Month: October 2020

Bruce Springsteen, the rock n’ roll embodiment of the Everyman, minced no words when asked his thoughts on Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. “The republic is under siege by a moron, basically,” the singer told Rolling Stone magazine in an interview preview published Friday. “Without overstating it, it’s a tragedy for our democracy,” he continued. “The ideas he’s moving to the mainstream are all very dangerous ideas—white nationalism and the alt-right movement,” Springsteen added. “Once…

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President TrumpDonald John TrumpSenate advances public lands bill in late-night vote Warren, Democrats urge Trump to back down from veto threat over changing Confederate-named bases Esper orders ‘After Action Review’ of National Guard’s role in protests MORE’s campaign and several of its associates have reportedly begun handing over documents to the Senate Judiciary Committee for its probe into Russia’s election interference. A spokesperson for the committee told Bloomberg that the campaign sent over more than…

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Kid Rock’s flirtation with a Senate bid might be violating campaign finance law, according to an ethics complaint filed on Friday by a liberal-leaning watchdog group.  The Michigan musician, whose real name is Robert Ritchie, has been teasing a potential Senate bid for weeks and selling T-shirts adorned with his would-be campaign logo and the words “Kid Rock for Senate.”  That could run afoul with campaign finance law, Common Cause’s Paul S. Ryan said.   “Regardless of…

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Before the Democratic Party’s platform is finalized at a meeting late next week, Bernie Sanders and his progressive allies are mobilizing to ensure that opposition to the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP)—described by its critics as a global corporate power grab—is made the party’s official stance. Though President Obama continues to lobby hard on behalf of the controversial deal, and despite a proposal to include such language being voted down during a drafting session last weekend…

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The anonymous hacker known as Guccifer 2.0 who claims to be behind the Democratic National Committee (DNC) computer network breach has released more information on Thursday, including a third batch of documents and FAQ-styled text that names Wikileaks’ Julian Assange, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, and Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning as “the heroes of the computer age.” Click Here: geelong cats guernsey 2019 In the new blog post, he dismisses claims by CrowdStrike, the security firm…

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Lawmakers are attempting to make it even easier for fossil fuel companies to bid on public land auctions without facing disapproval from climate advocates, a move that green groups say buckles to corporate interests. Earlier this week, the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources approved a bill that would require lease sales for offshore drilling to be held online rather than in person, as the Obama administration gears up to do the same with an…

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Donald Trump poses “extreme dangers” to the United States and the world, journalist and co-founding editor of The Intercept Glenn Greenwald says in a new interview published at Slate. But to stop the GOP presidential nominee from getting elected, “U.S. media and U.S. elites” must take a lesson from the recent Brexit debacle, he warns—and bending over backwards to link Trump to Russian President Vladimir Putin isn’t the right approach. Click Here: camiseta seleccion argentina…

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A new federal class-action lawsuit accuses 13 St. Louis-area municipalities of “terrorizing” poor, primarily African-American people through a “deliberate and coordinated conspiracy” by “creating a modern-day police state and debtors’ prison scheme that has no place in American society.” The non-profit ArchCity Defenders and the law firm Arnold & Porter filed the suit Tuesday, the same day as demonstrators were marking the two-year anniversary of the death of Michael Brown, who was fatally shot by…

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For the first time, solar power is becoming the cheapest form of electricity production in the world, according to new statistics from Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) released Thursday. While unsubsidized solar has occasionally done better than coal and gas in individual projects, 2016 marked the first time that the renewable energy source has out-performed fossil fuels on a large scale—and new solar projects are also turning out to be cheaper than new wind power…

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Fernando Alonso is deeply impassioned with Formula 1, hence his return to the grid next season with Renault. But the Spaniard admits to being frustrated by the sport’s biggest contradiction. After a two-year hiatus from F1, an absence that many believed was permanent, Alonso will embark on a new venture with Renault, the team with which he won his two world titles in 2005 and 2006. The French outfit is currently devising a plan to…

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