OTI Condemns ‘Unhinged’ FCC, Urges Restoration Of Net Neutrality By Open Technology Institute. October 29, 2020 OTI Condemns ‘Unhinged’ FCC, Urges Restoration Of Net Neutrality2020-10-292020-10-29https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/pai-1-e1603994282183.jpg200px200px Above photo: Protesters, like these in Chicago, came out in force to support Obama-era net neutrality regulations. But the Republican-majority FCC repealed the rules on December 14. Scott Olson/Getty Images. Washington, DC – On October 27, 2020, the Federal Communications Commission voted […]
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Teachers Union Urges Parents To Boycott School Reopening By Jaisal Noor, The Real News. October 20, 2020 Teachers Union Urges Parents To Boycott School Reopening2020-10-202020-10-20https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/scool-e1603238224250.jpg200px200px Above photo: A student receives a temperature check before leaving the car to enter STAR Eco Station Tutoring & Enrichment Center on September 2, 2020 in Culver City, California. Mario Tama/Getty Images. School officials and teachers have very different views on […]
The predominantly Armenian-populated Nagorno-Karabakh region declared independence from Azerbaijan in 1991 and announced plans to join Armenia. This led to a major war between Yerevan and Baku that lasted until 1994, when the sides agreed to start peace talks on the dispute mediated by the OSCE Minsk Group, headed by Russia, the US, and France. Source link
OKEx has frozen withdrawals, audit firms are experiencing a backlog of DeFi projects and the Trump administration is examining DLT for national defense. Top shelf Audit (back)logsCrypto code audit firms say they are swamped with decentralized finance (DeFi) projects. Three of the most well-regarded auditors in the space – OpenZeppelin, Quantstamp and Trail of Bits – told CoinDesk’s William Foxley they are all booked until at least Q1 […]
Ghislaine Maxwell’s sworn testimony on her ties with convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein must remain sealed to ensure she receives a fair hearing in her own criminal case, her lawyer told a federal appeals court. Attorney Adam Mueller urged the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals in New York on Tuesday to reverse an earlier federal court ruling to unseal Maxwell’s deposition. The British socialite is […]
Famous rapper and musician Kanye West announced his 2020 United States presidential election campaign on Twitter on 4 July. President Trump said he would watch the run “very closely”. Kanye West is urged voters to support him as a write-in candidate in the musician’s first political ad as part of his presidential run. “We as a people will revive our nation’s commitment to faith”, the ‘ […]
During talks with French President Emmanuel Macron on 10 October Prime Minister Boris Johnson confirmed that he was committed to exploring “every avenue” to achieve a post-Brexit deal, but added the UK was ready to end the transition period on Australia-style conditions if an agreement fails to be found. The European Union and the UK must hammer out an agreement shaping their post-Brexit relationship by early […]
Swedish citizen and climate activist Greta Thunberg, 17, is encouraging US voters to “get organized” and vote for Joe Biden, despite claiming she does not “engage in party politics.” Thunberg made her endorsement while citing a tweet from Scientific American Magazine telling voters to “protect science instead of destroying it” by voting Donald Trump out of office in November. “I never engage in party politics. But […]
Hillary Clinton, who earlier endorsed Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden ahead of the November elections in the US, intimated that America’s defence spending was veering down the “wrong path”, pointing the finger of blame at President Donald Trump’s alleged mismanagement, augmented by “right-wing ideological resistance”. Hillary Clinton has offered her vision of how America ought to be gearing up to face new emerging threats on the […]
Without naming names, editors of the longest-running US medical journal have outright adopted the platform of Democratic candidate Joe Biden, urging Americans to vote out their “political leaders” over their Covid-19 response. Titled ‘Dying in a Leadership Vacuum,’ the editorial – dated October 8 but made public Wednesday – says the US leadership “failed” the Covid-19 test, turning a crisis into a tragedy. While it does […]
The Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP) expressed its concern about the integrated computer testing capabilities across the three separate programs under the Exploration Systems Development (ESD) division of NASA’s Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate. The Exploration Ground Systems (EGS), Orion, and Space Launch System (SLS) programs under ESD are working together to accomplish upcoming Artemis lunar missions, but have been independently funded and managed throughout […]
A recent report by the Swedish Defence Research Agency has indicated an incidence of “anti-Semitic stereotypes and tropes” on social media. Thirty-five percent of the posts about Jews turned out to be negative, and a lot of them deal specifically with Jews in power. Following a report by the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI) indicating a proliferation of online theories about Jews wielding influence and power […]
In July, US lawmakers again threatened to slap sanctions on Ankara over its 2017 move to buy the S-400 air defence system from Russia. Turkey’s purchase has already led to Ankara’s expulsion from the F-35 programme. The North Atlantic Alliance would like Turkey to find alternatives to its S-400s, with the systems said to carry with them risks to alliance aircraft and the danger of new […]
Ferrier’s actions come on the heels of similar rule breaches by UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s special advisor Dominic Cummings, former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, leading government scientist Neil Ferguson, who was responsible for formulating much of the government’s initial pandemic response, and others. Nicola Sturgeon has called on Scottish National Party (SNP) MP Margaret Ferrier to “do the right thing” and resign after she took […]
Ferrier’s actions come on the heels of similar rule breaches by UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s special advisor Dominic Cummings, former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, leading government scientist Neil Ferguson, who was responsible for formulating much of the government’s initial pandemic response, and others. Nicola Sturgeon has called on Scottish National Party (SNP) MP Margaret Ferrier to “do the right thing” and resign after she took […]
On Sunday, an escalation unfolded along the contact line of Nagorno-Karabakh, an Armenian-majority autonomy that proclaimed independence from what then was the Soviet Azerbaijan Republic in 1991. Baku said that it launched a “counteroffensive”, while the de facto state accused it of attacking civilians in Stepanakert. American reality TV celebrity Kim Kardashian West, spouse of US rapper, Kanye West, on Sunday called on Azerbaijan to stop “all […]
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Lebanese Prime Minister-designate Mustapha Adib urged on Monday all the parties responsible for resolving the long-standing national crisis to foster the formation of a new government, in line with France’s initiative to help the crisis-stricken country seek financial assistance on the condition of a functional cabinet. “Pain of the Lebanese people, passing throughout all the country, requires cooperation between all the sides to […]
TEHRAN (Sputnik) – The Iranian Foreign Ministry called on the United States on Sunday to reconcile with the international community and get back to observing its legal commitments following the controversial statement on the restoration of UN sanctions on Tehran. “Tehran’s message to Washington is clear — return to the international community, act in accordance with your obligations and stop the rebellion. In this case, the […]
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Russia calls on the European Union to reconsider its policies towards Minsk and believes that they lead to erosion of the fundamental rules of the international legal order and prevent the normalization of the situation in the country, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Saturday. According to Zakharova, Brussels does not respect Belarus’ domestic political realities and, while performing its policies, […]
Last week, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that a ban on social gatherings of more than six people will be re-imposed in England as of 14 September, after more than 3,000 confirmed coronavirus cases had been recorded there for the third day in a row. UK Policing Minister Kit Malthouse has called on Brits to report their neighbours to the police if they see them […]
Downing Street earlier introduced the Internal Market Bill, targeting a specific part of the original EU-UK Withdrawal Agreement that Prime Minister Boris Johnson seeks to amend, while forced to contend with growing opposition to the plans on the part of rebellious Tory MPs , who slam the move as constituting a breach of international law. UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has defended his controversial legislation – […]
The Republican chair of the Senate Homeland Security Committee has called on the DOJ to investigate why members of Robert Mueller’s Russiagate team wiped data from dozens of cell phones during the Trump-Russia probe. Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin) penned a letter to the Justice Department on Friday, asking DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz to launch a probe after documents surfaced this week showing that Mueller’s team […]
The UK government earlier announced its determination to “move on” if no deal on post-Brexit relations is reached with the bloc by 15 October, the day of the next European Council summit. Irish premier Micheal Martin said that UK risks forfeiting the EU’s trust as time runs out in talks on a free trade deal. “I think the British government needs to move to restore trust […]
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/202008301080317252-trump-urges-to-arrest-thugs-who-attacked-rand-paul-others-after-rnc/ Earlier, Senator Rand Paul said that he and his wife were “attacked by a crazed mob” of over 100 people as the couple was returning to their hotel from the final day of the Republican National Convention. Source link
Former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has implored the current Donald Trump challenger, Joe Biden, to not concede defeat in the election, sparking accusations from the GOP that the party would “steal” the vote. In a clip, released just as the Republican National Convention was about to kick off on Monday evening, Clinton argued that if Trump emerges victorious in the November presidential contest but with […]
A livestreamer filming the violence and destruction in Kenosha, Wisconsin, urged the arsonists and looters to “go raid some white businesses.” The streamer was upset that they were burning a car dealership, not because they were destroying a business, but because the business had a Black Lives Matter sign nearby. See the sign? lmao pic.twitter.com/fdtTep6buT — #JusticeForCannon (@HurricaneLucid) August 24, 2020 TRENDING: Police Make Second Arrest […]
Attorneys for Ghislaine Maxwell have called on a US appeals court to bar the release of a deposition from a previous case, arguing it would ruin any chance for a fair trial on charges linked Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking ring. The British socialite’s lawyers told the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan on Thursday that an order from a lower court to release the […]
Pope Francis has called on rich countries not to hoard any coronavirus vaccine and asked them to only give pandemic-related bailouts to companies committed to protecting the environment and helping the most needy. “It would be sad if the rich are given priority for the Covid-19 vaccine. It would be sad if the vaccine becomes property of this or that nation, if it is not universal […]
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is calling the House of Representatives back from summer vacation this week to vote on a bill to prohibit the U.S. Postal Service from :implementing any changes to operations or level of service it had in place on January 1, 2020.” Democrats have become panicked as the new Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has made efforts to reform the cash-hemorrhaging […]
If you love The Daily Beast’s royal coverage, then we hope you’ll enjoy The Royalist, a members-only series for Beast Inside. Become a member to get it in your inbox on Sunday. Meghan: “Make all of our voices heard” Before Meghan Markle spoke to the 19th*’s Emily Ramshaw on Friday about online “toxicity,” racism, and fighting for change she told Marie Claire that voting was a “fundamental human […]
Kanye West’s presidential campaign has asked to appear on the Iowa ballot, keeping his 2020 bid alive as the entertainer called to meet with Donald Trump and Joe Biden to discuss “restoring the black community.” Representatives for the West campaign brought nominating petitions to the office of Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate on Friday, the secretary said in a tweet, adding that that would be […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/08/0b/1080133160_0:2:2355:1326_1200x675_80_0_0_7ed2f42adb77c69c47dde1e4855cc66e.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/russia/202008111080132766-foreign-minister-lavrov-urges-to-release-russian-journalists-detained-in-belarus/ Multiple journalists from various media outlets, including Sputnik Belarus correspondent Evgeny Oleinik, were detained by the police during the weekend amid mass protests in Minsk following the presidential election. Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has called on Minsk to release Russian journalists who were detained by Belarusian authorities amid the mass demonstrations. During a press conference with his German […]
Tehran has cautioned against politicizing the devastating blast in Beirut, arguing that Washington should drop sanctions on Lebanon if it is serious about helping the nation recover from the catastrophe. “If America is honest about its assistance offer to Lebanon, they should lift sanctions [against it],” Foreign Ministry Spokesman Abbas Mousavi said on Monday during a news conference. In response to a question about French President […]