On This Day: Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich arrested

On Dec. 9, 2008, federal agents arrested Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich on corruption charges in a scheme involving the sale of Illinois' open Senate seat vacated by President-elect Barack Obama.

Dec. 9 (UPI) – On this date in history:

In 1907, the first Christmas Seals to raise money to fight tuberculosis went on sale in the post office in Wilmington, Del.

In 1955, two weeks of bloody student uprisings against President Fulgencio Batista appeared to follow the pattern of the student riots that deposed Cuban Dictator Gerardo Machado 22 years ago. Batista would remain in power four more years before losing power to Fidel Castro.

In 1974, White House aide John Ehrlichman's Watergate trial began in which he testified that U.S. President Richard Nixon was responsible for a coverup.

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/2018/12/09/On-This-Day-Illinois-Gov-Rod-Blagojevich-arrested/2651544323074/?sl=9

Last Fake Charity Invasion Taxi Ship Stops Operating in Mediterranean

The last fully operational fake charity invasion taxi ship, the Aquarius, has had its operations finally cancelled and there are no longer any major pro-invasion vessels picking up Africans off the Libyan coast and shuttling them to Europe.

In a statement released by the “Doctors Without Borders/SOS Méditerranée” (MSF) organization in Europe, the termination of the Aquarius’s work was blamed on a “smear campaign, spearheaded by the Italian government and backed by other European countries to delegitimize,slander and obstruct” their illegal immigration taxi operation.

Italian magistrates in November accused MSF of illegally dumping toxic waste at ports in southern Italy and ordered Aquarius to be impounded. The public prosecutor’s office in Catania, Sicily, said crew on the Aquarius, and its sister ship VOS Prudence, had illegally dumped dangerous medical waste among ordinary rubbish between January 2017 and May 2018.

“With no immediate solution to these attacks, MSF and SOS Méditerranée have no option but to end the operations of the Aquarius,” the statement continued.

The Aquarius was twice stripped of its registration earlier this year and now faces charges of criminal activity—the active aiding and abetting of illegal immigration.

The previous pro-invasion leftist Italian government tolerated and promoted the work of the invasion taxi fleet, even though they were clearly breaking the law.

http://www.eutimes.net/2018/12/last-fake-charity-invasion-taxi-ship-stops-operating-in-mediterranean/