US diplomat convicted over Iran-Contra appointed special envoy for Venezuela

Suitable that 45 hire someone already convicted!

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Elliott Abrams, who was linked to failed coup against Chávez, to join Pompeo to urge security council to recognize Guaidó as head

The thick eyebrows were familiar from another era, even if the crown was balder, and the state department’s new hire admitted he had not worked there for 30 years.

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Ireland dismisses suggestion it should quit EU and join UK | Politics | The Guardian – This is how ignorant some Brits are to suggest Ireland would become a British slave again after fighting for 700 years to be free!

BBC’s John Humphrys criticised for putting ‘Brexit solution’ to Irish minister

Source: Ireland dismisses suggestion it should quit EU and join UK | Politics | The Guardian

Alaska Hunter Who Killed Cubs in Bear Den Gets 3 Months in Jail – The New York Times

Based on the camera footage, which was summarized by prosecutors in a news release, Andrew Renner and his son approached the den on Esther Island, in Prince William Sound, on April 14. Owen Renner fatally shot the sleeping mother bear with a rifle, prosecutors said, causing the cubs to start shrieking inside the den. Andrew Renner then fatally shot the cubs. Prosecutors said the recovered video footage showed the Renners butchering the mother bear and taking the remains away in bags. Two days later, the camera caught them returning to the area to collect the bullet shells and dispose of the bear cubs’ bodies, according to a report from Alaska’s Department of Public Safety.

S.Res. 30: A resolution condemning efforts to undermine democracy in Hungary and urging President Trump to defend the universal human rights and democratic norms under attack by the Orban government.

Introduced: Sponsor: Sen. Dianne Feinstein [D-CA]

This resolution was referred to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations which will consider it before sending it to the Senate floor for consideration.

Flu science points to another culprit when vaccines fail — us

The idea is that the first flu viruses your immune system encounters make indelible marks on it. A person born in 1970 whose first influenza A infection was caused by an H3N2 virus will always mount a better immune response to H3N2 viruses — or that component of the vaccine — than she will to an H1N1 virus or vaccine. But a person born in 1949, when H1N1 was the only influenza A virus circulating, will likely always have an underwhelming response to the H3N2 component of the flu shot. The phenomenon is called “original antigenic sin” in the influenza literature. It’s also known as “imprinting.”

Source: Flu science points to another culprit when vaccines fail — us