Syrian chocolate company in Antigonish set to double in size | CBC News
Peace By Chocolate now employs 25 people and is in the process of hiring 25 more to keep up with demand.
Source: Syrian chocolate company in Antigonish set to double in size | CBC News
Newfoundland introduces two new immigration options for entrepreneurs | Canada Immigration News
Report: Israel exports weapons to 30 countries, worth $9 billion annually
1,000 Israeli companies engaged in arms manufacturing and dealing across the world are selling weapons to countries like Cameroon, Myanmar and Rwanda. But they do have rules. The private weapons companies cannot sell to enemies of Israel.
Countries engaged in civil war, totalitarian governments, genocides and extra-governmental military factions more often than not do not apply to this rule.
The scene that stretched across the news outlets a few weeks ago showed a woman who was killed with a baby on her back. They were shot by soldiers of the Central African Army of Cameroon, a group that uses Israeli weapons in their fight for power in the region.
Israeli weapons, according to one source, “find a way to promote power in almost every country on the planet, including those ruled by dictatorial regimes or those that are systematically violating human rights.
Just last April, the Myanmar National Navy bought six Israeli Dvora Patrol Ships in addition to eavesdropping surveillance systems, and an electronic warfare and reconnaissance aircraft. All this for a country that the United Nations has accused of carrying out ethnic cleansing against the Muslim Rohingya minority.
During Rwanda’s horrifying genocide and civil war, Israeli Arms were being sent through Ben-Gurion airport to the Hutu groups committing the atrocities.
“If countries want the best arms, then they probably go to the US and Europe. But when no one else will sell to you, then you turn to Israel,” said investigative journalist John Brown, who works under a pseudonym.
The private arms manufacturers still refuse to provide details of their transactions. This privileged status for arms manufacturers has been protected repeatedly through Israeli Supreme Court appearances despite hundreds of petitions.
One writer said that there are only three ways to actually know who is receiving Israeli-made weapons. The first is through the countries that import weapons from Israel. The second is through human rights organizations covering the area finding evidence of Israeli-made weapons. And the third is by leaks directly in the Israeli manufacturing industry.
Israel exports to all the countries around the world except those that are hostile to them and those that the UN has imposed a ban on weapons imports. Now, Israel is standing in front of 130 countries with weapons that they made, including those that human rights conditions have seriously deteriorated.
Countries that are permanent customers for Israel: Rwanda, South Sudan, Azerbaijan, Cameroon, Myanmar, they are all witnessing internal civil strife and serious crimes against humanity.
2% of arms deals happen in Europe, 35% in Latin America, 63% in Asia and Africa, including countries where the United States and Europe have ceased their arms trade.
Arms manufacturing is a nine billion dollar annual industry. In addition, one of the most common avenues for ex-senior officers from the Israeli Army is to train militias in third world countries, given their experience working in special units.
Russia’s influence on Lebanon’s Levant Party

Russia has slowly but surely been expanding its influence in the Middle East. In the third and final part of a DW exclusive, Benas Gerdziunas looks at the Kremlin’s sway on Lebanon’s Levant Party.
White Nationalists Love Corey Stewart. He Keeps Them Close.
The Republican nominee for Senate in Virginia likes to engage the racial fringes of his party, creating a dilemma for mainstream G.O.P. leaders wary of his views.
In our #MeToo age, we must hold on to the hope of redemption | Sonia Sodha
This reminds me of discussions saying after just 50 years of renewed civil rights in USA for African-Americans, that we should just forget 400 years of slavery and its institutional effects, give all the racists a break, pretend Trump is not a racist, and discount need for Black Live Matter. So after less than a year of holding men to account for thousands of years of abuse, you want to give guys, you like a break…? If Trump says I am sorry and am a new person – give him a break; believe him? There’s redemption and then there’s just giving those you like a pass go ticket out of being held accountable.

Disney’s sacking of the contrite James Gunn plays into the hands of people with unpleasant agendas
Since it started trending on social media 10 months ago, two things have come to define the #MeToo moment. One is the powerful public testimony of women and men who have experienced sexual harassment and abuse in settings from Hollywood to Westminster. The second is the occasional sacking – or bringing down – of the powerful wrongdoer.
For men such as Harvey Weinstein, that loss of status and privilege could not have come soon enough, but the rolling of some other heads has created a sense of unease. Most recently, Disney’s sacking of James Gunn, the director of the Guardians of the Galaxy film franchise, for a series of deeply offensive jokes about rape and paedophilia, has prompted a wave of sympathy. Several of the films’ stars have written an open letter calling for him to be reinstated.
Far-right protesters ‘ransack socialist bookshop in London’
Nazis hate books, as well as people not themselves.

Owners of Bookmarks say masked attackers wrecked displays and tore up books
The owners of Britain’s largest socialist bookshop, Bookmarks, have said the store was attacked by far-right protesters wearing masks who wrecked displays and ripped up books and magazines.
Posting on Facebook and Twitter, Bookmarks said staff were closing the shop on Bloomsbury Street in central London on Saturday evening when about a dozen people descended on it.
Hmm, is this a good time to remind folks that the Trump foreign policy aide who took Maria Butina to a Styx concert in Oct16 also engineered the change in GOP platform on arming #Ukraine? @NatashaBertrand https://www.businessinsider.com/jd-gordon-trump-adviser-ukraine-rnc-2017-3 …
Hmm, is this a good time to remind folks that the Trump foreign policy aide who took Maria Butina to a Styx concert in Oct16 also engineered the change in GOP platform on arming #Ukraine?
@NatashaBertrand https://www.businessinsider.com/jd-gordon-trump-adviser-ukraine-rnc-2017-3 …




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