From the Trenches World Report

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

It’s going from bad to worse for Europe, whose currency had just hit session lows after Brussels confirmed that Italy faces a massive fine over its debt, when the Euro was hit with a double whammy after Bloomberg reported that the Trump administration is escalating its battle with “European allies” over the fate of the Iran nuclear accord, and is “threatening penalties against the financial body created by Germany, the U.K. and France to shield trade with the Islamic Republic from U.S. sanctions.”  Continue reading “US Threatens Europe With “Loss Of Access To US Financial System” Over SWIFT-Evading Iran SPV”

NZ Herald – by David Fisher

An influential United States Congress hearing has been told “one of the major fundraisers for Jacinda Ardern’s party” is linked to the Chinese Communist Party and it showed China had penetrated New Zealand’s political networks.

As a result, US lawmakers needed to consider whether New Zealand should be kicked out of the Five Eyes intelligence alliance because of problems at its “political core”. Continue reading “China’s communists fund Jacinda Ardern’s Labour Party: What the United States Congress was told”

Local 10 – by Tom Swift

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – One person was shot and killed and three others were wounded early Sunday in a shootout at a parking garage near the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale, authorities said.

Casey Liening, a spokeswoman for the Fort Lauderdale Police Department, said the shooting happened around 4:15 a.m. on the first floor of the garage in the 100 block of Southwest Fifth Avenue.  Continue reading “1 dead, 3 wounded after shootout at Fort Lauderdale parking garage”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Just hours after US National Security Advisor John Bolton formally accused Tehran of conducing the May 12 tanker “sabotage” attacks near the Strait of Hormuz, Iran’s foreign ministry has responded that “we are ready for war” amid fears that Washington could still be on a war footing in the Persian Gulf.

“We hope that we can start a dialogue, but we are ready for war,” Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi told  RIA Novosti.  Continue reading “US Troops To Be Based In Saudi Arabia, Qatar Against “Iran Threat””

Yahoo News

U.S. Customs and Border Patrol announced Tuesday the creation of a new administrative position intended to help ease the stresses on the system created by the recent influx of asylum-seekers arriving at the southern border.

The new “Border Patrol Processing Coordinator” position is designed to help alleviate the administrative duties that CBP agents have been forced to take on, often at the expense of their traditional enforcement duties, as record numbers of women and children have arrived at the border seeking asylum.  Continue reading “Border Patrol to Create New Migrant-Care Position So Agents Can Focus on Enforcement”

Daily Mail

Doctors have been told to warn millions of patients about the severe side effects of antidepressants.

In a major victory for the Daily Mail, the Royal College of Psychiatrists today admits for the first time that coming off antidepressants can cause side effects lasting for months. Continue reading “Anti-depressants CAN ruin lives: Major U-turn as psychiatrists say millions of patients MUST be warned over severe side effects”

RT

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been moved to the hospital wing of the Belmarsh prison in the UK, prompting concerns about his health pending the hearing on his extradition to the US.

Assange’s health had already “significantly deteriorated” during the nearly seven years he spent inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London, and has continued to get worse over the seven weeks he has spent in Belmarsh, WikiLeaks said in a statement on Wednesday.  Continue reading “‘Grave concerns’: Assange can barely talk, moved to prison hospital, says WikiLeaks”

Oddity Central

There’s no question that artificial intelligence has come a long way in the last few years, but apparently it’s not yet advanced enough to tell the difference between someone using a mobile phone and someone scratching their face.

Chinese media recently reported the case of a man in Jinan, eastern Shandong province, who received a notification that he had broken the law by talking on the phone while driving. The letter also had a surveillance picture of his so-called offence attached, which showed him holding his right hand to his cheek. Continue reading “Man Gets Fined for Scratching His Face While Driving”

MEHR News Agency

TEHRAN, May 27 (MNA) – Tara Sharifi, 11, has scored 162 points – the highest number possible – on the Mensa IQ test, two points higher than the estimated IQs of physicist Albert Einstein and cosmologist Professor Stephen Hawking.

Scoring 162 points means that Tara is well above the so-called ‘genius benchmark’ of 140.  Continue reading “11-year old Iranian girl scores highest possible mark in Mensa IQ test”

Daily Mail

Putting your faith in high-tech navigation aids could harm your brain and even increase the risk of developing Alzheimer’s, it was claimed yesterday.

Over thousands of years, humans have developed an acute sense of their surroundings but this is being lost as satnavs take over, navigation expert David Barrie warned.  Continue reading “Relying on satnavs and map-reading apps could lead to an increased risk of Alzheimer’s, expert fears”