Abrams calls to ‘imagine’ Venezuela with billions of dollars from US and without Maduro

US Special Representative to Venezuela Elliott Abrams called for the removal of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro from power, and said tens of billions in foreign investment could pour into the country as a result of his ouster.

“In the future, billions of dollars will be invested in Venezuela to rebuild the agricultural and industrial sectors," Abrams said in a keynote address to the Atlantic Council, but added the process “can only start when there is a fully inclusive government that represents all Venezuelans.”

“What is stopping the beginning of rebuilding and reconciliation? Some questions are hard; that one is easy. The short answer is: Nicolas Maduro.”

Abrams dug deep and gave his best John Lennon impression, asking his audience to “imagine” a free and prosperous Venezuela with clean water, enough food and a stable currency.

An international coalition – 50 countries by Abrams’ count – has thrown support behind opposition leader Juan Guaidó, who declared himself interim president in January and soon after made overtures to US military intervention in the country. Abrams told the Council that Guaido has a vision for Venezuela “where liberty reigns.”

Abrams called for a three-pronged approach, dealing with a political transition, the role of the military in governance and turning around the country’s economy. Maduro’s removal from power and improvements to the economy “will not be an easy or quick project, but yes it is possible,” he said. Humanitarian aid sits at the country’s borders “ready to flow,” Abrams added, slamming leaders of the ruling socialist PSUV party for living in luxury while average citizens suffer a failing economy, a situation he called “unacceptable.”

Washington last year imposed a round of sanctions on Venezuela, cutting the country off from the American financial system and making its economic situation all the more dire.

https://www.rt.com/news/457565-abrams-imagine-venezuela-maduro/

This is getting fucking weird

>>6319374

yep

‘We are at war’ with Russia: DNC Chair Perez says Trump is ‘compromised’

Democratic National Committee Chair Tom Perez went on CNN to declare cyber war on Russia, and slammed President Donald Trump for being ‘compromised.’

“The federal government is asleep at the switch,” Perez told CNN’s Alisyn Camerota on her show New Day, adding that the president was disloyal to the country for “weaponizing” hacked material.

“When the Russians called Donald Trump and said ‘I got dirt on Hillary Clinton,’ they should have called the authorities,” Perez said, apparently referring to the Trump Tower meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya. “Instead they said ‘tell us what you got.’That’s not right.”

Back in 2016, however, the DNC had no qualms about relying on a foreign intelligence officer, Christopher Steele, to dig up dirt on then-candidate Donald Trump from various informants and ‘weaponize’ it in preparation for the presidential election. Steele later admitted sourcing his info from unverified internet sources – but not before it catalyzed two years of ‘Russiagate’ conspiracy theories and a costly Special Counsel investigation that ultimately found no collusion between Trump and Russia.

Veselnitskaya, interestingly, met with Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson on both the days before and after her meeting with Donald Trump Jr. Fusion GPS is the research firm that paid for Christopher Steele’s kompromat job on Trump.

https://www.rt.com/usa/457570-war-russia-trump-compromat/

Full retard

Leader of self-styled U.S. citizen border patrol attacked in jail

The leader of an armed militia that spent two months rounding up migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border before he was arrested on federal weapons charges was hospitalized after a jailhouse attack, his lawyer and authorities said on Wednesday.

Larry Hopkins, 69, whose group of self-styled citizen border cops drew condemnation from civil liberties advocates, suffered broken ribs in the beating by fellow inmates on Tuesday at the Dona Ana County Detention Center in Las Cruces, New Mexico, according to his attorney, Kelly O'Connell.

Hopkins was arrested on Saturday by the FBI on an outstanding warrant accusing him of being a felon in illegal possession of firearms, a charge dating back to a 2017 search of his home.

The detention facility, about 200 miles south of Albuquerque, confirmed that Hopkins was "the alleged victim" of a Tuesday night attack and said the incident was under investigation.

"Hopkins was given medical attention for non life-threatening injuries," county spokeswoman Kelly Jameson said in an email. She later told Reuters that Hopkins had been transferred from the jail on Wednesday and turned over to the U.S. Marshals Service.

She said Hopkins was beaten by three other inmates in the jail's television viewing room, and no weapons were found. Jameson said she had no information on what precipitated the violence.

The attack occurred the same day that Hopkins' United Constitutional Patriots group abandoned its encampment in Sunland Park, New Mexico, where they had spent two months patrolling a 5-mile stretch of the border and said they detained thousands of migrants they caught trying to cross into the United States.

The American Civil Liberties Union last week denounced the UCP as group of "fascist" vigilantes impersonating law enforcement to essentially kidnap Central American families seeking asylum.

New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham, a Democrat, ordered an investigation of the group. UCP members insisted they were acting at the behest of U.S. Border Patrol agents.

O'Connell, who said on Wednesday he had spoken with Hopkins by phone, questioned the jail's ability to protect a "very high-profile" inmate, but said he did not know why Hopkins was targeted. A UCP spokesman, Jim Benvie, said he believed it was because of Hopkins' activity at the border.

http://www.womensystems.com/2019/04/leader-of-self-styled-us-citizen-border.html

Dad calling gender-confused daughter a girl and not a boy constitutes ‘family violence,’ BC judge rules

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, April 25, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — A Canadian judge found a father guilty of “family violence” for publicly and privately referring to his 14-year-old daughter — who identifies as a boy — as a girl.

British Columbia Supreme Court Justice Francesca Marzari also issued a yearlong restraining order forbidding the father from speaking publicly and to reporters about his legal action to stop his daughter, referred to in court documents as AB, receiving testosterone shots against his wishes, reported the The Federalist.

Marzari further forbade the father from referring to his daughter as a girl, either directly to her or to third parties, from using “her birth name,” and from “attempting to persuade” his daughter “to abandon treatment for gender dysphoria.”

The father’s “expressions of rejection of AB’s gender identity, both publicly and privately, constitutes family violence against AB,” she wrote in her April 15 ruling.

The father argued that he had a right as a parent to express what he believed to his daughter and “the world at large,” Marzari wrote.

But his “rights do not include harming his child.”

Marzari’s order is the latest blow against British Columbia father, referred in court documents as CD, in his legal battle to stop his troubled daughter’s transition. CD is separated from AB’s mother, and they share joint custody of the teenager.

Justice Gregory Bowden ruled in February that AB did not need her father’s consent to begin testosterone shots and that not affirming AB in her chosen gender was “family violence.”

AB has received “regular injections at British Columbia (BC) Children’s Hospital over the course of the last two months,” The Federalist reported.

CD appealed the decision and continued to refer to his daughter as a girl in media interviews, including telling The Federalist he does so “because she is a girl. Her DNA will not change through all these experiments that they do.” CD did likewise in interviews with Kari Simpson of the BC parents’ rights group Culture Guard.

As a result, AB’s lawyers — who notably include longtime “queer” activist Barbara Findlay — asked the court for a restraining order against CD, alleging his conduct was putting AB at risk.

As evidence against her father, AB recounted that during one visit, CD sat her down to watch a video about “Maxine” — a pseudonym publications use to refer to her — and she refused.

The teen also alleged her father “was unable to call AB by his chosen name or gender, and the visit ended prematurely and badly,” Marzari wrote.

For his part, AB’s father argued “others have pressured and co-opted” his daughter, so that “AB is not speaking for himself,” the judge wrote in her ruling.

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/dad-calling-gender-confused-daughter-a-girl-and-not-a-boy-constitutes-family-violence-bc-judge-rules

Wall Street bankers make triumphant return to Saudi Arabia just in time for mass beheadings

Global finance leaders, who boycotted the Saudi investment summit last year over the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, have returned to Riyadh despite the beheadings of dozens of people this week.

Big investors, particularly from Wall Street, joined panels at the two-day financial forum which began on Wednesday in Riyadh.

Larry Fink, CEO of US investment corporation BlackRock, told the conference that his company had bought some of Saudi state-owned oil giant Aramco’s bonds and was looking for other “opportunities” in the kingdom.

Global finance leaders, who boycotted the Saudi investment summit last year over the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, have returned to Riyadh despite the beheadings of dozens of people this week.

Big investors, particularly from Wall Street, joined panels at the two-day financial forum which began on Wednesday in Riyadh.

Larry Fink, CEO of US investment corporation BlackRock, told the conference that his company had bought some of Saudi state-owned oil giant Aramco’s bonds and was looking for other “opportunities” in the kingdom.

The presence of global leaders is in sharp contrast to a similar event last year. Many political and business elite decided to skip that forum due to the international scandal over the killing of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi. After initial denials, Riyadh admitted that Khashoggi was murdered by “rogue” agents of the Saudi government while visiting the country’s consulate in Istanbul last October.

Despite that, big investors appear to be focused on potential deals in the largest Arab economy.

Saudi Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih told the forum that Aramco would be active in debt markets and that the $12 billion it raised in its debut bond issue was “only the beginning.” The country’s stock market, which has seen an upsurge in foreign fund flows since the start of 2019, is one of the best performing in the region, up nearly 18 percent year-to-date.

https://governmentslaves.news/2019/04/25/wall-street-bankers-make-triumphant-return-to-saudi-arabia-just-in-time-for-mass-beheadings/

“Pseudo Satellite” Aircraft Being Tested to Blast WiFi At Us From the Sky Even Though WiFi Isn’t Harmless

Activist Post has reported about research that has already proven that WiFi isn’t harmless and neither is 5G technology. In fact, no “safe” level of wireless radiation exposure has been scientifically determined for children or pregnant women.

We’ve also reported about satellites being sent into space to blanket the world with not-harmless WiFi and 5G despite widespread environmental opposition and warnings that there’s too much dangerous space junk out there already. (See 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

Now aircraft is being tested that will make it cheaper for telecom companies to blast WiFi at us from the sky.

The blimp-like aircraft, which is 15 meters long and has a wingspan of 10.5 meters, has been designed for businesses and scientific use, and its creators hope it will revolutionize the telecommunications industry.

“The Phoenix spends half its time as a heavier-than-air aeroplane, the other as a lighter-than-air balloon,” explains Andrew Rae, professor of engineering at the University of the Highlands and Islands Perth College, who was involved in the project. “The repeated transition between these states provides the sole source of propulsion.

“This system allows the Phoenix to be completely self-sufficient,” he adds in a statement. “Vehicles based on this technology could be used as pseudo satellites and would provide a much cheaper option for telecommunication activities.”

The team behind the aircraft also believe it could be used to provide Wi-Fi coverage to remote areas.

You can run but it seems you won’t be able to hide for much longer. No one is immune from exposure though some will handle it better than others. Insurance companies seem to know this – that’s why they don’t insure telecom companies anymore.

And no – this isn’t good for climate change either, if that concerns you.

https://www.activistpost.com/2019/04/aircraft-being-tested-to-blast-wifi-at-us-from-sky-even-though-wifi-isnt-harmless.html

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ffs

Dem Rep. Cicilline: Imprison White House Officials That Don’t Comply with Congressional Subpoenas

Thursday on MSNBC’s “Hardball,” Rep. David Cicilline (D-RI), a member of the House Judiciary Committee, suggested imprisonment for officials in the Trump administration that did not comply with congressional subpoenas.

Cicilline argued there was a precedent for such action.

“First of all, Chris — Congress cannot allow the president to prevent us from oversight,” he said. “We have three things Congress can do if witnesses refuse to comply with a lawfully issued subpoena. One is, refer to the Department of Justice for prosecution because that’s a crime. We don’t have a lot of confidence Mr. Barr will do that. The second is to start a civil proceeding and get a citation from the court to bring that person into contempt and do it that way. But there’s a third method we can do right away. Since 1821, the Supreme Court has recognized the inherent right of Congress to hold individuals in contempt and to imprison them. That was reaffirmed in a case in 1935. Congress has the responsibility, and I would say the obligation to hold individuals in contempt who do not comply with a lawful subpoena who do not produce documents and we ought to be prepared to imprison them because we have the inherent right.”

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2019/04/25/dem-rep-cicilline-imprison-white-house-officials-that-dont-comply-with-congressional-subpoenas/

Baker this is brilliant

FBI Top Brass Placed Spies in the Trump Campaign - Will They Go to Jail?

Did the FBI spy on the Trump campaign?

Yes

Did the FBI place spies in the Trump campaign?

Yes

Do we know the names of the spies and how they operated?

Yes

Were the spies trying to entrap Trump campaign assistants in order to gather information on Trump?

Yes

Did the spies try to elicit information from Trump campaign assistants in order to justify a wider investigation and more extensive surveillance?

Yes

Were the spies placed in the Trump campaign based on improperly obtained FISA warrants?

Yes

Did the FBI agents procure these warrants based on false or misleading information?

Yes

Could the FBI establish “probable cause” that Trump had committed a crime or “colluded” with Russia?

No

So the ‘spying’ was illegal?

Yes

Have many of the people who authorized the spying, already been identified in criminal referrals presented to the Department of Justice?

Yes

Have the media explained the importance of these criminal referrals or the impact that spying has on free elections?

No

Is the DOJ’s Inspector General currently investigating whether senior-level agents in the FBI committed crimes by improperly obtaining warrants to spy on members of the Trump team?

Yes

Did the FBI spy on the Trump campaign to give Hillary Clinton an unfair advantage in the presidential race?

Yes

Did the FBI spy on the Trump campaign to gather incriminating information on Trump that could be used to blackmail, intimidate or impeach him in the future?

Yes

Does spying pose a threat to our elections and to our democracy?

Yes

Do many people know that there were spies placed in the Trump campaign?

Yes

Have these people effectively used that information to their advantage?

No

Have they launched any type of public relations offensive that would draw more attention to the critical issue of spying on a political campaign?

No

Have they saturated the airwaves with the truth about “spying” the same way their rivals have spread their disinformation about “collusion”?

No

Do they understand that the country is currently embroiled in a fratricidal, scorched earth political civil war in which one side is determined to prevail at all cost?

No

Do they understand that the people who authorized the spying and who perpetrated the coup will do everything in their power to prevent that information from getting out?

No

Does it look like senior-level agents at the FBI, the CIA, the DOJ, the NSA and the Obama White House knew that there were spies in the Trump campaign?

Yes

Did these same senior-level agents at the FBI, the CIA, the DOJ, the NSA and the Obama White House cooperate in a plan to undermine and delegitimize the Trump presidency?

Yes

Did they use false or misleading information to infer the president was an agent of a foreign power?

Yes

Did they know this false and misleading information was unreliable, unverified raw intelligence that was paid for by the DNC and Hillary Clinton?

Yes

Was there a conspiracy to remove Trump from office or to sabotage his presidency through the dissemination of false information?

Yes

Does the use of spies, wiretapping, “unmasking”, strategically-leaked information to the media, and other forms of electronic surveillance suggest that there are organized elements within the permanent bureaucracy which no longer accept the democratic process?

Yes

Is it fair to say that these people are the enemies of free elections?

Yes

Is it possible for patriotic officials in the Justice Department and in the U.S. Congress to stand up to this powerful deep state apparatus, expose what happened during the 2016 presidential campaign, identify the perpetrators, and bring them to justice?

It is possible, but not likely.

https://russia-insider.com/en/fbi-top-brass-placed-spies-trump-campaign-will-they-go-jail/ri26863

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>>6319536

copy pasta sorry grammarfag

Trump’s Daughter-in-Law Ignites Twitter, Branding Migrants ‘Downfall of Germany’

During the 2015 migrant crisis in Europe, Angela Merkel’s open door policy saw hundreds of thousands of people from the Middle East and Africa go to Germany. The decision was brought up in a discussion between Lara Trump and a Fox Business Network host, where they discussed the Central American migrant caravan and Donald Trump’s tough stance on it.

One of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign advisers and wife of his son Eric, Lara Trump, has blasted Angela Merkel’s admitting migrants into her country as "one of the worst things that ever happened to Germany" and "the downfall of Germany". The topic came up as she was discussing her father-in-law’s migration policy with Fox Business host Stuart Varney. He brought up the influx of asylum seekers in Europe while talking with Mrs Trump about the migrant caravan from Latin America, which is on its way to the US border and which was also recently raided by Mexican immigration authorities.

According to Lara Trump, the incumbent US president is trying to prevent an American version of “one of the worst things that ever happened to Germany” from happening in his home country. According to her, Congress needs to do “the right thing for the American people”. However, Lara Trump's referring to the migrant situation in Germany as “one of the worst things” in the country’s history received a sarcastic and sceptical response on Twitter.

https://sputniknews.com/us/201904261074474052-lara-trump-migrants-germany/