John Brokaw (ConservativeStar.com) – Haiti has experienced quite a bit of unrest in the last several months. In September, President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated in his home. And the next month a group of missionaries was kidnapped. In a bit of good news, a group of US missionaries kidnapped in Haiti two months ago has been freed, according to the State Department and Haitian police. Grabbed at Gunpoint The kidnapping ordeal began on October 16, when a …
(ConservativeStar.com) – Sometime during the day on October 1, 2021, through the early morning hours of October 2, a rupture occurred in an oil pipeline owned by Houston-based Amplify Energy Corp off the coast of Orange County, California. A federal grand jury in Los Angeles now says the company is criminally responsible. The rupture occurred approximately 4.7 miles offshore and allowed approximately 25,000 gallons of crude oil to leak into the ocean. It eventually made …
(ConservativeStar.com) – A Jacksonville, Florida woman is in jail this week, charged with poisoning her boyfriend. Slipping poison into someone’s drink isn’t exactly new – in the 19th Century, arsenic was often called “inheritance powder” – but this time, the suspect has a novel excuse. A Florida woman is accused of poisoning her partner's lemonade to "shut him up." https://t.co/gS4rstOyUi — FOX23 (@FOX23) December 16, 2021 On December 7, 54-year-old Alvis Parrish called 911 and …
(ConservativeStar.com) – In the 21st Century, traveling by airplane has become more uncomfortable than trying to squeeze oneself into the ever-shrinking seats, especially if social media posts about the nasty habits of some passengers are to be believed. However, for flight attendants and gate crews, the dramatic rise in unruly travelers has become a dangerous nightmare. Believe it or not, on one recent Delta Airlines flight, even an air marshal was attacked. Now flight attendants …
(ConservativeStar.com) – Hackers have launched another major ransomware attack on the US, and this time it could hit millions of Americans on payday. Kronos, a provider of payroll and time-sheet software whose clients include companies like Tesla and MGM Resorts, said it suffered a ransomware attack that may force its systems offline for weeks https://t.co/Huv4cWF5OC — Bloomberg (@business) December 14, 2021 On December 11, ransomware hackers hit Kronos, one of the US’ largest human resources …
(ConservativeStar.com) – When the world first heard the terms “novel coronavirus” and “COVID-19” nobody, with the possible exception of the Chinese government, had any idea what was coming. After most of the planet’s population was locked down and forced to work from home, trying to picture the future and when it all would end didn’t get any easier, but surely it couldn’t last too long. Now, almost two years into the pandemic, corporations across America …
(ConservativeStar.com) – The new Omicron variant of COVID-19 is spreading much faster than earlier ones, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). It’s on course to be the most common variant within weeks – but what does that mean? On December 14, WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced that Omicron had been found in 77 countries less than a month after it was first officially reported. He added, “the reality is that Omicron is probably …
(ConservativeStar.com) – Mothers are supposed to take care of and nurture their children. They should protect them from danger, not cause harm to them. In a disturbing case out of Pennsylvania, a mother took the lives of her two children and received a harsh sentence for her crimes. On December 14, Court of Common Pleas Judge Richard Mancini sentenced Krisinda Bright to two consecutive life sentences with no parole for the murders of her children, …
(ConservativeStar.com) – Violent crime has increased significantly over the last year, particularly in Democratic-run cities. To get to the heart of the issue, Senator and Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin (D-IL) held a “field hearing,” inviting several experts to offer insight. Amy Swearer of the Heritage Foundation was one attendee, but Durbin failed to even hear her out. Refusal to Listen During her remarks, Swearer tried to address the apparent softness of prosecutors when it …
(ConservativeStar.com) – A news agency owned by a former Democratic presidential candidate has come up with some unusual advice for Americans worried by inflation – ask Argentines. On December 11, Bloomberg News, which is owned by former NYC mayor and 2020 presidential wannabe Michael Bloomberg (D), published a bizarre article suggesting that Americans should model their financial planning on Argentina – a country that’s long been notorious for its disastrous finances. Walk around Buenos Aires …