Got a doorbell camera? The police may come knocking…
June 17, 2019
Waukee police, hoping to tap into the growing number of home security cameras to solve crimes, are asking residents to register their cameras so police can quickly request footage if an incident occurs nearby.
Police departments across the country are turning to homeowners to establish a network of cameras throughout their communities. Cities in Texas, New York and Virginia, among others, have established similar programs, taking advantage of increasingly popular doorbell cameras...
Iran announced on Monday that it will break the uranium stockpile limit set by Tehran’s nuclear deal with world powers in the next 10 days…
June 17, 2019
“We have quadrupled the rate of enrichment and even increased it more recently, so that in 10 days it will bypass the 300 kg limit,” Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization spokesman Behrouz Kamalvandi said on state TV.
“There is still time ... if European countries act” to save the nuclear deal, he added...
Iran needs 5% enrichment for its nuclear power plant in southern Iranian port of Bushehr and it also needs 20% enrichment for a Tehran research reactor, he added... Boosting its purity to 20% means removing 22 more unwanted isotopes per atom of U-235, while going from there to 90% purity means removing just four more per atom of U-235, he noted. Ninety percent is considered weapons-grade material.
That means going from 20% to 90% is a relatively quicker process, something that worries nuclear nonproliferation experts.
Thirty dead in Nigeria triple suicide bombing attributed to Boko Haram extremists…
June 17, 2019
The death toll from the attack has so far increased to 30. We have over 40 people injured,” Usman Kachalla, head of operations at the State Emergency Management Agency...
Mexico detains nearly 800 undocumented migrants in four trucks…
June 17, 2019
Mexican authorities say they intercepted four tractor-trailers packed with nearly 800 migrants. https://t.co/3asa3g9uhs pic.twitter.com/ZBUXzAR6sy
— ABC News (@ABC) June 17, 2019
9th Circuit Challenges ICE Warrant and Arrests, Reverses Deportation Order…
June 17, 2019
A federal appeals court in California ordered an illegal alien who was captured during an immigration raid to be freed because the warrant used by U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement (ICE) indicated only that agents were searching for employment records, not preparing a large operation involving mass arrests of unlawfully employed foreigners.
Critics say the decision is a bad one because it over-emphasizes the due process rights of immigration lawbreakers and ties the hands of ICE to enforce the nation’s immigration laws.
11 Million People Now Have Jobs In Renewable Energy..
June 17, 2019
This represents an increase of 700,000 jobs from 2017, growing nearly 7% in just one year. The greatest growth came from countries like Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam, spreading the renewable sector beyond the primary markets in China, Brazil, the U.S., India and the EU while maintaining Asia’s 60% stake in renewable employment globally. The trend should inspire confidence in renewables by other countries as technologies improve and costs go down.
UK sending Royal Marines to protect ships after oil tanker attacks…
June 17, 2019
Using speedboats and helicopters to protect Royal Navy warships and U.K. merchant vessels, 100 Marines will form Special Purpose Task Group 19 and patrol the region from Britain’s new naval base in Bahrain, according to The Sunday Times...
NXIVM trial in New York moves to closing arguments on Monday…
June 17, 2019
Raniere, who could face life in prison if convicted, has pleaded not guilty.
His six-week trial has featured testimony from several women who said Raniere victimized them, including Lauren Salzman, daughter of Nxivm co-founder Nancy Salzman and a longtime member of Raniere’s inner circle.
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Other members of Nxivm, which is pronounced “nexium,” were charged. They include Nancy Salzman, actress Allison Mack and Seagram liquor heiress Claire Bronfman, who bankrolled the group’s frequent lawsuits. All have pleaded guilty to crimes and have not yet been sentenced...Forbes Magazine has accused the Vatican of “rejecting” transgender people by publishing a text reaffirming its teaching that God creates human beings as male and female…
June 17, 2019
In her article, titled “It’s The First Sunday Since The Vatican Rejected Transgender People,” Dawn Ennis said that the LGBTQ community considers it “no accident” that the Vatican released its document during “Pride Month.”
“The Church, by sharing this teaching tool during the month celebrated by the world’s gays, lesbians bisexuals, transgender and other gender nonconforming people as ‘Pride Month,’ appeared to be reinforcing the comparison that Pope Francis drew in 2015, that the modern concept of gender is as dangerous as ‘nuclear arms,’” she said...
Full moon in Sagittarius, June 17…
June 17, 2019
The June Full Moon or the last full Moon of spring is called the Full Strawberry Moon.
The Moon will look full on Sunday, June 16 and Monday, June 17 in North America since it crests in the wee hours of the 17th...
Full Moon: June 17, 4:31 A.M. EST
Nxivm Trial: Sex Cult Tried to Gather Intelligence on ‘Enemies,’ Including Schumer…
June 17, 2019
The cache of documents surfaced in 2018 when the F.B.I. searched the home of a senior member of the cultlike group Nxivm. Photographs from the search showed agents had found a clear plastic box with a red lid in the basement of a home belonging to Nancy Salzman, Nxivm’s co-founder, who was known as “Prefect.”
Inside, agents said, were folders of financial reports labeled with names of journalists, judges, cult experts and others, including Senator Chuck Schumer; the then state attorney general, Eliot Spitzer; and the State Senate majority leader, Joseph L. Bruno. Most, if not all, of the financial material was inaccurate, an F.B.I. agent, Michael Weniger, said. But Nxivm members appeared to be making a genuine effort to gather information on the targets.
Chinese pork prices risk 70% surge as African swine fever rages. Tighter supplies of staple meat deal new economic blow amid trade row with US..
June 17, 2019
Pork is a staple in China, and authorities worry that a long-term rise in prices could lead to social unrest... China's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs predicts that pork may be 70% more expensive in the second half of 2019...
Prices are surging due to falling domestic production brought on by the swine fever outbreak, higher tariffs on U.S. pork and uncertainty over when the epidemic will end... it has taken other countries at least five years to eradicate African swine fever in previous outbreaks, and it could take twice as long in China given the country's size and low sanitary standards...
Turkey’s Erdogan sees Russian S-400s delivery starting in July…
June 17, 2019
The S-400s are not compatible with NATO’s systems and have been a growing source of discord between Turkey and the United States in recent months... US acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan this month outlined how Turkey would be pulled out of the F-35 fighter jet program unless Ankara changed course from its plans to buy the missile systems.
Erdogan said he would discuss the issue with US President Donald Trump when they meet at this month’s G-20 summit. “When someone lower down says different things, then we immediately make contact with Mr Trump and try to solve issues with telephone diplomacy. Matters don’t take long there,” he said.
Man confronted for wearing Che Guevara shirt at gay pride festival…
June 17, 2019