Senior Obama Aide Charged with Child Sex Offences in British Court
One of Barack Obama’s senior policy advisors has appeared in a British court to face child-sex charges. Rahamim “Ramy” Shy, 46, is accused of arranging the commission of a child-sex offence and possessing multiple indecent images of children.
Rahamim, an American citizen, was arrested by Bedfordshire Police at the end of February. He was charged the next day. So far, he has not been asked to enter a plea for any of the charges, and has been remanded in custody in advance of a further hearing in June. The trial is set for August.
JUST IN: President Barack Obama’s former senior policy advisor Rahamim Shy has been charged with child s*x offenses.
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) April 21, 2024
Shy worked under the Obama Administration and helped on the U.S.’s strategy to combat terrorists from Al Qaeda and the Taliban.
According to the Daily Mail, Shy… pic.twitter.com/zju4WuyakD
Shy helped coordinate the US government’s terrorism strategy, including its response to Al-Qaeda and the Taliban. He served under President Barack Obama and secretary of state Hillary Clinton. He was deployed briefly to Afghanistan and provided guidance for the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force, as well as working within the Treasury Department to target sources of terrorist funding.
Since leaving the White House, Shy moved into the corporate world. Most recently, he was working at Citi Bank, as Deputy Global Head of Enterprise Issue Management. Representatives of Citi told Mail Online that Shy no longer works for them. His LinkedIn page appears to have been removed.
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“Lightweights and Fakes”: Trump Blasts Supposed Insiders Who “Have Virtually No Knowledge of Me”
Donald Trump gave powerful vent to his feelings about men like Miles Taylor in a post on his social-media platform Truth Social last night. Kelly, who worked in Trump’s Department of Homeland Security, published an anonymous missive in 2018 for the New York Times claiming to be “part of the resistance inside the Trump administration.” He has since published two books warning about Trump.
“So many lightweights and fakes go on MSNBC & CNN, along with other ratings challenged networks and platforms, purporting to know me as though they were a long lost relative, only to have virtually no knowledge of me, or anything about me,” the former president posted.
“A weak and pathetic RINO named Miles Taylor, who worked with one of the dumber Generals around, John Kelly, speaks as though he has intimate knowledge of everything Trump. Other than seeing him on TV, I have no idea, from the Administration days, who the hell he is. I assume a con man because he gets paid for talking about a subject he knows nothing about, ME. But that doesn’t matter to NBC, to me one of the worst news organizations in the world.
“There are many other of these phonies as well, and I’ll let you all know who they are as soon as I get a chance. TRUTH!”
Taylor has resurfaced in recent weeks to promote a new paperback edition of his second book Blowback, which first came out last year. In the book, Taylor warns that a second Trump administration will be far more competent and aggressive than the first.
A week ago, Taylor gave an interview to Salon Magazine and claimed that all of the predictions he made in the book are coming true.
“I wish I had been wrong, but Donald Trump has borne out my predictions. Since the publication of Blowback, he has let slip his true intentions again and again,” Taylor said.
He went on to list every instance of his predictions being right.
“Trump admitted he wanted to use the Justice Department against his enemies if re-elected, saying the ‘genie’ had already been let ‘out of the box.’ He admitted he would purge civil servants en masse, vowing ‘retribution’ to ‘destroy the deep state” by ‘firing all of the corrupt actors in our National Security and Intelligence apparatus.’ He admitted he would reinstate policies like the so-called travel ban to the United States that would be ‘even bigger than before.’ He hinted that he would seek to deploy the military on U.S. soil to enforce his edicts… He even admitted he would govern like a dictator, at least on ‘Day One.’
Miles Taylor: Trump is a failed businessman. All of the characteristics that made him a failed businessman, he took into The White House and in a lot of ways, he made the government his largest failed venture yet. He rendered so many departments and agencies effectively incapable… pic.twitter.com/wIYrjdEm27
— Acyn (@Acyn) April 22, 2024
In a recent podcast appearance he claimed that Trump is a “failed businessman.”
“All of the characteristics that made him a failed businessman, he took into The White House and in a lot of ways, he made the government his largest failed venture yet.”
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Americans Betrayed: Congress Clears Path To WWIII With Massive Aid Package, NOTHING for Border — Sunday Night Live
Chase Geiser breaks down the latest betrayal by Congress in passing a $95 billion financial aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan while leaving nothing for funding border security measures. Tune in!
?#InfowarsSNL: Americans Betrayed: Congress Clears Path To WWIII With Massive Aid Package, NOTHING for Border — Sunday Night Live
TUNE IN! https://t.co/xhQDi7AKii— INFOWARS (@infowars) April 21, 2024
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Why Israel is Risking a Dramatic Escalation with Iran
On April 1, Israel bombed and ultimately destroyed the Iranian consulate annex building situated next to the Iranian Embassy in Damascus, Syria. The strike, which killed seven military officials, was widely condemned by the international community as a clear violation of Syria’s sovereignty, as well as of the Vienna Convention and the established norms of international relations.
A cursory look through history shows that state actors have virtually never attacked the diplomatic missions of other states, except during periods of total war. The most relevant and recent example is when the US bombed the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade, today’s Serbia, in 1999, which it claimed was an accident. Though, to be sure, Beijing did not believe this was the case despite apologies from the administration of President Bill Clinton.
Such a situation is totally unacceptable and sets a horrible precedent for international relations. Israel, as well as countries like the US, do not have the right to exercise military actions in Syria without the express consent of the UN-recognized government of Syria. Doing so is a blatant violation of the UN Charter.
In addition to violating the UN Charter, the attack on the Iranian consulate is a clear violation of the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations and the 1963 Vienna Convention on Consular Relations.
It is a bold gambit for the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to have resorted to such an escalation. It begs the question, why did Israel do this?
According to the New York Times, one of the strikes killed General Mohammad Reza Zahedi, who was believed to have been in charge of Tehran’s relations with Hezbollah in Lebanon and other non-state groups in Syria, having served extensively across the Middle East during his tenure.
Perhaps the most simple explanation for the attack could be that it was meant to stifle the logistical operations of the “Axis of Resistance” and any potential attack against Israel by a united front.
At the same time, it is probably far more complicated and could do with the fact that the current US policy of carte blanche for Israel will almost certainly not survive until the end of this decade. For military leaders in Israel, now could be the only time to act in what could potentially be an existential war.
Public opinion has plummeted in the West for Israel and its ongoing atrocities in Gaza, but it did not begin there. In 2021, during weeks of fighting in Gaza that year, for the first time ever, members of the US Congress went on the record to criticize Israel. The following year, mainstream human rights organizations like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch published scathing reports accusing Israel of apartheid.
In the middle of last month, the administration of President Joe Biden abstained from a vote on a UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. Biden also personally told Netanyahu on April 4 that he had to change his approach to the unfolding humanitarian disaster in Gaza. Despite these actions, the US has maintained that the UNSC resolution is non-binding and is still providing arms for Israel’s war effort, effectively making any words or abstentions moot.
Even if US support may be shakier than in the past, it is clear that Washington is still nominally on the side of the Jewish state – at least for now. Thus, it could be seen that the stakes for Israel are extremely high.
Finally, an undeniable factor is that the current Israeli government’s survival is the primary driving force behind this attack. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, the most senior Jewish elected official in Washington, on March 14 called out Prime Minister Netanyahu personally in a speech to the Senate.
He accused the leader of “allowing his political survival to take precedence over the best interests of Israel.” The senator called for new elections, adding that Israel “cannot hope to succeed as a pariah opposed by the rest of the world.”
Israel, the most well-equipped military in the Middle East, is in a state of total war with a guerilla group, Hamas, that is comparatively fighting with sticks and rocks. The fact that it has not yet achieved its objective of eradicating Hamas and freeing the hostages it took on October 7 last year is extraordinarily embarrassing for the Netanyahu government. Additionally, the near-unified international backlash against Israel for its military actions in Gaza has the made situation unsustainable – though retreat would also mean political suicide for the Likud Party.
It is clear that the Israeli prime minister needs an out. An obvious route would be to provoke the Iranian government into a major escalation, diverting international attention away from Israel’s crimes in Gaza and instead forcing Washington and its allies to rally behind the Jewish state in apparent self-defense. Interestingly, Biden seemed to create space for such a strategy during his latest call with Netanyahu when he also added that the US would defend against “public Iranian threats against Israel and the Israeli people.” For its part, Israel has warned Iran it could take things to a “new level” if it retaliated for the airstrike in Damascus.
Judging by the reaction from within Iran, evident by official statements and reports from the state media, it is clear that major sectors of civil and elite society in Tehran are demanding reprisal for this attack. According to anonymous Western intelligence reports cited by media outlets Bloomberg, such an attack is very likely.
But it is also likely that this is precisely what the Israeli government wants to happen, hoping that a kneejerk need for revenge – in addition to the emotions stirred by the situation in Gaza – could force a strategic misstep by the Iranian government, allowing Israel to make a last-ditch effort to secure US support for its military effort and also ensure Netanyahu’s political survival.
Video: Newsom Releases Campaign Ad Showing Women Seeking Abortion as Criminals on the Run
A campaign ad released by California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) depicts a pair of women trying to outrun the police to get an abortion out of state.
“Alabama’s abortion ban has no exceptions for rape or incest. Now, Republicans are trying to criminalize young women’s travel to receive abortion care. We cannot let them get away with this,” Newsom posted on X Sunday with the video.
Alabama’s abortion ban has no exceptions for rape or incest.
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) April 21, 2024
Now, Republicans are trying to criminalize young women’s travel to receive abortion care.
We cannot let them get away with this. pic.twitter.com/gHbYJYlEXk
The campaign ad created by Newsom’s Campaign for Democracy PAC shows the women engaged in a high-speed police chase trying to get an abortion in a neighboring state.
Once pulled over, the officer demands the driver take a pregnancy test.
Talk about delusional.
The over-the-top melodramatic propaganda was roundly mocked on X.
“If we don’t kill this baby right away, people could die!!”
— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) April 21, 2024
This could be an SNL skit. ?♀️
— AnnaV (@perchance99) April 21, 2024
What’s really sad and scary is that a lot of people will believe this is literally true. Abortion laws target providers, not patients. ??♀️
— Kim “filterless” Wexler MA JD (@KimWexlerMAJD) April 21, 2024
I think Gavin should turn it into an ad for California: America’s Most Stylish Abortion Destination. No stress, no police. Just a calm, beachy time.
— Kim Hendrix (@kimdhendrix) April 21, 2024
This is unhinged even for you.
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) April 21, 2024
So I should believe that a cop will pull someone over and ask them to take a pregnancy test? ??
— Brianna Price??? (@briprice661) April 21, 2024
This is total propaganda
— Max Bonilla (@outragedteen_) April 21, 2024
Hollywood fearporn production… nowhere in America are state troopers chasing women with pregnancy tests. Do better.
— Milenka~ (@MilenaAmit) April 21, 2024
Imagine projecting that a cop will pull, then force someone to take a pregnancy test or that every woman traveling just so happens to be heading to their neighboring state to murd*r their baby. ?️ propaganda from a ?️ governor. Fix our state, you bum.
— Liberacrat Media™️ (@Liberacrat_) April 21, 2024
Alabama has prohibited abortion at all stages of pregnancy with almost no exceptions after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade. The only current exemptions on the ban in the state are those for pregnancies that threaten the life of the pregnant mother.
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall (R) said last year the state could investigate potential conspiracy or accessory charges for groups that openly fund or promote out-of-state abortions, a far cry from criminalizing women who themselves travel outside the state for an abortion.
Sunday Live Broadcast: Congress Secures $95.3 Billion For Ukraine & Israel, Zero For Collapsed Border — Must-Watch Alex Jones Show!
Alex Jones breaks down Congress’ betrayal of the American people by passing yet another foreign aid monstrosity for Ukraine and Israel to clear a path for World War III. Jackson Hinkle will also join the show in-studio to discuss the latest developments in the Middle East and what comes next. Alex will also cover the ridiculous controversy where many people are criticizing him for saying Hitler was bad on his birthday. Do you agree? Sound off with poll below. Tune in!
#AlexJonesShow Sunday LIVE Broadcast: Congress Secures $95.3 Billion For Ukraine & Israel, Zero For Collapsed Border
— Must-Watchhttps://t.co/S8hZZBuYmR— Alex Jones (@RealAlexJones) April 21, 2024
Let’s settle this once and for all.
— UBERSOY (@UBERSOY1) April 21, 2024
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