Link: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4395310/Boyfriend-forced-watch-refugee-rapes-girlfriend.html

A refugee from Ghana has been arrested for dragging a young woman from her tent and raping her while she was on a camping holiday with her boyfriend. The young couple were on a camping trip in the Siegaue Nature Reserve, north of the former German capital of Bonn, when they were approached by a machete-wielding man at about 12.30am on Sunday last week. The 31-year-old asylum seeker was arrested in Siegburg after a walker recognized him from the police wanted poster.

Following Friday’s cruise missile strike on a Syrian airbase, in retaliation for the chemical attack on Khan Sheikhoun earlier in the week, the alliance supporting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad made a joint statement threatening action in response to “any breach of red lines from whoever it is”.“What America waged in an aggression on Syria is a crossing of red lines. From now on we will respond with force to any aggressor or any breach of red lines from whoever it is and America knows our ability to respond well,” the group’s joint command centre said.

Link: https://sputniknews.com/world/201704091052467243-us-syria-trump-haley/

US President Donald Trump is discussing with members of his administration the possibility of introducing sanctions against Russia and Iran for supporting the Syrian government, US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said Sunday.

Link: https://www.rt.com/news/384094-us-strike-group-korea-nuclear/

“US Pacific Command ordered the Carl Vinson Strike Group north as a prudent measure to maintain readiness and presence in the Western Pacific,” Commander Dave Benham, spokesman at US Pacific Command, Deployed from San Diego to the western Pacific since early January, the strike group has been involved in numerous drills with Japan and South Korea and routine patrol operations in the disputed South China Sea. It is now headed from Singapore to the Western Pacific Ocean, scrapping planned port visits to Australia.

Link: https://www.rt.com/news/384075-isis-executing-civilians-for-fleeing/

Islamic State militants have been killing scores of civilians attempting to flee the war-torn city of Mosul in Iraq, according to eyewitness reports, with as many as 50 people being put to death in the latest mass execution. A woman who successfully made it out of IS-occupied territory described her narrow escape."They took our bags thinking there was gold or money in them, as they were busy checking the contents, we fled through the houses taking advantage of the pitch darkness," she told Reuters. "I fear those families who stayed in Daesh's grip met a terrible fate."

By almost eerie coincidence, Hillary Clinton, mere hours before it was learned that President Donald Trump had authorized cruise-missile strikes on a Syrian airfield, was calling for that very thing.

Link: http://www.activistpost.com/2017/04/reports-u-s-forces-entering-syria-from-jordanian-border.html

Reports coming in from Lebanon and Syria are indicating that the United States is not done with its direct assault on Syria even as the al-Sha’aryat airbase that was targeted by American Tomahawk missiles is back up and running. As independent journalist, Sarah Abdallah, reports, around 20 U.S. armored vehicles have poured across the Jordanian border into Syria.

Link: http://www.blacklistednews.com/Defence_stocks_soar_after_Trump%E2%80%99s_war_crime/57812/0/38/38/Y/M.html

Those with vested interests in the military-industrial complex were celebrating as the stock market showed defence companies increasing their share prices. American company Raytheon, manufactures the Tomahawk Cruise Missiles used in Trump’s attack on Syria. On the 7th of April Raytheon stocks jumped 1.47%. Meanwhile, US aerospace defence company Lockheed-Martin trading up .28% UK defence contractor BAE systems increased its share price a whopping 1.5% At the same time the price of Brent Crude hit its highest levels in a month. For some, big war is big money.

Link: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/04/08/norway-police-find-bomb-like-device-arrest-suspect.html

Police in the Norwegian capital of Oslo cordoned off a large section of a busy commercial street Saturday night after finding what they describe as a “bomb-like” device. The official police Twitter account said one man arrested, bomb disposal experts are on the scene.

Link: https://www.rt.com/news/383902-truck-reportedly-drives-into-people/

Stockholm authorities have confirmed that one person has died in hospital and 15 are injured following the truck attack that took place outside Ahlens department store in the city. Authorities are treating the incident as a possible terrorist attack. Swedish police have issued a warning to avoid Stockholm’s city center. All Stockholm subway services have been shut down, according to TT news agency.

Link: http://www.businessinsider.com/supermarket-apples-10-months-old-2017-4

That apple you just ate is probably 5 months to nearly a year old. In the US, apples are harvested from August to November. Apples that will sell by December go into regular refrigeration. These giant warehouses are kept at 34-38 degrees. Apples that will be sold later go to controlled atmosphere storage. They're stored at lower temperatures and oxygen levels. Oxygen levels are lowered to 2% (normal oxygen levels are around 21%).

Link: http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2017/04/07/517025/Syria-US-air-base-attack

Syria has condemned a US missile attack targeting an army airbase near Homs as a “blatant act of aggression,” Homs Governor Talal Barazi said US missile strikes serve the goals of "armed terrorist groups" and Daesh. Syria has categorically denied carrying out a chemical attack. Russia has said the deaths in Idlib were caused when a Syrian airstrike struck a "terrorist warehouse" used for making bombs with toxic substances.,

Link: http://tass.com/politics/939920

Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov: The US strike against Syria’s facilities is an aggression and impairs both the Russian-US relations and the common fight against terrorism, "Putin also sees the strikes on Syria by the US as an attempt to divert the attention of the international community from numerous civilians casualties in Iraq."

Link: https://www.rt.com/news/383782-us-strikes-syria-tomahawaks/

The US has launched 50 to 60 Tomahawk missiles against the Syrian military base near Homs after President Donald Trump ordered the strikes in response for the chemical attack in Idlib, blaming the incident on President Bashar Assad. Calling it a “targeted military strike,” Trump said the Homs airfield was where the chemical gas attack earlier this week originated from.

Link: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/2017/04/06/irs-commissioner-i-do-not-do-my-own-tax-return-because-code-too-confusing/

IRS Commissioner John Koskinen said the tax code is “more difficult to understand” than when he went to law school so he does not prepare his own tax returns even though I went to law school and took tax courses, but the code, compared to when I was in law school, is phenomenally more complex and more difficult to understand.

Link: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-04-06/nuclear-war-much-more-likely-paul-craig-roberts-dangerous-world-putin-will-not-trust

After a very dubious “chemical attack” in Syria it is clear that war could erupt overnight with any number of middle eastern ‘enemies,’ or with North Korea, Russia or just about anyone else. Combine all the mistrust, aggression and attempts to conflate conflicts into a larger disaster.

Link: http://www.blacklistednews.com/IRS_Seized_%2417_Million_In_Legally_Earned_Cash_From_Business_Owners%2C_Watchdog_Reports/57770/0/38/38/Y/M.html

The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) released a report on March 30 that details how IRS investigators seized hundreds of bank accounts from business owners based on nothing but a suspicious pattern of deposits. In more than 90 percent of those cases, the money was completely legal. The audit also found that investigators violated internal policies when conducting interviews, failed to notify individuals of their rights, and improperly bargained to resolve civil cases.

Link: http://www.alternet.org/economy/could-happen-you-revenue-hungry-cities-mess-traffic-lights-write-more-tickets-and-make

As privately operated red-light cameras proliferate across the country, cities and towns shortening yellow lights spike the number of tickets, and thereby increase revenue. The profits come at a social cost, as shorter yellow light times have been associated with an increase in car accidents.

Link: http://govtslaves.info/heavily-armed-u-s-marshals-are-now-evicting-homeowners-in-d-c/

Heavily armed U.S. marshals, whose normal job is to hunt down dangerous fugitives, are being used to evict tenants in the nation’s capital. SWAT-vest-wearing marshals sneaked into Donya Williams’ apartment with guns drawn were evicting Williams because she had not paid the rent on her Washington, D.C., apartment.

Anti-immigration rhetoric as well as confusing travel and electronic bans have dampened foreign interest in U.S. vacations, especially from Mexico. June 2016, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced visa-free travel for Mexicans. tourism to Canada has been skyrocketing, , according to ForwardKeys, a travel trend predicting firm. When visa-free travel was enacted in December, Mexican visitors increased 82%, a "dramatic response" FowardKeys attributes to changes in the law; says bookings to the U.S. down 9%, despite the dollar weakening against the Mexican peso, which usually drives tourism.