REPORTS: INFECTIONS EXCEED 64,000 by Sharon Rondeau (Feb. 14, 2020) — On Thursday, Chinese health officials reported 14,000 new coronavirus cases in the city of Wuhan in Huebei Province, where the disease was first detected in December. The potentially-fatal virus, formally known as “novel coronavirus” or “COVID-19,” according to the CDC, can be spread from […]
DETENTION NOW IN ITS THIRD YEAR by Sharon Rondeau (Feb. 7, 2020) — On Thursday, the U.S. State Department confirmed news reports stating that the “Citgo 6,” six former Citgo executives taken prisoner in Caracas in November 2017, were returned to prison Wednesday after spending approximately two months on house arrest. Five of the six […]
AS MORE U.S. CASES REPORTED by Sharon Rondeau (Feb. 2, 2020) — On Sunday morning, a second case of the rapidly-spreading coronavirus was confirmed by Santa Clara County, CA public health officials. The disease’s official name is “novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV),” with more than 14,000 people now ill, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) on […]
FATALITIES REPORTED IN CHINA ONLY AS OF 01/28/2020 by Sharon Rondeau (Jan. 28, 2020) — According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) on Tuesday night, the emergence of a “2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV)” last month in the city of Wuhan, Hubei Province, China “is a rapidly evolving situation” in which cases of the virus […]
“FROM IRANIAN TERRITORY” by Sharon Rondeau (Jan. 7, 2020) — Just before 6:30 p.m. EST, Jennifer Griffin of Fox News tweeted that a “senior US military source in Iraq” informed her that U.S. interests there are “Under missile attack from Iran. These are either cruise missiles or short range ballistic missiles. All over the country.” […]
FOLLOWING KILLING OF IRANIAN GENERAL by Sharon Rondeau (Jan. 5, 2020) — At approximately 10:12 a.m. ET on today’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” host Maria Bartiromo announced that the Iraqi Parliament voted to expel all foreign military forces from the country. The hastily-scheduled resolution vote came after U.S. forces struck and killed Iranian military commander Qasem […]
BUT WHEN WILL THEY BE FREED? by Sharon Rondeau (Dec. 20, 2019) — On Friday morning, Special Representative for Venezuela Elliott Abrams confirmed in a press conference that an “improvement in conditions” has taken place for the “Citgo 6,” six former executives of the Venezuelan oil company based in Houston, TX. The development was first […]
BUT WHEN WILL THEY BE FREED? by Sharon Rondeau (Nov. 27, 2019) — During a press briefing at midday on Wednesday, Special Representative for Venezuela Elliott Abrams provided a brief update on the “Citgo 6,” six former executives of the Venezuelan-owned Citgo oil company who were accused of corruption and imprisoned without due process in […]
IS THIS TRUMP’S “BIG SUCCESS”? by Sharon Rondeau (Oct. 27, 2019) — The leader of the terrorist group ISIS, also known as ISIL and the Islamic State, Abū Bakr al-Baghdadi, is “confirmed” dead on Sunday morning by Fox News. President Trump is scheduled to speak on the development at 9:00 a.m. EDT. ISIS organized in […]
MEDIA RELEASE (Sep. 25, 2019) — As the latest U.N. climate summit begins in New York, a new, high-level global network of 500 prominent climate scientists and professionals has submitted a declaration that there is no “climate emergency”. The group has sent a European Climate Declaration with a registered letter to António Guterres, Secretary-General of […]
“HOW MANY MORE DECADES…?” by Sharon Rondeau (Sep. 7, 2019) — In the wake of a sharp increase in violent attacks in the Taliban’s home country of Afghanistan over the last week, President Trump tweeted Saturday evening that “secret” discussions planned at Camp David on Sunday with the terrorist group and Afghanistan’s president have been […]
SIX FORMER EXECUTIVES HELD WITHOUT TRIAL FOR 19 MONTHS by Sharon Rondeau (Jul. 10, 2019) — On Monday, the U.S. State Department issued a bulletin calling for “the former Maduro regime” to “release the wrongfully detained ‘CITGO 6’ in Venezuela.” “These men are suffering serious health conditions and must be released immediately,” the press release […]
“INTENTIONAL” OR NOT? by Sharon Rondeau (Jun. 20, 2019) — “I think somebody made a mistake,” President Trump said in the Oval Office early Thursday afternoon in response to the shooting-down of a U.S. drone over international waters. “I find it hard to believe it was intentional.” During a meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin […]
NO PROOF OF DANGEROUS WARMING, DISTORTING THE SCIENCE Te Puke, New Zealand Richard Treadgold mobile +64 275 340 641 email richard@climateconversation.org.nz FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 15, 2019 The United Nations have revealed—and senior scientists confirm—that they can’t prove human emissions cause dangerous global warming. Global warming fear is powered by the belief that we cause […]
WILL THERE BE “A DURABLE SOLUTION”? by Sharon Rondeau (Jun. 7, 2019) — On Friday night President Trump tweeted that the U.S. and Mexico have reached an agreement on steps to be taken to reduce or stop the illegal migration which has been overwhelming U.S. Customs & Border Patrol personnel over the last 8+ months. […]
FIRST QUESTION CHALLENGES TRUMP ON “STONE COLD LOSER” TWEET by Sharon Rondeau (Jun. 4, 2019) — President Trump and outgoing UK Prime Minister Theresa May held a 20-minute press conference on Tuesday afternoon local time, concluding at approximately 9:32 AM EDT, during which they discussed economic issues, the longstanding and “precious” relationship between the two […]
“ISLAMIC TERROR GROUPS” by Sharon Rondeau (May 12, 2019) — Amid a rising number of attacks on Christian churches this year, a priest holding mass on Sunday morning and five others were murdered by a group of terrorists on motorcycles in the northern section of the West-African nation of Burkina Faso. The terrorists, numbering as […]
CHRISTIAN CHURCHES, LUXURY HOTELS TARGETED by Sharon Rondeau (Apr. 21, 2019) — More than 200 people were killed and approximately 450 injured in a series of explosions in Christian churches in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday morning, The New York Post reported. Sri Lanka is an island located off the southeast coast of India flanked […]
U.S. PLANS TO EXTRADITE ON “CONSPIRACY” CHARGE by Sharon Rondeau (Apr. 11, 2019) — On Thursday, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was forced out of London’s Ecuadorian embassy, which has served as his sanctuary for nearly seven years, and placed under arrest on a 2012 warrant. Photos on Twitter show a bearded Assange, 47, being carried […]
“IN HOURS TO DAYS” by Sharon Rondeau (Apr. 4, 2019) — Late Thursday night, the government-transparency organization WikiLeaks reported that its controversial founder, Julian Assange, is to be expelled from the Ecuadorian embassy in London where he has found refuge since 2012 after jumping bail on a UK warrant. Assange was also wanted in Sweden […]