The U.S. Army has demonstrated the first prototype of a new laser weapon system based on the Stryker combat vehicle. Video released by Army Professional Forum (APF) shows the finished, combat-capable prototype of the Directed Energy Maneuver Short Range Air Defense, or DE-MSHORAD, with a 50 kW-class laser integrated onto a Stryker platform. Mounted on the newest Stryker A1 chassis, the DE-MSHORAD system, along with Interim Maneuver […]
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The commission that runs debates has changed the rules, following a cacophonous first debate that was packed with interruptions. Justin Sullivan/Pool/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Justin Sullivan/Pool/AFP via Getty Images The commission that runs debates has changed the rules, following a cacophonous first debate that was packed with interruptions. Justin Sullivan/Pool/AFP via Getty Images The Commission on Presidential Debates announced changes to the […]
Passengers enter a checkpoint at O’Hare International Airport on Monday. The TSA reports it screened over 1 million passengers on Sunday, the highest number since the coronavirus crisis began. Scott Olson/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Scott Olson/Getty Images Passengers enter a checkpoint at O’Hare International Airport on Monday. The TSA reports it screened over 1 million passengers on Sunday, the highest number since the coronavirus […]
Tucked away on a quiet street in Berlin’s Kreuzberg district, Room 77 had the look of your typical dive bar – until you paid attention to the details. If you did, you’d notice the grungy scene was punctuated with cypherpunk paraphernalia. One brick wall overlooking a row of booths was populated by the portraits of Ross Ulrbicht, Edward Snowden and Julian Assange. Adjacent to these crypto-anarchy […]
…by Gordon Duff, VT Sr. Editor A war is coming. Boogaloo is Police. Other militias turn to them for protection. Dozens of Michigan police, members of Boogaloo, are under investigation for planning to murder lawmakers. A war is coming. The death of the flag, and it is certainly dead now, is a call for an armed revolution to overthrow the tyranny that has been imposed and […]
Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court confirmation is a done deal. Democrats don’t have the votes, and not enough Republicans have the principles. Democrats’ only recourse, many have argued, is to increase the size of the court—“court-packing” is the derogatory term—to offset the illegitimate appointments of Justice Gorsuch (after the stonewalling of Should’ve-Been-Justice Garland) and Justice Barrett. Presuming they win the presidency and flip the Senate, of […]
Twitter has one-upped Facebook’s censorship regarding a story based on alleged emails from Democratic candidate Joe Biden’s son Hunter about his Ukraine dealings, blocking all users from sharing it via tweet or direct message. Twitter users were blocked on Wednesday from sharing the New York Post story critical of the Bidens published just that morning. The decision was based on a never-before-invoked “hacked materials policy” that Twitter […]
Pharmaceutical firm Eli Lilly on Tuesday halted one of two trials of a major new novel coronavirus therapy after independent safety monitors observed an unspecified problem with the testing. The Data Safety Monitoring Board froze trials of the Indiana company’s monoclonal antibody drug bamlanivimab, which was being administered in combination with the antiviral drug remdesivir. The board didn’t freeze separate trials testing bamlanivimab on its own, […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/0e/1080763361_0:-1:1321:742_1200x675_80_0_0_3105bfd1120d49da07ec0b5f9895a4ca.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Evan Craighead . Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/us/202010141080763408-pro-trump-ad-once-again-features-footage-of-non-americans-this-time-from-russia-belarus/ Like several other recent pro-Trump advertisements, a new, 30-second TV spot relies on foreign stock footage while taking shots at Democratic presidential nominee and former US Vice President Joe Biden. America First Action, a group that has reportedly raised $82 million toward the reelection of US President Donald Trump, debuted a major ad last week in […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/0d/1080756280_197:0:1397:675_1200x675_80_0_0_d1176142e897eb393ae2c469946b49e9.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/videoclub/202010131080755742-blessed-by-freddie-mercury-dog-plays-piano-sings-when-home-alone/ Funny animal videos, whether it’s a cat chase a string on the floor, or a parrot eat fruits. have helped many people to go through months-long lockdowns amid the pandemic. An adorable video of a little doggie playing a piano and singing its heart out is making the rounds on social media. The video shows the dog hit high […]
It was the summer of terror—an altogether different terror than the pandemic kind we’re living through now. But it was just as global and, at the time, just as harrowing. This is what happened in the span of just two weeks in June 1985: a bomb went off in the international terminal of Frankfurt’s airport, killing three and injuring 74; a guerrilla group attacked a restaurant […]
When Kimberly Guilfoyle tested positive for COVID-19 before Donald Trump’s July Mount Rushmore speech, it seemed like the result came back just in the nick of time. She and her boyfriend, who happens to be the president’s son, Donald Trump Jr., skipped the rally and were said to have avoided contact with the president. But the duo had already made a lasting impression in the northern […]
More than 100,000 new Covid cases have been reported across Europe in one 24-hour period for the first time, as the continent struggles with the second wave of the virus and many nations record their highest-ever infection rates. The second wave of the novel coronavirus appears to be hitting Europe harder than the first, at least when it comes to the spread of the virus. Statistics […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/105550/74/1055507458_0:100:1920:1180_1200x675_80_0_0_f1dbc088755abcab656ac7fb6cd661b1.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Oleg Burunov. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/us/202010091080715748-us-federal-debt-will-soon-be-larger-than-any-time-in-history-american-budget-watchdog-claims/ Last month, a US Congressional Budget Office report revealed that the country’s federal debt is expected to stand at 98% of America’s GDP by the end of this year. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has released a survey indicating that the 2020 fiscal year saw the US deficit hit $3.13 trillion, or 15.2% of the country’s Gross […]
The Indian economy nose-dived between April and June this year, with gross domestic product growth contracting 23.9 percent in the quarter that saw a strict lockdown due to the pandemic. In January – March this year, the country witnessed GDP growth of 3.1 percent. Maintaining that the South Asian economic situation is worse than ever, the World Bank on Thursday said India’s gross domestic product (GDP) […]
Asked in a recent interview how things were going as Election Day draws near, a state elections director paused, searching for the right words. “I feel like I’ve got democracy in a boat,” the director told The Daily Beast, “and my staff is bailing water out while people are drilling holes in it.” That official, who spoke anonymously to discuss the situation candidly, sums up how […]
George Takei remembers his lowest point vividly. It came on November 11, 2017. The Star Trek actor was in Tokyo, Japan, for a gala screening of Allegiance, his Broadway passion project about Japanese internment, when his phone began buzzing like crazy. “It was right after our screening and we were celebrating, and then… we heard,” he recalls to The Daily Beast. “It was horrible.” The Hollywood […]
Scheer Intelligence: In A Time Of Mortal Crisis By Robert Scheer, ScheerPost.com. October 2, 2020 Scheer Intelligence: In A Time Of Mortal Crisis2020-10-022020-10-02https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/rabbi-scaled-e1601663371500.jpg200px200px Above image: Mr. Fish. Rabbi Michael Lerner Prophesies a Caring Society. The lifelong progressive talks about his new book and what he found lacking in Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign. There’s no denying there’s been a renewed wave of interest in socialism in the […]
Guardian: Well, it’s definitely a plot twist. Like a lot of people who sat through Tuesday’s presidential debate, I’m amazed the week has ended with Donald Trump ingesting bleach, and not me. Unmasked Trump supporters called upon to ‘protect America from excess voting’ As you may vaguely have heard, the US president and his wife, Melania, have tested positive for the novel coronavirus – which feels untimely given that, mere hours […]
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Russia will be represented by three football clubs in the 2020-2021 UEFA Champions League’d group stage for the first time, as FC Krasnodar has defeated Greece’d PAOK in the qualifying play-off round. On 22 September, the first match between FC Krasnodar and FC PAOK ended with the victory of the Russian team with the score 2:1. The second match was held on Wednesday […]
On a recent Monday, New York City inspectors were out in full force in Harlem. A Department of Buildings officer lurked around a recently constructed makeshift restaurant patio on Frederick Douglass Boulevard. He took photos, jotted down notes and was soon joined by a colleague. They conferred, pointing here, there and over there, too. Karl Franz Williams watched all this from his perch on a stool […]
The Covid-19 per-capita death rate in Israel is higher than that of the United States for the first time since the outbreak of the pandemic, that country’s military intelligence reported on Tuesday. Israel’s daily Covid-19-related death rate was 3.5 per million people compared to the US rate of 2.2 per million, according to task force, which is a part of the Israel Defense Forces Military Intelligence […]
A new report by the World Bank reveals that Covid-19 delivered a “triple shock” to the developing East Asia and Pacific region, with as many as 38 million people expected to remain in, or be pushed back into, poverty as a result. It is the first increase in poverty in the region in two decades, according to the findings. The bank defined the poverty line as […]
The team previously won their maiden Stanley Cup in 2004. The Tampa Bay Lightning won the Stanley Cup on Monday claiming victory over the Dallas Stars with a 2-0 score. Brayden Point’s goal and goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy’s performance earning the shutout brought the team their second Stanley Cup in franchise history. Meanwhile, Tampa Bay’s defenceman Victor Hedman has won the Conn Smythe Trophy as the most valuable […]
It’s news that may unsettle fans of Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘The Birds,’ but scientists have proven that crows possess a form of consciousness and are smarter than they’ve been given credit for. Corvids, or the crow and raven family of birds, are consciously aware of their environments and the short-term passage of time, which in turn, generates subjective experiences, the researchers found. The team at the University […]
A dog dressed as Marty McFly from Back to the Future attends the 25th Annual Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade in 2015. New research says time travel might be possible without the problems McFly encountered. Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images A dog dressed as Marty McFly from Back to the Future attends the 25th Annual […]
We’re teetering on the brink of an unthinkable future. Our democracy hangs by a thread. “How are you doing?” feels like a useless greeting; everything is bad now. Americans are simultaneously fed up and burned out. We feel a fiery rage and debilitating grief. But hey: at least Katie Holmes is having a good time. The 41-year-old actress is, as the New York Post put it […]
In August a YouGov poll put the UK’s Labour Party neck and neck with the Tories on competence, as Jeremy Corbyn’s successor Keir Starmer has been successfully strategizing towards rebuilding a voter coalition for future success. The UK Labour Party has edged ahead of the Conservatives in an opinion poll for the first time since Boris Johnson became prime minister in July 2019. According to a […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a national lockdown on 24 March “to protect the country, and each of its citizens…” in his “decisive fight against the Corona pandemic”. All activities, except certain essential services, were halted to stop the spread of the coronavirus. Exactly six months after India’s national lockdown started, and despite the gradual elimination of the measures, life has still not returned to what it was […]
POTUS has been included in the list for a fifth year in a row, but the blurb about his fresh accomplishments sounded overly stinging when compared to the one about his rival, former Vice President Joe Biden, who is running for the presidency on the Democratic ticket in November. Immunologist Dr Anthony Fauci, President Donald Trump, and the founders of the Black Lives Matter movement – […]