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https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-klaus-schwab-hospital-dead-alive-607968130071

CLAIM: World Economic Forum executive chairman Klaus Schwab was recently admitted to the hospital in serious condition and might have died.

AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. Posts making these allegations began spreading widely after a website that says it publishes “satire, and comedic opinion pieces and editorials” posted an article about Schwab’s supposed hospitalization. A WEF spokesperson told The Associated Press that the claims are untrue.

THE FACTS: Social media users are spreading baseless rumors about Schwab’s health.

“BREAKING: Klaus Schwab was apparently admitted to the hospital seriously ill,” reads one X post that had received approximately 25,000 likes and 8,800 shares as of Monday. “Anyway, that doesn’t BUG me.”

The word “bug” appears to be emphasized in reference to another false claim, that the WEF wants to replace meat with bugs.

Other posts go a step further, stating that Schwab “may be dead.”

But the WEF founder is not deathly ill or worse, according to Yann Zopf, a spokesperson for the organization.

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While the rest of the world can’t peel their eyes away as Donald Trump’s historic criminal trial gets under way in New York, the former president himself appears to be far less enthralled by the proceedings.

Jury selection got under way on Monday in the first-ever criminal trial of a sitting or former president, as he faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in a bid to cover up hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels.

But, according to some courtroom reporters, Mr Trump appeared to struggle to keep his eyes open – and at one point may have even fallen asleep.

“Trump appears to be sleeping. His head keeps dropping down and his mouth goes slack,” New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman reported.

The observation quickly inspired a new nickname for the 77-year-old former president: “Sleepy Don.”

Soon, the moniker spread like wildfire on social media.

“My theory: Trump’s legal team sedated him,” Mother Jones DC bureau chief David Corn wrote.

“Looks, he’s old. The judge is keeping Sleepy Don from his nap time,” Meidas Touch editor-in-chief Ron Filipkowski posted.

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/15/trump-hush-money-trial-key-arguments

On Monday, 15 April 2024, Donald Trump went to Manhattan court for his trial in Manhattan, making him the first US president, former or present, to face a criminal jury. More than 500 prospective jurors have been summoned to Manhattan supreme court in preparation for a selection process that could span days.

Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney, in spring 2023 charged Trump with 34 counts of falsifying business records over an alleged hush-money scheme involving the adult film star Stormy Daniels and former Playboy playmate Karen McDougal. The charge is a class E felony.

Bragg’s office contends that Trump facilitated payoffs to the women through his then attorney, Michael Cohen, to cover up alleged extramarital liaisons that could have damaged his candidacy in the 2016 election. They say that the illicit “catch and kill” payoff scheme spanned from August 2015 to December 2017. Cohen in 2018 pleaded guilty to federal charges in Manhattan related to his involvement in that particular scheme, among other crimes.

Trump has maintained his innocence. As with the other criminal and civil cases against him, Trump has largely claimed these proceedings are a politically motivated witch-hunt, intended to impede his candidacy in the 2024 presidential election.

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Ukraine appears to be losing.
Centrenergo has lost all of its power plants.
DTEK has lost 80% of its power generation capabilities.
Ukraine is being forced now to triple energy imports and cease energy exporting.
It really sucks Ukraine has to deal with the disastrous effects of the 2014 democrat-planned coup in Ukraine
https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/ukraine-double-power-imports-monday-with-no-exports-grid-operator-says-2024-04-15/
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68813529
Ukraine's power plants at the mercy of Russian missiles

Officials in Ukraine say they can "count on one hand" the thermal and hydro power plants across the country that are not yet badly damaged or totally destroyed. As Ukraine scrambles to repair what it can, and keep the electricity flowing to homes and industry, Russia's assault has not stopped.

The attack on 22 March was deliberate and devastating. Five Russian missiles struck the same spot, mangling turbines, generators and transformers and taking the plant offline. A week later, Russia targeted the city's power plants again.

For Ihor Orlovskiy this feels personal.


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The ''fierce'' leader demanded his country receive the "same level of protection" after the UK, US and Western powers blasted Iran's missiles and drones out the sky in a steadfast defence of Israel.

We see that when allies act as one in a very coordinated way, not a single missile falls on the targets, reaches targets in Israel," Kuleba said.

"Everything we are asking from partners, even if you cannot act the way you act in Israel, give us what we need and we will do the rest of the job," he added.

Ukraine has in recent months grown increasingly exasperated at delays in Western aid, which it says are urgently needed to repel deadly Russian attacks.

https://www.the-sun.com/news/11107001/west-russian-missiles-drones-israel-iran-zelensky/

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https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4596862-massie-backs-greene-effort-to-oust-speaker-johnson/

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) announced Tuesday he will co-sponsor a resolution to oust Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) from the House’s top job.

Massie told his colleagues during a closed-door conference meeting that he will co-sponsor the motion to vacate resolution filed late last month by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), according to three GOP lawmakers in the room, becoming the first lawmaker to publicly join Greene’s effort.

Massie’s announcement came less than 24 hours after Johnson unveiled the outline of a plan to move foreign aid through the House, which includes voting on three separate bills to send assistance to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan and a fourth measure that pertains to other national security priorities.

But in a departure from his previous positions, Johnson did not include border security provisions in the plan after months of Republicans — including the Speaker — demanding that any aid for Ukraine be paired with legislation to address the situation at the southern border, sparking intense opposition among conservatives.

Érika de Souza Vieira Nunes took a corpse in a wheelchair to sign a loan, but bank employees noticed the attempted fraud and ended up at the police station

Érika entered with the corpse in a wheelchair and spoke to him normally, even asking him to sign the document. Employees at the bank branch became suspicious and called Samu.

"The people at the bank thought he was sick, feeling unwell, and called Police. The doctor found that the elderly man had already died, apparently a few hours ago.

https://extra.globo.com/rio/casos-de-policia/noticia/2024/04/mulher-leva-morto-para-sacar-r-17-mil-em-banco-se-o-senhor-nao-assinar-nao-tem-como-disse-a-gerente.ghtml

video in X.com: https://twitter.com/AlertaMundoNews/status/1780407182187504110

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Link: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/27314684/putin-launches-new-nuclear-capable-missile/

>The "super weapon" is understood to be capable of dodging Western detection thanks to its unpredictable manoeuvres.

>The suspected advanced rocket was launched last week from the Kapustin Yar test range - leaving a bizarre smoke trail behind.

>The intercontinental missile was spotted "waltzing" across the sky from different regions in Russia and even Iran.

>Shocked witnesses have caught the unusual "pirouettes" on camera with the clips showing white smoke twirls.

>Following the testing of the mysterious weapon, Ukraine has been on a total air alert, according to a military expert.

>Colonel Viktor Baranets, Russian defence expert for Komsomolskaya Pravda, said: "Nato's intelligence agencies are beside themselves after Russia's new missile test.

>"It looked like a comet with a serpentine white tail.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/16/us/fisa-surveillance-bill-program.html

A hidden dispute over whether a data center for cloud computing must cooperate with a warrantless surveillance program prompted the House last week to add a mysterious provision to a bill extending the program, according to people familiar with the matter.

The disclosure helps clarify the intent behind an amendment that has alarmed privacy advocates as Senate leaders try to swiftly pass the bill, which would add two more years to a wiretapping law known as Section 702. The provision would add to the types of service providers that could be compelled to participate in the program, but it is written in enigmatic terms that make it hard to understand what it is supposed to permit.

Data centers are centralized warehouses of computer servers that can be accessed over the internet from anywhere in the world. In the cloud computing era, they are increasingly operated by third parties that rent out the storage space and computing power that make other companies’ online services work.

Even as national security officials described the provision as a narrow fix to a technical issue, they have declined to explain a classified court ruling from 2022 to which the provision is a response, citing the risk of tipping off foreign adversaries. Privacy advocates, for their part, have portrayed the amendment as dangerous, so broadly worded that it could be used to draft ordinary service people — like cable installers, janitors or plumbers who can gain physical access to office computer equipment — to act as spies.

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Wow, who could have predicted this? It isn't like obongo and brandon were intentionally flying muslims from the MENA to red towns/states to cause the muslims to kill everyone or anything. Remember when dems flipped out because Trump banned muslims and then king hawaii judge overturned it?
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-campaign-we-dont-want-votes-death-america-protesters-michigan

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https://www.wsj.com/us-news/murder-rates-down-new-york-san-francisco-philadelphia-508b6855
Homicides in American cities are falling at the fastest pace in decades, bringing them close to levels they were at before a pandemic-era jump.

Nationwide, homicides dropped around 20% in 133 cities from the beginning of the year through the end of March compared with the same period in 2023, according to crime-data analyst Jeff Asher, who tabulated statistics from police departments across the country.

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/boomers-bought-up-the-big-homes-now-they-re-not-budging/ar-BB1lzZC0?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=DCTS&cvid=0b85b171217441bb946162ff5aaadbbb&ei=10

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https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/13/trump-crimes-poll-voters-00152110
A majority of voters believe former President Donald Trump has committed “serious federal crimes,” according to the latest New York Times/Siena College poll.

Fifty-three percent of likely voters said they believe this, while 39 percent of those surveyed said they did not believe that Trump committed serious crimes. Nine percent said they didn’t know or didn’t answer the question.

The numbers broken down by party affiliation show that 90 percent of Democrats believe he has committed serious crimes, while 17 percent of Republicans fall in this category. Forty-nine percent of independents shared this sentiment.

The new poll comes as jury selection will begin in Trump’s New York trial on Monday, setting the stage for an unprecedented presidential race. In what will be the first time a former U.S. president has gone to criminal trial, the next couple of months will place into focus the long-anticipated clash of Trump’s legal perils with his push to win back the White House. The former president is set to hold a rally in Pennsylvania Saturday evening, the last before court will hamper his ability to be on the campaign trail.

In New York, Trump is being tried on charges that he falsified business records to cover up a hush-money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 election. He has continued to deny the charges while slamming the case as a political witch hunt.

Asked specifically about this case, 46 percent of likely voters surveyed said they believe Trump should be found guilty, while 37 percent said he should be found not guilty. Seventeen percent of voters said they didn’t know or didn’t answer the question.

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Just checked, and yup, Ukraine is still losing the war. They haven't taken shit back, they lost an additional city, and Russia destroyed Trypilska, a power plant in kyiv, one of the largest power plants in all of Europe and maybe the largest one in Ukraine
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/13/ukraine-air-defences-overwhelmed-as-russia-pounds-power-stations
Ukraine air defences overwhelmed as Russia pounds power stations
Kyiv running short of missile defence systems while US military aid dries up
Ukraine’s air defences are being overwhelmed by concentrated waves of Russian bombing aimed at its power stations, acknowledged a senior presidential adviser after the destruction of an entire plant on Thursday.

Mykhailo Podolyak said Moscow was adopting new tactics of attacking power stations with up to “10 or 12 missiles at a time”, bypassing already stretched Patriot and other missile shields.

“The system is overloaded,” Podolyak said in an interview. “Now we have to see whether we can keep the system running, whether we need more air defence systems, especially against [hypersonic] ballistic missiles, and whether we can restore the destroyed facilities.”

On Thursday, Trypilska, a coal and gas fired plant south of Kyiv, was destroyed after Russian bombing caused fire to break out in the turbine hall, according to its operator, Centrenergo.

The energy company said that while no staff were killed, it had lost 100% of its generating capacity. “The scale of destruction is terrifying,” said its chair, Andriy Gota. The attack came three weeks after the same company lost the Zmiiv power station to Russian bombing near the city of Kharkiv

People who lived near the fossil fuel plant described the site being hit by multiple missile strikes shortly before 5am on Thursday, causing a fire that took several hours to put out, leaving the main building a charred ruin overlooking a lake near the country’s central Dnipro River.

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Meanwhile Trump is still in favor of Israeli war crimes

https://www.axios.com/2024/04/14/biden-netanyahu-iran-israel-us-wont-support

President Biden told Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a call on Saturday that the U.S. will oppose any Israeli counterattack against Iran, a senior White House official told Axios.

Why it matters: Biden and his senior advisers are highly concerned an Israeli response to Iran's attack on Israel would lead to a regional war with catastrophic consequences, U.S. officials said.

>Iran launched attack drones and missiles against Israel on Saturday night local time in retaliation for an airstrike in Syria that killed a top Iranian general.
>"More than 200 drones, cruise missiles and ballistic missiles were fired from Iran," IDF spokesperson Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said. Most of the threats were intercepted outside of Israeli airspace, he said.
>A U.S. defense official earlier said U.S. forces in the region shot down Iranian-launched drones targeting Israel.

Behind the scenes: Biden told Netanyahu the joint defensive efforts by Israel, the U.S. and other countries in the region led to the failure of the Iranian attack, according to the White House official.

> "You got a win. Take the win," Biden told Netanyahu, according to the official.

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