Link: https://www.rt.com/usa/387297-furanyl-fentanyl-overdoses-deaths/

US police have issued an urgent public alert after a spate of deaths from a drug so potent it can kill anyone who touches it. The opioid known as furanyl fentanyl – a version of the powerful synthetic painkiller fentanyl – can cause a fatal overdose just by being absorbed through the skin. It’s reportedly caused 19 deaths in the state of Georgia over the last year.

Link: http://www.blacklistednews.com/Newly_Declassified_Documents_Detail_Chiquita%E2%80%99s_Use_Of_Armed_Paramilitaries_In_Colombia/58246/0/38/38/Y/M.html

For years, Chiquita Brands International’s Colombia-based offices paid money to armed groups to guarantee that their personnel and facilities would not be harmed during the country’s civil war, according to a new report by Verdad Abierta and the National Security Archive. The armed groups, according to the report, include paramilitaries, the Colombian Army and leftist guerillas.

Link: https://sputniknews.com/us/201705041053284614-us-sa-terrorism/

Commercial vehicles - distinguished by their large size, weight and carrying capacity - present attractive mechanism for vehicle ramming attacks because of the ease with which they can penetrate security barriers and the large-scale damage they can inflict, according to report of the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA). Truck owners and rental agencies should protect their vehicles from theft amid the growing frequency of ramming attacks by terrorists.

Link: https://www.rt.com/usa/387168-new-york-collects-1bn-fines/

New York City scooped up $993 million in fines in 2016, driven by a spike in quality of life violations. The fines show a 22 percent increase in revenue since 2013, according to the city comptroller. City officials handed out nearly 700,000 “quality of life” fines in 2016,include violations such as littering and noise pollution, sidewalk violations and public health and safety violations. Parking tickets and traffic violations are the lead revenue generator for fines, 11 million tickets in a given year, 55 percent of all fines, total of $545 million.

Link: https://www.rt.com/news/387105-syria-talks-safe-zones/

Ceasefire guarantor states Russia, Iran and Turkey have adopted a memorandum on the creation of four security zones in Syria, during peace talks in the Kazakh capital of Astana. Checkpoints and observation posts are to be positioned along the de-escalation lines within the safe zones, according to the document. They will provide free movement of unarmed civilians and humanitarian access to the areas, under guarantor states’ control.

Link: https://www.rt.com/news/387119-turkey-strikes-kurdish-us/

A senior aide to Turkish President Erdogan has stated that US forces in Syria could be “accidentally” hit by Turkish rockets alongside Kurdish militants, stating that Ankara won't hold back a strike against PKK militia just because US troops are present.

Link: http://postnewsd2.blogspot.in/2017/05/humans-must-leave-earth-within-next-100.html

British physicist Stephen Hawking have warned that humans must leave Earth and to colonise another planet within the next 100 years to ensure survival said that humans may lack the skills as a species to stay alive. Nuclear or biological war, climate change, asteroid strikes and overpopulation.. may destroy us all.

Link: http://thefreethoughtproject.com/oil-company-arrest-landowners-protesting/

Judge George Zanic signed a “writ of possession” order last week in favor of Sunoco, which had sought an “emergency measure” to thwart landowners protesting pipeline construction by occupying trees — on their own property. Charges against Ellen Gerhart were dropped after she was arrested last year for trespass on her own property.

Link: http://govtslaves.info/flint-puts-8000-people-on-notice-for-tax-liens-for-unpaid-water-bills/

Thousands of people in Flint are at risk of losing their homes to foreclosure if they don’t pay up on their water bills. After recently putting out shut-off notices the city is now back to threatening tax liens on people’s homes. City leaders say they are in a bind and they need the cash. Al Mooney, City of Flint Treasury Department:.“We have to have revenue coming in.

Link: http://www.thedailysheeple.com/china-demands-calm-from-agitated-north-korea-and-trump_052017

China called for all sides in the North Korean standoff to stay calm and “stop irritating each othe just one day after Pyongyang said the US was pushing the region closer to a nuclear war. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang called the situation between the two sides “highly complex” and sensitive. “The urgent task is to lower temperatures and resume talks Russia backs China’s call to stop N. Korea nuke tests in exchange for halt in US-S. Korea drills. “We again urge all relevant parties to remain calm and exercise restraint create an atmosphere for contact and dialogue.

Link: https://www.rt.com/news/386959-iran-islamic-control-saudi/

Saudi Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman al-Saud, the kingdom’s defense minister: We know that the aim of the Iranian regime is to reach the focal point of Muslims [Mecca] and we will not wait until the fight is inside Saudi Arabia and we will work so that the battle is on their side, inside Iran, not in Saudi Arabia,”

Link: https://www.rt.com/news/387005-rabobank-guards-atm-bombings/

Rabobank in the Netherlands is hiring security personnel to stand guard at its ATMs at night to reduce the number of bombing attacks on cash machines. The move comes after a spate of robberies targeting the bank’s ATMs. 79 ATMs were hit last year, criminals using increasingly powerful explosives to blow open the machines and take the cash inside; following a blast at a shopping center in the eastern city of Doetinchem on April 17.Six homes had to be evacuated, bomb disposal team was called after authorities discovered that thieves had left some explosives behind. Part of a Rabobank branch in the small town of Vinkel collapsed after a bomb attack in the early hours of the morning.

Link: http://naturalsociety.com/un-urges-action-microplastics-ocean-outnumber-stars-1343/

there are more microscopic pieces of plastic in our oceans than there are stars in the Milky Way; as many as 51 trillion microplastic particles in the oceans – 500 times more than stars in the galaxy, estimated that oceans will have more plastic than fish if changes are not made.The UN wants to eliminate 2 major sources of plastic pollution by 2025: microbeads in cosmetic products, and single-use plastics like water bottles and plastic bags

Link: https://www.democraticunderground.com/10141765515

A Texas police officer who fired a rifle into a car full of teenagers in a Dallas suburb on Saturday night, killing a black teenager, was fired on Tuesday, the police chief of the Balch Springs Police Department said. Chief Jonathan Haber: officer, Roy Oliver, had violated numerous department policies and terminated his employment after an internal investigation into the shooting. Prosecutors are investigating the shooting and could bring charges.

Link: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/05/cleveland-police-union-to-sue-toy-gun-producers-media/

Cleveland’s police union will file a lawsuit in the coming months against toy gun manufacturers, an attempt to restrict production of realistic designs like the one a child was playing with before he was fatally shot by officers in the city. Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson and former county prosecutor Tim McGinty previously blamed the toy gun, in part, for the shooting.“These fake weapons put the community at risk, put law enforcement at risk, something has to be done,

Link: https://www.rt.com/news/386828-china-thaad-south-korea/

Beijing has called for an immediate stop to the deployment of the US Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) anti-missile system to South Korea and is ready to protect its interests, according to the Chinese Foreign Ministry.

Link: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-05-02/us-deploys-high-altitude-drone-spy-north-korean-nuclear-facilities

The US Air Force deployed an RQ-4 Global Hawk high-altitude surveillance drone at Yokota Air Base on Monday night, starting a five-month operation in Tokyo, Japan Times reports. The drone, the first of five to arrive in Japan, is tasked to survey ballistic missiles and nuclear facilities in North Korea,

Link: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-4465150/Air-circulating-planes-TOXIC.html

Known as 'aerotoxic-syndrome', it can lead to blurred vision, seizures, headaches, nausea, diarrhoea and even breathing difficulties. Last year, three airline crews at the Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport have received emergency medical care with such symptoms. Most of today’s planes have systems in which the cabin contains a mix of recycled air and warm compressed air drawn from their engines.There are seals designed to keep oil and bleed air apart, but they can leak or fail and organophosphates contained in heated engine oil can contaminate the unfiltered bleed air that is pumped into the aircraft cabin.The Boeing 787 Dreamliner is the only aircraft where this does not occur, as it uses electric compressors that take their air from the atmosphere.

Link: http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=56685

More than 20 immigrant workers in Michigan were stunned to find themselves out of a job after they skipped work to attend a “Day Without Immigrants” rally in February. The former employees of Detroit-area auto parts maker EZ Industrial Solutions LLC say they were wrongfully fired, despite warnings from company management that there would be repercussions for missing work without permission.They are now taking their case to federal labor regulators, charge filed with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the immigrant workers from Mexico and Central America claim EZ Industrial Solutions unjustly fired them for taking part in a political protest.

Link: http://www.alternet.org/drugs/chris-christie-deranged-reefer-madness-rant

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie unleashed a diatribe against the push to legalize recreational marijuana in New Jersey, warningit's "not time for us to be cool and say, 'Pot's O.K;.' has long been opposed to legalizing marijuana, "We are in the midst of the public health crisis on opiates, has been tapped by President Trump to chair a commission to fight the opioid abuse epidemic in America; "warned marijuana is a gateway to harder substances;, noted that 52,000 people died from opioid overdoses in the U.S. last year."I am the only thing that has stood between legalized pot in this state and you for seven years," Democratic-controlled state Legislature plan to introduce a bill next year that would make New Jersey the latest U.S. state to legalize, tax, and regulate recreational marijuana use. Eleven states and Washington D.C.voted to make pot legal..