Haiti Police, Senator Implicated in US Arms Trafficking Case

A Florida gun shop owner was recently convicted for trafficking firearms to Haiti with the help of a senator and several other top government officials, raising questions about government corruption in the Caribbean nation’s illegal arms trade.

Gun shop owner Junior Joseph was found guilty of conspiring with a Haitian senator and other individuals to illegally traffic 166 semi-automatic firearms and 30,000 rounds of ammunition hidden in the back of a truck shipped to Haiti in August 2016, the Miami Herald reported.

In early August 2016, prosecutors say that Joseph delivered the Mitsubishi truck containing “household goods, an unlocked safe, ammunition, 159 shotguns, five AR-15 rifles” and other semi-automatic weapons to a shipping company in Port of Palm Beach, Florida, according to the indictment.

Days later, Joseph allegedly sent copies of the shipping information regarding the weapons stash hidden inside the truck to Haitian Senator Herve Fourcand and one of his associates. In one of the messages intercepted by prosecutors, Joseph tells another individual in Haiti that he “would like to get help” to “remove a truck from customs,” adding that the help should be “inspection free.”

https://www.insightcrime.org/news/analysis/us-haiti-arms-trafficking-case-raises-questions-answers/

Recent Arms Seizures Underscore Risks of Venezuela’s Political Tension

Three recent seizures of military-grade weapons in Venezuela provide evidence that such arms are circulating and in demand precisely as Venezuela is suffering a violent political crisis.

The first seizure of military weapons and equipment occurred at the Arturo Michelena International Airport in Valencia, the capital city of Carabobo state on the Caribbean coast. Ender Palencia Ortiz, who is deputy minister of Prevention and Citizen Security as well a general in the country’s national guard (Guardia Nacional Bolivariana – GNB), reported that authorities seized 90 BT-150 radio antennas, 19 rifles, and six telephones labeled with military acronyms.

https://www.insightcrime.org/news/analysis/recent-arms-seizures-amid-venezuelas-political-tension/

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Juniper to acquire AI wireless firm Mist Systems

Mist has built the world’s first AI-driven wireless platform, which makes Wi-Fi more predictable, reliable and measurable.

Juniper Networks announced that the company has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Mist Systems, a provider of cloud-managed wireless networks powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Under the terms of the agreement, Juniper Networks will acquire Mist for aggregate consideration of $405 million, subject to adjustment, payable in cash and the assumption of outstanding equity awards. The proposed acquisition is expected to close in Juniper Networks’ fiscal second quarter.

Mist has built the world’s first AI-driven wireless platform, which makes Wi-Fi more predictable, reliable and measurable.

Mist has also developed the networking industry’s only AI-driven virtual assistant, Marvis, to simplify wireless troubleshooting and provide unprecedented insight into client and network behavior.

https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/juniper-to-acquire-ai-wireless-firm-mist-systems-3611111.html

Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett – no change at top of Forbes world rich list

Elsewhere on the chart, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg dropped three spots and former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg rose by two

According to the list announced Tuesday by Forbes, the riches of Bezos, 55, have swollen by US$19 billion in one year and he is now worth US$131 billion.

Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, at a press conference in Detroit, Michigan in November 2018. Photo: AFP

Bezos, who holds 16 per cent of Amazon and whose wealth now makes him a target of the left wing of the US Democratic Party, has widened the money gap between himself and Gates, the philanthropist and co-founder of Microsoft.

Gates, 63, has seen his wealth grow to US$96.5 billion, up from US$90 billion last year, said Forbes.

Third place is held by Buffett, 88 and long considered an investment guru, although he did get stung in late February by a deep plunge in shares of US processed food maker Kraft Heinz, in which he had money.

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2188756/jeff-bezos-bill-gates-and-warren-buffett-no-change

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Clintons described as petty, vengeful and dishonest in book on US-Ireland relations

Former foreign policy adviser claims scholarship she helped set up had funding cut as retribution for her backing Barack Obama, not Hillary, for 2008 election

A veteran Democratic foreign policy adviser has accused Bill and Hillary Clinton of nepotism, dishonesty and vindictiveness in an assault on a previously untouched part of the Clinton political legacy – Ireland.

Trina Vargo, who was a behind-the-scenes Washington player in Northern Ireland’s peace process, claims the couple tried to obtain a scholarship to Ireland for a boyfriend of their daughter, Chelsea, and later cut funding for the scholarship to punish Vargo for backing Barack Obama in the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination race.

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2188742/clintons-described-petty-vengeful-and-dishonest-book

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Swedish prime minister refuses to strip citizenship: “ISIS fighters can return”

Stefan Löfven, Sweden’s Prime Minister and the leftist Socialist Party leader has ruled out the possibility of stripping Swedish Islamic State Fighters of their citizenships, and has said that they have the right to come back to the country.

Nyheter Idag recently reported that Löfven stated the Ministry of Foreign Affairs had previously warned those who were traveling in and around the region in which IS had been fighting, that those individuals who were captured shouldn’t anticipate any assistance from the Swedish government at a consular level.

The prime minster did, however, state that he would refrain from stripping the Islamic State fighters of their Swedish citizenship, asserting that it was their right to return to the country if they desired. He then said that upon their return, it would be up to the intelligence service and law enforcement to keep track of the returning terrorists whereabouts and to potentially arrest and prosecute them.

https://voiceofeurope.com/2019/03/swedish-prime-minister-refuses-to-strip-citizenship-isis-fighters-can-return/

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1 Corinthians 2:9

“But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.”

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