foreign military sale of two Bell 412EPi and two Bell 429 helicopters to Guyana. According to the U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency, the complete package includes helicopters with customer-unique modifications; two WESCAM MX-10 cameras; mission equipment; contractor-provided pilot and maintainer training; particular ground support equipment; spares; publications; integrated product support; technical assistance; transportation; Repair and Return; and other related elements of logistics and program support. – ADVERTISEMENT – CONTINUE READING BELOW – “The […]
The Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) announced this week that the U.S. State Department recently approved the potential sale to Australia of more than $46 million worth of Javelin anti-tank guided missiles. On October 30, the DSCA, the Pentagon’s top arms broker, has released a statement saying that the State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Government of Australia of Javelin missiles and related equipment for an estimated cost of $46 million. According to the DSCA, the complete package includes two hundred Javelin FGM-148E missiles with U.S. Government technical assistance and other related elements […]
Belarusian Opposition Figure Awarded Freedom Prize Will ‘Sell Belarus Out’ By Mohamed Elmaazi, Sputnik News. October 29, 2020 Belarusian Opposition Figure Awarded Freedom Prize Will ‘Sell Belarus Out’2020-10-292020-10-29https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/belarus-e1603980658859.jpg200px200px Above photo: Svetlana Tikhanovskaya. From EPP Group. Western-led institutions and governments are not genuinely interested in the right of self-determination of the Belarusian people as is evidenced by their one-sided support for anti-government groups and individuals, a student of Eastern European politics tells Sputnik. The European Parliament selected Belarus’ opposition movement as the winners of 2020’s Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought. The European Union’s legislative body specifically singled out a number of people […]
The U.S. State Department reportedly has informed Congress it plans to sell modern artillery systems to Taiwan. The story was first reported by Reuters, which cited its sources in the Trump administration, said that the State Department recently approved the potential sale of a truck-based rocket launcher made called a High Mobility Artillery Rocket System to Taiwan. The advanced artillery system, commonly known as HIMARS, is a lightweight mobile launcher, transportable via C-130 and larger aircraft for rapid deployment. HIMARS consists of a launcher loader module and fire control system mounted on a five-ton truck chassis. A specialized armored cab provides additional […]
Idaho’s Brigham Young University has urged students to refrain from purposely infecting themselves with the coronavirus in hopes of cashing in on payments for plasma donations, threatening expulsion for those caught doing so. “BYU-Idaho is deeply troubled by accounts of individuals who have intentionally exposed themselves for others to Covid-19, with the hope of getting the disease and being paid for plasma that contains COVID-19 antibodies,” the school said in a recent notice. The university condemns this behavior and is actively seeking evidence of any such conduct among our student body. Students who are determined to have intentionally exposed themselves or […]
There isn’t much about 2020 that isn’t downright terrible. But I’m thrilled to finally be able to report some good news: liquor companies are releasing a wide variety of special whiskies this fall, including bourbons, ryes and single malts. Pick up these limited-editions bottlings before they disappear. Beam Suntory for one has just released a number of noteworthy special editions. Laphroaig has already started selling its annual Cairdeas bottling ($100) and this time it’s been aged in port and wine casks. The regularly scheduled releases of Booker’s Bourbon were interrupted after the release of #2020-02, the “Boston Batch,” in April ($90). […]
Having left Walter Reed hospital after a three-day stint recovering from the coronavirus, President Donald Trump began, what aides and confidants say is, a new phase of the presidential campaign: an effort to turn his illness into an electoral asset. The president’s stint in the Military Medical Center may have raised serious questions about his political future and his physical status, with doctors giving him a trio of therapeutics and his physician acknowledging that he is not yet out of the woods. But during his time away from the White House, Trump spent his weekends frantically working the phones, compulsively watching […]
Actress Pooja Bedi, known for her movie Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikander, became an entrepreneur two years ago with an e-commerce website – Happy Soul – that trades in organic products. She moved from Mumbai to Goa after getting engaged to businessman Maneck Contractor last year. Bollywood actress Pooja Bedi was shocked when she found out on 29 September that her e-commerce website Happy Soul had been hacked. Talking to Sputnik, Pooja shared that she received an email from the attacker stating that her website has been hacked and she was given 24 hours to pay a ransom. “Please make the payment else […]
The United States has approved more than $55.3 million dollars in potential surface-to-air missiles sales to Japan. On September28, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, the Pentagon’s top arms broker, announced that the U.S. State Department has cleared possible Foreign Military Sale to the Government of Japan of RAM Block 2 Tactical Missiles and related equipment for an estimated cost of $55.311 million. According to the DSCA, the complete package includes 51 Rolling Airframe Missiles Block 2 Tactical Missiles, RIM-116C. Also included are RAM Guided Missile Round Pack Tri-Pack shipping and storage containers, operator manuals and technical documentation, U.S. Government and contractor […]
The U.S. State Department recently approved the potential sale to the Netherlands of more than $241 million worth of PAC-3 missiles. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency issued a press release on September 24, that announced that the U.S. State Department had approved a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Government of the Netherlands of Patriot Advanced Capability‑3 (PAC-3) Missile Segment Enhancement (MSE) missiles and related equipment for an estimated cost of $241 million. The announcements say that the Government of the Netherlands has requested to buy 34 PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhancement (MSE) missiles. Also included are 8 kitted 2-pack PAC-3 MSE […]
…by Press TV, Tehran [ Editor’s Note: Russia now puts its Covid vaccine where its geopolitical mouth is. China already has several of its own in the pipeline. Putin sent a strong message to India as to who was able to assist an important ally more reliability, the US or Russia? Lost in all the Covid coverage is the long term debt disaster, due to Trump’s Covid debacle, with trillions of dollars that will enslave future generations of Americans in two ways. They will either have to pay the debt someday, impossible, or suffer low savings rates forever so that the […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/106287/62/1062876229_0:202:3887:2389_1200x675_80_0_0_5adea5366fb10bce00a7da9ce0d0d1ee.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/asia/202009191080515914-qantas-flight-to-nowhere-tickets-sell-out-within-10-minutes—reports/ The company has promised passengers that they will enjoy special onboard entertainment and that a surprise celebrity host will be flying with them on the Boeing 787 Dreamliner flight. People bought all 134 available seats within 10 minutes, with tickets, ranging from economy to business class, priced between $575 and $2,765, media reported, citing a Qantas spokesperson. “It’s probably the fastest selling flight in Qantas history”, Qantas CEO Alan Joyce was quoted as saying. “People clearly miss travel and the experience of flying. If the demand is there, we’ll definitely look at doing more of […]
The CEO of publicly traded MicroStrategy (MSTR) shares why he started to feel like he was “sitting on a 500-lb block of ice” and how he came to bitcoin as a solution. MicroStrategy made waves when it announced in early August it was moving $500,000,000 in treasury reserves out of cash. At least $250 million were to be moved into bitcoin. Earlier this week, the company announced its final bitcoin purchases totaled $425 million. In this conversation with NLW, MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor explains: Why he’s always treated the company with a long time horizon Why the asset inflation rate is the real inflation […]
The Indian government said last year that it would turn the state-backed telecom giant BSNL into a profit-making entity by selling off its properties, which are valued at approximately $67 billion. Senior officials from the telecom department say that revenue rules are being flouted in the process, causing a loss of $2.71 billion to the states. The Indian government’s plan to financially revive the loss-making telecom operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) through the monetisation of its countrywide portfolio of properties has evoked ire among officials from the Department of Telecommunication (DoT). At least two high-ranking officials from the Department of […]
Landfill workers bury all plastic except soda bottles and milk jugs at Rogue Disposal & Recycling in southern Oregon. Laura Sullivan/NPR hide caption toggle caption Laura Sullivan/NPR Landfill workers bury all plastic except soda bottles and milk jugs at Rogue Disposal & Recycling in southern Oregon. Laura Sullivan/NPR Laura Leebrick, a manager at Rogue Disposal & Recycling in southern Oregon, is standing on the end of its landfill watching an avalanche of plastic trash pour out of a semitrailer: containers, bags, packaging, strawberry containers, yogurt cups. None of this plastic will be turned into new plastic things. All of it is […]
Investors dumped technology shares and drove all US stock market indices sharply down after a previous day’s high note. Oil and gold also dropped, as analysts struggled to explain the cause behind the sell-off. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped by over 1,000 points before bouncing back on Thursday, closing down 808 points at 28,292.73, for a 2.8 percent loss. The S&P 500 dropped 3.5 percent to close at 3,455.06, while the Nasdaq composite was down 5 percent, at 11,458.10. It was the worst single-day loss for Dow and S&P since June, and the biggest drop for Nasdaq since March. The […]
Major League Soccer has confirmed that Dell Loy Hansen, owner of Real Salt Lake, is set to sell up amid an investigation into alleged racist comments made in the aftermath of player protests against police brutality. Hansen’s company Utah Soccer Holdings owns MLS side Real Salt Lake, as well as National Women’s Soccer League team Utah Royals and second division side Real Monarchs in the United Soccer League. READ MORE: Leo in limbo: Lionel Messi’s Barcelona exit looking LESS LIKELY as La Liga says his Camp Nou contract is STILL VALID Hansen came under fierce criticism from within the sport after he […]
What can definitively be said about the Republican National Convention’s weaponizing of Blackness and poverty to spout predictable American mythology? Trump and his cronies say again and again that he has “done the most for black people.” In fact, every U.S. government has failed and brutalized Black Americans and countless racialized people in the country and outside of it. The most significant positive change to Black life has been made through grassroots activism. Not even Lincoln himself is responsible for the movement that would eventually lead to the eradication of slavery, yet U.S. politicians would have you believe otherwise. Historically, both […]
The video-sharing app, which has 100 million active users in the United States alone, has fallen victim to the Trump administration’s standoff with China. The president previously accused TikTok, owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, of spying on its users at the behest of Beijing, a claim the company and the Chinese authorities have denied. TikTok will sell its US operations in the coming days as the company is finalising a deal, CNBC reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The agreement will also include the sale of its operations in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand and is estimated to be […]
Moscow authorities plan to sell and broadcast over the internet video from surveillance cameras, according to a report. Source link
As President Donald Trump’s campaign sponges up grassroots donations for his reelection bid, it’s leaning on a largely unnoticed pool of support: a network of pro-Trump media organizations that lure in readers with splashy, ideologically driven content, harvest their email addresses, and then sell them back to the Trump campaign. News outlets such as Trump Train News, American Action News, UnitedVoice, and RightWing.org appear on their face to be standard—if occasionally unpolished—conservative media operations. They largely aggregate reporting from other news organizations, put a pro-Trump spin on the stories, and top them with clicky headlines geared to catch the eyes of […]
Federal prosecutors on Thursday arrested former Trump adviser Steve Bannon and Brian Kolfage, the head of a nonprofit seeking to privately finance construction of a southern border wall, and accused them of illegally using that nonprofit to enrich themselves. But the sums the two men allegedly extracted from the organization just scratched the surface of their grandiose plans to make money off the effort. As he was using his group, We Build The Wall, to compile millions of email addresses and phone numbers, Kolfage was also plotting ways to use that data to start a Republican fundraising firm. The venture had […]
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have officially merged spirits with every couple in L.A.—by which I mean, they’re shopping a project together. Variety reports that in June the couple began pitching a top-secret pitch, which they would jointly produce, to multiple networks. A source close to Markle told the trade that she has no plans to star in the potential project; a representative for the two declined to comment. A representative for the couple did not immediately respond to The Daily Beast’s request for comment. Back in June, Variety notes, the couple also signed with the same speaking agency that represents […]
US President Donald Trump has ordered Chinese firm ByteDance to divest from its US-based assets within 90 days and to scrub all data linked to the company’s popular app TikTok, arguing both are a threat to national security. Friday’s executive order put further pressure on the company after an earlier mandate last week, giving ByteDance some three months to sell off its American properties and to certify to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) that it had destroyed “any data obtained or derived from TikTok.” “There is credible evidence that leads me to believe that ByteDance… might […]
New Delhi (Sputnik): As COVID-19 has slowed down the Indian economy, the government’s revenue collections have not been matching the pandemic-induced expenditures. The government needs funds to roll out a $12 billion economic stimulus package without inflating the fiscal deficit beyond a certain level. The Indian government is planning to sell a part of its stake in some select state-owned banks to raise $3.3 billion amid the challenges posed to the revenues during the pandemic. Sources in the Indian Ministry of Finance told Sputnik on condition of anonymity that the government has held discussions on the matter with the banking regulator, […]
Former Moscow anti-doping laboratory head Grigory Rodchenkov has called for a blanket ban on Russia from next year’s Tokyo Olympics as the doctor re-emerged to speak to the Western media ahead of the publication of a new book. The fugitive doctor fled Russia six years ago before leveling accusations against former colleagues and claiming he had covered up a state-sponsored doping scheme which helped Russian athletes to win medals for a period including the home Winter Olympic Games in Sochi in 2014. READ MORE: ‘None of it is true’: Russian biathletes sue Rodchenkov for libel over years-long doping scandal Rodchenkov’s allegations and […]
No one wants to give Iran the opportunity to buy and sell weapons, Washington has claimed, arguing that regional security would suffer if an arms embargo on Tehran is allowed to expire. There is no desire to give Iran a chance to enter the arms trade, US Special Representative for Iran Brian Hook said on Sunday. He supported the rather presumptuous claim by insisting that the conflict in Syria would worsen if the current weapons embargo on Tehran is lifted. The official accused Iran of bypassing international restrictions and warned that Middle East peace would be threatened if the current sanctions […]
US President Donald Trump has signed a measure giving the nod to American weapons producers to sell more military-grade drones to foreign nations, insisting previous export controls were “outdated” and “unfair.” The new directive – announced by the White House on Friday – eases restrictions on the sale of large drones, which were previously classified similarly to cruise missiles and under strict export restrictions. The move marks a significant change to the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR), an informal body of rules governing munitions sales to some 35 participating countries. “Not only do these outdated standards give an unfair advantage to […]
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 […]
How The Pentagon Failed To Sell Afghan Government’s Bunk ‘Bountygate’ Story By Gareth Porter, The Grayzone. July 13, 2020 How The Pentagon Failed To Sell Afghan Government’s Bunk ‘Bountygate’ Story2020-07-132020-07-13https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/us-troops-in-afghanistan-from-the-grayzone-e1594661222785.jpg200px200px Another New York Times Russiagate bombshell turns out to be a dud, as dodgy stories spun out by Afghan intelligence and exploited by the Pentagon ultimately failed to convince US intelligence agencies. The New York Times dropped another Russiagate bombshell on June 26 with a sensational front-page story headlined, “Russia Secretly Offered Afghan Militants Bounties to Kill U.S. Troops, Intelligence Says.” A predictable media and political frenzy followed, reviving the anti-Russian hysteria […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107973/24/1079732440_0:316:3077:2047_1200x675_80_0_0_fe75101d615aa464e897b4ac1887d01b.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/military/202006261079732405-raytheon-wins-contract-worth-over-22-billion-to-sell-mobile-radars-to-saudi-arabia/ WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – Raytheon Integrated Defence Systems has won a more than $2.2 billion Missile Defence Agency contract under the Foreign Military Sales program to sell Saudi Arabia seven mobile radars, the Department of Defence said in a press release. “Raytheon Integrated Defence Systems of Woburn, Massachusetts is being awarded a sole-source contract in the amount of $2,271,181,543 under the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) program to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia”, the release said on Friday. Under the contract, Raytheon will provide seven Army/Navy Transportable Surveillance and Control Model 2 radars, radar spares, obsolescence […]
The old Wall Street maxim “sell in May and go away” is detrimental to bitcoin investors, market data from Messari suggests. The largest cryptocurrency generated positive returns during eight of the past 10 Mays, outperforming its monthly average for that year during six of them. “Sell in May” refers to an old investment strategy that advises against holding investments during summer months, starting in May. While there may be truth to the adage for traditional markets, some bitcoin investors don’t give the idea much credence. “It’s just a meme to me,” said Qiao Wang, a cryptocurrency startup investor and former quantitative […]
With New York Governor Andrew Cuomo facing scrutiny over his treatment of nursing homes during his Covid-19 response, he turned to celebrities Chris Rock and Rosie Perez to help him sell his latest order regarding the pandemic. ‘Grown Ups’ star and ‘Birds of Prey’ actress joined Cuomo at his Thursday press conference where the governor announced a new executive order allowing businesses to deny service to people not wearing masks. “You don’t want to wear a mask? Fine, but you don’t have a right to then go into that store if that store owner doesn’t want you to,” the governor said. […]
US 19:01 GMT 17.05.2020Get short URL The cybercriminals earlier threatened to publish allegedly incriminating documents on the POTUS in a bid to pressure the law firm Grubman Shire Meiselas & Sacks to pay a ransom of $42 million for stolen data on their clients, mostly prominent celebrities. A group of hackers known as REvil has published the first portion of so-called “dirty laundry” on US President Donald Trump, which they called the “most harmless” part of it, Forbes reported, citing information obtained from cybersecurity analyst Brett Callow. REvil stole several gigabytes of files from the computer network of the law firm […]