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ICE to deputize police in sanctuary cities to detain illegals, making them 'legally unchallengeable'

Stephen Dinan
Washington Times
Wed, 08 May 2019 10:11 UTC
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© Charles Reed/U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement via APIn this Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017, photo released by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement shows foreign nationals being arrested this week during a targeted enforcement operation conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) aimed at immigration fugitives, re-entrants and at-large criminal aliens in Los Angeles.
Homeland Security officials announced a program Monday that they said will give some police a way to duck sanctuary city policies and still cooperate with ICE by turning over illegal immigrants for deportation.

The plan, announced jointly with Florida sheriffs, would train local police and deputies to arrest people in their prisons and jails based on federal immigration warrants and hold them for up to two days, giving time for deportation officers to collect them.

Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri was the first to sign on. He said he will send 40 deputies for training - enough to make sure at least one is on duty to serve a warrant should U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement alert the department to a target.
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Best of the Web: Portuguese pilot in French jet shot down and captured by Haftar's liberation forces - Confesses to being tasked with destroying Libya's civilian infrastructure


RT
Tue, 07 May 2019 12:59 UTC

Comment: In case anyone is still wondering why hundreds of thousands of African and Middle Eastern refugees/migrants are flowing into Europe...


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The alleged Portugese pilot shot down over Libya
The pilot of a fighter jet shot down south of Tripoli by the Libyan National Army is allegedly a Portuguese fighting in Libya as a "mercenary," Haftar's forces claim, as photos of the captured pilot covered in blood emerge online.

Photos posted on social media show a bloodied man in military-style clothes without any distinctive badges surrounded by forces said to be loyal to Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar of the Libyan National Army (LNA).

Citing Haftar's forces that sent her the photos, the Independent's Middle East correspondent Bel Trew said the man was a "foreign national" from Portugal. While Trew chose to crop out the man's face, plenty of uncensored photos have emerged elsewhere from the same scene.

The pilot was allegedly captured after his jet was shot down over the Wadi al-Hira area, located south of the Libyan capital of Tripoli. Earlier, there were conflicting reports about his nationality, with some media outlets claiming he was an Italian. The LNA Military Information Division has since claimed he was a "Portuguese mercenary."

Comment: This is what Western mercenaries have been doing to Libya since 2011.

RT reports further:
In one short clip, military personnel can be heard asking the bloodied detainee if he is military, and what he is doing in Libya. While the response is hard to decipher through the chaos, he seems to answer that he is a civilian contracted to target infrastructure.

The pilot is said to have been piloting a French-made Mirage F1 warplane in the service of the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA), which Haftar's forces are battling for control of the war-torn country's capital Tripoli. A separate video posted to Twitter shows clouds of black smoke at the alleged crash site.

LNA spokesman Ahmed Mismari has accused the GNA of resorting to employing foreign mercenaries, and recently said that a separate Mirage F1 downed at the end of April had been piloted by an Ecuadorian national named Boris Reyes, who allegedly died during the crash.




Despite international calls for dialogue, fighting on the outskirts of Tripoli has erupted into violent conflict between Haftar's forces and the GNA, leaving dozens dead on both sides. Libya has spiraled into chaos since NATO-backed Islamist rebels overthrew and executed the country's long-time leader Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.
See also: And check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: Interview With The Moriartys - New Light on Benghazi, And Liberating Libya

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UK's "criminal" confiscation of $1.5 billion gold deposits is denying Venezuelans food & healthcare - Venezuela's FM


PressTV
Tue, 07 May 2019 19:45 UTC
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© GettyQueen Elizabeth II views stacks of gold as she visits the Bank of England with Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (not pictured), December 13, 2012 in London, England.
Britain is denying millions of Venezuelans food and healthcare by blocking access to the South American country's gold deposits at the Bank of England, says Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza.

Speaking during a visit to Moscow, the Russian capital, Arreaza said Monday that the Bank of England had confiscated over $1.5 billion in Venezuelan overseas gold deposits and refused to return it even though the Latin American country was grappling with food shortages and deteriorating healthcare services.

"In the Bank of England, there are 1359 million euros ($1.52 billion) in Venezuelan gold blocked," Arreaza told a press conference, noting that the money was for "the health of the people, to feed the people, for production in Venezuela".

Comment: See also: And check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: US Regime Change Operation in Venezuela - This Time It's Legit?

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Huawei hypocrisy: Williamson was sacked thanks to NSA eavesdropping, the very thing Chinese firm is being preemptively accused of

Craig Murray
craigmurray.org.uk
Tue, 07 May 2019 19:32 UTC
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Gavin Williamson
Theresa May almost certainly sacked Gavin Williamson not just on the basis of a telephone billing record showing he had a phone call with a Telegraph journalist, but on the basis of a recording of the conversation itself. It astonishes me that still, after Snowden and his PRISM revelations, after Wikileaks Vault 7 releases, and after numerous other sources including my own humble contribution, people still manage to avoid the cognitive dissonance that goes with really understanding how much we are surveilled and listened to. Even Cabinet Ministers manage to pretend to themselves it is not happening.

The budget of the NSA, which does nothing else but communications intercept, is US $14.2 billion this year. Think about that enormous sum, devoted to just communications surveillance, and what it can achieve. The budget of the UK equivalent, GCHQ, is £1.2 billion, of which about 10% is paid by the NSA. Domestic surveillance in the UK has been vastly expanded and many taboos broken. But the bedrock of the system with regard to domestic intercepts is still that legal restrictions are dodged, as the USA's NSA spies on UK citizens while the UK's GCHQ spies on US citizens, and then the information is swapped. It was thus probably the NSA that harvested Williamson's phone call, passing the details on. Given official US opposition to the UK employing Huawei technology, Williamson's call would have been a "legitimate" NSA target.

Comment: See also:

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UK cabinet still backs talks with Labour on Brexit despite opposition


Sputnik
Tue, 07 May 2019 19:45 UTC
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© AP Photo / Tim Ireland
UK Prime Minister Theresa May has told the Cabinet that an agreement with the Labour Party has not yet been reached, the public gave a clear signal that both parties should get on with Brexit, the UK Prime Minister's spokesman said in a statement.

The UK Cabinet still supports talks with the Labour Party as a way to find a Brexit solution, according to the spokesman.

The statement comes after Theresa May stated on 1 May that she had not been planning to change her strategy on Brexit despite her Conservative Party's losses in the recent local elections, stressing that withdrawing from the European Union with the deal they had negotiated was the "best possible outcome".

Comment: May is right on one point, because the majority in Scotland do want out of the UK:


See also: Also check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal #26: Globalization vs Nationalism - The Hidden Causes of The Yellow Vest Protests in France

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Venezuelan Air Force general killed in ambush while Guaido hints at US military intervention


South Front
Mon, 06 May 2019 00:00 UTC
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© Unknown
On May 4th, a group of unrecognized heavily armed people ambushed a mixed military commission in Venezuela. Three officers were left dead in the attack.

After an exchange of shots with an unrecognized group of heavily armed individuals, the brigadier general of the Bolivarian Military Aviation (AMB), Jackson Silva Zapata, and two officers of the Aragua Police identified as Bruno Manuel Benavidez, 34, and Jesús Eduardo Arraiz Sánchez, 30, both with the rank of chief officer were killed.

Following the failed coup attempt in Venezuela, US-Proclaimed Interim President Juan Guaido said he "overestimated" presumed military support.

In an interview with the Washington Post, Guaido said that he acknowledged errors made in his attempt to stir a military uprising. He further said he didn't discard an option of a US military intervention and that if a "proposal" was made by Washington, he would take up to vote in the opposition-controlled National Assembly.
"Guaidó suggested that he expected Maduro to step down amid a groundswell of defectors within the military. Instead, Guaidó's call for the rank and file and senior brass to abandon Maduro did not produce mass defections. Maduro's security forces then quelled street protests and left Guaidó's U.S.-backed opposition on its heels.

"Maybe because we still need more soldiers, and maybe we need more officials of the regime to be willing to support it, to back the constitution. I think the variables are obvious at this point."

Comment: Another report from South Front on the covert war against Venezuela:



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Anya Parampil to Tucker Carlson: 'Fake news media are lying' about Venezuela

Chris Menahan
Information Liberation
Tue, 30 Apr 2019 00:00 UTC
Anya Parampil
© Fox News
Journalist Anya Parampil went on an epic rant Tuesday night on Tucker Carlson's show slamming the war-hungry "fake news media" for "lying about the situation in Venezuela."

Parampil, who was reporting earlier this year on the ground in Venezuela, told Tucker:
"Your viewers won't be shocked to hear this, Tucker, but the fake news media are lying about the situation in Venezuela."

"Let me put it for you this way: imagine if Hillary Clinton had refused to admit defeat after losing to President Trump in 2016 and banded together a group of 24 U.S. soldiers and attempted to take the White House by force. I don't think that she would be walking freely on the streets the way that Juan Guaido is walking right now in Caracas and I certainly think that the news media would be calling it rightfully a coup."


[Watch Tucker Carlson's full show here.]

Comment: See also: Anya Parampil: US State Department publishes, then deletes sadistic Venezuela hit list boasting of economic ruin

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Could we be watching John Bolton's last stand?

Jason Rezaian
Greenwich Time
Tue, 07 May 2019 06:51 UTC
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© Bloomberg/Jason RobertsUS National Security Advisor John Bolton
Is John Bolton about to get the Iran war he's always wanted, or is he on the verge of losing his job?

Over the past several days, President Trump's national security adviser has made comments and issued statements about Iran and Venezuela that are usually reserved for the run-up to military campaigns.

Yet Bolton's boss doesn't seem to be playing along.

On Sunday, the White House released a statement, attributed to Bolton, that the United States is deploying the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier strike group to the Persian Gulf. The aim: "to send a clear and unmistakable message to the Iranian regime that any attack on United States interests or on those of our allies will be met with unrelenting force." The message added: "The United States is not seeking war with the Iranian regime, but we are fully prepared to respond to any attack, whether by proxy, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, or regular Iranian forces."
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Citing 'pressing issues', Pompeo ditches his meeting with Merkel and Maas


RT
Tue, 07 May 2019 09:31 UTC
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© Israel National NewsUS Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has scrapped plans for a Tuesday meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Foreign Minister Heiko Maas citing unspecified "pressing issues."

"Unfortunately, we must reschedule the Berlin meetings due to pressing issues. We look forward to rescheduling this important set of meetings. The Secretary looks forward to being in Berlin soon," the US Embassy cited a State Department spokesperson as saying.

Neither Merkel's nor Mass's office have issued a formal statement on the last-minute cancellation yet.

Pompeo attended a meeting of the Arctic Council in Finland where he discussed regional development, "Russian military expansion" and "Chinese investment" among other topics during an address in which he described the Arctic as "an arena of global power & competition."

Comment: More on Pompeo's cancelation from New York Times:
Mr. Pompeo had been set to meet with Ms. Merkel and Heiko Maas, the foreign minister, to discuss Ukraine, Russia, China, Syria, the Western Balkans and other issues of mutual interest, according to a schedule released by the State Department last week.

Berlin also took it as a snub when Mr. Pompeo did not attend an annual foreign policy conference in Munich this year, although he was traveling through Central and Eastern Europe at the time.

He had been scheduled to travel to Berlin on Tuesday before continuing on to London on Wednesday to meet with Prime Minister Theresa May and to deliver a speech on the United States' relationship with Britain. Mr. Pompeo was then to travel to Greenland on Thursday to meet with leaders there.

[O]bservers held up the decision as further proof of the deterioration of German-American relations in recent years.
See also: Pompeo abruptly cancels meeting with Merkel amid Nord Stream 2 row

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Denied the unredacted Mueller report, Nadler schedules House vote to hold AG Barr in contempt of Congress


RT
Mon, 06 May 2019 16:12 UTC
Barr
© Reuters/Aaron P. BernsteinAttorney General William Barr
House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler has scheduled a vote to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress, after Barr's Justice Department refused to hand over an unredacted copy of the Mueller report.

Nadler (D-New York) scheduled the vote for Wednesday, after Barr failed to comply with a subpoena to turn over an unredacted version of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's final report to the Judiciary Committee by Monday. In a resolution filed Monday morning, Nadler recommends that Barr be found guilty of contempt of Congress.

The Justice Department has called Nadler's subpoena "overbroad and extraordinarily burdensome." Georgia Rep. Doug Collins, the ranking Republican on the committee, said Nadler's resolution was "illogical and disingenuous."

According to Barr, redactions were made to the Mueller report for four reasons: to avoid harming ongoing criminal cases; to avoid revealing investigative techniques; to protest the privacy of peripheral third-party individuals; and to protect grand jury testimony, a requirement by law.

Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team assisted Barr with the redactions.
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