54 lions killed in two days: Horror find at South African farm. Dead lions, some skinned and others waiting to be skinned, littered the blood-stained floor. A pile of innards and skeletons lay elsewhere inside, while discarded internal body parts were piled high in overflowing black plastic bags on a trailer outside. Photographs taken by investigators showed a squalid scene of gore. Many are too horrific to be shown. "It was shocking," Meyer said. "We couldn't believe what was happening. You could smell the blood. The lions got shot in the camp and then were all brought into this one room. The flies were terrible. "For me, a lion is a stately animal, a kingly animal. Here he is butchered for people just to make money, it's absolutely disgusting." About 200 yards from the abattoir, two lions were housed in steel transport crates that were too small for them to stand up or turn around in. Meyer said they had been left in the crates without food or water for three days. She initially thought that one of them was dead because it was not moving. "The lion was so depressed that it did not move at all. It was totally disgusting that they were kept like this. "A lion is a wild animal, it wants its freedom but now it's kept in a small cage for three days. It's absolutely deplorable." A total of 54 lions had been killed at the farm in just two days. They were first shot with tranquiliser darts before being shot dead with a .22-calibre rifle. It is understood the bullets were shot through the ear and directly into the brains because overseas buyers will not pay for damaged skulls. Some of the lions are believed to have been trucked about 400km to the farm from a "safari park" near Johannesburg. Remarkably, the workers at Wag-'n-Bietjie are allowed to kill lions. The site, owned by lion breeder Andre Steyn, is one of a series of licensed lion slaughterhouses in South Africa which supply the huge demand for lion bones from South East Asia. South Africa allows 800 captive-bred lion skeletons to be exported each year, but campaigners believe many more are illegally slaughtered to feed the disgusting, but lucrative, trade.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12226287
Permafrost collapse is accelerating carbon release
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01313-4
Schiff says House will make a criminal referral of Trump ally Erik Prince for possible perjury
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/schiff-says-house-will-make-a-criminal-referral-of-trump-ally-erik-prince-for-possible-perjury/2019/04/30/fca8a4de-6b49-11e9-a66d-a82d3f3d96d5_story.html
Rep. Al Green vows to force House vote to impeach Trump as president refuses to comply with Congress
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/rep-al-green-vows-to-force-house-vote-to-impeach-trump-as-president-refuses-to-comply-with-congress/2019/04/30/a2f99092-6b53-11e9-be3a-33217240a539_story.html
Trump Campaign owes City of El Paso more than $470,000 for February rally
https://www.kvia.com/news/el-paso/trump-campaign-owes-city-of-el-paso-more-than-470-000-for-february-rally/1073664103
Trump Enters His Comfort Zone: Suing the Hell Out of Everyone | The president has now filed multiple lawsuits to prevent congressional Democrats from conducting their oversight duties. Impeachment may be the only answer
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-suing-lawsuits-impeachment-829000/
Biden says Congress will have ‘no alternative’ but to impeach Trump if he blocks its investigations
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/biden-says-congress-will-have-no-alternative-but-to-impeach-trump-if-he-blocks-its-investigations/2019/04/30/ef46291c-6b2e-11e9-a66d-a82d3f3d96d5_story.html
Betsy DeVos' Brother, Erik Prince: Billionaire Blackwater Founder Wants His Mercenaries in Venezuela to Topple Maduro
https://www.newsweek.com/venezuela-erik-prince-blackwater-mercenaries-us-invasion-nicolas-maduro-juan-1409519
Anti-Semitic Assaults Doubled In The U.S. In 2018
https://www.axios.com/anti-semitic-assaults-rise-adl-report-finds-d5cae06b-ca95-41e8-9672-78d28b0abfff.html
Guaidó says 'final phase' of plan to oust Maduro has begun
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/30/venezuelas-guiado-says-final-phase-of-plan-to-oust-maduro-has-begun
Venezuela's opposition leader Juan Guaidó takes to streets with armed soldiers
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/venezuela-s-opposition-leader-juan-guaido-calls-military-uprising-n999966
Venezuela's opposition exchanges gunfire with regime soldiers after declaring a military coup to force out president Nicolas Maduro
https://www.businessinsider.com/venezuela-guiado-declares-military-coup-to-out-nicolas-maduro-2019-4
Vodafone Found Hidden Backdoors in Huawei EquipmentThis report has been denied by Vodafone
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-30/vodafone-found-hidden-backdoors-in-huawei-equipment-jv3fmbrc
Beto O’Rourke moves to establish himself as a climate candidate in a crowded field - Unlike the Green New Deal resolution, O’Rourke’s proposal also touts legal accountability for polluters — which could mean that companies like Exxon might face repercussions
https://thinkprogress.org/beto-orourke-2020-elizabeth-warren-green-new-deal-5b2558fd1ef4/
Scientists in Chile have found a 15,000-year-old footprint, the earliest sign of humans' presence in the Americas
https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/chile-15000-year-old-footprint-trnd/index.html
Pakistani senate to vote on law to make minimum age of marriage set to 18 years old
https://www.dawn.com/news/1479198/senate-sees-off-religious-parties-opposition-to-pass-bill-against-child-marriage
1800 Workers Trapped in Platinum Mine - South Africa
https://www.fin24.com/Companies/Mining/sibanye-says-1-800-workers-trapped-underground-20190430
Toxic algae blooms in Lake Erie are caused by animal agriculture. For anyone saying vegans don’t care about humans, this is an example of animal farming directly harming humans by causing water to be unsafe to consume or shower with.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwhcrpJTzGQ&feature=share
Beto O'Rourke is the only Democrat talking about the US' history with Latin America and how we need to stop ignoring our neighbors.
https://i.redd.it/7cv130bti9v21.jpg
In what researchers call a "catastrophic breeding failure," a new study says the world's second largest emperor penguin colony, at Antarctica's Halley Bay in the Weddell Sea, has seen virtually no births since 2016 and is on the brink of collapse
https://www.commondreams.org/further/2019/04/25/emperors-thin-ice
About 13m US children are living below the poverty line, rights group reveals. Children’s Defense Fund says doubling federal minimum wage and increased tax credits would cut ‘moral travesty’ of child poverty
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2019/apr/30/us-children-poverty-childrens-defense-fund-report
Elizabeth Warren says she warned about the financial crisis before it happened. That's True
https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2019/apr/30/elizabeth-warren/elizabeth-warren-says-she-warned-about-financial-c/
LOL....Mike Tomlin on the departures of Antonio Brown and Le'Veon Bell: "There's been a cleansing, if you will." https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2019/04/28/mike-tomlin-refers-to-antonio-brown-leveon-bell-departures-as-a-cleansing/
In 2002, Trump’s Fed pick Stephen Moore called for banning women from March Madness. "Is there no area in life where men can take vacation from women? What's next? Women invited to bachelor parties? Women in combat? (Oh yeah, they've done that already.)"
https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/22/politics/stephen-moore-federal-reserve-kfile/
DC prosecutors have subpoenaed Randy Credico to testify against Roger Stone at his trial. First sign that they consider him to be credible & helpful to their case. (Recall: Stone threatened to take Credico's dog and told him to "prepare to die")
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/30/roger-stone-randy-credico-subpoena-1294231
I'm Dying From ALS and Here's My Message: No More Half Measures. Only Medicare for All.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/04/30/im-dying-als-and-heres-my-message-no-more-half-measures-only-medicare-all
Iran designates as terrorists all U.S. troops in Middle East
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-iran-rouhani-idUSKCN1S61GB
Trump Says U.S. Has Begun Sending Migrants to Sanctuary Cities
https://ktla.com/2019/04/27/president-trump-says-u-s-has-begun-sending-migrants-to-sanctuary-cities/
House Intelligence Committee Sends Criminal Referral on Erik Prince to DOJ. Today, the House Permanent Select on Intelligence formally referred Erik Prince to the Department of Justice for consideration of a potential criminal prosecution for false testimony that Prince provided to the Committee in 2017 as part of its investigation into Russian interference in the U.S. political process. The report of the Special Counsel strongly indicates that Prince’s testimony before the Committee was materially false. The committee has identified at least six categories of materially false statements that Mr. Prince made during his testimony about his January 11, 2017 meeting in the Seychelles with Kirill Dmitriev, the chief executive officer of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, as well as a subsequent meeting about Libya that Prince never mentioned to the Committee.
https://intelligence.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=630
Judge Refuses To Toss Congressional Dems’ Emoluments Suit Against Trump
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/judge-refuses-to-toss-dems-emoluments-suit-against-trump
Trump Organization under investigation for not paying undocumented workers
https://www.axios.com/trump-organization-undocumented-workers-new-york-investigation-e26d7239-ef1b-4439-8be0-fc569524ed80.html
Military truck runs over protesters in Venezuela amid political unrest
https://globalnews.ca/news/5221102/venezuela-protest-military-truck-crowd/
The amount of anti-semitism in the UK, indeed Europe as a whole, is staggering. Jeremy Corbyn endorsed book about Jews controlling banks and the press
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/corbyn-endorsed-book-about-jews-controlling-banks-and-the-press-x6nd73jrq
Company at heart of 97,000% drug price hike bribed doctors to boost sales. Two whistleblowers at a pharmaceutical company responsible for one of the largest drug price increases in US history said the company bribed doctors and their staffs to increase sales, according to newly unsealed documents in federal court. The effort, the whistleblowers said in a lawsuit against the company, was part of an intentional "multi-tiered strategy" by Questcor Pharmaceuticals, now Mallinckrodt, to boost sales of H.P. Acthar Gel, cheating the government out of millions of dollars. The price of the drug, best known for treating a rare infant seizure disorder, has increased almost 97,000%, from $40 a vial in 2000 to nearly $39,000 today.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/30/health/mallinckrodt-whistleblower-lawsuit-acthar/index.html
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/29/health/acthar-mallinckrodt-questcor-price-hike-trevor-foltz/index.html
In midst of apology for one anti-Semitic cartoon, ‘New York Times’ publishes yet another
https://www.jns.org/in-midst-of-apology-for-one-anti-semitic-cartoon-new-york-times-publishes-another/
"His lawsuits aren’t doing any good" says Maxine Waters of Trump’s efforts to halt her investigation
https://www.newsweek.com/maxine-waters-trump-lawsuit-wont-stop-probe-1410032
Study draws incredible link between school bus exhaust and student test scores. The study, which was published in Economics of Education Review, compared the standardized test scores of students from a number of school districts across Georgia. The surprising data showed that school districts that had invested in retrofitting school buses with emissions-reducing systems had higher test scores than those which did not.
https://news.yahoo.com/study-draws-incredible-between-school-020520551.html
Los Angeles Launches Its Own Green New Deal
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/los-angeles-green-new-deal_n_5cc7b434e4b053791149cd46
'Stop What You’re Doing and Watch': Applause and Gratitude for Ady Barkan's Emotional Medicare for All Testimony | "I cannot think of a better person to highlight the failings of our health care system and what we must do to provide health care for all."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/04/30/stop-what-youre-doing-and-watch-applause-and-gratitude-ady-barkans-emotional
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