LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Federal prosecutors are suing to seize control of the building in downtown Louisville formerly known as PNC Plaza, alleging it is secretly owned by billionaire Ukrainian oligarchs and used to launder billions of dollars they plundered from a bank they owed in the eastern European country.
They apparently also acquired properties in other parts of the US. Wonder if the Bidens were involved....
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About 4,000 farmers lost large swathes of land when Zimbabwe’s late leader Robert Mugabe launched the often-chaotic land reform program which he said was aimed at addressing colonial-era land inequities. White farmers had owned the majority of prime farmland. Agricultural land now belongs to the government.
But actions are not without consequences, so now the government there has to pay up some $3.5 billion to the farmers they evicted. The government's debts were already large, so what's a few billion more?
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A French national, accused of sexually abusing 300 children, is facing death by firing squad if found guilty of the charges in an Indonesian court.
65-year-old Francois Abello Camille was arrested for allegedly molesting hundreds of kids and beating minors who refused to have sex with him.
Police said they arrested Camille at a hotel in Indonesia's capital Jakarta last month. They reportedly discovered two underaged girls in his room during the bust.
Many of the readers commenting seem to favor the firing squad.
In any case, he's not getting out alive.
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Considering that nearly 1/3 of kids tested there thus far have turned up positive for the coronavirus, it might not be such a great idea to reopen the schools just yet.
Alina Alonso, the health department director of Palm Beach County, reportedly told county commissioners on Tuesday that the long-term consequences of coronavirus in children are unknown. “They are seeing there is damage to the lungs in these asymptomatic children. ... We don’t know how that is going to manifest a year from now or two years from now,” Alonso told reporters. “Is that child going to have chronic pulmonary problems or not?”
In other news, it seems that healthy people with type O blood are less likely to get the disease in the first place; those with type A are more likely to contract it.
Of course, that doesn't mean that people with type O are off the hook.
And women in late-term pregnancy can encounter problems with their infant:
A pregnant woman infected with the novel coronavirus during her final trimester had the virus spread through the placenta to her unborn child, leading to neurological complications in the infant days after birth, according to a study published in Nature Communications on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, Canada has announced that they'll keep the border with the USA closed until at least August 21, although transport of goods between the two countries will be permitted to continue. To date, according to new figures sent to CTVNews.ca by the CBSA, 10,329 U.S. citizens have been turned away from our shared border between March 22 and July 12. More than a quarter of them were barred from entering after revealing they were coming to Canada to sightsee, despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Some Canadian long-haul would prefer that the border remain closed indefinitely, until or unless the US gets its collective act together:
Some Ontario truck drivers are speaking out about what they've been witnessing on their trips to the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic — and they're warning the Canadian government to keep the border closed to non-essential visitors.
"They're travelling down there. They don't wear masks," said Leanne Steeves, a long-haul truck driver from Barrie, Ont., referring to the attitude of many Americans to the pandemic. "It's like they don't care. Life is normal. Nothing's changed for them."
They don't say what the other reasons might be.
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It's kind of odd that they're now pushing this message to black folks in the USA, considering their own history:
“We continue to open our arms and invite all our brothers and sisters home. Ghana is your home. Africa is your home. We have our arms wide open ready to welcome you home. Please take advantage, come home build a life in Ghana. You do not have to stay where you are not wanted forever. You have a choice and Africa is waiting for you.”
For nearly 150 years, Ghana was the center of the transatlantic slave trade that sent millions of Africans to the New World. The vast majority of slaves purchased by Europeans in Ghana had been captured in tribal warfare or were simply kidnapped to sell to European slave traders, according to the liberal Tracing Center, an organization that promotes education about the institution of slavery.
Well, it appears that they've halted the former practice there of "necklacing", in which a used tire was placed around the neck of a suspected criminal, laced with gasoline, and set on fire. So there's that.
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Yep, living in Mexico is inexpensive - right up until it isn't.
Coronavirus patients are showing up in emergency rooms after calling 911 from the US-Mexico border. “They’ll literally come to the border and call an ambulance,” says Van Gorder, president and CEO of Scripps Health, a hospital system in Southern California.
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Licence plates from U.S. states like Nevada and Colorado were spotted near Banff National Park over the past week. RCMP have issued seven tickets to U.S. residents over the past week. There are legitimate reasons for the presence of a U.S. resident or a U.S.-plated vehicle in Canada amidst the pandemic, but stopping to see sights is not one of them. Each of the tickets was issued under the Alberta Health Act at a rate of $1,200 each.
Some expensive sight-seeing there, eh?
Under current rules, Americans may come through Canada to get home or get to work in Alaska, but they must travel along a direct path. When they need to stop for food or rest stops, they must maintain distance away from the public as much as possible.
Come to think of it, though, I can't recall seeing any Canadian-plated vehicles around here lately. It must work both ways, then.
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A MAN suspected of killing 36 people in an arson attack on an anime studio in Japan has finally been arrested after being nursed back to health for ten months.
Shinji Aoba, 42, was given just a one per cent chance of surviving his burns following July's atrocity, and cops had to wait two months just to question him for the first time.
They plan to hang him.
I'd have let him die in a fire.
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After seven years of economic collapse, Venezuela’s crisis has entered a troubling new phase. In a nation that’s home to the world’s largest oil reserves, fuel shortages have grown so acute that fields are going bare. Venezuela is now on the verge of famine, the International Crisis Group warns.
Evidence of fuel scarcity is everywhere. Ambulances can’t run, telecommunications networks are faltering and some farmers have given up altogether on machinery -- using oxen instead.
Their currency is essentially worthless, and those fortunate enough to live near the border with Colombia have found that fuel there costs around 15 Venezuela dollars per gallon. One result:
Venezuelan food inflation reached 251% in the first four months of the year, according to Caracas research group Cenda.
They may sit atop the world's largest oil areas, but they can't produce fuel from it; much less fertilizers. They lack the technological capacity and the required skills.
The fact is, they lost their talent. They no longer have the expertise to produce distillates on an efficient scale. I feel for people but this is the result of socialism. If their government were in charge of the desert there would soon be a shortage of sand. But then, it's what the people wanted - and they got it. Maybe the kiddies in Seattle should migrate to their socialist heaven.
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Volga-Dnepr Group has flown more than 3,000 breeding pigs to China from France this year. The animals -- transported 6,450 miles (10,400 kilometers) in wooden crates in the hold of a Boeing 747 cargo plane -- are being used to restore local livestock levels to help mitigate shortages in the world’s largest pork market after an outbreak of African swine fever decimated China’s hog herds.
Undoubtedly, they'll be happy as pigs in mud when they finally disembark.
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