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WTO allows Mexico to impose trade sanctions against US
Link: https://www.rt.com/business/386173-us-mexico-wto-tuna/
The World Trade Organization has ruled for Mexico in a dispute with the United States over the trade in tuna fish. Mexico can now slap a $163.23 million fine on the US every year until the situation is resolved. Mexico's economy ministry said it will impose sanctions immediately, after getting a third of the $472.3 million it had asked for.
$100,000 CONSIDERED ‘LOW INCOME’ IN PARTS OF BAY AREA
Link: http://govtslaves.info/100000-considered-low-income-in-parts-of-bay-area/
Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) says a family of four in San Francisco or San Mateo County with an income of 105,350 is now considered “low income.”
Cops Detain Entire School, Illegally Search/Grope 900 Kids — Find NOTHING, Parents Furious
Worth County Sheriff’s office conducted an illegal search of 900 students — in the war on drugs, aggressive patdowns and drug dog searches yielded absolutely nothing. When multiple students complained about being groped by the intrusive deputy, Sheriff Hobby ensured parents and school officials that “corrective action was taken to make sure the behavior will not be repeated.”
Russian Jets Intercept Growing Number of NATO Drones Near Crimea © Sputnik/ Vitaliy Ankov
Link: https://sputniknews.com/russia/201703031051215066-russian-aircraft-nato-drones-crimea/
The Russian military has increased the number of sorties flown out of Crimea over recent days due to rising NATO drone activity in the area, a security source told Sputnik on Thursday. “Sorties by interceptor aircraft from the Belbek airbase have gotten more frequent over the last 10 days due to intensified NATO remotely piloted aircraft activity near the Crimean air frontier. NATO drones, mainly Poseidon and Global Hawk UAVs, are controlled by operators stationed in Mediterranean countries and carry out aerial and radar reconnaissance near the air frontier of the peninsula.
Security First: US May Introduce Ban on Laptops Aboard Flights From UK
The administration of US President Donald Trump is reportedly considering a ban on taking large electronic devices to the cabins of US-bound flights from UK airports. According to The Guardian newspaper, the ban would be similar to the restrictions imposed on the flights to the United States from some Middle Eastern countries. In March, the United States and the United Kingdom banned electronic devices larger than a cellphone in the cabins of direct flights to the United States from Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Morocco, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and the UAE. The United Kingdom has implemented a similar restriction on flights from Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia and Turkey. According to media reports, the ban might have been introduced partly due to a foiled terror attack by means of an iPad tablet, packed with explosives.
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UN 'deeply concerned' over safety of 400,000 civilians fleeing US-led coalition airstrikes in Raqqa Video
Link: https://www.rt.com/news/386002-raqqa-un-concerns-us-airstrikes/
The offensive has resulted in "an escalating number of civilian deaths” as well as damage to vital civilian infrastructure.."In past weeks, civilians have been exposed to daily fighting and airstrikes which resulted in an escalating number of civilian deaths and injuries as well as damage to civilian infrastructure, including hospitals, schools, markets and water infrastructure," a Monday statement from a spokesman for UN Secretary General read."There are worries" about how the US-backed operation will affect civilians, Farhan Haq, deputy spokesman for the UN Secretary-General told RT.
Officials Advise Citizens What to Do if North Korea Nukes Japan
Link: https://sputniknews.com/asia/201704251052997596-japan-warns-north-korean-attack/
Japan has warned its citizens that, in the case of a North Korean nuclear attack, they may have as few as four minutes to rush to safety. The government's advice: those outside should proceed to a strong concrete building or underground in a calm, orderly fashion. Those already inside should stay low to the floor, take cover under tables and stay away from windows. Students are advised to hide under their desks. While "duck and cover" would do little for those engulfed by a nuclear fireball, it could protect the citizenry outside the explosion's radius from other dangers such as broken glass and other shrapnel, intense heat, thermal burns and eye damage. Japan knows this better than most. During the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japanese citizens often rushed to the windows when they saw the bright flash of light, increasing the human toll of the attack. Sales of bomb shelters and air purifiers have skyrocketed in Japan in recent months.
Groundwater drunk by BILLIONS of people may be contaminated by radioactive material spread across the world by nuclear testing in the 1950s
Researchers looked at more than 6,000 wells around the globe, some containing water more than 10,000 years old, found more than half had traces of tritium. Even at low doses, tritium has been linked with increased risk of mutation and cancer because it goes directly into the tissues of organs of the human body. Tritium is a radioactive form of hydrogen, with a 12.3 year half-life.
Report: Nuclear-powered USS Michigan to arrive in South Korea
Link: https://www.democraticunderground.com/10141760087
A nuclear-powered U.S. submarine USS Michigan, the second Ohio-class nuclear-powered guided missile submarine in the U.S. Navy is to arrive at the South Korean port city of Busan on Tuesday, the same day North Korea is expected to commemorate the 85th anniversary of the founding of the Korean People's Army. The U.S. supercarrier Carl Vinson is also expected to arrive near the peninsula this week.
Two die in Venezuela protests
Link: https://www.democraticunderground.com/10141760177
Two people were killed in Venezuela on Monday in renewed violence, raising the death toll in three weeks of massive demonstrations against leftwing President Nicolas Maduro to 23, officials said. Several others were seriously injured and "between life and death," said public defender Tarek William Saab. The latest casualties come on a day anti-Maduro demonstrators blocked major roads in the South American nation.
France is trying to stop Marine Le Pen at all costs
Link: http://nypost.com/2017/04/24/france-is-trying-to-stop-marine-le-pen-at-all-costs/
France’s political mainstream, shut out of the presidency by an angry electorate, united on Monday to call on voters to back centrist Emmanuel Macron and reject Marine Le Pen’s populist nationalism. Le Pen went on the offensive against Macron in her first public comments Monday.“He is a hysterical, radical ‘Europeanist.’ He is for total open borders. says there is no such thing as French culture.. There is not one domain that he shows one ounce of patriotism,” .
Erdogan set to discuss S-400 missile systems with Putin: Turkish minister
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is expected to discuss a contract for buying the advanced S-400 long-range air missile defense system during an upcoming meeting with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, Turkey’s defense minister Fikri Isik said on Monday that President Erdogan would discuss the deal during a planned meeting with Putin on May 3.
Outrage After At Least 5 EU Nations Elect Saudi Arabia On UN Women's Rights Council
UN Watch, a human rights organization monitoring the performance of the United Nations, strongly condemned the appointment of Saudi Arabia to post,citing Riyadh’s poor women’s rights record and widespread gender inequality. “Electing Saudi Arabia to protect women’s rights is like making an arsonist into the town fire chief. It’s absurd,” Hillel Neuer, the UN Watch chief, said. Every Saudi woman “must have a male guardian who makes all critical decisions on her behalf, controlling a woman’s life from her birth until death. Saudi Arabia also bans women from driving cars,
I’m in Awe of How Fast Brick-and-Mortar Retail is Melting Down
Link: http://investmentwatchblog.com/im-in-awe-of-how-fast-brick-and-mortar-retail-is-melting-down/
Mall traffic is sagging. Department store sales have been in decline since 2001. Most retailers are loaded up with debt. Many have been losing money Store closings numbered in the thousands last year. “Zombie malls” vast parking lots rented to car dealers to store their excess vehicle inventory. E commerce sales are booming, including online sales by some brick-and-mortar retailers, such as Walmart and Macy’s: Over-indebted retailers are notoriously difficult to restructure and many end up being liquidated
China’s Xi urges restraint during Trump call as ‘USS Carl Vinson’ heads for Korean waters
Link: https://www.rt.com/news/385941-china-restraint-trump-north-korea/
The Chinese president called for all sides to exercise restraint during a phone call with US leader Donald Trump on the issue of Pyongyang North Korean state media warned the US of “catastrophic consequences” of its deployment of the ‘USS Carl Vinson.’ President Xi Jinping told Trump during the call China strongly opposes North Korea's nuclear weapons program, according to CCTV; “hopes that all relevant sides exercise restraint, and avoid doing anything to worsen the tense situation on the peninsula; said the nuclear issue can only be resolved quickly if all relevant countries are pulling in the same direction, adding that Beijing is willing to work with all parties – including the US – to ensure peace.
‘Hang gliding jihadist’ has US citizenship revoked for plotting terrorist bombing campaign
Link: https://www.rt.com/usa/385935-hang-gliding-jihadist-citizenship/
A man convicted of being a member of an Egyptian terrorist organization has had his US citizenship revoked. Khaled Abu al-Dahab was found to have trained budding jihadists to hang glide as part of a plan to bomb targets from the air in Egypt.
Burned-out cars & police brutality: VIDEOS capture violence in France amid presidential vote
Link: https://www.rt.com/news/385889-paris-protests-burned-cars-videos/
Protests, violence and vandalism flared up in Paris as results of the first round of the tight presidential race were being counted. Disillusioned French youth protested what many of them see as a political “masquerade.”
Stores are closing at an epic pace
Link: https://www.democraticunderground.com/10141759192
Stores are closing at an epic pace. In fact, the retail industry could suffer far more store closures this year than ever. 2,056 stores closed down in 2016 and 5,077 were shuttered in 2015. The worst year on record is 2008, when 6,163 stores shut down. "Barely a quarter into 2017, year-to-date retail store closings have already surpassed those of 2008.
Pence in Australia: Sure! We will be taking over 1,000 illegal aliens now held in Australian detention
Spat between Turnbull, Prime Minister of Australia and President Donald Trump over a refugee resettlement deal struck by the Obama administration. Pence said Saturday that the U.S. would honor the agreement even if it didn’t agree with it. Under the deal, the U.S. would take up to 1,250 refugees that Australia houses in detention camps on the Pacific island nations of Nauru and Papua New Guinea. Trump’s anger over the agreement led to a tense phone call with Turnbull in January and an angry tweet in which the president called the deal “dumb.”“President Trump has made it clear that we’ll honor the agreement — that doesn’t mean we admire the agreement,” Pence said during a joint news conference with Turnbull. American towns and cities are going to get illegal aliens (mostly Muslim men) who failed to be approved for asylum in Australia.
3 Syrian forces killed in fresh Israeli attack on military camp
Link: http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2017/04/23/519106/Syria-Israel-Quneitra
The attack hit the al-Fawwar camp on Sunday, wounding two others, the unnamed official told the French news agency AFP. It was not clear whether the assault was an airstrike or shelling. The attack comes after Israel struck a Syrian army position in the province of Quneitra on the Golan plateau on Friday
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