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Court Decision Could Lead to EPA Banning Water Fluoridation
Link: https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/66885/court-decision-could-lead-to-epa-banning-water.html
A federal court has denied an attempt by the Environmental Protection Agency to dismiss a lawsuit seeking to ban the use of fluoride under the Toxic Substances Control Act. The substances added to municipal water supplies known by the name fluoride are actually a combination of unpurified byproducts of phosphate mining. In the United States thousands of tons of fluorosilicic acid is recovered from phosphoric acid plants and then used for water fluoridation. During this process the fluoride ion is created.
This process of taking waste from the phosphate industry and putting it into drinking water has long been criticized for its effects on human health and the environment.
Europe threatens US with new tariffs worth $300bn as trade war escalates
Link: https://www.rt.com/business/431463-eu-trump-tariffs-automakers/
US President Donald Trump recently threatened to hit imports of European cars with a 20 percent tariff if Brussels doesn’t remove levies and other trade barriers on US goods.
Trump said on Sunday that the EU was “as bad” as China when it came to the way European countries traded with the US.
Ecuador judge orders arrest of ex-president Rafael Correa
Link: https://www.rt.com/news/431653-correa-ecuador-arrest-order/
The National Court of Justice of Ecuador has ordered the preventive detention of the country's former president Rafael Correa and requested that Interpol apprehend him for extradition.
The request for Correa’s detention was filed by the country’s chief prosecutor on Tuesday. The prosecution is accusing Correa, who served as the president of Ecuador from 2007 to 2017, of being involved in the kidnapping of Fernando Balda, a former opposition lawmaker, in 2012 in Colombia - charges that Correa vehemently denies.
Balda himself was charged with orchestrating a foiled coup attempt in 2010. The charges were filed when the lawmaker was in Colombia, from where he was eventually deported to Ecuador in 2012 and served a year in prison for endangering state security.
Correa is living in Belgium with his family.
US to limit Chinese investment in American tech firms – report
Link: https://www.rt.com/business/430757-us-limit-chinese-investment/
The US plans to ban firms with at least a quarter Chinese ownership from buying US companies with “industrially significant technology,” the Wall Street Journal reported, as a trade war between Washington and Beijing intensifies. “We’ve got trillions of dollars seeking our crown jewels of technology,” the newspaper quotes White House trade adviser Peter Navarro as saying. “There has to be a defense against that.”
Obstacle to drug-free society: Russia says Canada’s weed legalization violates intl laws
Link: https://www.rt.com/news/430754-russia-criticises-canada-weed-legalization/
Moscow has accused Ottawa of trampling on international law, which it says explicitly prohibits any circulation of weed unless it's for medical or scientific purposes. Canada has become the first Western country to legalize pot. The scope of international treaties, of which Ottawa is a signee, does not allow for any “exceptions” or “flexible interpretation” of the principle that states the use of drugs must be limited to medicine and research, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Friday after Canada’s “Cannabis Act” became law on Thursday.
By legalizing the recreational use of marijuana, Canada “commits a deliberate and flagrant violation of its international obligations it assumed under the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, the 1971 Convention of Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 UN Convention against illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances,” the ministry said.
Such “drug liberalization” will become a “serious obstacle” on the way to a drug-free society, it warned, calling on Canada’s fellow G7 members to stand up to its “arbitrariness.”
Canadian Prime Minister Says Marijuana Will Be Legal Nationwide Starting October
On Wednesday, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that marijuana will become legal nationwide starting October 17. Canada’s Senate passed the federal government’s bill to legalize marijuana nationwide Tuesday.
Although Trudeau’s government had hoped to legalize pot nationwide by July 1, the government announced Tuesday that it will take several weeks for provincial and territorial governments to prepare for retail sales.
Small Asian nation dumps dollar & yuan for gold amid growing global trade hostilities
China’s neighbor Kyrgyzstan has been piling up gold reserves as a hedge against a possible trade war between Beijing and Washington.
The country is seeking to boost the share of gold in its $2-billion international reserves to 50 percent from its current 16 percent.
Gold is Kyrgyzstan’s largest export. Since 2014, the country’s central bank has been buying up as much of the country’s gold as possible,
‘Small Gov’t’ Politicians Stealing Homes from US Families to Give Foxconn a Factory to Make iPhones
Politicians—who claim to be for limited government and free markets—are engaging in an insidious plot to seize homes from families and give them to the Taiwanese manufacturing giant Foxconn.
The factory will be used to manufacture LCD screens for iPhones, iPads, and other electronic devices. the company is going to be granted special privilege to decimate resources and pollute the environment.
, Foxconn was given a blank check to drain 7 million gallons of water a day from Lake Michigan—at no cost to the company; also granted Foxconn air permits to pump pollutants like volatile organic compounds and nitrogen oxides into the air.
To “create jobs” local residents are being forced out of their homes in order for the state to collect the property needed for the plant’s massive footprint
Terrifying new strain of bird flu that kills over a third of those who contract it
A new strain of deadly bird flu which kills 38 per cent of those infected and could spark a global pandemic has been identified in China.
Scientists around the world believe the new pathogen, dubbed “Disease X”, could be as lethal as 1918 Spanish flu which killed up to 100 million people.
Professor Jonathan Van-Tam, deputy chief medical officer for England, told The Telegraph that virus H7N9, which is circulating poultry in China, could cause a global outbreak.
He said: “[H7N9] is an example of another virus which has proven its ability to transmit from birds to humans.
“It’s possible that it could be the cause of the next pandemic.”
In China, the deadly pathogen has killed 623 of the 1,625 people which have been infected.
Americans own 40 percent of world's firearms: study
Link: http://www.orrazz.com/2018/06/americans-own-40-percent-of-worlds.html
Americans make up only four percent of the global population but they own 40 percent of the world's firearms, a new study said Monday.There are more than one billion firearms in the world, 85 percent of those are in the hands of civilians, with the remainder held by law enforcement and the military, according to the Small Arms Survey.
The survey, produced by the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, says its estimates based on multiple sources, including civilian firearms registration data from 133 countries and territories and survey results in 56 countries.
Of the 857 million guns owned by civilians, 393 million are in the United States - more than all of the firearms held by ordinary citizens in the other top 25 countries combined.
"Ordinary American people buy approximately 14 million new and imported guns every year.
Americans have access to powerful firearms that are not available in many other countries due to tighter legislation.
Putin's interview for Austrian television: Tough answers to most provocative questions
Link: http://www.pravdareport.com/russia/politics/05-06-2018/141045-putin_austrian_interview-0/
Putin :"Austria and Russia have long had very good and deep relationship. Austria is our traditional and reliable partner in Europe. Despite all the difficulties of previous years, with Austria, we have never interrupted our dialogue in politics, security and economy." "We have no goal to divide anything in the European Union, we are interested in the prosperous EU, because the European Union is our largest trade and economic partner, and the more problems the European Union has, the more risks and uncertainties we have to deal with. There is such a person in the United States, Mr. Soros, who interferes in all affairs throughout the world.
Russians start protesting against retirement age law
Link: http://www.pravdareport.com/russia/economics/18-06-2018/141117-russia_retirement_age-0/
The Russians start to express their protests against the recent decision of the Russian government decided that men will be able to retire when they turn 65, women will have to turn 63. Presently, the retirement age in Russia is 55 years for women and 60 for men.
Putin to sign new decree to spend ten trillion rubles on social needs
Link: http://www.pravdareport.com/russia/economics/24-04-2018/140837-russia_social-0/
President Putin may sign a new decree after his inauguration on May 7 about the development of healthcare system and infrastructure in Russia. The presidential administration is to prepare decrees on "improving the living standards of citizens, ensuring the sustainable growth of their real incomes, increasing the level of pensions above the inflation rate and halving the level of poverty in the country."
In addition, by analogy with 2012 decrees, new "national goals" are to be elaborated to target such issues as education, health, housing, roads and small businesses.
Billionaire investor Jim Mellon: Sharp sell-off in US stocks is the start of a ‘very major correction’… Today’s stock market is the most overvalued on record — more so than in 1929, 2000 and 2007.
A market correction is inevitable even without trade war fears, billionaire investor Jim Mellon told CNBC’s “Worldwide Exchange” on Tuesday. Mellon is not alone in suggesting that today’s stock market is the most overvalued on record — more so than in 1929, 2000 and 2007.
Freshly announced trade tariffs from the White House may be sending stocks into a tailspin, but a market correction is inevitable even without them,
A Record Number Of People Were Displaced In 2017 For 5th Year In A Row
A record number of people have been forcibly displaced by war, violence and persecution, according to a new report from the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. 68.5 million people were forcibly displaced in 2017, setting a new record for the fifth straight year. 138,700 unaccompanied and separated children sought refuge and asylum in 2017, according to the agency. The U.N. says an average of 44,000 people were displaced every day, or one person every two seconds. The agency calculates that one in every 110 people in the world is a refugee,either internally displaced or seeking asylum.
Canada's House Votes To Legalize Marijuana, Sending Bill To Senate
Recreational marijuana use is a step closer to being legal in Canada, after the House of Commons approved the Cannabis Act on Monday. The legislation is now in the Senate, where it has been the subject of debate and proposed amendments.
Canada's parliamentary system, the House of Commons is the more powerful of the two chambers. The Senate, whose members are appointed rather than elected, plays a somewhat controversial role and is often the subject of talk about reform — similar to Britain's House of Lords.
Canada's minister of justice sponsored the cannabis bill; the government announced its push for legalization last spring with an official news release that stated, "The current approach to cannabis does not work."
The government said that making marijuana illegal "has allowed criminals and organized crime to profit.
The Texas Republican Party Now Supports Rolling Back Marijuana Prohibition. What’s Next?
Texas Republican Party’s statewide convention voted by wide margins in favor of several roll-backs of marijuana prohibition.
With over 80 percent support, the delegates approveddecriminalizing possession of up to an ounce of marijuana, moving marijuana from Schedule 1 to Schedule 2 of the United States government’s Controlled Substances Act, urging the Texas legislature to “pass legislation allowing cultivation, manufacture, and sale of industrial hemp and hemp products; expansion of the state’s rather limited low-THC cannabis oil medical program, received over 90 percent support.
Trump: I’ll Authorize Cancellation of Aid To Nations Sending Illegals
Link: https://www.infowars.com/trump-ill-authorize-cancellation-of-aid-to-nations-sending-illegals/
Countries that allow immigrants to infiltrate America will no longer be eligible for US aid, President Trump claimed Tuesday saying, “We must always arrest people coming into our Country illegally.” “Think of all that aid we give to some of these countries. Hundreds of millions of dollars we give to these countries.
Moscow to Introduce Import Duties on US Products in Response to Tariffs
Link: https://sputniknews.com/business/201806191065552005-russia-duties-us-products/
Russia notified the WTO about a possible introduction of tariffs on US goods at $537.6 million a year in response to tariffs on steel and aluminum.
In late March, the US imposed a 25 percent tariff on imported steel products and 10 percent tariff on imported aluminum products.
No F-35s for Turkey: US Senate blocks sale of fighter jets to Ankara
US Senators voted to block sale of F-35s to Turkey, slamming their NATO ally for plans to buy Russian S-400 missile batteries. Ankara warned of “an alternative” should the deal be called off.
The first of the 100 US-made F-35 fighter jets were to be delivered to Turkey on June 21 but now the whole deal might be off as the US Senators voted to kill the sale. The bill, which is yet to be approved by President Donald Trump, passed the Senate floor on Monday, with 85 votes in favor and 10 against.
Lawmakers chose to remove Turkey from the F-35 program, citing two reasons – the first is Turkey’s plans to purchase S-400 surface-to-air missile batteries from Russia. The adopted bill states that such a deal “is sanctionable under current United States law.” The agreement to deliver two S-400 batteries was concluded between Moscow and Ankara last year, and the prospects of a key NATO ally in the region buying Russian arms immediately unnerved the US politicians.
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