TeleSur, September 1, 2016

U.S.-based Coca-Cola company along with more than 50 other companies were accused by Colombian courts of financing terrorism for their ties to the now-disbanded paramilitary organization, United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, a fact trade union leaders have been denouncing for decades.

The cases against the companies will be heard in a transitional justice tribunal after the peace deal with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia and the government is signed. Continue reading “Flashback: Coca-Cola Accused of Funding Colombian Death Squad”

Aljazeera

Israel‘s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has again fallen short of a parliamentary majority with his hardline allies, final election results confirmed on Thursday, extending the country’s year-old political deadlock and weakening the longtime leader as he prepares to go on trial on corruption charges.

The embattled Netanyahu had been looking for a decisive victory in Monday’s vote, and initial exit polls indicated his Likud party and smaller religious and nationalist allies captured 60 seats, just one short of a majority required to form a new government. Continue reading “Israel’s Netanyahu falls short of parliamentary majority”

Independent

A team of scientists created a vaccine that may have been able to prevent the deadly coronavirus outbreak, but they were never able to get funding to commence clinical trials, experts told Congress on Thursday.

Dr Peter Hotez, co-director of the Centre for Vaccine Development at Texas Children’s Hospital, testified before the House Science, Space and Technology Committee as health officials confirmed at least 160 cases of the Wuhan coronavirus in at least 17 states across the country.  Continue reading “Coronavirus: Doctor tells Congress he developed vaccine years ago but ‘could never get funding’ to start trials”

CBC

As public health officials warn it’s only a matter of time before Ottawa sees its first confirmed case of COVID-19, some supplies are already running low as people stock up their cupboards.

By Tuesday, there were 29 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Canada including 20 in Ontario and one in Quebec, and health officials were warning the public to be prepared. Continue reading “Some supplies running low as coronavirus fears grow”

AOL

Nurses fighting the spread of coronavirus unleashed a flood of criticism on the federal government and their employers Thursday, saying they have been left poorly equipped to care for their patients and protect themselves amid the outbreak.  Continue reading “Nurses blast government and hospital responses to coronavirus”

Yahoo News

Rep. Jim Clyburn says that Joe Biden should pick a woman as his running mate should he win the Democratic nomination.

“I doubt very seriously you’ll see a Democratic slate this year without a woman on it,” Clyburn, the third highest-ranking Democrat in the House of Representatives, told Yahoo News’ “Skullduggery” podcast.  Continue reading “Clyburn says Biden should pick a woman to be his running mate”

Your Bass Guy

Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

Humans have been fishing since before the dawn of civilization. And it’s no wonder. Fish are nutritious and, dare I say, delicious. Plus, they’re plentiful, almost all are edible, and you can find them in just about every body of water coast to coast. Continue reading “Survival Fishing: How to Catch Fish When SHTF”

Washington Examiner – by Andrew Mark Miller

Federal agents swarmed three dozen homes in southern California in an operation cracking down on the “birth tourism” industry.

Birth tourism involves operators charging pregnant women from foreign countries tens of thousands of dollars to stay in “maternity hotels” in the United States until their children are born as American citizens. They also oftentimes receive meals and transportation to and from the doctor and hospital visits. Continue reading “Federal agents raid dozens of homes in crackdown on ‘birth tourism’”

CBC News

Canada’s top military commander issued a detailed set of “pre-pandemic planning” orders on Wednesday for units both at home and overseas.

The orders give base commanders the authority to, among other things, cancel large gatherings on bases in the event of a spike in the number of COVID-19 cases.  Continue reading “Canada’s military ordered to begin ‘pre-pandemic planning’”

Free Beacon – by Stephen Gutowski

Gun sales soared in Virginia as Democrats passed several new gun-control measures during February, according to an industry report.

Nearly 66,000 background checks were performed in Virginia in February as the state’s Democratic-controlled legislature weighs a number of strict background checks—a steep increase from the 40,381 checks performed in February 2019. Virginia experienced one of the most dramatic upticks in background checks—a strong indicator of total sales—in the nation, according to data released by the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF). Continue reading “Virginia Gun Sales Surge as Dems Pass Gun Control”

In The News Today

INTELCASTER – For more than a decade Deagel.com has been ‘predicting’ a collapse in population numbers for the U.S. That collapse never happened and when the time came for the numbers to drop Deagel simply pushed the time frame forward by making a new prediction 5 to 10 years in the future. Continue reading “Deagel’s Doomsday Scenarios Never Happened”

Greensboro News & Record

RALEIGH — A former factory worker and day care operator whose gun rights speech before the Greensboro City Council in 2018 vaulted him to prominence among conservatives won the Republican nomination for North Carolina’s lieutenant governor on Tuesday in a crowded field.

First-time candidate Mark Robinson also exceeded the 30% threshold needed to win outright and avoid a runoff.

Continue reading “Political newcomer Mark Robinson of Greensboro wins GOP nomination for lieutenant governor”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

China’s CCP media mouthpiece, Xinhua News, has published a new article titled “Be bold: the world owes China a thank you.”

In it, the author suggests that the coronavirus outbreak is much worse in the United States than authorities are letting on – while noting that President Trump praised China’s measures to control the outbreak during a recent press conference. Xinhua also points out that the US stock market “has plummeted continuously, with a drop of more than 12% in just one week.” Continue reading “China Hints At Blackmail Over Pharmaceutical Exports, Would “Plunge US Into Mighty Sea Of Coronavirus””

The Daily Sheeple – by Sean Walton

At least 328 Chinese nationals trying to enter the United States illegally since January have been intercepted by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials as part of heightened awareness on the borders to block the coronavirus from slipping into the nation.

Officials told Secrets Wednesday that since January, 328 Chinese were “apprehended” and sent back across the border or repatriated consistent with existing policy and procedure. Another three from South Korea, where the virus is also spreading, were also caught. Continue reading “328 Chinese nationals caught trying to illegally enter US at the southern border”

Breaking Israel News – by David Sidman

If Israel indeed decides to take out Iran, the Trump administration has just made it much easier.

That’s because the U.S. State Department approved an Israeli request to buy eight KC-46A Pegasus aerial tankers reports the Middle East Forum. This includes support equipment, spare parts, and training. Continue reading “Trump Agrees to Provide Israel the Technology it Needs to Take Out Iran”

Information Liberation – by Chris Menahan

Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Wednesday night exposed how companies like AT&T are reportedly forcing American workers to train their foreign replacements brought in from India through H-1B visas.

Though candidate Trump said he would end the program when he was running for president, after getting elected president he kept the program and has floated expanding it and even giving a “path to citizenship” to H-1B visa holders.  Continue reading “‘If Only Our Leaders Cared to Put Americans First’: Tucker Slams GOP-Backed H-1B Outsourcing Scheme”

End of the American Dream – by Michael Snyder

All across the United States people are getting really stressed out about COVID-19.  Every effort to contain the virus has failed, cases have started to pop up all over America, and the latest numbers show that it is 34 times more deadly than the flu.  And what makes this particular coronavirus even more frightening is the fact that it is so easy to catch.  You can become infected simply by breathing in the air around you, it can live on solid surfaces for days, and some victims can carry it around for weeks before ever showing any symptoms.  As this virus continues to spread, literally no public place will be safe, and that is really freaking a lot of people out. Continue reading ““Coronavirus Anxiety” Is Running Rampant All Over America, And This Could Be Only Just The Beginning…”

Mondoweiss – by Philip Weiss

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer called on American college students to serve like Israeli soldiers on their campuses, fighting the boycott movement.

“America must not be fooled by BDS. And that is up to all of us,” he said in a speech to the Israel lobby conference AIPAC on March 1. “I’m told there are more than 3600 high school and college students at policy conference this year…. Welcome, welcome. You, as Betsy [Berns Korn, AIPAC’s president] said, are the front lines in this battle. Continue reading “American students must serve like Israeli soldiers on their campuses against BDS — Steny Hoyer”

Wall Street Journal

Elizabeth Warren, the liberal Massachusetts senator whose policy-oriented pitch to remake Washington and boost the middle class caught fire in the fall of 2019, is ending her bid for the Democratic presidential nomination after a weak showing across a series of states over the past month. Continue reading “Elizabeth Warren Drops Out of Presidential Race”