Meet the aspiring king of Trump TV

Meet the aspiring king of Trump TV

The investors, he says, are domestic, despite a Politico report (picked up on Breitbart) indicating he was in talks to raise money from Qatar. Ruddy says he sent proposals to many sovereign wealth funds, among others, but has not taken foreign investment. He blames his former rival, Steve Bannon, for pushing the Qatar story, but such grudges are fleeting in the often-shifting alliances of the new right: Bannon’s podcast, War Room, is now also broadcast on Newsmax late at night on weekdays.

250 million people participate in countrywide strike in India

250 million people participate in countrywide strike in India

Some of the key demands contained in the 12-point charter put forward by the organizers include withdrawal of a series of laws recently passed by the Modi government repealing key labor and farm price protections, a rollback in the recent disinvestment policies in major government-owned enterprises, implementation of existing welfare schemes for rural workers, and expanding welfare policies to aid the masses affected by the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Jacobin and Democratic Socialists of America promote illusions in a “progressive” Biden administration

Jacobin and Democratic Socialists of America promote illusions in a “progressive” Biden administration

The political role of Jacobin and the DSA is to prevent at all costs a political break with bourgeois politics in general and the Democratic Party in particular. Theirs is the politics of the upper middle class, which is determined by the effort, on the one hand, to obtain positions for themselves within the state apparatus and, on the other hand, to prevent an independent mobilization of the working class against capitalism and for socialism.

H/T: Howell Underground on YouTube

Will Parler Users Treat Its ‘Glitch’ That Hid Georgia Election Content The Same Way They Treated A Twitter Glitch? and Roger Stone’s Write In Trump for GA Campaign

Will Parler Users Treat Its ‘Glitch’ That Hid Georgia Election Content The Same Way They Treated A Twitter Glitch?

I find it hilarious that the same crew who insists that Twitter/Facebook are “censoring” them, immediately spins around and insists that it’s totally obvious that Parler must remove “trolls, hate speech and harassment” without recognizing their own hypocrisy.

Related:

Roger Stone-Tied Group Claims Dems Are Framing Them as Republican Party Turncoats

Yes, Parler has the right to censor/moderate, but I find it ironic!

People with asthma less likely to contract COVID-19: study

People with asthma less likely to contract COVID-19: study

Earlier research lends credence to the study results, however. Only 9 percent of patients hospitalized with the virus in New York had asthma, according to prior studies citied by the authors. Patients with asthma also appeared to be less susceptible to previous severe acute respiratory syndromes such as the 2003 SARS epidemic.

Prosecutors Want Steve Bannon’s Outgoing Attorneys to Stay Until Replacements Join Criminal Case

Prosecutors Want Steve Bannon’s Outgoing Attorneys to Stay Until Replacements Join Criminal Case

To ensure an orderly transition of representation and to prevent undue delay, the Government respectfully requests that the Court not permit defense counsel to withdraw until new counsel is retained and appears in this case on behalf of the defendant (or the defendant is appointed counsel after demonstrating eligibility by filing the required financial affidavit). In the absence of the appearance (or appointment) of new counsel that will represent the defendant throughout the pending proceedings and can assure the Court that no delay will be occasioned by the transition to new counsel, the Government would object to the withdrawal of counsel.