Haitian government officials said they had requested that the United States send in troops to protect Haiti’s port, airport, gasoline reserves and other key infrastructure as the country has descended into turmoil in the wake of the brazen assassination of President Jovenel Moïse early Wednesday morning.
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Haitian guards to be quizzed on why no one hurt but the actual
No more nothing in Haiti
“There is no more Parliament, the Senate is missing for a long time, there’s no president of the Court of Cassation,” said Didier Le Bret, a former French ambassador to Haiti, adding of Mr. Joseph: “Everything will rest on him.”… But the money did not set Haiti on a new path — and many experts …
Palestine, Haiti, Colombia as progressive models
Millennial and Gen Z activists are connecting their struggles at home to the workings of US empire in Palestine, Haiti, Colombia, and other countries.
Avenatti gets 30 months in jail in Nike shakedown
“I and I alone have destroyed my career, my relationships and my life,” a tearful Avenatti told Manhattan federal judge Paul Gardephe, according to reporters in the courtroom.
Who were the ‘mercenaries’ working for?
James Solages, 35, and Joseph Vincent, both US citizens of Haitian descent, were arrested along with 15 Colombian nationals over Wednesday’s brazen raid on Moïse’s mansion in the hills above Port-au-Prince, according to Haitian police… Not everyone was buying the government’s description of the attack… Many wondered how the sophisticated attackers described by police could …
Will the 2021 Olympics be a milestone like 1936?
Bars, restaurants and karaoke parlours serving alcohol to close
Haiti police battle gunmen amid fears of chaos
Haiti’s security forces were locked in a fierce gun battle on Wednesday with assailants who assassinated President Jovenel Moise at his home overnight, plunging the already impoverished, violence-wracked nation deeper into chaos.
But doesn’t the world care about Haiti …?
No. The world doesn’t give a damn about Haiti or the Congo. The more public tears are shed about a place the less they care. When the UN shows up it’s like the undertaker measuring your country for a coffin.
Not quite the ‘American accent’
But it proved good enough.
Haiti prez killed by ‘mercenaries posing as DEA agents speaking English and Spanish’
Haitian First Lady Martine Moise, 47, was airlifted to Miami with multiple gunshot wounds on Wednesday Her husband, President Jovenel Moise, was killed in a brazen assassination raid on their home overnight Gang of ‘mercenaries’ posing as US DEA agents staged the raid speaking English and Spanish Shocking eyewitness footage shows killers shout into a …
Gunmen disguised as US DEA agents assassinated Haitian President
Haiti’s ambassador to the United States, Bocchit Edmond, told Reuters the gunmen falsely identified themselves as agents from the US Drug Enforcement Administration, citing video footage the government has in its possession but added: “No way they were DEA agents.” The attack “was carried out by foreign mercenaries and professional killers — well-orchestrated”, Mr Edmond …
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Former police captain tipped to be next NY mayor
The results come two weeks after voting in the primary ended, on June 22. While early returns showed Adams in the lead, tens of thousands of absentee ballots had to be counted and rounds of tabulations has to be done under the ranked-choice system in which voters ranked up to five candidates for mayor in …
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What would Harry Lime say?
More than 2,600 people came to the camps to receive shots of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, manufactured and marketed in India as Covishield. Some said that they became suspicious when their shots did not show up in the Indian government’s online portal tracking vaccinations, and when the hospitals that the organizers had claimed to be affiliated …
Delegitimizing achievement: “I can’t deserve it”
First described by psychologists Suzanne Imes, PhD, and Pauline Rose Clance, PhD, in the 1970s, impostor phenomenon occurs among high achievers who are unable to internalize and accept their success. They often attribute their accomplishments to luck rather than to ability, and fear that others will eventually unmask them as a fraud. Though the impostor …
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Hot North, Cold South
It’s been a cold winter in Australia after a summer that never even came. Five degrees C in Sydney these past mornings and 0 to -3 C in inland NSW. But the entire southern hemisphere has been extraordinarily cold this year with South America in a deep freeze. Hot northern hemisphere, cold south about sums …
Tired of working for the Party
“Lying flat” is a “resistance movement” to a “cycle of horror” from high-pressure Chinese schools to jobs with seemingly endless work hours, novelist Liao Zenghu wrote in Caixin, the country’s most prominent business magazine. “In today’s society, our every move is monitored and every action criticized,” Liao wrote. “Is there any more rebellious act than …
The age of privateers
New at the Belmont Club. How a globalist elite, intent on controlling the planet, multiplied its vulnerabilities.
Branson goes for billionaire altitude record
Biden asks: who colossally hacked us on the 4th of July?
Joe Biden said on Saturday he had directed US intelligence agencies to investigate a sophisticated ransomware attack that hit hundreds of American businesses as the Fourth of July holiday weekend began and aroused suspicions of Russian gang involvement.