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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

Trump to hold Wisconsin rally despite warning over public gatherings | Donald Trump | The Guardian

  • Wisconsin placed in ‘red zone’ for high infection rates
  • Experts urge people to avoid crowds to stop ‘preventable deaths’

Donald Trump will hold a rally in Wisconsin on Saturday evening, despite state health officials declaring a crisis over the coronavirus pandemic and his own experts warning that public gatherings there risk causing “preventable deaths”.

Source: Trump to hold Wisconsin rally despite warning over public gatherings | Donald Trump | The Guardian

As Lebanon’s revolt fury fades, protesters struggle to promote change – National | Globalnews.ca

A year ago, hundreds of thousands of Lebanese took to the streets protesting taxes and a rapidly deteriorating economic crisis. A spontaneous and hopeful nationwide movement was born, denouncing an entire political establishment that had for decades pushed Lebanon toward collapse.

Today, as crises multiply and the country dives deeper into uncertainty and poverty, protests seem to have petered out. Even widespread anger over a devastating explosion at Beirut’s port on Aug. 4, blamed on government negligence, failed to re-ignite the movement.

On Saturday, thousands of people marked the first anniversary of the protest movement in different parts of Lebanon including its three largest cities, Beirut, Tripoli and Sidon. But the protesters were far fewer than those last year.

Source: As Lebanon’s revolt fury fades, protesters struggle to promote change – National | Globalnews.ca

 Massive fire destroys lobster pound in southern Nova Scotia | Globalnews.ca   (anti-Indigenous hate crime)

The lobster pound is the same one that was swarmed, vandalized and ransacked by a large crowd of non-Indigenous commercial fishers and their supporters Tuesday night.

Mi’kmaw fisherman Jason Marr told Global News he and others were forced to take cover inside the lobster pound as the building’s windows were smashed out and Marr’s vehicle was damaged, he said.

“They vandalized (my van) and they were peeing on it, pouring things into the fuel tank, cutting electrical wires,” Marr said on Wednesday. He also claimed they smashed the windows of the van, and said he saw them kicking, punching and hitting it with objects.

Source: Massive fire destroys lobster pound in southern Nova Scotia | Globalnews.ca

Anyone who thinks Trump is good for the Jews is a ‘freier’ – The Jerusalem Post

Nobody is Trump’s friend, not even Israel, because the narcissist has no real friends. We can very easily wake up one day and find ourselves where the Kurds are – thrown under the bus. It depends who is paying Trump that day.
If you think that Trump is your friend, you are in for a big shock. You’re nothing more than the con-man’s mark. Or as Israelis would say, just a freier.
Dr. Elana Maryles Sztokman 

Source: Anyone who thinks Trump is good for the Jews is a ‘freier’ – The Jerusalem Post