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29 March 2017

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Fukushima nuclear radiation POISONING world's water, including fish from Oregon and British Columbia --Brits could be eating salmon and tuna containing nuclear radiation from the Fukushima disaster, according to a study. | 27 March 2017 | Salmon caught in the Pacific Ocean, which are imported [in the UK], were found to contain worrying amounts of radiation. Highly toxic Cesium-134, the nuclear fallout from Fukushima, was recently found in Tillamook Bay and Gold Beach, in the US state of Oregon. The terrifying discovery was reported by researchers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Cesium-134 was also detected in 2015 in Canada when a salmon pulled from a river in British Columbia was found to contain radiation.

 

Japanese court rules for utility and lets nuclear reactors restart | 28 March 2017 | A Japan appeals court overturned a ruling that barred the operation of two nuclear reactors, a win for the atomic operators and government amid public opposition to the technology following the 2011 Fukushima disaster. The Osaka High Court ruling removes an injunction in place since March 2016 preventing Kansai Electric Power Co. from running the No. 3 and 4 nuclear reactors at its Takahama facility, the company said on Tuesday. The decision is at least the third time a high court has ruled in favor of utilities seeking to restart reactors.

 

Negotiations to ban nuclear weapons begin, but Australia joins US boycott | 27 March 2017 | Negotiations on a treaty to outlaw nuclear weapons have begun in New York, but have been publicly condemned by the United States, which is leading a coalition of more than 40 countries -including Australia - boycotting the talks. At least 113 countries are part of the negotiations which have begun at UN headquarters in New York this week, aiming to negotiate a "legally binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons, leading towards their total elimination". But, Nikki Haley, appointed as the United States' ambassador to the UN by Donald Trump in January, spoke outside the meeting saying the world was too unsafe for the US not to have nuclear weapons.

 

US sending around 200 more troops to Mosul to 'advise and assist' - official | 27 March 2017 | Two companies from the U.S. Army's 82nd Airborne Division are being deployed to the Mosul to bolster security in Iraq at the request of the top American commander in Baghdad [allegedly] fighting ISIS, a U.S. defense official with knowledge of the order told Fox News. A U.S. defense official told Fox News the 200 additional troops from the 82nd Airborne Division are going to Mosul--"to provide additional 'advise and assist' support to our Iraq Partners as they liberate Mosul," according to the official. In another sign the Pentagon is ramping up the fight against ISIS, jets from the aircraft carrier USS George HW Bush began striking ISIS targets on Friday, days after arriving in the Persian Gulf.

 

At least 400,000 civilians trapped in Mosul with no food or electricity - UN | 24 March 2017 | Some 400,000 civilians stuck in Mosul's Old City, held by Islamic State militants, are dealing with food and electricity shortages, making the UN High Commissioner for Refugees believe that "the worst is yet to come" in the humanitarian crisis in northern Iraq. "The worst is yet to come, if I can put it this way. Because 400,000 people trapped in the Old City in that situation of panic and penury may inevitably lead to the cork popping somewhere, sometime, presenting us with a fresh outflow of large-scale proportions," said Bruno Geddo, representative of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Iraq, according to Reuters.

 

Iraqi military says 61 bodies found in Mosul district more than week after U.S.-led strike | 26 March 2017 | Iraq's military said on Sunday that 61 bodies were recovered from a collapsed building that Islamic State had booby-trapped in west Mosul, but there was no sign the building had been hit by a coalition air strike. The military statement differed from reports by witnesses and local officials that said as many as 200 bodies were pulled from the building after a coalition strike last week [allegedly] targeted IS militants and equipment in the Jadida district.

 

Pro-Houthi court sentences Yemen president to death for treason | 25 March 2017 | A Yemeni court in territory controlled by the armed Houthi movement sentenced the group's enemy in a two-year-old civil war President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi and six other top officials in his government to death for "high treason" on Saturday. The decision by a court in the capital Sanaa, reported by the state news agency Saba, which is run by the Houthis, may render more remote the resumption of stalled peace talks to end the conflict which has killed at least 10,000 people. Saudi Arabia and a mostly Gulf Arab military coalition [of sociopaths, terrorists, and war criminals] have launched thousands of air strikes and a small number of ground troops to try to dislodge the Houthis and restore Hadi to power.

 

Article 50: UK set to formally trigger Brexit process | 29 March 2017 | Theresa May has signed the letter that will formally begin the UK's departure from the European Union. Giving official notice under Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, it will be delivered to European Council president Donald Tusk later. In a statement in the Commons, the prime minister will then tell MPs this marks "the moment for the country to come together". It follows June's referendum which resulted in a vote to leave the EU.

 

Donald Trump printed out made-up 300bn pound Nato invoice and handed it to Angela Merkel --President estimated Germany's underspend on alliance over the past 12 years, then added interest | 26 March 2017 | Angela Merkel will reportedly ignore Donald Trump's attempts to extricate 300bn pounds from Germany for what he deems to be owed contributions to Nato. The US President is said to have had an "invoice" printed out outlining the sum estimated by his aides as covering Germany’s unpaid contributions for defence...Mr Trump reportedly instructed aides to calculate how much German spending fell below two per cent over the past 12 years, then added interest. [That is great.]

 

Driver attempts to ram police cruiser on Capitol Hill grounds, officials say; shots fired | 29 March 2017 | A person tried to ram a police cruiser on the U.S. Capitol grounds Wednesday morning and shots were fired during the incident, police said. They said one person is in custody. The incident started at 9:30 a.m. when calls came in for shots fired outside the Rayburn building. A D.C. Police spokesperson said someone in a vehicle tried to ram a U.S. Capitol Police cruiser and tried to run over several other officers. U.S. Capitol police officers pursued the person on foot.

 

Man in custody after bringing suspicious package near White House | 28 March 2017 | Tours were suspended at the White House on Tuesday and the Secret Service established a "security perimeter" after a man with a suspicious package approached a Secret Service officer near the presidential mansion, a spokeswoman said. The unidentified man was taken into custody and explosive disposal teams were on the scene, Secret Service spokeswoman Cathy Milhoan told reporters in the White House briefing room.

 

Iowa man accused of throwing tomatoes at Trump fined $65 | 28 March 2017 | A man accused of throwing tomatoes at Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has pleaded guilty and will pay a 65 fine. The Iowa City Press-Citizen reports 28-year-old Andrew Alemao pleaded guilty Monday to disorderly conduct in a plea agreement with prosecutors. University of Iowa police and U.S. Secret Service officers arrested Alemao in January during Trump's rally at the University of Iowa.

 

London attacker was British man with a criminal history, previously investigated by MI5 | 24 March 2017 | Police have identified the London attacker as a 52-year old British man who was born in Kent - Khalid Masood. Masood was previously investigated by MI5 and had a criminal conviction but the Prime Minister Theresa May says there was no prior intelligence about his murderous intent. [Yeah, right. He was probably 'on the clock.'] Home Secretary Amber Rudd says there was no failure of intelligence but the reality that there can be no "24 hour cover."

 

Man drives car at Antwerp shoppers day after London attacks --Updated: Man held after car speeds into Antwerp shopping street | 23 March 2017 | A man drove a car at speed into a pedestrianised street in Antwerp on Thursday, forcing people to jump out of its path, a day after an assailant rammed a vehicle into crowds in central London, police said. The car sped away leaving no one injured, but prosecutors said police later arrested a man suspected of being the driver, naming him as Mohamed R., a 39-year-old French national of North African origin and living in France. Officers found knives in the vehicle and a canister containing an unknown substance that bomb disposal officers were currently checking, the federal prosecutors' office said in a statement.

 

Woman who had terror conviction in Israel to be deported in plea deal | 23 March 2017 | Rasmieh Odeh, a former Michigan resident whose case was fiercely contested by both sides of the Arab-Israeli dispute, will be deported back to Jordan but spared jail time under a plea deal struck today, her attorney said.

 

Trump calls for investigation of the Clintons' Russian ties | 28 March 2017 | President Trump said late Monday that the House Intelligence Committee is looking into the wrong 2016 presidential candidate's Russia connections. While he didn't call for her to be locked up, Trump accused Hillary Clinton -- and former president Bill Clinton -- of allowing "big Uranium to go to Russia." He made the comments in a series of tweets. Trump appeared to imply that m-ney Bill Clinton received for a speech in Russia and "the Hillary Russian 'reset'" were somehow connected to the uranium deal.

 

Dermokratiya, USA --With rampant talk of Russian interference, it's worth recounting Washington's role in undermining Russia's 1996 election. | 13 March 2017 | In January, the CIA, FBI, and NSA released their much-anticipated report on Russian interference in the 2016 election. It states that Putin had a "clear preference" for Trump and personally ordered operations designed to get him elected. Russia's intervention, the report goes on, was the "boldest" in its "longstanding desire to undermine the US-led liberal democratic order." The outcry over Russian machinations comes with a heavy dose of irony considering that, twenty years ago, the United States launched an even bolder interference campaign to ensure Boris Yeltsin's reelection...Throughout the 1990s, the IMF, the US Agency for International Development (USAID), and other American and European sources poured tens of billions of dollars into Russia. USAID had funneled over 40.4 million in noncompetitive grants through Harvard University's Institute for International Development (HIID) by June 1996, the majority of which went to "assist private sector development" with only a sliver for "democracy assistance." Nevertheless, this sliver directly intervened in Russian social and political life. HIID created and financed NGOs that led seminars and distributed materials on how to run Western-style campaigns and elections.

 

House Intelligence Postpones Closed Session With FBI, NSA | 27 March 2017 | The U.S. House of Representatives Intelligence Committee will not hold on Tuesday a closed briefing with the directors of the FBI and National Security Agency, a spokesman for the committee's Republican chairman said on Monday. Representative Devin Nunes, the committee's chairman, last week said he canceled a public hearing on the committee's investigation of Russian influence on the 2016 election because it was necessary to hold the closed session with Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey and NSA Director Mike Rogers.

 

U.S. attorney general escalates pressure on 'sanctuary' cities | 27 March 2017 | Attorney General Jeff Sessions threatened on Monday to cut off U.S. Justice Department grants to cities that fail to assist federal immigration authorities, moving the Trump administration closer to a potential clash with leaders of America's largest urban centers. Sessions's statements were aimed at a dozens of cities and other local governments, including New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, that have joined a growing "sanctuary" movement aimed at shielding illegal immigrants from stepped-up deportation efforts. Police agencies in those jurisdictions have barred their officers from routinely checking on immigration status when making arrests or traffic stops. And they have refused to lock up individuals longer than otherwise warranted at the request of federal agents seeking to deport them.

 

Report: Sanctuary Cities Targeted With Enhanced Raids | 24 March 2017 | Immigration and Customs Enforcement is stepping up enforcement operations in so-called "sanctuary cities" in an effort to convince these jurisdictions to better cooperate with federal efforts, a CNN report says Friday.

 

Federal judge sides with Trump administration in travel ban case | 24 March 2017 | A federal judge in Virginia ruled in favor of the Trump administration Friday, declining to join other federal courts that halted the President's revised travel ban last week. Two federal judges -- one in Maryland and one in Hawaii -- have blocked implementation of the core provisions of the travel ban, and it remains on hold nationwide.

 

Trump signs order sweeping away Obama-era climate policies | 28 March 2017 | President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an order to undo Obama-era regulations to [allegedly] curb climate change, keeping a campaign promise to support the coal industry while calling into question U.S. support for an international deal to fight global warming [while Obama gave $8 bn in corporate welfare to the nuclear industry]. Flanked by coal miners, Trump enacted his "Energy Independence" executive order at the Environmental Protection Agency. A coalition of 23 states and local governments vowed to fight the order in court. The order's main target is former President Barack Obama's Clean Power Plan, which required states to slash carbon emissions from power plants - a key factor in the United States' ability to meet its commitments under a climate change accord reached by nearly 200 countries in Paris in 2015.

 

Trump administration grants approval for Keystone XL pipeline | 24 March 2017 | President Trump announced Friday morning the granting of a permit for construction of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, calling it "the first of many infrastructure projects" that he would approve in order to put more Americans to work. The 8 billion project would span 1,200 miles, connecting Alberta's massive tar sands crude with pipelines and refineries on the Texas gulf coast...TransCanada, the Calgary-based firm that has been trying to win approval for the pipeline for nearly 10 years, announced earlier Friday morning that the State Department has signed and issued a construction permit for the project.

 

Bill Killed: Popular Roar Forces House GOP to Withdraw TrumpCare Vote | 24 March 2017 | Update: News outlets are reporting at 3:35pm that House Republicans pulled their healthcare bill just before the vote was to take place.

 

House steers toward climactic vote on GOP health care bill | 24 March 2017 | Republicans muscled their capstone health care overhaul past an initial barrier and toward a climactic roll call Friday, plunging ahead despite uncertainty over whether they had the votes to prevail in what loomed as a monumental gamble for President Donald Trump and his GOP allies in Congress. With Trump budget chief Mick Mulvaney and other White House officials heading toward the Capitol to lobby wavering lawmakers, Friday's showdown was occurring after the president warned that he was through negotiating with holdouts. In a message delivered to rank-and-file Republicans at the Capitol late Thursday, top Trump aides said if the measure failed he would move on to the rest of his agenda.

 

Trump team wants more NAFTA access for U.S. goods, services - lawmakers | 28 March 2017 | Trump administration trade officials want a revamped North American Free Trade [sic] Agreement to improve access for U.S. farm products, manufactured goods and services in Canada and Mexico, said lawmakers who met with them on Tuesday. Members of the House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee met with Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and acting U.S. Trade Representative Stephen Vaughn to discuss the administration's plans for renegotiating the 23-year-old trade deal. Representative Bill Pascrell, a New Jersey Democrat, said Ross told lawmakers in the closed-door session that the administration was still aiming to complete NAFTA renegotiations by the end of 2017.

 

House of Commons passes blasphemy motion M-103 | 23 March 2017 | The House of Commons has passed a Liberal backbencher's motion calling on federal politicians to condemn Islamophobia. The motion, known as M-103, became a matter of acrimonious debate, with opponents painting it as a slippery slope towards limiting freedom of speech and even bringing in Sharia law. MPs adopted the motion by a margin of 201-91.

 

Is political correctness harming the nation? | 28 March 2017 | 'The O'Reilly Factor' assesses the impact of culture wars. Michael Rectenwald, CLG Chair, guest.

 

'Religious left' emerging as U.S. political force in Trump era | 27 March 2017 | Since President Donald Trump's election, monthly lectures on social justice at the 600-seat Gothic chapel of New York's Union Theological Seminary have been filled to capacity with crowds three times what they usually draw. In January, the 181-year-old Upper Manhattan graduate school, whose architecture evokes London's Westminster Abbey, turned away about 1,000 people from a lecture on mass incarceration. In the nine years that Reverend Serene Jones has served as its president, she has never seen such crowds. "The election of Trump has been a clarion call to progressives in the Protestant and Catholic churches in America to move out of a place of primarily professing progressive policies to really taking action," she said.

 

High-school principal accused of keeping Catholic-school kids off admission list | 26 March 2017 | A Queens public high-school principal [Khurshid Abdul-Mutakabbir] excluded 500 Catholic-school kids from a list of 4,000 students applying to get into his school, raising cries from furious parents of foul play "It was almost like they knew who would be accepted," said Middle Village resident Jimmy Guarneri, 47, of the lottery system that was supposed to fairly choose students to get into popular Maspeth High School. "We’re very angry."

 

Two activists who filmed undercover videos of Planned Parenthood charged with 15 felonies | 29 March 2017 | The two antiabortion activists who mounted a hidden-camera investigation against Planned Parenthood officials have been charged with 15 felony counts of violating the privacy of health-care providers by recording confidential information without their consent. In announcing the charges against David Robert Daleiden and Sandra Merritt on Tuesday, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said the duo used manufactured identities and a fictitious bioresearch company to meet medical officials and covertly record the private discussions they initiated.

 

Ex-Penn State president guilty after failing to report suspected Sandusky abuse | 24 March 2017 | Former Penn State president Graham Spanier was convicted Friday of hushing up suspected child sex abuse by Jerry Sandusky in 2001. Jurors found Spanier guilty of one count of child endangerment over his handling of a complaint against the retired assistant football coach but found him not guilty of conspiracy and a second child endangerment count. Spanier showed no emotion after the verdict was read after 13 hours of deliberations.

 

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