Anonymous ID: 0ee738 May 14, 2019, 12:34 p.m. No.6497737   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>7897 >>8053 >>8294

Venezuela security forces block opposition lawmakers from entering parliament

 

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan security forces prevented opposition lawmakers from entering the parliament building for a session on Tuesday, a week after the top court stripped several lawmakers of their immunity amid a political crisis in the South American country.

Members of the Sebin intelligence service, wearing masks and carrying long guns, together with members of the national police and the military blocked the entrance and were investigating the possible presence of an explosive device inside the National Assembly building, lawmakers said.

Last week, one opposition lawmaker was arrested and several took refuge in foreign embassies in Caracas or fled the country as President Nicolas Maduro cracked down on allies of opposition leader Juan Guaido, following a failed effort to convince members of the military to rise up against Maduro in late April.

 

Guaido, the leader of the opposition-controlled Assembly, in January invoked Venezuela’s constitution to assume an interim presidency, arguing Maduro’s 2018 re-election was illegitimate. More than 50 countries have recognized him as the country’s rightful leader, and say the assembly is its last remaining democratic institution.

 

“This is all part of a show to prevent the National Assembly from functioning,” lawmaker Juan Pablo Guanipa told Reuters. “This is a dictatorship that goes after dissidents, and we are fighting for a political change.”

 

Venezuela’s information ministry, which handles media inquiries on behalf of the government, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Maduro, a socialist, calls Guaido a puppet of the United States seeking to oust him in a coup.

 

The government stripped the assembly of most of its powers after the opposition won a majority in 2015 elections. Lawmakers loyal to Maduro generally do not attend the sessions, but go to meetings of the constituent assembly, a legislative “superbody” created in 2017 that meets in the same building on Wednesdays.

 

The “superbody” is an all-powerful legislature controlled by the ruling Socialist Party and whose powers supersede those of the National Assembly.

 

Tuesday’s session was scheduled for 10 a.m. (1400 GMT), but never began. The lawmakers were set to discuss the Supreme Court’s stripping of several of their colleagues’ parliamentary immunity and the arrest of Edgar Zambrano, the Assembly’s vice president and an outspoken critic of Maduro.

 

Opposition lawmaker Jorge Millan told reporters the report of “bombs” in the building was false.

 

“It is a trick to prevent the parliament from functioning today,” he said. “If we do not have a session today, we will do it tomorrow.”

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-politics/venezuela-security-forces-block-opposition-lawmakers-from-entering-parliament-idUSKCN1SK288?il=0

Anonymous ID: 0ee738 May 14, 2019, 12:56 p.m. No.6497927   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>7976 >>8071

>>6497891

All good, sometime's context is missing from these as you know. I stopped on election day 2012, only emerged for 2016 election-but watched all you nigga's take it to a boiling point.

I re-joined day after LV. Old usenet user too.

We win baby…we win!

Anonymous ID: 0ee738 May 14, 2019, 1:18 p.m. No.6498141   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>8294

US Mkt Report

() and bold are addition's.

and edited for da usual ZH crap. That article earlier about trade-what a hit-piece that was.

 

Dead. Cat. Bounce?

Stocks are up so everything must be awesome again, right?

 

DOW

Volume 288,344,380

Avg. Volume 298,243,606

Well over average yesterday on a -617 day..should tell you something that it can't hit or exceed today, said it would get close in morning report-it did.

Despite an early session bid, China stocks ended lower once again.

European markets were much more excited with Italy soaring along with France on the day erasing Monday's losses.

US Equity markets rallied back above the "constructive" rally point from Friday today as a lack of negative things from China and US as well no inflationary fears from import/export data sent markets higher.

Another dead cat bounce?

emphatic yes but this does not factor in PANIC-kek.

"Most Shorted" stocks surged today, recovering around half of yesterday's losses.

NASDAQ had a ton of short covering today-dumbshits who did not book into yesterday's close-ya deserve to get your ass handed to ya.'

All the major US indices moved back above key technical support once again.

 

FANG Stocks rebounded extremely modestly on the day.

Cap#3- however only one has hit a new high.

Bonds and stocks have traded almost perfectly in sync through this recent chaos…

Treasury yields inched higher on the day.

A little moar space for (Them).

 

The dollar extended its gains from yesterday.

'This is because there is a dollar shortage and the bank's and institution's that require them cannot secure enough of them to paper over the pilesof derivative exposure they have.

See here:

There's a global shortage of dollars. Here's why investors shouldn't ignore it.

https://www.am.pictet/en/us/global-articles/2018/market-views/in-brief/dollar-liquidity-squeeze

Finally, it appears the liquidity party may be over for now.

See cap#4.

 

Ripple soared today as most of the major cryptos held on to gains.

see here :

Ripple XRP ownership. What XRP holders don’t know

https://www.cryptolinenews.com/ripple-101/ripple-xrp-ownership-xrp-holders-dont-know/

 

Bitcoin flash-crashed around the Asia open overnight, but scrambled back above $8000.

Oil prices rebounded today as mideast tension rose (ahead of tonight's inventory data), Copper and silver were flat and gold was weaker.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-14/dead-cat-bounce

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5EDJI?p=^DJI

Anonymous ID: 0ee738 May 14, 2019, 1:28 p.m. No.6498249   🗄️.is đź”—kun

>>6498071

since I was out for so long it took sometime to get reacquainted with it. What I saw on half was a cesspool-commend you all for getting through that. I've done digs on JFK here and have a fairly decent scope of what went on-moar towards the silver certs and FRB crapola and how that tied to dimona etc but was not only one.

In 5th grade I wrote to the JFK library and actually got a response back with material for a report. Still have the stuff somewhere. That's how we used to do it since it was an encyclopedia or not much else. Also enjoyed being textually "eaten by a bear" with the original version of oregon trail.

Those were the day's fren