While dozens of Montreal Police (SPVM) officers were still blocking Saint-Laurent Boulevard on Friday afternoon, and no official explanation was on offer, multiple media outlets cited police sources to claim the hours-long siege was a “hoax” or a “prank” and that everyone has been evacuated safely. This included some 50 …
Read More »Trump sees Covid-19 vaccine being distributed to high-risk population FOR FREE in weeks, but Cuomo row to delay New York shipments
“We won’t be delivering to New York until we have authorization to do so,” Trump told reporters Friday at a press briefing. “It pains me to say that…. The governor, Governor Cuomo, will have to let us know when he’s ready.” Cuomo said this week that “we can’t let this vaccine …
Read More »Trump’s Pentagon shuffle suggests either no more wars… or just one with Iran
But their individual histories suggest they’d be an ideological mixed bag that could give rise to one of two outcomes: no wars, or a war with Iran. By now, all of Washington knows that Donald Trump’s nickname for his former military-industrial complex lobbyist turned defense secretary, Mark Esper, was “Yesper” …
Read More »Trump’s anti-ISIS envoy admits he MISLED president about US troop numbers in Syria to keep them there
“We were always playing shell games to not make clear to our leadership how many troops we had there,” Jeffrey, envoy to the global coalition against Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) told Defense One on Thursday. Jeffrey added that the actual number of troops in northeastern Syria is “a lot …
Read More »Reports of HOSTAGE situation at Montreal office of video game company Ubisoft
Dozens of Montreal police (SPVM) officers were spotted in the area on Friday afternoon, including what looked like a tactical team. There were unconfirmed reports in local media of a ransom demand by the hostage-takers. It is unclear how many suspects might be involved, or how many hostages they took. …
Read More »EU warns Google CEO Sundar Pichai it won’t allow the web to remain the ‘Wild West’ any longer
The EU’s Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton and Pichai held a video conference late on Thursday after the leak of an internal document from Google, which detailed a 60-day strategy to oppose the bloc’s fresh internet regulations together with other US companies. “The Internet cannot remain a ‘Wild West’: we …
Read More »George Galloway: Kiss of death – The winner of the most coveted Henry Kissinger endorsement is… Joe Biden
No matter what happens in the Supreme Court, Joe Biden will always have Henry Kissinger. The oldest-living war criminal – Kissinger, not Biden – has made clear his preference for the oldest living senator (Biden claimed during the campaign he’d been in the Senate for 180 years) and perhaps come …
Read More »Law firm representing Trump in Pennsylvania suit quits amid pressure and reports of ‘growing discomfort’
“Plaintiffs and Porter Wright have reached a mutual agreement that plaintiffs will be best served if Porter Wright withdraws,” the court filing stated. The federal lawsuit was filed by the firm only days before the withdrawal. The firm has already received more than $700,000 in fees from the Trump campaign …
Read More »How UK undercover cops foiled activist plans to help Palestinians using deceit & abuse…& were there shady deals with Mossad?
Founded in 2001, the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) is a pro-Palestinian political campaign group, dedicated to the use of nonviolent protest. ISM has chapters around the world, which regularly train and dispatch volunteers to Palestine, to assist locals with activities such as protests, chaperoning and olive-picking. Despite the movement’s peaceful …
Read More »Mutation that made coronavirus so infectious may also be Achilles heel for vaccines to target – study
One of the latest strains of coronavirus, and currently the most common in the world, is called D614G. Through tests on hamsters, researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Wisconsin-Madison have discovered that this particular strain replicates faster and spreads more easily than …
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