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Germany to eradicate basic civil liberties by forcing the surveillance of smartphone apps and communications as well as absurdly permitting children as young as 6-years-old to be fingerprinted. England moving to completely curtail Internet freedom. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s government passed controversial legislation that gives prosecutors the power to monitor and arrest people in the planning stages of crimes; the new measures will apply to 277 types of crimes which include copyright violations.
Link: https://www.rt.com/news/392386-qatar-buys-us-warplanes/
Qatar has signed a $12-billion contract to buy F-15 fighter jets from the US, the country’s defense ministry reported. The deal was announced just days after US President Trump accused Doha of supporting terrorism.
8,640 stores will close in America this year.. Most of those filings were for small companies — the proverbial Mom & Pop store with a single location, going to put an incredible amount of stress on shopping mall owners. In order to meet their financial obligations, those mall owners need tenants, number of potential tenants is shrinking rapidly. Retail industry employs millions of Americans, those jobs disappearing.
Link: https://www.rt.com/usa/392293-5-officials-flint-indicted-manslaughter/
Michigan’s attorney general has filed new, more serious charges of involuntary manslaughter against five officials in the Flint Water Crisis investigation, among them the head of Michigan’s health department. Heath chief Nick Lyon was charged with two felonies, involuntary manslaughter and misconduct in office, for failing to alert the public about an outbreak in Legionnaires’ disease in the Flint area.
Link: https://www.rt.com/politics/392259-duma-passes-moscow-renovation-bill/
The Russian Lower House passed a bill calling for the demolition of old Moscow buildings, and the residents to be resettled, despite protests from people claiming the construction program could violate citizens’ rights. 8,000 apartment blocks will be torn down and about 1.6 million people will have to be resettled.
The Transportation Security Administration announced on Tuesday that it will begin a new program that allows a travelers’ fingerprints to replace their boarding pass and identification documents.
Link: https://sputniknews.com/us/201706131054571389-israeli-contractor-jailed/
The US Department of Justice announced that a former executive of an Israeli-based defense contractor has been sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison for falsifying documents in the US Department of Defense Foreign Military Financing (FMF) program.
The United States House of Representatives has passed a bill to criminalize “sexting” among teenagers, also punishes their parents by making them face a 15-year mandatory, minimum sentence.
In just over one year, more than 60 holistic doctors and researchers have been found dead, most of them in suspicious circumstances. Christopher Bayley King of San Marcos, California, was a well-respected physician and researcher who focused on the connection between diet and disease.
Researchers at the Massechecets Institute of Technology have developed a new tattoo ink. The ink alters it’s color to reflect the changing levels of sodium or blood sugar, glucose levels in the body and can be used to monitor health.
The study focused on drinking water contaminated by particular types of perfluorochemicals also called PFCs, a group of manufactured compounds” that are primarily used to make surfaces resist stains, water, and grease found in stain-resistant carpeting, non-stick cookware, firefighting equipment, and food packaging.
Link: https://www.rt.com/business/392091-bitcoin-rules-pot-business/
With financial institutions shunning the marijuana industry, cannabis growers are turning to the world’s most popular digital currency bitcoin to offload piles of green bills. Pot businesses in the US have to operate using large amounts of cash as they have no ability to access bank accounts, accept credit cards, or write checks. That’s a logistical headache and constant security threat.
Link: https://www.rt.com/news/392080-eu-legal-action-refugees/
Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka slammed Brussels’ decision and called its plan to deal with migrants “dysfunctional.” Warsaw has also reacted to Brussels’ decision, saying it intends to carry on with its current migration policy and does not intend to accept its quota of refugees. It is ready to defend its right to not take in refugees in an EU court.
Link: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/06/nasa-to-create-colorful-fake-clouds-over-new-york/
NASA is set to launch a rocket that will create colorful artificial clouds over the U.S. East Coast to study part of the Earth’s atmosphere. The clouds should be visible from New York down to North Carolina, and as far west as Charlottesville, Virginia.
Link: http://govtslaves.info/ted-cruz-suggests-u-s-military-response-to-mexican-cartels/
U.S. Senator Ted Cruz suggested that the U.S. military should be used against Mexican transnational criminal groups (cartels).The senator made clear that he was not suggesting unilateral U.S. military action in Mexico, but rather a cooperative effort, as seen in Colombia.
After more than 60 days of protests, President Nicolás Maduro’s dictatorship is running out of supplies to Local media is reporting that the regime has become desperate to acquire anti-riot gear and tear gas, and their efforts have so far proven unsuccessful. Maduro and his ministers of Interior and Defense have tried to buy tear gas from companies in China and Brazil but due to debt, they have been unable to complete a deal.
Two preliminary studies were recently conducted to test the effects of ‘inoculating’ people against believing a certain way in regards to climate change. The studies were carried out as a means of combating the existing information and disinformation that challenges the scientific consensus over the risks of climate change — using information ‘vaccines.’
Link: https://www.rt.com/news/391983-russia-day-protests-detainments/
Dozens were detained at an unauthorized protest in Moscow Moscow police said 4,500 people took part in an unauthorized protest on Tverskaya Street in the center of the Russian capital. More than 150 people were taken to police stations for “breaching public order.
Link: https://www.rt.com/news/391980-tunisia-protest-ramadan-eating-smoking/
Tunisian protesters gathered in defense of the right to eat and drink in public during the Muslim fasting month. The demonstration, organized by a local rights group, comes after the arrests of non-fasters earlier this month. The group called on the government to guarantee the constitutional right of belief and conscience in the country with no laws against non-fasting.
Link: http://www.pravdareport.com/news/world/americas/09-06-2017/137954-us_bombers_russia-0/
hree American strategic nuclear-capable bombers are heading towards the border of the Russian Federation. On Friday morning, the aircraft left Fairford airbase in the UK and headed to the Russian border in the Baltic region. Pravda.Ru reported earlier that in the morning of June 7, a Russian Su-27 fighter intercepted a B-52 bomber and escorted it along the border of the Russian Federation over the Baltic Sea.
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