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Saturday, January 21, 2017

January 21, 2017

No damage after 5.5 quake off Davao Occ.
The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology expects no damages and aftershocks from the magnitude-5.5 earthquake that struck below the waters off Davao Occidental province on Saturday. “The earthquake wasn’t that strong,” said Phivolcs science research specialist John Deximo. He also said the earthquake struck “at a very deep depth.”  
Nigel Farage will be made ‘unofficial adviser’ to Donald Trump, close ally says at glittering party overlooking White House
“I really believe this for most of my life what happens in America in terms of social trends or developments we follow four or five years later. America is the leader. “Now I would like to think that in our own little way was the beginning of what going to be a global revolution and Trump’s victory is part of that.”  
Merkel vows compromise with U.S. on trade, military spending
German Chancellor Angela Merkel vowed on Saturday to seek compromises on issues like trade and military spending with U.S. President Donald Trump, adding she would work on preserving the important relationship between Europe and the United States. “He made his convictions clear in his inauguration speech,” Merkel said in remarks broadcast live, a day after Trump vowed to put ‘America first’.  
Enterprising Builder Thrilled About US Embassy Move to Jerusalem
The Jerusalem Embassy Act, passed by the U.S. Congress in 1995, states that Jerusalem should remain a united city, that it should be recognized as the capital of the State of Israel and that the U.S. Embassy should be moved there from Tel Aviv.  
Trump earns praise on social, political, financial fronts
Amid bitter refusal from the far left to acknowledge his presidency, Donald Trump drew praise Friday from a wide range of individuals across America, from citizens attending his inauguration to activists and lawmakers.  
Report: Trump to defund Planned Parenthood Sunday
A new report out today indicates President Donald Trump will sign an executive order to defund International Planned Parenthood.  
Terror experts hail Trump promise to wipe out ‘radical’ Islam
President Donald Trump let the world know up front that he will not shy away from naming the enemy of the United States and the free world. “We will reinforce old alliances and form new ones, and unite the civilized world against radical Islamic terrorism, which we will eradicate completely from the face of the earth,” he declared in his inaugural speech.  
French far-right leader Le Pen calls on Europeans to ‘wake up’
“2016 was the year the Anglo-Saxon world woke up. I am sure 2017 will be the year the people of continental Europe wake up,” she said to loud applause on Saturday. Le Pen, head of the anti-EU, anti-immigrant National Front (FN) and seen by pollsters as highly likely to make a two-person runoff vote for the French presidency in May, has marked out Europe as a major plank in her programme.  
Trump Inauguration Speech Spared The Poetry And The BS
Apparently President Donald Trump (how does that sound?) read a few other presidential inauguration speeches while he was preparing his own. He considered President John Kennedy’s famous 1961 presentation to be the most significant and you can hear echoes of JFK in Trump’s verse. Trump tore through the barricade today with language that was so tough and visceral that it seemed to belong more to boxing commentary than a presidential moment.  
Donald Trump begins overhaul as first executive orders signed
Donald Trump has taken his first steps as president, signing an executive order which targets the signature health care reforms of his predecessor. His proclamation ordered agencies to ease the economic burden of the laws known as Obamacare. In Friday’s inaugural address he pledged to put “America first” and to end the “American carnage” of abandoned factories and rampant crime.
Syria conflict: US says Idlib strike kills 100 al-Qaeda fighters
A US military air strike in north-western Syria has killed more than 100 al-Qaeda militants at a training camp, the Pentagon says. Spokesman Capt Jeff Davis said the camp in Idlib province had been in operation since 2013. The attack involved a B-52 bomber and an undisclosed number of drones, officials said.  
Brexiteers in warning to German business
The German economy will pay a “high price” if its leaders make life hard for the UK over Brexit, British pro-Leave campaigners are to warn. John Longworth, co-chair of Leave means Leave, and ex-minister Owen Paterson will sound the warning at a major German business event on Saturday. Britain will “walk away” if the deal is not right, Mr Longworth will say.  
Indiana YMCA Bans CNN Over Complaints About Constant Barrage of “Fake News”
Last Friday night, the Valparaiso Family YMCA in Indiana abruptly stopped airing CNN on its televisions in the facility’s wellness and exercise area. According the the Chicago Tribune, the decision was made by the Y’s CEO, Robert Wanek, after dozens of complaints were lodged from guests regarding CNN’s obvious “political bias” and constant reporting of “fake news.”  
Trump Takes Over ‘Riskiest’ America Since World War II
While most are well aware that President Obama is leaving office having almost doubled the national debt during his ‘reign’, the more concerning fact is that this debt-splosion came with the weakest economic recovery in US history. What this means simply is that Obama is handing Trump the ‘riskiest’ America since World War II as debt-to-GDP is the highest since Truman.  
Chinese, Germans Bidding To Turn Abandoned Nuclear Wasteland Of Chernobyl Into Solar Farm
For 30 years the 1,000 square miles surrounding the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, Belarus and Russia have lay largely inhabited and remains one of the most radioactively contaminated areas in the world. But that’s all about to change if a group of German and Chinese investors have their way about it. According to Ukraine’s Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources, Ostap Semerak, 39 separate entities have applied for permission to install 2 gigawatts worth solar panels on the land that would otherwise lie unutilized for centuries to come.  
Can Science Prove The Existence Of God?
There’s an argument that many people make: that the natural world, and humanity’s existence in the Universe, point towards a divine creator that brought forth all of this into existence. To the best of our knowledge, Earth exists with a plethora of conditions that allowed for our existence, and does so in a way that no other world can match.  
8 minor earthquakes registered in western Colorado
MARBLE, Colo. — Eight small earthquakes occurred between Thursday night and Friday morning in western Colorado. All eight earthquakes happened between 8 p.m. Thursday and 6 a.m. Friday. The earthquakes occurred roughly five miles west of Marble and 20 miles west-southwest of Snowmass Village.