"... research found that NGOs and private contractors appear to be the “primary intermediate recipients of this assistance for relief and reconstruction, with very little money going directly to the government of Haiti”."
A new generation of locusts is hitting Africa, Pakistan and India.
Ninety-one passengers and seven flight crew are believed to have been on the flight.
"China's People Daily has reported that a huge fire has broken out in the Hebei Province, in the north-east of the country."
"German Chancellor Angela Merkel has warned that up to 70% of the country’s population – some 58 million people – could contract the coronavirus."
"For example, now that several coronavirus deaths have been reported in the area, the lack of tourists has turned downtown Seattle into “a ghost town”…"
"...up in northern California, photos of completely empty shelves over the weekend were rapidly shared on social media…"
We record here the names of over 600 notable victims of the Coronavirus Pandemic.
"Scientists that have studied the virus are telling us that it “could be 20 times more lethal than the flu”, and it binds to human cell receptors much more easily than the SARS virus did."
"...things are likely to get even crazier in the months ahead."
"At this point, this virus is spreading very rapidly ... among the police and the military…"
"Let us hope that the containment measures being taken in China and elsewhere will help, but at this point the number of cases just continues to escalate."
"Fortunately, however, conditions of infection and detection are changing, which in turn changes incredibly important factors that the AI isn’t aware of. And that probably means we’re safer than we think."
"If they are trying to overtly downplay the seriousness of the event while lying about the facts involved, it tells me that the event is a legitimate threat and it will probably get worse as time passes."
"I would use the word “tyranny” to describe what is happening, but it doesn’t seem nearly strong enough."
"One journalist tried to get tested, and he was told there are only “100 or several hundred test-kits per hospital per day”… So a lot of sick people in Wuhan may never get tested at all."
"According to researchers at the University of Hong Kong, the true number of coronavirus cases in the city of Wuhan alone is probably “closer to 44,000”…"
Preppers are boosting land values across the United States.
Following revelations that Flight 752 did not crash, but was brought down by an Iranian missile, protests against the Ayatollah Khamenei and the Iranian regime broke out on 11 January 2020, in cities across Iran.
82 Iranians and 62 Canadians are among the dead.
Members of the public attempted CPR on victims, while others appeared helpless to rescue those trapped under the crush.
I can’t but wonder how much truth there is in Iran’s latest threat to reveal the European politicians who took backhanders on the last Iran deal.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison is telling us that the fires “could burn for months” before they finally go out.
"Authorities have warned us that “everything west of Interstate 5 will be toast” when an absolutely massive seismic event along the Cascadia subduction zone sends a gigantic tsunami sweeping inland."