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Senator Rubio calls for military coup in Venezuela
Link: https://www.rt.com/usa/418357-rubio-calls-military-coup-venezuela/
Republican Senator Marco Rubio called for the Venezuelan Armed Forces to rebel against the government, in a series of inflammatory tweets posted on Friday. The Secretary of State has hinted at support for a coup d’etat.
“The world would support the Armed Forces in #Venezuela if they decide to protect the people & restore democracy by removing a dictator,” Florida Senator Rubio wrote.
France to pour $45bn into nukes as part of defense spending hike
Link: https://www.rt.com/news/418331-france-boosts-defense-spending/
France wants to boost its military spending by over 40 percent by 2025, giving its nuclear arsenal a multibillion-dollar shot in the arm. France is currently the world’s third-biggest nuclear power.
According to a bill unveiled on Wednesday, the current French defense budget of €34.2 billion ($42 billion) will rise to €50 billion ($61 billion) in 2025, or 2 percent of the nation’s GDP.
Mexico to send troops to stem violence after record 25,000 murders
National Security Commissioner Renato Sales said federal police troops will work with local officials to round up known major criminals and bolster investigations.
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More than 25,000 murders were recorded last year as rival drug gangs increasingly splintered into smaller, more blood-thirsty groups after more than a decade of a military-led campaign to battle the cartels.
The Flu Is FAR WORSE Than We’re Being Told: Tens of Thousands of Americans Are DYING
Link: https://www.theorganicprepper.com/flu-worse-dying/
The dominant Influenza strain this year is H3N2. This particular strain has a history of causing more hospitalizations and more deaths. The Current Flu Has Already Killed 44,116 People. This Year’s Vaccine Is Even Less Effective than Prior Years. Many hospitals are reaching what is called “surge capacity”; the ability to handle a sudden and dramatic increase in the number of patients needing immediate care.
This is happening because there are more patients seeking out emergency care, and they are staying in the hospital longer leading to a scarcity of hospital beds and available staff.
This flu season is an epidemic: Some died just 2 days after onset of symptoms- Video
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) declared this season an epidemic, stating the illness is widespread in at least 39 states.
Although the flu season hasn’t even peaked yet, CDC epidemiologist Lynnette Brammer said more hospitalizations are being reported and deaths are increasing: “We are starting to see cases of severe disease and we are seeing excess deaths“.
California public health officials said the number of deaths and hospitalizations is higher than normal.
Hackers are making U.S. ATMs spit out cash like slot machines- Video
Hackers able to make ATMs spit cash like winning slot machines are now operating inside the United States, marking the arrival of “jackpotting” attacks after widespread heists in Europe and Asia, according to the world’s largest ATM makers and security news website, Krebs on Security.
San Francisco wants to build 12,000 new homes on a former nuclear test site — but the project is in turmoil after the Navy found evidence of a botched cleanup
Link: http://www.businessinsider.com/san-francisco-shipyard-new-evidence-of-botched-cleanup-2018-1
The San Francisco Shipyard, a mixed-use development rising on the site of a former nuclear testing facility, is in limbo amid new allegations.
The Navy has found evidence that a government contractor hired to clean radioactive contamination from the area botched the cleanup.
Almost half of the cleanup work was later showed to be falsified or "suspect." Workers swapped soil samples from contaminated sites with clean ones.
Hacked Japanese cryptocurrency exchange to repay affected users $425 million
Link: https://www.rt.com/business/417198-coincheck-exchange-hack-reparations/
The losses of 260,000 customers of Coincheck, deprived of their money in what appears the to be the biggest crypto heist in history, will be repaid over $425 million. Even that sum does not cover all the damages.
The Japanese cryptocurrency exchange platform Coincheck suspended trading and withdrawals on Friday, as hackers had stolen more than 500 million NEM worth up to ¥58 billion ($532 million). As the news broke the token price plunged more than 15 percent from the day’s high of around $1.02, down to $0.85.
x-Brazil Head Lula Banned from Travelling Abroad Amid Bribery Scandal - Reports
Link: https://sputniknews.com/latam/201801261061084360-lula-brazil-no-travelling/
Brazil's ex-President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was barred Thursday from leaving the country after an appeals court upheld his corruption conviction, the Globo television network said.
Lula denied on Wednesday receiving a seafront apartment from a construction company in exchange for bribes after three judges increased his jail term from 9.5 years to 12 years and a month.
The Brazilian Workers’ Party (PT) said it would still nominate Lula, who was president from 2003 to 2011, to run in next year’s election despite his confirmed conviction.
Billions of pieces of plastic on coral reefs send disease soaring, research reveals
Scientists examined 125,000 corals across the Asia-Pacific region, home to half the world’s reefs, and found 89% of those fouled by plastic were suffering disease. On plastic-free reefs, 4% of the corals were diseased.
The work is highly significant because it is the first to examine the impact of plastic on disease in any marine organism and also the first to produce a large-scale estimate of how much plastic pollutes the sea floor.
At least 8 million tonnes of plastic are dumped in the ocean every year. Microplastics, formed when plastics are broken up, can be mistaken for food by sea creatures.
CryptoRuble introduced as legal tender in draft bill submitted to Russian parliament
Link: https://www.rt.com/business-projects/417001-cryptocurrency-russia-law-ruble/
A draft law introducing the national cryptocurrency CryptoRuble as an official means of payment in Russia has been submitted to parliament.
“The amendments proposed by the draft law ... codify the digital financial asset as a legal means of payment on the territory of Russia,” the document’s explanatory note reads.
Negotiate or lose ‘hundreds of millions’ in aid, Trump tells ‘disrespectful’ Palestinians
Link: https://www.rt.com/usa/417005-trump-palestinians-aid-jerusalem/
“When they disrespected us a week ago by not allowing our great vice president to see them, and we give them hundreds of millions of dollars in aid and support, tremendous numbers, numbers that nobody understands – that money is on the table and that money is not going to them unless they sit down and negotiate peace," Trump said.
“And they [Palestinians] are going to have to want to make peace too, or we’re going to have nothing to do with it any longer,” he added.
Putin calls for development of digital economy within Eurasian Economic Union
Link: https://www.rt.com/business/416293-putin-digital-economy-eeu/
The Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) has reached a significant growth rate and should continue its development, Russian President Vladimir Putin has told leaders of the five-state bloc, according to the Kremlin website. “We assume it is necessary to accelerate implementation of the whole ‘digital agenda’ of the union, and to coordinate efforts on development of the ‘internet economy,’ creation of general digital trade rules, equal standards of exchange, and protection of information,” he said in the statement.
Putin called for the enactment of high technologies in public administration, industry, customs regulation systems and other areas, as well as “launching joint competitive, innovative and knowledge-intensive industries.”
According to the Russian president, it is important to “continue working jointly with our integration partners to remove the remaining barriers, limitations and restrictions in the way of building a common economic space. Our task is to intensify efforts towards creating single markets for goods and services, and providing conditions for free capital and workforce flow.”
Vermont's governor is expected to sign a bill legalizing marijuana before Monday
Vermont Senate has passed a bill that legalizes the possession and consumption of marijuana and allows state residents to grow the plant in their homes.
Gov. Phil Scott is expected to sign the bill before Monday's deadline, which would make Vermont the first state to legalize marijuana through a state legislature, rather than a ballot initiative.
The bill, however, doesn't set up a commercial market for the sale of marijuana.
Turkish Jets Hit Menagh Airbase Used by US to Supply Arms to Kurds - Reports
Link: https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201801201060923848-syria-turkey-minning-airport-kurds-us-weapons/
More than 70 Turkish military aircraft have been engaged in Ankara's Olive Branch operation in northern Syria against the Kurdish troop, according to Turkey' General Staff.
The Turkish Air Force attacked the Menagh Military Airbase in northwestern Syria, which the US used for supplying weapons to Kurdish armed forces, the Hurriyet newspaper reported citing military sources.
The newspaper noted that the airfield was among the 113 targets scheduled for the attack during Operation Olive Branch in Syrian Africa.
African migrants bring untreatable form of tuberculosis to Europe
Link: https://voiceofeurope.com/2018/01/african-migrants-bring-untreatable-form-tuberculosis-europe/
Experts of the University of Zurich, in Switzerland, discovered a “multidrug-resistant” form of tuberculosis in eight refugees who came from the Horn of Africa.
In a new official report the Swiss laboratory mentions several cases from 2016. The head of diagnostics Peter Keller says:
“These bacteria exhibited a new combination of resistance mutations against four different antibiotics that had never before been seen.”
The report says a laboratory in Germany also registered a case “with the same pathogen”. After checking data of the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), a total of 21 cases were identified. All cases were related to patients had also come from either the Horn of Africa or Sudan.
Berlin Halts Sale of Weapons to Yemen War Belligerents
Link: https://sputniknews.com/military/201801211060944368-germany-stops-saudi-arms-sales/
After almost quintupling its sale of weapons to Riyadh between 2016-2017, Berlin announced Friday that it would halt arms sales to any nation participating in the war in Yemen, including Saudi Arabia — a major armaments buyer and its allies, including United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Sudan, accusing the coalition of waging a "dirty war" in Yemen that has killed thousands of civilians.— "immediately," according to Financialtimes.com.
Snow Won’t Stop Them: Widespread Corruption Protests Across Romania
Link: https://sputniknews.com/society/201801211060945282-thousands-protest-in-snowy-romania/
In ongoing protests against corruption in Romania, tens of thousands marched in heavy snow in the capital city of Bucharest as the government guts judicial impartiality and sees the appointment of its third prime minister in just one year. Unpopular modifications to the judicial system include altering the criminal code to favor decriminalising some forms of corruption, a move lawmakers will debate after parliament returns to work in February.
Erdogan accuses allies of sending ‘thousands of planeloads' and 'truckloads of arms' to Kurds Video
Link: https://www.rt.com/news/416555-erdogan-kurds-accuse-allies/
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has turned on Ankara’s allies, insinuating that the US in particular has been providing massive military support to Kurdish YPG in Syria.
In a speech to his ruling AK Party Erdogan said that ‘some allies’ of Turkey had provided the YPG Syrian Kurdish militia with 2,000 planeloads and 5,000 truckloads of weapons. This weekend, Turkey began operation ‘Olive Branch’ against Kurdish forces in Afrin, deploying jets and land forces.
Trump cites federal report on foreign-born terrorists to urge immigration reform
President Donald Trump on Tuesday used a new report from the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security — revealing that nearly three out of four individuals convicted on international terrorism charges in the U.S. were foreign-born — to call for immigration reform.
The DHS and DOJ released the report to “be more transparent with the American people,” abiding by the guidelines of Trump’s March 6 executive order, known as the travel ban.
According to the report, at least 549 people were convicted of international terrorism-related charges in the U.S. between September 11, 2001 and December 31, 2016. Of those convicted, 254 were not U.S. citizens, 148 were foreign-born and received citizenship and 147 were citizens by birth.
DHS in 2017 denied U.S. entry to 2,554 people on the terror watch list.
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