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[Zsazsa]

Nigerian senator 'tried to traffick child to UK for organ harvesting'

Ike Ekweremadu, 60, a People's Democratic Party politician for 19 years who was once Deputy President of the nation's senate, was held with Nwanneka Ekweremadu, 55, in Britain this month.

www.dailymail.co.uk

High-ranking Nigerian politician Ike Ekweremadu, 60, and his academic wife, 55, are charged with plotting to bring a child from Nigeria to the UK for organ harvesting
Nwanneka Ekweremadu, 55, and Ike Ekweremadu, 60, are both from Nigeria
Mr Ekweremadu is a People's Democratic Party politician who was once Deputy President of the nation's senate
His wife is an academic and doctor in Abuja. Couple were visiting the UK in June
They will appear at Uxbridge Magistrates' Court on Thursday afternoon
Child alleged to have been trafficked for organs is now safe with the police
By MARTIN ROBINSON, CHIEF REPORTER

PUBLISHED: 14:26 BST, 23 June 2022 | UPDATED: 16:04 BST, 23 June 2022

 

[Zsazsa]

View: https://twitter.com/MaajidNawaz/status/1540126887711760388

 

[Summer]

That’s deeply disturbing.

 

[Regina]

That’s deeply disturbing.

I couldn't even click on the link. Creepy af

 

[Peatful]

Overturned.

 

[Birdie]

Nigerian senator 'tried to traffick child to UK for organ harvesting'

Ike Ekweremadu, 60, a People's Democratic Party politician for 19 years who was once Deputy President of the nation's senate, was held with Nwanneka Ekweremadu, 55, in Britain this month.

www.dailymail.co.uk

I think there is a lot of this going on. Advances in cosmetic surgery.

 

[Regina]

I think there is a lot of this going on. Advances in cosmetic surgery.

nothing to worry about karma with that.

 

[Old Irenaeus]

Overturned.

Psalm 126.

 

[David PS]

The CDC is still searching for the cause of mysterious liver illness in kids

With data on nearly 300 cases, experts are confident that the culprit will soon be uncovered.

www.nbcnews.com

Has anyone checked their vaccination status?

 

[David PS]

Covid Insurance State Court Rulings Reflect ‘Long Game’ Ahead

Business-owners seeking to battle insurers over pandemic-related business interruption coverage received ammunition and some clarity last week in a pair of rulings in New York and Louisiana state courts.

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Wisconsin top court rejects insurance coverage for COVID losses

Wisconsin's highest court on Wednesday became the third state top court in a row to rule that businesses are not entitled to insurance coverage for losses resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic and government-imposed restrictions on gatherings.

www.reuters.com

Insurance Commission: COVID-19 insurance claims amounted to P2.93 billion in Q1 2022

Insurance claims related to COVID-19 amounted to P2.93 billion from January to April 2022, the Insurance Commission (IC) said Friday in a report to the Department of Finance (DOF).

www.gmanetwork.com

NY health insurers propose nearly 19% rate hike, say COVID-19 costs, inflation are to blame

NY health insurers seek an average rate hike of nearly 19% for 2023, citing in part the ongoing impact of COVID-19, inflation and more. What to know

www.lohud.com

For now, we can only guess how the supreme will decide.

EDIT - I just found out.

U.S. Supreme Court Refuses to Hear COVID Business Interruption Case

The U.S. Supreme Court decided on June 6 that it will not hear an appeal of a decision that denied coverage for losses caused by COVID-19 shutdown orders,

www.insurancejournal.com

 

[Peatness]

The CDC is still searching for the cause of mysterious liver illness in kids

With data on nearly 300 cases, experts are confident that the culprit will soon be uncovered.

www.nbcnews.com

Has anyone checked their vaccination status?

I'm convinced it's linked to the flu vaccination of 2019/2020

Worldwide Hepatitis in children

Have you read about the mysterious cases of hepatitis in children without the presence of the common hepatitis viruses. That’s scary. Sinister stuff going on? Or an unexpected side effect of Covid? Something else entirely. What times are we living in? Kill children. Have everybody locked down...

raypeatforum.com

 

[David PS]

Female Skateboarder Calls Out Trans-Identified Males Displacing Women In Sport - Reduxx

A female skateboarding champion has said she is “done being silent,” and is speaking out about her experience coming in second to a biological male allowed to complete in a women’s competition. On May 17, Taylor May Silverman, a professional skateboarder, posted a statement to her Instagram in...

reduxx.info

 

[Zsazsa]

Opinion | Cuba’s Power Grab Inside Washington

The U.S. needs to restore the integrity of the Pan American Health Organization.

www.wsj.com

Cuba’s Power Grab Inside Washington
The U.S. needs to restore the integrity of the Pan American Health Organization.

By Mary Anastasia O’Grady
June 26, 2022 5:36 pm ET

Is the Mexican wife of a Cuban official involved in the human-trafficking of tens of thousands of healthcare workers the best candidate in the Western Hemisphere to head the Washington-based Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)? Is a Brazilian whose fingerprints are all over the use of Cuban doctors as forced labor in his country any better?

Both have been nominated for the job by their respective governments, which are lobbying hard for them. Both deserve to be disqualified.

Cuba is working to get control of PAHO, an arm of the World Health Organization, for the same reason that China wants to control the WHO itself: A public-health authority that can be used in a nontransparent manner is a powerful vehicle for propaganda and maybe worse.

President Biden has announced a new U.S. initiative with PAHO to fund the preparation of 500,000 medical personnel in the region over the next five years, and Havana is licking its chops. Unless the U.S. recovers PAHO’s integrity and transparency, the program is likely to be used by the regime to deploy many more human intelligence assets around the region disguised as “healthcare workers.”

Venezuela, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, Peru, Cuba, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Mexico are now headed by socialists, and most are friendly with Vladimir Putin. On Aug. 7, with the inauguration of former M-19 guerrilla Gustavo Petro, Colombia will join the left-wing rat pack. In recent weeks, followers of José Carlos Mariátegui—founder of the Communist Party in Peru, who preached “Indo-American socialism”—have been blocking roads in Quito in an effort to bring down Ecuador’s President Guillermo Lasso.

The survival or revival of democratic institutions in the region largely depends on the courage and commitment of the locals. But the U.S. can help by pushing back against power grabs like the one Cuba is making for PAHO.

The export of Cuban medical workers to foreign countries where they are paid slave wages, stripped of their passports, denied family visits and local friendships, and forced to live under constant surveillance is no ideological theory. Venezuela’s independent daily TalCual reported this month that 17 Cubans who had been enslaved as healthcare workers in that country were caught trying to cross the Colombian border. The news outlet said that at least six were returned to Cuba, where they face prison sentences of up to eight years.

A complaint filed in U.S. federal court in Washington by four Cuban victims of Havana’s human trafficking offers first-person testimony about life inside the notorious “medical missions” run by Cuban intelligence. The class-action lawsuit alleges that Brazilian Workers’ Party President Dilma Rousseff used PAHO as a financial intermediary to hide payments to Havana for their work. The second amended complaint of May 12, 2020, states that the trafficked medical personnel were “paid only a fraction—10% or less—of the fees the Brazilian Government paid PAHO for their services, while PAHO paid at least 85% to the Cuban government, and retained a brokerage fee of 5% for itself.”

According to the complaint, “the Ministry of Health acknowledged the payments to PAHO and that the retention of a large fraction of the salaries earned by the Cuban medical personnel, and PAHO’s payment of hundreds of millions of dollars to the Cuban government, was never reported officially.”

Earlier this year the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia upheld a federal judge’s November 2020 ruling that PAHO doesn’t enjoy “absolute” immunity to allegations related to commercial activity in the U.S. PAHO told me in April that it “had no role in trafficking or forced labor,” but it is making a second jurisdictional challenge.

This is what makes the candidacy of Mexican Nadine Gasman for the top job at PAHO absurd. Her husband, Joaquín Molina, is a former Cuba representative to PAHO and one of the defendants, along with PAHO, in the class-action lawsuit. Mr. Molina is now an adviser to Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who wants to bring forced Cuban labor to Mexico.

Seeking prestige, Brasilia is backing Jarbas Barbosa for the post, despite his vocal 2013 support for using Cuban medical personnel as forced labor in Brazil. He’s not named as a defendant in the class-action lawsuit, but Brazilian Alberto Kleiman is. The complaint alleges that as a consultant to the Brazilian health ministry, Mr. Kleiman helped cook up the “criminal conspiracy” and later became a PAHO official. Mr. Barbosa was in charge of the oversight office of Brazil’s health ministry at the time. Mr. Kleiman’s lawyer didn’t respond to requests for comment.

When Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro took office in 2019 he said he’d pay Cuban workers directly rather than paying Havana. The Cuban regime ended the program in Brazil.

As the largest contributor to PAHO by far, the U.S. has a responsibility to see that the institution is a force for good. A smart place to start would be to reject Ms. Gasman and Mr. Barbosa.

 

[Zsazsa]

From Drugs to Corruption: The Growing Presence of Chinese Organized Crime in Latin America

In 2021, China's policy banks ⁠— the China Development Bank (CDB) and China Exit Bank (Exit) ⁠— made no loans to Latin America for the second consecutive year. Beijing is now essentially focused on financing Chinese companies to operate in the region.

www.militantwire.com

From Drugs to Corruption: The Growing Presence of Chinese Organized Crime in Latin America

MARIA ZUPPELLO
Writes TERRORISM AND TOC IN THE AGE OF COVID19 · Subscribe

In 2021, China's policy banks ⁠— the China Development Bank (CDB) and China Exit Bank (Exit) ⁠— made no loans to Latin America for the second consecutive year. Beijing is now essentially focused on financing Chinese companies to operate in the region.

This shift in strategy and the resulting proliferation of Chinese companies in Latin America will increase the circulation of people and money that are no longer under the direct control of local governments. Based on current trends, Chinese criminal organizations will likely thrive in this new economic environment. Extortion, money laundering through front firms, and smuggling are already increasing, posing a severe threat to the population's safety in the region.

Drugs
Drug production is one of China’s fastest-growing businesses in Latin America. After China's booming export of fentanyl or its precursors to Mexican cartels, a new market [...]

 

[Peatness]

Dr. Simone Gold Sentenced to Two Months in Prison - American Faith

A California doctor has been sentenced to two months in prison for being involved in the Jan. 6 breach of the Capitol and stepping inside the restricted premises along with her co-defendant John Strand.

americanfaith.com

 

[Birdie]

ANOTHER CLOSURE: One of the Largest Chicken Producers in the U.S. Announces Tennessee Plant Shutdown

Joe Biden’s ‘Build Back Better’ is not working as planned… Or is it? One of the top ten largest vertically integrated chicken producers in the US, supplying a broad range of quality poultry products, announced that it will be shutting down one of its plants in Campbell County, Tennessee...

www.thegatewaypundit.com

 

[Peatness]

Dr. Simone Gold Sentenced to Two Months in Prison - American Faith

A California doctor has been sentenced to two months in prison for being involved in the Jan. 6 breach of the Capitol and stepping inside the restricted premises along with her co-defendant John Strand.

americanfaith.com

freedrgold.org

This domain may be for sale!

www.freedrgold.org

 

[Zsazsa]

View: https://twitter.com/backtolife_2022/status/1541825188785971200

 

[David PS]

Basic income trial will see young people in Wales given £1,600 a month for two years

It is hoped scheme will help young adults on a ‘path to live healthy, happy and fulfilling lives’

www.independent.co.uk

 

[Zsazsa]

View: https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1541612121963782144