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San Francisco wants to build 12,000 new homes on a former nuclear test site — but the project is in turmoil after the Navy found evidence of a botched cleanup
Link: http://www.businessinsider.com/san-francisco-shipyard-new-evidence-of-botched-cleanup-2018-1
The San Francisco Shipyard, a mixed-use development rising on the site of a former nuclear testing facility, is in limbo amid new allegations.
The Navy has found evidence that a government contractor hired to clean radioactive contamination from the area botched the cleanup.
Almost half of the cleanup work was later showed to be falsified or "suspect." Workers swapped soil samples from contaminated sites with clean ones.
Hacked Japanese cryptocurrency exchange to repay affected users $425 million
Link: https://www.rt.com/business/417198-coincheck-exchange-hack-reparations/
The losses of 260,000 customers of Coincheck, deprived of their money in what appears the to be the biggest crypto heist in history, will be repaid over $425 million. Even that sum does not cover all the damages.
The Japanese cryptocurrency exchange platform Coincheck suspended trading and withdrawals on Friday, as hackers had stolen more than 500 million NEM worth up to ¥58 billion ($532 million). As the news broke the token price plunged more than 15 percent from the day’s high of around $1.02, down to $0.85.
x-Brazil Head Lula Banned from Travelling Abroad Amid Bribery Scandal - Reports
Link: https://sputniknews.com/latam/201801261061084360-lula-brazil-no-travelling/
Brazil's ex-President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was barred Thursday from leaving the country after an appeals court upheld his corruption conviction, the Globo television network said.
Lula denied on Wednesday receiving a seafront apartment from a construction company in exchange for bribes after three judges increased his jail term from 9.5 years to 12 years and a month.
The Brazilian Workers’ Party (PT) said it would still nominate Lula, who was president from 2003 to 2011, to run in next year’s election despite his confirmed conviction.
Billions of pieces of plastic on coral reefs send disease soaring, research reveals
Scientists examined 125,000 corals across the Asia-Pacific region, home to half the world’s reefs, and found 89% of those fouled by plastic were suffering disease. On plastic-free reefs, 4% of the corals were diseased.
The work is highly significant because it is the first to examine the impact of plastic on disease in any marine organism and also the first to produce a large-scale estimate of how much plastic pollutes the sea floor.
At least 8 million tonnes of plastic are dumped in the ocean every year. Microplastics, formed when plastics are broken up, can be mistaken for food by sea creatures.
CryptoRuble introduced as legal tender in draft bill submitted to Russian parliament
Link: https://www.rt.com/business-projects/417001-cryptocurrency-russia-law-ruble/
A draft law introducing the national cryptocurrency CryptoRuble as an official means of payment in Russia has been submitted to parliament.
“The amendments proposed by the draft law ... codify the digital financial asset as a legal means of payment on the territory of Russia,” the document’s explanatory note reads.
Negotiate or lose ‘hundreds of millions’ in aid, Trump tells ‘disrespectful’ Palestinians
Link: https://www.rt.com/usa/417005-trump-palestinians-aid-jerusalem/
“When they disrespected us a week ago by not allowing our great vice president to see them, and we give them hundreds of millions of dollars in aid and support, tremendous numbers, numbers that nobody understands – that money is on the table and that money is not going to them unless they sit down and negotiate peace," Trump said.
“And they [Palestinians] are going to have to want to make peace too, or we’re going to have nothing to do with it any longer,” he added.
Putin calls for development of digital economy within Eurasian Economic Union
Link: https://www.rt.com/business/416293-putin-digital-economy-eeu/
The Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) has reached a significant growth rate and should continue its development, Russian President Vladimir Putin has told leaders of the five-state bloc, according to the Kremlin website. “We assume it is necessary to accelerate implementation of the whole ‘digital agenda’ of the union, and to coordinate efforts on development of the ‘internet economy,’ creation of general digital trade rules, equal standards of exchange, and protection of information,” he said in the statement.
Putin called for the enactment of high technologies in public administration, industry, customs regulation systems and other areas, as well as “launching joint competitive, innovative and knowledge-intensive industries.”
According to the Russian president, it is important to “continue working jointly with our integration partners to remove the remaining barriers, limitations and restrictions in the way of building a common economic space. Our task is to intensify efforts towards creating single markets for goods and services, and providing conditions for free capital and workforce flow.”
Vermont's governor is expected to sign a bill legalizing marijuana before Monday
Vermont Senate has passed a bill that legalizes the possession and consumption of marijuana and allows state residents to grow the plant in their homes.
Gov. Phil Scott is expected to sign the bill before Monday's deadline, which would make Vermont the first state to legalize marijuana through a state legislature, rather than a ballot initiative.
The bill, however, doesn't set up a commercial market for the sale of marijuana.
Turkish Jets Hit Menagh Airbase Used by US to Supply Arms to Kurds - Reports
Link: https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201801201060923848-syria-turkey-minning-airport-kurds-us-weapons/
More than 70 Turkish military aircraft have been engaged in Ankara's Olive Branch operation in northern Syria against the Kurdish troop, according to Turkey' General Staff.
The Turkish Air Force attacked the Menagh Military Airbase in northwestern Syria, which the US used for supplying weapons to Kurdish armed forces, the Hurriyet newspaper reported citing military sources.
The newspaper noted that the airfield was among the 113 targets scheduled for the attack during Operation Olive Branch in Syrian Africa.
African migrants bring untreatable form of tuberculosis to Europe
Link: https://voiceofeurope.com/2018/01/african-migrants-bring-untreatable-form-tuberculosis-europe/
Experts of the University of Zurich, in Switzerland, discovered a “multidrug-resistant” form of tuberculosis in eight refugees who came from the Horn of Africa.
In a new official report the Swiss laboratory mentions several cases from 2016. The head of diagnostics Peter Keller says:
“These bacteria exhibited a new combination of resistance mutations against four different antibiotics that had never before been seen.”
The report says a laboratory in Germany also registered a case “with the same pathogen”. After checking data of the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), a total of 21 cases were identified. All cases were related to patients had also come from either the Horn of Africa or Sudan.
Berlin Halts Sale of Weapons to Yemen War Belligerents
Link: https://sputniknews.com/military/201801211060944368-germany-stops-saudi-arms-sales/
After almost quintupling its sale of weapons to Riyadh between 2016-2017, Berlin announced Friday that it would halt arms sales to any nation participating in the war in Yemen, including Saudi Arabia — a major armaments buyer and its allies, including United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Sudan, accusing the coalition of waging a "dirty war" in Yemen that has killed thousands of civilians.— "immediately," according to Financialtimes.com.
Snow Won’t Stop Them: Widespread Corruption Protests Across Romania
Link: https://sputniknews.com/society/201801211060945282-thousands-protest-in-snowy-romania/
In ongoing protests against corruption in Romania, tens of thousands marched in heavy snow in the capital city of Bucharest as the government guts judicial impartiality and sees the appointment of its third prime minister in just one year. Unpopular modifications to the judicial system include altering the criminal code to favor decriminalising some forms of corruption, a move lawmakers will debate after parliament returns to work in February.
Erdogan accuses allies of sending ‘thousands of planeloads' and 'truckloads of arms' to Kurds Video
Link: https://www.rt.com/news/416555-erdogan-kurds-accuse-allies/
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has turned on Ankara’s allies, insinuating that the US in particular has been providing massive military support to Kurdish YPG in Syria.
In a speech to his ruling AK Party Erdogan said that ‘some allies’ of Turkey had provided the YPG Syrian Kurdish militia with 2,000 planeloads and 5,000 truckloads of weapons. This weekend, Turkey began operation ‘Olive Branch’ against Kurdish forces in Afrin, deploying jets and land forces.
Trump cites federal report on foreign-born terrorists to urge immigration reform
President Donald Trump on Tuesday used a new report from the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security — revealing that nearly three out of four individuals convicted on international terrorism charges in the U.S. were foreign-born — to call for immigration reform.
The DHS and DOJ released the report to “be more transparent with the American people,” abiding by the guidelines of Trump’s March 6 executive order, known as the travel ban.
According to the report, at least 549 people were convicted of international terrorism-related charges in the U.S. between September 11, 2001 and December 31, 2016. Of those convicted, 254 were not U.S. citizens, 148 were foreign-born and received citizenship and 147 were citizens by birth.
DHS in 2017 denied U.S. entry to 2,554 people on the terror watch list.
Forbes: Cannabis Could Be The Most Profitable Ingredient In Skincare, If The U.S. Government Allows It
Lord Jones co-founder Cindy Capobianco describes her luxury cannabis-infused product in the same manner as any maker of a prestige natural skincare brand: it's made in small batches, organic ingredients, medicinal value of said ingredients. With a body lotion and face products slated for release later this year, Lord Jones is trying to be a prestige natural skincare brand. One major difference: Lord Jones employs a team of lawyers to ensure they don’t have to tussle with the DEA over a moisturizer.
Though cannabis is more mainstream than ever with 29 states and Washington, D.C. having legalized medical and/or recreational marijuana, the fact that it's still classified by the federal government as a Schedule I drug means companies like Lord Jones are racking up the legal fees as they attempt to navigate the grey area of selling cannabis-based skincare products. Cannabis has at least 80 different cannabinoids, a group of active compounds which give the plant its medical and psychoactive properties.
Thermometer in world’s coldest village breaks as temperatures plunge to -62C
Temperatures have become so cold in the Siberian region of Yakutia that people's eyelashes have started to freeze when they venture outside.
Siberian Times reports some locals had readings as low as -67C - in touching distance of the record -67.7C, in February 1933.
That temperature was the lowest ever recorded outside the Antarctic.
First Hawaii, Now Japan Is Firing Off Fake Missile Alerts
Link: http://www.thedailysheeple.com/first-hawaii-now-japan-is-firing-off-fake-missile-alerts_012018
Japan’s national public broadcasting organization erroneously issued an emergency alert Tuesday signaling an imminent North Korean missile strike.
“North Korea appears to have launched a missile,” Japan’s national public broadcaster NHK announced Tuesday evening, “The government urges people to take shelter inside buildings or underground.”
NHK was “deeply” apologetic after it mistakenly sent out the inaccurate emergency alert. The J-alert system, which broadcasts over televisions, to mobile phones, on the radio, and over loudspeakers, is set up to warn the Japanese people in the event of an attack. There was no missile.
“FLUPOCALYPSE” mass hysteria is just another propaganda push for mindless vaccination compliance
The mainstream media claiming a “flupocalypse” is devastating America. The solution? You’re all supposed to get injected with the mercury-laced flu shot. The CDC cancelled its planned nuclear attack survival lecture to shift its focus to the flu outbreak, claiming the flupocalypse was more important than surviving a nuclear attack. National health officials predict the shot may only be 30% effective, the three best things you can do to prevent the flu are:
Vitamin D
Zinc
Vitamin C
And yes, these assertions are supported by thousands of published, peer-reviewed scientific studies. You can find them all at Science.NaturalNews.com
Cryptocurrencies may disappear but technology behind them will remain – Medvedev
Link: https://www.rt.com/business/416098-cryptocurrencies-disappear-blockchain-stays/
Virtual currencies are a new challenge for governments and businesses and could soon disappear, but the technology they are based on might remain, as happened with the internet, said Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. Medvedev said theorists predicted the emergence of cryptocurrencies already in the middle of the last century. Nevertheless, digital currencies are a challenge for everyone, including the experts, he said.
“Today, everyone is wondering where’s the end for this ‘cryptocurrency race’. Maybe it’s the dead-end path of the cyber-revolution?” said Medvedev; added he couldn’t rule out a repeat of the early 1990s scenario when a large number of new companies emerged due to the developing internet, but later disappeared. The technology itself – the internet – not only remained, but also now plays a key role in our life, according to the Russian PM.
Russians view US, Ukraine and EU as country’s main enemies – survey
Link: https://www.rt.com/politics/415487-russians-us-ukraine-eu-enemies/
Two thirds of Russians believe their country has enemies in the international arena, with the US, Ukraine and the EU topping the list, a fresh survey by independent pollster Levada Center has revealed.
According to research conducted in early December, 66 percent of respondents considered that Russia has enemies, while 21 percent believed that the country exists in a peaceful international environment. Levada Center has been carrying out similar surveys for the last 23 years. The highest result in response to this question was recorded at the beginning of the Ukrainian conflict in 2014, when 84 percent of those surveyed said that Russia had enemies. When asked to specifically name Russia’s foreign enemies, the majority of respondents – 68 percent – singled out the US, which is no surprise as relations between Moscow and Washington are at their lowest in decades over accusations of election meddling, the imposition of sanctions, and other issues.
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