Andrei Anisimov, whose LInkedIn profile still describes him as a “Senior Software Engineer” at Coinbase, tweeted Saturday that this had been his last week at the cryptocurrency exchange. At press time it wasn’t clear whether Anisimov was one of the 60 people who accepted a severance package that was offered this week. Source link
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Conservative ministers have vowed to oppose a proposed law that would give MI5 operatives, police, and other agencies carte blanche to commit crimes in order to stop more serious crimes, arguing it would encourage abuses of power. The Covert Human Intelligence Sources (CHIS) bill expressly greenlights not merely MI5 but 10 other agencies – including HM Revenue and Customs, the Food Standards Agency, police, and the […]
The flare-up of fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh entered its second week on Monday, with dozens of civilians and an unspecified number of servicemen ranging from dozens to hundreds or even thousands killed. Both sides have blamed each other for starting the fighting. Until the mid-1980s, the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast (NKAO), an ethnic Armenian-majority region part of the Azerbaijani Soviet Socialist Republic of the USSR, lived in relative […]
Lebanon is ready for US-mediated talks with Israel to resolve a long-standing maritime border dispute, the speaker of Lebanon’s parliament, Nabih Berri, said. The two nations are technically in a state of war. The talks will be held under the auspices of the United Nations, at a base near the UN-monitored boundary with Israel, known as the Blue Line, Berri told reporters on Thursday. The Lebanese […]
Brad Parscale, who has been a familiar presence during President Trump’s election runs, had threatened to harm himself, his wife told police. Parscale is now in a hospital; police say he cooperated with officers who came to his home Sunday. Samuel Corum/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Samuel Corum/Getty Images Brad Parscale, who has been a familiar presence during President Trump’s election runs, had threatened to […]
The Department of Justice and lawyers acting on behalf of Melania Trump attempted to block an explosive tell-all book from the First Lady’s former close friend and adviser, according to documents reviewed by The Daily Beast. On July 7th The Daily Beast reported Stephanie Winton Wolkoff, who played a key role in planning the 2017 inauguration and is now assisting a federal probe into it, would […]
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/202009091080414573-pompeo-substantial-chance-alleged-navalny-poisoning-ordered-by-senior-russian-officials/ Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny felt ill on 20 August when flying from Tomsk to Moscow. After receiving initial treatment in the Russian city of Omsk, he was transfered to the Charite hospital in Berlin. Later, Germany announced that Navalny was “poisoned” with a Novichok group nerve agent – however, without providing any medical data. US State Secretary Mike […]
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/world/202009081080400781-china-will-reportedly-sanction-senior-us-officials-who-visit-taiwan/ Last month, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo reacted to China’s objections to the planned visit by Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar to Taiwan by saying it was not inconsistent with previous policy. China will sanction senior US officials who visit Taiwan, as well as the American companies that they work with, the Global Times’ editor-in-chief, Hu […]
STOCKHOLM (Sputnik) – The Swedish Tax Agency has launched an investigation into Fazel Fazly, the chief adviser to the Afghan president, who is also a Swedish citizen, as the senior official is suspected of illegally receiving childcare benefits, national media reported on Tuesday. According to the Aftonbladet newspaper, citing the Swedish Foreign Ministry’s data, the 43-year-old official has lived in the European country and worked as […]
The development comes amidst an increasingly polarised debate over police attitudes toward minority ethnic groups in the UK. A recent poll by the charity, Hope Not Hate, found that 65% of British BAME (Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic) individuals believe that the police are biased against them. Che Donald, the national vice-chair of the Police Federation. has written in an op-ed for the Telegraph that he does not […]
This was major cringe. A Joe Biden golf cart rally was underway at The Villages senior golf club in Florida Friday morning. Advertisement – story continues below Hundreds of senior citizens from a Democrat golf club in Florida formed a ‘caravan’ of golf carts in support of Creepy Joe Biden. President Trump has record-breaking boat parades and Joe Biden has a golf cart rally. TRENDING: SHOCK […]
The 15-member Council for the Economy has never had a female appointee since it was formed in 2014. The appointment of six women to the body that oversees the Vatican’s finances is the most significant move Pope Francis has made in his commitment to giving more leadership roles in the Catholic Church to women. Pope Francis has given roles to six women in the usually male-dominated […]
US President Donald Trump has long promoted the use of the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for the ongoing coronavirus. Testing the drug for use in treating COVID-19 has, however, been blocked by international health bodies which have noted the compound’s adverse effects on patients. An official in the US government pandemic response team on Sunday affirmed that there is zero evidence that hydroxychloroquine is […]
Obama Senior Advisor would not answer whether former President Obama directed any of the spying and investigations into candidate and President Trump when on with Maria Bartiromo earlier this week. Maria Bartiromo had Senator Ron Johnson on this morning on ‘Sunday Morning Futures’. During this segment, Bartiromo shared a piece from her interview earlier this week with Obama close aid Valerie Jarrett. When Bartiromo asked Jarrett […]
Editor’s note: I wanted to add something here, perhaps to give this a bit more substance. Ian sent me the paper used to support Icke yesterday. I have the science and research background where most other don’t. A racket that came up a few years ago is based on, not totally fake scientific journals, but defunct ones that are puffed back to life. Names like The […]
What to do about Lake Placid? For weeks, Dave and Nancy Nathan had been debating whether to proceed with a long-planned family trip to a lodge there next month, marking his 80th birthday. “It looked dreamy, mountains and lakes,” said Nancy, 74. Besides, they hadn’t gathered their clan — three daughters and their families, a dozen people in all — for a year. She thought she […]
Jean Castex, a senior official who spearheaded France’s coronavirus reopening strategy, has been named the country’s new prime minister by President Emmanuel Macron. Also on rt.com French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe resigns as Macron vows to move on with ‘new team’ DETAILS TO FOLLOW Source link
A Black Lives Matter TikTok video by Harvard Senior Claira Janover in which she threatens to stab and watch bleed out “the next person who has the sheer nerve, the sheer entitled caucasity to say ‘all lives matter’” went viral Tuesday in spite of a disclaimer Janover posted under the video stating “for legal reasons this is a joke”. The video was copied over to Twitter […]
The New York Times on Friday published a story claiming that Russia secretly offered bounties to Taliban forces to kill US troops, citing “officials briefed on the matter.” President Trump early Sunday morning dismissed the New York Times report on the GRU-Taliban allegations. “Nobody briefed or told me, VP Pence, or Chief of Staff Mark Meadows about the so-called attacks on our troops in Afghanistan by […]
The UK’s most senior civil servant Sir Mark Sedwill has been reportedly at odds with Boris Johnson’s chief adviser Dominic Cummings, and was suggested by sources as a likely scapegoat for a spate of failings amid criticism of Downing Street’s handling of the coronavirus crisis. The UK’s most senior civil servant Sir Mark Sedwill, who doubles as Cabinet Secretary and National Security Adviser is reportedly set […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107965/90/1079659055_0:229:3071:1957_1200x675_80_0_0_c36740f6cf85853f5ac83e5f61f1723e.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202006191079658863-senior-us-state-dept-official-resigns-over-trumps-actions-on-racial-injustice/ WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – US Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs Mary Elizabeth Taylor in a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said she is resigning from her position over President Donald Trump’s comments and actions surrounding racial injustice to African Americans in the United States. “Moments of upheaval can change you, shift the trajectory of your life, […]
On Monday, Peter Beyer, a member of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s ruling conservative CDU/CSU bloc, slammed Washington’s intention to withdraw thousands of its troops from Germany as “completely unacceptable” because he said the US had not informed “NATO ally Germany in advance”. Reuters has cited five unnamed sources as saying that President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw more than 9,000 American troops from Germany blindsided an array of […]
A newly published list of US officials who were interested in National Security Agency (NSA) records on Trump adviser Michael Flynn includes President Barack Obama’s chief of staff, as well as Vice President Joe Biden. Biden is listed as requesting the unmasking on January 12, 2017, the same day the Washington Post published a story claiming that Flynn had misreported his conversations with Russian Ambassador Sergey […]
Dr. Rachel Levine Pennsylvania Health Secretary Dr. Rachel Levine admitted he moved his own mother out of a senior facility to a hotel while the Coronavirus was sweeping through nursing homes and killing elderly residents. Dr. Levine, who is the first transgender person appointed to a Pennsylvania Cabinet, became secretary of health in 2017. The Coronavirus is ravaging nursing homes across the US because of deadly […]
Late last month, a spokesman for the Iraqi armed forces’ commander-in-chief said that Baghdad and Washington are due to discuss the terms of a full-fledged pullout of US troops from Iraq in June. Baghdad’s Friday prayer leader Sayed Yasin al-Mousavi has called to put more effort into making US troops leave Iraqi territory. “The Americans have to be ousted because they do not intend to leave […]