Vol VII No. 746 - Part 4

Top News: Global Pandemic Experiments Resumed, Vaccine Content Banned, More

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Explore below key excerpts of revealing news articles on dangerous experiments being conducted that could cause a global pandemic despite objections by prominent scientists, vaccine content on facebook and amazon being banned effectively reducing freedom of speech, a pledge by eight members of Congress to bring the "Forever War" started in the wake of 9/11 to a "responsible and expedient" end, and more.

Read also wonderfully inspiring articles on Kailash Satyarthi's incredible effort to end child labor globally, Theresa Kachindamoto's ongoing work to get kids in Malawi out of child marriages and into schools, a civil rights-related bill created by a school class in Hightstown, New Jersey that was recently signed into law, and more. You can also skip to this section now.

Each excerpt is taken verbatim from the major media website listed at the link provided. If any link fails, see this page. The most important sentences are highlighted. And don't miss the "What you can do" section below the summaries. By educating ourselves and spreading the word, we can and will build a brighter future.

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Special note (sources may be less reliable): Read an eye-opening article on how the American Association for the Advancement of Science announced the 2019 Scientific Freedom and Integrity award for two scientists whose research led to the banning of the glyphosate, only to revoke the award one day later under corporate pressure. More here. Explore an intriguing article which discusses a study suggesting some measles outbreaks are actually caused by vaccines. Read a fascinating Scientific American article exploring quantum questions titled "Quantum Monism."

Quote of the week: "The less clear a person is of their deepest life intentions and purpose, the more easily they are influenced by the world around them. The more clear they are, the more powerfully they influence the world around them and so create the life they envision."

Video of the week: Why have so few ever heard of Kailash Satyathi, a most amazing, courageous man who won a Nobel Peace Prize and has risked his life countless times to rescue tens of thousands of children from slave labor? After surviving numerous beatings and the murder of two colleagues, Satyathi won the Nobel in 2014 for creating a global network fighting for the rights of over 100 million child workers worldwide and rescuing many millions still held as slave labor in around in the world. This inspiring documentary about him will likely touch you deeply. Please educate yourself and support this most worthy cause.

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The U.S. is funding dangerous experiments it doesn’t want you to know about
February 27, 2019, Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-us-is-funding-dangerous-experiments...

In 2014, U.S. officials imposed a moratorium on experiments to enhance some of the world’s most lethal viruses by making them transmissible by air, responding to widespread concerns that a lab accident could spark a global pandemic. Apparently, the government has decided the research should now move ahead. In the past year, the U.S. government quietly greenlighted funding for two groups of researchers, one in the United States and the other in the Netherlands, to conduct transmission-enhancing experiments on the bird flu virus. Neither the approval nor the deliberations or judgments that supported it were announced publicly. This lack of transparency is unacceptable. Making decisions to approve potentially dangerous research in secret betrays the government’s responsibility to inform and involve the public when approving endeavors ... that could put health and lives at risk. Hundreds of researchers ... publicly opposed these experiments when they were first announced. In response to these concerns, the government issued a framework in 2017 for special review of “enhanced” pathogens that could become capable of causing a pandemic. The framework ... requires that experts in public-health preparedness and response, biosafety, ethics and law, among others, evaluate the work, but it is unclear from the public record if that happened. This secrecy means we don’t know how these requirements were applied, if at all, to the experiments now funded by the government.

Note: Read more on strangeness from governments surrounding the avian flu here. For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing news articles on corruption in government and in the scientific community.

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Anti-vaccine movies disappear from Amazon after CNN Business report
March 1, 2019, CNN News
https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/01/tech/amazon-anti-vaccine-movies-schiff/index.html

Amazon has apparently started removing anti-vaccine documentaries from its Amazon Prime Video streaming service. The move came days after a CNN Business report highlighted the anti-vaccine comment available on the site, and hours after Rep. Adam Schiff wrote an open letter to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, saying he is concerned "that Amazon is surfacing and recommending" anti-vaccination books and movies. Anti-vaccine movies that were previously available free for Prime subscribers, like "We Don't Vaccinate!," "Shoot 'Em Up: The Truth About Vaccines," and "Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe," are now "currently unavailable." While some anti-vaccine videos are gone from the Prime streaming service, a number of anti-vaccine books were still available for purchase on Amazon.com ... and some were still being offered for free to Kindle Unlimited subscribers. A sponsored post for the book "Vaccines On Trial: Truth and Consequences of Mandatory Shots" also remained live. Amongst the titles taken down are "VAXXED: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe," the notorious anti-vaccine documentary that was banned from the Tribeca Film Festival in 2016, and whose director, Andrew Wakefield, is one of the central figures in the anti-vaccine movements. Schiff had previously written letters to the heads of Facebook and Google, which owns YouTube, about anti-vaccine content on their platforms. Both companies publicly vowed to make changes to how anti-vaccine content is made available.

Note: This New York Times article reports that facebook is also removing key vaccine content. Our freedom to access information on all sides of various debates is gradually being eroded by giants like amazon and facebook. The documentary "Vaxxed" presents solid, verifiable evidence of a major cover-up around vaccine safety. You can find it on this webpage. For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing news articles on vaccine risks from reliable major media sources. Then explore the excellent, reliable resources provided in our Health Information Center.

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Sanders, Warren, Ocasio-Cortez, and Other Lawmakers Sign Pledge to End America’s “Forever Wars”
March 4, 2019, The Intercept
https://theintercept.com/2019/03/04/common-defense-congress-forever-wars-pledge/

Eight members of Congress have taken a pledge to work to bring ongoing U.S. global military conflicts to a “responsible and expedient” end, the result of a first-of-its kind lobbying effort by military veterans on Capitol Hill. The pledge was written and organized by a group called Common Defense ... which advocates for scaling back U.S. military commitments overseas. The effort ... is unique in that it is driven almost exclusively by veterans and focuses on global conflicts broadly, rather than one specific war. In 2001, Congress authorized military operations against the groups responsible for those attacks. In the years since, that congressional authorization has been interpreted broadly and has led to combat against groups, like the Islamic State, that did not exist on 9/11. “The United States has been in a state of continuous, global, open-ended military conflict since 2001. Over 2.5 million troops have fought in this ‘Forever War’ in over a dozen countries – including Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Jordan, Niger, Somalia, and Thailand,” the pledge reads. It continues: “I pledge to the people of the United States of America, and to our military community in particular, that I will (1) fight to reclaim Congress’s constitutional authority to conduct oversight of U.S. foreign policy and independently debate whether to authorize each new use of military force, and (2) act to bring the Forever War to a responsible and expedient conclusion.”

Note: To understand how the military-industrial complex continually undermines democracy and creates pretexts for war to pad the pockets of those who support the war machine, see this most excellent collection of major media news articles. Read a great article on how polarization is negatively impacting our world. For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing war news articles from reliable major media sources.

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Sanders, Harris and Warren defend Ilhan Omar amid controversy over Israel comments 
March 6, 2019, CNN News
https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/06/politics/bernie-sanders-defends...

Democratic presidential candidates Sens. Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren on Wednesday defended Rep. Ilhan Omar against the backlash to her comments slamming pro-Israel groups and politicians, which have been called anti-Semitic. Sanders, who is Jewish, said criticism of Omar and efforts to get her taken off the House Foreign Affairs Committee ... are aimed at stopping a discussion about American's foreign policy toward Israel. [He] differentiated between promoting anti-Semitism and criticizing Israel as a state. Harris called out all instances of bigotry and expressed concern that the focus on Omar "may put her at risk." Warren [stated], "Branding criticism of Israel as automatically anti-Semitic has a chilling effect on our public discourse and makes it harder to achieve a peaceful solution between Israelis and Palestinians. Threats of violence -- like those made against Rep. Omar -- are never acceptable." Last month, Omar faced criticism for tweets insinuating that the pro-Israel lobbying group American Israel Public Affairs Committee was effectively buying off US politicians. The Minnesota Democrat subsequently apologized after demands from Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California. Omar [also] implied that pro-Israel lawmakers are under a "political influence in this country that says it is OK for people to push for allegiance to a foreign country." House Foreign Affairs Chairman Eliot Engel said Tuesday that he does not want Omar removed from her seat on the committee because of her recent comments, despite previously calling for her to apologize in a fiery statement.

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California keeps a secret list of criminal cops, but says you can’t have it
February 26, 2019, Mercury News (Silicon Valley's leading newspaper)
https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/02/26/california-keeps-a-secret-list-of-criminal...

Thousands of California law enforcement officers have been convicted of a crime in the past decade, according to records released by a public agency that sets standards for officers in the Golden State. The revelations are alarming, but the state’s top cop says Californians don’t have a right to see them. In fact, Attorney General Xavier Becerra warned two Berkeley-based reporters that simply possessing this never-before-publicly-released list of convicted cops is a violation of the law. The California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training — known as POST — provided the information last month in response to routine Public Records Act requests from reporters. When [California Attorney General Xavier] Becerra’s office learned about the disclosure, it threatened the reporters with legal action unless they destroyed the records. The documents provide a rare glimpse at the volume of officer misconduct at a time of heightened interest over police accountability. The list includes cops who trafficked drugs, cops who stole money from their departments and even one who robbed a bank wearing a fake beard. Some sexually assaulted suspects. Others took bribes, filed false reports and committed perjury. A large number drove under the influence of drugs and alcohol — sometimes killing people on the road. The Berkeley journalists chose not to publish the entire list until they could spend more time reporting to avoid misidentifying people among the nearly 12,000 names in the documents.

Note: An astounding August 2018 article in the Los Angeles Times reveals how California became the most secretive state on police misconduct. More here and on this webpage.

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What decades of traffic stop data reveals about police bias
March 2, 2019, CBS News
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/what-decades-of-traffic-stop-data-reveals-about...

Philando Castile, Walter Scott and Sandra Bland were all pulled over by police in routine traffic stops. All are dead. In an effort to curb racial profiling, North Carolina became the first state to demand the collection and release of traffic stop data. University of North Carolina professor Frank Baumgartner took a look at that data and wrote a book on the subject titled, "Suspect Citizens." Baumgartner analyzed 22 million traffic stops over 20 years ... and found that a driver's race, gender, location and age all factor in to a police officer's decision to pull over a vehicle. The data showed that African Americans had been stopped twice as often as white drivers, and while they were four times more likely to be searched, they were actually less likely to be issued a ticket. The study also highlighted that whites were more likely to be found with contraband than blacks or Hispanics. "There's a way that police interact with middle-class white Americans and there's a way that people in the police forces interact with members of minority communities, especially in poorer neighborhoods," Baumgartner said. Police discretion is a power that's been backed by the U.S. Supreme Court for decades. Baumgartner believes that's largely because the court looks like him, a white man. Philando Castile was stopped 46 times according to police records, racking up a total of $6,000 in fines. "When we look at some of these infractions, they're trivial. It's not keeping us any safer," Baumgartner said.

Note: For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing news articles on police corruption and the erosion of civil liberties.

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Only six countries have equal rights for men and women, World Bank finds
March 2, 2019, CNN News
https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/02/europe/world-bank-gender-equality-report...

The world is moving towards legal gender equality - but it's moving very, very slowly. Only six countries currently give women and men equal rights, a major report from the World Bank has found. That's an increase - from zero - compared to a decade ago, when the organization started measuring countries by how effectively they guarantee legal and economic equality between the genders. But the rate of progress means that, by CNN calculations, women won't achieve full equality in the areas studied by the World Bank until 2073. Belgium, Denmark, France, Latvia, Luxembourg and Sweden scored full marks of 100 in the bank's "Women, Business and the Law 2019" report. Of those nations, France saw the biggest improvement over the past decade for implementing a domestic violence law, providing criminal penalties for workplace sexual harassment and introducing paid parental leave. But countries in the Middle East and Sub-Saharan Africa averaged a score of 47.37, meaning the typical nation in those regions gives women under half the legal rights of men in the areas measured by the group. The study ... did not measure social and cultural factors, or how effectively laws were enforced. The criteria analyzed were: going places, starting a job, getting paid, getting married, having children, running a business, managing assets and getting a pension. Overall, the global average came in at 74.71. The score indicates that in the average nation, women receive just three-quarters of the legal rights that men do.

Note: For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing civil liberties news articles from reliable major media sources.

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Study: Patients Find More Relief In Marijuana's Psychoactive Compound THC Than In CBD
February 27, 2019, Forbes
https://www.forbes.com/sites/javierhasse/2019/02/27/study-patients-find-more...

CBD, the non-psychoactive compound found in cannabis, hemp and hops, has been getting a lot of attention from the media recently. On the other hand, THC, the psychoactive compound in cannabis that makes people feel “high” or “stoned,” is often overlooked (and sometimes even looked down on) when discussing marijuana’s medical potential. However, a new study ... published on the Scientific Reports journal on Tuesday, revealed that THC exhibited the “strongest correlation with therapeutic relief, compared to the more socially acceptable chemical found in cannabis, CBD (cannabinol).” Cannabinoid content, and especially THC content, came out as the main factor for optimizing symptom relief, when tested for a wide variety of health conditions. [Study co-author Jacob Miguel] Vigil explained the results derived from the observation of real-time data from Releaf App, which he qualified as “the largest database of its kind in our country.” Using the app, patients reported the results and effects of their actual cannabis use. The researchers discovered cannabis is more effective for the treatment of mental symptoms like agitation, irritability, anxiety, depression, excessive appetite, insomnia, loss of appetite, nausea, gastrointestinal pain, stress and tremors, than it is in the treatment of physical ailments. Despite the conventional wisdom ... that only CBD has medical benefits while THC merely makes one high, our results suggest that THC may be more important than CBD in generating therapeutic benefits.

Note: For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing news articles on health and the healing potentials of mind-altering drugs.

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Saudis Join With US to Kill EU Effort to Create Dirty Money Blacklist
March 1, 2019, CommonDreams.org
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/03/01/saudis-join-us-kill-eu-effort-create...

The United States and key ally Saudi Arabia saw their lobbying efforts pay off on Friday after the European Commission's proposed dirty money blacklist - which included the oil-rich kingdom and several American territories - fizzled. "The Americans fell on us like a tonne of bricks," an anonymous Brussels official [said]. The effort "to protect the integrity of the E.U. financial system," the commission said last month, included blacklisting 23 territories that had "strategic deficiencies in their anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing frameworks." They included American Samoa, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico as well as Saudi Arabia. However, as the Wall Street Journal reported Friday, "European governments, under pressure from Washington and Riyadh, have refused to endorse" the list. "The rejection of the governments is a farce at the expense of security," declared Sven Giegold, Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Germany. "Governments must ask themselves whether they are on the side of autocrats or their citizens!" As Politico reported, the list, which would need the backing of the European Parliament and Council of the E.U. to go into effect, "is politically sensitive because it has teeth. E.U. banks that handle payments connected to the blacklisted countries and territories would have to conduct 'enhanced due diligence' on any cash that moves to and from the E.U. and the blacklisted jurisdictions."

Note: For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing news articles on corruption in government and in the financial industry.

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Key Articles From Years Past

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Why Is the Foreign Policy Establishment Spoiling for More War? Look at Their Donors.
October 25, 2016, The Nation
https://www.thenation.com/article/why-is-the-foreign-policy-establishment...

As a former member of the House of Representatives, I remember 16 years of congressional hearings where pedigreed experts came to advocate wars in testimony based on circular, rococo thinking devoid of depth, reality, and truth. I remember other hearings where the Pentagon was unable to reconcile over $1 trillion in accounts, lost track of $12 billion in cash sent to Iraq, and rigged a missile-defense test. War is first and foremost a profitable racket. How else to explain that in the past 15 years this city’s so called bipartisan foreign policy elite has promoted wars in Iraq and Libya, and interventions in Syria and Yemen, which have opened Pandora’s box to a trusting world, to the tune of trillions of dollars, a windfall for military contractors. The American people are fed up with war, but a concerted effort is being made through fearmongering, propaganda, and lies to prepare our country for a dangerous confrontation, with Russia in Syria. The demonization of Russia is a calculated plan to resurrect a raison d’être for stone-cold warriors trying to escape from the dustbin of history by evoking the specter of Russian world domination. As this year’s presidential election comes to a conclusion, the Washington ideologues are regurgitating the same bipartisan consensus that has kept America at war since 9/11 and made the world a decidedly more dangerous place.

Note: The above was written by Dennis Kucinich, who represented Ohio's 10th District from 1997 to 2013. Read a great piece by a top U.S. general titled "War is a Racket." For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing war news articles from reliable major media sources.

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Roswell Truth Debated
July 7, 2008, CNN Larry King Live
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0807/04/lkl.01.html

LARRY KING: On July 8th, 1947, Colonel William H. Blanchard, commanding officer of the 509th Bomb Group at Roswell Army Air Field released a press statement that a flying saucer had crashed ... and that the Army had recovered the disk within hours. A second press release was issued claiming that it was nothing more than a weather balloon. Carlene Green['s] father was stationed [there]. GREEN: He said, "Don't let anybody tell you that the incident at Roswell did not happen. I was there. I saw the spacecraft." They were told, don't talk about it. SCHMITT: [They] threatened physical violence if they should ever talk about this. KING: Frankie Rowe. Her father was a fireman in Roswell. [He] reported to his family that in addition to a crashed saucer, he saw two full body bags and one living little person. ROWE: He said that they tried to help it. KING: We are now joined by ... Dr. Edgar Mitchell, the Apollo XIV astronaut, sixth man to walk on the moon. MITCHELL: All of my experience comes from what I call the old timers. Because I lived in the area ... and because I was an astronaut, some of them wanted to get it off their chest before they passed on. I eventually went to the Pentagon and asked for a meeting with the Intelligence Committee of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. A vice admiral said ... I don't know about that but I'm going to find out. [He] called a few weeks later and said he had found the source of the black budget funding for this project and that he was going to subsequently investigate. [Yet he was later] told, I'm sorry, admiral, you do not have need to know here. We knew many of the people, including the ranch where this was discovered, and in spite of all of the security oaths, etc, the talk in the community was ... that it was an alien craft.

Note: Watch video clips of this CNN report. Read more detailed, fascinating testimony on the existence of UFOs from Dr. Edgar Mitchell, the sixth man to walk on the moon. Explore our resource-filled UFO Information Center. For other revealing news articles on UFOs, see this webpage.

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Inspiring Articles

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Kailash Satyarthi plans to end child labor in his lifetime
February 21, 2019, CNN News
https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/19/world/kailash-satyarthi-child-labor/index.html

Since 1980, [former engineer Kailash Satyarthi] has spent his life campaigning against child labor, ultimately winning the Nobel Peace Prize ... in 2014. Satyarthi launched the 100 Million campaign in late 2016. The initiative ... seeks to engage 100 million young people around the world to speak out for the world's more than 100 million child workers. The International Labor Organization charts the total of child laborers globally at 152 million, with 73 million of those in hazardous labor conditions. 10 million children are victims of abject slavery. The number of children working has fallen sharply in the last two decades, from as many as 246 million in the year 2000. With more global awareness and effort, it could fall further. Satyarthi's organization and Participant Media collaborated on a letter-writing campaign, in which ... people wrote letters to the top 100 US retailers asking them to take steps to ensure the products they sell are not connected with child labor. So far more than a million letters have been sent. "The world is capable to end child labor," Satyarthi said. "We have the technology. We have the resources. We have laws and international treaties. We have everything. The only thing is that we have to feel compassion for others. "My struggle is for the globalization of compassion." Satyarthi's ambitions have long been focused on global policy, but the root of it all still remains back home in India. The original organization he founded [has] directly rescued more than 88,000 children.

Note: Why have so few ever heard of this most amazing, courageous man who has risked his life countless times to rescue tens of thousands of children from slave labor? After surviving numerous beatings and the murder of two of his colleagues, Satyathi won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 for creating a global network focused on fighting for the rights of over 100 million child workers worldwide and rescuing the many millions still held as slave labor in almost every country in the world. Don't miss the moving documentary on Saryahi and his work titled "The Price of Free."

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How This Female Chief Broke Up 850 Child Marriages In Malawi
March 1, 2016, Huffington Post
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/woman-chief-breaks-up-850-child-marriages-in...

One woman established a new law to prevent child marriage, and is enforcing it with serious gusto. Theresa Kachindamoto, senior chief in the Dedza District in Central Malawi, was tired of seeing 12-year-old girls walking around with babies on their hips. She decided to take a stand and made 50 of her sub-chiefs sign an agreement to end child marriage in her area of authority. “I told them: ‘Whether you like it or not, I want these marriages to be terminated,’” Kachindamoto [said]. But she didn’t stop there: She made the leaders annul any existing underage unions, and send all of the children involved back to school. While marrying under age 18 in Malawi has been illegal since early 2015, children can still be married under so-called “customary law,” meaning with parental consent and overseen by traditional leaders. When four male chiefs continued to approve underage marriages, Kachindamoto suspended them as a warning to others, only hiring them back once they confirmed they had annulled the unions. “First it was difficult, but now people are understanding,” she said to the outlet. To ensure children are not being pulled out of school, Kachindamoto operates a secret network of parents to keep an eye on others. And when parents can’t afford to pay school fees, she’ll pay them herself or find someone else who can. In June alone, she annulled more than 300 child marriages, according to the organization. And over the past three years, the figure reaches close to 850.

Note: Explore a treasure trove of concise summaries of incredibly inspiring news articles which will inspire you to make a difference.

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A high school government class wanted to help solve civil rights crimes. So they drafted a bill that is now law
February 26, 2019, CNN News
https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/26/us/new-jersey-students-civil-rights-bill...

A high school class in Hightstown, New Jersey, has found an impressive way to shed light on unsolved civil rights crimes from the 1950s and '60s. The AP class, studying US government, drafted a bill that would create a board to review, declassify, and release documents related to such cases. The students ... went to Washington, walked the halls of Senate office buildings and passed out folders with policy research and information about their bill, said former student Joshua Fayer. Their efforts caught the attention of Rep. Bobby Rush of Illinois, who introduced the bill - modeled after the JFK Assassination Records Act - in March 2017. Later Sens. Doug Jones of Alabama and Ted Cruz of Texas signed on. The House and Senate versions ... passed late last year, and President Trump signed the bill into law on January 8. Former student Jay Vainganker said the class was initially trying to solve unresolved hate crimes from the [civil rights] era. They filed public records requests for information from the FBI and Department of Justice, and they got back redacted responses from the government. In some cases, entire pages were redacted. That's when their focus changed, Vaingankar said. They decided to draft a bill that would make the government "a little bit more transparent." The Civil Rights Cold Case Records Collection Act creates "a board that would be authorized to look at these documents and see what should be redacted, what isn't relevant, what should be released," he said.

Note: Explore a treasure trove of concise summaries of incredibly inspiring news articles which will inspire you to make a difference.

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16-year-old finds a new way to detect cancer 
May 18, 2013, CBS News
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57585179/16-year-old...

Sixteen-year-old Jack Andraka's innovative mind led him to create a new way to detect pancreatic, ovarian and lung cancer. "I created a new way to detect pancreatic, ovarian and lung cancer that costs three cents and takes five minutes to run," he said. After a close friend died from pancreatic cancer, this 16-year-old from Crownsville, Maryland, unleashed his hyper-drive intellect on preventing more cancer deaths. "It's 168 times faster, over 26,000 times less expensive, and over 400 times more sensitive than our current methods of diagnosis," he said. Tinkering in his room and using information readily available online, he came up with a new way to detect cancer. "85 percent of all pancreatic cancers are diagnosed late, when someone has less than a two percent chance of survival. And our current test costs $800 per test and misses 30 percent of all pancreatic cancers," he said. He won last year's Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. The sweet validation came with $100,000 in scholarships, but Jack Andraka's got his eye on even bigger things. "The name of the competition is called the Tricorder XPRIZE," he said. "It's a $10 million prize. Essentially what you have to do is develop something the size of a smartphone that you scan over your skin and it will diagnose any disease instantly." Jack is fielding a team of other high-schoolers to compete against 300 teams of adult scientists and corporations in the Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE competition. He says youth is an advantage -- that new eyes are more likely to solve old problems.

Note: Let's hope this invention gets fast tracked and makes it to market. Notice how little attention this exciting development received. To read about many potential cancer cures reported in major media which have not made it to market for financial reasons, click here. For a treasure trove of great news articles which will inspire you to make a difference, click here.

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Adults telling children to be honest while lying and cheating. Adults telling children to not be violent while marketing and glorifying violence... I believe that adult hypocrisy is the biggest problem children face in America." - Marian Wright Edleman     "The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear": Herbert Sebastien Agar Beyond Disappointing: What Can We Say?   Of The More Than One Million Visitors a Month And The More Than 100,000 Daily Newsletter Recipients, 219 have donated over the past 9 days to support ICH.   We NEED another 231 people to click the link below   Your support makes this service possible - If we don't do this, who will?   Please act now - Become A Supporting Reader     Please provide whatever you can- $1, $5, $10, $20, $50, $100- To Use your debit/credit card or check click here http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/support.htm Low income readers: DON'T send money, just encourage others to subscribe.   To all who have assisted in the past. Thank you. Your help is greatly appreciated. Tom Feeley   Open Letter To ICH Readers: By John Pilger, Paul Craig Roberts, Pepe Escobar, Peter Koenig & Finian Cunningham Op-Ed US Stealth War on Venezuela   By Finian Cunningham A devastating cyber sabotage of the country's power infrastructure.   -Continue ====== Presstitutes Turn Blind Eye to UN Report on Venezuela   By Paul Craig Roberts Washington and the Convict Appointed to Overthrow Venezuela Continue the Lies.   - Continue ====== US Negotiations: Masters of Defeats   By James Petras Washington's rejection of reciprocal agreements with Russia, China, Iran, Cuba and Venezuela has been a failure..   - Continue ====== Chelsea Manning is in jail. Our silence is shameful   By James Ball The DoJ's persecution of Manning is simply judicial cruelty. It deserves our full attention.   -Continue ====== Edward Snowden rips light Manafort sentence: 'Your sentence derives from your proximity to power'   By Daniel Chaitin Snowden compared the amount of prison time dealt to Manafort and former CIA Director David Petraeus to that of Chelsea Manning.   - Continue ====== The Rise Of Totalitarian Technology   By Neil Howe 25% of 18- to 24-year-olds believe technology has a "mostly positive" impact on their privacy.   -Continue ====== Leaked Documents Show the U.S. Tracking Journalists and Immigration Advocates Through a Secret Database   By Tom Jones, Mari Payton and Bill Feather Documents detail an intelligence-gathering effort, targeting journalists, an attorney, and immigration advocates.   -Continue ====== Trump May Not Leave White House If He Looses 2020 Election   By Larry Wilkerson and Paul Jay How would the military respond?   - Continue ====== How much longer will the middle class politely tolerate its own destruction?   By Robert Gore Statism, whatever its variations, is never about doing something for people, it's about doing something to them.   - Continue ====== Unbreaking America: A NEW Short Film about Solving the U.S. Corruption Crisis   Watch Corruption in our government, what you can do about it.   - Continue ====== MIDDLE EAST The Zionists, "The Skinnies", and American Democracy   By R Zwarich Why must it be this daughter of immigrants and refugees that steps forward to defend our most basic freedoms from the power of Zionism?   - Continue   HARD NEWS     MIDDLE EAST   Bomb blast kills two Iraqi paramilitary fighters in Baghdad   1 killed, 6 injured in bomb attack in central Iraq   Facing sanctions, Assad says Syria facing 'economic siege'   U.S. Still Hunting for Allied Cooperation in Syria: Trump administration officials didn't secure commitments from key European allies to send military forces to Syria, passing a target date set for Friday,   Watch: US-backed Forces Starve Refugees In Syria: Report;Israeli Navy Ready To Block Iranian Oil Transit,   Pentagon warns of 'grave consequences' if Turkey buys air defense system from Moscow   Saudi Aarabia kills 20 women, child in NW Yemen   Yemeni gov't forces repulse Houthi attack in Hodeidah, 13 rebels killed   US firm returns $400m fund to Saudi Arabia over Khashoggi murder   Bin Salman sidelined by his father in Kushner's 'deal of the century':Report claims Saudi Arabia's King Salman 'had taken back the Israeli-Palestinian file back from his son'   Israeli sniper kills Gaza child: Israeli snipers shot Saif al-Din Imad Nasir Abu Zaid in the head and wounded six others with live bullets   Why the outrage? 'Jewish Power' Party is the new norm in Israeli politics   Canadian apologist for Israeli war crimes nominated for Peace Prize:Hypocrisy, lying, disdain for the victims of 'our' policies and other forms of rot run deep in Canadian political culture.   Breaking the Silence: Inside the Israeli Right's Campaign to Silence an Anti-Occupation Group   Why It's Ilhan Omar's Critics Who Are Fueling Anti-Semitism   Ex-Mossad agents harass US students, BDS activists   New poll: Americans' support for Israel falls to lowest point in a decade   AFRICA   U.S. Kills Hundreds in Somalia as Shadowy Conflict Ramps Up   Jetliner crashes in Ethiopia, killing 157 from 35 countries   Algeria's angry youth ready to rise up to topple ailing president   ASIA   Afghan Forces Kill Over 60 Taliban Militants Over Past 24 Hours - Reports   U.S. Kills at Least 10 Civilians in Afghanistan   Fact or fiction? Hanoi: Chinese ship rams, sinks Vietnamese fishing boat   EUROPE   Rival groups clash in suburbs of Libyan capital   US State Dept says mortar shell brought to Moscow airport 'posed no threat' to passengers - report   'Brexit in peril' as PM May faces heavy defeat   Labour's civil war on Israel has been a long time coming:Threats by a Jewish group to split from Labour is not evidence of anti-semitism, but of the party's long indulgence of anti-Palestinian racism   GLOBE   Millennials lead the mass Facebook exodus: More than 15 MILLION users in the US have quit the site in the last two years   AMERICAS   Venezuela blames sabotage & 'US electricity war' after major power outage   Venezuela will present evidence of the US attacks on the electrical system, to international organizations.   NYT: Footage Contradicts U.S. Claim That Maduro Burned Aid Convoy:The opposition itself, not Mr. Maduro's men, appears to have set the cargo alight accidentally.   Maduro's Rebounding Support - Public Convinced that Electricity Black-Outs are Acts of U.S Terrorism, Sabotage   Viva Amlo: Mexico's leftist president creates new style of government   Trump will reportedly ask Congress for another $8.6 billion to build the wall   Immigration, Building a Wall, and Hispanic Crime:The dismal state of factual misinformation widespread within the anti-immigration community is best illustrated by a single striking example.   Canadian apologist for Israeli war crimes nominated for Peace Prize:Hypocrisy, lying, disdain for the victims of 'our' policies and other forms of rot run deep in Canadian political culture.   Trump budget to propose slashing domestic spending, increase for the Pentagon   As budget deficit balloons, few in Washington seem to care   The $64 Trillion Question: With Foreigners Stepping Aside, Who Will Buy U.S Treasuries?   Trump's Most Prominent Silicon Valley Supporters Wins Secretive Military AI Contract   New York City is edging toward financial disaster, experts warn   Obama was a smiling murderer, says Ilhan Omar... then tries to backtrack   Listen: Cornel West on Bernie, Trump, and Racism   Exclusive poll: Young Americans are embracing socialism   Doctor in California used a video-link robot to tell a patient he was going to die: Peace and Joy Tom Feeley Cost Of War   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:  4,801  Number Of  International Occupation Force Troops Slaughtered In Afghanistan : 3,430    Total Cost of Wars Since 2001       4,755,804,049,705   https://www.nationalpriorities.org/cost-of/? 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She was a patient, my patient, on the pediatric oncology unit during my very first ward rotation intern year. On my first day, I […]   After Luke Perry: a greater awareness of stroke symptoms When your grandmother suffers a devastating stroke, it is a family tragedy, but it does not necessarily make the headlines. When Luke Perry has a massive stroke at age 52, it does. Stroke remains a surprisingly common occurrence, striking someone in the United States every 40 seconds, and killing someone every 3 minutes and 45 […] Esketamine is not a breakthrough new drug: Why the nasal spray for depression is old news The FDA has given official approval to market eskatamine as a treatment for depression. As expected, there has been great fanfare (press releases, morning TV talk show guests, NPR segments and so on). The news leaves me salty. The esketamine story reveals so much of what is wrong about how we get useful medical science […] How telemedicine can help patients and solve physician burnout I have been practicing telemedicine successfully for four years. In 2015, I had to beg doctors to work in telemedicine. Because so many doctors were wary of it, I started to get licensed in multiple states, and now, I have 15 state licenses. Well, what a difference a few years makes. Now, in 2019, I […] The most loving thing: end of life and saying goodbye “Grandma fell and we’re in the emergency room. She’s very distressed and does not look good. I’m going to put the doctor on the phone.” I could hear my mother’s voice strain on the other end of the phone line as I braced myself for my conversation with the emergency department physician. The emergency physician […]   Thousands of physicians are browsing this job board. They love its selection of over 12,000 openings across the U.S.. Physicians are finding opportunities they almost missed.   Alex Trebek diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. A brave journey begins. The news that Alex Trebek has advanced stage IV pancreatic cancer has been met with an outpouring of support and good wishes, as would be expected for someone who has been a part of our lives for so many years. The fact is, pancreatic cancer is a difficult disease to treat effectively. That is due in no small […] How do fitness trackers fit in the future of health care? I view medicine as a team effort. Doctors, nurses, technicians, and patients work together to promote and improve health. Recently some new members have joined the team:  My patients’ Fitbits, phones, and watches. For years, the pessimists out there have predicted that wearable technology would lead to mass hysteria. Patients would misdiagnose themselves as having […] The reason so many physicians are retiring early There has been a disturbing shift in how medical professionals feel about their career. I almost cringe every time I’m at a party or social gathering now and tell people I retired early from my medical practice. I try not to bring it up. I don’t cringe out of fear for how they will perceive […] Become more than a clinician. Be a healer. When a patient goes to the doctor, they usually have a specific health problem in mind. Sometimes, the treatment is straightforward; a urinary tract infection warrants antibiotics. A laceration can be sutured. Other issues, however, are more complex. For example, communicating a terminal diagnosis to a patient. Consoling his grieving widow two months later. In […] How to prevent ski injuries: tips from an orthopedic surgeon Ski season is here, and it’s time to think about how we can avoid injuries on the slopes. As an orthopaedic surgeon, I most often see knee injuries, but also plenty of wrist, elbow and shoulder injuries as well. Hopefully, you’ve done some pre-season conditioning — but if not, go ahead and start now! Obviously, […] HIPAA case studies: misguided mistakes and egregious errors An excerpt from Tweets, Likes,and Liabilities: Online and Electronic Risk to the Healthcare Professional. When it comes to HIPAA violations, there are, sadly, plenty of examples available to serve as cautionary tales. Some seem like innocent mistakes that just about anyone could make. Others are so egregious that those involved appear to be willfully inviting the […] A key tip for premedical students: Ask for help A simple Google search is all you need to do to gauge the difficulty individuals have with asking for help. “How to ask to shadow someone.” 43.1 million results. “How to ask for a letter of recommendation.” 66 million results. “How to ask for help,” 3.73 billion results. From the popularity of these topics, it […] How self-awareness helps with patient interaction What is self-awareness? A quick Google search says that it is “conscious knowledge of one’s own character, feelings, motives, and desires.” In other words, my worldview is different than yours. Hypothetically, I am a Republican, and you are a Democrat. You don’t believe in vaccinations, but I do. I believe in universal health care, but […] The commodification of health care is destroying the doctor-patient relationship My elderly patients miss the days when, in an emergency, they could call their family doctor at home, and they’d be cared for. Retired doctors reminisce about the “good old days” when they were in charge of their own schedules and could prescribe whatever drug or test they felt necessary based on years of experience. […] A paradigm shift in acute pain assessment and management We have embarked upon a unique strategy to assess and manage pain. “Opioids Rarely Help Bodily Pain” is not a catchy phrase but a mnemonic related to educational learning which serves as the cornerstone of a new acute-pain management paradigm. As is known, the evaluation of pain is extremely difficult due to its subjective nature. […] Alex Trebek reminds us to go beyond fear of pancreatic cancer The news that beloved game show host Alex Trebek has advanced stage pancreatic cancer hit his millions of fans hard this week. His illness has elicited heartbreak and support. As a clinician who treats pancreatic cancer, I anticipated the reaction that would follow next. Fear. While it is a rare form of cancer, pancreatic cancer […] Instead of Medicare for all, how about Medicare for more? Medicare for all is one of the leading campaign issues among the Democratic presidential candidates. Michigan Rep. John Conyers first introduced the idea in Congress in 2003. It went nowhere, but as the one-time party of JFK morphed into something much further left, Medicare for all rose from the dead. Medicare for all promises universal coverage, so that […] Prescription for a healthy heart: pediatric-driven partnerships For pediatric cardiologists, February, National Heart Month, is a special time. We share health tips in the hospital and talk about heart health with those looking for advice, especially with patients and families impacted by CHD. It’s also a time to look back at what’s worked well in the field, while accelerating advancements for CHD […] 5 ways physician recruiters can improve their relationship with doctors A career in health care provides an incredible life full of experiences, challenges, and heartbreak, mixed with incredible satisfaction. With the rapidly shifting global economy, health professionals retain a large degree of flexibility and geographic independence. That said, it takes a unique proposition from a recruiter to pull one away from a satisfying position. I […] Remove your blindfold to your patient’s pain “We pass through the present with our eyes blindfolded … Only later when the cloth is untied can we glance at the past and find out what we have experienced and what meaning it has.” – Milan Kundera Two days ago, during a clinical skills session on lymph node examination, my classmates insisted that I […] KevinMD Spring 2019 keynote appearances I’m so honored to share my social media journey over the years, and chronicle the continual evolution of the social media-medicine intersection. It’s such a thrill to keynote three conferences this Spring: the 28th Annual Scientific & Clinical Conference of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, Becker’s Health IT + Clinical Leadership + Pharmacy 2019, and Pri-Med West. I’m […] A medical student’s first code. Here’s what he learned. Well, today it happened. I participated in my first code. We were in the telemetry unit (the room where they monitor all the patients who have EKG strips) to ask about a different patient of mine only to find that a patient was coding (lost a life-sustaining heartbeat). With some coaxing from my attending, the […] MKSAP: 40-year-old man with a new skin rash of 10 days’ duration Test your medicine knowledge with the MKSAP challenge, in partnership with the American College of Physicians. A 40-year-old man is evaluated for a new skin rash of 10 days’ duration. The rash appeared abruptly and is not tender or pruritic. The patient has poorly controlled type 2 diabetes mellitus. His current medications include metformin and glyburide. Family […] #MeToo: A culture change is needed in health care This article is sponsored by Careers by KevinMD.com. The #MeToo movement exploded into the national spotlight in October 2017 with The New York Times exposé of sexual abuse allegations against Hollywood media mogul Harvey Weinstein. It has since encouraged thousands (if not hundreds of thousands) of people to come forward and share their stories of sexual harassment, […] Physicians are now lab rats Pay for performance (P4P) is all the rage in health care. Big Pharma led the way, and the popular press would have you believe that one can “incentivize” physicians and their clinical colleagues with as little as a sandwich and a bag of chips. Corporations have used bonuses, stock options, and commissions for years as […] Have bad news for your patients? Mind your metaphors. First, the cancer diagnosis. Then, the barrage of trite encouragements: You can beat this! Don’t give up. Keep fighting! It’s not only friends and family members who utter these clichés — usually at a loss of what else to say. Health care providers also attempt to bolster patients’ morale with well-intentioned but well-worn phrases too. […] Medicare for all and the problem of health care on demand The evolving politics of single-payer health care conflate the concepts of universal coverage, health care on demand and free health care. To the indiscriminate progressive mind, all three are part of the holy grail. The fly in the ointment is that highly attractive and altruistic politics runs into the brick wall of reality. As Thomas […]   If a friend sent you this email and you want to subscribe, go to KevinMD.   345 Hudson Street New York NY 10014 USA ICH: Russia To Defend Its Venezuela Oil Assets In 'Toughest Way Possible' Inbox x ICH Newsletter emailtom@cox.net via informationclearinghouse.ccsend.com  Mon, Mar 11, 3:04 PM (2 days ago) to me View the newsletter in your browser http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/  Not For Profit - For Justice 100% Non Commercial, Fearless, Forthright & Independent  March 11/12, 2019 Important Update Our email address has changed. - New address - ichnewseditor@outlook.com     Please submit articles and inquiries to the address above.   Peace and Joy   Tom     ====   "If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves." - Howard Zinn   "They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening ." -  George Orwell   "The truth is not in the commercial media because the truth is a dagger pointed at its heart, which is its pocketbook." - George Seldes     "One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda."  - Douglas MacArthur (1880 - 1964) Op-Ed Open Letter To ICH Readers   By John Pilger, Paul Craig Roberts, Pepe Escobar, Peter Koenig & Finian Cunningham ICH Empowers critical ability for people to challenge prevailing agendas and power structures - to create a more just and peaceful world.  - Continue  ====== Russia To Defend Its Venezuela Oil Assets In 'Toughest Way Possible'   By Tsvetana Paraskova Lavrov "condemned the threats the US has made toward the country's lawful leadership.   - Continue ====== "Lights Out!" Did Trump and His Neocons Recycle Bush-Era Plan to Knock Out Venezuela's Power Grid?   By Whitney Webb The U.S. has long had a plan on the books for targeting the civilian power grid of adversarial nations.   - Continue ====== Washington is Waging a New Dimension War Against China - and will Lose out Bitterly   By Peter Koenig It's an aggression against leading Chinese businesses and against China's embracing a policy of a multi-polar world.   - Continue ====== Marco Polo is back in China - again   By Pepe Escobar All roads seem to lead to Rome as Italy expresses its love for China's Belt and Road Initiative.   -Continue ====== US creating international dictatorship - ex-President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad   By Going Underground Former President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad talks about Yemen, the relation between capitalism and oppression and his distinction between Judaism and Zionism!   - Continue ====== 50+ Retired Generals and Diplomats Urge the United States to Reenter Iran Deal   By The American College of National Security Leaders Iran's continued compliance is not ensured and the benefits from the agreement risk being lost.   -Continue ====== Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel is a state 'only of the Jewish people'   By Al Jazeera Netanyahu admits the state is not one for 'all of its citizens'.   -Continue ====== Trump is trying to pay his way to an annihilation of Palestinian statehood, and an erasure of Israel's crimes   By Robert Fisk This was the first time in modern Arab history that America has offered the bribes before anyone has agreed to the terms.   -Continue ====== Israel's Stranglehold on American Politics  By Chris Hedges Israel's dominance of the Democratic Party is eroding. It is losing legitimacy in the eyes of the public.  - ====== Trump's 2020 budget proposal is going after Medicare, Social Security, Medicaid, and more   By Tara Golshan The $4.7 trillion budget proposal, seeks to slash $845 billion from Medicare - $241 billion from Medicaid a program, while increasing the defense budget to $750 billion.   - Continue ====== MIDDLE EAST   HARD NEWS     MIDDLE EAST   Ongoing war on Syria killed over 1,100 children in 2018: UN   U.S.-led airstrikes kills 50 in Eastern Syria   Clashes in Syria's Baghouz kill 'dozens' of ISIS fighters: SDF spokesperson   Syria, Russia: Al-Rukban camp is like a detention camp, must be evacuated immediately: Syria and Russia again called on US occupation forces in al-Tanf area to end the detainment of displaced Syrians in al-Rukban camp and to allow them to leave   Rouhani sets off on historic visit to Iraq in major blow to Trump   At least 20 civilians killed, including children, in north Yemen: Air strikes by a Saudi-led coalition killed 23 civilians in Kushar district.   Yemen: For every child killed by bombs and bullets, dozens are starving to death   Saudi Arabia has become world's top arms buyer   U.S. Increases Dominance of Global Arms Trade: The five largest exporters are the U.S., Russia, France, Germany and China   Israel hammers Gaza for 3rd night in 'vigorous response' ordered by Netanyahu   Apartheid: Israeli Leaders: In Their Own Words:Palestine Advocacy Project Exposes US-Backed Israeli Leaders' Racist and Extremist Rhetoric   Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East?  Netanyahu's comments have shattered that illusion; His comments that the country belongs to 'Jewish people alone' strike to the heart of the nature of Israel   Must Watch: AIPAC's Open Secret, Exposed by Ilhan Omar   Turkey says done deal on Russia missile ignoring U.S.' warning   Turkey Enters First Recession In A Decade   AFRICA   Egyptian army says 46 suspected jihadists killed in clashes in Sinai peninsula   Algerian president Abdelaziz Bouteflika drops bid for fifth term   ASIA   Over 2 dozen fighters including 4 security personnel killed in W. Afghanistan   US kills another 13 civilians in Afghanistan   Pakistani, Indian troops trade fire in Kashmir, killing one   Indonesian woman freed after Malaysian court drops charges in DPRK man's murder   EUROPE   Top Russian MP compares Trump to Hitler, warns of new war   U.S. Warns Germany To Drop Huawei Or Risk Losing Intelligence Sharing   U.S. official suggests Italy avoid China's Belt and Road plan:   Italian PM Giuseppe Conte ignores US warnings and pushes for closer cooperation with China's belt and road plan   Brexit: 'Legally binding' changes to EU deal agreed   Watch: UK: 53 gallons of 'blood' poured outside #No10. The protest organised said the mess symbolised 'the blood our children', in relation to worrying predictions about climate change.   Anger at US award for Martin McGuinness's 'military service': Victims of IRA violence have criticised the city of San Francisco for posthumously honouring Martin McGuinness   GLOBE   Since 9/11, The United States Has Spent $6 Trillion on Wars That Have Killed 500,000 People: The United States has continually exhibited its diabolical quest for global dominance through investing obscene amounts of money into global wars.   The US military 'gets its ass handed to it' in World War 3 simulation - researchers   Watch: The True Cost:A global investigation into the clothes we wear, the people who make them, and the impact the industry is having on the world. The True Cost pulls back the curtain on the untold story and asks us to consider, who really pays the price for our clothing?   AMERICAS   What's Behind US-Backed Electricity Blackout in Venezuela : The automatized control system of the Simon Bolivar Hydroelectric Plant, which is popularly known as El Guri, was attacked.   Power station blast adds to sense of chaos in Venezuela: An explosion rocked a power station in the Venezuelan capital early Monday, witnesses said   Trump Regime Electricity War in Venezuela More Serious than First Believed   India must stop buying Venezuela's oil, says US regime-change hawk Abrams   Watch: Max Blumenthal: Report From the Real Venezuela   Footage Contradicts U.S. Claim That Nicolás Maduro Burned Aid Convoy   Trump Proposes a Record $4.75 Trillion Budget: How much is a trillion? Spend $1 million an hour, non-stop, 24 hours a day, for 411 years. 4.75 trillion would take 1,952 years to spend at one million per hour.   Trump promised over and over to 'save' Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.   Why did all the Sunday morning network shows ignore the Trump massage parlor scandal?   Trump Makes Blackface Joke, Claims 'Democrats Hate Jewish People': Report   'I'm not for impeachment,' Pelosi says, potentially roiling fellow Democrats   Exclusive poll: Young Americans are embracing socialism:  Generation Z has a more positive view of the word "socialism" than previous generations, and - along with millennials - are more likely to embrace socialistic policies   Paul Manafort, Trump's ex-campaign chair, sentenced to 47 months for bank and tax fraud   Georgia Teen With No Prior Record Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison for Stealing a Pair of Sneakers   The Leniency Shown to Paul Manafort Should Be the Norm for Everyone - Not Just Rich White Men   Brits Won't Eat US Chicken - Should You?: The Dangerous Treatment Masking Harmful Bacteria in Meat   US approves importation of genetically engineered salmon :  Peace and Joy Tom Feeley Cost Of War   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:  4,801  Number Of  International Occupation Force Troops Slaughtered In Afghanistan : 3,430   Total Cost of U.S. Wars Since 2001 4.76 Trillion - Spending $1 million an hour, non-stop, 24 hours a day, you won't run out of money for 411 years. $4,756,603,215,084 Quick Links... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Our Website More About Us Contact Information ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Phone:San Diego USA 619-407-7054 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~