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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.

Live Updates: Haitian Officials Request U.S. Forces

Fears that the already fragile country will descend further into turmoil after the president’s assassination are growing. Two Americans arrested in the investigation claim to have been only “translators” for the operation, according to a judge who interviewed them.

“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 believe the country is worse off since the reconstruction began. A cholera outbreak soon after the quake that killed at least 10,000 Haitians was linked to the arrival of infected peacekeepers from the United Nations, which only admitted involvement years later but denied legal responsibility, shielded by international treaties granting the organization diplomatic immunity.

How the Assassination of Haiti’s President Follows Years of Strife and Gridlock

The country freed by slaves from French colonial overlords more than 200 years ago has struggled with a legacy of corruption, violence and political paralysis.

Millennial and Gen Z activists are connecting their struggles at home to the workings of US empire in Palestine, Haiti, Colombia, and other countries.

The Kids Are Reimagining International Solidarity

Millennial and Gen Z activists are connecting their struggles at home to the workings of US empire in Palestine, Haiti, Colombia, and other countries.

“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.

US celebrity lawyer Avenatti gets 2.5 years for Nike extortion

Michael Avenatti, the celebrity lawyer who represented porn actress Stormy Daniels in her lawsuit against ex-president Donald Trump, was sentenced to two and a half years in prison Thursday for attempting to extort Nike.

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 penetrate Moïse’s home, security detail and panic room and then escape unharmed but were then caught without planning a successful getaway.

Two American ‘mercenaries’ arrested alongside 15 Colombians in Haiti

James Solages, 35, and Joseph Vincent, both US citizens of Haitian descent, were arrested along with 15 Colombian nationals over Wednesday’s brazen assassination of President Jovenel Moïse.

Bars, restaurants and karaoke parlours serving alcohol to close

Tokyo Olympics will be held without spectators – Games minister

Organisers of the Tokyo Olympics have agreed to hold the event without spectators under a COVID-19 state of emergency, Japan’s Olympics Minister Tamayo Marukawa said on Thursday.

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.

Haiti police battle gunmen who killed president, 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.

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.

But it proved good enough.

• 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 megaphone: ‘DEA operation. Everybody stand down’
• US State Department slams any suggestion that the killers were US government agents as ‘absolutely false’
• Haitian officials say they believe assassins were a gang composed of Haitians, Colombians and Venezuelans
• Assassins may have escaped across the border to Dominican Republic or remain hiding in Haiti, officials say
• Dominican military is mobilizing at the border as Haitian PM declares ‘state of siege’ with emergency powers

Haiti’s first lady flown to Miami hospital after husband’s killing

Haiti’s First Lady Martine Moise, 53, suffered multiple gunshot wounds during her husband’s assassination in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, overnight, and was transported to Miami for treatment.

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 said in Washington.

Gunmen disguised as US DEA agents assassinated Haitian President, ambassador says

A squad of “foreign mercenaries and professional killers” with high-calibre weapons kill Haiti’s President, Jovenel Moïse, and injure the first lady in a “well-orchestrated” raid on their private residence.

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 order of preference. …

However, the new voting system was marred by an error made as votes were being counted on June 29, when elections officials inadvertently included 135,000 old test ballots in the count. The incorrect vote tallies were posted for several hours before officials acknowledged the error and took them down.

Eric Adams Wins Democratic Primary in New York City’s Mayoral Race: AP | National Review

The Associated Press called the race for Adams after preliminary results showed he defeated former sanitation commissioner Kathryn Garcia by 8,426 votes.

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 with did not match the names on the vaccination certificates they received.

Indian police investigate whether scammers gave thousands of shots of salt water instead of vaccine.

Fourteen people have been charged with conspiracy and forgery, the latest example of fraud undermining India’s pandemic response.

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 phenomenon isn’t an official diagnosis listed in the DSM, psychologists and others acknowledge that it is a very real and specific form of intellectual self-doubt. Impostor feelings are generally accompanied by anxiety and, often, depression.

Feel like a fraud?

Impostor phenomenon occurs among high achievers who are unable to internalize and accept their success, often attributing their accomplishments to luck rather than ability.

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 it up.

Unusually strong cold weather outbreak spreads from Antarctica into central South America, bringing early winter temperature records and first snowfall after decades

The powerful cold air outbreak has brought snowfall after decades, to southern Brazil, and breaking several old low-temperature records.

“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 to simply ‘lie flat?’”

Some Chinese shun grueling careers for ‘low-desire life’

Fed up with work stress, Guo Jianlong quit a newspaper job in Beijing and moved to China’s mountain southwest to “lie flat.” Guo joined a small but visible handful of Chinese urban professionals who are rattling the ruling Communist Party by rejecting grueling careers for a “low-desire life.” Guo,…

New at the Belmont Club. How a globalist elite, intent on controlling the planet, multiplied its vulnerabilities.

Joe Biden and the Spanish Armada

The cyber wolf pack’s Happy Time

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.

US companies scramble to contain international ransomware attack

Hack closes Swedish grocery stores as head of targeted software supplier Kaseya says it is preparing a patch