The U.S. Navy was able to seize thousands of Russian and Chinese-made illicit weapons from a stateless dhow — enough to equip a small army. On Saturday, the service press release said that the guided-missile cruiser USS Monterey (CG 61) seized an illicit shipment of weapons from a stateless dhow in the international water of the North Arabian Sea on May 6-7, 2021. USS Monterey and its embarked U.S. Coast Guard Advanced Interdiction Team (AIT) discovered the illicit cargo during a routine flag verification boarding conducted in international water in accordance with customary international law. – ADVERTISEMENT – CONTINUE READING BELOW […]
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‘Refusing To Serve In The Army Is My Small Act Of Making Change’ By Oren Ziv, +972 Magazine. November 28, 2020 ‘Refusing To Serve In The Army Is My Small Act Of Making Change’2020-11-282020-11-28https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/hillel-e1606601620163.jpg200px200px Above photo: Israeli conscientious objector Hallel Rabin, Kibbutz Harduf, Israel. Oren Ziv. Hallel Rabin spent 56 days in military prison for refusing to serve in the IDF. Now she opens up about her time behind bars, conversations with her fellow inmates, and talking to young Israelis about the occupation. As Hallel Rabin stood before the IDF conscientious objectors committee two weeks ago, the military body that decides […]
The Biosecurity Myth That Is Destroying Small Farming By Lucile Leclair, Counterpunch. November 13, 2020 The Biosecurity Myth That Is Destroying Small Farming2020-11-132020-11-13https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/oie-logo-3-600×470-1-e1605280554453.jpg200px200px Above photo: OIE logo. Chen Yun’s pigs stopped eating, then developed a fever. Within a week, all 10,000 on his farm in Jiangxi, in southeast China, had died of African swine fever (ASF). In 2018-19 the virus affected every province and led to the slaughter of half the country’s pigs. The outbreak spread from China to Southeast Asia; the virus, already present in central Europe, reached Belgium in 2018. France and other European nations remain braced for its […]
Oregon Becomes First State To Decriminalize Small Possession Of All Drugs By Mike Ludwig, Truthout. November 4, 2020 Oregon Becomes First State To Decriminalize Small Possession Of All Drugs2020-11-042020-11-04https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/2020_1103-oregon-ballots-1200×757-1.jpg200px200px Above photo: An election worker sorts submitted ballots at the Multnomah County Elections Office on November 2, 2020, in Portland, Oregon. Nathan Howard/Getty Images. Voters in Oregon approved a historic ballot initiative that would decriminalize possession of smaller amounts of all illegal drugs and funnel tax revenue from legal marijuana sales into addiction treatment, potentially providing an early model for combating deep racial disparities in the criminal legal system and significantly slowing […]
The U.K. Financial Conduct Authority’s decision to ban individual investors from speculating on bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies is likely to have a minimal impact, partly because the market is so small, according to analysts and industry executives who track the trading business. Some U.K.-based brokerages that had offered the crypto derivative products to retail traders could see a drop-off in revenue, though big cryptocurrency exchanges including Kraken say the impact is likely to be minimal. While U.K. individuals can still trade the actual cryptocurrencies, there may be some traders who will seek to skirt the rules by trading on offshore exchanges. […]
Aerospace giant Boeing was awarded a $2,2 billion contract by the U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center on 24 September to manufacture and deliver Small Diameter Bombs under a multiyear buy contracting arrangement. The contract, announced Thursday by the Department of Defense, is awadred under the Small Diameter Bomb Increment I weapon program. “This contract provides for a guaranteed minimum Lot 15 award and a five-year ordering period for Small Diameter Bomb Increment I, focused lethality munition, containers and carriages for the Department of Defense and Foreign Military Sales partner nations, according to a recent DoD statement. – ADVERTISEMENT – […]
In this photo from the Whitman County Sheriff’s Office, little remains of a building in Malden, Wash. A fast-moving wildfire destroyed 80% of the town on Labor Day. Whitman County Sheriff’s Office/Facebook hide caption toggle caption Whitman County Sheriff’s Office/Facebook In this photo from the Whitman County Sheriff’s Office, little remains of a building in Malden, Wash. A fast-moving wildfire destroyed 80% of the town on Labor Day. Whitman County Sheriff’s Office/Facebook Almost every structure in the small farming town of Malden in eastern Washington state was destroyed by a fast-moving fire Monday as high winds created what officials described as […]
It’s not that I didn’t know I had a small face, but the process of buying a face mask has been an eye-opening experience. I’ve tried all the shapes of masks out there. I’ve tried masks with ties, masks with a nose wire, pleated masks, contoured masks, mask clips. You name it, I’ve tried it. But what I’ve come to realize is that any old face masks just will not work on my smaller, narrower face. They bulge out at the sides or leave a huge gap under my chin, basically negating the purpose of a face mask. So, I did […]
NuScale’s application for certification of its small modular reactor (SMR) design for use in the USA was submitted on 31 December 2016, with the power company saying it had spent over $500 million, with the backing of its majority investor Fluor, to develop the project. The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has given the go-ahead for the first time to a small commercial nuclear reactor, after a final safety evaluation report (FSER) was issued for Portland-based NuScale Power’s design. Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems is looking to use the design to construct small modular reactors (SMR) at a 890-square-mile (2,300-square-kilometre) US […]
Why do police murder African American men? Want the truth? We don’t think you can handle the truth. The old themes, that the light skinned “house negro” was the progeny of only the male slave owner is a hollywood concoction. Sure, some wanted to be urinated on, we know that but the real attraction was always sexual humiliation, the highest form of eroticism in Christian evangelical America, one that requires taboos and race hatred, race envy, to work. But we all know that as well, don’t we? Today we are going to raise some hard truths while discussing a sensitive subject […]
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Some workers and employers across the country continue to face personal protective equipment shortages. Masks, gloves, gowns, thermometers and other equipment are scarce. David J. Phillip/AP hide caption toggle caption David J. Phillip/AP Some workers and employers across the country continue to face personal protective equipment shortages. Masks, gloves, gowns, thermometers and other equipment are scarce. David J. Phillip/AP At the height of summer, temperatures climb to nearly 100 degrees most days in Pharr, a small city in South Texas. Nonetheless, nurse practitioner Oralia Martinez and her staff have set up a temporary exam room outside her small clinic. This is […]
SpaceChain said the test advances its dreams of building a decentralized blockchain infrastructure in space. Source link
A surprisingly small active black hole located 15,000 light-years away is lighting up a neighboring gas cloud to a specific, shared rhythm, in a strange but fascinating phenomenon. The black hole system in question is called SS 433 and is considered a Microquasar: the black hole measures between 10 and 20 solar masses while its binary companion star is 30 times the mass of our sun. The pair orbit each other at a distance of roughly 100 light-years every 13 days, with the gas cloud pulsating in time with the underlying rhythm of the black hole. Also on rt.com Scientists devise […]
Pentagon’s No.1 weapons supplier Lockheed Martin Corp. has announced that the Swiss Army chooses Indago 3 small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) for tactical reconnaissance and surveillance. Armasuisse contracted Lockheed Martin for a fleet of Indago 3 UAS, with options for spares, training and tech support and additional systems for the Swiss Army, according to a company news release. Indago provides aerial reconnaissance in environments unreachable by normal fixed-wing, unmanned aircraft systems. – ADVERTISEMENT – CONTINUE READING BELOW – The first phase comprises manufacturing development to optimize the Indago 3’s configuration to meet Swiss Army requirements. These include: Integration of a transponder […]
More than 50% of COVID-19 related business closures in the US are now permanent. Can tech platforms provide a new avenue for small biz entrepreneurship? Today on the Brief: Disappointing jobless claim numbers with first increase in 4 months US banks now allows to custody crypto Senate hears arguments for a digital dollar in the context of US-China economic competition Our main conversation with Sahil Bloom Sahil Bloom is an investor with Altamont Capital Partners and a prolific author of financial literacy Twitter threads. In this conversation, he and NLW discuss: Today’s jobless claims Long term economic impacts from COVID in […]
The United States Marine Corps takes new steps to receive new suppressors for use with M27 Infantry Automatic Rifle (IAR), M4 Carbine and M4A1 Close Quarter Battle Weapon. The Marine Corps is turning to its trusted supplier – Knight’s Armament Company of Titusville, Florida – to design, develop, build and supply a new generation of suppressors for their small arms. “The Government intends to solicit and negotiate with Knight’s Armament Company (KAC), 701 Columbia Blvd, Titusville, FL 32780, for up to 25,853, 5.56mm Small Arms Suppressors to be used on the following weapon systems: M27 Infantry Automatic Rifle (IAR), M4 Carbine and […]
When the Trump administration began implementing a trillion-dollar program to bail out struggling employers amid the COVID-19 pandemic, a central concern was that the president would use the program to benefit his friends and allies. It turns out that Trump’s pals weren’t the ones catching the windfall so much as Washington D.C.’s well-off and well-connected in general. Among the entities cashing six to seven-figure checks from the federal government’s Paycheck Protection Program in recent months were a fiscal responsibility advocacy organization run by anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist, a high-powered consulting firm run by former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, the nonprofit […]
The U.S. Army Contracting Command released a pre-solicitation notice regarding a contract to produce 5.56mm, 7.62mm, and Caliber .50 ammunition. The Army announced in a Jul. 1 notice posted to the Federal Business Opportunities website that it on behalf of the Office of the Program Manager, Maneuver Ammunition Systems (OPM-MAS) intends to issue Request for Proposal (RFP) for a Small Caliber Second Source supplier to produce 5.56mm, 7.62mm, and Caliber .50 ammunition. The supplier is required to be geographically separated from the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant (LCAAP). According to a recently published request for information, the acquisition will have a […]
After a lengthy grounding following a failed launch in July 2019, the closure of the Guiana Space Centre due to the novel coronavirus outbreak, and a further postponement because of high-altitude winds, Arianespace’s small-lift Vega rocket was set to launch its Return To Flight (RTF) mission. However, a scrub was called deep into the countdown, delaying the launch once again. The mission will see 53 satellites deployed for 21 customers hailing from 13 countries around the world, launching from the Vega Launch Complex (SLV) at the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana. This mission, also known as Vega VV16, will […]
Bitcoin is reporting moderate gains on Monday as gold, a safe haven asset, rallies amid renewed coronavirus concerns. At press time, the cryptocurrency is priced around $9,430 – up 1.5% on the day – having put in lows near $9,260 during the Asian hours, according to CoinDesk’s Bitcoin Price Index. Gold, however, printed a one-month high of $1,759 per ounce early on Monday and was last seen trading near $1,750. The precious metal looks to be rising as the markets return their focus to the coronavirus pandemic, with the number of new cases rising at a faster pace in Germany, the […]
By Kevin Barrett, Veterans Today Editor, for Press TV Donald Trump has a way of saying a lot of crazy and incoherent things. And he’s such a ‘genius’ at it that people (like comedian Sarah Cooper) can parody him pretty much by just playing a tape of what he says. And recently, the most recent example of this is his quite amazing statement that the concept of chokeholds sounds ‘so innocent, so perfect.’ That is a very strange statement. It sounds like something that an insane murderer would say after he’s been arrested for choking hundreds of people to death. They […]
Members Of Congress Receive COVID-19 Small Business Loans By Jessica Buxbaum, Shadowproof. June 15, 2020 Members Of Congress Receive COVID-19 Small Business Loans2020-06-152020-06-15https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/cares-act-e1592231365864.jpg200px200px Above photo: CARES Act from Hall Benefits Law. Members of Congress obtained disaster loans for their businesses through the Small Business Administration’s Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). The program has been embroiled in controversy since it launched in March. Large corporations received multimillion-dollar loans. Minority-owned businesses were shut out of aid. According to news reports, Texas Representative Roger Williams and Missouri Representative Vicky Hartzler both received PPP loans for companies they own, indicating a clear conflict of interest regarding the program’s distribution of federal […]
Crypto retirement savings firm Bitcoin IRA is ready to take on smaller accounts with the launch of its new IRA product, Saver IRA. Around four years ago, Bitcoin IRA launched its first self-directed individual retirement account that required balance minimums of $20,000. Now the firm has dropped that minimum to $3,000 for a standard account. With the addition of Saver IRA, the company has a no-balance-minimum account that instead requires a monthly deposit minimum of $100. “When it’s time to make the decision of when to buy, you’ll find that folks who want to get their toes wet will freeze,” said […]
By Michael Dargaville for VT The aliens and ETs who are surrounding this planet in spaceships called the Galactic Federation have declared they will give full military protection to smaller countries who join this extraordinary organization working for good. This was recently announced by a major Galactic Federation alien in what is a most important new change and development for this planet. The world lives under a huge lie that the “established” fascist media is denying by omission – that this planet is being surrounded by spaceships of galactic human aliens from other star nations within our galaxy. These aliens […]
Dr. Rachel Levine All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. Pennsylvania Health Secretary Dr. Rachel Levine twisted himself into a pretzel this week trying to justify limitless Black Lives Matter protesters (and rioters) while standing by Coronavirus restrictions for churches and small businesses. Dr. Levine, who is the first transgender person appointed to a Pennsylvania Cabinet, became secretary of health in 2017. A reporter asked Dr. Levine about Governor Tom Wolf calling business owners cowards for wanting to open their businesses just a few weeks ago and then marching this week in Harrisburg with Black Lives […]
The rioting went on late into the night Thursday in Minneapolis, stretching into early Friday morning with protesters stealing and torching several U.S. Postal Service vans to protest the death in police custody of George Floyd on Monday. Advertisement – story continues below The mob damaged or destroyed 130 businesses in Minneapolis this week.Here is a list of the damaged or destroyed businesses in south Minneapolis this week. This black small business owner as seen crying after looters destroyed his sports bar. “Burn it down,” they say from their multimillion dollar homes and cable news sets. “Burn it down,” from their […]
With bitcoin’s price losing altitude again, small investors appear to be seeking exposure to the top cryptocurrency by market value. Prices fell by 9.8% last week to register bitcoin’s biggest weekly decline since the second week of March, according to CoinDesk’s Bitcoin Price Index. A two-week low of $8,630 was registered early on Monday, with prices last seen at $8,730 – down over 11% from the post-halving high of $9,960 registered on May 18. Despite the price drop – or perhaps because of it – the number of addresses holding smaller amounts of bitcoin has continued to rise. The number of unique […]
Facebook hopes to make commerce a bigger part of its operation by letting businesses set up storefronts in its apps. Facebook hide caption toggle caption Facebook Facebook hopes to make commerce a bigger part of its operation by letting businesses set up storefronts in its apps. Facebook Facebook is making a big push into online shopping by letting businesses set up free storefronts on its social network and Instagram. Businesses can feature items in their shops, advertise them to users, and communicate with customers through the company’s messaging services. Shops will eventually be integrated across Facebook’s apps, including WhatsApp and Messenger. […]
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Rosemary Ugboajah (at front) with her company’s leadership team, Alan Tse and Sheri Ellis. Terry Hastings/The Hastings Gallery hide caption toggle caption Terry Hastings/The Hastings Gallery Rosemary Ugboajah (at front) with her company’s leadership team, Alan Tse and Sheri Ellis. Terry Hastings/The Hastings Gallery The first time Rosemary Ugboajah applied for a small-business relief loan, it didn’t go well. She needed the money for her small Minneapolis-based company, which has created ad campaigns for brands like the NCAA Final Four. So she went to her credit union. “They were hard to reach, but eventually I got through to someone and they […]
Last week the DOJ dropped its case against General Michael Flynn after new evidence revealed the DOJ and Mueller team were withholding Brady evidence in the case. And on Thursday the DNI and House Intelligence Committee finally released the transcripts of 53 interviews during the Mueller investigation that revealed NOT ONE SINGLE Obama official had evidence or saw evidence that Trump colluded with Russia in any way. Acting DNI Ric Grenell delivered a second set of documents to the DOJ in a satchel on Thursday that contain even more damning evidence on the Obama deep state corruption. TRENDING: “There Is Nothing […]
Anthony Sabatini, a freshmen lawmaker in Central Florida, circulated a letter from his office and took to his social media accounts to slam the Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR), for publishing a website that allows Floridians to report businesses for “violating social distancing guidelines.” Our sources say that the DBPR’s development of the site was a “rogue” action that conflicts with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ wish to reopen the state of Florida and get the economy back to historic highs ahead of President Trump’s re-election in 2020. Sabatini rightfully worries that the website could remain active after the COVID-19 […]
J. C. Cole is a small farmer with global experience and a double engineering degree from Lehigh University. In this short interview he SOUNDS THE ALARM on the looming food and energy crisis and ends with specific suggestions for the President of the United States of America — create a small farm advisory council with no suits; invest in small farms; end all government regulations that keep small farmers from reaching the market place, and localize farming everywhere, starting with the East Coast where government regulations have killed the small farmer. American Heritage Farm Safe Sustainable Farm Concept Learn more (free […]