NORTHERN IRELAND - Police in Northern Ireland are bracing themselves for further violence on the streets of Belfast after Catholics and Protestants pelted each other with petrol bombs over a 'Peace Wall' last night. PSNI [Police Service of Northern Ireland] Assistant Chief Constable Jonathan Roberts said today the riots were on a scale not seen in the country in recent years, and that the force was investigating whether there was any paramilitary involvement, given the level of pre-planning and orchestration.
JAPAN - New legislation being considered that would radically alter current Japan Coast Guard policy toward how it engages foreign vessels in Japan's waters could inadvertently hurl the region toward a hot conflict involving China.
GREENLAND - Greenland's main opposition party has won an election which could have major consequences for international interests in the Arctic. The left-wing Inuit Ataqatigiit, which opposes a mining project in southern Greenland, secured 37% of votes. Its leader said on Wednesday that the Kvanefjeld mine, home to major deposits of rare minerals, would not go ahead. Inuit Ataqatigiit, an indigenous party with a strong environmental focus, will now seek to form a government. Greenland is a vast autonomous arctic territory that belongs to Denmark. Although it has a population of just 56,000, the result of the election has been closely followed internationally. Greenland's economy relies on fishing and subsidies from the Danish government, but as a result of melting ice, mining opportunities are increasing. The mine has "the potential to become the most significant western world producer of rare earths."
USA - You would think that something as critical as a town or county’s drinking water supply would be well-protected — you know, like how America’s nuclear armament was isolated from the internet and even relied on eight-inch floppy disks until just recently? And yet we’ve now had two instances where someone was able to remotely log into a municipal water supply in a way that could have harmed people. Remember the story of the Florida water treatment facility where someone was able to change the chemical levels?
USA - Do you feel like we are on the verge of a major tipping point? If so, you are definitely not alone. I felt like the first few months of this year would be a time of relative stability, but now I believe that global events will really start to heat up again in a major way. Interestingly, Saturday was the only day when the calendar will read 4/3/21 for the next 100 years. I don’t know if that means anything or not, but a lot of people on social media were commenting that 4-3-2-1 sounds an awful lot like some sort of a countdown. Perhaps it is just a coincidence that we crossed that date at such a critical time in our history, but without a doubt I do believe that we are rapidly approaching our “point of no return”.
USA - As you read this article, Christians all around the world are facing absolutely horrific persecution. They are forced to work as slave labor in concentration camps in North Korea, they are being chased from their homes in some parts of India, they live in constant fear of Islamic terror attacks throughout vast stretches of Africa, and countless numbers of believers are suffering in secret brainwashing facilities in China right now. No group is more persecuted all over the globe than Christians are, but there is very little outrage in the western world about this. To the corporate media, Christians are the main enemy of “progress” in the western world, and so pointing out the brutal persecution of Christians all over the planet definitely does not suit their agenda.
GERMANY - The German military has started a voluntary year-out program for young people. The volunteers will be trained to provide support during the next natural disaster or health crisis. The "voluntary military service in homeland security," which aims at enticing young people to take a year off before starting their studies or career, was first announced last summer under the motto: "Your year for Germany." Training for the program officially began on Tuesday with the initiation of 325 volunteers, of which 52 were women. "We came up with this program after seeing that there were young people who were interested in joining the Bundeswehr but didn't want to tie themselves down," Kramp-Karrenbauer said during a press conference for the launch. The plan has received keen interest, with some 9,000 people applying for the 1,000 spots available this year, the Defense Ministry said.
ETHIOPIA - The latest round of talks between Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) appeared to have broken down on Tuesday. The three sides are all seeking to find some common ground but Egypt's Foreign Ministry said in a statement that Ethiopia had a "lack of political will to negotiate in good faith." Hosted by the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in Kinshasa, the meeting between the three countries' foreign ministries began on Sunday and were extended into a third day on Tuesday. To further complicate proceedings, a Congolese mediator said Sudan had objected to the terms of a draft communique, news agency AFP reported.
USA - As the celebration of Easter comes to a close, those of us in the public education system are returning from the neutered holiday known as Spring Break. It is the same phenomenon that occurs over the Christmas season, when a week or two are set aside for the objectively accurate, yet watered down nomenclature of Winter Break. Both are terms that purposefully erases the legacy of Christian roots in America under the guise of tolerance.
MIDDLE EAST - Mixed messages from the Biden administration on the Iran nuclear deal days before indirect talks commence in Vienna between the sides are “very troubling,” senior Israeli officials said Sunday. They expressed their concerns after US Special Envoy for Iran Rob Malley, in an interview with PBS on Friday, spoke about a return to the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action without any additional elements that would make it “longer and stronger,” as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said. “The goal is to see whether we can agree on what steps the United States needs to take to come back into compliance with the nuclear deal and what steps Iran has to take to come back into compliance with the nuclear deal,” Malley said. Regarding the Trump administration’s maximum-pressure campaign against Iran, he said the US is “going to have to lift those sanctions that are inconsistent with the deal that was reached with Iran… so that Iran enjoys the benefits that it was supposed to enjoy under the deal.”
IRAN - Washington’s policy-makers are being misled by the intelligence and defense communities that are grossly underestimating the nuclear threat from Iran, just as they did with North Korea …we warned in these pages in February 2016 that Iran probably already had atomic weapons deliverable by missile and satellite:
FAR EAST - China sent its carrier near Japanese waters because Tokyo and Washington’s encroachment unties Beijing’s hands. With the US and Japan all but officially teaming up in trying to encircle China in the Pacific, Beijing has made the most significant military display yet, sending an aircraft carrier group between Japanese islands and Taiwan.
USA - All over America, we are witnessing crazy bidding wars for the limited number of homes that are on the market. In many areas, the moment a desirable home goes on the market potential buyers start making offers that are tens of thousands of dollars above asking price. Not even in the days before the housing bubble burst in 2008 did we see anything like this. As I have discussed in previous articles, in some cases more than 100 offers are coming in for a single home. It is actually an understatement to call what we are watching a “frenzy”, and there are no signs that it is going to cool down any time soon.
USA - Despite rolling back restrictions, Texas is experiencing a decline in COVID-19 cases, and Dr Anthony Fauci is considering it to be “confusing.” MSNBC’s Willie Geist noted restaurants, bars, and ballparks are completely open in Texas, yet cases and hospitalizations continue to decline. Arguing “we’ve been fooled before” by situations where restrictions are rolled back, Fauci warned, “Nothing happens and then all of a sudden, several weeks later, things start exploding on you so we got to be careful we don’t prematurely judge that.”
ICELAND - Steam and lava spurted Monday from a new fissure at an Icelandic volcano that began erupting last month, prompting the evacuation of hundreds of hikers who had come to see the spectacle. The new fissure, first spotted by a sightseeing helicopter, was about 500 meters (550 yards) long and about a kilometer (around a half-mile) from the original eruption site in the Geldinga Valley. The long-dormant volcano on the Reykjanes Peninsula in southwest Iceland flared to life March 20 after tens of thousands of earthquakes were recorded in the area in the past three weeks. It was the area’s first volcanic eruption in nearly 800 years.
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