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Niger security forces kill 57 Boko Haram militants;
The ministry said Monday that 15 soldiers and two civilians were wounded in fighting with the extremists in Gueskerou, about 30 kilometers (18 miles) from Diffa. http://tinyurl.com/mxkojecAt least 16 killed in fighting in S.Sudan second city: At least 16 civilians were killed in fighting Monday between government troops and rebels in South Sudan's second-largest city Wau, the United Nations peacekeeping mission (UNMISS) said in a statement. https://www.enca.com/africa/at-least-16-killed-in-fighting-in-ssudan-second-cityThanks NATO: African migrants sold in Libya 'slave markets', IOM says: Women, too, were bought by private Libyan clients and brought to homes where they were forced to be sex slaves, the witness said. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-39567632Trump aide drew plan on napkin to partition Libya into three; A senior White House foreign policy official has pushed a plan to partition Libya, and once drew a picture of how the country could be divided into three areas on a napkin in a meeting with a senior European diplomat https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/10/libya-partition-trump-administration-sebastian-gorkaYemen clashes kill more than 40 in 24 hours: Warplanes from the Saudi-led Arab coalition have pounded Huthi rebel positions east of the Red Sea port of Mokha and other areas of Taez province since Sunday, a military official said http://www.news24.com/World/News/yemen-clashes-kill-more-than-40-in-24-hours-20170410Houthi forces kill scores of Saudi-backed fighters in southern Yemen: The Houthi forces, alongside the Yemeni Republican Guard, killed several Saudi-backed fighters in the Lahj Governorate of southern Yemen, the Saba News Agency reported on Tuesday. https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/houthi-forces-kill-scores-saudi-backed-fighters-southern-yemen/Egyptian police kill 7 suspected Islamic State militants in shootout: The incident in the southern city of Assiut occurred a day after Egypt's cabinet approved a three-month state of emergency in the wake of Islamic State attacks on two Christian Coptic churches that killed at least 44 people. http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFKBN17D0SL-OZATPTwo Russian servicemen killed in Syria: "Two Russian servicemen were killed in a mortar shell explosion," the ministry said, adding that one more serviceman is currently fighting for his life. https://www.rt.com/news/384320-russia-troops-killes-syria/Turkey says evidence of sarin gas in Syria attack found: Turkey's Chemical Warfare Agents Diagnosis and Verification Laboratory confirms findings: Health minister http://aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/turkey-says-evidence-of-sarin-gas-in-syria-attack-found/794620Propaganda alert: U.S. Official: Russia knew Syrian chemical attack was coming; The United States has made a preliminary conclusion that Russia knew in advance of Syria's chemical weapons attack last week, but has no proof of Moscow's involvement, a senior U.S. official said Monday. http://bigstory.ap.org/article/19772be1238e49fbb62c509a5b659b3d/official-us-military-takes-extra-precautions-syriaRussia and Iran request an 'unbiased investigation' into chemical attack in Syria: "Both sides emphasised that such aggressive actions against a sovereign independent country are a flagrant violation of international law, above all, the UN Charter http://tinyurl.com/mlzk7h6Only bombs manfactured by the US Empire may be used White House warns of potential US 'red line' over Syria barrel bomb attacks: The Trump administration has signalled much broader grounds for future military intervention in Syria, suggesting it might retaliate against the Syria government for barrel bomb attacks. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/10/syria-top-of-agenda-as-g7-foreign-ministers-meet-in-italyPro-terrorist Monitor says Syria drops barrel bombs despite U.S. warning; Syria denies: The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Syrian warplanes dropped barrel bombs on rebel-held areas on Tuesday, a day after the United States said their use could lead to further U.S. strikes http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-airstrikes-idUSKBN17D105Gabbard: 'We need to learn from Iraq':"We need to learn from Iraq and Libya - wars that were propagated as necessary to relieve human suffering, but actually increased human suffering many times over," http://thehill.com/homenews/house/328216-gabbard-we-need-to-learn-from-iraqProminent Democrats Call For Anti-War Congresswoman To Be Ousted From Office: - "Those who've declared Trump a habitual liar now vilify those refusing to blindly follow him into another regime change war. Hypocrisy." Tulsi Gabbard http://dailycaller.com/2017/04/10/prominent-democrats-call-for-anti-war-congresswoman-to-be-ousted-from-office/Tillerson believes 'Assad's reign in Syria is coming to end': The United States is confident that the rule of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad will come to an end soon, and the sooner Russia stops supporting him the better for it, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Tuesday. http://tass.com/world/940677As tensions climb, U.S. bolsters protection of invasion forces in Syria: The United States has made slight adjustments to its military activities in Syria to strengthen protection of American invasion forces following strikes last week on a Syrian airbase that have heightened tensions http://finance.yahoo.com/news/tensions-climb-u-bolsters-protection-153422777.htmlBoris Johnson fails to secure backing of the G7 nations for swift sanctions against Russia and Syria :Boris Johnson has failed to secure the backing of the G7 nations for swift sanctions against Russia and Syria, leaving the US-UK plan to pressurise Vladimir Putin in tatters. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/04/11/british-cabinet-split-syria-response-g7-leaders-discuss-fresh/Academic accuses Australia of 'war crimes' in Syria : "Imagine if the Syrian army killed 80 Australian soldiers." http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2017/04/11/academic-accuses-australia-war-crimes-syria
US Coalition jets, mortar missiles kill 5 civilians in western Mosul: Five Iraqi civilians died Tuesday in U.S.-led coalition airstrikes and a mortar shelling west of Mosul, security sources were quoted saying as hundreds of casualties resulted from Islamic State assaults and security operations. http://www.iraqinews.com/iraq-war/coalition-jets-mortar-missiles-kill-5-civilians-western-mosul/Iraq: U.S. military struggles to defend killing civilians: Some in Iraq and Syria are left wondering whether the higher death count is a product of President Trump's bare-knuckle military stance and his suggestions that the United States should "take out" militants' families. http://tinyurl.com/kh2fuz9Hezbollah Warns Against Attacking Christians in the Middle East; "These continuous and escalating killings carried out by criminal gangs in the name of religion is one of the greatest catastrophes our Ummah (nation) has been witnessing," the statement read. http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Hezbollah-Warns-Against-Attacking-Christians-in-the-Middle-East-20170411-0024.htmlWhy is Israel afraid of the Nakba's March of Return?; For the first time, Israeli police block the annual march to commemorate the Palestinian 'catastrophe' of 1948. http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2017/04/israeli-police-block-palestinian-march-return-170409055747446.htmlDeclassified CIA materials reveal: Americans hardly knew any Israeli secrets : The big CIA-Israeli secret: they knew hardly any secrets. A lot of gossip, false ideas, an analysis of political and social trends on the level of open journalism http://www.haaretz.com/misc/article-print-page/1.782616Thanks NATO: African migrants sold in Libya 'slave markets', IOM says: Women, too, were bought by private Libyan clients and brought to homes where they were forced to be sex slaves, the witness said. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-39567632Trump aide drew plan on napkin to partition Libya into three;A senior White House foreign policy official has pushed a plan to partition Libya, and once drew a picture of how the country could be divided into three areas on a napkin in a meeting with a senior European diplomat https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/10/libya-partition-trump-administration-sebastian-gorkaFrance: Video: Police fire tear gas on protesting prison guards; Police firing tear gas have clashed with prison guards protesting working conditions in a notorious prison south of Paris. http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/video-news/video-police-fire-tear-gas-on-protesting-prison-guards-35613622.htmlIndependent Scotland would be 'most welcome' to be full member of EU, say MEPs: The open letter, signed by 26 MEPs, declared that there was a "tremendous amount of goodwill from across the continent towards Scotland's European aspirations". http://tinyurl.com/lo79pwpBank of England in Libor scandal: The Bank of England has been implicated in fixing Libor rates by a BBC Panorama documentary called The Big Bank Fix which aired last night. http://www.mortgageintroducer.com/bank-england-libor-scandal/#.WO0zoWe1tLMNorth Korea state media warns of nuclear strike if provoked as U.S. warships approach: North Korean state media on Tuesday warned of a nuclear attack on the United States at any sign of U.S. aggression as a U.S. Navy strike group steamed towards the western Pacific. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/north-korea-state-media-warns-100014004.htmlS. Korea, China warn of strong response to N. Korea nuke, ICBM tests: "We shared the view that strong, additional measures should be taken if North Korea pushes ahead with strategic provocations like a nuclear test or an ICBM launch in defiance of international warnings," http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20170410000951Trump to China: Help on North Korea for a good trade deal; Trump tweeted Tuesday, "I explained to the President of China that a trade deal with the U.S. will be far better for them if they solve the North Korean problem!" http://www.seattlepi.com/news/politics/article/Trump-to-China-Help-on-North-Korea-for-a-good-11065109.phpVenezuela clashes as Maduro seeks help in Cuba : President Nicolas Maduro traveled to Cuba seeking support from fellow leftist leaders. In the latest clashes in the once-booming oil exporter, riot police in Caracas fired tear gas at stone-throwing demonstrators http://www.manilatimes.net/new-venezuela-clashes-maduro-seeks-help-cuba/322170/Venezuelan Ombudsman Calls to Prevent Violence, Respect Constitution: All rallies or marches in the country must take place according to law to prevent violent acts like those in 2014, when 43 people were killed and more than 800 were wounded, Saab noted http://www.plenglish.com/index.php?o=rn&id=11560&SEO=venezuelan-ombudsman-calls-to-prevent-violence-respect-constitutionVenezuela Rejects "Interventionist" Statement by US Southern Command Chief: Venezuela categorically rejects the comments expressed by Admiral Kurt Tidd, USSC, which lay the groundwork for an attack on Venezuela under the aegis of the false doctrine of collective regional security. https://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/13042U.S. Oil Company Could Fall to Russia as Venezuela Struggles to Pay Its Bills: Russia's state oil company could soon control an energy giant based in Houston, Texas, and U.S. lawmakers are not happy about it. http://www.newsweek.com/russia-may-gain-venezuelan-shares-us-oil-company-582423Cyberattacks via CIA tools happened a lot, Symantec says; CIA snooping tools have been tied to scores of cyberattacks, according to security company Symantec. https://www.cnet.com/news/scores-of-cyber-attacks-tied-to-cia-hacking-tools-symantec-says/White House: 'America First' Foreign Policy Justifies Strikes Against Those Who 'Gas Babies': Spicer's definition of a national security threat is broader than Trump outlined during his presidential campaign. http://www.huffingtonpost.com.mx/entry/sean-spicer-america-first-syria_us_58ebd937e4b0ca64d918381bDimon Warns 'Something Is Wrong' With the U.S.: Since the turn of the century, the U.S. has dumped trillions of dollars into wars, piled huge debt onto students, forced legions of foreigners to leave after getting advanced degrees, driven millions of Americans out of the workplace with felonies for sometimes minor offenses. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-04/dimon-still-optimistic-warns-something-is-wrong-with-u-sTrump spokesman Sean Spicer claims 'even Hitler didn't use chemical weapons' : Chelsea Clinton, tweeted minutes later: "I hope [Spicer] takes the time to visit the Holocaust Museum. It's only a few blocks away." http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/trump-spokesman-sean-spicer-claims-10206860Saudi Arabia Paid Conservative PR Firm $90,000 to Bring Vets to DC to Lobby Against JASTA; Saudi Arabia paid to bring three groups of 25 to 35 military veterans to Washington to lobby for changes to the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA) https://28pages.org/2017/04/10/saudi-arabia-paid-conservative-pr-firm-90000-to-bring-vets-to-dc-to-lobby-against-jasta/
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Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered In US War And Occupation Of Iraq "1,455,590"
Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America's War On Iraq: 4,886
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44 Killed in Palm Sunday Bombings at Egyptian Coptic Churches; Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attacks, which also injured more than 100 people and occurred a week before Coptic Easter, with Pope Francis scheduled to visit Egypt later this month. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/bombings-egyptian-coptic-churches-kill-133458590.htmlRussia and Iran warn US they will 'respond with force' if red lines crossed in Syria again: The alliance supporting Syriangovernment made a joint statement threatening action in response to "any breach of red lines from whoever it is". http://tinyurl.com/k88g8yzTrump officials tell Russia to drop its support for Syria's Assad: Officials in the Trump administration on Sunday demanded that Russia stop supporting the Syrian government or face a further deterioration in its relations with the United States. http://tinyurl.com/mhyzfx6"We're calling (Russia and Iran) out," US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said:"I don't think anything is off the table at this point. I think what you're going to see is strong leadership. You're going to continue to see the United States act when we need to act." http://www.wdsu.com/article/haley-on-russia-and-iran-i-don-t-think-anything-is-off-the-table/9252125U.S.-Led Force Reduces Attacks on ISIS in Syria After Airstrike: If it becomes clear that the Syrians and Russians will not follow their sharp criticism of the operation with significant military action, the pace of American airstrikes against Islamic State forces in Syria can be increased. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/08/us/politics/us-islamic-state-syria.htmlKremlin is 'unaware about' suspicious document : Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov has responded to questions about a dubious document from an unknown 'joint operations centre' claiming to speak for the armed forces of Russia, Syria and Iran https://theduran.com/confirmed-kremlin-is-unaware-about-suspicious-document-exposed-exclusively-by-the-duran/UK: Jeremy Corbyn warns of Syrian 'proxy war' : Jeremy Corbyn has savaged Boris Johnson's strategy for reviving political negotiations to end the conflict in Syria, as he accused the Foreign Secretary of "encouraging further bombing". http://tinyurl.com/ko9hnqoLest we forget: Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam: Britain's contribution to the rise of the terrorist threat goes well beyond the impacts its wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have had on some individuals http://markcurtis.info/2015/12/17/britains-collusion-with-radical-islam/Here are 45 times Trump said attacking Syria was a bad idea and might start World War III: Trump has repeatedly spoken out against attacking the Syrian government, suggesting U.S. involvement in the conflict could make a bad problem worse and possibly lead to a global war. https://mic.com/articles/173471/trump-world-war-iii-attacking-syria-wwiii-ww3#.h4X5egC39'Look at Syria & Yemen. Who's next?' - Russian Deputy Defense Minister: "These are some new techniques, and revolutions are exported to different states that are supposedly suffering under undemocratic regimes." https://www.rt.com/news/384151-terrorists-puppets-security-forum-fomin/EU urges diplomacy in Syria as ex-weapons inspector says US acted without proof: EU politicians and a former weapons chief have urged for an investigation into a suspected chemical weapons attack in Syria following a US missile strike. http://m.dw.com/en/eu-urges-diplomacy-in-syria-as-ex-weapons-inspector-says-us-acted-without-proof/a-38345413Rand Paul Wants to See Evidence of Syrian Chemical Strike:Paul said, it makes no sense for Assad to use chemical weapons. He was winning the six-year-old civil war, had the support of Russian troops on the ground https://www.lifezette.com/polizette/rand-paul-wants-see-evidence-syrian-chemical-strike/Canada PM open to tougher Russia sanctions amid Syria crisis; Justin Trudeau said on Monday he would consider imposing stiffer sanctions on Russia amid the Syrian crisis, adding that Syria's future cannot include President Bashar al-Assad. http://www.thestar.com.my/news/world/2017/04/10/canada-pm-open-to-tougher-russia-sanctions-amid-syria-crisis/Five Top Papers Run 18 Opinion Pieces Praising Syria Strikes-Zero Are Critical: Five major US newspapers-the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Wall Street Journal and New York Daily News-offered no opinion space to anyone opposed to Trump's airstrikes. http://fair.org/home/five-top-papers-run-18-opinion-pieces-praising-syria-strikes-zero-are-critical/Lest we forget: CIA Files Prove America Helped Saddam as He Gassed Iran: The U.S. knew Hussein was launching some of the worst chemical attacks in history -- and still gave him a hand. https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/08/26/exclusive-cia-files-prove-america-helped-saddam-as-he-gassed-iran/Lest we forget: British plans to overthrow the Syrian government, 1956-7: 'Governments [in Syria] are unstable; the army is deeply engaged in politics and increasingly under the influence of the extreme left; and there is much communist penetration." http://tinyurl.com/n94dgzsAfghan forces claim to have killed over 50 militants ; "There were a number of Taliban and militants from Tajikistan; they were hit [by the drone] as they were preparing landmines," he claimed. https://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/article/08/04/2017/Afghan-forces-claim-to-have-killed-over-50-militantsUS intel chiefs said to tell Trump he might consider killing Kim Jong-un; In grappling with N. Korea, National Security Council also reportedly weighs deploying nuclear weapons in S. Korea, or sabotaging nuclear infrastructure http://www.timesofisrael.com/nsc-said-to-offer-trump-options-for-north-korea-including-killing-kim-jung-un/Tillerson: Syria strike a message to others, including North Korea;'If you violate international norms, if you violate international agreements, if you fail to live up to commitments, if you become a threat to others, at some point a response is likely to be undertaken.' http://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-usa-idUSKBN17B0TCNorth Korea says Syria airstrikes prove its nukes justified; The North called the airstrikes "absolutely unpardonable" and said they prove its nuclear weapons are justified to protect the country against Washington's "evermore reckless moves for a war." http://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/09/north-korea-says-syria-airstrikes-prove-its-nukes-justified.htmlChinese Troop Deploy on N. Korea Border:News that China has deployed 150,000 troops to the North Korean border, and the U.S. is considering further sanctions against Russia. http://www.nasdaq.com/article/midday-update-stocks-return-gains-on-reports-of-chinese-troop-deployments-on-n-korea-border-cm772273Ex-MI6 chief fears Trump will launch catastrophic war on North Korea; The former spymaster warned that Trump's temperament could plunge the UK into a war in the Far East which would be more dangerous than anything that could emerge in Syria. https://www.rt.com/uk/384214-trump-north-korea-mi6/Anti Capitalist Protesters Clash with Police at #G7 Summit in Italy : Video- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXGHPr7_Znk'Shadow Brokers' give away more NSA hacking tools;The mysterious team supplied the password for an encrypted file containing many of the Equation Group surveillance tools swiped back in 2016. The group posted the content in "protest" at President Trump turning his back on the people who voted for him. https://www.engadget.com/2017/04/08/shadow-brokers-give-away-more-nsa-hacking-tools/
WikiLeaks just dropped the CIA's secret how-to for infecting Windows: Latest batch of documents details how CIA infects targets' Windows-based computers. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/04/wikileaks-just-dropped-the-cias-secret-how-to-for-infecting-windows/Spyware firms in breach of global sanctions: Undercover investigation exposes inner workings of spy equipment companies selling to clients from sanctioned countries. http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/04/exclusive-spyware-firms-breach-global-sanctions-170405102959191.htmlDemonizing Russia and Nicaragua: Is Putin building a base in Nicaragua to spy on US citizens?
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Explore below key excerpts of revealing news articles on the new North Carolina law hiding video footage of police violence from the public, accusations from an ex-British Ambassador to Syria that the Foreign Office lied about Syria’s civil war, the massive DEA investigation into painkiller manufacturer Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals over the black market distribution of the company's opioids, and more.
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Special note: Read an excellent article revealing how the police and FBI admitted their role in the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.. Learn about a lawsuit filed by CBS reporter Sharyl Attkisson over government intrusion into her computers and more after she exposed government corruption. No media coverage has been given to this important case. Watch a BBC interview with the former U.K. ambassador to Syria, Peter Ford, who raises serious questions about the recent chemical attack in Syria.
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Jose Charles was dazed, bleeding from his head and surrounded by police. His mother had gone to take one of the 15-year-old’s siblings to the bathroom at a Fourth of July celebration in Greensboro, N.C. - and returned to find an officer’s hand around Jose’s neck. Police charged Jose with four crimes, including attacking an officer. The teenager and his mother say police slammed and choked him without provocation. In a month, the court’s interpretation of the incident could determine Jose’s fate. Body camera footage from several officers who were at the scene of the encounter is sitting ... where almost no one can see it. Standing in the way of clarity and transparency, critics say, is a new North Carolina law that makes it more difficult than ever to view recordings of controversial interactions between police and members of the public. The law requires anyone who wants to see police body camera footage to pay a fee and plead their case to a Superior Court judge. The law gives an inordinate amount of power to prosecutors. Jose Charles’s mom, Tamara Figueroa ... said [her son] suffers from schizoaffective disorder. She said prosecutors have told her that if Jose doesn’t plead guilty to assault, they’ll ask a judge to send him to a [facility] which Figueroa calls “a kiddie jail,” unequipped to treat his mental illness. The video could change public perception and her son’s fate, Figueroa said: She has seen the footage and remains adamant that her son didn’t assault a police officer.
The ex-British Ambassador to Syria has accused the Foreign Office of lying over the country’s civil war and said British policy there has "made the situation worse". [Peter] Ford, who was Britain's ambassador to Syria from 1999 to 2003, claimed that the UK had misread and misrepresented the situation in the country since the start of the conflict. He said: "The British Foreign Office to which I used to belong, I’m sorry to say has gotten Syria wrong every step of the way. "They told us at the beginning that Assad’s demise was imminent. "But then they told us that the opposition was dominated by these so-called moderates. That proved not to be the case and now they're telling us another big lie – that Assad can’t control the rest of the country. Well I’ve got news for them – he’s well on the way to doing so." Mr Ford said that when the conflict started the UK should have either "put everything, including our own forces on to the battlefield, or if in our judgement – as it would have been my judgement – that was not realistic, refrain from encouraging the opposition to mount a doomed campaign." He claimed the UK’s tough talk on one hand, followed by little action to back rebels in Syria on the other had preceded a rebellion that had "only led to hundreds of thousands of civilians being maimed and killed". "We have made the situation worse." He added: "It was eminently foreseeable to anyone who was not intoxicated with wishful thinking." The UK has consistently taken the line that Assad cannot be a part of Syria’s future.
Note: Regarding the recent chemical attack in Syria, the BBC has not posted it, but you can watch this BBC interview in which former U.K. ambassador to Syria Peter Ford raises serious questions about what happened and who is behind it. For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing war news articles from reliable major media sources.
To combat an escalating opioid epidemic, the Drug Enforcement Administration trained its sights in 2011 on Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals, one of the nation’s largest manufacturers of the highly addictive generic painkiller oxycodone. It was the first time the DEA had targeted a manufacturer of opioids for alleged violations of laws designed to prevent diversion of legal narcotics to the black market. Ultimately, the DEA and federal prosecutors would contend that the company ignored its responsibility to report suspicious orders as 500 million of its pills ended up in Florida between 2008 and 2012. Investigators alleged in internal documents that the company’s lack of due diligence could have resulted in nearly 44,000 federal violations and exposed it to $2.3 billion in fines. But six years later ... the government has taken no legal action against Mallinckrodt. Instead, the company has reached a tentative settlement. Under the proposal, which remains confidential, Mallinckrodt would agree to pay a $35 million fine and admit no wrongdoing. “Mallinckrodt’s response was that ‘everyone knew what was going on in Florida but they had no duty to report it,’” according to an internal summary of the case prepared by federal prosecutors. The Postreported in October that the DEA’s civil and administrative enforcement efforts against the mammoth wholesale distributors that deliver painkillers to pharmacies stalled in the face of a stepped-up lobbying campaign by the drug industry.
Note: The city of Everett, Washington is currently suing Purdue Pharma, maker of the opioid pain medication OxyContin, for the company's alleged role in the diversion of its pills to black market buyers. For other reliable information on pharmaceutical involvement in the huge increase in opioid deaths, see Dr. Mercola's excellent article. For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing pharmaceutical corruption news articles from reliable major media sources.
High doses of vitamin C injected into the blood stream could prove effective in treating cancer, according to new research. Scientists said vitamin C infusions, which were up to 1,000 times higher than recommended intake levels, selectively targeted tumour cells in cancer patients. This increased the rates of cell deaths and sensitised them to radiation and chemotherapy. The treatment also appeared to be safe, producing mild side effects such as frequent bathroom trips and a dry mouth. Eleven brain cancer patients were given three infusions of vitamin C a week for two months followed by a further two per week for seven months while receiving standard radiotherapy and chemotherapy. Tests showed that iron in their tumours reacted with the vitamin to form highly reactive and destructive “free radical” hydrogen peroxide molecules. The free radicals were thought to cause selective DNA damage in cancerous, but not healthy, cells. This in turn was expected to lead to enhanced cancer cell death as well as sensitisation to radiation and chemotherapy drugs. US researcher Dr Garry Buettner, from the University of Iowa, said: “This paper reveals a metabolic frailty in cancer cells that is based on their own production of oxidizing agents that allows us to utilise existing redox active compounds, like vitamin C, to sensitise cancer cells to radiation and chemotherapy.” The safety study sets the stage for larger Phase II trials investigating whether high-dose vitamin C injections can extend the lifespan of cancer patients.
Authorities say they’ve uncovered a massive international sex trafficking ring in Southern California. Prosecutors announced the arrest of four people connected to the Orange County-based enterprise that allegedly placed thousands of ads for sexual services in 29 states over the past two years. The ring was based locally in Irvine. Women and girls from China were forced to sell themselves for sex and sometimes forced to work 14 hours a day in homes purchased specifically for the purposes of prostitution. Investigators tracked the ring through thousands of ads selling sex on Backpage.com. “There’s a townhouse in Cottage Grove [Minnesota], that was bought and paid for with cash. And when police entered, they saw two beds. That’s it. But they also saw a line of guys waiting on a couch, waiting for their turn,” said Pete Orput, an attorney with Washington County. The actual bust took place in Minneapolis but ... two of the ring leaders live in Irvine. Advocate Jim Carson helps rehabilitate victims of human trafficking in Orange County, and says Irvine might be consistently named as one of the safest cities in the U.S., but not for the young women he helps. “I think the tip of the iceberg, we hear about [trafficking data], we go, ‘my God these numbers are so huge’, but I honestly think it’s much, much bigger than people realize,” said ... Carson. He says on just one day recently between 1-9 p.m., he saw 51 ads on Backpage.com for escorts in Irvine. “Every ad on that internet, they’re seeing five to twenty dates a night,” said Carson.
Note: For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing sexual abuse scandal news articles from reliable major media sources.
Child trafficking referrals in the UK have hit a record high after rising by 30 per cent in a year, statistics have revealed. The number of children referred to the UK Government’s National Referral Mechanism (NRM), which identifies victims of human trafficking, increased to 1,278 in 2016, the highest figure on record, according to the latest figures from the National Crime Agency. More than a third of all potential victims of trafficking were children aged 18 and under, with a majority of children drawn into exploitative labour, including forced criminality. Trafficking covers children moved within the UK, as well as move to the country from abroad. The largest increase was the number of UK national children reported to have been abused in sexual exploitation, which showed a staggering 104.8 per cent rise on the previous year - a rise that it is hoped reflects a growing awareness that child sexual exploitation often manifests in the form of trafficking. Also featuring highly in the figures were countries affected by conflicts ... indicating that children fleeing war and instability are also vulnerable to trafficking and exploitation. A large number of these cases are thought to have travelled ... in the back of lorries facilitated by traffickers or people smugglers - indicating that they can remain at risk of exploitation by the same networks after they have arrived in the UK. Alarmingly, while numbers of potential victims of trafficking increased, positive conclusive decisions - which enable victims to access support - decreased to the lowest point in NRM history.
Note: Watch an excellent segment by Australia's "60-Minutes" team " Spies, Lords and Predators" on a pedophile ring in the UK which leads directly to the highest levels of government. A second suppressed documentary, " Conspiracy of Silence," goes even deeper into this topic in the US. For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing sexual abuse scandal news articles from reliable major media sources.
Europe is becoming the global hub for the hosting of child sexual abuse images and videos, suggests a report. The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) found that 60% of worldwide abuse material was now in Europe - an increase of 19%. The Netherlands topped the list of European nations hosting the illegal content, said the IWF. Improved reporting and policing by net firms in North America are believed to have driven the shift. The IWF is the UK body that acts to find and remove abuse content from UK networks. In 2015, about 57% of the web pages containing abuse content could be found in North America. In 2016, this had dropped to 37% with the majority now in Europe. About 34,212 web pages were found to be displaying abuse content in Europe - which also includes Russia and Turkey. Arda Gerkens, a Dutch MP who helps to oversee the nation's anti-abuse hotline, said it too had seen an "overall" rise in the number of reports to ISPs about material both in 2016 and 2015. A spokeswoman for the UK's National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) said ... "We must never forget that there is a victim behind every child sexual abuse image. Every time these horrific pictures are viewed a child is re-abused. Anyone who wilfully seeks out this material is complicit in fuelling this appalling industry."
Note: For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing sexual abuse scandal news articles from reliable major media sources.
Undercover officers in the New York police department infiltrated small groups of Black Lives Matter activists and gained access to their text messages, according to newly released NYPD documents obtained by the Guardian. The records, produced in response to a freedom of information lawsuit ... provide the most detailed picture yet of the sweeping scope of NYPD surveillance during mass protests over the death of Eric Garner in 2014 and 2015. Lawyers said the new documents raised questions about NYPD compliance with city rules. The documents, mostly emails between undercover officers and other NYPD officials, follow other disclosures that the NYPD regularly filmed Black Lives Matter activists and sent undercover personnel to protests. In one email, an official notes that an undercover officer is embedded within a group of seven protesters on their way to Grand Central Station. This intimate access appears to have helped police pass as trusted organizers and extract information about demonstrations. In other emails, officers share the locations of individual protesters at particular times. Throughout the emails, the NYPD’s undercover sources provide little indication of any unlawful activity. “The documents uniformly show no crime occurring, but NYPD had undercovers inside the protests for months on end as if they were al-Qaida,” said David Thompson, an attorney of Stecklow & Thompson, who helped sue for the records.
Key Articles From Years Past
Former CBS News correspondent Sharyl Attkisson has sued the Justice Department over the hacking of her computers, officially accusing the Obama administration of illegal surveillance while she was reporting on administration scandals. In a series of legal filings that seek $35 million in damages, Attkisson alleges that three separate computer forensic exams showed that hackers used sophisticated methods to surreptitiously monitor her work between 2011 and 2013. The intruders installed and periodically refreshed software to steal data and obtain passwords on her home and work computers. She also charges that the hackers monitored her audio using a Skype account. The award-winning reporter says she and her attorneys have "pretty good evidence" that these efforts were "connected" to the Justice Department. She said she was caught in a "Catch-22," forcing her to use the lawsuit and an administrative complaint to discover more about the surveillance through the discovery process and to learn the identities of the "John Does" named in the complaints. Attkisson learned through a Freedom of Information request that the FBI opened an investigation of the hacking case in May 2013, but says the bureau never interviewed her or even notified her of the probe. Attkisson resigned from CBS last March after complaining that she was increasingly unable to get her investigative stories on the air. She has published a best-selling book, " Stonewalled," about her battles against the network and the administration.
The federal government has not done enough to oversee the treatment of America's foster children with powerful mind-altering drugs, according to a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report. The GAO's report, based on a two-year-long investigation, looked at five states - Florida, Massachusetts, Michigan, Oregon and Texas. Thousands of foster children were being prescribed psychiatric medications at doses higher than the maximum levels approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in these five states alone. And hundreds of foster children received five or more psychiatric drugs at the same time despite absolutely no evidence supporting the simultaneous use or safety of this. Overall, the GAO ... found that more than one-fourth of foster children were prescribed at least one psychiatric drug, [and] were prescribed psychotropic drugs at rates up to nearly five times higher than non-foster children. The chances of a foster child compared to a non-foster child being given five or more psychiatric drugs at the same time were alarming. In Texas, foster children were 53 times more likely to be prescribed five or more psychiatric medications at the same time than non-foster children. Foster children were also more than nine times more likely than non-foster children to be prescribed drugs for which there was no FDA-recommended dose for their age. For ... those less than 1 year old, foster children were nearly twice as likely to be prescribed a psychiatric drug compared to non-foster children.
A British man who traveled to Poland to give a lecture on conspiracy theories and was found dead in his Warsaw apartment was conducting an investigation into alleged pedophilia that took place in a US Army-run facility. Prior to his death, [Max] Spiers texted his mother to say 'If anything happens to me, investigate'. He was ruled to have died from natural causes despite no post-mortem examination being carried out on his body. Friends have claimed he died ... after he 'vomited a black liquid'. Now it has emerged that Spiers was inquiring about allegations of widespread sexual abuse against children that was committed at a military base in California by employees acting under the influence of a satanic cult. In 1987, the US Army demolished a child care center at its Presidio base in Northern California just one year after as many as 60 children were sexually abused there. One civilian employee of the center, Gary Willard Hambright, was indicted for molesting 10 children. Charges against him were ultimately dropped. One US Army officer at the base, Lt. Col. Michael Aquino, was alleged to have taken part in the abuse. Aquino was known as the self-confessed founder of a Satanic movement known as The Temple of Set. Despite rumors of his involvement and a police investigation, he was never charged. Spiers was looking into the Presidio affair and Aquino's role, which he believed to be part of a larger underground movement that entailed ritual sexual abuse of children in San Francisco in the late 1980s.
Note: For lots more on the Presidio affair, see this excellently researched piece. Read a great essay on several cases of pedophilia rings involving top politicians. For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing sexual abuse scandal news articles from reliable major media sources.
The Army announced it is closing and demolishing a child-care center at its base at the Presidio after allegations that as many as 60 youngsters were sexually abused there. Gary Willard Hambright, 34 years old, a former worker at the center and a former Southern Baptist minister, has been charged with abusing 10 boys and girls there. He worked at the center as a civilian employee for 18 months. A Federal grand jury in San Francisco spent 10 months investigating abuse allegations surrounding the Presidio center, and almost 100 children were examined for physical or psychological signs of sexual abuse. At least four children were discovered to have chlamydia, a sexually transmitted disease. An assistant United States attorney, Peter Robinson, said Mr. Hambright was charged with molesting only 10 children because other victims were so young they would not be allowed to testify in court. More than 70 children had been interviewed by Army therapists as potential abuse victims. Parents have said as many as 60 children were molested at the center. A 16-member Army review team recently inspected the Presidio center as part of an investigation of the almost 300 child-care centers run by the Army, which care for an estimated 94,000 youngsters daily. Allegations of sexual abuse have surfaced at more than 10 percent of those centers since 1984. Among them are the centers at Fort Dix in New Jersey and the United States Military Academy at West Point.
Note: Charges against Mr. Hambright were eventually dropped. Is this justice? For lots more critical information on this disturbing case, see this excellently researched piece. For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing sexual abuse scandal news articles from reliable major media sources.
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Muhammad Yunus, the Bangladeshi economist, microfinancing pioneer and founder of the grassroots Grameen Bank, has not been resting on his laurels since wining the Nobel peace prize in 2006. The idea behind his multi award-winning idea of microcredit is that everyone is a natural entrepreneur. “Human beings are not born to work for anybody else,” he says. “For millions of years that we were on the planet, we never worked for anybody. We are go-getters. So this is our tradition. There are roughly 160 million people all over the world in microcredit, mostly women. And they have proven one very important thing: that we are all entrepreneurs. Illiterate rural women in the villages ... take tiny little loans - $30, $40 - and they turn themselves into successful entrepreneurs.” In the mid 70s, as a young economics professor, Yunus experimented with lending a mere $27 to 42 women in the village ... near his university. Banks would not lend to the poor ... and moneylenders charged extortionate rates. His experiment was a success, and he began to develop ... the Grameen Bank. The Grameen Bank today has nine million borrowers, 97% of them women. “They own the bank. It is a bank owned by poor women,” he says. “The repayment rate is 99.6%, and it has never fallen below that in our eight years of experience.” Part of his expansion into rich countries includes a program in the US: 19 branches in 11 cities, including eight in New York.
Sex trafficking wasn't a major concern in the early 1980s, when Beth Jacobs was a teenager. If you were a prostitute, the thinking went, it was your choice. Jacobs thought that too ... until [a] violent pimp forced [her] to work as a sex slave. The awareness of sex trafficking has changed a lot since then. Just last year, an old motor home parked at a truck stop caught the eye of trucker Kevin Kimmel. "I saw a guy go in it," Kimmel says. "And then I saw what I thought was a young girl peek out and be abruptly pulled back from the window." Kimmel called the police - and ended weeks of ... forced prostitution for the victim. Kylla Lanier says that Kimmel's actions "epitomizes the mission" of her group, Truckers Against Trafficking. She founded the group with her mother and three sisters a few years ago. "Trafficking happens everywhere," Lanier says. "It's happening in homes, in conference centers, at schools, casinos, truck stops, hotels, motels, everywhere. You know, it's an everywhere problem, but truckers happen to be everywhere." And these days TAT stickers, wallet cards and posters - showing a phone number for a sex trafficking hotline - are becoming ubiquitous in the trucking industry. TAT teaches drivers to try to spot sullen, hopeless-looking children, teens and young adults. Jacobs managed to escape her life of forced prostitution. Now she counsels other survivors and works with TAT. Calls to the hotline [promoted by TAT] have freed hundreds of trafficking victims.
Note: Watch this inspiring video to see how these truckers are saving lives.
British Columbia on Monday unveiled a historic agreement to protect a massive swath of rainforest along its coastline, having reached a deal that marries the interests of First Nations, the logging industry and environmentalists after a decade of often-tense negotiations. Under the agreement, about 85 percent of forest within the Great Bear Rainforest would be protected. The Great Bear Rainforest is one of the world's largest temperate rainforests and the habitat of the Spirit Bear, a rare subspecies of the black bear with white fur and claws. It is also home to 26 Aboriginal groups, known as First Nations. The Great Bear rainforest ... covers 6.4 million hectares of the province's coast. More than half its surface is forest, including 2.3 million hectares of old growth. In the 1990s, frustrated over what they saw as destructive forestry practices ... First Nations partnered with environmentalists to fight back against logging companies, blockading roads and protesting. By the early 2000s, environmental groups and industry players ... had started talks. At the same time, the government began negotiating with the Coastal First Nations. The final agreements [come] nearly two years after a landmark Supreme Court decision that granted title to a vast swath of British Columbia's interior to the Tsilhqot'in First Nations, who had gone to court to stop logging in their traditional lands. That decision has bolstered First Nations across the province, who now have a legal precedent for fighting development.
Note: Explore a treasure trove of concise summaries of incredibly inspiring news articles which will inspire you to make a difference.
Tony Robbins won't be jumping on the meditation craze any time soon. Instead, the energetic entrepreneur ... engages in a series of mindfulness and breathing exercises that he says "prime" him to be more grateful throughout the day. Simply put, "priming" is the concept that experiences, no matter how seemingly inconsequential, impact our perceptions of the world around us. If it's so easy to change the ways we see the world around us, Robbins wondered, why not prime ourselves to more readily experience gratitude? Robbins achieves this with a simple daily routine that he breaks into three three-minute segments: 1. He focuses on something very simple that makes him feel grateful, like the wind in his face or a child's smile. 2. He devotes three minutes to prayer. During this time he "sends energy" to his family, coworkers and others. 3. He completes "three to thrive," taking the final three minutes of his routine to identify three results he's committed to achieving. While he sometimes repeats a step or continues the routine for a longer period of time, the whole circuit takes less than 10 minutes - something, he says, that should be manageable for anyone in any phase of life or career. In addition to preparing him for the day, Robbins says setting aside a few minutes to focus on gratitude has long-term results as well. The two emotions that cause individuals to make poor investing or life choices are anger and fear. Gratitude can help alleviate the effects of both.
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