Link: https://sputniknews.com/europe/201807241066626605-Ukrainians-180-Year-Prison-Sentences-Refugee/

Two Ukrainian nationals were sentenced to 180 years in prison each on Friday after they were convicted by a Greek court of charges relating to smuggling refugees.

Serhiy Shvayuk and Petro Lytvynchuk were convicted in Piraeus, Greece, after they were arrested onboard a yacht transporting 63 migrants.

The offenses included illegally crossing into a European Union country's border, endangering the lives of of passengers (as the boat was overcrowded), lacking emergency equipment and lacking a license to command the ship. Lytvynchuk's mother told the outlet that they traveled there to legally work as captain's mates on a tourist boat but were forced into transporting the migrants under threats of violence.

Link: https://www.activistpost.com/2018/07/facial-recognition-toll-booths-identify-drivers-and-passengers-notify-police-within-seconds.html

The state of New York is using facial recognition cameras to identify drivers and passengers at toll booths.

A recent article in the New York Post revealed that toll booths use facial recognition to identify everyone. Police are also testing facial recognition cameras that can identify people based on the shape of their ears!

Currently there are at least thirty-one states that allow police to use facial recognition to identify people from drivers licenses and state IDs.

Roughly one in every two American adults—117 million people—are in the facial recognition networks used by law enforcement

Link: https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/67263/russia-dumps-massive-amount-of-us-treasury-holdingsbecomes-worlds-largest-holder-of.html

The Russian government has drastically reduced their holdings of United States Treasury bonds, with Russian ownership of U.S. bonds declining from $96.1 billion in March to $48.7 billion in April—and then further reducing their holdings to just $14.9 billion in May; an 11-year low. In 2010, Russia was among the top 10 holders of US Treasuries at $176.3 billion. Russia has been buying large amounts of gold during its gradual sell-off of U.S. Treasury bonds, and it recently overtook China as the world’s biggest holder of gold with $80.5 billion worth.

Link: http://www.thedailysheeple.com/trade-war-billions-of-pounds-of-meat-in-us-warehouses-have-nowhere-to-go_072018

There are now billions of pounds of chicken meat in warehouses in the United States with nowhere to go.

More than 2.5 billion pounds of meat and poultry produced by US farmers have been stockpiled in cold-storage warehouses with the amount expected to grow further, according to the latest federal data as reported by RT. The good news is that this could drive down the prices of this meat for American consumers, but it also means other goods could become vastly more expensive in response.
Earlier this year, China and Mexico, the largest foreign buyers of US meat, taxed American pork products in response to the tariffs imposed by the White House on steel, aluminum and some other goods. The measure made prices for US hams, chops and livers in those markets shoot upwards, reports Wall Street Journal.

The US Department of Agriculture expects the American meat industry to produce a record 102.7 billion pounds of meat in 2018. Plunging exports thanks to the trade war, along with increasing domestic stockpiles puts profits at risk for US meat processors, livestock and poultry producers.

Link: http://www.pravdareport.com/news/russia/politics/17-07-2018/141229-nato_georgia_ukraine-0/

Russia "is forced to react to everything that is happening around" the country, Russian President Vladimir Putin said commenting on recent reports about Georgia's and Ukraine's possible accession to NATO. Moscow would have an "extremely negative" reaction to the continued expansion of the Alliance towards the borders of the Russian Federation. This is a threat to the security of the state, Putin said in an interview with Fox News.

When the USSR left the German territory, it was promised that NATO would not move to the east beyond German borders. However, NATO troops had subsequently appeared in many countries afterwards.

Link: https://sputniknews.com/europe/201807151066370971-bavaria-germany-austria-police-migrants/

According to Germany's interior ministry, Bavarian state police will patrol the border in order to check for migrants entering the country. In a statement issued Sunday, the ministry said that Bavarian police will be able to conduct checks along the country's southern border with Austria "at the request or with the consent of federal police."Since 2015, Europe has been facing a migration crisis, triggered by armed conflicts and economic hardships in Africa and the Middle East. The EU has been struggling to accommodate hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing war-torn countries, with a major part of them heading to Germany.

Link: https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/67170/china-expands-surveillance-of-sewage-to-police-illegal-drug.html

Dozens of cities across China are applying an unusual forensic technique to monitor illegal drug use: chemically analysing sewage for traces of drugs, or their metabolites, excreted in urine.

One southern city, Zhongshan, a drug hotspot, is also monitoring waste water to evaluate the effectiveness of its drug-reduction programmes, says Li Xiqing, an environmental chemist at Peking University in Beijing who is working with police in these cities.

Li says Zhongshan police have already used the technique to help track down and arrest a drug manufacturer. He says a handful of cities are planning to use data from waste water to set targets for police arrests of drug users..

Although illegal drug use has been monitored through wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) in other countries, including Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain and Germany, most studies have collected data for epidemiological research rather than for setting policies.

Link: https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/67168/as-bezos-becomes-richest-man-in-recorded-history-amazon-workers-go-on.html

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has just become the richest man in recorded history—surpassing $150 billion in net worth, earns around $275 million each day. Tuesday Amazon workers throughout Europe are marking "Prime Day" by walking off the job.

In addition to walkouts by an estimated 80 percent of the workers at Amazon's largest distribution center in Spain—nearly 1,800 workers—employees of the retailer are also reportedly launching strikes in Germany, France, Italy, Poland, and the United Kingdom to demand higher wages

Link: https://www.naturalnews.com/2018-07-17-modern-science-curcumin-is-most-effective-way-to-prevent-cancer.html#

Curcumin which is found in abundance in turmeric, has been studied to have remarkable anti-tumor abilities; inhibited cancer cell growth and protected the body against oxidative damage triggered by injury or inflammation. It was noted that a higher percentage of curcumin showed the greatest effect in improving health. The results of this study were published in BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine.

Link: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/17/rolls-royce-is-developing-tiny-cockroach-robots-to-fix-airplane-engines.html

Rolls-Royce said Tuesday it is developing tiny “cockroach” robots that can crawl inside aircraft engines to spot and fix problems.

The U.K. engineer said the miniature technology can improve the way maintenance is carried out by speeding up inspections and eliminating the need to remove an engine from an aircraft for repair work to take place.

Link: https://www.rt.com/usa/433506-trump-nato-meeting-great-putin/

“I had a great meeting with NATO. They have paid $33 Billion more and will pay hundreds of Billions of Dollars more in the future, only because of me. NATO was weak, but now it is strong again (bad for Russia). The media only says I was rude to leaders, never mentions the money!” tweeted Trump. “A productive dialogue is not only good for the United States and good for Russia, but it is good for the world,” Trump wrote late on Monday.

Link: https://www.rt.com/news/433527-russian-us-military-syria/

The Russian military is ready to work with the US colleagues on all the areas discussed by the two presidents during the Helsinki summit, namely cooperation in Syria and mutual reduction of the strategic nuclear arsenals.

“Russian Defense Ministry is ready to implement the agreements on the international security, reached by Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump during the Helsinki summit yesterday,” Ministry’s spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov told reporters on Tuesday.

Link: https://sputniknews.com/asia/201807041066021693-malaysia-corruption-najib-charges/

According to Reuters, the former 64-year-old Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak appeared in Malaysian court on Wednesday to face charges linked to embezzlement of millions of dollars of public money.

Najib Razak was reportedly charged with three counts of criminal breach of trust and one count of using his position for gratification as part of a probe into missing money from state fund 1MDB. Each charge carries reportedly a penalty of up to 20 years in Jail.

Najib Razak pleaded not guilty to the charges, has denied wrongdoing.

Link: http://www.thedailysheeple.com/boom-trumps-doj-criminally-charges-76-doctors-23-pharmacists-19-nurses-raking-in-billions-in-medical-fraud-to-push-toxic-drugs_062018

The U.S. health care system is plagued by rampant fraud, abuse and profiteering carried out by dishonest doctors and pharmacists. In working to combat the rampant fraud, the DOJ has announced an unprecedented crackdown on medical fraud, charging over 600 people with criminal activities that involved over $2 billion in medical fraud.

Link: https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/66885/court-decision-could-lead-to-epa-banning-water.html

A federal court has denied an attempt by the Environmental Protection Agency to dismiss a lawsuit seeking to ban the use of fluoride under the Toxic Substances Control Act. The substances added to municipal water supplies known by the name fluoride are actually a combination of unpurified byproducts of phosphate mining. In the United States thousands of tons of fluorosilicic acid is recovered from phosphoric acid plants and then used for water fluoridation. During this process the fluoride ion is created.

This process of taking waste from the phosphate industry and putting it into drinking water has long been criticized for its effects on human health and the environment.

Link: https://www.rt.com/business/431463-eu-trump-tariffs-automakers/

US President Donald Trump recently threatened to hit imports of European cars with a 20 percent tariff if Brussels doesn’t remove levies and other trade barriers on US goods.

Trump said on Sunday that the EU was “as bad” as China when it came to the way European countries traded with the US.

Link: https://www.rt.com/news/431653-correa-ecuador-arrest-order/

The National Court of Justice of Ecuador has ordered the preventive detention of the country's former president Rafael Correa and requested that Interpol apprehend him for extradition.

The request for Correa’s detention was filed by the country’s chief prosecutor on Tuesday. The prosecution is accusing Correa, who served as the president of Ecuador from 2007 to 2017, of being involved in the kidnapping of Fernando Balda, a former opposition lawmaker, in 2012 in Colombia - charges that Correa vehemently denies.

Balda himself was charged with orchestrating a foiled coup attempt in 2010. The charges were filed when the lawmaker was in Colombia, from where he was eventually deported to Ecuador in 2012 and served a year in prison for endangering state security.

Correa is living in Belgium with his family.

Link: https://www.rt.com/business/430757-us-limit-chinese-investment/

The US plans to ban firms with at least a quarter Chinese ownership from buying US companies with “industrially significant technology,” the Wall Street Journal reported, as a trade war between Washington and Beijing intensifies. “We’ve got trillions of dollars seeking our crown jewels of technology,” the newspaper quotes White House trade adviser Peter Navarro as saying. “There has to be a defense against that.”

Link: https://www.rt.com/news/430754-russia-criticises-canada-weed-legalization/

Moscow has accused Ottawa of trampling on international law, which it says explicitly prohibits any circulation of weed unless it's for medical or scientific purposes. Canada has become the first Western country to legalize pot. The scope of international treaties, of which Ottawa is a signee, does not allow for any “exceptions” or “flexible interpretation” of the principle that states the use of drugs must be limited to medicine and research, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Friday after Canada’s “Cannabis Act” became law on Thursday.

By legalizing the recreational use of marijuana, Canada “commits a deliberate and flagrant violation of its international obligations it assumed under the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, the 1971 Convention of Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 UN Convention against illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances,” the ministry said.

Such “drug liberalization” will become a “serious obstacle” on the way to a drug-free society, it warned, calling on Canada’s fellow G7 members to stand up to its “arbitrariness.”

Link: http://govtslaves.info/2018/06/canadian-prime-minister-says-marijuana-will-be-legal-nationwide-starting-october/

On Wednesday, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that marijuana will become legal nationwide starting October 17. Canada’s Senate passed the federal government’s bill to legalize marijuana nationwide Tuesday.

Although Trudeau’s government had hoped to legalize pot nationwide by July 1, the government announced Tuesday that it will take several weeks for provincial and territorial governments to prepare for retail sales.