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Wednesday, April 5, 2017

April 5, 2017

Passover sacrifice back in Jerusalem
Jewish activists seeking to rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem will be conducting a ritual Passover sacrifice of a lamb in a nearby park in full view of the Temple Mount. The sacrifice ceremony this year is scheduled to take place closer to the Temple Mount than previous rituals, which were held in the Mount of Olives, across a valley.
6.1 earthquake hits near Iran’s second-largest city at depth of 13km
A 6.1 magnitude earthquake has struck 89 kilometers from Mashhad, Iran’s second most populous city, the US Geological Survey reported, adding that the tremor had a been registered at a shallow depth of 13 kilometers. Tasnim news agency reported several aftershocks, which are expected to continue, while adding that phone service in the affected areas has been disrupted.
Fake News Media Frenzy To Protect Susan Rice As Truth About Obama Shadow Government Implodes
CNN’s Don Lemon issued a call to all his views to “ignore the scandal” surrounding Susan Rice. The Washington Post calls it a “fake scandal ginned up by Trump”. Go to any of the other fake news outlets like the New York Times, MSNBC and others and you won’t even see the story being reported at all.
A New Title for the Blessed Mother?
Theological commission requests papal acknowledgement of Mary as ‘Co-Redemptrix.’
‘Sweden’s anti-Semitism has crossed all red lines’
“This is just a continuation of the previous plots,” Haguel said. “Sweden’s anti-Semisim has crossed all red lines. The recent events are only the latest in a long line of incitement and blood libels. People are sowing an unjust fear of Jews, and the government is closing its eyes to everything which relates to Jews and israel.
New Yorkers shocked to find that people are fleeing their city in droves
More than 1 million people moved out of the New York area to other parts of the country since 2010, a rate of 4.4 percent — the highest negative net migration rate among the nation’s large population centers, US Census records show. The number of people leaving the region — which includes parts of New Jersey, Connecticut, the lower Hudson Valley and Long Island — in one year swelled from 187,034 in 2015 to 223,423 in 2016…
Pope Francis meets Britain’s Prince Charles at the Vatican
For his part, Pope Francis presented Prince Charles with a bronze sculpture of an olive branch in a white box and told him that it was “a symbol of peace.” “Wherever you go, may you be a man of peace,” he told the prince. “I’ll do my best,” Prince Charles replied.
Netanyahu Tells UN Security Council to Do its Job, Stop Assad’s Chemical Attacks
“When I saw pictures of babies suffocating from a chemical attack in Syria, I was shocked and outraged. There’s no, none, no excuse whatsoever for the deliberate attacks on civilians and on children, especially with cruel and outlawed chemical weapons.
North Korean ballistic missile fired into the Sea of Japan
North Korea has test-fired a medium-range ballistic missile from its eastern port of Sinpo into the Sea of Japan. South Korea’s defence ministry said the missile flew about 60km (40 miles). It is the latest in a series of tests which the North has been conducting in pursuit of its goal of developing a nuclear missile.
Pakistan blast: Lahore census team hit by suspected suicide bombing
At least six people have been killed in a suspected suicide attack targeting census workers and their security escort in the Pakistani city of Lahore. Four of the dead were troops. At least 19 others were wounded, officials say. A team carrying out Pakistan’s first census in nearly 20 years was the target of the attack, police said.
Brexit: Theresa May suggests free movement extension
Free movement of people from the EU to the UK could be extended after Brexit, Theresa May has suggested. The prime minister said there would be an “implementation” phase once an exit deal had been struck, with business and governments needing a “period of time” to adjust to any new restrictions. The government insists Brexit will give the UK greater control of its borders.
Syria chemical ‘attack’: Russia rebel weapons claim rejected
Russian claims that a release of chemicals that killed and injured dozens of civilians in northern Syria came from rebel weapons on the ground have been rejected. Britain’s foreign secretary, a rebel commander and a weapons expert all said the evidence pointed to an attack by Syrian government forces. Damascus denies its forces launched a chemical weapons attack.
Dublin City Hall to raise Palestinian flag in solidarity against ‘brutal’ Israeli occupation
Israel has strongly condemned the decision by a Dublin City Council subcommittee on ceremonies to raise the Palestinian flag over city hall in solidarity with the Palestinian people “who have lived under brutal Israeli occupation.” According to the decision Tuesday, the flag will be raised on May 15th, marking 50 years since the territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip came under Israeli control.
U.S. court rules 1964 civil rights law protects LGBT workers from bias
A U.S. appeals court…on Tuesday ruled that federal civil rights law protects lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employees from discrimination in the workplace. The ruling from the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago represents a major legal victory for the gay rights movement. In its 8-3 decision, the court bucked decades of rulings that gay people are not protected by the milestone civil rights law…
First major U.S. city braces for Obamacare collapse
President Donald Trump, along with Congressional Republicans, have repeatedly said that if Obamacare isn’t repealed soon, then the health care law will eventually collapse under its own weight. That appears to be exactly what’s in store…Knoxville, Tennessee, could soon become the first U.S. city where Obamacare collapses altogether.
Trump at CEO Business Town Hall: ‘Common Core… We Have to End It’
At his CEO Business Town Hall Tuesday, President Donald Trump returned to his campaign promise to end the highly unpopular Common Core standards and once again make education policy the domain of local governments. “Common Core, I mean, we have to bring education more local,” Trump said at the White House. “We can’t be managing education from Washington.”
European Union Tells Hungary and Poland To Accept Mass Migration Or Leave
France and Germany, along with a host of up to 21 other countries, are set to demand Hungary and Poland either accept migrants under the quota system or leave the European Union (EU). The two nations have ignored Brussels’ insistence that they take migrants presently residing in great numbers in Italy and Greece. Public opinion in Hungary and Poland is also strongly against being forced to accept thousands of migrants from non-European cultures.
News Corp chief: Orwellian algorithms of Google and Facebook put us on ‘slippery slope of censorship’
The chief executive of News Corp, parent company of The Sun and Times Newspapers, has warned that digital algorithms at Facebook and Google have “left us perched on the edge of the slippery slope of censorship”.
Companies Have Begun Implanting Microchips In Workers
The company offers to implant its workers and start-up 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.”
Susan Rice Responds To Trump Unmasking Allegations: “I Leaked Nothing To Nobody”
“The allegation is that somehow, Obama administration officials utilized intelligence for political purposes,” Rice told MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell. “That’s absolutely false…. I leaked nothing to nobody.”
Richmond Fed head resigns, admits improper discussions
Jeffrey Lacker, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, announced Tuesday that he was resigning effective immediately after acknowledging improper discussions with a financial analyst that later became the subject of a lengthy investigation into leaks at the Fed.
Russian metro bombing puts Putin’s Syria policy to the test
Islamist militants have targeted Russia many times before but Monday’s bombing of a metro train in St Petersburg was, for President Vladimir Putin, personal: it happened in his native city on a day he was making a visit back home.
UBS Blames Fed For “Crisis High” Subprime Defaults; Says Auto Is Just The Beginnning
While the Fed’s misguided QE and interest rate policies have done a masterful job of creating asset bubbles around the world over the past several years, they’ve done precious little to actually stimulate economic or wage growth, in real terms…which is why UBS says that subprime defaults on everything from auto loans to student loans are about to get a whole lot worse.