FTA: Amazingly, while the Israelis were training the El Salvadoran death squads they were also supporting the anti-semitic Argentine military government of the late 1970s and early 1980s " at a time when that government was involved in another "dirty war" of death squads and disappearances. In 1978, Nicaragua's dictator Somoza was making his last stand against a general uprising of the Sandinista-led population who were sick of his family's dynasty which had ruled and monopolised the county for half a century. The Israelis and the US had been supplying Somoza with weapons for years. But when President Jimmy Carter came into office in 1976 he ordered a cessation of all US military assistance to Nicaragua. Israel utilised Carter's human rights policy to its advantage. Filling the void, the Israelis immediately increased their weapons supplies to Somoza until he fled the country when the Sandinistas took power. read more
A black-tie dinner for the top buyers of Donald Trump's meme coin featured him speaking at a lectern emblazoned with the presidential seal, despite the White House arguing it was a "private" event on "personal time." But it was the entree that drew gasps. read more
Wall Street Journal says [Daniel Kahneman], pioneer of behavioral economics, who died last year at 90, made decision to forgo suffering of old age and leave life on his own terms read more
LAS VEGAS (AP) -- A federal judge has denied the U.S. government's request to release from prison a former FBI informant who made up a story about President Joe Biden and his son Hunter accepting bribes that later became central to Republicans' impeachment effort. The decision, issued Wednesday by U.S. District Judge Otis Wright in Los Angeles, comes weeks after a new prosecutor reassigned to Alexander Smirnov's case jointly filed a motion with his attorneys asking for his release while he appeals his conviction. In the motion, the U.S. government had said it would review its "theory of the case."
The FBI has reassigned several agents who were photographed kneeling during a racial justice protest in Washington following the 2020 death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis officers. That's according to two people familiar with the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the personnel decisions, which were first reported by CNN. The FBI did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment.
3. It was great in 1987. By 1994 the yanquis had made awful inroads. Tearing up the hillsides for lodging, etc.
Wife and I spent our honeymoon at El Ocotal, Guanacaste province, on the western coast. Unbelievable. Seven years later . . . well, you can never change the view.
1994 I was pulled over by the local police for speeding, who motioned with rifles for me to open the trunk. Looking for Nicaraguans, we were told.