Link: http://www.blacklistednews.com/Thousands_Flee_Chicago_For_Safer_Areas_Of_The_Country_As_America%E2%80%99s_Third_Largest_City_Becomes_A_Gang-Infested_Wasteland/58329/0/38/38/Y/M.html

4,300 shooting victims in the city last year, according to police. Chicago Crime Commission estimate 150,000 gang members living in the metropolitan area 12,244 police officers in Chicago. Estimated 89,000 more people moving from the Chicago area to other portions of the country in the past year 3,000 millionaires left the city of Chicago in 2015.

Link: https://www.rt.com/usa/387762-us-troops-mini-drones/

A California-based drone maker has unveiled the Snipe, a miniature scouting quad-copter designed for tactical use by infantry in the field. 20 of the 5-ounce drones have already been delivered to the US government, the company said. The Snipe weighs 4.9 ounces (140 grams) and is capable of flying for about 15 minutes at a maximum speed of around 20 miles per hour (32 km/h) within a one-kilometer (0.62-mile) range, can be carried by a soldier in the field and deployed in under a minute.

Link: https://www.rt.com/news/387732-norway-ban-boys-circumcision/

Norway’s Progress Party (FrP), the country’s third largest party and known for its anti-immigration policies, has supported a bill outlawing ritual circumcision of boys aged under 16, a common practice among Jewish and Muslim communities. Its proponents claim the religious rite causes mental and physical harm to children and constitutes a serious violation of children’s rights.

Link: https://sputniknews.com/latam/201705091053402306-caracas-800-injured/

Nacional news website reported Monday citing Marialbert Barrios, the country's lawmaker, that during the day at least 116 people had suffered in the clashes; added that the politician said the violent Monday had brought a total number of people injured in Caracas to more than 800 since the beginning of April. The Latin American state has been hit by a long-term economic and political crisis.

Link: https://sputniknews.com/military/201705091053398385-us-israel-joint-air-exercise/

The US Army has confirmed that Israeli and US pilots will be engaging joint drills this week at Uvda Air Force Base near the Israeli city of Eliat. Aircrews will be trained in a number of exercises at the base’s advance facilities while other squadrons train in the Negev Desert.

Link: https://www.rt.com/usa/387651-epa-dismissed-half-advisers/

Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt has dismissed half of the EPA’s key scientific review board members. Some fear the Trump administration is “inserting politics into science” and will favor industries the agency is meant to regulate.

Link: https://www.rt.com/news/387628-paris-gare-nord-evacuation/

Police in the French capital have evacuated passengers from Paris’ Gare du Nord train station, and temporarily sealed off the area in search for what some reports described as “dangerous” suspects. France remains under a state of emergency following series of terrorists attacks; on high alert a day after Emmanuel Macron was elected president of France, defeating opponent Marine le Pen. Earlier in the day, riot police clashed with protesters as thousands of demonstrators gathered at the Place de la Republique to protest the President-elect’s "capitalist" agenda as well as new labor reforms.

Link: https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/mar/31/moscow-biggest-urban-demolition-project-khrushchevka-flats

7,900 other Soviet flat blocks in Moscow, are to be torn down, in what will be one of the largest urban resettlement programmes in history. 25 million sq metres of residential real estate – more than 10% of the city’s housing stock – will be torn down. An estimated 1.6 million people will be resettled; not clear what kind of buildings will replace the Soviet housing. Moscow’s chief architect declined to comment, and the mayor’s office asked for written questions but failed to answer them.

Link: http://www.naturalnews.com/2017-05-07-malaria-cure-developed-by-academic-institute-found-to-have-been-documented-in-ancient-chinese-medicine-text-written-over-five-centuries-ago.html

dried plant leaves completely cured all 18 malaria patients who were approaching death; the same cure that the academic institute claims to have “developed” has actually been used in Traditional Chinese Medicine for more than five centuries. Chinese have been using the same herb, which they call Qing Hao, for thousands of years to cure malaria and other diseases, appears in a Traditional Chinese Medicine text that was written in the 1500s.

Link: http://investmentwatchblog.com/fda-is-going-to-launch-propaganda-campaign-counter-misinformation-about-gmo-foods/

The Food and Drug Administration will fund a campaign to promote genetically modified organisms in food under a bipartisan agreement to keep the government funded through the end of September. The deal to avert a government shutdown, passed the Senate by a vote of 79 to 18 Thursday, allocates $3 million to “consumer outreach and education regarding agricultural biotechnology,” which includes genetic engineering of food and commodity crops, environmental, nutritional, food safety, economic, and humanitarian impacts” of biotech crops and their derivative food products.

Link: http://govtslaves.info/japan-to-drop-tanks-full-of-fukushima-nuclear-waste-directly-into-the-ocean/

Six years after the disaster, the three crippled reactors are still leaking water with high levels of radiation into the Pacific Ocean. highly radioactive water is recycled to re-cool the reactors, and the rest goes into big tanks, which are stacking up at a fast rate. As reported by TRT, Japan is running out of storage space. There are currently about a 1,000 storage tanks holding 920,000 tons of contaminated water. Japan now talking about dumping these tanks with nuclear wastewater directly into the sea because they cannot keep building and storing these reservoirs,

Link: https://www.rt.com/usa/387592-texas-anti-sanctuary-law-facebook/

Senate Bill 4 allows law enforcement to ask the people detained about their immigration status and blocks local jurisdictions from passing laws that would prohibit such questioning. The law also imposes misdemeanor criminal penalties for officers who refuse to cooperate with federal immigration authorities, with fines ranging up to $25,000 a day.

Link: https://www.rt.com/news/387581-post-vote-protest-paris-election-scuffles/

Police and demonstrators have clashed during a post-vote protest in Paris against President-elect Emmanuel Macron, as well as new labor reforms. “He is not our president”, “Say No to the new labor reform!”, “Say No to repression”, read the banners held by demonstrators.“It’s not a president, it’s a CEO who was elected”, Michael Wamen from a branch of the General Confederation of Labor. Protesters & police fight in central Paris during post-vote demonstration (PHOTOS, VIDEO)

Link: http://www.activistpost.com/2017/05/federal-suit-hits-soros-10-billion-political-meddlingmotivated-solely-malice.html

FOX News reports the 86-year-old financier and manager of a global network of nonprofits will be forced by BSG Resources’ lawsuit to answer for manipulating the politics and economics of Guinea for his own benefit.

Link: https://sputniknews.com/environment/201705061053330763-leopard-sharks-washing-up-dead/

For seven weeks hundreds of leopard shark corpses have been washing up on the beaches of San Francisco Bay. Other marine animals, like manta rays and halibuts, have also been turning up, but the majority of the dead are leopard sharks. "

Link: http://www.orrazz.com/2017/05/judge-blasts-ridiculous-18-year.html

Louisiana Supreme Court chief justice blasted her colleagues for upholding the punishment. Chief Justice Bernette Johnson called it "outrageous" and "ridiculous" that the state's highest court affirmed the lengthy prison sentence for such a small amount of marijuana — enough for 18 marijuana cigarettes. Imprisoning defendant for this extreme length of time at a cost of about $23,000 per year (costing our state over $400,000 in total) provides little societal value and only serves to further burden our financially strapped state and its tax payers,.

Link: http://naturalsociety.com/could-pollinator-drones-replace-bees-6270/

Scientists in Japan have created tiny drones that pollinate plants; and if bees disappear, the insect-size drones are intended to replace them. Why switch to organic farming when you can just build exorbitantly priced robots? In recent years, bee populations have sharply declined, blamed on pesticides, diseases.

Link: http://govtslaves.info/scientists-warn-deadly-ancient-pathogens-melting-out-of-ice-in-the-arctic-could-wipe-out-human-population/

July 2016 Russian government deployed bio-warfare teams to the Arctic after reports 1,200 reindeer and 40 people infected with a rapidly spreading virus identified as a strain of Anthrax, believed to have been released into the wildlife and human population after warmer temperatures melted the ice. “Permafrost is a very good preserver of microbes and viruses, because it is cold, there is no oxygen, and it is dark,” says evolutionary biologist Jean-Michel Claverie at Aix-Marseille University in France. “Pathogenic viruses that can infect humans or animals might be preserved in old permafrost layers, including some that have caused global epidemics in the past.”

Link: http://www.blacklistednews.com/Pablo_Escobar%E2%80%99s_Son%3A_Drug_Cartels_Will_Die_%E2%80%9CThe_Day_Drugs_are_Legalized%E2%80%9D/58280/0/38/38/Y/M.html

Juan Pablo Escobar Henao,, son of one of the most notorious drug kingpins, ever — has an answer to the drug war the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency likely won’t heed. To end the nefarious, politically-motivated, and inordinately pernicious War on Drugs, legalize. ‘I am in favor of regulation,’ , because ‘for me, drugs are already legal. They can reach any location, unimpeded.’Comparing two calls made at the same time — one for home pizza delivery versus calling a dealer for drugs — the drugs would arrive before the pizza, he noted.

Link: http://govtslaves.info/tennessee-court-finds-punching-patients-falls-below-standard-of-care/

Reversing the dismissal of a medical malpractice lawsuit, the Tennessee Court of Appeals ruled it is common sense that an emergency medical technician shouldn’t punch patients in the face.