Day: مئی 19, 2020

UK government CAPITULATES to rebellion of Labour-led councils over June school reopening A revolt of mainly Labour-led local councils has pushed 10 Downing Street to admit it will not penalize some 1,500 primary schools in England who said they’d disobey its call for reopening from Covid-19 closures. Schools across the UK were shuttered due to the pandemic on March 20, and Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government sought to open them back up on June 1, so the pupils would get at least a month’s worth of classroom time before the summer holidays.  That plan is now looking highly unlikely, as eighteen local councils – including two led by the PM’s own Conservatives – have openly rejected the plan, along with the opposition Labour party and the NASUWT t...

COMEY urged probe into Flynn by misrepresenting Russian contacts, declassified memo shows Ex-FBI director James Comey pushed to investigate Trump’s incoming national security adviser Michael Flynn despite lacking any evidence Flynn had shared classified info with Russian officials, a newly-declassified memo reveals. It was Comey who told President Barack Obama and other administration officials that “incoming NSA Flynn is speaking frequently with Russian Ambassador Kislyak” in a meeting documented in the January 2017 memo by National Security Advisor Susan Rice, the unredacted first page of which was obtained by CBS on Tuesday. The FBI director admits he “has no indication thus far that Flynn has passed classified information to Kislyak,” and no real ...

New tapes of Poroshenko-Biden calls reveal ‘independent’ Ukraine was total US client On top of firing a prosecutor on orders from US Vice President Joe Biden, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko also robbed his own people by raising tariffs to please his US overlords, according to audio of their alleged calls. On Tuesday, Ukrainian parliamentarian Andrii Derkach published audio recordings of what sounds like Poroshenko’s conversations with various Obama administration officials in 2015 and 2016. Derkach said he got the audio from investigative journalists, who told him that Poroshenko personally recorded the calls. They have not been independently verified. If true, however, they show the president in Kiev literally taking orders from Washington, eve...

Keep away: US Navy issues strange warning for mariners to stay 100 yards away or be seen as threat The US Navy has issued new guidelines for mariners in the Persian Gulf, warning anyone against approaching too close to its vessels. Those defying the warning would be seen as a threat and met with “defensive measures.” US military vessels will take “lawful defensive measures” against ships that would come closer that 100 yards (about 91 meters), warns a new notice to mariners, according to reports by Reuters and AP. The usual actions taken in case of a close encounter involve turning the ship away from the approaching vessel, sounding a horn and shooting off flares before firing even warning shots. Also on rt.com US w...

Palestine withdraws from all agreements with Israel and US, says Mahmoud Abbas Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas announced his country will be ceasing all arrangements with Israel and the US in light of Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s annexation plans. "The Palestine Liberation Organization and the State of Palestine are absolved, as of today, of all the agreements and understandings with the American and Israeli governments and of all the obligations based on these understandings and agreements, including the security ones," the president said at a leadership meeting in Ramallah.  The announcement comes in response to plans by Netanyahu to annex Jewish settlements in the West Bank, that were outlined in the ‘Deal of the Century’ proposed ...

Holding healthcare hostage? Cuomo demands federal bailout or he’ll ‘have to’ cut hospital funding New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has demanded that the federal government bail out his state, or he’ll have to slash funding for hospitals, medical staff, and other local services – whose budgets he’s already cut to the bone. The governor took aim at the Trump administration’s funding priorities during his Covid-19 press conference on Tuesday, waxing dramatic about political “values” as he accused Washington of shafting state governments with emergency coronavirus bailout packages that favored big banks and megacorporations. Also on rt.com Dueling corporations: Cuomo's elite consultants spar with Trump's Big Business CEOs...

Deadly stabbing attack at Toronto erotic massage parlor treated as ‘INCEL TERRORISM’ A stabbing attack at a Toronto massage parlor in February in which one woman was killed and another injured is now being treated as a terrorist attack, allegedly inspired by the so-called misogynistic “incel ideology.” Canadian police uncovered new evidence, upgrading charges in the case to ‘murder – terrorist activity’ on Tuesday. The 17-year-old suspect, whose name has not been released as he’s still a minor, is already facing murder and attempted murder charges. The attack “was inspired by the Ideologically Motivated Violent Extremist (IMVE) movement commonly known as INCEL,” the RCMP and Toronto Police Service said in a joint statement. “As a result, federal and p...