terça-feira, 29 de abril de 2025

Lojas de "souvenirs" indostânicas são fachadas para lavagem de dinheiro

 

«O Repórter Sábado noticiou recentemente vários casos de imigrantes oriundos do Bangladesh, Índia, Paquistão e Nepal que estariam a utilizar lojas de souvenirs como fachada para a realização de negócios ilícitos, incluindo a lavagem de dinheiro. 
A denúncia foi feita pelo líder da comunidade, Rana Taslim Uddin, que revelou que já havia alertado as autoridades sobre estas práticas desde a época em que António Costa era Presidente da Câmara Municipal de Lisboa.
 
O líder comunitário afirmou, em declarações ao NOW, que já na altura tinha feito denúncias sobre actividades suspeitas relacionadas com diversas lojas, alegando que estas serviam como uma cobertura para práticas ilegais, incluindo a lavagem de dinheiro.
 
A denúncia sobre estas práticas não é algo recente. O representante da comunidade explicou que, durante a presidência de António Costa na Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, já tinham alertado sobre o número crescente de casos semelhantes, destacando a falta de controlo sobre estas actividades.
 
"Isto não foi um dia. Esta situação da comunidade do subcontinente da Índia já ocorre há anos e anos sem o devido controlo", disse.»
Lojas de recordações da Baixa que praticamente não têm clientes, mas pagam rendas na ordem dos 15 mil euros mensais… Carlos Moedas - justiça lhe seja feita - bem se tem queixado, mas as autoridades competentes nada fazem

segunda-feira, 28 de abril de 2025

Trump golf club to host speaker who markets bleach as health treatment


 

Donald Trump’s private golf resort in South Florida will next week host one of the world’s leading purveyors of chlorine dioxide, a potentially life-threatening form of industrial bleach that is claimed without evidence to be a cure for cancer, Covid and autism.

Andreas Kalcker is among 50 listed speakers at the “Truth Seekers Conference”, a two-day event opening on Thursday at the US president’s resort, Trump National Doral Miami. The event features several anti-vaxxers and other conspiracy theorists who have been brought together by the far-right commentator Charlie Ward.

Kalcker, a German national thought to be living in Switzerland, markets the bleach under the brand name “CDS”, for chlorine dioxide solution. His online brochures claim that the toxic chemical, which he admits is a disinfectant, can “eliminate pathogens” that cause disease.

He boasts it is “possibly the greatest medical discovery of the last 100 years”.

Government health authorities in the US and Spain have denounced the remedy as fraudulent, saying it is no different from drinking bleach. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has warned that it can cause serious and even life-threatening side-effects, including dehydration, diarrhoea and kidney injury.

Kalcker’s appearance at Thursday’s conference is the latest indication that potentially dangerous alternative health approaches are being emboldened and are proliferating during Trump’s second term in the White House. The US president’s choice of the prominent vaccine skeptic, Robert Kennedy Jr, to head the Department of Health and Human Services has spread alarm through medical circles.

Kennedy, who until 2023 led the anti-vaccine group Children’s Health Defense, has talked about treating the current measles outbreak in Texas with cod liver oil. He also praised without any evidence two doctors in Texas whom he claimed had “healed” 300 children with measles using the inhaled steroid budesonide.

At his confirmation hearings for the health secretary job, Kennedy directly mentioned chlorine dioxide. He praised Trump’s handling of pandemic, saying the president had not only speeded up the search for a Covid vaccine but had looked at “all of the different remedies including … even chlorine dioxide”

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Atlantic Writer Speculates Elon Musk Could Have ‘100 or More’ Children: ‘Definitely More Than 14'

 

Elon Musk is known to have at least 14 children, but the real number could be much higher than that, The Atlantic’s Elizabeth Bruenig told Alisyn Camerota and Dave Briggs on the “Sanity” podcast in an interview shared Friday.

“I believe he has 14 known children, but people who spoke to the Wall Street Journal for their exposé on his childbearing habits suggested the number is much higher,” she said. “I have heard people estimate [it] at 100 or more.” Bruenig is the author of the piece “The Harem of Elon Musk.”

“That would surprise me, but it’s definitely higher than 14,” Bruenig continued. “And so far, I think there are four women he’s had children with. Let’s see. Possibly five with the addition of Ashley St. Clair, but I think it’s four.”

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domingo, 27 de abril de 2025

Imigrantes comem e dormem à conta do Estado

 


Reporters’ phone records could again be searched, Justice Dept. says

 

Attorney General Pam Bondi rescinded a Biden-era policy that prevented officials from using such tactics in leak investigations.

The Justice Department on Friday rescinded a Biden-era policy that prevented officials from searching reporters’ phone records when trying to identify government personnel who have leaked sensitive information to news organizations.

Attorney General Pam Bondi said in an internal memo that the media should not be afforded such protections, noting leaks of government information during the Trump administration.

“This conduct is illegal and wrong and it must stop,” she wrote in the memo, a copy of which was obtained by The Washington Post.

The attorney general said she supports an independent and free press and stated that the Justice Department would search reporters’ communication records only when other investigative methods had been exhausted. Bondi said she must approve all attempts to question or arrest journalists.

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In reversal, US Justice Department says media records can be seized in leak probes

 

WASHINGTON, April 25 (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department under President Donald Trump made it easier for prosecutors investigating leaks to the news media to subpoena records and testimony from journalists, according to a memo seen by Reuters on Friday that reversed a Biden-era policy.
New regulations detailed in the Friday memo will allow prosecutors in criminal investigations to use subpoenas, court orders and search warrants to compel "production of information and testimony by and relating to members of the news media," the memo stated.
 
“Safeguarding classified, privileged and other sensitive information is essential to effective governance and law enforcement,” Attorney General Pam Bondi wrote in the memo. A source familiar with the matter said the policy took effect immediately.
The Justice Department and White House did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The directive reverses a policy the department implemented during Democratic President Joe Biden's administration. That barred prosecutors from seizing reporters’ phone and email records in most circumstances.
 
The Biden administration's policy followed criticism of the Justice Department for secretly subpoenaing records on reporters and congressional staff members as prosecutors pursued leaks of national security information during Trump’s first term from 2017 to 2021.
 
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