Above Photo: Alejandra Chavez rallies residents of Westside Mobile Home Park in Durango, Colo., during their March campaign to buy the land under their homes. (Westside Mobile Home Park Cooperative). As Gentrification Sweeps The West, Investors Are Buying Up Mobile Home Parks. Residents Of This Colorado Park Got Together And Bought It Themselves. Durango, Colorado - On a cold January day at the height of ski season, as tourists check into Durango’s resort hotels and wealthy vacationers roll suitcases into their second homes, Alejandra Chavez pulls away from her single wide trailer on the outskirts of town and drives the two-lane road […]
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Above Photo: D.C. substitutes’ picket line. Substitute teachers in District of Columbia Public Schools have won their first raise in 14 years. This comes after five months of picketing outside D.C. government offices under the banner of Washington Substitute Teachers United, demanding higher wages and benefits amid rapidly rising costs of living in the city caused by gentrification. Although having promised wage increases since February 2022, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and Chairman of the D.C. Council Phil Mendelson blamed the delay on computer issues, which resulted in only a few substitute teachers receiving a raise. During the bureaucratic mess, Washington Substitute […]
Above Photo: 2020 Indian farmers’ protest , Singhu Border, Delhi. Harvinder Chandigarh. The Farmers Movement in India has inspired millions around the world who are fighting for justice, democracy and solidarity. The farmers held their ground in the face of threats, intimidation and relentless propaganda, and forced the Modi government to repeal the farm bills. This was one of the most spectacular victories of ordinary people against the combined assault of corporate power and the state, showing that determined struggle can defeat the mightiest of forces. On 19 November 2021 the Government of India announced that three highly contentious Farm Bills […]
Undeterred, Smalls wants all American workers to have access to the organizing strategies that resulted in his union’s historic win. The improbable April 1 victory of Amazon workers in Staten Island, who fought for over two years to establish the very first union at the retail behemoth, is inspiring other Amazon employees around the country and highlighting a new path forward for the labor movement. It may also reignite labor organizing at Walmart, where workers seeking to form unions have been thwarted for decades. More than two years after Amazon employee Christian Smalls led a small walkout at JFK8, the company’s sprawling […]
Above Photo: Most of the tulip pickers also work seasonally at the state’s largest berry grower, where they won a union contract in a four-year fight through repeated strikes. So they’re experienced at direct action, and organized themselves quickly. Edgar Franks Trouble In The Tulips. MT. Vernon, Washington – Tulips and daffodils symbolize the arrival of spring, but the fields are bitterly cold when workers’ labors begin. Snow still covers the ground when workers go into the tulip rows to plant bulbs in northwest Washington state, near the Canadian border. Once harvesting starts, so do other problems. When a worker cuts […]
Howard University Faculty Win Tentative Agreement By Maximillian Alvarez, In These Times. March 24, 2022 Howard University Faculty Win Tentative Agreement2022-03-242022-03-24https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/20220324-4.jpg200px200px Above Photo: A sign welcomes visitors to Howard University in Washington, DC, on February 1, 2022. Mandel Ngan / AFP Via Getty Images. After Nearly Four Years Of Bargaining With The University To Get Their First Union Contract, Lecturers At Howard University Narrowly Avert A Strike At The 11th Hour. Since full-time lecturers at Howard University originally voted to unionize, they have spent nearly four years bargaining with the university administration to get their first contract. On March 23, just hours before […]
Above Photo: Richmond is the first school district in Virginia to reinstate collective bargaining rights, after the legislature in 2020 lifted the state’s 43-year prohibition on collective bargaining for local government workers. Vernon Snow. Teachers and other public school employees in Richmond, Virginia, won a major victory in December when the city’s school board, in an 8 to 1 vote, approved a resolution granting them collective bargaining rights. The victory sets a precedent for other districts and public sector employees throughout the state. Richmond is the first school district in Virginia to reinstate collective bargaining rights, after the legislature in 2020 […]
Above Photo: Striking Teamsters temporarily block the “Blew Crew”— out-of-staters brought to replace them—outside a Republic Services sanitation facility in Chula Vista, Calif., on Jan. 7. With Community Support. “This Contract Isn’t Everything We Believe We Deserve, But It’s Enough To Go Back To Work And Go Back To Taking Care Of Our Communities.” Chula Vista, Calif. – “Who are we?” Teamsters! “What do we want?” Contract! “When do we want it?” Now! The sanitation workers of Teamsters Local 542 were still in good voice three weeks into their strike, which began Dec. 17, 2021, even as Republic Services started bringing in nonunion out-of-staters as garbage piled up. Republic had […]
Berlin’s housing referendum became possible after years of struggle to make housing in the city affordable and available to all again. To understand the issue and the movement that led to this vote, Peoples Dispatch spoke to Anisia Petcu. On 26 September, Berliners voted to expropriate housing from corporate landlords. This referendum became possible after years of struggle to make housing in the city affordable and available to all again. To understand the issue and the movement that led to this vote, Peoples Dispatch spoke to Anisia Petcu, an activist in the expropriation campaign. She works primarily in the working group […]
Above Photo: Graduate assistants during the occupation of UNM’s Scholes Hall December 7th. They worked from the administration building to demonstrate their labor to university President Garnett Stokes and others. (Samantha Cooney). UNM Still Challenging Labor Board’s Decisions In Court. It’s official: graduate student workers at the University of New Mexico have the right to demand school officials come to the bargaining table. New Mexico’s statewide labor board counted 887 cards signed by UNM graduate students expressing their wishes to join United Graduate Workers (UGW-UE). That represents 57.3% of the 1,547 graduate workers in the bargaining unit. That total is also […]
Above photo: Auto worker activists for direct democracy leafleted at plants across the country to promote a yes vote on the referendum. UAWD. This article was originally published on December 1, but is being updated as results come in. The members of the United Auto Workers have voted overwhelmingly to move to a direct voting system for choosing their union leadership—“one member, one vote.” With all votes counted as of December 2, direct elections had the support of 63.6 percent of voters. It’s a historic win for reformers in one of the nation’s most important unions, where members have pushed for […]
Above Photo: Antara Raman. What the media can never openly admit is that the largest peaceful democratic protest the world has seen in years – certainly the greatest organised at the height of the pandemic – has won a mighty victory. A victory that carries forward a legacy. Farmers of all kinds, men and women – including from Adivasi and Dalit communities – played a crucial role in this country’s struggle for freedom. And in the 75th year of our Independence, the farmers at Delhi’s gates reiterated the spirit of that great struggle. Prime Minister Modi has announced he is backing […]
Above Photo: Workers at Cascade Behavioral Health walked out in August following an attack by a patient that injured 11 staff. The National Labor Relations Board concluded this was legal—possibly the first time it has condoned a safety strike in the health care industry. SEIU 1199NW. Nurses and mental health techs at a Tukwila, Washington, facility have won their safety strike after three and a half months on the picket line. Under the settlement, management agreed to staff three security guards for the day shift and two for nights, as well as to restore fired workers to their positions. The contract, which covers […]
So US Tries To Discredit Them. The United Socialist Party Of Venezuela (PSUV) Won The November 21 Mega-Elections In A Landslide, Getting More Votes In 20 Of 23 States And The Capital Caracas. So The US Government Responded By Trying To Discredit The Vote. Venezuelan Journalist Diego Sequera Speaks About The Elections, The Historic Victory Of The Ruling Party Of President Nicolás Maduro, And Washington’s Attempt To De-Legitimize The Process. Venezuela’s November 21 regional elections were monitored by the European Union. After years of boycotting previous votes, Venezuela’s right-wing opposition parties agreed to participate in these elections, through a series of […]
Global Social Movements Issue Solidarity As Protest Completes A Year On 26th November 2021, as the historic protest led by India’s farmers completes a year, La Via Campesina joins others social movements (list in the annex below) in expressing our solidarity and support. As movements united in our global struggles for food sovereignty, we draw inspiration from this year long struggle led by India’s farmers that has demonstrated what resilience and unity of the working class can achieve even in the face of adversities. Read the full text below. In a big win for India’s protesting farmers, who were leading a […]
Above Photo: Ballot in upcoming election. (telesurtv.net) Media Repeats Big Lie That Nicaraguan Migrants To The U.S. Are Escaping Ortega’s Repression The Nicaraguan elections are on Nov. 7, 2021. The U.S. government, the media that does its bidding, and even some self-described “leftists,” present a Nicaragua in “turmoil” and “crisis”—and the elections as a farce. These attacks against the Sandinista government also emanate from academics, intellectuals, and journalists with ties to the members of the now-defunct Sandinista Renovation Movement (MRS), an organization with no political relevance or popular support whose members pretend to be leftist to an international audience but support the Nicaraguan […]
Above Photo: Trucks move across Terminal Island through the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach in July. Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times. One of the world’s largest trucking companies, XPO Logistics, agreed Tuesday to pay $30 million to settle class-action lawsuits filed by hundreds of drivers who said they earned less than minimum wage delivering goods for major retailers from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. The combined settlements, approved by U.S. District Judge R. Gary Klausner, addressed allegations that two XPO subsidiaries, XPO Logistics Cartage in Commerce and San Diego and XPO Port Service in Rancho Dominguez, paid drivers less-than-legal […]
Venezuela; 6D Elections, What’s At Stake And Who Will Win? By Dakotah Lilly, Popular Resistance. December 7, 2020 Venezuela; 6D Elections, What’s At Stake And Who Will Win?2020-12-072020-12-07https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/12/20201207_013613-scaled-e1607353410361.jpg200px200px Above photo: Indira Alfonzo, the President of the National Electoral Council in Venezuela (center) announces the preliminary results of the National Assembly election early in the morning of December 7, 2020. Margaret Flowers. NOTE: This article was written the day before the election. The opening sentence was changed to reflect that it was posted after the election. According to Venezuelanalysis, the preliminary results are as follows: “31% turnout (5.264.104 votes) GPP-PSUV: 3.558.320 (67,6%) […]
Social Movements Can Win Even With A Hostile Supreme Court By Mukund Rathi, Truthout. November 2, 2020 Social Movements Can Win Even With A Hostile Supreme Court2020-11-022020-11-02https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/sc.png200px200px Above photo: A protestor holds up a sign during a protest calling for the Republican Senate to delay the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Nominee Amy Coney Barrett at the U.S. Capitol on October 22, 2020 in Washington, D.C. Jemal Countess/Getty Images for Care in Action. With the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett, how will the Supreme Court decide future cases? Most people will probably think of it as a “6-3 Court” and expect decisions based […]
America’s Still Strangelovian Schemes To ‘Win’ Nuclear Wars By Danny Sjursen, Antiwar.com. October 30, 2020 America’s Still Strangelovian Schemes To ‘Win’ Nuclear Wars2020-10-302020-10-30https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/missiles-scaled-e1604070904603.jpg200px200px Above photo: From Undark.com. “Global Thunder: Bombers practice for nuclear war.” – Air Force Times, five days ago. The headline itself, its casual yet confident language – and that it barely raises a collective eyebrow – desperately deserves deconstruction. But in practice, this madness involves the definitionally a-strategic U.S. Strategic Command (STRATCOM) – in conjunction with British and Australian personnel – sending big bombers like B-52 Stratofortresses, out on an annual nuclear command and control exercise known, therefore, as Global Thunder 21. STRATCOM’s, news […]
The Reds have already conceded 13 goals this season, a tally it took them until December to reach last season, when they did not lose a league game until 29 February and won the title by 18 points from Manchester City, winning 32 of their 38 matches. Man City, winners in 2019, are now odds-on to win the 2020/21 Premier League after defending champions Liverpool confirmed that key defender Virgil van Dijk could be out for the rest of the season. The influential Reds defender was forced off in the 11th minute of Liverpool’s derby day draw with Everton after a shocking challenge […]
Supporters listen as Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden speaks during a drive-in campaign event at Riverside High School in Durham, N.C., on Sunday. Carolyn Kaster/AP hide caption toggle caption Carolyn Kaster/AP Supporters listen as Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden speaks during a drive-in campaign event at Riverside High School in Durham, N.C., on Sunday. Carolyn Kaster/AP Joe Biden’s campaign is urging its supporters not to become complacent in the final weeks of the presidential race, even as polling suggests the former vice president remains ahead of President Trump in several key swing states. “The very searing truth is that Donald Trump […]
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – US President Donald Trump says the Democrats will turn the country into “one giant sanctuary for criminals” by defunding police and instigating attacks on law enforcement officers. “If you give the power to Democrats, the radical left will defund, disband, disarm and dismantle police departments all across America. Asked if he [Biden] supports slashing police funding, he said ‘yes, yes, absolutely yes,’” Trump said at a Saturday campaign rally in Janesville, Wisconsin. Trump pointed to prolonged unrest that Democrat-run states, such as Chicago, New York and Oakland, have been suffering from amid Black Lives Matter protests. “This year […]
An honest question: If Donald Trump were trying to lose the presidency, what would he have done differently? Not much, if you ask me. No, I’m not suggesting Trump wants to lose so he can be a martyr and quit having to do any real work. This theory, which I see as the triumph of hope over optimism, continues to persist (at some points, the hope has gone so far as to suggest that Trump might even resign). Trump wants to win. It’s just that he’s pursuing a strategy that will probably guarantee he doesn’t. Consider a checklist of recent decisions: […]
Undefeated lightweight Teofimo Lopez says that the boxing community will be stunned when he beats the man regarded by most as the world’s best boxer, Vasyl Lomachenko, on Saturday night. Pound-for-pound great Lomachenko heads into the fight against the 15-0 Lopez as a 4/1 favorite, but Lopez says that the pre-fight odds don’t reflect what he expects to unfold when the world’s consensus top two lightweight fighters collide in Las Vegas, Nevada. Also on rt.com ‘I want to improve my legacy’: Vasyl Lomachenko targets another title ahead of Teofimo Lopez showdown (VIDEO) “Man, they’re gonna use every excuse in the book,” […]
Ex-President Barack Obama has recorded videos in support of his former vice-president and spoken by video link at the Democratic National Convention in August, but has not yet appeared at a live rally in support of Joe Biden. Former US President Barack Obama will hit the campaign trail for his old running-mate Joe Biden next week. Obama will headline a presidential campaign rally in Philadelphia, the capital of Pennsylvania on Wednesday October 21. It will be the first time Obama has appeared publicly in support of Biden’s campaign to win the presidency from incumbent Donald Trump, although the ex-president and his […]
President Trump’s influential supporter Rupert Murdoch is telling close associates he believes Joe Biden will win the election in a landslide. The Australian-born billionaire is disgusted by Trump’s handling of COVID-19, remarking that the president is his own worst enemy, that he is not listening to advice about how best to handle the pandemic, and that he’s creating a never-ending crisis for his administration, according to three people who have spoken with Murdoch. In response to an email inquiry for this story asking him if he believes Biden will win in a landslide and his thoughts on Trump’s handling of coronavirus, […]
Clinton Foundation whistleblowers Lawrence W. Doyle and John F. Moynihan have scored their first victory in the litigation against the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Wall Street analyst Charles Ortel has explained what consequences it will have for the powerful political dynasty and its associates. On 8 October, US Tax Court Judge David Gustafson issued an opinion ruling that the IRS’s Whistleblower Office (WBO) had “abused its discretion” in trying to dismiss “specific credible documentation” put forward by Doyle and Moynihan thus allowing the case against the Clintons’ charities to go on. Investigators Doyle and Moynihan Raised the Red Flag Although the […]
The Los Angeles Lakers celebrate after winning the 2020 NBA Championship in Game Six on Sunday in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. Douglas P. DeFelice/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Douglas P. DeFelice/Getty Images The Los Angeles Lakers celebrate after winning the 2020 NBA Championship in Game Six on Sunday in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. Douglas P. DeFelice/Getty Images For some people one event brought home the impact of the coronavirus pandemic: March 11. The day the NBA shut down its season. Resuming four months later, players, coaches and staffers lived in a bubble, sequestered from the outside world. All games among […]
Rafael Nadal produced an astonishing performance at the French Open on Sunday to win his 13th title at Roland Garros, beating Novak Djokovic in straight sets. The Spaniard dominated almost from start to finish as he romped home 6-0, 6-2, 7-5 in two hours and 41 minutes on Court Philippe-Chatrier to claim his 20th Grand Slam title, equalling Roger Federer’s all-time record in the process. His victory was also the 100th time he’s won in Paris, in what was his 102nd match, and his win marked the fourth time he has gone through an entire French Open campaign without dropping a […]
Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton equaled Michael Schumacher’s all-time race wins record by claiming his 91st Grand Prix win at the Eifel Grand Prix at the Nurburgring, Germany. It seemed rather appropriate that Hamilton would equal German legend Schumacher’s tally in Germany, as he crossed the finish line first at the circuit that saw “Schumy” claim five victories in his stellar career. After the race, Hamilton admitted the historical significance of his win only became apparent after he had crossed the finish line. Also on rt.com F1 legend Schumacher ‘moved to $35mn Mallorca villa’ to continue recovery from major brain […]
Dagestani flyweight Tagir Ulanbekov made his octagon debut at UFC Fight Island on Saturday night in Abu Dhabi, and after getting his career on the big stage off to a winning start, he dedicated his win to his former coach. Ulanbekov defeated Brazilian Bruno Silva via unanimous decision in the opening fight of the night on Fight Island to extend his professional record to 11 wins, 1 defeat and announce his arrival in the UFC’s 125-pound division. Then, when speaking to reporters backstage after his win, Ulanbekov revealed the pressure he put himself under as he revealed he fought for the […]
Polish teenage tennis prodigy Iga Swiatek didn’t just defeat Sofia Kenin at Roland Garros. She dominated her to capture her first career Grand Slam in remarkable fashion in a one-sided French Open final. Swiatek hammered Kenin with a barrage of stunning passing shots to claim the title 6-4, 6-1 and become Poland’s first Grand Slam champion. The 19-year-old started fast, and raced into a 3-0 lead before Kenin fought back. But the Pole wouldn’t be denied as she found her consistency to claim the first set. Also on rt.com ‘I need to play my best’: Rafael Nadal says he’ll have to […]
BRUSSELS (Sputnik), Luc Rivet – George Soros and his allies in the European parliament are currently celebrating a victory at the European Court of Human Rights against Hungary and its Prime Minister Viktor Orban after the ruling that the country’s law that forced its Central European University out of Hungary contradicts the EU law. This is only the latest of attacks on the Eastern European country and its leader mounted by Europe’s various leftist parties and EU institutions in their ongoing crusade against the so-called illiberal states, which is how they describe Christian right-of-centre governments of countries such as Poland and […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/06/1080682787_0:13:3072:1741_1200x675_80_0_0_8f5763ae1f17b36d93d91c1e10e7057b.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Irina Acheeva. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/world/202010061080682186-roger-penrose-reinhard-genzel-and-andrea-ghez-win-nobel-prize-for-physics/ The annual Nobel week started in Stockholm on 5 October and the 2020 laureates of the world’s most prestigious prize will be announced until 12 October. English mathematical physicist Roger Penrose along with German astrophysicist Reinhard Genzel and American astronomer Andrea Ghez have won the Nobel Prize for Physics, an official statement by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said. Roger Penrose, 89, was awarded one half of the prize “for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity”, according to the statement. Reinhard […]
Tennis star Laura Siegemund caused a stir at the French Open again on Monday after she was seen eating a meal during a timeout in her win over Paula Badosa. The German beat the Spaniard 7-5, 6-2 to reach her first Grand Slam quarterfinal, but the match will be best remembered for her eating habits on the sidelines. While it’s a common sight to see tennis players chow down on a banana or a chocolate bar to give them a much-needed energy boost during a match, Siegemund took advantage of a medical timeout for Badosa to retrieve what appeared to be […]
Bloomberg/Detroit News: With Joe Biden’s lead widening in the polls and President Donald Trump’s campaign sidelined by the virus, investment strategists now say there’s less of a chance for a contested election. One thing that’s clear is that investors are starting to get very comfortable with the idea of a Biden victory, and increasingly don’t see it as a negative for stocks https://t.co/6dfuojmlL9 — Joe Weisenthal (@TheStalwart) October 5, 2020 A clear-cut Democrat victory could avoid a long and messy legal battle and provide certainty to markets that have been nervous about election risks, according to strategists from Citigroup Inc. to […]
How Progressives Could Still Win The 21st Century By Yanis Varoufakis, The Correspondent. October 1, 2020 How Progressives Could Still Win The 21st Century2020-10-012020-10-01https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/progint-e1601568541955.jpg200px200px Above photo: Francis Alÿs, When Faith Moves Mountains, 2002. Francis Alÿs Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner. Our era will be remembered for the triumphant march of authoritarianism in whose wake the vast majority of humanity have experienced unnecessary hardship and the planet’s ecosystem has suffered avoidable climate destruction. For a brief period – a period the British historian Eric Hobsbawm described as “the short 20th century” – establishment forces were united in dealing with challenges to their authority. It was a […]
The Tampa Bay Lightning celebrate winning the Stanley Cup on Monday in Edmonton, Canada. Bruce Bennett/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Bruce Bennett/Getty Images The Tampa Bay Lightning celebrate winning the Stanley Cup on Monday in Edmonton, Canada. Bruce Bennett/Getty Images For the NHL, the bubble experiment paid off. On Monday night, the Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Dallas Stars 2-0 to win the Stanley Cup. The NHL carried out more than 33,000 coronavirus tests over the course of nine weeks — and says none of them have come back positive as of Sept. 26. The league is expected to release […]
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 player in NHL’s Stanley Cup finals. The Stanley Cup final was played with no spectators in amid COVID-19. Source link
by Salman Rafi Sheikh, with New Eastern Outlook, Moscow, …and the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a research institution for the study of the countries and cultures of Asia and North Africa [ Editor’s Note: Goepolitical watchers have kept a close eye on Trump wanting to play the war commander card at a politically advantageous time, and where Iran would be the number one scapegoat target on his list. Depending on the target inside Iran, or seizing its vessels, the Iranian military has always promised a forceful repsonse as a way of discouraging any such attacks, and it has […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/15/1080525226_149:0:1349:675_1200x675_80_0_0_7442fbc95e2449bbc0b538ca2c7df9e4.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Irina Acheeva. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/society/202009211080525172-zendaya-becomes-youngest-to-win-emmy/ American actress and singer Zendaya Maree Stoermer Coleman rose to fame in the late 2000s for her role as Rocky Blue in the Disney Channel sitcom Shake It Up. Zendaya has become the youngest woman to win Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series, making history at the 72nd Annual Emmy Awards. The Euphoria star has shared a series of posts on Instagram to celebrate her win, saying she is “on cloud nine”. ”Still on cloud nine… so grateful, still speechless, to all my friends and family who have tested/tweeted/called etc. I promise I […]
We Can Still Win The War On Plastic By Michael K. Dorsey, Fair Observer. September 15, 2020 We Can Still Win The War On Plastic2020-09-152020-09-15https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/pvc-2.jpg200px200px Above photo: PVC pipes © koonsiri boonnak / Shutterstock. As with so many other things in 2020, the full-out war against plastic has abated. For many years, even decades, before the current global pandemic, environmental advocates have waged a war against single-use plastic. We’ve been winning that war. More and more consumers are carrying reusable bags for groceries and other shopping items, asking restaurants to use more sustainable materials for take-out containers, and using fewer plastic straws. […]
Our industry seeks to revolutionize many of the most important and regulated functions of our society. Due to that ambition, no other industry of comparable size and age has so quickly captured the focus of policymakers and regulators. This attention creates unique challenges and opportunities. Policies enacted in the coming years related to securities laws, anti-money laundering and know-your-customer requirements, market integrity and taxes could smother our nascent industry, or they could lay the foundation for a flourishing and vibrant cryptocurrency and blockchain economy. Kristin Smith is the executive director of the Blockchain Association, which celebrates its two- year anniversary this […]
Long-Awaited Win For Water Protectors By Water Protector Legal Collective. September 14, 2020 Long-Awaited Win For Water Protectors2020-09-142020-09-14https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/lenobledeclaration1-768×484-e1600086904951.jpg200px200px Above photo: By Martin Lenoble. Standing Rock Civil Rights Class Action Against Excessive Force by Morton County Sheriffs Moves Forward After Four Years. On Thursday, September 10, 2020, in a long-awaited ruling, United States District Court Judge Daniel Traynor (District of North Dakota) allowed a lawsuit challenging law enforcement’s 2016 use of fire hoses and munitions against water protectors opposing the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) to move forward with discovery. The case had been stalled for more than two years after Morton County and […]
.Jurgen Klopp has issued an apology to legendary Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson after he woke the 78-year-old Scot with an early-morning text message soon after Liverpool’s first Premier League trophy in three decades Liverpool ended their 30-year title drought this summer, claiming the English top division at a canter at the tail-end of the COVID-19 hit season with the affable German boss hailed by many of his peers for re-establishing The Reds as a Premier League powerhouse. One person to offer his congratulations was the man who oversaw much of Liverpool’s misery during that title drought: Sir Alex Ferguson. During […]
Halle Berry’s Best Actress win at the 2002 Oscars might have made history—but over time the actress says it has become “one of my biggest heartbreaks.” Speaking with Variety for a cover story, the actress said she’d believed her victory would open doors. But even now, 18 years later, she remains the only Black actress to accept the award. That, she says, has made her doubt its significance. “I thought Cynthia [Erivo] was going to do it last year,” Berry told Variety of the actress’s performance in Harriet. “I thought Ruth [Negga, nominated for 2016’s Loving] had a really good shot […]
Undefeated Russian prospect Aliaskhab Khizriev delivered the goods as he impressed UFC president Dana White and earned a UFC contract after a 50-second win at the Contender Series on Tuesday night in Las Vegas. The series, which features the world’s top fighting prospects, offers unsigned fighters the chance to compete in front of UFC president White at the promotion’s multi-million-dollar Apex facility, with the night’s most impressive winners earning a UFC contract each week. Khizriev was first up on Tuesday night, as he extended his undefeated record to 13-0 with a quickfire submission victory over Brazilian Henrique Shiguemoto in their middleweight […]
LONDON (Sputnik) – Clive Stafford-Smith, the first witness called to testify by Julian Assange’s legal team on the second day of the extradition hearing, highlighted on Tuesday the usefulness of Wikileaks’s releases, claiming that the leaked information has allowed him to win legal cases in court. Stafford-Smith, a British-American lawyer running an organization called Reprieve, which deals with cases involving rendition, secret detention, torture and the death penalty, said, for example, that he used the classified files on US drone killings in Pakistan published by Wikileaks to take legal action in court and have them stopped. “An example of the way […]
Protege of the great Fedor Emelianenko, Vadim Nemkov, became Russia’s newest major MMA world champion at Bellator 244 when he defeated two-division champion Ryan Bader to capture the light heavyweight title. The 28-year-old from Stary Oskol has been perfect inside the Bellator cage since joining the US promotion in 2017, and produced a string of impressive performances to earn himself a shot at championship gold. He defeated Philipe Lins by first-round knockout on his Bellator debut back in August 2017, then stopped former light heavyweight champion Liam McGeary with brutal leg kicks at Bellator 194 in February 2018. That win earned […]
POTUS has repeatedly blasted other members of the alliance for not meeting the voluntary goal of spending 2% of their GDP on the military. Reports and memoirs by some of his former team suggest, however, that he threatened to pull the US out of the alliance should his demands not be met. The re-election of incumbent President Donald Trump might lead to the US withdrawing from NATO, The New York Times cited Democratic Senator and a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, Jeanne Shaheen as saying. “Withdrawing from NATO would be nothing short of catastrophic and further highlights the historic importance […]
A U.S. lawsuit that alleged the Tezos ICO was an unregistered securities sale has been settled for $25 million. Source link
Renowned filmmaker Michael Moore predicted in 2016 that Donald Trump would win the presidential election despite all leading US polls claiming otherwise and tipping Democrat Hillary Clinton as the hot favourite. Donald Trump is heading for victory in the 2020 November presidential election in the US, buoyed by the “off the charts” enthusiasm displayed by his supporters, says renowned filmmaker Michael Moore. The author of Fahrenheit 9/11 and other award-winning documentaries, a staunch Democrat supporter, warned in a Facebook post that President Trump’s reelection campaign was wielding massive momentum in key battleground states such as Minnesota and Michigan. Cautioning that Trump […]
Austria’s Aleksandar Rakic has announced his title candidacy in a UFC light heavyweight division now shorn of former champion Jon Jones, as he eased to a unanimous decision win against former world title challenger Anthony Smith. Twenty-eight-year-old Vienna native Rakic used a varied arsenal of kicks to flummox the veteran fighter Smith, while also dominating on the ground to claim a one-sided decision win after three rounds in the UFC main event at the organization’s Apex facility in Las Vegas. Also on rt.com ‘Remember my name’: Rising star Aleksandar Rakic scores MASSIVE knockout at UFC Stockholm (VIDEO) The win takes Rakic’s career […]
When Hong Kong regulators gave crypto firm OSL a nod of approval last week, it was the icing on the cake for the HKEX-listed digital asset trading platform. Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) granted BC Group crypto subsidiary OSL an “approval-in-principle” for its license application for Type 1 (dealing in securities) and Type 7 (automated trading service or ATS), as it pertains to crypto and virtual assets. The bigger picture is that Asian crypto hubs like Hong Kong, Singapore and Japan have a clearer regulatory stance going forward and are progressing faster than the U.S. and Europe. Perhaps this […]
The Qatari government just did something very unusual for the Trump era in Washington: it hired a Democratic lobbyist. This month, the Gulf monarchy’s D.C. embassy brought on board a new government relations firm, Praia Consultants, that is run by Serbia’s former ambassador to the United States and a Chicago political consultant named Dan Shomon. The former ambassador, Vladimir Petrovic, raised money for Barack Obama’s Senate campaign, and Shomon is a longtime Obama associate and former top political aide who began cashing in on the relationship even before Obama was elected president. Such political connections are standard fare among high-powered political […]
Last Thursday, former US Vice President Joe Biden, along with his vice-presidential running mate, Senator Kamala Harris, officially accepted the nomination by the Democratic Party to run against Republican President Donald Trump in the November 2020 US presidential election. The Republican lieutenant governor of North Carolina, Dan Forest, said during a GOP campaign event on Sunday, that the 77-year-old Democratic presidential nominee, Joe Biden, might not live until Inauguration Day in January 2021, The Washington Post reported. Forest, currently running against the sitting Democratic governor, Roy Cooper, in the state’s gubernatorial race this year, then suggested that Biden’s vice-presidential running mate, […]
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 small margin, Biden should refuse to acknowledge the Republican’s victory. Also on rt.com Clinton says she could beat Trump in 2020, would have handled Covid-19 pandemic better Instead, the former VP must brace himself […]
A perfect season has ended in Bayern Munich becoming the first team ever to win a treble of domestic and European cups twice, seeing off a spirited and dangerous Paris Saint-Germain side to claim a sixth Champions League title. Eleven wins, a 500th goal in the competition and the trophy. Bayern Munich have deservedly won the Champions League, beating a Paris team that provided the sternest test yet of their all-conquering campaign. They even did it without a goal from Robert Lewandowski, the striker with nine consecutive Champions League goals to his name entering the final. Instead, surprise starter Kingsley Coman […]
Joe Biden is making a big appeal to the older white voters who helped elect President Trump in 2016 with ads like “Donna” that focus on fears about the pandemic. Joe Biden/YouTube/Screenshot by NPR hide caption toggle caption Joe Biden/YouTube/Screenshot by NPR Joe Biden is making a big appeal to the older white voters who helped elect President Trump in 2016 with ads like “Donna” that focus on fears about the pandemic. Joe Biden/YouTube/Screenshot by NPR Four years ago, older white voters played a big role helping elect Donald Trump president, especially in key battleground states like Florida and Pennsylvania. Robert […]
Gar Alperovitz is an American historian and political economist. Alperovitz served as a Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge; a founding Fellow of the Harvard Institute of Politics; a founding Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies; a Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution; and the Lionel R. Bauman Professor of Political Economy at the University of Maryland Department of Government and Politics from 1999 to 2015. He also served as a Legislative Director in the US House of Representatives and the US Senate and as a Special Assistant in the US Department of State. Alperovitz is a distinguished lecturer with […]
Following their 2019 election defeat, the Labour Party has found themselves with a large mountain to climb if they hope to defeat the ruling Conservative Party at the next general election, with even their own members losing confidence in their ability to remove the government from power. A majority of Labour activists who responded to an online poll said that they believe that the Conservatives will win the next UK general election. LabourList asked readers to pick what the outcome of the next election would be, with 55% saying that they believe it will be some form of Tory victory either […]
UFC heavyweight champion of the world Stipe Miocic defeated Daniel Cormier in the third fight between the pair, then said he wanted his efforts to inspire his daughter after his grueling unanimous decision victory. Miocic defeated Cormier with scores of 49-46, 49-46, 48-47 on the judges’ scorecards as he outstruck the former two-division champion to retain his title and cement his legacy as the greatest heavyweight champion in UFC history. But, instead of being happy for himself after his hard-earned win, Miocic said the biggest takeaway from his victory was the lesson he hopes it will teach his young daughter. Speaking […]
Pop star Taylor Swift tweeted to her 86 million followers on Twitter a political diatribe accusing President Trump of cheating to win re-election by the “calculated dismantling” of the Postal Service. Swift joins a growing chorus of liberals who see a conspiracy to subvert the Democrat’s election push for mail-in voting. Promo photo for Taylor Swift’s new album Folklore, by Beth Garrabrant “Trump’s calculated dismantling of USPS proves one thing clearly: He is WELL AWARE that we do not want him as our president. He’s chosen to blatantly cheat and put millions of Americans’ lives at risk in an effort to […]
United Launch Alliance’s (ULA’s) Delta IV Heavy rocket has received its clandestine payload for the upcoming NROL-44 mission for the National Reconnaissance Office as teams continue launch preparations on SLC-37B at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FL. The mission is set to launch at the end of August and comes as ULA wins 60% of the National Security Space Launch award from the U.S. Space Force with SpaceX winning the remaining 40% of the missions. NROL-44 progress: The first Delta IV Heavy mission from Florida since August 2018 is in the final stages of preparation for launch, with ULA and […]
Shortly after the infamous Billy Bush tape became public in October 2016, the story goes, officials with the Republican National Committee approached Donald Trump to inform him of a sobering reality: He would not become president. In reality, recalled Sean Spicer, the then-communications director for the RNC, things went a bit differently. Yes, then-RNC Chairman Reince Priebus told Trump he believed that, as things stood, he would lose to Hillary Clinton. But they didn’t declare the door closed. Instead, they presented slides on the difficult path forward along with a synopsis of what Trump would have to do to change his […]
In his rejection of mail-in voting in the upcoming US presidential election, Donald Trump has claimed that it will “rig” the contest, and suggested moving the date of election. His idea was met with opposition, however, by both sides of the political aisle in Congress – the only body legally able to move an election. White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows said Sunday on the CBS “Face the Nation” program that the US presidential election will be held on 3 November, as planned, asserting that “the president is going to win”. “We’re going to hold an election on 3 November […]
President Donald Trump has bashed his basement-dwelling presidential opponent, Joe Biden, and touted his own support for “Oil, Gas, Guns, & God,” after a fundraising trip to the Lone Star State. “Was in the Great State of Texas this week and explained that the Radical Left Do Nothing Democrats, headed up by their great leader, Sleepy Joe Biden (who never leaves his basement), are strongly against ‘Oil, Gas, Guns, & God,’’ Trump tweeted on Sunday. “Must be tough to win Texas on that platform!” he added. Was in the Great State of Texas this week and explained that the Radical Left […]
The Brookings Institute was heavily involved in the Democrat and Deep State Russia collusion hoax and Ukraine impeachment fraud. These actions against President Trump were criminal. This institute is influenced from foreign donations from entities who don’t have an America first agenda. Julie Kelly at American Greatness released a report where she addresses the connections between the Brookings Institute, Democrats and foreign entities. She summarizes her report: Accepting millions from a state sponsor of terrorism, foisting one of the biggest frauds in history on the American people, and acting as a laundering agent of sorts for Democratic political contributions disguised as […]
Sundar Pichai The House Anti-Trust committee on Wednesday grilled CEOs of Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google. Twitter did not attend Wednesday’s hearing. GOP Rep Jim Jordan (OH) asked Google if they are actively helping Joe Biden win the 2020 election. Google CEO Sundar Pichai refused to give Jim Jordan a “yes” or “no” answer. TRENDING: BREAKING: Antifa Terrorist Who Threw Bomb at Federal Agents in Portland is Identified — BY HIS GRANDMOTHER! Congressman Jim Jordan asked Sundar Pichai several times if he can assure the American people that Google won’t tailor its features to help Joe Biden win the election. Sundar […]
If the election were this Tuesday, Joe Biden would win at least 321 electoral votes. Sunday morning I went through every state poll on fivethirtyeight.com and toted them all up. It came out Biden 321, Donald Trump 121. And that was without the six states where the margin based on more than one poll was three points or less—Texas, Ohio, Georgia, North Carolina, Iowa, and Alaska. If Trump won them all, he’d still be at a losing 217. If Biden were to win them all, he’d hit 417. No one has topped 400 since George H.W. Bush in 1988. That’s an […]
Roman Abramovich could be poised for an historic summer of spending after his Chelsea team secured Champions League qualifications on a breathless and long-delayed final day of the 2019-20 Premier League campaign. A brace late in first-half stoppage time from Mason Mount and Oliver Giroud sealed a crucial three points for the West Londoners to ensure that they finish in the top four on what was the latest-ever final day to an English top flight season. The win, coupled with Manchester United toppling Leicester at the King Power Stadium, ensures that it will be Lampard’s Chelsea and Solksjaer’s United who take […]
This is just so typical. The liberal media mocks and disrespects people of faith in America all the time. But now that we have an election coming up, CNN rushes in to prop up Joe Biden as some sort of deeply religious man, suggesting he can appeal to evangelicals. From CNN: Joe Biden is a man of faith. That could help him win over some White evangelicals. TRENDING: Portland Riot Organizer Claims Mission is the ‘Abolition of the United States As We Know It’ Joe Biden sat with his wife, Jill, in the first pew of an AME church here the […]
Days after the $15-million-a-year star was criticized for playfully taking a nap in the stands while his side played, Gareth Bale cut an isolated figure in Real Madrid’s celebrations as they secured their 34th Liga title. Bale celebrated his 31st birthday as an unused substitute during Real Madrid’s 2-1 win at home to Villarreal that secured the trophy with a match of the season to spare, only joining his teammates on the pitch in the aftermath of their decisive victory at the modest Alfredo Di Stefano training ground. READ MORE: Real Madrid WIN La Liga for first time in three seasons with […]
Atlantic Coast Pipeline Win Was A Hard-Earned Victory By Lorne Stockman, Oil Change International. July 16, 2020 Atlantic Coast Pipeline Win Was A Hard-Earned Victory2020-07-162020-07-16https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2019/03/atlantic-coast-pipeline-protest-peoples-hearing-next-door-to-fake-hearing-february-2017-e1554047147736.jpg200px200px Beware industry and government’s revisionist history. Sunday’s announcement of the cancellation of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) was remarkable for so many reasons. Not least that the two companies, Dominion and Duke, are the most powerful corporate entities in their respective states (Virginia and North Carolina). For these two corporate giants to back down is a rare and beautiful thing to behold. This victory comes as an enormous relief to people all along the more than 600 miles […]
Lionel Messi showed his frustration as Barcelona fell to a 2-1 defeat against Osasuna in their final home match of the season, echoed by experts and fans as the Spanish giants surrendered the Liga title to arch rivals Real Madrid. Messi offered little more than a disconsolate hand swipe into the Camp Nou air after scoring a free-kick that would have been considered spectacular by most other players, drawing Barcelona level with midtable Osasuna in the 62nd minute of a 2-1 defeat that handed the trophy to Madrid. Zinedine Zidane’s side were far more comfortable as they went 2-0 up at […]
Georgian ‘Shewolf’ Liana Jojua scored her fifth career armbar and her first-ever UFC win when she submitted Dian Belbita in the first round at UFC Fight Night 172 on Fight Island in Abu Dhabi. READ MORE: ‘Who’s the p*ssy here?’: UFC’s Jojua and Kassem trade social media shots after Georgian ‘She Wolf’ calls out Aussie rival (PHOTOS) It took just 2 minutes and 43 seconds of the first for Jojua to dispatch Canada-based Romanian Belbita, leaving ‘The Warrior Princess’ writhing in agony to improve her record to 8-3 and notch her first ever victory with the UFC. Jojua made her much-anticipated debut back […]
With Joe Biden leading President Donald Trump by this much, would his vice presidential pick even make a difference? Political strategist James Carville joked that Biden could win even if he chose Sarah I-can-see-Russia-from-my-house Palin as his running mate. On Tuesday’s episode of The New Abnormal by The Daily Beast, Carville tells hosts Molly Jong-Fast and Rick Wilson the simple strategy Biden needs to win. “Attack, attack, attack. Attack from the right, attack from the left, attack from the center, attack everywhere,” he explains. We also hear from The Beast’s Erin Banco on the “parallel conversations” surrounding COVID-19 within the Trump […]
Porn star Kendra Lust appears to still be interested in rumored former flame James Rodriguez after sending the Real Madrid star a personal message on his birthday – and astonished fans reacted with a deluge of jokes and memes. Married American actress Lust, who has starred in hundreds of adult films, was originally linked to Rodriguez when eagle-eyed fans on social media spotted that the pair had followed each other in 2018. The former webcam model and stripper then tagged Rodriguez in a video of her twerking in a gym, although the relationship between the pair appeared to have gone quiet […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/07/0e/1079876272_0:0:2916:1641_1200x675_80_0_0_95814a2a04358a7dec749d9558861d95.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202007141079876362-trump-congratulates-polands-duda-on-re-election-win-reaffirms-partnership/ WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – US President Donald Trump in a statement congratulated Polish President Andrzej Duda on his re-election victory, adding that he looks forward to working together on energy, defense and other areas of mutual interest. “Congratulations to my friend President [Duda] of Poland on his historic re-election! Looking forward to continuing our important work together across many issues, including defense, trade, energy, and telecommunications security,” Trump said via Twitter on Monday. Congratulations to my friend President @AndrzejDuda of Poland on his historic re-election! Looking forward to continuing our important work together across many […]
CoinDesk columnist Nic Carter is a partner at Castle Island Ventures, a venture fund based in Cambridge, Mass., that focuses on public blockchains. He is also the co-founder of Coin Metrics, a blockchain analytics startup. Everyone knows the internet has changed the fundamental business model of journalism. Before the internet age, people subscribed to a physical newspaper that arrived once a day, and they were happy to do it, too. Newsrooms invested in shoe-leather journalists who had the flexibility to pursue a story for months. The press wasn’t perfect but it was weighty because subscriptions and advertising meant newsrooms were flush […]
Russia has a new UFC world champion after Petr Yan scored a huge finish of former featherweight champion Jose Aldo to claim the vacant bantamweight title at UFC 251 in Abu Dhabi. READ MORE: In memory of Abdulmanap Nurmagomedov: Watch special episode of ‘Dagestan: Land of Warriors’ documentary series Yan finished a bloody war with legend Aldo by strikes when referee Leon Roberts eventually stepped in to save the former champ from further punishment in the fifth round. Yan becomes only the second Russian fighter in history to win a UFC title after 155 lbs king Khabib Nurmagomedov, bringing his record to 15-1. […]
Video games giant EA Sports have revealed that welterweight fan favorite Jorge Masvidal and middleweight king Israel Adesanya will grace the cover of their hotly-awaited new UFC game. After heated debate online – which at stages broke out into open insults – the video games giant dropped the trailer for the new UFC 4 game on Saturday, revealing that Masvidal and Adesanya would share cover star status. The timing is perfect for popular Miami fighter Masvidal as he prepares to face welterweight champion Kamaru Usman in their title bout at UFC 251 on the fabled ‘Fight Island’ in Abu Dhabi this weekend. Footage […]
Bolivian Polls Show Socialist Candidate To Win Elections In First Round July 8, 2020 Bolivian Polls Show Socialist Candidate To Win Elections In First Round2020-07-082020-07-08https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/luis-arce-candidate-for-the-presidency-of-bolivia-by-the-movement-for-socialism-from-reuters-e1594231934524.jpg200px200px Above photo: Luis Arce, candidate for the presidency of Bolivia by the Movement for Socialism, from Reuters. The U.S.-backed, interim president Jeanine Añez only has 13 percent of the voting intention. The Latin America Strategic Center for Geopolitics (CELAG) Tuesday published the results of a survey according to which the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) presidential candidate Luis Arce would get 41.9 percent of the votes in the upcoming elections in September. This percentage of popular support would allow him to […]
Bitcoiners, already rocked by this year’s coronavirus-inflicted turbulence, face a fresh source of volatility as the market heads into the second half of 2020: the U.S. presidential elections. According to Deutsche Bank, Germany’s biggest lender, a reelection victory by President Donald Trump could threaten the U.S. dollar’s century-long reign as the world’s de facto reserve currency. You’re reading First Mover, CoinDesk’s daily markets newsletter. Assembled by the CoinDesk Markets Team, First Mover starts your day with the most up-to-date sentiment around crypto markets, which of course never close, putting in context every wild swing in bitcoin and more. We follow the money so you don’t […]
Professor Helmut Norpoth from Stony Brook University told Lou Dobbs on August 16th, 2016, that Donald Trump had an 87% chance of winning the 2016 Presidential election. Professor Norpoth is a political science professor at Long Island’s Stoney Brook University. His model has been correct since 1996 on predicting the popular vote. TRENDING: BREAKING: Epstein Confidante Ghislaine Maxwell Arrested, Sources Say We reported that his 2016 forecast rested on a model that tracks cyclical movements in American presidential elections. It goes back to 1828, when popular voting became widespread and the two-party system took hold. Over nearly two centuries, American presidential […]
Rumors that the National Football League plans to play the ‘Black national anthem’ before games once it returns have failed to please anyone, with people either considering it divisive or not going far enough to fight racism. The NFL plans to have ‘Lift Every Voice And Sing’ performed live or played before every Week 1 game, ESPN reported on Thursday, citing “a source familiar with the league’s discussions.” The move would be just one of the measures Commissioner Roger Godell is considering to raise awareness of “systemic racism.” Other contemplated moves include listing the names of African-Americans killed by police on […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107974/24/1079742488_0:0:3181:1790_1200x675_80_0_0_d53801e89bcf45ab5272d94f783a89f1.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/europe/202006281079742465-polands-duda-opposition-candidate-trzaskowski-win-1st-round-of-presidential-election/ According to the exit poll, Duda came first with 41.8 percent of the votes cast, falling short of the 50 percent needed to ensure victory without the need for a second round, while Trzaskowski came in second at 30.4 percent. Polish President Andjei Duda and his rival from the largest opposition party – the centrist Civic Platform (PO), the current mayor of Warsaw, Rafal Trzaskowski, have both won the first round of the presidential election, Ipsos showed on Sunday. The first round of Poland’s presidential election had 11 candidates compete against each other. Polling places closed […]
White Allies dressed as slaves complete with whip marks on their backs at a protest Monday in Charleston, South Carolina. The white allies carried “Cracker for sale” signs hoping to impress the BLM mob. Advertisement – story continues below This is the insanity of the left.There are no words for this insanity. TRENDING: “Tear Them Down”: Race Activist Shaun King Calls for Removal of All Statues, Murals and Stained Glass Windows of “White Jesus and his European Mother” Via Thomas Novelly. This group, which self-identified as Stand As One, is now getting yelled at by BLM. The two are arguing about […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107967/65/1079676554_0:0:3072:1729_1200x675_80_0_0_fb05a39f787e6d8bdb9e54d5e282ed60.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/sport/202006211079676602-governor-cuomo-praises-first-ny-bred-horse-to-win-belmont-since-1882/ Belmont Stakes, an American Grade I horse race for three-year-old thoroughbreds, takes place in Belmont Park – a large horse-racing facility based in Elmont, east of the New York City limits. The race was moved to 20 June because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. New York City Governor Andrew Cuomo celebrated in his Twitter the victory of Tiz the Law, the first NY-bred horse to win the Belmont Stakes since 1882. The stakes of the race were said to be as high as $1,000,000. Cuomo praised “an incredible New York-bred colt”, expressing gratitude to […]
Building Power To Win Is The Revolutionary Approach To Bourgeois Electoralism By Ajamu Baraka, Black Agenda Report. June 19, 2020 Building Power To Win Is The Revolutionary Approach To Bourgeois Electoralism2020-06-192020-06-19https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/baraka_-_-_845x400.jpeg200px200px We must make clear that it is imperialism that degrades and destroys the earth, makes water a commodity, food a luxury, education an impossibility, and health care a distant dream. “The struggle is for power not reform.” The following is excerpted from a presentation by Ajamu Baraka to a national webinar Electoral School of the Black Is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations, June 13 and 14. The […]
Dan Cathy, CEO of the Chick-Fil-A fast-food restaurant chain, publicly polished the sneakers of the black rapper Lecrae. The son of the Chick-Fil-A founder said he did it to recognize white people’s “oblivion” to racial injustice. “Most of us white people, we’re out-of-sight, out-of-mind oblivious to it,” Dan Cathy said. Kneeling at the feet of the Christian rapper during a panel discussion at the Passion City Church in Atlanta, Georgia, the CEO then started to polish the artist’s shoes. “If we… find somebody that needs to have their shoes shined, we just need to go over and shine their shoes.” Shoes or sneakers, it […]
“Not a More Important Issue than This… Very Difficult for Republicans to Win if This Censorship Continues” – Devin Nunes Speaks Out on Tech Censorship of Conservatives (VIDEO) Tap here to add The Western Journal to your home screen. Source link
The Uprising Is Only Beginning: Building Power To Win Our Demands By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance. June 14, 2020 The Uprising Is Only Beginning: Building Power To Win Our Demands2020-06-142020-06-14https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/united-state-e1592186175647.jpg200px200px The current uprising against police violence and racism is just beginning. It is rapidly shifting public consciousness on issues of policing, violence against Black people and others, and systemic racism. The movement is deepening and becoming broader as well as putting forward solutions and making demands. The confluence of crises including recent police violence, the COVID-19 pandemic, and economic collapse along with the ongoing crises of lack of healthcare, […]
Fresh from making history in Las Vegas on Saturday night, UFC strawweight Mackenzie Dern says she wants to “become the mom champ” as the jiu-jitsu queen and new mother sets her sights on even greater targets. Dern, 27, became the first woman in UFC history ever to win by leg submission when she defeated Hannah Cifers in the first round of their bout at the organization’s Apex facility at the weekend. Also on rt.com UFC fighter Mackenzie Dern makes history with unique submission victory The victory saw Dern bounce back from the first defeat of her MMA career against Brazil’s Amanda […]
U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday, seeking to amend Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Section 230 prevents social media companies from civil liability for the content posted on them. The order targets Twitter and Facebook after Twitter fact-checked two of the President’s tweets. The text emphasizes Trump’s “commitment to free and open debate on the internet.” Trump said that “we are here today to defend free speech against one of the gravest dangers it has faced in American history” before going on to identify that threat as a “small handful of social media monopolies.” Lawyers who […]
MOSCOW, MAY 29 — RT won four prizes at the annual Telly Awards, a major international TV and film production award. The judges recognized a number of RT Arabic programs, a documentary covering the outbreak of HIV in the USSR, and a VR film produced as part of #VictoryPages — a large-scale social media project launched by RT to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. RT Arabic show Fight, developed with two Russian athletes — a UFC mixed martial arts and a weightlifter — won silver in the General — Online category. The Kalashnikova series, whose episodes tell about the Rostov-on-Don submarine, the Nakhimov Naval School and the […]
Business 13:45 GMT 15.05.2020Get short URL The world’s largest IT equipment provider has begun manufacturing new smartphones with help from a major Shanghai-based semiconductor company, allowing the Chinese tech giant to scale back production with Taiwan processors, it was reported this week. Chinese chipmaker Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp has begun mass-producing smartphone processors for Huawei Technologies Co, boosting mainland China’s semiconductor industry amid the ongoing US trade war. The Shanghai-based semiconductor company produced Huawei’s Kirin 710A chipset, commercialising China’s chipmaking industry for smartphone processors for the first time in history, China Daily reported on Thursday. Huawei will begin boosting production with […]
John Brennan under the spotlight! In January 2017, the US Intelligence community released a report, at former President Barack Obama’s request a couple weeks prior, to determine Russia’s influence into the 2016 election. A bogus report was created and it is reportedly under review curently by John Durham, the US Attorney selected by AG Barr to look into government actions surrounding the 2016 election and the Trump-Russia collusion lie. Ed Henry from FOX News reported tonight that Brennan is under the spotlight: TRENDING: Tucker Carlson Confronts Former Rep. Trey Gowdy for Actions He and Former Speaker Paul Ryan Took that Allowed […]
An aspiring militia leader plotted to kidnap or kill police officers to win over new recruits, and then steal their equipment to arm his budding anti-government revolt, the FBI said Tuesday. Christian Stanley Ferguson, a 20-year-old Cleveland man, faces an attempted kidnapping charge after an FBI informant infiltrated the chat room where he allegedly hatched his plot, the latest alleged violent anti-government scheme to emerge during the coronavirus pandemic. He sought out co-conspirators to help him murder police on a popular meme website, according to social media posts reviewed by The Daily Beast. In an FBI affidavit released Tuesday, Ferguson is […]