Link: https://www.rt.com/usa/385646-blackouts-hit-la-ny-sf/

Power outages hit Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco, leaving commuters stranded and traffic backed up Friday. About 90,000 customers were affected in San Francisco.While the outages occurred around the same time there is no evidence they were connected or coordinated.

Link: https://www.rt.com/news/385697-paris-protest-presidential-election/

Members of dozens of French unions and civil groups have taken to the streets of Paris ahead of Sunday’s presidential vote, protesting what they call a “political masquerade.” Police deployed tear gas after protesters used smoke grenades and flares. While France is observing pre-election silence on Saturday ahead of the first round of the voting, crowds have been marching through the streets of Paris rejecting the policies of all the candidates leading in the polls.

Link: http://www.thedailysheeple.com/risk-of-accidental-nuclear-war-growing-says-un-panel-video_042017

United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDR) that argues that as the modern battlefield becomes more technologically complex, crowded with more sensors, satellites, drones, and interconnected networks, the risks of another nuclear accident are on the rise.

Link: http://www.blacklistednews.com/Romania_to_buy_Patriot_missiles_from_U.S._to_boost_defenses/58064/0/38/38/Y/M.html

NATO member Romania plans to buy Patriot missiles from U.S. company Raytheon to help protect its airspace, a senior Defence Ministry official said on Thursday. The plan will be a key part of the European Union country's plan to modernize its military, benefiting from a gradual increase in annual spending.

Link: http://www.blacklistednews.com/Move_over_Touch_ID%E2%80%94Mastercard_is_building_fingerprint_scanners_directly_into_their_cards/58053/0/38/38/Y/M.html

The company has announced it's beginning trials of its "next-generation biometric card" in South Africa. In addition to the standard chip and pin, the new cards have a built-in fingerprint reader that the user can use to authenticate every purchase. Impressively, the new card is no thicker or larger than your current credit and debit cards. Additional trials are being planned in Asia and Europe.

Link: https://www.rt.com/news/385582-le-pen-close-borders/

Presidential candidate Marine le Pen has called on the French government to immediately reinstate the country’s borders and expel foreign nationals being monitored by intelligence services in the aftermath of yesterday’s terrorist attack in Paris. We need a presidency which acts and protects us,” Le Pen said. The candidate added that, if she is elected president of France, she “will immediately carry out a battle plan against Islamist terrorism and against judicial laxity.”“New restrictive regulations on immigration, asylum or citizenship must be taken,” she said.

Link: https://www.rt.com/news/385600-us-japan-naval-drill-north-korea/

Two Japanese Navy destroyers have joined the carrier strike group ‘USS Carl Vinson’ heading towards the Korean Peninsula for a massive show of force as North Korea prepares to mark the 85th anniversary of the foundation of its military. The Japanese warships, destroyers ‘Ashigara’ and ‘Samidare’, left the navy’s Sasebo base early on Friday for a rendezvous with the ‘USS Carl Vinson’ group off North Korean shores, NHK reports.

Link: https://www.rt.com/news/385476-paris-champs-elysees-attack/

Following a shooting on the Champs-Elysees in Paris, one police officer has been left dead and another two seriously injured. A foreign female passerby received a light injury. The suspected attacker was killed, according to police.

Link: https://www.infowars.com/nuclear-expert-everybody-would-die-if-world-war-3-broke-out/

. Greg Mello, secretary, executive director of the Los Alamos Study Group: “Everybody in the world would die. Some people in southern hemisphere might survive, probably not even them, a couple of nuclear weapons could end United States government and economy,” destroying financial markets, Internet. If nuclear exchanges were limited, just ICBM silos and airfields being targeted, fallout would wipe out entire U.S. Midwest.. Nuclear power plants would meltdown, unleashing Fukushima-style disasters, collapse of fragile electronic, financial, governmental, administrative systems. We’d be lucky to reboot in the early 19th century. If enough weapons detonated, collapse of Earth’s ozone layer would mean every form of life that has eyes could be blinded, every mammal, and many plants, would become extinct. U.S. weapons manufacturers stand to make trillions as a result of tensions between Washington and Moscow.

Link: http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2017/04/20/518733/France-protest-Le-Pan-police

French police have used tear gas to disperse angry demonstrators protesting against far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen in the southern city of Marseilles. Some 500 protesters, shouting anti-Le Pen slogans, attempted to counter a rally by nearly 5,000 Le Pen supporters in Marseilles on Wednesday. Le Pen proposes France’s exit from the European Union, voices concerns about security and immigration. She has vowed to place an immediate moratorium on all kinds of immigration as soon as she takes office as president, if she does. French presidential election scheduled for April 23.

Link: https://www.rt.com/business/385387-venezuela-general-motors-plant/

US automaker General Motors (GM)accused Venezuelan authorities of seizing its plant in the industrial hub of Valencia and pledged to "take all legal action."" In addition, other assets of the company, such as vehicles, have been illegally taken from its facilities," the company said in a statement, quoted by Reuters. The economic crisis in Venezuela has hurt many other US businesses in the country, including food makers and pharmaceutical firms, which have been forced to cut operations.

Link: https://sputniknews.com/asia/201704201052800548-thailand-police-militants/

Two policemen were wounded in 18 synchronized attacks on Thailand's security forces in the country's southern provinces, allegedly committed by Muslim separatist movements, state television reported Thursday. In most cases, the militants threw hand grenades at police stations from passing motorcycles, according to Channel 3 state broadcaster...

Link: https://www.rt.com/news/385327-venezuela-march-government-maduro/

Three people have died as a result of the so-called “mother of all marches” taking place in Venezuela. Demonstrators are calling for the resignation of President Nicolas Maduro amid the country’s ongoing economic crisis. Massive rallies are being held in Caracas and other cities following weeks of violent demonstrations that had already left five people dead and resulted in clashes between anti-government demonstrators and security forces.

Link: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4424322/Red-eyed-MUTANT-wasps-created-time.html

The red-eyed wasps were created using CRISPR gene-slicing technology. Scientists say it gives them a way to study some of the wasp's unusual biology.

Link: http://www.hangthebankers.com/maduro-swap-venezuela-gold-dollars/

Instead of selling the gold outright, a move which would have been met with a firestorm of protests from political opponents and allies alike, Maduro merely leased it to Citi instead. Specifically, Venezuela provided 1.4 million troy ounces of gold to Citi in exchange for cash. And while Venezuela would have to pay interest on the funds, it got the key benefit of being able to maintain the gold as part of its foreign currency reserves..

Link: http://postnewsd2.blogspot.in/2017/04/adidas-apologizes-after-sending-you.html

Completing the Boston Marathon — the pinnacle of marathon running for many — is quite a feat. But some finishers of Monday’s race have taken issue with a congratulatory email sent by Adidas, the sponsor for the 121st annual race."Congrats, you survived the Boston Marathon!" an email sent by Adidas to 2017 Boston Marathon finishers on Tuesday read.The message was met with backlash given the history of the Patriot’s Day race. Some finishers questioned how Adidas did not realize the connotations of the message after three people were killed and more than 260 were injured in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing

Link: http://www.orrazz.com/2017/04/parents-in-germany-face-26500-fine-if.html

Researchers found that the dolls were recording users’ and sending this information out to a third party specializing in voice-recognition for police and military forces.'

Link: http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/793725/chinese-army-restructured-modernised-world-class-military-president-xi-jinping

CHINESE President Xi Jinping has announced a military restructure of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) to transform it into a leaner fighting force with improved joint operations capability, state media said.

Link: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4424320/Russia-able-neutralise-warships-report-claims.html#ixzz4ehMttx9p

Moscow's military chiefs are able to use 'Russian Electronic Warfare' to 'detect and neutralise any target from a ship's system and a radar, to a satellite', according to one news report. American destroyer USS Donald Cook was effectively left helpless when a Russian plane used the technology while the vessel was in the Black Sea several years ago, the report claimed.

Link: http://govtslaves.info/venezuelas-maduro-seeks-to-expand-armed-civilian-militias/

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced plans Monday to expand the number of civilians involved in armed militias as tensions in the crisis-wracked South American nation continued to rise. Maduro said he hopes to expand the number of civilians involved in the Bolivarian militias created by the late Hugo Chavez to 500,000, up from the current 100,000, and provide each member with a gun, said it is time for Venezuelans to decide if they are “with the homeland” or against it.