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'Fake feminist!' WATCH female MP blast Trudeau in Parliament for 'silencing' strong women


RT
Fri, 22 Mar 2019 20:25 UTC
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An opposition lawmaker tore into Canada's proud 'feminist' Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's record on women, saying that the PM has tried to shut them up as he faces a political corruption scandal.

Conservative lawmaker Michelle Rempel blasted Trudeau for "muzzling strong, principled women" during a debate in the House of Commons on Wednesday.

"He asked for strong women, and this is what they look like!" she proclaimed, referring to the former justice minister and attorney general, Jody Wilson-Raybould who recently accused the Trudeau-led government of meddling in a large-scale corruption probe.
That's not what a feminist looks like... Every day that he refuses to allow the attorney general to testify and tell her story is another day he's a fake feminist!
The PM was visibly taken aback by someone casting doubt on his feminist credibility - so much so that, as he rose to reply to Rempel, he forgot which language he planned to use that day.
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House Dems ignore base, battle Trump for Israel's approval with anti-boycott law as AIPAC looms

Helen Buyniski
RT
Fri, 22 Mar 2019 20:22 UTC
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House Democrats have introduced a resolution condemning boycotts of Israel, competing with President Donald Trump to see who can pander the loudest to the Israeli lobby, ahead of the AIPAC conference - never mind their base.

House Judiciary Committee chair Jerry Nadler (D-New York) and Brad Schneider (D-Illinois) are shouting their support for Israel at the top of their lungs as the AIPAC conference comes to Washington this weekend, introducing a resolution to condemn boycotts of Israel as "incompatible" with a two-state solution. Schneider, a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, is actually speaking at the conference, which is surely just a coincidence.

With the influential lobby in town, Democratic Party members are no doubt eager to convince their wealthy pro-Israel donors that rumors of anti-Semitism within the party are greatly exaggerated, and that Ilhan Omar's blasphemy regarding "the Benjamins" that it may -or may not- be "all about" is not shared by all who call themselves Democrats.
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Juan Guaido's chief of staff arrested by Venezuelan authorities


RT
Fri, 22 Mar 2019 20:05 UTC
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Venezuela's self-proclaimed 'interim president' Juan Guaido has claimed that his chief of staff has been "kidnapped" by Venezuelan security services. While Caracas has not commented on these claims, the US was quick to react.

The officers of the Venezuelan Bolivarian National Intelligence Service (SEBIN) allegedly raided the house of Roberto Marrero, Guaido's chief of staff, and a member of the self-proclaimed president's Popular Will party, Sergio Vergara, in the early hours of Thursday, Guaido said in a Twitter post, adding that both politicians were "kidnapped" as a result of the incident.

Guaido also said that Marrero managed to tell Vergara, who happens to be his neighbor, that the security officials somehow "planted" two rifles and a grenade in his house. The self-proclaimed president then demanded the "immediate release" of his chief of staff, adding that his whereabouts was unknown.

Comment: Venezuela's Interior Minister has since confirmed the arrest, saying that he was taken into custody as part of a government raid against a "terrorist cell" that plotted to carry out attacks against top Venezuelan politicians

This is on the heels of our resident warmonger in office, John Bolton, telling Breitbart that "all options" were on the table to protect the 50,000 Americans living in Venezuela.

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Dealbreaker? North Korea demanded US remove nuclear umbrella from Guam, Hawaii - Fmr CIA Korea Chief

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Fri, 22 Mar 2019 19:14 UTC
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President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the Hanoi summit.
The February summit between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un broke down in part over North Korea's insistence that the United States remove the strategic nuclear umbrella and the dismantling of the Indian Pacific Command, according to South Korea's DongA, citing the CIA's former Korea Mission Center Chief Andrew Kim.

Speaking at a lecture of the Stanford University alumni conference in Seoul on March 20, Kim added that North Korean officials demanded that they be allowed to develop weapons that can be deployed on the Korean Peninsula. They have also requested sanctions relief.
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America's Venezuela strategy: Coup by decree, enforced by fake narratives

Caitlin Johnstone
caitlinjohnstone.com
Wed, 20 Mar 2019 18:53 UTC
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Elliott Abrams spins: "Guaido is president but not"
The Trump administration is working to overthrow the government of Venezuela. They are not at this time doing this by military invasion, nor by funneling thousands of armed militants into the country, nor even solely with starvation sanctions and CIA ops. The first and foremost means of overthrowing Venezuela's government currently being utilized by the United States government is the low-risk, low-cost plan to simply control the stories that everyone tells themselves about who is in charge in Venezuela.

Adept manipulators understand that humans are storytelling animals. The only thing keeping the powerful powerful, keeping money operating the way it operates, and keeping government running the way it runs is the stories we all agree to tell each other about those things. If everyone collectively decided today that poker chips are the new currency and Kim Kardashian is the Supreme Ruler of the Entire World, those stories would be the new reality, and tomorrow we'd all be doing whatever Empress Kim commands and Las Vegas would be the new Wall Street.

The Trump administration is exploiting this exact principle in Venezuela by singling out some guy named Juan and calling him Mister President, despite the fact that he's never received a single vote for that office and holds no actual power. If they can persuade enough Venezuelans (particularly the ones with the big guns) and the rest of the world's governments to do the same, then Guaido will indeed become the functional president of the country.

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The Supreme Court sides with Trump on the detention of immigrants

Melissa Quinn
Washington Examiner
Tue, 19 Mar 2019 11:49 UTC
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled in favor of the Trump administration by deciding federal officials can detain immigrants at any time for possible deportation after they have served their time in the U.S. for other crimes.

The 5-4 decision reversed the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which said officials have to detain these immigrants immediately or they are exempt from ever being detained.

Justice Samuel Alito delivered the majority opinion for the court, and he was joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, and Brett Kavanaugh. Justices Steven Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan dissented.

Alito wrote that in the past, the court has "held time and time again, an official's crucial duties are better carried out late than never."

He also rejected the argument from lawyers representing the immigrants involved in the case that they are subject to mandatory detention only if they are arrested "on the day he walks out of jail," giving the example that state and local officials "sometimes rebuff the government's request that they give notice when a criminal alien will be released."

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Foreign Secretary Hunt: UNHRC ignored our concerns regarding Israel; now we must act

Jeremy Hunt
The JC
Thu, 21 Mar 2019 00:00 UTC
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British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt
Writing for the JC, the Foreign Secretary says Britain will now oppose what the UN HRC proposes under 'item 7', its dedicated space for proposals aimed at the Jewish state

In some countries in the Middle East, the result of the next election is a foregone conclusion. Yet on April 9, millions of voters in Israel will decide the fate of their leaders - and no-one can predict the outcome.

A fair-minded observer would find it curious that, of all the situations in the world, only Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories are permanently on the agenda of the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC).

The horrors of Syria's civil war, the brutal detention camps in North Korea, the ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims in Burma - all these human tragedies have been the subject of important HRC Resolutions, passed with Britain's full support.

But amid such catastrophes, a dedicated place on the HRC agenda - known as Item 7 - is reserved solely for Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories. This means no session can take place without a specific discussion of this subject.

By any standard of fairness or proportion, elevating this dispute above all others cannot be sensible; indeed it is an unhelpful illusion to suppose that Israel's conduct deserves special scrutiny.

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Brexit: Govt puts military on standby in event of no deal

Deborah Haynes
Sky News
Fri, 22 Mar 2019 09:04 UTC
Ministry of Defence

The Ministry of Defence's main building in London's Whitehall.
The armed forces have activated a team in a nuclear-proof bunker under the Ministry of Defence as the government prepares next Monday to enter "very high readiness mode" for a no-deal Brexit, Sky News can reveal.

Control of overall planning for the impact of the UK leaving the European Union without a withdrawal agreement next week shifts from the Cabinet Office to the government's emergency committee Cobra.

There will be near 24-hour manning of critical departments most at risk from Brexit disruption.

Teams in situ in the Cabinet Office and the departments for health, transport and defence will be primed to divert resources or deploy manpower where required, a government insider told Sky News.

Comment: The government is flailing so the only real option for them is to ramp up the fear factor: Also check out SOTT radio's:


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Operation Car Wash: Former Brazilian president Michel Temer arrested in corruption investigation

Anna Jean Kaiser
The Guardian
Thu, 21 Mar 2019 10:51 UTC
Michel Temer
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Former Brazilian president Michel Temer
Brazil's former president Michel Temer - who played a key role in the 2016 impeachment of his rival Dilma Rousseff - has been arrested by federal police, according to local media.

The G1 news portal reported that Temer was arrested in São Paulo on Thursday morning as part of Operation Car Wash, the country's largest ever corruption investigation, which led to the convictions of numerous members of Brazil's political elite.

While he was president, Temer was charged with a slew of crimes, including corruption, racketeering and obstruction of justice, but managed to dodge impeachment proceedings thanks to his alliances in Congress. His arrest has since been imminent, as he no longer has the legal protections enjoyed by a sitting president.

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Trump announces US to invest $6B in Abrams tank upgrades


Association of the United States Army
Thu, 21 Mar 2019 00:00 UTC
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Trump addresses crowd at Lima Army Tank Plant in Ohio.
Investing in the "legendary" M1 Abrams tank is "at the heart" of the U.S. military's rebuilding effort, President Donald Trump said during a visit to the Lima Army Tank Plant in Ohio. Trump added that planned upgrades to the tank will keep production of the legacy vehicle "thundering down the assembly line."

"Over the next three years, we're investing more than $6 billion in upgrades and modifications to these tanks," Trump said during the March 20 visit. "With the help of everyone in this room, we are giving our warriors the most effective, reliable and lethal battle tank in the history of war."

Trump's tour of the Army-owned plant was led by Phebe N. Novakovic, who is chairman and CEO of General Dynamics Corp., which operates the plant, and chairman of the Association of the U.S. Army's Council of Trustees.

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