If Turkey’s Islamist strongman, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, spent more sleepless nights the first week of December than he had over his concerns for U.S. sanctions, it was because of the more imminent and potentially punishing European Union sanctions that would take shape at a summit on December 10-11. He must have had a relatively peaceful sleep when the summit was over. He might have thought that he had managed to get away from a huge European sanctions bomb, at least until March. It may, however, be a bit premature for him to sigh with relief.
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Nashville bombing ‘person of interest’, Anthony Quinn Warner, 63, gave house raided by FBI to a California woman, 29, for FREE last month
The man identified as a person of interest in the Nashville Christmas Day bombing gave his house away for nothing a month before the blast, DailyMail.com can exclusively reveal.
Anthony Quinn Warner, 63, signed the property away via a quitclaim deed to Lisa Swing, a 29-year-old woman living in Los Angeles, for $0.00, according to county records.
Quinn’s signature does not appear on the November 25th transfer and she told DailyMail.com she knew absolutely nothing about it.
More… Anthony Quinn Warner Named as Nashville Bombing Person of Interest
Big for-profit long-term-care companies paid out more than $170 million to investors through Ontario’s deadly first wave
In the first nine months of 2020 as the COVID-19 catastrophe unfolded across Ontario, the three largest publicly traded long-term-care operators in the province made huge payouts to investors while taking millions in government funds, data shows.
A Star analysis of the financial statements of Extendicare, Sienna Senior Living and Chartwell Retirement Residences shows that in the first three quarters of 2020 (ending Sept. 30), these for-profit companies collectively paid out nearly $171 million to shareholders at the same time they received $138.5 million through provincial pandemic pay for front-line workers, the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS) program or other pandemic funding.
Scotty WAS beamed up! Star Trek actor James Doohan’s ashes were smuggled on board the International Space Station
Star Trek’s James Doohan had his ashes smuggled onto the International Space Station, it has been revealed.
Mr Doohan, who played Montgomery ‘Scotty’ Scott, asked for his ashes to be beamed to space when he died at the age of 85 in 2005.
The Canadian’s remains have now traveled more than 1.7 billion miles in orbit through space in secret.
WashPost Warmly Welcomes Newest Radical to ‘The Squad,’ BLM Leader Cori Bush
On Wednesday, the splashy profile on the front of the Washington Post “Style” section was a sugary profile of the latest socialist radical to win a seat in the House of Representatives, Cori Bush of Missouri. The headline in the paper was puffy:
Marching right into the House
A Ferguson protest leader and once homeless nurse, Rep.-elect Cori Bush says she knows where America hurts
California Has Some Of The Strictest Restrictions In The U.S., Yet COVID-19 Is Surging
It’s almost as if lockdowns do nothing to stop the spread of the coronavirus.
California has some of the nation’s strictest restrictions when it comes to COVID-19, yet it is one of America’s epicenters for the virus, Politico reported. The state has at times instituted “a complete ban on restaurant dining to travel quarantines and indoor gym closures.”
New novel coronavirus variant likely already in Canada, expert says
TORONTO — A new variant of the virus that causes COVID-19 that first surfaced in the U.K. and has since been found in several other countries is likely already in Canada, a health expert says.
“I’d be surprised if it’s not, actually,” Ronald St. John, the former director-general of the Centre for Emergency Preparedness and Response at the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), told CTV News Channel Saturday.
Glenn Greenwald slams media coverage of coronavirus pandemic as worst incident of ‘media misconduct’
“Suddenly, it all turned to ‘What these people are doing is noble,’” he said. “And not only do you no longer have the obligation to stay at home, you now have the obligation to go and march against racism on the grounds that racism is the worst public [threat] than the coronavirus pandemic.”
Cop Heroes at Nashville Bombing Show How Insane the Democrat ‘Defund the Police’ Message Is
When a call came to respond to a “shots fired” in downtown Nashville on Christmas morning, it wasn’t antifa or Black Lives Matter who responded, it was six Nashville cops, some reportedly new to the job, who found themselves “standing between good and evil” in a potential mass casualty situation.
Communist China’s slave state economy to overtake US ‘by 2028’ due to Covid
China will overtake the US to become the world’s largest economy by 2028, five years earlier than previously forecast, a report says.
The UK-based Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) said China’s “skilful” management of Covid-19 would boost its relative growth compared to the US and Europe in coming years.
Meanwhile India is tipped to become the third largest economy by 2030.
Police have ‘person of interest’ in Nashville bombing: Hunt for suspect narrows as FBI investigates whether spooky recorded warning was used to lure COPS to RV
Police have reportedly identified a person of interest in Nashville’s Christmas Day bombing that injured three people and caused massive damage to the city’s downtown.
On Saturday morning, CBS journalist Jeff Pegues tweeted out the news, but did not say whether anybody was yet in custody.
The blast emanated from a white RV parked on 2nd Avenue at 6.40 am Friday, and the FBI is now probing whether the explosion was deliberately designed to target law enforcement officers.
Judge delays execution of only woman on US death row
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge said the Justice Department unlawfully rescheduled the execution of the only woman on federal death row, potentially setting up the Trump administration to schedule the execution after President-elect Joe Biden takes office.
U.S. District Court Judge Randolph Moss also vacated an order from the director of the Bureau of Prisons that had set Lisa Montgomery’s execution date for Jan. 12. Montgomery had previously been scheduled to be put to death at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana, this month, but Moss delayed the execution after her attorneys contracted coronavirus visiting their client and asked him to extend the amount of time to file a clemency petition.
Was Nashville Blast the New Fort Sumter?
It was unseasonably cold as my wife, daughter, and I emerged from a downtown Nasvhille restaurant where we had been enjoying a Christmas Eve dinner.
All was quiet. That rarity in the South, a gentle snow, was drifting down, reflected in the Christmas lights of the neighboring buildings. It was almost magical.
You could forget for the moment the unremitting misery that was annus horribilis 2020, particularly bad in my adopted Music City home that suffered not just the pandemic but a destructive tornado in March.
Hackers threaten to leak massive trove of ‘before & after’ plastic surgery photos, warn they’re ‘not a pleasant sight’
A dark web hacking outfit claims to have purloined some 900 gigabytes of “before and after” photos from a UK cosmetic surgery chain with a litany of celebrity endorsements, vowing to release the images unless a ransom is paid.
The hack on the surgery chain, the Hospital Group, was reported by the BBC on Thursday, noting that the company had informed both its customers as well as the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office of the data theft.
Los Angeles County testing if new coronavirus strain spreading in community
Scientists in Los Angeles County have begun examining samples of COVID-19 found in patients to determine if a new, more infectious strain of the virus from Britain has made its way to the West Coast of the U.S.
The new strain is of particular concern given the ease with which it spreads from person to person, though it is unclear if it is more lethal than the strand that have been spreading for months.