Link: https://www.rt.com/business/388701-puerto-rico-historic-bankruptcy-process/

The US territory of Puerto Rico has begun a historic bankruptcy proceeding. On Wednesday, a US federal judge will start to sort out the Caribbean Commonwealth's $123 billion debt in a San Juan court. The issue could take years to resolve, as investors scramble to recover as much as they can on their bonds.

Link: http://www.pravdareport.com/news/business/companies/16-05-2017/137744-oil_prices-0/

Russia and Saudi Arabia said that they will propose to extend the agreement on limiting the extraction of black gold till March of 2018 to stabilize the oil market. Analysts believe that other countries will support the proposal as positive effects of the strategy are obvious. Prices on the market will change sharply, should the agreement be reached. November 30, an agreement was reached during the OPEC summit in the Austrian capital to reduce oil production from January 1, 2017 to a level of 32.5 million barrels per day. Thus, OPEC countries reduced the average daily production by almost 1.2 million barrels.

Link: http://www.thomasdishaw.com/ford-layoff-20000-workers-profits-drop-35-2017/

Ford Motor Company is expected to announce later this week plans to gut 10 percent of its 200,000-person salaried workforce in North American and Asia. The layoffs will go into effect by Oct. 1 and employees will receive early retirement incentives. Hourly workers and those on the production line will not be effected. Ford recently announced plans to cut $3 billion in costs

Link: http://www.harvest.news/2017-05-11-organic-farming-explodes-13-biggest-growth-since-2008.html

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) survey reveals that there are now 24,650 certified organic operations in the U.S. This is a 13 percent increase from 2016 and the highest growth rate we’ve seen since 2008. The number of local, organic farms has been steadily increasing.

Link: http://govtslaves.info/china-is-creating-a-massive-orwellian-dna-database/

China has been collecting biometric information from millions of people whom it deems potential threats—among them, Uyghurs, migrant workers, and college students—as part of national DNA database. China’s Ministry of Public Security, which oversees the database, has amassed information for more than 40 million people—the country says it has the world’s biggest database of DNA information.

Link: http://www.blacklistednews.com/Political_Road_Rage%3A_Woman_Ran_Congressman_off_Road_over_Health_Care_Vote/58463/0/38/38/Y/M.html

A Tennessee woman was charged with felony reckless endangerment last week after trying to run a congressman off the road, enraged at the politician’s vote in support of the Republican health care bill, according to police.

Link: https://heatst.com/world/illegal-immigrants-are-now-entering-europe-by-luxury-yacht/

Immigrants board yachts normally used by tourists, then head for Malta or Sicily. Each passenger pays more than $7,000. Thousands who have traveled in open boats, particularly from Libya, have drowned in recent years. The numbers arriving by yacht are small. Eight Ukrainian people-smugglers arrested in Sicily in the past month after their yachts were intercepted by the Italian coastguard. Six others arrested in Malta and Crete. Each vessel had been carrying about 30 immigrants from Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia and Iraq.

Link: http://naturalsociety.com/radiation-fukushima-disaster-contaminated-everyone-1896/

Norwegian Institute for Air Research: radiation spewed by the crippled plant affected every person on earth. The average person received about 0.5 millisieverts of radiation from the accident,.about a single X-ray. Those who lived in the immediate vicinity of the Fukushima Daiichi plant received about 1 to 5 millisieverts. Radiation sickness develops at 1,000 millisieverts.

Link: http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2017/05/15/522027/russia-putin-us-cyber-attack

Russian President Vladimir Putin stressed his country had nothing to do with the recent global "ransomware" cyber attack that targeted 150 countries over the weekend. “Microsoft’s management made it clear the virus originated from US intelligence services,” said Putin while addressing reporters in the Chinese capital Beijing Monday. Microsoft President Brad Smith noted that US intelligence agencies, the CIA and National Security Agency (NSA), were to blame for the attack because they stockpiled malicious software code which was used by the hackers.The NSA claims the software used in the attacks had been stolen from it.

Link: http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2017/05/16/522049/Venezuela-protest-rallies-Caracas-opposition-members-Freddy-Guevara-President-Nicholas-Maduro

Thousands in Venezuela have blocked roads across the country and set buildings ablaze in fresh anti-government demonstrations, reports of two deaths, fierce clashes were reported between opposition supporters and security forces outside the capital.

Link: http://govtslaves.info/new-variant-of-ransomware-begins-to-spread-weve-never-seen-anything-like-this/

200,000 computers in 150 countries infected, according to European Union’s law enforcement agency; it’s a live threat,we’re still in disaster recovery mode.”The initial attack was stifled when a security researcher disabled a key mechanism used by the worm to spread, many users of personal computers with Microsoft operating systems didn’t download a security patch released in March that Microsoft had labeled “critical.”

Link: https://sputniknews.com/news/201705161053645818-mcmaster-trump-russia/

Washington Post reported on a "leak" that US President Donald Trump revealed classified intelligence to a major foreign power: a story that is "false," National Security Adviser HR McMaster said Monday night.

Link: https://www.rt.com/business/388407-china-russia-trade-turnover/

Trade between China and Russia growing and will reach $80 billion by the end of the year, Chinese Commerce Ministry spokesman at the 'One Belt, One Road' forum in Beijing. Russian President Vladimir Putin is participating in the forum dedicated to regional integration and cooperation between Asian countries. According to Putin a belt of economic development and trade between Asia and Europe is urgent and important initiative that takes into account trends in the world economy. First four months of this year, Russian-Chinese trade grew at a very fast pace, increased by 26 percent.

Link: https://www.rt.com/usa/388493-ohio-cop-overdose-fentanyl/

An Ohio police officer is recovering from an accidental overdose after making a drug stop where he accidentally brushed a small amount of powder off his shirt without realizing it was the highly potent opioid synthetic drug, fentanyl. Within minutes says he began to feel the effects of the drug, which can be absorbed into the body through contact with the skin.

Link: https://www.rt.com/news/388492-wannacry-ransomware-code-north-korea/

The source for WannaCry ransomware, which has spread to 150 countries, may be Pyongyang or those trying to frame it, security analysts say, pointing to code similarities between the virus and a malware attributed to alleged hackers from North Korea.

Link: http://govtslaves.info/delta-air-lines-plans-to-use-facial-recognition-to-confirm-identity-of-passengers/

Delta Air Lines will be testing facial recognition technology at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport starting this summer. Customers will be required to scan their passports at specially equipped kiosks, where a camera will scan their face to confirm their identity. Delta is spending $600,000 on the new machines.

Link: http://investmentwatchblog.com/dnc-workers-sue-democrat-party-over-slave-wages-for-working-80-90-hours-per-week-at-the-same-time-dnc-was-out-protesting-15hour-they-werent-even-paying-their-own-workers-minimum-wage/

, Democrats attacked the current federal minimum wage as a “starvation wage,” but according to a new lawsuit, they paid their own workers less than the amount currently mandated by law. Justin Swidler, a Philadelphia attorney representing between 40 and 50 “field organizers” around the country is suing the Democratic National Committee, the Pennsylvania Democratic Party, and five more state party organizations on behalf of the staffers, whom he claims were denied overtime compensation.

Link: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4506552/Hamburg-confiscates-flats-ease-migrant-housing-crisis.html

A German council has started confiscating privately-owned apartments to help ease an acute housing shortage made worse by migrants. The houses, located in the central Hamm district, will now be renovated and rented out to tenants of the city's choosing against the will of the owner, who will be billed for the work which is estimated to cost a five-figure sum. Move is the first time residential buildings have been seized in Germany. Germany has accepted around 1.8million migrants and refugees over the past two years,

Link: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/05/trump-tries-to-reassure-worried-farmers-that-immigration-crackdown-is-not-aimed-at-their-workers/

President Donald Trump said he would seek to keep his tough immigration enforcement policies from harming the U.S. farm industry and its largely immigrant workforce, did not want to create labor problems for farmers and would look into improving a program that brings in temporary agricultural workers on legal visas.

Link: https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201705151053638756-turkey-create-military-base-syria/

The General Staff of the Turkish Armed Forces plans to establish a military base near the town of al-Bab in the north of Syria, according to the Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Veysi Kaynak.