‘Dystopian approach’: SEC gives blessing to MasterCard’s idea of cutting off right-wingers…
May 3, 2019
Blocking payments to individuals or groups by financial service firms impedes freedom of speech in a free society, journalist Ben Swann has told RT, following reports that MasterCard is allegedly on course to censor the far-right.
The New York-based firm is reportedly being forced by left-leaning liberal activists to set up an internal “human rights committee” that would monitor payments to “white supremacist groups and anti-Islam activists.” ... MasterCard is not the only holder of purse-strings that is mulling the selective banning of individuals from their services and funds...US.-based Afghan pilot training program ends after nearly half of pilots go AWOL…
May 3, 2019
SIGAR did not indicate whether the AWOL pilots were found. Foreign trainees going AWOL is not uncommon. Nearly half of all foreign military trainees -- 152 out of 320 -- gone AWOL since 2005 were from Afghanistan, SIGAR reported in 2017. Some claim asylum after being apprehended, according to the Times.
Woman accused of killing Kim Jong Un’s brother freed…
May 3, 2019
...in March prosecutors dropped the murder charge against Aisyah after diplomatic pressure and she flew home. Then last month they withdrew murder charges against Huong, who pleaded guilty to a reduced count of "causing injury" and was told she would be released in May at the end of her sentence...
Mutant Three-Eyed Snake found in Australia…
May 3, 2019
Facebook On Talks With Various Companies For The Development Of It’s Cryptocurrency Payment Service…
May 3, 2019
Facebook had announced crypto payments plan later last year.And as the company is nearing the completion it is on the way of having the business in the mainstream. With talks happening with Visa and MasterCard and various others...
🐛 99-million-year-old millipede discovered in Burmese amber…
May 3, 2019
Even though we are led to believe that during the Cretaceous the Earth used to be an exclusive home for fearsome giants, including carnivorous velociraptors and arthropods larger than a modern adult human, it turns out that there was still room for harmless minute invertebrates measuring only several millimetres.
Department of Justice opens investigation into failed carbon-capture plant…
May 3, 2019
The Mississippi-based facility had received $387 million in federal grants to build a state-of-the-art coal gasification and carbon-capture power plant (otherwise known as an Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle, or IGCC, plant). But in 2017, Southern's subsidiary, Mississippi Power, decided to scrap the cutting-edge tech and only use the power plant to burn cheaper natural gas, in a major blow to the proponents of carbon capture.
Trump calls on parties to ‘come together for the good of the American people’…
May 3, 2019
...at every turn in attempts to gain access. But now Republicans and Democrats must come together for the good of the American people. No more costly & time consuming investigations. Lets do Immigration (Border), Infrastructure, much lower drug prices & much more - and do it now!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 3, 2019
Obama saw Trump’s victory as a ‘personal insult,’ watched the movie Dr. Strange to distract himself from election results and blamed Hillary for the loss because of her ‘scripted, soulless campaign’…
May 3, 2019
The new edition of 'Obama: The Call Of History' by New York Times chief White House correspondent Peter Baker lays bare Obama's fury over the election results. The book was originally released in July 2017 but has been updated with extensive new reporting - and the run through of election day is electrifying. Obama arrogantly thought there was 'no way Americans would turn on him' even though Clinton was far from perfect. He likened himself to Michael Corleone in the Godfather and said he was handing power over to somebody who would destroy his legacy.
Trump administration to give Border Patrol agents authority to decide asylum claims on the spot…
May 3, 2019
The Department of Homeland Security is racing to implement a plan that would give federal law enforcement on the border the authority to conduct interviews with asylum seekers who fear returning to their home countries, according to two sources with firsthand knowledge of the plan... Agents would conduct the interviews shortly after apprehending people who have illegally crossed from Mexico to the U.S.
CNN Poll: Trump approval on economy at new high — 56% of respondents said they approve of Trump’s handling of the economy, compared with 41% who disapproved…
The Rasmussen Presidential Poll for Thursday shows that 51% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance...
May 3, 2019
Trump is on FIRE!!!
John Batchelor: White House Counsel Flood asserts that Comey: 1 of 2: was a leaker of “confidential” material…
May 3, 2019
Loved this podcast? Make sure to listen to part 2 here. John Batchelor is one of the best out there. We know him from listening to his shows late nights on 77 WABC Radio. He's on from 9pm to 1am weekdays.
China Detains Thousands Of Muslims In ‘Vocational Training Centers’ (Re-Education Camps)…
May 3, 2019
End to Aids in sight as Successful treatment of HIV eliminates sexual transmission…
May 3, 2019
Our findings provide conclusive evidence that the risk of HIV transmission through anal sex when HIV viral load is suppressed is effectively zero. Among the 782 serodifferent gay couples followed for almost 1600 eligible couple-years of follow-up, which included more than 76 000 reports of condomless sex, we found zero cases of within-couple HIV transmission...
So to put it in laymen's terms; If you have HIV and are on modern treatments, you cannot transmit the disease to someone else. This is BIG NEWS!
Pornhub Is “Extremely Interested” In Acquiring Tumblr…
May 3, 2019
Price said that restoring Tumblr's NSFW edge would be central to their acquisition of it, were it to actually happen. Tumblr owner Verizon is reportedly currently seeking a buyer for the blogging platform, which according to the Wall Street Journal has struggled to meet revenue targets...
Pentagon says China plans to build military bases around the world to protect Belt & Road project…
Pentagon also warns on risk of Chinese submarines in Arctic...
May 3, 2019
Beijing currently has just one overseas military base, in Djibouti, but is believed planning others, including possibly Pakistan, as it seeks to project itself as a global superpower...
3 alleged MS-13 gang members indicted in connection with murder…
May 3, 2019
The indictment alleges that, on Jan. 21, 2018, Reyes-Castillo, Torres-Escobar, and Perez-Manchame kidnapped and murdered Arquimidez Sandoval-Martinez. As alleged, the defendants intentionally participated in the act of violence that resulted in the death of Sandoval-Martinez. Reyes-Castillo and Torres-Escobar are citizens of El Salvador and Perez-Manchame is a citizen of Honduras -- all illegally residing in the U.S.
Chase Bliss Colasurdo arrested and charged with transmitting interstate death threats against Jared Kushner, Don Jr., and Ben Shapiro…
May 3, 2019
In the 7-page felony complaint, prosecutors say the FBI first began investigating Colasurdo after a “concerned citizen” was alarmed by his extremely anti-semitic posts on social media. In addition to his thousands of disturbing and erratic Instagram posts over the past few months, investigators found he sent an email on February 26, to five different news outlets writing “I’m going to personally execute White House Senior Advisor J.K. for his countless treasonous crimes,” court documents show.
Founder, execs of drug company guilty in conspiracy that fed opioid crisis…
May 3, 2019
Kapoor’s 2017 arrest came on the same day U.S. President Donald Trump declared the epidemic that has caused tens of thousands of overdose deaths annually a public health emergency. Kapoor, 76, was found guilty of running a wide-ranging scheme to bribe doctors nationwide by retaining them to act as speakers at sham events at restaurants ostensibly meant to educate clinicians about its fentanyl spray, Subsys.... Witnesses also testified that Lee, an ex-stripper turned Insys regional sales director, gave a lap dance to a doctor at a Chicago club while pushing him to prescribe Subsys.