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Five-hundred fifty-eight days after targeting an ostensible headquarters of the Islamic State in Mosul, Iraq, the United States finally admitted to bombing a family home and killing a university professor and three family members, wounding at least two more.
Link: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-04-03/mass-exodus-1-million-people-have-ditched-new-york-2010
The number of people leaving the region — which includes parts of New Jersey, Connecticut, the lower Hudson Valley and Long Island — in one year swelled from 187,034 in 2015 to 223,423 in 2016, while the number of international immigrants settling in the tristate area dwindled from 181,551 to 160,324 over the same period, records show. The nation’s economy is improving, there are more jobs in cheaper places to live, and retirees are choosing to move to warmer climates.
Link: https://sputniknews.com/us/201704041052259290-trump-effect-refugees-arriving-usa-slows/
“With the fiscal year now halfway through, 39,098 refugees had arrived as of March 31, of whom 30,122 arrived before the end of the Obama administration and 8,967 since Trump’s inauguration,” CNS News reports. Illegal border crossing has also been on the decline since Trump took office “General Kelly is doing a great job at the border. Numbers are way down. Many are not even trying to come in anymore,” the president tweeted last month.
Link: https://www.rt.com/news/383202-st-petersburg-blast-metro/
A suspected bomb blast inside a train in the St. Petersburg Metro killed eleven passengers and injured dozens of others. The entire Metro system was shut down as bomb squads and rescuers responded to the emergency.
Link: http://www.mintpressnews.com/employees-in-europe-getting-implanted-with-microchips/226517/
What could pass for a dystopian vision of the workplace is almost routine at the Swedish startup hub Epicenter. The company offers to implant its workers and startup members with microchips the size of grains of rice that function as swipe cards: to open doors, operate printers, or buy smoothies with a wave of the hand.
Link: http://govtslaves.info/venezuelas-supreme-court-seizes-then-yields-legislative-power/
Under pressure from both domestic and international sources, Venezuela’s Supreme Tribunal of Justice (Supreme Court), at the request of President Nicolás Maduro, on Saturday reversed its recent decision to transfer all legislative powers from the country’s congress to itself.
The oceans are slowly dying, and with them, a significant part of our food supply will disappear. Since the number of smaller marine life dramatically reduces every year, bigger predators are starving to death. The causes of the recent mass strandings and die-offs of marine life are numerous, ranging from overfishing and climate change to plastic pollution and radioactive contamination. Hundreds of millions of salmon are dying before they make it to their spawning place, record numbers of whales getting stranded on beaches. Radioactive particles can accumulate in predatory species at the top of the food chain, humans included. Especially top predators, such as the Pacific Bluefin Tuna.
The results of the current study reflect those of a meta-analysis published in the International Journal of Cancer Research and Treatment. According to the review, capsaicin showed strong anticancer properties by targeting multiple signaling pathways and disease-related genes in various stages of tumors,
Bahrain’s King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifah has granted the country’s military tribunals the right to try civilians, initiating yet another wave of crackdown against the opposition in the island country. According to Bahrain's official news agency, BNA, King Hamad on Monday approved a constitutional amendment, which drops a clause limiting trials to members of the armed forces and other security branches, granting courts-martial the right to try all civilians accused of “damaging public interest” or carrying out acts of terrorism.
Campus Reform reported on a story written in the California State University student paper, that claimed that milk has been linked to racism and white nationalism;. government dietary guidelines, which promote dairy consumption, benefit white people whose bodies are more adept at digesting milk, and hurt the health of black Americans animal rights organization PETA claimed milk has long been a symbol of white supremacists, and a “thinly veiled allegory for racial purity.
Link: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/04/170403140605.htm
Bisphenol S (BPS), a substitute for the chemical bisphenol A (BPA) in the plastic industry, shows the potential for increasing the aggressiveness of breast cancer through its behavior as an endocrine-disrupting chemical. BPS is found in polycarbonate hard plastics, currency bills and thermal paper receipts.
With immigration figures at 293,000 for the year, net migration for 2016 reached a positive value of 135,000 despite very high emigration (157,000), yet another new record for the recent era. Last September, the President of the Italian Bishops Conference (CEI) decried the exodus of Italy’s best and brightest, warning that the loss of talented Italian citizens was “depleting” the country. Italian birthrate hit a new low in its recent history, with 12,000 fewer births (474,000) than in the preceding year (486,000).
Okaloosa County, FL — In the fall of 2016, voters in Florida approved the sale of medical marijuana statewide. But if anyone thinks that Florida law enforcement is going to get soft on marijuana as a result, they might need to think again. The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office paraded their latest drug bust on their Facebook page this week. They found Kayla Martin, 26, to be in possession of four melted gummy bears and two lollipops, arrested her, and charged her, not only with possession but with intent to distribute. The six tiny pieces of THC-laced candy were photographed, along with the perpetrator, and uploaded to the...
Link: https://sputniknews.com/asia/201704021052214913-virtual-currencies-japan-recognize-payment/
A new law giving bitcoin and other virtual currencies official recognition as a method of payment came into force in Japan on Saturday.
Link: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141744791
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, a Republican who not only supports work requirements and premium payments but also a new additional condition: to make applicants undergo a drug test if they’re suspected of substance abuse. Wisconsin would be the first state in the country with mandatory drug screening for Medicaid enrollees.
Link: http://www.wnd.com/2017/04/sanctuary-cities-free-253-illegal-alien-criminals-in-2-weeks/
Law enforcement agencies in New York City declined 12 detainers from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement during the week of Feb. 4 to Feb. 10, according to ICE’s latest Weekly Declined Detainer Outcome Report. ICE routinely issues detainers to state and local law enforcement agencies to notify them of its intent to assume custody of an illegal alien currently being detained in state or local custody on criminal charges.
Link: https://www.rt.com/usa/383036-journalists-lawsuit-kill-list/
On Thursday, Ahmad Zaidan, the former Al Jazeera Islamabad Bureau Chief, and Bilal Kareem, a freelance journalist, filed a lawsuit in the US District Court in Washington alleging they were erroneously placed on a kill list under former President Barack Obama’s administration, which they say, President Donald Trump has illegally continued.
Zaidan was the first journalist to interview Osama Bin Laden in 1998 and Kareem is a US citizen who “narrowly avoided being killed by five separate air strikes,” according to the lawsuit filed by UK-based human rights group Reprieve.
The Russian central bank opened its first overseas office in Beijing on March 14, marking a step forward in forging a Beijing-Moscow alliance to bypass the US dollar in the global monetary system, and to phase-in a gold-backed standard of trade.
Young workers the culinary industry relies on are forsaking hot, high-pressure kitchens for cool, quiet cultivation centers, pot shops, and myriad other marijuana industry positions Laced candies and gummy bears are sought-after treats when they are made well, so pastry chefs and cooks can make them for three to four times the money a restaurant can pay. Not enough construction workers; they all want to work in grow facilities;” alcohol sales are down. Restauranteurs grumble about ability to find and keep workers.
Link: http://investmentwatchblog.com/subway-removes-ham-and-bacon-from-menu-after-demand-by-muslims/
Fast food giant Subway has removed ham and bacon from menus in 185 stores and switched to halal meat in the UK after “strong demands” by Muslims. Halal foods are foods that Muslims are allowed to eat or drink under Islamic law. Pork isn’t permitted and the slaughtering of animals must be performed by a Muslim, who first invokes the name of Allah, cuts the throat, windpipe and the blood vessels (while the animal is conscious), and drains all the blood from the veins. Fear of Muslims has multiplied greatly after the London bombings in July 2005. Muslims make up 4.8% of the population.
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