TRUMP LIES ABOUT PRIDE MONTH SUPPORT BY HIS WHITE HOUSE AND THE GOP

President Donald Trump first Republican to recognize Pride Month
President Donald Trump is the first Republican to officially recognize LGBTQ Pride Month since it was begun by President Bill Clinton 20 years ago.

Wanda Sykes on Trump Pride Tweet: 'Everything He Does Is Just Phony,' a 'Lie'
Tuesday on ABC's "The View," comedienne Wanda Sykes commented on President Donald Trump becoming the first Republican president to acknowledge ...


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Donald Trump became the first Republican president to recognize June as Pride Month, while LGBTQ activists decry the administration's efforts to erode their ..

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Trump made history Friday, but his administration has attacked the rights of the LGBT community. 
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Last Friday, the day before the start of LGBTQ Pride month, President Trump tweeted about gay pride for the first time since running for or holding office

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President Trump is being criticized for his congratulatory statement acknowledging June as “LGBT Pride” month — the first Republican president to do so. 

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“Younger” Star Nico Tortorella Said They're Glad Donald Trump’s Pride Tweet Started A Conversation About His Anti-LGBT Policies
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RuPaul on Trump’s Pride Month tweet: 'Actions speak louder than tweets'
RuPaul “had one thing to say” about the president's call to “stand in solidarity with the many LGBT people” on Twitter: “Actions speak louder than tweets.

Joe Biden calls Trump administration 'disaster for human rights' at LGBT event
Former Vice President Joe Biden spoke to about 750 people at the annual Human Rights Campaign Columbus Dinner in Ohio Saturday night where he went ... 

Trump's Pride Tweets Explained: Be Grateful We Don't Execute You
The president acknowledged Pride season by pointing out other nations imprison and kill gays. Does that give him a pass for enshrining discrimination here? 

Federal workers plan Pride celebrations, despite Trump's anti-LGBT attacks
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WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump on May 31 became the first Republican president to voice his support for LGBT Pride Month, raising some skepticism ...
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Donald Trump is preparing for Pride month by revving up his attacks on us
Pride is just a week away, and what better way for the Trump administration to commemorate it than by unleashing a series of attacks on the LGBTQ community?

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But since becoming president, Trump and his administration have repeatedly rolled back existing protections, especially for transgender Americans.

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FOR TRUMP IT’S NOT ABOUT PRIDE IT'S ABOUT PROFITING BY BRANDING "LGBTQ FOR TRUMP" T SHIRTS AND SELLING THEM 

Advocates Shred 'LGBTQ For Trump' T-Shirt Sale Ahead Of Pride Month 
The White House may not have issued a Pride Month proclamation for two years in a row, but that hasn't stopped President Donald Trump's campaign from ...
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COLUMN: Trump pride shirt profits from LGBTQ pain 
Trump sells pride shirts despite consistently working to harm the LGBTQ community. 

Twitter Confused Over Trump Unveiling ‘LGBTQ for Trump’ T-Shirts for Pride Month
Pride Month is only days away and there will be no shortage of LGBTQ-positive apparel on display. But one particular Pride-targeted shirt sent a shockwave ... 

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President Donald Trump has released a new LGBTQ Pride t-shirt in time for Pride month – a decision that's got some Georgia LGBTQ advocates confused and ... 

The Trump Campaign's Pride T-Shirt Is An Embarrassment & Here's Why

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May 28, 2019 - LGBTQ is not a noun. But 45 seems to think that it is. Because President Donald Trump's campaign is selling a Pride t-shirt that says “LGBTQ for ...

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Trump unveils LGBTQ t-shirts for Pride Month just hours after his government proposed removal of transgender h
President Donald Trump's latest merchandise is causing a backlash in the LGBTQ community. The Republican's website has reportedly added a "Trump Pride ...

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Straight people are "oppressed," apparently. 🤔

Some dude is planning a ‘Straight Pride’ parade in Boston


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Malcolm Azania

June 5 at 4:27 PM · 

Boston has a "straight pride" parade, because of course we straight people have always had to fear that holding hands or kissing in public could get us killed; we couldn't marry straight people until recently; we never saw ourselves in popular entertainment unless it was to be mocked; we could lose our jobs, homes, and families of origin if anyone knew we were straight.

Right.

Here's how Captain America handled it:

Three straight guys in Boston are attempting to launch a Straight Pride Parade, so naturally, the internet decided to absolutely roast it. The memes were overflowing like the sea of khaki pants and cargo shorts will be on that bleak August day.

And this morning, even Captain America chimed in on the shitstorm.

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Chris Evans Just Eviscerated Boston's Straight Pride Parade

You've by now probably heard about this group of terribly insecure rightwingers - "small group of men with ties to far-right groups" - that strongly believes heterosexuals are an "oppressed majority". It applied for a licence to do a "Straight Pride March" thingy and tried to use Brad Pitt as its "face". That's right, the same Brad Pitt who has previously campaigned against Proposition 8, "the 2008 legislation that temporarily made same-sex marriage illegal again California", etc. Meanwhile, Marvel star Chris Evans tweeted: "Just a thought, instead of ‘Straight Pride’ parade, how about this: The ‘desperately trying to bury our own gay thoughts by being homophobic because no one taught us how to access our emotions as children’ parade? Whatta ya think? Too on the nose??". The group has now adopted Milo Yiannopoulos as its new face.

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'Straight pride' group removes Brad Pitt as mascot after actor complains

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Mike Pence To March In 'Straight Pride Parade' 
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When it comes to looking ahead to the 2020 presidential election, many black voters aren't focused on race, gender or who can out-progessive who. They're ...

For many black voters, 2020 isn’t about pride or making history. It’s about beating Trump

Citing the backlash to President Obama, some say America is too racist and misogynist to elect another black president or a woman. That's helping Joe Biden.

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Russian police accused of framing journalist in drugs arrest

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Russian police have been accused of framing a well-known investigative journalist after he was arrested on drug charges.

Authorities say they found illegal substances, first in a rucksack being carried by Ivan Golunov and later in his Moscow apartment.

But a lawyer for Golunov claims the drugs were planted and says his client has been beaten while in custody.

Golunov is well known for his investigative reports for the Meduza news website into corruption among Moscow officials.

"Pretty much every investigation done by Ivan Golunov hurts someone's interests,” colleague Illya Zhegulev said. “In most cases, it’s the interests of officials covering up illegal businesses, or those of security forces representatives. He is one of the best investigative journalists in the country."

Supporters protesting against the arrest were also detained. Drugs convictions can carry sentences of up to 20 years in prison.

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Meet the robot artist set for her first solo exhibition in the UK

A robot artist is set for her first solo exhibition next week that will showcase paintings and sculptures.

She’s described as the world's first ultra-realistic AI humanoid robot artist.

She can draw from sight thanks to cameras in her eyeballs and AI algorithms help produce coordinates for her arm to create art.

AI, or artificial intelligence, is computers being trained to do tasks normally done by humans.

The robot is named Ai-Da after British mathematician and computer pioneer Ada Lovelace.

Ai-Da, whose construction was completed in April, has already seen her art snapped up.

The exhibition, which opens on June 12 at the Barn Gallery at St John's College, Oxford, looks at the boundaries between technology, AI and organic life.

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Libya’s fragile economic gains thwarted by the unnecessary war ǀ View

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last updated: 06/06/2019

By Ali Abdulaziz Issawi, Minister of Economy of Libya 

Opinions expressed in View articles are solely those of the authors.

When the internationally-recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) was formed in Libya in December 2015, it was facing an enormous amount of work to restore the country’s social fabric and rebuild its devastated economic structures.

The violence that ensued since the toppling of Moammar Ghaddafi had undermined Libyan oil production, significantly damaged the country’s infrastructure and eaten into its foreign exchange reserves which had fallen from their peak of $124 billion in 2012 to $79.4 billion in 2017. As the new government scrambled to cover security expenses arising from a long, complex conflict, there was little left to support development or to re-establish growth foundations.

Despite that, the GNA produced significant, but fragile economic progress for Libya, which is now threatened by the sudden attack last month on Tripoli by the militias of accused war criminal Khalifa Haftar.

The unprovoked military aggression on 4 April against Tripoli and the western region by Haftar’s militias, however, has halted the government’s reform program and created a dangerous setting for a protracted resource war that could lead to full-scale economic devastation.Ali Abdulaziz Issawi 
Minister of Economy of Libya

At the time I was appointed as Minister of Economy last October, the country’s outlook – an OPEC member with the largest proven oil reserves in Africa – was at best uncertain. Libya’s state institutions were weak and conflict-enabled profiteering from state resources was common across the country. Inflation had escalated to 32.8 per cent in 2018, and public debt had reached its highest level of LYD 63bn (USD 45bn) in December 2018.

It was abundantly clear that for there to be any hope of a political and security resolution, it would need to coincide with meaningful economic progress across Libya that would provide alternative livelihoods for the many armed Libyan youth across the country.

In September 2018 the GNA’s Presidential Council and Libya’s Central Bank took several immediate – and difficult – steps to correct the economy’s ills and steer it towards growth.

Chief among them was imposing a 183% fee on hard currency transactions in September 2018 that effectively devalued the Libyan dinar, closing a gap between the official and black-market exchange rates. This opened access to foreign currency to a wider range of market participants while making life difficult for nefarious actors who had exploited the rate discrepancy for their own gains. In addition to taming inflation, the move generated additional revenues to the state budget of USD 12bn, an amount which is expected to nearly double by the end of 2019.

The government also restructured and strengthened several key state institutions, including the Ministry of the Economy and Commerce, to ensure they are better equipped for the implementation of economic and fiscal reforms. We established a supportive framework to incentivize the development of the private sector and the creation of public-private partnerships – with the primary goal of encouraging diversification of the Libyan economy and attracting investment to its infrastructure sector. Meanwhile, the government initiated the creation of the Libyan Competition and Antimonopoly Council to ensure fair competition and equal opportunities in the Libyan market.

By early 2019, the GNA’s new economic policy was at last showing encouraging results. Supportive of the government’s reform drive were the relative stability and improved security in the second half of 2018 that led to a long-awaited increase in oil output. Production levels exceeded 1 million barrels per day by the end of 2018 and reached 1.2 million barrels in March of this year. We were on track to achieve projected GDP growth of 7.2 per cent in 2019.

The unprovoked military aggression on 4 April against Tripoli and the western region by Haftar’s militias, however, has halted the government’s reform program and created a dangerous setting for a protracted resource war that could lead to full-scale economic devastation.

This sudden freeze on Libya’s fragile economic progress should be alarming for the international community that needs a stable Libya for several reasons, oil being one of them. European refineries are heavily dependent on Libyan crude, foreign states have vast economic interests in our country’s oil industry, and a disruption to Libya’s output can quickly and negatively affect prices for consumers around the globe. Reckless actions such as militarization of airports and oil ports put at immediate risk Libya’s oil production – a major contributor to the OPEC output.

The economic destruction does not only impact the global system; oil revenues provide a critical lifeline for the people of Libya. Haftar’s aggression has already caused significant material losses placing additional pressure on the Libyan budget and disrupting supply routes of necessary goods to the country.

Most importantly, the strikes are claiming lives of innocent Libyan civilians – with casualties standing above 500 and the number of wounded and injured exceeding 2,000. It’s a welcome development to see the International Criminal Court stepping in and members of the U.S. House of Representatives calling on their Justice Department to investigate Haftar’s crimes.

In time, large natural resources and vast investment opportunities will help fund Libya’s democratic transition and economic recovery, opening the country to foreign direct investment and private sector engagement. The initial groundwork for this has already been laid out.

But for now, putting an immediate stop to the Haftar’s bloody and reckless coup attempt is the most urgent, necessary course of action for all of Libya’s domestic and international stakeholders.

REUTERS/Hani Amara

Ali Abdulaziz Issawi is Minister of Economy of Libya.

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Huge protests in Prague demand resignation of Czech PM Andrej Babiš

By Joao Vitor Da Silva Marques  • last updated: 05/06/2019

Organisers say up to 120,000 people have protested in the Czech capital Prague calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Andrej Babis.

The protest is one of the biggest seen in the country since the fall of communism in 1989.

Babis is accused of the fraudulent use of EU subsidies. He has denied any wrongdoing and has attacked a recent European Commission audit that leaked to the media last week.

In preliminary findings, the audit determined that his Agrofert group should not have had access to European Union development funds in recent years because of conflicts of interest.

Protesters held up pictures of Babis with the simple message ’resign’ and speakers addressed the crowds in front of a backdrop reading ’prime minister or crime minister?’

The group called "Million Moments for Democracy" has been staging rallies every week since the end of April, with an estimated 50,000 people joining a protest in Prague's Wenceslas Square two weeks ago.

The organisers said yesterday's protest had more than doubled that number.

The director of Transparency International in the Czech Republic, David Ondracka, has urged people not to give up: "Let's make a revolution out of Babis, get rid of him, ask for his resignation because enough is enough!"

Babis is the country's second richest individual and he denies fraud. He has attacked a recent draft EU report demanding the return of over 17 million Euros in subsidies.

Prime Minister Babis came to power in 2017 at the head of the populist ANO (Yes) party. He campaigned on an anti-corruption and Eurosceptic platform, forming a minority government with the left-wing Social Democrats. Despite the demonstrations to oust him, his ANO (Yes) party came first in last month’s EU elections month, with 21.2% of the vote.

Watch Good Morning Europe’s report on the Czech Republic protests in the player below.