Free Speech Is More Complicated Than You Think By Eleanor Goldfield, Art Killing Apathy. November 17, 2020 Free Speech Is More Complicated Than You Think2020-11-172020-11-17https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/aka-e1605645803321.jpg200px200px The truth is – words are dangerous. Words are the catalysts of all action – good or evil. To start with a cliché but solid example: words inspired millions of Germans to direct their ire towards Jews, Romani, LGBTQ and other […]
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Free Speech Under Attack In Australia By Daniel Hurst, The Guardian. October 21, 2020 Free Speech Under Attack In Australia2020-10-212020-10-21https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/aus-e1603284841861.jpg200px200px Above photo: Darren England/EPA. ‘Chilling attack on democracy’: proposed Asio powers could be used against journalists. Environmental and human rights groups could also be targeted under a new government bill, legal experts argue. Journalists and advocacy groups could face compulsory questioning by Asio as part of […]
Conservative protesters in San Francisco accuse Antifa activists of violently attacking their rally. Police officers were injured at the event as well. A “free speech rally” was held at the United Nations Plaza on Saturday. Some demonstrators wore red ‘Make America Great Again’ Trump campaign hats and carried pro-police ‘Thin Blue Line’ flags, as well as US flags. The activists came to decry what they call […]
Ten Reasons Why The Assange Trial Threatens Freedom Of Speech By Fidel Navaez and Ben Norton, The Grayzone. October 14, 2020 Ten Reasons Why The Assange Trial Threatens Freedom Of Speech2020-10-142020-10-14https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/assange1.jpg200px200px Above photo: Julian Assange (back) listened in the dock as James Lewis (front, centre) opened the hearing with the US position. The Ecuadorian diplomat who gave Julian Assange political asylum reports from the extradition hearing […]
Joe Biden’s campaign stop in Toledo, Ohio was slightly overshadowed by some enthusiastic supporters of Donald Trump who drowned out his speech by chanting “four more years!” While trying to speak about the economy during a drive-in event, Biden found himself talking over Trump supporters several times. Every time he mentioned the president by name, the MAGA supporters would honk their car horns and chant things […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/16/1080531525_0:49:3071:1777_1200x675_80_0_0_33218579b396903728e4e90546947a8d.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/uk/202010121080749093-boris-johnson-delivers-new-restrictions-to-curb-coronavirus-spread—video/ Earlier in the day, UK Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden said he hoped that the country’s new three-tiered COVID-19 local lockdown system will be sufficiently effective that the strict social distancing measures may be lifted in time for the Christmas holidays. UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is delivering a speech in London this Monday, 12 October, outlining an expected “three-tier […]
Pennsylvania State Representative Wendy Ullman and Governor Tom Wolf were caught joking off camera about taking their masks off just before they spoke at a press conference touting the need to defend Obamacare during Covid-19. Just as Ullman was preparing to speak behind the podium on Tuesday at a press conference north of Philadelphia, Wolf can be heard off camera to her left, saying: “So Wendy, […]
On 20 August, Navalny fell ill during a domestic Russian flight from Tomsk to Moscow. He was initially treated in the Siberian city of Omsk, where the plane made an emergency landing. He was later flown to Berlin for further treatment. Last week, Berlin said that doctors found traces of a nerve agent from the Novichok group in his system. Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny is […]
A Portland activist who had traveled to Washington, D.C. to protest the Republican convention says he was punched in the head by one of Donald Trump’s most ardent evangelical Christian allies. Video of the attack appears to support his claim. On Thursday, pro-Trump writer and talk radio host Eric Metaxas was among the roughly 1,500 attendees at Trump’s Republican National Convention speech on the White House […]
In a piercing appraisal of the growing strife unraveling under President Donald Trump’s first term, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden accused him of stoking, and even starting, civil unrest that is proliferating across the country. Trump has been a “toxic presence in our nation for four years” who is “poisoning our very democracy,” Biden said forcefully in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The speech offered a moment of methodical, […]
On Monday night, former Fox News host Kimberly Guilfoyle, a top fundraiser for the Trump reelection effort and girlfriend of Donald Trump Jr., delivered a booming, scenery-chewing speech at the 2020 Republican National Convention that immediately went viral. It concluded, her arms outstretched, with Guilfoyle’s bellowed vow, “The. Best. Is. Yet. To. Come!” CNN personalities were flabbergasted by it, with correspondent Dana Bash remarking, “Oh, my […]
Democrats and the media must be looking at some horrific polling numbers on the riots and violence happening in multiple cities. A few days ago, Joe Biden finally mentioned the rioting and looting, something that was never addressed during the Democratic National Convention. He did so a day after CNN’s Don Lemon mentioned that the violence is starting to have a negative impact on Democrat polling […]
Protesters Gather In ‘Noise Protest’ Trump’s RNC Speech August 28, 2020 Protesters Gather In ‘Noise Protest’ Trump’s RNC Speech2020-08-282020-08-28https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/protesters-outside-of-white-house-during-president-trumps-speech-at-rnc.-by-ap-e1598644394994.jpg200px200px Above photo: Protesters outside of White House during President Trump’s speech at RNC. By Carolyn Kaster for AP. Hundreds of demonstrators gathered around the White House on Thursday night for a “noise demonstration and dance party” in an attempt to drown out President Donald Trump’s speech accepting the […]
On Thursday night, US President Donald Trump delivered a fiery acceptance speech after being nominated by the Republican Party to run for a second term in November. A journalist told Sputnik that Trump is given space to spin lies about an imaginary adversary by a mainstream media that long ago gave up its duty to be critical of politicians. In a speech at the White House […]
Criminal-justice reform advocate Alice Johnson spoke on behalf of President Donald Trump at the Republican National Convention Thursday night. But that doesn’t mean she supports him in the 2020 election. Appearing Friday on CNN with Jake Tapper—just hours after Trump issued her a full pardon—Johnson explicitly declined to endorse his campaign. During the interview, Tapper pointed out that while she “praised President Trump for his compassion” […]
Bitcoin and gold are reversing losses seen on Thursday after the Federal Reserve’s announcement of a more relaxed approach to tackling inflation. Source link
Fox News anchor Chris Wallace and senior political analyst Brit Hume ripped President Donald Trump’s 70-minute Republican National Convention speech on Thursday night, describing it as “surprisingly flat” and lacking in “excitement.” Following the precedent-busting address from the White House in which the president accepted his party’s nomination, the “All-Star Panel” at the president’s favorite cable news channel largely gave his lengthy and rambling speech a […]
The Federal Reserve Chair announced a slate of new policy approaches, but are they inspired or impotent? Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell spoke Thursday at the annual Jackson Hole conference convened by the Kansas City Fed, which was virtual this year due to COVID-19. In the highly anticipated speech, Powell laid out a number of key changes to how the Fed approaches unemployment and inflation. In […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/08/1c/1080298771_0:89:2942:1743_1200x675_80_0_0_0e6dabc2e99133c4e5b1eaf591ddb57c.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Muhammad Osman. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/us/202008281080298755-melania-trumps-facial-expression-as-ivanka-walks-by-after-delivering-her-rnc-speech-goes-viral/ Thursday was the fourth and final night of the 2020 Republican National Convention (RNC), in which US President Donald Trump accepted his party’s nomination for the US presidency. Ivanka Trump was the last of the president’s children to speak at the event. A facial expression made by the US first lady, Melania Trump, as her step-daughter Ivanka […]
President Trump delivered his RNC acceptance speech outside the White House on Thursday night. Trump mocked creepy Joe Biden. Advertisement – story continues below “For 47 years, Joe Biden took the donations of blue collar workers, gave them hugs — and even kisses…” Trump said. Trump is correct. TRENDING: You Knew This Was Coming… Nancy Pelosi: “I Don’t Think That There Should Be Any Debates… I […]
UFC president Dana White took aim at those calling to defund law enforcement in his speech to the Republican convention, praising all first responders while vocally endorsing four more years for President Donald Trump. White spoke on the fourth and final night of the Republican National Convention on Thursday, voicing support for Trump in the 2020 presidential race and denouncing a wave of civil unrest that […]
Huffington Post White House reporter Shirish “S.V.” Dáte called Republicans attending President Trump’s renomination acceptance speech at the South Lawn on the White House Thursday night, “flthy” and “diseased.” Like many reporters concern trolling the event, Dáte was commenting about the lack of social distancing among the 1,000 attendees, most of whom were observed to not be wearing masks. However Dáte unleashed venomous vitriol on the […]
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) arrived in person on Thursday ready to deliver arguably her most forceful—and strategic—admonishment of President Donald Trump in the general election. After briefly addressing the natural disasters imperiling the country, wildfires in California and Hurricane Laura in Louisiana and Texas, Harris set her sights on the human-generated horrors gripping the nation. “On the eve of the 57th March on Washington, I will […]
Bitcoin’s options market foresees little price turbulence in the short-term, even as markets await a key speech from the chairman of the Federal Reserve. Source link
A set of politically charged books was immediately spotted just behind the UK prime minister’s back as he spoke in a rambling manner about the importance of sending schoolchildren back to their classrooms after a lengthy coronavirus lockdown, and the frustrating public exams fiasco. Prime Minister Boris Johnson told a roomful of Leicestershire school pupils it is politically acceptable to sing Rule Britannia and ruled that […]
Vice President Mike Pence was the headline speaker at the third night of the Republican National Convention and he did not disappoint. Speaking at Fort McHenry in Baltimore, Pence outlined the successes of the administration and the goals they have for the next four years. He also took the fight to the Democrats, criticizing their failure to address the unrest in various American cities during their […]
Kamala Harris, not basement-dwelling Joe Biden will travel to DC to deliver a counter to President Trump’s convention speech on Thursday. 77-year-old (almost 78) Joe Biden is too feeble to travel and campaign. Biden rarely leaves his Delaware basement and when he does, he stays close to home so he can shuffle back to his bunker for a nap. Now he’s deploying his running mate as […]
A speech by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell scheduled for Thursday offers a reminder of just how dramatically once-slow-moving monetary forces have accelerated due to the devastating economic toll of the coronavirus pandemic. This time last year, President Donald Trump was vehemently criticizing Powell on Twitter for setting interest rates too high, as U.S. economic growth slowed and the national debt swelled past $22 trillion. This […]
Trump campaign director of communications Tim Murtaugh struggled to explain on Wednesday why Republicans and President Donald Trump won’t condemn the unhinged conspiracy theory QAnon, claiming it was just a media obsession that the campaign is not “focused on.” A day after the Republican National Convention pulled a speech by “angel mom” Mary Ann Mendoza after The Daily Beast reported that she boosted an anti-Semitic, QAnon […]
A House Democrat on Tuesday announced that he will be investigating Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s RNC speech. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) blasted Secretary Pompeo for his RNC convention speech from Jerusalem, calling it “appalling.” “Now he’s doing just that thing, and then, of course, really sadly, discoloring our bipartisanship in terms of our support for Israel, which has always been bipartisan, and we always […]
On Monday night, The Late Show’s Melania Trump—played brilliantly as always by Laura Benanti—previewed her big RNC speech by offering up this endorsement of her husband: “If there is one thing that’s absolutely clear to me, it is this: Despite our many differences we must come together for four more years of Donald Trump.” When Stephen Colbert asked her if that was from her upcoming speech, […]
Republican Attorney General Daniel Cameron, the first black Attorney General in Kentucky’s history, spoke at the RNC 2020 on Tuesday night. Daniel was a huge hit!He claimed his place as a rising star in the Republican Party! This was too much for the American left.Racist liberals immediately attacked Daniel online after his amazing speech. Democrat journalist Oliver Willis hurled a racist slur at the Kentucky Attorney […]
Immediately after Melania Trump’s largely humanizing and empathetic speech at Tuesday night’s Republican National Convention, the analysts and hosts at CNN were effusive with their praise for it, applauding the first lady for expressing sympathy for victims of the coronavirus pandemic and addressing racial unrest. “The first lady doing something that I don’t think that any other speaker has done in the two days of the […]