Puigdemont to Be Once Again Nominated as Candidate for Catalan Presidency

MADRID (Sputnik) - The Catalan pro-independence Together for Catalonia (JxCat) political party on Saturday proposed to once again nominate former Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont as a candidate to head the regional government.

The news came from JxCat spokesman Eduard Pujol following a meeting of the party's members in Berlin. The candidacy is expected to be officially announced before May 14.

On Friday, Catalan lawmakers voted in favor of an amendment that would allow the regional president to be elected without his or her presence in the parliament, in a move that could return Puigdemont, who currently is in self-imposed exile, to power.

Portrait of former Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont attached to the fence of the prison (Justizvollzugsanstalt, JVA) of Neumuenster, northern Germany, where Puigdemont ,former Catalan regional president, is detained

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German Court Releases Ex-Catalan Leader Puigdemont on Bail

In January, a Spanish court ruled that Puigdemont, who fled to Belgium in October to avoid sedition charges after last year's independence referendum, could only become the regional leader if he was physically present in the parliament and had a judge’s permission to attend the swearing-in session.

However, in late February, Catalan pro-independence parties announced their plans to establish a parallel government in Brussels that would be headed by Puigdemont, the idea Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy described as "crazy."

https://sputniknews.com/europe/201805061064185287-puigdemont-again-nominated-catalan-presidency/

THIS IS AWESOME!

A large group of motorcyclists is said to be headed toward the US capitol of Washington DC with the intention of confronting US Justice Department Special Counsel Robert Mueller on Monday.

A group calling themselves the Deplorable Bikers — begun as an anti-Obama group just before the former US President's second term and transformed into a pro-Trump cabal during the latter's 2016 election campaign — tweeted that many of its adherents are headed to Washington DC to confront Mueller regarding his federally-mandated investigation into alleged collusion between the Kremlin and Trump's campaign.

Reports claim that thousands of pro-Trump motorcycle riders have joined the mob, demanding that Congress defund what they refer to as the Mueller ‘witch hunt,' according to statements by spokespersons claiming to represent the group.

Responding to accusations of collusion, Moscow has repeatedly denied interfering, calling the claims "absurd." As for the US president, he has denied colluding with the Kremlin, and has repeatedly called the federal justice department investigation a "witch hunt."

An absence of collusion was established by a Republican-led House Intelligence Committee "Report on Russian Active Measure" report released last week.

The committee did allege, however, that Moscow attempted to sow division in the US by carrying out cyberattacks and seeking to influence social media users.

https://sputniknews.com/us/201805061064183268-bikers-mob-trump-mueller/

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Pedophile Substitute Teacher in Georgia Charged with 66 Counts of Child Sexual Exploitation

Disturbing news to report coming out of Atlanta, Georgia region where a former substitute teacher has been arrested on a stunning 66 counts of child sexual exploitation against prepubescent minors.

According to the Jackson County Sheriff's Office, they were first tipped off about 65-year-old Ernest Shaw after he gave someone in Nicholson, Georgia a DVD player as a gift.

Once that unidentified person clicked through the multimedia files stored into the DVD player, they would discover perverse images and videos depicting minor children engaged in forced sexual acts with adults.

This led to that individual contacting the Jackson County Sheriff's Office, who later obtained a search warrant for Shaw’s residence at 301 J.S. Williamson Court in Nicholson, Georgia.

Inside the home authorities discovered several other videos and images depicting the forced sexual assault of countless children, at which time he was taken into custody for further interrogation.

Jackson County Sheriff's Deputies would learn during those interrogation sessions that Shaw was not only a pedophile, but was a substitute school teacher in both the Banks and Jackson County School system.

He was then formally charged sigh sixty-six counts of child sexual exploitation.

“We have not determined any local children are involved,” Jackson County sheriff Janis Mangum said.

“Mr. Shaw was immediately removed from our list of approved subs May 1, as soon as we were notified that the sheriff’s office had opened an investigation,” April Howard, Jackson County Superintendent, said on Thursday. “We had not received any complaints about his conduct with our students in the 19 years he worked in our school system.”

Law enforcement remain uncertain as to if Shaw has abused any students during his tenure as a teacher, but there are no formal complaints on record.

Banks County Public Schools said that Shaw has also been on their list of substitute teachers since 2011, and there are again no complains on record in any of their schools against the pedophile teacher.

Jackson County School System Communications Coordinator Karen Bridgeman said that Shaw typically substituted at middle and high schools.

“The 49 days he worked in the 2017-18 school year were at Jackson County and East Jackson comprehensive high schools, and East Jackson Middle School; he also filled in at Maysville Elementary School last fall,” Bridgeman said.

“The safety of our children is our first and most important priority, and we will continue to do everything in our power to protect them,” she said Thursday.

Shaw passed background checks every five years since 1999, and neither district has been given any reason to suspect this type of behavior, according to both school systems.

Jackson County Sheriff's Deputies said that Shaw will remain in detention until trial.

https://thegoldwater.com/news/25201-Pedophile-Substitute-Teacher-in-Georgia-Charged-with-66-Counts-of-Child-Sexual-Exploitation

Russia Tells Us Exactly Who the White Helmets Are (Video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JifBie5ZuuA

http://themillenniumreport.com/2018/05/russia-tells-us-exactly-who-the-white-helmets-are-video/

Brooks on Tax Bill: Seems Like ‘What the Trump People Told Us Would Happen Is Happening’

On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that the GOP tax bill is working better than he thought it would and the evidence “seems to be that what the Trump people told us would happen is happening, that companies are reinvesting the money.”

Brooks stated, “I was against the Trump tax cuts. But the early evidence is that they’re working better than I thought. And so, in the first quarter, among S&P companies, capital expenditures are up 39 percent. That’s a seven-year high. That’s far higher than a lot of us thought. Stock buybacks, which is just giving people — to shareholders, that’s only 16 percent. So the evidence from just the first quarter seems to be that what the Trump people told us would happen is happening, that companies are reinvesting the money. … And so, it’s important to oppose what’s opposable and what’s reprehensible and offensive. And we’ve been doing that, as I say, for three years. But it’s also important to see reality. And the more serious opposition will, frankly, be on disastrous policies or not disastrous policies.”

http://www.breitbart.com/video/2018/05/05/brooks-on-tax-bill-seems-like-what-the-trump-people-told-us-would-happen-is-happening/