Month: February 2022

2…………> Ukraine Invasion: Will Putin Strike?

Since Russia has the troops in place to invade Ukraine “at any time”, American citizens should leave within the next 48 hours, since as an invasion could start with aerial bombing that would make departures difficult and endanger civilians, the White House said last week.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60355295

3…………> Amazon Deforestation: Rolling out of Proportions?

The number of trees cut down in the Brazilian Amazon in January far exceeded deforestation for the same month last year, according to government satellite data, with the area destroyed was five times larger than 2021, the highest January total since records began in 2015.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-60333422

4…………> Afterlife Army: China Discovery

The so-called ‘Terracotta Warriors’ are life-size figures that are believed to have been built to protect the first Chinese emperor in the afterlife, as more than 20 new ‘Terracotta Warriors’ have been uncovered in one of the pits located on the territory of the mausoleum of Emperor Qin Shi Huang, who unified China in 221 B.C.

https://sputniknews.com/20220211/first-chinese-emperors-afterlife-army-gets-bigger-as-20-more-terracotta-warriors-discovered-1092932701.html

5…………> US Gun-hoarders Arrested

PHILADELPHIA — An investigation by U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) led to the arrest and charge of Joseph Raymond Berger, 67, and Joseph Paul Berger, 32, of Bethlehem, PA, this week with multiple firearms offenses including possessing machine guns, possessing non-registered firearms, and possessing non-registered silencers.

https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-hsi-investigation-leads-lehigh-county-father-and-son-charged-unlawful-possession

2…………> Clashes in Canada’s Capital: Vaccine Protest

Police have clashed with demonstrators in Canada’s capital, Ottawa, as they move to end a three-week anti-vaccine mandate protest, with 100 arrests made, the operation starting early on Friday, with some officers on horseback, after the government invoked the Emergencies Act to crack down on the protest.

3…………> Fire in the Atlantic: Porsche & VW Cars

Thousands of Porsche and Volkswagen cars have been abandoned on a cargo ship after it caught fire in the Atlantic Ocean en route to the US, when the ship Felicity Ace, travelling from Emden in Germany before it caught ablaze off the coast of Portugal’s Azores islands.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-60429584

4…………> Ukrainian Atack on Donetsk: Just the Beginning?

In violation of the Minsk Agreements, the Ukrainian army launched an attack against the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics midweek, with local authorities warning that Kiev could start a full-scale offensive at any moment.

https://sputniknews.com/20220218/live-updates-lpr-reports-shelling-by-ukrainian-army-as-nato-boosts-level-of-combat-readiness-1093158161.html

2…………> Why Canadas Covid rate lower?

Images of Canada’s paralyzed capital and of pandemic-rules protests have thrust the country’s Covid response under the spotlight, and what started as a trucker-led movement to demand the end of a vaccine mandate has escalated to include all kinds of public health restrictions.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-60380317

3…………> Last US Slave ship

The discovery of the remains of the Clotilda, 160 years after it sank, brings new life and interest to the settlement built by the original survivors.

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20220207-the-last-known-ship-of-the-us-slave-trade

4………….> Red vine Covid therapy

A recent study that claimed that drinking between one and five glasses of wine per week could reduce the risk of catching COVID-19 by up to 17% might not be as accurate as previously believed, according to new research.

https://sputniknews.com/20220217/red-wine-might-not-be-as-protective-against-covid-as-recent-study-suggested-1093123914.html

5…………> Counterfeiters Nailed

 The National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center (IPR Center), the National Football League (NFL), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the Los Angeles Sheriff Department and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) announced that more than 267, 511 counterfeit sports-related items, worth an estimated $97.8 million, were seized during Operation Team Player.

https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ipr-center-seizes-978m-counterfeit-sports-merchandise-during-annual-operation-team