Link: https://sputniknews.com/latam/201804071063323817-venezuela-currency-collapse-panama-commercial-ties/

Venezuelan bolivar exchange rate collapsed on the black market, exceeding for the first time 300,000 bolivars per US dollar after the authorities decided to impose financial and economic sanctions against Panama, local media reported.

US dollar is now worth 305,000 bolivars, up from 231,000 bolivars in late March and 250,000 bolivars a few days ago, according to the Dolar Today website.

Venezuela announced that it was halting commercial relations with Panamanian officials and companies, banning dozens of them. The 90-day ban concerns 22 Panamanian individuals and 46 Panama-based legal entities.

Link: https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/65073/as-banks-embrace-biometric-tracking-of-customers-cybertheft-explodes-in.html

Mexico has become a haven for the black market of stolen personal data' part of the problem is the widespread impunity cyber criminals enjoy in the country, owing to the absence of adequate legal tools and the lack of enforcement of the existing laws. This year, banks in Mexico are required to begin collecting biometric data (finger prints and iris scans) on all of their customers. Whenever a customer asks for a new home or car loan, cashes a paycheck, applies for a credit card, or opens a new savings account.

Link: http://govtslaves.info/2018/04/big-brother-in-india-requires-fingerprint-scans-for-food-phones-and-finances/

Seeking to build an identification system of unprecedented scope, India is scanning the fingerprints, eyes and faces of its 1.3 billion residents and connecting the data to everything from welfare benefits to mobile phones. ID system presents unique legal issues that will define what the constitutional right to privacy means in the digital age.

Link: https://www.rt.com/business/423508-china-project-forces-rainfall/

Since 2013 China has been creating 55 billion tons of artificial rain a year. Chinese authorities intend to force rainfall and snow over 1.6 million sq km (620,000 sq miles), an area roughly three times the size of Spain.

Government will use new military weather-altering technology developed by state-owned China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation. Rainmaking process or “cloud-seeding” means rocket-launching chemicals into clouds which accelerate the creation of ice crystals that eventually become rain. China also uses military aircraft for those purposes. Rainmaking is also a popular way to “clean up” air in China, where heavy smog is a big problem for many cities.

The practice of weather modification has become more frequent across the country in recent years, including for major public events. In 2008, China launched over 1,100 rockets containing silver iodide into Beijing's skies before the Olympics opening ceremony to disperse clouds and keep the Olympics rain-free

Link: https://www.rt.com/news/422255-us-china-garbage-recyclables-import/

In an effort to battle the "illegal foreign garbage" influx into China, last July China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection notified the World Trade Organization (WTO) that it plans to ban imports of 24 types of solid waste materials, such as soda bottles, mixed paper, recycled steel and newsprint. Concerned over the massive impact the ban could have on the US economy, the US trade representative urged China to re-examine its decision. President Donald Trump ordered the US Trade Representative (USTR) to levy tariffs on at least $50 billion of Chinese imports.

Link: https://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Solar-Energy/Building-The-Worlds-Largest-Solar-Project.html

Saudi Arabia wants to pour $200 billion into solar to build the world’s largest solar project.

The Saudi sovereign wealth fund and SoftBank Group Corp. of Japan jointly announced plans to build a solar project that is staggering in size – 200 gigawatts (GW) by 2030. That would be about 100 times larger than some of the largest projects in the world right now. The country burns oil for about a third of its electricity, a costly way of generating power both environmentally and in terms of lost oil exports. SoftBank’s Son said the 200 GW of solar would cut electricity costs by $40 billion while creating 100,000 jobs.

Link: http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2018/04/02/557226/Israel-African-migrants-UNHRC-Benjamin-Netanyahu

Israel says it has cancelled plans to deport African migrants to Africa, adding that it has instead reached a deal with the United Nations refugee agency to send more than 16,000 to Western countries. Netanyahu identified Canada, Germany, and Italy as some of the countries set to host the migrants. There are currently 42,000 African migrants in Israel, 1,400 asylum seekers being held in two detention centers.

Link: http://strangesounds.org/2018/03/after-150-whales-in-australia-now-50-dolphins-dead-in-argentina-something-bizarre-is-killing-our-marine-mammals.html

March 22, 2018, 143 whales died after a mass-stranding at Hamelin Bay, 10km north of Augusta, Australia. 2 days after, 61 short-beaked dolphins were found washed ashore on a beach resort in Argentina. This mass die-off is unprecedented, as it represents the first case of marine mammals being stranded in this region of Argentina. The cause of this mass stranding and die-off remains unexplained.

Link: https://www.rt.com/news/422746-ghouta-mistura-suicide-belts-provocation/

The Russian military has thwarted dozens of suicide bomb attacks targeting buses of civilians fleeing Syria's eastern Ghouta, Russia's Defense Minister said. Forty-eight explosive belts have been seized within three days.

The buses packed with civilians that are leaving Syria's besieged enclave in their hundreds have been increasingly targeted by terrorists, who seek to blend in with the crowds to sneak explosives on board. The Russian military received tip-offs about the terrorist plots every day, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said during a meeting with UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura on Thursday.

Link: https://sputniknews.com/latam/201804021063128074-nicaragua-holy-week-death-toll/

According to the police, nine people were murdered, 15 were killed in road accidents and 22 more people drowned while resting on the country's beaches. Another huge death toll reported in Venezuela. Last week deadly blaze at the police station in the city of Valencia claimed lives of 66 prisoners and two women, who came to visit their husbands in jail.

Link: https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/64915/horror-on-streets-of-germany-state-of-emergency-declared-as-80-men-brawl-with.html

Police were called to the Altmarkt area of the city over reports of the mass bawl. Officers used CS gas to control the brawling men.

The scores of men were also using telescopic batons in the fight in Druisburg, which is on the west of Germany.

Around 50 people were arrested

Link: https://www.rt.com/politics/422884-magomedov-arrest-billionaire-embezzlement/

Russian billionaire businessman Ziyavudin Magomedov, a co-owner of the Summa investment group, was arrested on Saturday on charges of misappropriating millions in state funds designed for infrastructure and energy projects.

Magomedov was arrested in Moscow together with his brother and Summa co-owner, Magomed Magomedov, and the head of one of the companies involved in Summa, Artur Maksidov.

The businessmen brothers are suspected of theft by fraud and embezzlement while acting as part of an organized crime group. The prosecution believes the stolen money, some 2.5 billion rubles ($44 million), have been transferred from Russia to be deposited in offshore accounts controlled by Magomedov. The exact whereabouts of the money is unknown, the prosecutor's office admitted on Saturday.

Link: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/04/02/trump-rips-amazon-for-forcing-closure-stores-all-over-country.html

Trump: Only fools, or worse, are saying that our money losing Post Office makes money with Amazon. THEY LOSE A FORTUNE, and this will be changed. Also, our fully tax paying retailers are closing stores all over the country...not a level playing field! The tweet also called Washington Post “fake.” The paper, which is owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, continues to be critical of Trump’s presidential campaign and administration.

Link: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/04/02/trumps-slams-mexico-and-dems-as-caravan-immigrants-heads-to-us-southern-border.html

Trump:“Mexico has the absolute power not to let these large ‘Caravans’ of people enter their country,” Trump tweeted. “They must stop them at their Northern Border, which they can do because their border laws work, not allow them to pass through into our country, which has no effective border laws.”

Link: http://www.thedailysheeple.com/scientists-create-a-cheap-paper-water-filter-that-removes-lead-arsenic-and-bacteria-while-being-portable-and-disposable_032018

Liangjie Dong from the University of Hawaii has come up with a revolutionary new technology; Mesopaper, looks like a grey-colored coffee filter you place over the top of a water bottle or jar before pouring water through it. Mesopaper is capable of filtering out heavy metal toxins like lead, arsenic, and mercury, all while preserving important nutrients like calcium and magnesium that benefit health.

Link: http://govtslaves.info/2018/03/woman-sentenced-to-five-years-in-prison-for-voting-while-on-probation/

A woman in Tarrant County, Texas has been sentenced to five years in prison for illegally voting in the 2016 presidential election.

Crystal Mason, who was already a convicted felon for tax fraud, voted while on supervised release, the Dallas Morning News reported. According to Texas law, convicted felons cannot vote until they serve the entirety of their sentence, including supervised release.

Link: http://govtslaves.info/2018/04/houseplants-that-clean-the-air-and-are-basically-impossible-to-kill/

Areca Palmremoves CO2 and converts it into oxygen. Snake or Mother-in-law’s Tongue converts CO2 into oxygen during the night; filters formaldehyde, trichloroethylene, xylene, toluene and benzene from the air . The Gerbera Daisy is effective at removing benzene and trichloroethylene from the air releasing oxygen.

Link: https://www.rt.com/politics/422916-volokolamsk-protest-waste-deposit/

Thousands took to the streets of the Moscow region town of Volokolamsk on Sunday as locals continued protesting against a leaking waste depot nearby, blaming authorities for not doing enough to solve the crisis.

Around 6,000 people took part in the rally in the center of Volokolamsk, Mayor Petr Lazarev said. The turnout was considered large given that the town, located some 130km northwest of Moscow, has a population of just 23,000.

Protesters of all ages chanted "Shut it down!" demanding the closure of the local Yadrovo waste-deposit site, which has been leaking landfill gas in recent months and was linked to illness among nearly 60 children in March.

Link: https://www.rt.com/news/422915-china-us-import-tariffs-response/

Beijing is hiking up tariffs on more than 128 US imports, including fruit and pork, as part of a tit-for-tat response to US President Donald Trump’s $60 billion package of tariffs imposed against China.

The additional fares, which range from 15 to 25 percent, are taking effect on Monday, the Chinese Finance Ministry said on their website. It added that the measure, aimed at “safeguarding China’s interests,” was in response to Washington’s package of tariffs targeting more than 100 types of Chinese goods, from clothing to electronics.

Link: https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/64760/fire-in-siberian-shopping-mall-leaves-at-least-64-people.html

A fire at a shopping centre in the Siberian city of Kemerovo has left at least 64 people dead, many of them children.

Russia’s emergency ministry said that six people are still trapped in the rubble of the smouldering Winter Cherry shopping centre in Kemerovo.

The fire broke out at the shopping centre on a busy Sunday afternoon and quickly engulfed the top floor of the building, spreading through a children’s ice-skating rink, play centre and a two-screen cinema.

It is still unclear what sparked the fire, which was put out on Sunday evening. Authorities on Monday said four arrests had been made in connection with the fire.