Lebanon running out of food and medicines as economy collapses

A whole nation is on the scrounge. As Lebanon collapses in slow motion, its people have turned to whatever means they can to survive.

Adham Maamari, a hospital director in Tripoli, sources generator oil on the black market. He has already stopped taking in critical-care patients for fear of what will happen to his ventilators if the power cuts out, and he is running out of medicine. “How do they expect us to treat people,” he asked. “Black magic?”

A medical secretary spends two hours every morning scouring pharmacies for her elderly mother’s medicine. The pharmacist is ringing a friend in Dubai to ask what drugs she can bring with her when she comes back from holiday.

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Rapists who groomed 12-year-old girl they spotted doing paper round and raped her repeatedly during three-year campaign of abuse are jailed

A trio of vile sex offenders who targeted a young girl on her paper rounds before raping her in a playground and her own bedroom have been jailed.

Banaras Hussain, 44, Talish Ahmed, 41, and Mohammed Akram, 44, subjected the child to a horrendous campaign of abuse in Huddersfield between 1995 and 1998.

Leeds Crown Court heard the girl, who can’t be named for legal reasons, was just 12 years old and wearing school uniform when the predators identified her as a target.

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Top Biden officials now believe COVID lab-leak theory: report

Biden administration officials are divided over the origin of the coronavirus, but an increasing number now believe that it could have leaked from a Wuhan lab, according to a report.

The lab-leak theory, once derided as fanciful fiction, is now being seriously considered by senior administration officials even as most experts on coronaviruses maintain that the virus had its origins in nature, jumping from animals to humans, according to a CNN report Friday.

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Cuban Artist Slams BLM: ‘All Black Lives Matter, Except Cuban Black Lives’

A Cuban artist blasted Black Lives Matter for its statement about Cuban protests, which many saw as apologetic toward the Cuban government.

José Luis Aparicio Ferrera — a producer and director who, according to his Facebook page, is based in Havana — posted: “For #blacklivesmatters all black lives matter, except Cuban black lives.”

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Australians call for Katie Hopkins to be deported as she arrives in Sydney & breaks quarantine rules while citizens stuck abroad

Several Australian lawmakers called for Katie Hopkins’ deportation after it was revealed that the British provocateur was allowed into the country despite strict Covid-19 border rules that have kept many Aussies stranded abroad.

Hopkins announced on Instagram on Saturday that she had arrived in Sydney and further claimed that she had been intentionally breaking the country’s strict quarantine rules by opening her quarantine hotel room door while naked without a face mask when hotel employees bring her food to “frighten the s*** out of them.”

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US Navy: First woman passes elite training scheme

For the first time, a female sailor has completed the US Navy training programme to become a Special Warfare Combatant-craft Crewman (SWCC).

Members of the elite US defence force group support Navy SEALs in high-risk warfare missions, and conduct their own classified military operations.

The sailor who completed the gruelling 37 weeks of training has not been named, in line with Pentagon policy.

The US military began allowing women to serve in combat roles in 2015.

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Migrant arrests at the southern border rise for the SIXTH month in a row under Biden

Nap time.

More than one million migrants have now been apprehended at the southern border since October, new figures show.

Customs and Border Protection revealed that 188,829 migrants were stopped at the southwest border in June, the sixth monthly increase since the start of 2021.

It was also another increase on the 180,641 who were apprehended in May.

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Classified ‘brief’: Secret UFO report only 17 pages long

The real truth on UFOs is out there — and it’s only 17 pages long.

The nine-page preliminary US government report released last month did little to satisfy those seeking answers on whether alien life exists — and the classified version isn’t likely to provide much more depth with just eight additional pages, according to a report by The Black Vault, a website operated by author and podcaster John Greenewald.

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Trudeau rhetoric can’t change Canada’s fiscal reality

It’s imperative that Canadians distinguish between convenient political rhetoric and reality when it comes to the country’s finances, particularly as we approach a potential fall election. The Trudeau government continues to promulgate three assertions that must be clarified.

First, that the government lowered personal income taxes for the middle-class. While the Trudeau government in 2016 reduced the middle-income tax rate from 22.0 per cent to 20.5 per cent, it simultaneously eliminated a number of tax credits such as children’s fitness, public transit and income-splitting for couples with young children. By eliminating these tax credits, the government increased personal income taxes for all Canadians who previously claimed these credits.

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Foreign Actors like CBC likely to interfere in elections say Cyber Snoops

Canadian voters are likely to face foreign cyber interference in the next election, say cyber spies

Canadian voters are likely to face some form of foreign cyber interference ahead and during the next federal election, warns Canada’s cyber spy agency, including false information about voter fraud.

However, that meddling is unlikely to match the scale and influence as seen in the U.S., says the Communications Security Establishment (CSE) in a new threat assessment report published Friday.

“We assess that an increasing number of threat actors have the cyber tools, the organizational capacity, and a sufficiently advanced understanding of Canada’s political landscape to direct cyber activity against future Canadian federal elections, should they have the strategic intent,” reads the report.

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B.C. civil liberties group says goodbye to disgusting woman following ‘burn it all down’ tweet

Harsha Walia – Vicious Bigot

The head of the B.C. Civil Liberties Association has resigned following a controversial social media post.

The BCCLA announced the resignation of Harsha Walia on Friday, two weeks after she tweeted “burn it all down” in response to the torching of Catholic churches following the discovery of unmarked graves at former residential schools.

Why no hate speech charges? 

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Ontario reports 176 new Covid cases … and Pfizer Pfizzles Out

Ontario reports 176 new Covid cases … and Pfizer Pfizzles Out

Ontario reports 176 new COVID-19 cases, 3 more deaths

Ontario is reporting fewer than 200 new COVID-19 cases and three more deaths on Saturday.

Provincial health officials logged 176 new coronavirus cases today, a slight increase from 160 infections reported on Friday.


Israeli government says Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine provides ‘significantly LESS’ protection against the Indian ‘Delta’ variant

The Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine is ‘weaker’ against the Indian ‘Delta’ variant than health officials had hoped, a new report from Israel claims

On Friday, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett held a discussion about the coronavirus with his Cabinet at the Kirya in Tel Aviv.

Israel once led the entire world in the vaccine race, vaccinating 61 percent of its population with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine – but is now dealing with a surge in cases.

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Squad member Cori Bush reportedly spent BIG bucks on private security while working to defund police

Squad member Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) reportedly spent nearly $70,000 on private security during the last three months while she hypocritically called for defunding the police according to her campaign filing documents.

Between April 15 and June 28, her campaign doled out $54,120.92 in payments for “security services” to RSAT Security Consulting, a sketchy New York firm that touted a shadowy online presence until very recently. Federal Election Commission records also show that she paid $15,000 to Nathaniel Davis for “security services” over that same period.

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