EOS creator Block.one has acquired the team behind once-prominent block producer EOS New York, which has now entirely ceased operations. Block.one, which raised more than $4 billion in a yearlong initial coin offering (ICO) in 2018, said Wednesday it had hired EOS New York founders Rick Schlesinger and Kevin Rose, as well as their team. Block.one says the former EOS New York staffers will work on community […]
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Fox News’ Sean Hannity tag teamed with President Donald Trump in a surreal interview to trash numerous Democratic governors and openly question the legitimacy of their pleas for more life-saving equipment to fight the coronavirus pandemic. During a long, Thursday night phone interview, Hannity and Trump discussed the federal government’s response to the outbreak and the $2 trillion stimulus bill that unanimously passed the Senate the day […]
Nevada’s top health officials lack the qualifications one might expect in leaders making public health recommendations for the US, but that hasn’t stopped them from attacking a potential Covid-19 treatment. Trump’s detractors in the Nevada state health department have moved heaven and earth to stop doctors in the state from prescribing two drugs the president deemed promising for treatment of coronavirus, insisting he’s not qualified enough […]
Canada will not send athletes to the upcoming Tokyo Olympics unless the games are pushed back a year amid the coronavirus pandemic, the Canadian Olympic Committee and Canadian Paralympic Committee said in joint statements Sunday. “With COVID-19 and the associated risks, it is not safe for our athletes, and the health and safety of their families and the broader Canadian community for athletes to continue training […]
In a rare moment of bipartisanship, commenters from all sides have demanded swift punishment for US senators who dumped stock after classified Covid-19 briefings. Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard has called for criminal prosecution. As chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Richard Burr (R-North Carolina) has received daily briefings on the threat posed by Covid-19 since January. Burr insisted to the public that America was ready to […]
President Donald Trump denied knowing about cuts made to The White House pandemic office when questioned by PBS’s Yamiche Alcindor on Friday, but a video from last month shows him defending his cuts to public health agencies. During a Covid-19 press conference on Friday, Alcindor asked Trump, “You said that you don’t take responsibility, but you did disband the White House pandemic office, and the officials that […]
Team Trump Failed To Bully ICC Into Dropping War Crimes Probe By Marjorie Cohn, Truthout. March 15, 2020 Team Trump Failed To Bully ICC Into Dropping War Crimes Probe2020-03-152020-03-15https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/03/pompeo-e1584282861927.png200px200px Above photo: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivers remarks to the media at the State Department on March 5, 2020, in Washington, D.C. Pompeo criticized a ruling by international war crimes judges that a probe into wartime abuses […]
Horror novelist Stephen King’s latest hot take on the Covid-19 outbreak has not gone over well online, slamming President Trump’s response team for having the wrong race, age and gender – but netizens advised he stick to fiction. Weighing in during the president’s national emergency declaration on Friday – where Trump was joined by a group of health officials tapped to help with efforts to contain […]
Club statement: COVID-19 — Arsenal (@Arsenal) March 12, 2020 Less than an hour between these two statements. @Arsenal and the @premierleague pic.twitter.com/1BNzl9uE0c — Balls.ie (@ballsdotie) March 12, 2020 Also on rt.com Gunners coronavirus fears: Arsenal release statement after Olympiacos owner reveals he has illness DETAILS TO FOLLOW Source
The last time Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin had a phone call with the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets, better known as the Plunge Protection Team, was on Dec 24, 2018, or the day which has since become better known as the Christmas Eve massacre and which just happened to be the low of the Q4 2018 mini bear markets. It spawned a tremendous rally which […]
The Trump campaign fired off a withering reply to Twitter after the company said the president had shared a “manipulated’” video clip, accusing the platform of unfairly enforcing its rules to help Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden. Twitter appended its first ever “manipulated media” disclaimer to a video on Sunday, warning users that a clip re-tweeted by Trump – showing a stammering Biden as he apparently endorses […]
After long facing criticism from world leaders and health officials over its slow response to coronavirus and lack of transparency, China is going on the offensive, tackling Covid-19 outside of its own borders with a continued focus on the Middle East, after last month sending a team to the hard hit country of Iran. For the first time Beijing has sent a team of experts to […]
Sport 06:58 GMT 08.03.2020Get short URL https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107812/80/1078128070_0:95:3195:1891_1200x675_80_0_0_4a8bd6a6009c9062f8a84ff7f47ae4e9.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/sport/202003081078507659-manchester-united-fans-run-out-of-patience-as-team-prepares-line-up-vs-man-city/ Manchester United without much success continues to try to knock out Chelsea from the fourth line. While the “red devils” are on seventh place in the table with 42 points. A few days ago, Manchester United defeated the Derby County 3-0, having managed to break into the quarterfinals of the FA Cup. On […]
OXFORD, England—Christopher Steele, a former British spy who compiled the notorious dossier on Trump’s relationship with Russia, attacked the Mueller report and Trump’s Department of Justice officials on Friday, in his first public remarks since his bombshell allegations were published in 2017. Speaking to students at the Oxford University in England, he described the probe into Russian interference as having failed to do any “drilling down […]
Almamy Keita, brother of Liverpool midfielder Naby Keita, has been killed along with eight others in a bus crash involving football club Étoile de Guinée as they travelled to play a Guinean second-tier fixture, per reports. A further 18 people are understood to have been injured — some of them seriously — following the Thursday accident which occurred about 155 miles outside of the Guinean capital […]
Social media giant Facebook said it will remove certain ads by President Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign, after Democrats and media activists complained they would confuse Americans about the upcoming population census. The ads were titled “Official 2020 Congressional District Census,” but they directed respondents to a website used by the president’s re-election campaign. The text of the ads, however, made it clear they were requesting data […]
One of ethereum’s early stars is pinning its future hopes to a blockchain of its own making. Dapper Labs, the startup that raised roughly $39 million from venture capitalists after its brief success with the CryptoKitties collectibles game in late 2017, launched a simulator Thursday for its upcoming Flow blockchain. The move positions Dapper Labs among a number of startups looking to build protocols that will […]
CNN anchor Alisyn Camerota compared the rush of endorsements for Joe Biden with Marvel’s superhero Avengers team, and CNN analyst Wajahat Ali, extended the metaphor by likening Bernie Sanders to supervillain Thanos. On Tuesday morning’s edition of CNN’s New Day, the panel discussed the power trio of now-former Democratic presidential candidates — Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, and former Texas Congressman Beto […]
Meet the Press anchor Chuck Todd pressed Vice President Mike Pence on Sunday to “name some names” after the veep groused that there was “irresponsible rhetoric” from Democrats on the coronavirus, with Todd further telling Pence that it feels like Team Trump is “gaslighting” the public. Pence, who was recently tapped by President Donald Trump to lead the administration’s response to the coronavirus crisis, made the […]
Authored by James Fite via LibertyNation.com, California continues to proudly lead the charge toward a disarmed citizenry. In the latest attack on the Second Amendment, Santa Clara County is forming what they call a “county gun team” – a unit of lawyers, analysts, and prosecutors authorized to seek out and confiscate firearms from those the state feels shouldn’t have them. Okay, Fine. We’re Coming For Your Guns […]
On the third day of his extradition hearing WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has rebuked the court for preventing him from communicating with his legal team, saying his prosecutors have “100 times more contact hours each day.” Amid a prosecution argument about whether or not he stands charged with “political offenses” Assange stood and told the court that “the problem is I cannot participate, I cannot privately […]
Day three of the Julian Assange extradition hearing is focusing on whether the allegations against Assange amount to “political offenses.” If so, it would likely be outside of the judge’s jurisdiction to approve extradition. Kicking off proceedings at Woolwich Crown Court on Wednesday, defense counsel Edward Fitzgerald argued that 17 of the 18 counts with which the WikiLeaks founder has been charged fall under the US […]
For just over a century, since America arrived as a major force on the global stage, we have feared that should our enemies defeat us, it would be on the battlefield or via a devastating nuclear onslaught. We never could have imagined that an enemy might take another approach altogether: infecting us with a presidential virus who this week gutted our national security leadership structures like a […]
Assange Defence Team: “The Empire Calls It Espionage. We Call It Journalism” By Thomas Scripps, Wsws.org February 22, 2020 Assange Defence Team: “The Empire Calls It Espionage. We Call It Journalism”2020-02-222020-02-22https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/02/jjjjkkkkjkjhk.jpg200px200px Above Photo: WikiLeaks Editor-in-Chief Kristinn Hrafnsson, lawyer Jennifer Robinson, Deborah Bonetti and Australian MPs Andrew Wilkie and George Christensen Australian parliamentarians Andrew Wilkie and George Christensen visited WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange Tuesday, February 18th in London’s Belmarsh Prison. […]