Cardinal George Pell was sentenced yesterday in a Melbourne court to six years in jail on five convictions of the sexual abuse of minors. The Cardinal has steadfastly maintained his innocence. Judge Peter Kidd also ruled Pell could not be paroled for three years and eight months, telling the 77-year-old prelate he may die in jail, and […]
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May Raises Prospect of Second Brexit Referendum After Another Crushing Defeat for Her Agreement…
Ministers will today reveal the tariffs and Irish border plans which would come into force in a no-deal Brexit, as MPs prepare to vote on the prospect tonight after once again rejecting Theresa May’s withdrawal deal. The plans, due to be revealed at 7am, will set out how the Government would manage the border between Northern […]
Maduro Arrests Journalist for the Nationwide Blackout…
It all started with a lie. A lie organized by the State and broadcasted on prime time TV, using precisely the weapons Luis Carlos Díaz has been warned about for years. As the lie would have it, Luis Carlos and Nelson Bocaranda knew about the looming nationwide blackout. Nelson, a TV, radio, press and now […]
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Flight Recorders Found in Tragic Ethiopian Jet Crash…
Authorities in Ethiopia, China, and Indonesia grounded all Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft Monday, March 11, following the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines jetliner that killed 157 people, and investigators found the flight recorders from the field where the plane went down. The new plane crashed shortly after takeoff in clear weather outside Addis Ababa […]
Finland’s Entire Government Resigns…
Finland’s entire government resigned Friday after the governing coalition failed to agree on the welfare state reform, just one month before elections were due to be held. Juha Sipila has been the country’s prime minister since 2015 after forming a three-party governing coalition with two other right-leaning parties, including the small populist Blue Reform Party, a group that […]
Pure: Ten Points I Just Can’t Believe About the Official Skripal Narrative by Craig Murray…
I still do not know what happened in the Skripal saga, which perhaps might more respectfully be termed the Sturgess saga. I cannot believe the Russian account of Boshirov and Petrov, because if those were their real identities, those identities would have been firmly established and displayed by now. But that does not mean they […]
Child Miners, Some as Young as 4-Years Old, Living Hell on Earth So You Can Drive Electric Car…
Picking through a mountain of huge rocks with his tiny bare hands, the exhausted little boy makes a pitiful sight. His name is Dorsen and he is one of an army of children, some just four years old, working in the vast polluted mines of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where toxic red dust burns […]
Theresa May Allowed GCHQ Spy Chief to Resign for ‘family reasons’ After He Helped Paedophile Catholic Priest Avoid Jail…
One of Britain’s top spy chiefs quit after it emerged that he helped a paedophile Catholic priest avoid jail, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. Prime Minister Theresa May was last night accused of a cover-up over the scandal as she knew of GCHQ director Robert Hannigan’s connection to the child sex offender when he […]
Russian Billionaires Hold More Wealth Than Russians’ Combined Savings…
Fewer than 100 Russian billionaires now have a combined wealth that is greater than the entire population’s savings, according to figures published by Forbes. Russia is regularly named in international ratings as one of the most unequal of the world’s major economies, with an estimated 89 percent of the country’s wealth owned by its richest 10 […]
Justin Is in Trouble and Look Who Pops Up in Canada, Again…
It does not appear accidental that each time Justin from Canada starts finding himself in trouble, serious trouble; the same person happens to show up. In June 2017, Justin was being challenged with a new NAFTA trade agreement… and former President Obama showed up while delivering a speech to the Board of Trade in Montreal. […]
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Venezuela Expels German Ambassador Over Support for Guaido…
Socialist leader Nicolas Maduro has already backed down from demands that US diplomats leave Venezuela (backing off after the US threatened a military intervention to protect their diplomatic corps.), but it looks like he will have better luck with Germany. To wit, on Tuesday, the Venezuelan strongman declared German ambassador to Venezuela Daniel Martin Kriener […]
The Skripal Case: One Year On…
Dear Assistant Commissioner Basu – It is now a year since the events in Salisbury that shocked the nation, and indeed the world. Since then, your organisation has conducted an investigation into the case, and has laid out a case about what happened in a series of statements, notably those made on 5th September (no […]
Putin Formally Suspends Russian Participation in INF Treaty, Notifies Washington…
Russia has formally pulled out of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) after previously signalling that it would take this historic step after the White House announced last month that the US would suspend all obligations under the treaty. President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on Monday formally enacting and finalizing Russia’s suspension of the INF Treaty, which was set to […]
Second Trudeau Cabinet Member Resigns, Citing Loss of Confidence…
Treasury Board president Jane Philpott resigned Monday from the federal cabinet, saying she’s lost confidence in the way the Trudeau government has dealt with the SNC-Lavalin affair. Her resignation came just less than a month after former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould resigned from cabinet amid allegations that the Prime Minister’s Office improperly pressured her to […]
Yellow Vests Protesters March in Paris for 16th Week (VIDEO)…
Large-scale demonstrations began in France on 17 November last year in wake of the government’s decision to raise fuel taxes. Despite the French authorities later discarding their plans, yellow vests protesters, dissatisfied with the government’s social policies, have continued to rally across the country. The French police have detained nine people in the French capital on Saturday […]
Canadian Economy Halts – GDP Growth Drops to 0.1 Percent, and No-One Is Talking About Why…
The Canadian government shocked the professional financial and economic media with their latest fourth quarter GDP release showing the economy has essentially come to a grinding halt at 0.1% growth. [Compare to U.S. GDP growth of 3%] The Canadian Q4 GDP growth isn’t one percent, it’s one-tenth of one percent: 0.1%, essentially halted; but everyone […]
U.S. Treasury Sanctions Venezuelan Officials for Blocking Humanitarian Aid…
The U.S. Treasury Department announced sanctions on Friday against six Venezuelan government officials loyal to dictator Nicolas Maduro for their role in blocking humanitarian aid shipments in February. “In order to prevent much-needed aid from reaching the suffering people of Venezuela, Maduro closed Venezuela’s border and deployed official, and unofficial, military and security forces to […]
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Pakistan Returns Captured Indian Pilot Back to India…
Pakistani officials handed over a captured Indian pilot to a border crossing with India on March 1, in a “gesture of peace” promised by Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan amid a dramatic escalation with the country’s archrival over the disputed region of Kashmir. The pilot, identified as Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman, was taken in a […]
17M Chinese Banned from Taking Flights, 5M from Taking High-Speed Train Due to Bad Social Credit…
China has made great progress in building a national social credit system in recent years, having handled millions of cases and issued millions of travel bans on people with bad social credit, official statistics showed. As of the end of 2018, Chinese courts nationwide had issued verdicts on 12.88 million cases of individuals and entities […]
Canada Formally Commences Extradition Process to the U.S. of Huawei’s Meng Wanzhou…
Canada is a country governed by the rule of law. Extradition in Canada is guided by the Extradition Act, international treaties and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which enshrines constitutional principles of fairness and due process. Today, Department of Justice Canada officials issued an Authority to Proceed, formally commencing an extradition process in […]
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