Venezuelan Red Cross Denies Fake News About "Colossal Outbreak" (COVID-19)
Staff | orinocotribune.com | 2021-09-22
Recently, a message, attributed to Alberto Urquiola, director of the Venezuelan Red Cross, has been circulated on various social media such as WhatsApp and Twitter. The message states that there is a "colossal COVID-19 outbreak" in Venezuela and that the number of deaths in Caracas' Poliedro (sports complex) and in other care centers in the city is high. | This has been an attempt to spread the perception of chaos and of a health and social crisis in the country, providing numbers of COVID-19 related deaths and infections much above the official numbers on the pandemic at the national level. Such fake news only i…
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Italian 'Justice' Rules Not to Extradite Former PDVSA Czar Rafael Ramírez
José Manuel Blanco Diaz | orinocotribune.com | 2021-09-22
Regarding the case of the fugitive from the Venezuelan justice, Rafael Ramírez, a decision was made by the Italian courts, where the former official is residing. This was reported by the defendant's team of defense lawyers. | According to a statement released by the lawyer Roberto de Vita, on Monday the Rome Court of Appeals published the sentence that was issued on September 14. The court rejected the extradition request filed by the government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. | Ramírez also released the document through his Twitter account, and stated that it is a final decision that cannot be appealed.
orinocotribune.com/italian-justice-rules-not-to-extradite-former-pdvsa-czar-rafael-ramirez/
Italian 'Justice' Rules Not to Extradite Former PDVSA Czar Rafael Ramírez
José Manuel Blanco Diaz | orinocotribune.com | 2021-09-22
Regarding the case of the fugitive from the Venezuelan justice, Rafael Ramírez, a decision was made by the Italian courts, where the former official is residing. This was reported by the defendant's team of defense lawyers. | According to a statement released by the lawyer Roberto de Vita, on Monday the Rome Court of Appeals published the sentence that was issued on September 14. The court rejected the extradition request filed by the government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. | Ramírez also released the document through his Twitter account, and stated that it is a final decision that cannot be appealed.
orinocotribune.com/italian-justice-rules-not-to-extradite-former-pdvsa-czar-rafael-ramirez/
21N: Candidate Substitution on Electoral Ballot Ends this Wednesday
Staff | orinocotribune.com | 2021-09-22
The period provided for the political parties of Venezuela to present modifications and/or substitutions of candidates on the electoral ballot ends on Wednesday, September 22. | This was informed by the National Electoral Council (CNE) of Venezuela through a post on its Twitter account, stating that "according to the schedule for the regional and municipal elections, this Wednesday 22 is the deadline for political organizations to submit modifications and/or substitutions of candidatures so that they can be incorporated in the ballot." | De acuerdo al cronograma para las Elecciones Regionales y Municipales, este…
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Carpenters' Union Halts Work On Amazon, Microsoft, Google And Facebook Expansions
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-09-21
Construction work on several major tech company expansion projects, including those by Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Facebook, slowed to a crawl today as the region largest carpenters' union halted work over a wage dispute. | At 6 a.m. Thursday, 2,000 Northwest Carpenter Union members walked off the job and began picketing at four major job sites, including Microsoft expansions in Redmond and Sammamish; Google and Amazon projects in Bellevue Plaza, and Facebook's Building X in Redmond. | Evelyn Shapiro, the union's executive secretary-treasurer, said the affected sites were not randomly chosen. In the push for be…
popularresistance.org/carpenters-union-halts-work-on-amazon-microsoft-google-and-facebook-expansions-in-seattle-area/
"We're In The Fight Of Our Lives"
Eoin Higgins | dailyposter.com | 2021-09-21
Click to share this on FacebookEditor's note: This is being co-published with Eoin Higgin's newsletter The Flashpoint. Daily Poster supporters can subscribe to The Flashpoint for 20% off by clicking here.Nora DiNuzzo couldn't believe it when she learned that on August 19, her local school district overrode the mask mandate at her children's school in North Allegheny, Pennsylvania. The district ins…
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"We're In The Fight Of Our Lives"
Eoin Higgins | dailyposter.com | 2021-09-21
Click to share this on FacebookEditor's note: This is being co-published with Eoin Higgin's newsletter The Flashpoint. Daily Poster supporters can subscribe to The Flashpoint for 20% off by clicking here.Nora DiNuzzo couldn't believe it when she learned that on August 19, her local school district overrode the mask mandate at her children's school in North Allegheny, Pennsylvania. The district ins…
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US journalist Bilal Abdul Kareem files Supreme Court petition over 'kill list' lawsuit
Umar A Farooq | middleeasteye.net | 2021-09-21
US journalist Bilal Abdul Kareem files Supreme Court petition over 'kill list' lawsuit | Lawyers say case raises questions about legality of US air strikes and an American citizen's right to due process | Umar A Farooq | Tue, 09/21/2021 – 12: 49 | Bilal Abdul Kareem believes he was targeted five times by US air strikes in 2016 (Facebook) | Bilal Abdul Kareem, an American journalist based in opposition-held northwe…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-bilal-abdul-kareem-kill-list-petition-supreme-court
It's déjà vu all over again
Michael Laxer | canadiandimension.com | 2021-09-21
Justin Trudeau during an election campaign stop in Montréal, October 17, 2019. Photo from Twitter. | Two years of minority parliament and several weeks of rather bland campaigning later the election seems to have taken the country right back to where it was in 2019 before the pandemic and all of its staggering consequences and impacts. | The Liberals lost the popular vote as in 2019 but just as then will hold on to a minority while all the parties landed seat-wise almost exactly where they began. | While many mainstream commen…
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De-facto voter suppression came to Canada yesterday
Karl Nerenberg | canadiandimension.com | 2021-09-21
Justin Trudeau visits his campaign office in Papineau, Montréal. Photo from Twitter. | The story most are telling about Canada's 44th federal election on September 20, 2021 is that it produced almost exactly the same result as the last one. We as a country spent more than $600 million to achieve exactly nothing. | It was a disappointing exercise in futility for all parties–except, perhaps, the Bloc Québécois, which looked like it might lose a handful of seats at the beginning of the campaign and ended up increasing its popular v…
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Italian boxer of Moroccan origins beats rival with Nazi tattoos for title
Nur Ayoubi | middleeasteye.net | 2021-09-21
Italian boxer of Moroccan origins beats rival with Nazi tattoos for title | Hassan Nourdine's victory has been hailed, while Italy's boxing federation has come under fire for allowing his opponent to compete in the title match | Nur Ayoubi | Tue, 09/21/2021 – 16: 23 | 'Beating someone with those tattoos is a victory worth double,' said Hassan Nourdine, Italy's new super-featherweight boxing champion (Screengrab/Twitter)…
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SF Mayor London Breed Defends Partying With Tony! Toni! Toné! During Mask Mandates
Ann Brown | moguldom.com | 2021-09-21
San Francisco Mayor London Breed is being accused of hypocrisy for partying maskless, despite the city's indoor mask mandate she helped implement. After her actions were captured in a video that went viral, Breed defended herself by explaining she "was feeling the spirit" and doesn't need "the fun police." Breed was with a group of friends …
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