USA - US Immigration and Customs Enforcement has revealed that 124 illegal immigrant criminals released from jail by the Obama administration since 2010 have been subsequently charged with murder. A Center for Immigration Studies report on the data from ICE to the Senate Judiciary Committee added that the committee is not releasing the names of the murder suspects. "The criminal aliens released by ICE in these years — who had already been convicted of thousands of crimes — are responsible for a significant crime spree in American communities, including 124 new homicides.
IRELAND - A former head of a major Irish bank has been extradited from the US and brought before Dublin District Court to face several charges stemming from the bank’s role in the 2008 financial crisis.
IRELAND - The sad news is that Saint Patrick never got the official title. While millions around the world will celebrate Saint Patrick's Day on March 17, the sad fact is that Patrick has never been canonized by the Catholic Church and is a saint in name only. As writer Ken Concannon stated: "There was no formal canonization process in the Church during its first millennium. Patrick was actually the grandson of a priest back when marriage for clerics was not frowned on. His genius was bringing together the old pagan traditions and the new religion together in harmony in Ireland in the 5th century."
USA - Nitrogen fertilizer applied to farmers’ fields has been contaminating rivers and lakes and leaching into drinking water wells for more than eighty years. Dangerous nitrate levels in drinking water could persist for decades, increasing the risk for blue baby syndrome and other serious health concerns, according to a new study published by researchers at the University of Waterloo. The researchers have discovered that nitrogen is building up in soils, creating a long-term source of nitrate pollution in ground and surface waters. The University reports that their paper presents the first direct evidence of a large-scale nitrogen legacy across the US Mississippi River Basin.
UK - Today the EU has its own currency, its own bank, a European Parliament of more than 700 politicians, its own court and judges, a European Commission, the free movement of people, and there is even talk of a European Army.
USA - The world’s largest private coal company is on the verge of bankruptcy as the commodity crash claims its biggest victim, crippled by fierce competition from cheap gas and a radical policy shift by China. The US-based group Peabody Energy missed interest payments on two sets of bonds worth $1.6 billion, stunning markets with a warning that it may be forced to invoke Chapter 11 protection under US insolvency law.
USA - Bulk data gathering programs used by US intelligence have no effect in combating terrorism and have failed to prevent any attacks in their 10 years of operation, whistleblower and former NSA contactor Edward Snowden, claims in a recent interview.
RUSSIA - In a surprise move, Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered his military to start withdrawing the "main part" of its forces in Syria from Tuesday. He said the Russian intervention had largely achieved its objectives. The comments come amid fresh peace talks in Geneva aimed at resolving the five-year Syrian conflict.
USA - Top scientists at Roche Holding AG and AstraZeneca Plc are sizing up potential allies in the fight against cancer: the trillions of bacteria that live in the human body.
USA - Buried in S2609, the bill Senator Pat Roberts is trying to push through the Senate, is this gem:
‘SECTION 294. INFORMATION FOR CONSUMERS.
‘‘(a) EDUCATION — The Secretary, in coordination with other Federal agencies as appropriate, shall provide science-based information, including any information on the environmental, nutritional, economic, and humanitarian benefits of agricultural biotechnology, through education, outreach, and promotion to address consumer acceptance of agricultural biotechnology.”
UK - Clerics are calling for a reappraisal of one of history’s biggest villains. First it was Richard III. But as unlikely historical image makeovers go, the recent rehabilitation of the once reviled Yorkist king could pale into insignificance beside that of a villain of truly Biblical proportions: Judas Iscariot.
NORTH KOREA - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his country would soon conduct a nuclear warhead test and test launch ballistic missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads, the official KCNA news agency reported on Tuesday.
USA - Between 1946 and 1953, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) conducted a horrifying experiment in which schoolboys were fed radioactive oatmeal, simply to support marketing claims made by the Quaker Oats company!
USA - How would you like it if the United States got together with Canada, Mexico, and every other nation in the New World and set up a new government, head-quartered in Guatemala? This government would be run by an unelected bureaucracy with its own supreme court. It could void any of our laws. It would tax us, impose rules on us, and tell us who we could trade freely with.
UK - Barack Obama's plan to urge voters to remain in the European Union is a 'piece of outrageous and exorbitant hypocrisy', Boris Johnson writes. “I love America. I believe in the American dream. Indeed, I hold that the story of the past 100 years has been very largely about how America rose to global greatness – and how America has helped to preserve and expand democracy around the world.”