USA - Did you know that there was a shocking study published in the Public Library of Science Journal, that found up to 72%” of scientists admitted their colleagues were engaged in “questionable research practices,” and that just over 14% of them were engaged in outright “falsification”? If that’s not bad enough, between 1977 and 1990 the FDA found scientific flaws in 10–20% of all the studies they audited.
USA - North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump are to meet in person by the end of May, it has been announced, an extraordinary overture after months of mutual hostility. News of the meeting was delivered by South Korean officials after talks with Mr Trump at the White House.
USA - Donald Trump is hardly the first American president to slap unilateral tariffs on imports. Every inhabitant of the Oval Office since Jimmy Carter has imposed some kind of protectionist curbs on trade, often on steel. Nor will Mr Trump’s vow to put 25% tariffs on steel and 10% on aluminium by themselves wreck the economy: they account for 2% of last year’s $2.4 trillion of goods imports, or 0.2% of GDP.
VATICAN - With allies in Brussels and the Vatican, Cardinal Reinhard Marx has shaped the European debate. Had he been born in another era, Reinhard Marx would have been one of the most powerful men in Europe.
IRAN - Iran has warned the West it will not negotiate over its authority in the Middle East and its presence in certain nations. Iran will not negotiate with the West over its presence in the Middle East, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said. It comes as French foreign minister sought to discuss Tehran's role in regional conflicts on a visit to the capital.
UK - Britain has been warned it faces a pensions time bomb after figures revealed the nation’s retirement bill soared by £1 trillion in just five years. The total cost of workplace and state pension liabilities stood at £7.6 trillion in 2015, according to the Office for National Statistics – more than four times the size of Britain’s economy and £1 trillion higher than five years earlier. It is feared huge tax rises in coming years will be necessary to pay the bill, with the burden shifted on to working-age families.
USA - In the formative years between 12 and 24, skeletal structures are still maturing. Constantly looking down at cell phones and tablets is becoming a scourge to spine health, to which MDs and Chiropractors are testifying. Parents: explain this to your kids and don’t let them make a habit of looking down at their electronic devices for extended periods of time. ⁃ TN Editor
USA - CNN admitted in a report on March 6, 2018, that a Georgia town requiring gun ownership has only seen one murder in six years and maintains a violent crime rate of less than two percent. CNN reports that Kennesaw, Georgia, adopted an ordinance in 1982 requiring the head of every household to “maintain a firearm.” CNN suggested the law requiring gun ownership is not actually enforced, but it simultaneously reported that the town of Kennesaw has only witnessed one murder in the past six years. In other words, just the common knowledge that guns are in the hands of law-abiding citizens appears to restrain the actions of criminals. Kennesaw Police Department Lieutenant Craig Graydon said, “It was meant to be kind of a crime deterrent.”
UK - It is said that a lie will travel around the world while the truth is pulling on its boots, and now scientists have proven that it is true. The adage, variously attributed to Mark Twain and 19th century London preacher Charles Haddon Spurgeons, was coined way before the advent of social networks and 24 hour rolling news.
USA - John Zmirak, senior editor at The Stream, warned in an interview Tuesday on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with co-hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak that China is “arming faster than Hitler was arming in the thirties.” Decades of American foreign policy toward China have facilitated the one-party state’s ascendance as a rival power, said Zmirak.
USA - In his latest tweet, Trump explained that: "China has been asked to develop a plan for the year of a One Billion Dollar reduction in their massive Trade Deficit with the United States."
USA - On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” Senator Rand Paul (Republican for Kentucky) argued against President Trump’s tariff proposal and stated, “the United States will lose in a trade war.” Rand said, “[A] tariff is a tax, and typically Republicans, conservatives, have not been for more taxes. So, I’m against new tariffs. They’re simply a tax on the consumer.” He added that President Trump’s tariff proposal is “the wrong thing to do. If you look at steel use in our country, there are 60 people purchasing steel for every person making steel in the country. So, there’s a lot of people who purchase steel that are going to be hurt by this. My state alone exports $20 billion worth of products, including a lot of farm and agricultural products. And if there’s a trade war, we stand to lose in a big way. And really, the United States will lose in a trade war.”
EUROPE - Brussels is set to hit back at Donald Trump's steel tariffs by hiking charges on a vast array of exports to the US - including the kitchen sink. The US President has fired off the first salvos of a trade war by laying out plans to impose tariffs on goods heading for America, even from the country's closest allies. Theresa May has joined political leaders from around the world to urge the US President not to go ahead with his protectionist plan
GERMANY - The German government wants to expand and adapt its foreign military missions in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Mali, Angela Merkel's Cabinet agreed on Wednesday. The German parliament will have the final say, as it does on all of Germany's military operations. Not everyone backs the move.
IRAN - Air Force chief slams West's 'hypocrisy' in trying to contain Tehran's military aspirations. A senior Iranian military official said his country has tripled its missile production, amid efforts by the international community to curb it. Speaking at his military headquarters, Amir Ali Hajizadeh, commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Aerospace Force, also slammed the world powers, including Israel, for their “hypocrisy” in trying to contain Iran’s military aspirations and limit its missile production, Iran’s Fars news agency reported Wednesday. “In the past we had to explain our actions to various bodies, but not any more,” he said.
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