BREAKING NEWS: Second earthquake felt in Pretoria
This comes after the first earthquake with a 5.2 magnitude was felt
earlier on Monday morning at about 05:08. Emergency services
spokesperson, Johan Pieterse said that he received messages of a second
earthquake, but has no official report yet. “It was so strong the
chandeliers in the house rattled. It lasted about eight seconds,” said
Isabel Mclaren of Menlo Park.
TRUMPED: Trail For Classified Trump Info Leaker Leads Directly To Senior Obama Official Susan Rice
Reporter Adam Housley claimed that a U.S. intelligence official
responsible for unmasking names of Trump associates is ‘very well known,
very high up, very senior in the intelligence world.’ As it turns out,
it’s Susan Rice.
“Jews Are Indigenous to Israel, Like Indians Are to Red River”
“The Palestinian claim is patently ridiculous since they are
basically claiming they became indigenous through conquering the
indigenous people,” he said in a video interview from the conference.
“I’m indigenous to the Red River. We have to hold Arab people to the
same standard. They are indigenous to the Arabian Peninsula. They are
not indigenous to Israel. He pointed out that the etymology of the word
“Palestinian” translates to “invader from the sea.” “Even their own word
tells you that that’s not where they’re from.”
Sisi and Trump meet on ‘problem of the century’
According to senior administration officials, two-and-ahalf hours of
conversation – in the Oval Office, the cabinet room and over a private
lunch – were to focus on the threat of terrorism, but Trump also had
plans to address the longstanding Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Strong quake strikes remote region of Botswana
A strong earthquake struck in a remote region of Botswana on Monday
near the renowned Kalahari game reserve, sending shockwaves across the
southern African country though there were no early reports of
casualties or damage. The magnitude 6.5 quake’s epicenter was nearly 250
km (155 miles) north-northwest of the capital Gaborone at a depth of 12
km (7 miles), the U.S. Geological Survey said.
Trump to Putin: U.S. offers ‘full support’ in St. Petersburg attack
President Donald Trump spoke by phone with Russian President
Vladimir Putin on Monday, offering the “full support” of the U.S.
government to bring those responsible for the St. Petersburg subway
bombing to justice. Trump “expressed his deepest condolences to the
victims and their loved ones, and to the Russian people,” according to a
White House readout of the call. The two leaders both agreed “that
terrorism must be decisively and quickly defeated.”
Suspected gas attack in Syria kills over 55, mass injuries reported
A suspected gas attack by Syrian government or Russian jets killed at
least 58 people, including nine children, and injured dozens more in the
northwestern province of Idlib on Tuesday, a British-based war
monitoring group said. The Syrian army could not immediately be reached
for comment. Damascus has repeatedly denied using chemical weapons. The
attack caused many people to choke or faint, and some had foam coming
out of their mouths, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said,
citing medical sources who described it as a sign of a gas attack.
‘Iran arms manufacturing facilities in Lebanon are new kind of threat’
Reports that Iran is building workshops and facilities to make advanced
rockets inside Lebanon is a “huge development” that constitutes a “whole
new kind of threat,” Chagai Tzuriel, director- general of the
Intelligence Ministry, said Monday. Tzuriel…attributed the reports to a
Kuwaiti newspaper, but seemed to accept their veracity. If true, it
would mean the Iranians and Hezbollah are trying to get around the
difficulty of transferring arms over land through Syria to Lebanon by
manufacturing them there instead.
US withdraws funding for United Nations Population Fund
The US has withdrawn funding for the United Nations Population Fund
(UNFPA), an agency that promotes family planning in more than 150
countries. The state department said the UNFPA “supports or participates
in the management of a program of coercive abortion or involuntary
sterilisation”. This is the first of the promised cuts to US financial
contributions to the UN by the Trump administration.
St Petersburg metro bombing suspect ‘from Kyrgyzstan’
The man suspected of killing 14 people by bombing a St Petersburg train
was a native of Kyrgyzstan who obtained Russian citizenship, the Central
Asian country’s security service has said. Forty-nine people were
injured in the explosion between two underground stations on Monday
afternoon. Kyrgyz officials named the suspect as Akbarzhon Jalilov, an
ethnic Uzbek born in Osh in 1995.
Colombia declares emergency as first Mocoa landslide victims buried
Colombia’s president has declared an “economic, social and ecological
emergency” as the first victims of the Mocoa landslide were laid to
rest. Juan Manuel Santos said the government was also putting 40,000m
pesos ($13.9m; £11.1m) towards “addressing humanitarian priorities”. At
the same time, the first funerals were taking place of the 262 victims
killed in Saturday’s landslide.
CIA operations may be disrupted by new Wikileaks’ data release
Current spying campaigns run by the CIA could be disrupted, say experts,
after more data on the agency’s hacking techniques was released by
Wikileaks. CIA code that obscures malware’s origins was detailed in the
latest release by the whisteblowing site. The code could be used to
create a “signature” for CIA malware, said one virus hunter.
Cyborgs at work: employees getting implanted with microchips
The syringe slides in between the thumb and index finger. Then, with a
click, a microchip is injected in the employee’s hand. Another “cyborg”
is created. What could pass for a dystopian vision of the workplace is
almost routine at the Swedish startup hub Epicenter. The company offers
to implant its workers and startup members with microchips the size of
grains of rice that function as swipe cards: to open doors, operate
printers, or buy smoothies with a wave of the hand.
How upgrading humans will become the next billion-dollar industry
Investors searching for the next transformative technology destined to
turn a bunch of Ivy League dropouts into billionaires, and half the
market into a loose slot machine, need only look in the mirror. “The
greatest industry of the 21st century will probably be to upgrade human
beings,” historian Yuval Harari, author of the fascinating new book
“Homo Deus,” told MarketWatch.
Report: Trump, al-Sisi discussed peace summit in US this summer
US President Donald Trump and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi
have discussed the possibility of holding an Israeli-Palestinian peace
summit in the United States this summer, the leading Arab newspaper Al
Hayat reported on Tuesday. Trump’s envoy to the Middle East, Jason
Greenblatt, reportedly raised the initiative with Arab officials.
Chinese wary about U.S. missile system because capabilities unknown: experts
China is steadfastly opposed to the deployment of advanced U.S.
anti-missile radars in South Korea because it does not know whether the
defenses, intended for North Korean missiles, are capable of tracking
and countering Beijing’s own nuclear program…Beijing’s resistance to the
THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defense) anti-missile system…has
become a major thorn in bilateral ties with the United States and is
bound to be discussed at this week’s summit meeting…
Homeland Security announces steps against H1B visa fraud
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced steps on Monday to
prevent the fraudulent use of H1B visas, used by employers to bring in
specialized foreign workers temporarily, which appeared to fall short of
President Donald Trump’s campaign promises to overhaul the program. A
White House official said Trump may still do more on the program.
Tillerson to chair U.N. meeting on North Korea nuclear program
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will chair a United Nations
Security Council meeting on North Korea on April 28 to discuss how the
body can combat Pyongyang’s banned nuclear and missile programs, U.S.
Ambassador Nikki Haley said on Monday.
China Starts 2017 With Highest Number Of Corporate Defaults In History
China’s default wave appears to have made landfall, and as Bloomberg
reports overnight, China’s deleveraging push has racked up the most
defaults on corporate bonds ever for a first quarter. “Seven companies
have defaulted on a total of nine bonds onshore so far in 2017, versus
29 for all of last year.”
Dallas Mayor Pulls Support For “Massive Taxpayer Bailout” Of Police Pension
“Basically you’re paying on phantom employees, not real employees. No
business would do it this way. We cannot find another pension fund in
America where someone pays into a fund based on future employees. It’s
just not done and it should not start here in the State of Texas. This
is the most taxpayer unfriendly poison pill that I’ve seen in this
bill. I’m not going to swallow this pill.”
Chinese wary about U.S. missile system because capabilities unknown: experts
China is steadfastly opposed to the deployment of advanced U.S.
anti-missile radars in South Korea because it does not know whether the
defenses, intended for North Korean missiles, are capable of tracking
and countering Beijing’s own nuclear program, experts say.
Meet ‘next Obama’ groomed to make political history
The Democratic Party may have found its next Barack Obama. His name is
Dr. Abdul el-Sayed, he’s a 32-year-old medical doctor and he recently
launched his campaign for governor of Michigan, the election for which
is in November 2018. If he wins he would be America’s first Muslim
governor.
Report: Obama NSA Advisor Susan Rice Requested the Unmasking of Incoming Trump
Senior Fox News Correspondent, Adam Housley revealed on Friday that
Intel Chair Devin Nunes (R-CA) knows who unmasked the identities of
Trump and his close associates. Sources also told him that the unmasking
was purely for political purposes to embarrass Trump and had NOTHING to
do with national security. Now this.. According to activist and author
Mike Cernovich the leaker and unmasker is Susan Rice.