Macron accuses Bannon, Russian oligarchs of conspiring against EU…
May 21, 2019
French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday accused former Trump strategist Steve Bannon and Russian oligarchs of conspiring with Europe’s nationalists to dismantle the European Union, saying Europeans “should not be naive” about foreign interference ahead of this week’s European Parliament elections... Bannon, who has been in France in recent days and praised far-right leader Marine Le Pen’s campaign, called himself an “observer.”...
WHO’S LYING? Loretta Lynch accuses Comey of mischaracterizing her statements by repeatedly alleging, under oath, that Lynch privately instructed him to call the Hillary Clinton email probe a “matter” instead of an “investigation.”…
May 21, 2019
“The attorney general had directed me not to call it an investigation, but instead to call it a matter, which confused me and concerned me," Comey testified...
"I did not," Lynch responded when asked if she had "ever" told Comey to call the investigation a "matter."...
Someone is lying. Who is it?
Amazing Plastic-Eating Microbes Could Help Clean Up The Terrible Trash in Our Oceans…
May 21, 2019
In new research, an international team of scientists studied how microbial communities build up on ocean-polluting plastics and contribute to their degradation – a natural biological mechanism we might be able to exploit, if we can learn to understand it better...
Majority fleeing Venezuela in need of refugee protection – UNHCR…
May 21, 2019
Yemen’s Iranian-allied Houthi rebels said Tuesday they attacked a Saudi airport and military base with a bomb-laden drone, an assault acknowledged by the kingdom…
May 21, 2019
The attack on the Saudi city of Najran came after Iran announced it has quadrupled its uranium-enrichment production capacity a year after the U.S. withdrew from its nuclear deal with world powers, though still a level far lower than needed for atomic weapons...
Far-right has a message before European Parliament elections: ‘We’re coming’. Polls suggest far-right politicians could control as much as 18 percent of the European Parliament after this week’s elections…
May 21, 2019
“The long-term effect might be the dismantling of the European Union in the way we know it now.” ...
Ron Paul Warns Violence Against Women Act Violates Constitution…
May 21, 2019
A common trick of big-government loving politicians is to give legislation names so appealing that it seems no reasonable person could oppose it. The truth is, the more unobjectionable the title, the more objectionable the content. Two well-known examples are the “PATRIOT Act” and the “Access to Affordable and Quality Care Act.”
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The law also forbids anyone subject to a restraining order obtained by a spouse or a domestic partner from owning a gun. This is a blatant violation of the Second Amendment’s prohibition on federal laws denying anyone the right to own a gun... This is a version of “red flag” laws that are becoming increasingly popular. Red flag laws are not just supported by authoritarians like Senators Diane Feinstein and Lindsey Graham, but by alleged “constitutional conservatives” like Sen. Ted Cruz...Gaetz says ‘most compelling’ evidence in the Trump-Russia probe could be days away…
May 21, 2019
According to Gaetz, R-Fla., secret unreleased transcripts involving former Trump aide George Papadopoulos reveal that he denied there was an illegal conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia and that intelligence officials did not present that information to the FISA court.
The definition of the kilogram just changed…
May 21, 2019
The new definition of the kilogram, which was adopted at an international conference held last November in Versailles, France, went into effect Monday. Instead of being based upon a shiny hunk of metal stored in a vault in Sevres, France, on the outskirts of Paris, the kilogram is now based on the Planck constant, a tiny, unvarying number that plays a key role in quantum physics.
US eases some restrictions on China’s Huawei, reportedly halting Google’s plans to cut access…
May 21, 2019
The U.S. government on Monday temporarily eased some trade restrictions imposed last week on China's Huawei, a move that sought to minimize disruption for the telecom company's customers around the world. The U.S. Commerce Department will allow Huawei Technologies to purchase American-made goods in order to maintain existing networks and provide software updates to existing Huawei handsets.
Somali Teens Armed With Hammers Attack Bystanders At East Bank Rail Station In MN; Media Oddly Quiet…
May 21, 2019
Rep. Ilhan Omar, the Somali refugee who represents Minneapolis in Congress and who also seems entirely ungrateful to the nation that paid for her to leave her hellhole homeland and granted her citizenship, has so far not commented on the incident...
Scientists find 414 million pieces of plastic debris on remote islands. That’s even worse than it sounds. The extraordinary haul means we may have underestimated the scale of the world’s plastic problem…
May 21, 2019
What's more, because most of this plastic is buried below the surface, and most global surveys don't look below the surface, the amount of plastic pollution worldwide may be way more than we previously thought, they reported...
Anonymous hackers breached the city of Baltimore’s servers two weeks ago. Government emails are still down, payments to city departments can’t be made online and real estate transactions can’t be processed…
May 21, 2019
Hackers demanded 13 Bitcoins — worth around $100,000 today — to relinquish their grip. Baltimore City Mayor Jack Young has said the city won't pay. The FBI and Secret Service are investigating, and the city has contracted with a series of experts to assist in restoring service...
Sierra Blanca Border Patrol Canine Team Seizes Nearly Four Million Dollars’ Worth of Liquid Methamphetamine…
May 21, 2019
a Sierra Blanca Border Patrol Agent and canine partner discovered two suitcases located in the lower luggage compartment of a passenger bus at the Sierra Blanca checkpoint. Inside the suitcases agents discovered 90 plastic bottles containing liquid methamphetamine, for an approximate weight of 118 pounds... The discovery was made while immigration inspections were being conducted on the passengers on board the bus. Agents were unable to associate the narcotics to a passenger.
5 Navy sailors charged in Texas sexual assault…
May 21, 2019
A Navy spokesman confirmed that the men are sailors and that they were attending master at arms apprenticeship training at the Naval Technical Training Center at Lackland Air Force Base at the time of the alleged assault. Bail for the men has been set at $125,000 per count,...
US agrees to sell $600M in air-defense missiles to Japan and S. Korea…
May 21, 2019
North Korean Sex Slaves Forced To Endure Rape, Exploitation And Forced Marriage In China…
May 21, 2019
Following an extensive investigation, the Korea Future Initiative found that victims are "commonly aged between 12-29 and overwhelmingly female." Many of them are sold more than once, and are "forced into at least one form of sexual slavery within a year of leaving their homeland." Sex trafficking and exploitation is a $105,000,000 per year business for the Chinese underworld, according to the report...
Nike, other U.S. footwear makers plead with Trump to drop China tariff…
May 21, 2019
The letter, dated May 20, was posted on the website of the Footwear Distributors and Retailers of America (FDRA), and signed by nearly 200 companies, including Nike, Under Armour, Foot Locker, and Reebok.
“The proposed additional tariff of 25 percent on footwear would be catastrophic for our consumers, our companies, and the American economy as a whole.”
— Footwear Distributors and Retailers of America‘Save Chick-fil-A’ bill approved by Texas House, despite cries from LGBT members…
May 21, 2019
A bill cast by conservatives as religious freedom protection and by liberals as a tool to discriminate against LGBT people was tentatively passed by the Texas House on Monday. The "Save Chick-fil-A" bill needs one more procedural vote from the House before it heads back to the Senate for final approval of a House amendment.
Vienna Beef recalls over 2,000 pounds of hot dogs shipped to Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin, due to possible metal contamination…
May 21, 2019
No one has reported being injured by the contaminants, which are described as “extraneous materials, specifically metal.” The possible contaminants were said to be discovered at a Vienna Beef facility, though the notice did not specify which one.