Category Archives: Viva!

House investigates ‘White House plan’ to share nuclear technology with Saudis

9-11 was not enough, greedy fools want to give Saudi’s access to dirty bombs!

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Top Trump officials pushed plan to share technology despite objections, according to House oversight committee report

Top White House officials pushed a plan to share nuclear technology with Saudi Arabia, despite objections from career national security staff, according to a new congressional report.

Related: A public holiday and gold-plated gun: Saudi crown prince feted on Asia tour

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MPs fear May could exploit Labour split to call early election

That’s what the leaving eight is all about!

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Despite the Tories’ plan for a 2022 vote, cross-party concern remains over a snap poll

Labour and Conservative parliamentarians are anxious that the new breakaway group formed by Luciana Berger and Chuka Umunna has increased the chances of Theresa May calling an early election.

On the Labour side, MPs and peers were worried that the prime minister would be tempted to exploit a split in the opposition if more of their number defected to the new political group.

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Why Bernie Sanders’ radicalism can take out Trump | Nathan Robinson

Wrongo – if he leads party he would never join, he will again hand election to Trump because many Democrats needed to vote against Trump, will stay home

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When it comes to beating Trump, the Vermont senator is the person for the job. Nobody else comes close

Now that Bernie Sanders is officially in the 2020 presidential race, it’s time to face the obvious truth: not only can he beat Donald Trump, he is also a better candidate to do so than any of the other current Democratic contenders.

At a critical moment when the left needs to unify in order to end Trump’s reign of cruelty and ineptitude, Sanders is the person for the job. Nobody else comes close.

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Eighth Labour MP quits party to join breakaway Independent Group

Hope she is being paid well, she will never be a Labor MP or any MP again.

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Joan Ryan says party has become ‘infected with scourge of anti-Jewish racism’

Joan Ryan has become the eighth Labour MP to resign and join the breakaway Independent Group, claiming Jeremy Corbyn’s party has become “infected with the scourge of anti-Jewish racism”.

Ryan, the MP for Enfield North, said she had been a member for four decades – but could no longer remain as a Labour MP.

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New Evidence Emerges of Possible Wrongdoing by Trump Inaugural Committee — ProPublica

New Evidence Emerges of Possible Wrongdoing by Trump Inaugural Committee — ProPublica:

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Federal prosecutors in New York are circling Donald Trump’s inaugural committee as part of a wide-ranging investigation into possible money laundering, illegal contributions and cash-for-access schemes. Now, WNYC and ProPublica have identified evidence of potential tax law violations by the committee.

A spokesman confirmed that the nonprofit 58th Presidential Inaugural Committee paid the Trump International Hotel a rate of $175,000 per day for event space — in spite of internal objections at the time that the rate was far too high. If the committee is deemed by auditors or prosecutors to have paid an above-market rate, that could violate tax laws prohibiting self-dealing, according to experts.

Saudi purse can rebalance China’s influence on Pak

Saudi purse has funded thousand of religious schools that have promoted terrorism – we don’t need anymore 9-11s, bombings in UK and France and Germany spawned by Saudi funding all to maintain their control over Mecca! And now they are trying to buy nuclear technology!!! For Islamabad, filling a financial gap of $12 billion that has bogged down the Imran Khan government has been of far more importance than making long-term investments in CPEC. This is where the Saudi help beat Beijing’s, which did not respond when Pakistan PM Imran Khan went knocking on its doors for aid.