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'Another arm of the war machine': Twitter users lash out after US puppet Guaido get verified 'blue check'

RT
Thu, 02 May 2019 18:41 UTC

Twitter users have lashed out at the site over its inconsistencies after it suspended some Venezuelan government and media accounts, but verified a new account for self-declared 'interim president' Juan Guaido.

The Ministry of Popular Power for Women, the Ministry of Popular Power for Education, and the Ministry of Popular Power for Petroleum were all suspended between April 30 and May 1, along with several Venezuelan media accounts including El Correo del Orinoco, the Diario Vea, and the television station ViVe Televisión.

The ministry accounts have since been reinstated, but the media accounts are still suspended.

New US bill seeks to ban Israel from using US aid to detain Palestinian children

Robert Mackey
The Intercept
Thu, 02 May 2019 17:17 UTC

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Palestinian children ride their bike past Israeli soldiers patrolling in the old city of Hebron in the West Bank in December 2005

New legislation proposed by Rep. Betty McCollum, a Minnesota Democrat, would ban Israel from using any of the billions of dollars in military assistance it receives from the United States every year to pay for the detention, interrogation, or torture of Palestinian children living under Israeli military occupation in the West Bank.

Israel's military typically arrests and prosecutes 500 to 700 Palestinian children between the ages of 12 and 17 each year, subjecting them to coercive interrogation, physical violence, and trials in military courts that lack basic guarantees of due process.

McCollum's bill, HR 2407, would amend the Foreign Assistance Act to prohibit funding for the military detention of children in any country, including Israel. The proposed law would also provide $19 million a year to American, Israeli, and Palestinian nongovernmental organizations to monitor the treatment of children detained by Israel's army and offer physical and psychological treatment.

Disgusting: Alabama Democrat on abortion - 'Some kids are unwanted. You kill them now, or kill them later'

Dr. Susan Berry
Breitbart
Wed, 01 May 2019 17:17 UTC

Alabama state Rep. John Rogers, a Democrat, said, while debating a bill that would ban most abortions in the state, "Some kids are unwanted, so you kill them now or you kill them later."

"You bring them in the world unwanted, unloved, you send them to the electric chair," Rogers continued. "So, you kill them now or you kill them later."

U.S. Rep. Bradley Byrne, a Republican from Alabama who is challenging Sen. Doug Jones in 2020 for his Senate seat, tweeted:

Barr cancels second day of Russiagate testimony, escalating battle with U.S. Congress

Andy Sullivan, Sarah N. Lynch
Reuters
Wed, 01 May 2019 17:09 UTC

Attorney General William Barr on Wednesday canceled plans to testify before the House of Representatives about his handling of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation, further inflaming tensions between U.S. President Donald Trump and Democrats in Congress.

Barr was due to face the Democratic-controlled House Judiciary Committee on Thursday, but pulled out after the two sides were unable to agree on the format for the hearing.

"It's simply part of the administration's complete stonewalling of Congress," Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler told reporters.

Justice Department spokeswoman Kerri Kupec said Nadler's proposal to have committee lawyers question Barr was "unprecedented and unnecessary," saying questions should come from lawmakers.

When Loretta met Bill on the tarmac

Eric Felten
RealClearInvestigations
Thu, 02 May 2019 17:01 UTC

What happened when Bill Clinton met then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch on the west side of Phoenix Sky Harbor airport between 7 and 8 PM on June 27, 2016? Just days before Hillary Rodham Clinton was to be interviewed by the FBI about her mishandling of classified emails, the former president intercepted the AG on her plane. Was it just a "casual" and "unscheduled" encounter, as the head spokesperson for the Department of Justice maintained? Or was the former president stalking Lynch to urge her to go easy on his wife?

We have a new window on what may have gone on inside Lynch's FBI jet after it landed - the story as told by the former attorney general to lawmakers and staff of the House Judiciary Committee and the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Her account could easily be seen as self-serving, but it was given under penalty of perjury.

Lynch was questioned behind closed doors on Dec. 19, 2018 in the Rayburn House Office Building, Room 2131. The interview has remained private; no transcript of it has been released. But RealClearInvestigations has obtained a copy. In it, Lynch describes an encounter with Bill Clinton that is both perplexing and preposterous, a story that defies innocent explanation.

India calls for Pakistan's blacklisting by terror finance watchdog

The Economic Times
Thu, 02 May 2019 16:59 UTC

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Pakistani Rangers (in black) and Indian Border Security Force personnel (in brown) perform during a flag lowering ceremony at the Wagah border area on March 30, 2019.

The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) already has Pakistan on its "grey list" of countries with inadequate controls over curbing money laundering and terrorism financing.

India will ask the global money laundering and terror finance watchdog to put Pakistan on a blacklist of countries that fail to meet international standards in stopping financial crime, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Thursday.

The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) already has Pakistan on its "grey list" of countries with inadequate controls over curbing money laundering and terrorism financing.

But India wants Pakistan blacklisted, which would likely result in sanctions, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan said last month.

"We want Pakistan downgraded on the FATF list," Jaitley told reporters, adding that the Paris-based FATF was due to meet in mid-May and India would make its request then.

'Still salty about losing': Twitter users stunned by Hillary calling for China to hack Trump

RT
Thu, 02 May 2019 16:50 UTC

Hillary Clinton appeared on TV proposing China illegally hack into President Donald Trump's tax returns, prompting Twitter users to question both her ability to move on from her presidential election defeat, and her sanity.

Clinton made the call on MSNBC's Rachel Maddow show Wednesday night, suggesting Democratic 2020 presidential candidates should seek out the help of the "only other adversary of ours, who's anywhere near as good as the Russians" to hack Trump's tax returns.

Ignoring the outcome of the Mueller Report and doubling down on her years of unfounded accusations that Russia colluded with election rival Donald Trump, Clinton said: "Since Russia is clearly backing Republicans, why don't we ask China to back us?"

"And not only that, China, if you're listening, why don't you get Trump's tax returns?" Clinton continued, echoing comments by Trump in Florida during the 2016 campaign in which he asked if Russia might find Clinton's deleted emails, but did not outright call for her to be hacked.

"New era": Emperor Naruhito of Japan ascends the Chrysanthemum throne following father's abdication

CBS News
Wed, 01 May 2019 11:16 UTC

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This handout photo taken and released by Japan's Imperial Household Agency on May 1, 2019 shows Japan's Emperor Naruhito (L), watched by Empress Masako (C), giving a speech during a ceremony to receive the first audience after the accession to the throne at the Matsu-no-Ma state room inside the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. Japan's new Emperor Naruhito formally ascended the Chrysanthemum Throne on May 1, a day after his father abdicated from the world's oldest monarchy and ushered in a new imperial era.

A new emperor has taken over in Japan. Emperor Naruhito ascended the throne after his father, now-Emperor Emeritus Akihito, abdicated. It was the first time a Japanese emperor has stepped down in 200 years.

The change ushered in a new "era" in Japan. The era of Naruhito's reign on the Chrysanthemum Throne, as Japan's imperial seat has been known for centuries, has been dubbed Reiwa, or "enlightened happiness."

As CBS News senior foreign correspondent Elizabeth Palmer reported on Wednesday, Naruhito is widely expected to continue the work of his father; humanizing the emperor's role, as well as pressing for modern reforms to normalize life for the royal family.

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Blackwater founder calls for 'Iraq-style' mercenary occupation of Venezuela

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Thu, 02 May 2019 10:15 UTC

As if the past months of US push for regime change in Venezuela with officials like Elliott Abrams of Iran-Contra conviction infamy at the helm wasn't bizarre enough, things just got weirder, as Erik Prince has apparently been pitching a plan around Washington to privatize US coup efforts using his latest Blackwater inspired mercenary empire.

According to Reuters, Prince - the brother of billionaire Education Secretary Betsy DeVos who has over the past years since selling his mired-in-controversy Blackwater group (now Academi) revived his mercenary empire in China in the form of Frontier Services Group (FSG) - intends to "deploy a private army to help topple Venezuela's socialist president, Nicholas Maduro".

Price has reportedly sought access to Trump administration officials to whom he's attempting to pitch the whole operation, said to involve some 5,000 soldiers-for-hire to be used by opposition leader Juan Guaido, according to multiple sources who spoke to Reuters. The controversial private security CEO has sought investments from both Trump supporters and wealthy Venezuelan exiles, and reportedly held meetings over the plan as recently as mid-April.

Dems and MSM conveniently ignore 'crucial detail' in Mueller's letter to AG Barr

Scott Morefield
Daily Caller
Thu, 02 May 2019 10:15 UTC

Liberal media seized on news of special counsel Robert Mueller's letter to William Barr, which expressed frustration over the attorney general's initial depiction of his investigation's findings, and presented it as evidence of wrongdoing.

Yet, much of the anti-Trump left seemingly ignored a crucial detail of the Tuesday report from The Washington Post, which explained that during a phone conversation between the two, the attorney general actually asked the special counsel whether or not his memo was "inaccurate."

"There is now public confusion about critical aspects of the results of our investigation," the letter read, according to the Post. "This threatens to undermine a central purpose for which the Dept. appointed the Special Counsel: to assure full public confidence in the outcome of the investigations."

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Puppet Masters

'Another arm of the war machine': Twitter users lash out after US puppet Guaido get verified 'blue check'

New US bill seeks to ban Israel from using US aid to detain Palestinian children

Disgusting: Alabama Democrat on abortion - 'Some kids are unwanted. You kill them now, or kill them later'

Barr cancels second day of Russiagate testimony, escalating battle with U.S. Congress

When Loretta met Bill on the tarmac

India calls for Pakistan's blacklisting by terror finance watchdog

'Still salty about losing': Twitter users stunned by Hillary calling for China to hack Trump

"New era": Emperor Naruhito of Japan ascends the Chrysanthemum throne following father's abdication

Blackwater founder calls for 'Iraq-style' mercenary occupation of Venezuela

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