Link: http://www.alternet.org/food/fish-farming-so-filthy-salmon-are-getting-lice

Last year, wholesale salmon prices rose by 50 percent due to an outbreak of sea lice from Sweden to Norway and Chile, according to The Guardian. A sea louse, or common salmon louse, is a parasite that feeds on the blood, skin, and slime of salmon. Sea lice killed thousands of tons of farmed fish in 2016 and caused skin lesions and secondary infections in millions more fish. Now the parasites infest nearly half of Scotland’s salmon farms.

Link: http://www.blacklistednews.com/Swiss_bank_becomes_first_to_offer_bitcoin_to_its_richest_clients/59684/0/38/38/Y/M.html

A Swiss bank is now offering to buy bitcoins for its clients. As of Wednesday, investors can ask their asset manager at Falcon Private Bank, a boutique investment firm headquartered in Zurich, to purchase and store bitcoin on their behalf – a first for conventional banks. Despite the cryptocurrency’s infamous volatility, this is another indication that is here to stay.

Link: http://www.blacklistednews.com/Visa_Begins_Bribing_Merchants_To_Stop_Taking_Cash/59679/0/38/38/Y/M.html

Visa Inc. has a new offer for small merchants: take thousands of dollars from the card giant to upgrade their payment technology. In return, the businesses must stop accepting cash.The company unveiled the initiative on Wednesday as part of a broader effort to steer Americans away from using old-fashioned paper money. Visa says it is planning to give $10,000 apiece to up to 50 restaurants and food vendors to pay for their technology and marketing costs, as long as the businesses pledge to start what Visa executive Jack Forestell calls a “journey to cashless.”

Link: http://naturalsociety.com/china-home-worlds-largest-floating-solar-plant-4581/

June 2017, workers brought a solar energy plant online capable of producing 40 megawatts of power, floats on a manmade lake in China’s Anhui province, the largest floating solar project in the world;
can produce enough energy to power 15,000 homes. Building solar plants on bodies of water helps prevent agricultural land and terrestrial ecosystems from being developed for energy use – especially manmade lakes that are not ecologically sensitive. The water cools the electronics in the solar panels, which helps them work more efficiently. Britain built a 23,000-panel floating solar farm on the Queen Elizabeth II reservoir near Heathrow Airport.

Link: http://www.thedailysheeple.com/gmos-just-got-a-lot-more-frightening-with-approval-of-new-monsanto-product_072017

The EPA just told Monsanto they could go ahead and bypass spraying our crops with carcinogenic chemicals like Round Up and breed them right into the crops themselves. Using a process called RNA interference, Monsanto’s RNAi plant will supposedly kill rootworms ,what else will these genetically modified crops do to beneficial bugs, the soil, and human health? The EPA has no idea, because they haven’t done a single trial on RNAi-altered crops.

Link: https://www.rt.com/news/396258-trump-macron-talks-paris/

France has shifted its priorities from ousting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to defeating terrorism and seeking political stability at home, French President Emmanuel Macron said at a joint press conference with US President Donald Trump; fighting terrorism at home has now become the top priority, Macron stated. Trump confirmed the US and Russia are working on a second ceasefire agreement in Syria as a follow up to the one he and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed upon during their first meeting on the sidelines of G20.

Link: http://govtslaves.info/video-venezuela-shows-us-society-really-go-mad-max-collapse/

Group of motorcyclists attacks a truck carrying sugar by surrounding the vehicle and tossing grenades in front of it.

Link: http://govtslaves.info/environmental-nightmare-dozens-highly-toxic-substances-found-tap-water-america/

EPA has estimated 36 million Americans are drinking tap water that contains dangerous levels of arsenic. pesticide “atrazine” is often found in tap water supplies; most common in drinking water across the Midwest and the southern United States. Perchlorate in water supplies “in at least 26 states. This widespread toxic chemical, used in rocket fuel, explosives, and road flares, can interfere with thyroid hormone production,no federal standard for its presence in drinking water. Lead in the water has been getting a tremendous amount of attention because of what happened in Flint, Michigan.

Link: https://www.democraticunderground.com/10141819099

Former Brazilian leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who rose from childhood poverty to become a two-term president, has been convicted on corruption charges in the first of five graft trials he faces. He was sentenced to nine and a half years in prison, but will remain free on appeal.

Link: https://www.rt.com/usa/396160-list-dirty-la-deputies-secret/

The names of Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies who’ve lied, stolen, used excessive force or falsified reports cannot be handed over to prosecutors, even in pending criminal cases, a California appeals court ruled.

Link: https://www.rt.com/news/396172-patriot-missiles-romania-sale-approved/

The US State Department has approved a potential foreign military sale for Patriot air defense systems, as well as supporting equipment and training to Romania, a Pentagon agency announced.

Link: http://govtslaves.info/say-goodby-sears-pension/

Sears has a court hearing next week where the company will request permission to halt both its retiree benefit payments along with special payments it has made for some time to top up the underfunded pension fund. Many of Sears’ 16,000 retirees fear if the company is allowed to stop making pension contribtions, they will receive reduced pensions. They also don’t like the idea of losing their medical, dental and life insurance benefits.

Link: https://sputniknews.com/military/201707101055419405-israeli-nuke-whistleblower-sentenced-again/

Whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu, who in 1986 exposed Israel’s nuclear weapons program and spent 18 years in jail for his revelations, has been sentenced again, this time for violating terms of his parole.

Link: http://www.activistpost.com/2017/07/msm-russia-hacking-nuclear-plants-zero-evidence.html

“Russians hacking nuclear plants”,The report originating from the Washington Post ran the headline “U.S. officials say Russian government hackers have penetrated energy and nuclear company business networks.The report from E & E News has been used by the Post and subsequently every other “news agency” which clearly states within the second sentence: “There is no evidence that the nuclear energy industry’s highly regulated safety systems were compromised.” Despite this, the Post tries to push the narrative that systems may have been “penetrated.”

Link: https://www.rt.com/news/395860-russia-us-syria-cooperation/

Russia will continue cooperation with the US on de-escalation zones in southern Syria, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said, adding that although a ceasefire agreement came into force on Sunday, it needs to be consolidated.

Link: http://govtslaves.info/first-time-history-state-moves-decriminalize-drugs-even-heroin-meth/

House Bill 2355 seeks to decriminalize at least six hard drugs, as long as the user does not have any prior felonies or more than two prior drug convictions. It passed in the state House with a vote of 36-23, and in the Senate with a vote of 20-9.: decriminalize small amounts of hard drugs such as heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine, and ecstasy, while also lowering the penalty from a felony to a misdemeanor in some drug-related cases.

Link: https://www.rt.com/business/395489-china-australia-real-estate/

China’s investment in foreign real estate reached a record $133.7 billion last year, according to property website Juwai.com. Australia stayed very much in demand with Chinese buyers last year. Chinese buyers purchased $23.8 billion worth of Australian property in the 2016

Link: https://www.rt.com/politics/395448-duma-committee-recommends-lawmakers-to/

The Lower House Committee for Women, Family and Children has recommended that lawmakers reject a bill banning ‘baby boxes’ – devices which allow mothers to leave their unwanted newborns at medical institutions without disclosing themselves.

Link: https://www.rt.com/usa/395792-trump-putin-cybersecurity-unit/

US President Donald Trump has tweeted that “it is time to move forward in working constructively with Russia,” citing a ceasefire negotiated for southwest Syria as proof that this is possible. Donald Trump met with Russian President Vladimir Putin for more than two hours in Hamburg on Friday, the first day of the G20 summit. “We negotiated a ceasefire in parts of Syria which will save lives. Now it is time to move forward in working constructively with Russia!” Trump wrote on Twitter.

Link: http://www.alternet.org/food/why-eating-meat-america-going-trip-drug-store

Most of the meat Americans eat is banned in other industrialized countries. European Union boycotts U.S.' hormone-grown beef, routinely used synthetic hormones zeranol, trenbolone acetate and melengestrol acetate pose "increased risks of breast cancer and prostate cancer," says the European Commission's Scientific Committee on Veterinary Measures. also boycotted U.S. chickens because they are dipped in chlorine baths. Nitrites and nitrates in processed meat (declared carcinogens by the World Health Organization in 2016), carbon monoxide to keep meat looking red. China’s food safety record is abysmal including rat meat sold as lamb, gutter oil sold as cooking oil. Chicken samples contained Tylenol, antihistamine Benadryl, and Prozac.