China Has Refused To Recycle The West's Plastics. What Now?

For more than 25 years, many developed countries, including the U.S., have been sending massive amounts of plastic waste to China instead of recycling it on their own. Some 106 million metric tons — about 45 percent — of the world's plastics set for recycling have been exported to China since reporting to the United Nations Comtrade Database began in 1992.
Read more: https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/06/28/623972937/china-has-refused-to-recycle-the-wests-plastics-what-now?source=Snapzu

French Firm Probed For Funding Jihadists In Syria For Profit

French rights group Sherpa, one of the plaintiffs in the case, said it was the first time that a company anywhere in the world had been charged with complicity in crimes against humanity.
Read more: https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/French-Firm-Probed-For-Funding-Jihadists-In-Syria-For-Profit-20180628-0028.html?source=Snapzu

Entrepreneur's rocket explodes seconds after lift-off

A rocket developed by a maverick Japanese entrepreneur and convicted fraudster exploded shortly after liftoff Saturday, in a major blow to his bid to send Japan's first privately backed rocket into space. Interstellar Technologies, founded by popular internet service provider Livedoor's creator Takafumi Horie, launched the unmanned rocket, MOMO-2, at around 5:30 a.m. from a test site in Taiki, southern Hokkaido.
Read more: https://japantoday.com/category/national/Entrepreneur%27s-rocket-explodes-seconds-after-lift-off?source=Snapzu

Vancouver restaurant manager fired for refusing service to customer wearing ‘MAGA’ hat

A manager at Vancouver’s Stanley Park Teahouse restaurant has been fired for refusing service to a customer wearing a “Make America Great Again” (MAGA) hat. The red baseball caps formed an important part of U.S. President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, and have become iconic symbols of his supporters. But the hats have also sparked controversy among many who call them symbols of racism, bigotry and anti-gay hatred.
Read more: https://globalnews.ca/news/4305235/manager-fired-maga-hat/?source=Snapzu

Man charged with threatening to kill Ajit Pai’s family

A California man is charged with threatening to kill FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's children because he was "angry" about the repeal of net neutrality regulations, the Justice Department said today. Markara Man, 33, of Norwalk was arrested in Los Angeles and charged with threatening to murder an immediate family member of a U.S. official.
Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/29/ajit-pai-family-death-threat-man-charged-688040?source=Snapzu

Trump says he will bring up election interference with Putin

President Trump said Friday that he plans to bring up Russia's efforts to meddle in U.S. elections when he meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin next month. Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One, Trump said that Russia's interference in Ukraine and its role in Syria will also be on the agenda when he meets with Putin on July 16. But Trump asserted that Moscow's interference in U.S. elections will be a key topic.
Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/394916-trump-ill-bring-up-election-interference-with-putin?source=Snapzu

US ambassador to Estonia resigns in frustration over Trump

The US ambassador to Estonia is resigning in frustration with President Donald Trump's comments about, and treatment of, European allies. James D. Melville Jr.'s resignation, first reported by Foreign Policy magazine, makes him the third ambassador in the last year to leave the State Department early. He is among many senior State Department officials who have headed for the exits or been pushed toward them since Trump assumed office.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/29/politics/us-ambassador-estonia-resign-trump/index.html?source=Snapzu

Now 60% of all States in the United States Legally Decree Marijuana has Medical Use; 30 Legal Medical Marijuana States and DC

Medical marijuana laws by state. Includes fees, possession limits, and other medical marijuana program guidelines.
Read more: https://medicalmarijuana.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=000881?source=Snapzu

Canada makes retaliatory tariffs official: 'We will not back down'

Canada’s foreign minister announced Friday that Ottawa plans to impose about $12.6 billion worth of retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods on July 1, joining other major U.S. allies striking back in the escalating trade dispute. The country is working closely with the European Union and Mexico, according to Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland. “We will not escalate, and we will not back down,” Freeland said. Canada's announcement is part of larger fallout from U.S. President Donald Trump's announcements on trade.
Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/29/canada-makes-retaliatory-tariffs-official-we-will-not-back-down.html?source=Snapzu

Antibiotics before birth and in early life can affect long-term health

There may be additional long-term health harms from antibiotic exposure in early life and before birth, including an increased risk of infection, obesity and asthma.
Read more: https://theconversation.com/antibiotics-before-birth-and-in-early-life-can-affect-long-term-health-97778?source=Snapzu

Luxembourg Is Latest EU Country to Legalise Medical Cannabis

Luxembourg lawmakers have unanimously supported a bill to legalise medical cannabis. The law, passed on June 28, allows cannabis to be prescribed and used for patients who suffer from chronic pain, nausea relating to chemotherapy, or muscle spasm resulting from multiple sclerosis. The original draft of the bill stated that only specialists could prescribe the drug, but the final version passed allows any general practitioner to prescribe cannabis if they have undertaken relevant training.
Read more: https://www.talkingdrugs.org/luxembourg-is-latest-eu-country-to-legalise-medical-cannabis?source=Snapzu

Comcast Dealing With Major Outage Nationwide

A major outage is affecting Comcast customers nationwide, including in the Philadelphia market. The outage is affecting Comcast cable, telephone and internet services. Comcast tweeted to customers that they are working to restore services as quickly as possible, but it is not yet known when service will come back.
Read more: https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2018/06/29/comcast-dealing-with-major-outage-nationwide/?source=Snapzu

Oppression Obsession

The Trouble with Identity Politics.
Read more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9_bI789Gog?source=Snapzu

Iraqi PM orders immediate execution of 'all convicted terrorists'

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on Thursday ordered the immediate execution of all convicted "terrorists" of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) group, on death row, in swift retaliation for the group's execution of eight captives. Abadi "ordered the immediate execution of terrorists condemned to death whose sentences have passed the decisive stage", his office said, referring to convicts whose appeals have been exhausted.
Read more: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/06/iraqi-pm-orders-execution-convicted-terrorists-180628185501947.html?source=Snapzu

India’s quest to find a trillion-dollar nuclear fuel on the south side of the moon

India’s space program wants to go where no nation has gone before -– to the south side of the moon. And once it gets there, it will study the potential for mining a source of waste-free nuclear energy that could be worth trillions of dollars. The nation’s equivalent of NASA will launch a rover in October to explore virgin territory on the lunar surface and analyze crust samples for signs of water and helium-3. That isotope is limited on Earth yet so abundant on the moon that it theoretically could meet global energy demands for 250 years if harnessed.
Read more: https://nationalpost.com/news/world/indias-quest-to-find-a-trillion-dollar-nuclear-fuel-on-the-south-side-of-the-moon?source=Snapzu

Deepwater Horizon disaster altered building blocks of ocean life

The 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster may have had a lasting impact upon even the smallest organisms in the Gulf of Mexico, scientists have found – amid warnings that the oceans around America are also under fresh assault as a result of environmental policies under Donald Trump. Lingering oil residues have altered the basic building blocks of life in the ocean by reducing biodiversity in sites closest to the spill, which occurred when a BP drilling rig exploded in April 2010, killing 11 workers and spewing about 4m barrels of oil into the Gulf.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jun/28/bp-deepwater-horizon-oil-spill-report?source=Snapzu

Russia rips Canada’s ‘high-handedness’ in legalizing recreational marijuana

Russia is not happy with Canada for legalizing recreational marijuana. Moscow issued a stern warning to Ottawa over the impending cannabis legalization on Oct. 17, saying Canada “deliberately decided to breach” international law. “We expect Canada’s partners in the G7 to respond to its ‘high-handedness’ because this alliance has repeatedly declared its adherence to the domination of international law in relations between states,” Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement.
Read more: https://globalnews.ca/news/4302624/russia-canada-recreational-marijuana/?source=Snapzu

Legalising cannabis could be ‘win-win-win’ for UK, says thinktank

Margaret Thatcher’s favourite free-market thinktank has called on the government to legalise cannabis, arguing that the move could generate more than £1bn in extra tax revenues every year, as well as savings in health and other public services. Britain’s black market in cannabis is worth £2.6bn annually, with 255 tonnes sold to more than 3 million people last year, according to the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA).
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/jun/29/legalise-cannabis-in-uk-institute-for-economic-affairs?source=Snapzu

Rewriting history in the People's Republic of Amnesia and beyond

The French historian Ernest Renan said: "Forgetting … is a crucial factor in the creation of the nation." In contemporary China, it’s put into practice with surgical skill. Specific memories of events deemed sensitive by the state are not just forgotten, they are winnowed out and selectively deleted. The Communist Party has succeeded in hacking the collective memory.
Read more: https://www.michaelwest.com.au/rewriting-history-in-the-peoples-republic-of-amnesia-and-beyond/?source=Snapzu

Gunman was 'continually shooting people' as he walked inside Capital Gazette newsroom

Reporters and editors at the Capital Gazette quickly turned their heads around when the glass doors leading to the newsroom suddenly shattered. Within minutes, it
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/29/us/inside-capital-gazette-newsroom-shooting/index.html?source=Snapzu

Netflix Under Under Fire for Suspected Child Pornography Scenes

An Argentinian movie that Netflix offers called Desire is upsetting subscribers because of what looks like illegal content. Viewers on Facebook have shared a clip of the movie and are calling it outright child porn. In the opening scene, two little girls who look to be about seven and nine are playing "horse" on pillows. The older girl begins to obviously masturbate as the younger child watches.
Read more: https://pjmedia.com/trending/netflixs-desire-streams-disturbing-scenes-of-child-pornography/?source=Snapzu

Countries Suffering Less Corruption in Elected Officials Have This One Thing in Common

The study, which was published in April, reveals that in countries with more women in political office, corruption is significantly lower. Let's be clear: this does not mean that women are more trustworthy or less likely to take a bribe than men. It also doesn't mean that they make better politicians.
Read more: https://www.sciencealert.com/countries-suffering-less-corruption-in-elected-officials-have-this-one-thing-in-common?source=Snapzu

Reporter after newsroom shooting: 'We are putting out a damn paper tomorrow'

A reporter for the The Capital newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland, said the company will publish a newspaper as usual on Friday despite a shooting Thursday in the newsroom that left at least five people dead.
Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/media/394746-capital-gazette-reporter-we-are-putting-out-a-damn-paper-tomorrow?source=Snapzu

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the 28-year-old who defeated a powerful House Democrat, has an asteroid named after her — here's why

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a Democratic Socialist born and raised in the Bronx, defeated longtime incumbent Joseph Crowley in a primary race for New York’s 14th District on Tuesday.
Read more: https://www.businessinsider.com.au/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-asteroid-2018-6?source=Snapzu

North Korea 'executes officer who jumped gun on peace on peninsula'

A senior North Korean military officer who told colleagues they no longer needed to “suffer and tighten our belts to make rockets and nuclear weapons” has been executed by firing squad, according to reports in dissident media. The officer was named by the Seoul-based Daily NK news website as Hyon Ju-song, a 56-year-old lieutenant general who was serving as director of the services inspection division of the People’s Armed Forces.
Read more: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/06/28/north-korea-executes-officer-jumped-gun-peace-peninsula?source=Snapzu

Harlan Ellison, Provocative Sci-Fi Writer of ‘Star Trek,’ ‘A Boy and His Dog,’ Dies at 84

Speculative-fiction writer Harlan Ellison, who penned short stories, novellas and criticism, contributed to TV series including “The Outer Limits,” “Star Trek” and “Babylon 5” and won a notable copyright infringement suit against ABC and Paramount and a settlement in a similar suit over “The Terminator,” has died. He was 84.
Read more: https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/harlan-ellison-dead-dies-star-trek-1202861048/?source=Snapzu

The Great Facebook Crash

New data shows the impact of Facebook’s pullback from an industry it had dominated (and distorted).
Read more: https://slate.com/technology/2018/06/facebooks-retreat-from-the-news-has-painful-for-publishers-including-slate.html?source=Snapzu

Child fires loaded gun found in sofa at Ikea

A child found something a little different at an Ikea store in Fishers, Indiana: A handgun inside a sofa.
Read more: https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/child-fires-loaded-gun-found-in-sofa-at-ikea-20180627-p4znx7.html?source=Snapzu

Philippines' Duterte calls God 'stupid'

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has called God "stupid", sparking anger in the largely Catholic country. In a televised speech, he slammed the story of Adam and Eve's fall from grace in the Bible and the logic behind the Christian concept of original sin. Mr Duterte is well known known for his outrageous statements and unfiltered attacks on his rivals.
Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-44610872?source=Snapzu

Trump 'surprised' by Harley-Davidson move to shift work out of US

US President Donald Trump has hit back at the American motorcycle manufacturer after it announced that it will move some of its production out of the Unites...
Read more: https://www.sbs.com.au/news/trump-surprised-by-harley-davidson-move-to-shift-work-out-of-us?source=Snapzu

In blow to Trump's 'America First' policy, Harley-Davidson moves some production overseas

Milwaukee-based motorcycle manufacturer Harley-Davidson announced Monday that it will move the production of its European Union-bound motorcycles to sites overseas as a direct result of President Trump's escalating trade war, the Financial Times reports. Harley-Davidson said that European Union tariffs, which were imposed in retaliation to Trump's tariffs on imported steel and aluminum, would increase the average cost of a motorcycle to the EU from the U.S. by around $2,200, Marketwatch reports.
Read more: http://theweek.com/speedreads/781030/blow-trumps-america-first-policy-harleydavidson-moves-some-production-overseas?source=Snapzu

Celebrate another day of living.

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Americans are world's most inclusive to immigrant citizens, global study finds

Amid the travel ban, the inhumane treatment of children at the Mexican border and ever-more divisive rhetoric around immigration from the White House, a survey has found that the United States and Canada are the two most tolerant and inclusive countries when it comes to who the population see as one of their own – that is “a real American” or “a real Canadian”. The polling company Ipsos surveyed 20,000 people across 27 countries, looking at questions of religion...
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/25/americans-most-inclusive-attitude-to-immigrants-global-study-finds?source=Snapzu

TrumpHotels.org Purchased by Pranksters to Promote America's Concentration Camps

The Trump organization owns over 3,000 web domains, including TrumpFraud.org and TrumpScam.com. It’s standard practice for big companies to buy up names that might insult their brands, but it looks like the Trump regime forgot one. The domain TrumpHotels.org is now a parody website that features photos and video of the U.S. government’s child concentration camps.
Read more: https://gizmodo.com/trumphotels-org-purchased-by-pranksters-to-promote-amer-1827098727?source=Snapzu

‘They’re lucky we aren’t executing them’: National Guardsman faces punishment for Facebook post (Use Incognito)

The post and others calling for violence against migrants on the border have kicked up intense backlash.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/06/25/theyre-lucky-we-arent-executing-them-national-guardsman-face-punishment-for-facebook-post-on-migrants/?utm_term=.3934c456feb0?source=Snapzu

How technology can empower Democracy

An always-on assessment platform for politicians and their decisions — utilizing blockchain and AI. ‘Professional politicians’ are usually optimized to play the ‘media game’ and often, they only focus on manipulating the public opinion rather than delivering value according to their commitments and official plans.
Read more: https://medium.com/innovation-machine/technology-for-democracy-e4c9fbd96f97?source=Snapzu

Car Tariffs? Europe Is Ready to Retaliate as Trade Dispute Grows

The European Union says it will continue a tit-for-tat escalation in its trade dispute with the U.S. while countering President Donald Trump’s assertion that the U.S. is being treated unfairly by the 28-nation bloc. Jyrki Katainen, the EU commissioner in charge of jobs and growth, told the French newspaper Le Monde in a story posted Saturday that if Trump applies new tariffs to European cars, as he threatened this week, the bloc “again, would have no choice but to react.”
Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-23/car-tariffs-europe-is-ready-to-retaliate-as-trade-dispute-grows?source=Snapzu

Trump says remains of 200 US soldiers have been returned from North Korea

President Trump said North Korea has returned the remains of 200 U.S. or allied service members lost in the Korean War following his summit with the country's leader, Kim Jong Un, earlier this month.
Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/393801-trump-remains-of-200-us-soldiers-have-been-returned-from-north-korea?source=Snapzu

15-year-old on Alaska AIrlines flight uses sign language to help fellow passenger

A 15-year-old is being widely praised for an act of kindness during a cross-country flight. Clara Daly was traveling with her mother Jane from Boston to Los Angeles on an Alaska Airlines flight earlier this week. During the six-hour flight that included a layover in Portland, Oregon, Clara volunteered her skills in sign language to help a blind and deaf man by forming letters with her fingers while he "read" them with his hands.
Read more: https://edition.cnn.com/2018/06/23/us/teenager-helps-blind-deaf-man-during-flight/index.html?source=Snapzu

George Takei says Trump camps are worse than Japanese internment: 'This is a new low in American history'

No it's not George, not even close.
Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2018/06/george-takei-says-trump-camps-worse-japanese-internment-new-low-american-history/?source=Snapzu

Voters rally behind Erdoğan’s rival as Turkey goes to the polls

The CHP’s popular Muharrem İnce could be a real threat to the long-term leader in Sunday’s elections
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/24/turkey-elections-muharrem-ince-threat-to-president-erdogan?source=Snapzu

Kim Jong-un 'erases his father and grandfather' from new mandatory national oath

Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader, has introduced a new national oath playing down the achievements of his father and grandfather and instead praising his own ideology and leadership.
Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/kim-jong-un-introduces-mandatory-155340742.html?source=Snapzu

A school worker who devotes her free time to cooking and distributing meals for the homeless gets the surprise of her life

Watch "A school worker who devotes her free time to cooking and distributing meals for the homeless gets the surprise of her life", a CBSN video on CBSNews.com. View more CBSN videos and watch CBSN, a live news stream featuring original CBS News reporting.
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Japan's nuke experts ready to help defang North Korea

Japan has told the United States it is ready to dispatch experts to North Korea to help the country dismantle nuclear facilities toward the “complete denuclearization” of the Korean Peninsula, government sources repeated. If Washington and Pyongyang agree to demolish North Korea’s graphite-moderated reactor at Nyongbyon in the northwest, Tokyo would offer knowledge gained from decommissioning a similar reactor in eastern Japan, the sources said Friday.
Read more: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/23/national/japan-offers-send-nuclear-experts-north-korea-aid-dismantling-facilities/#.Wy7ua6dKhaQ?source=Snapzu

Pro Skater once got Tony Hawk a $4 million royalty cheque

Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater was huge in its time but how much did the game’s endorsee get for giving his name to the series? Well a lot according to a recent interview with the man himself. Although not going into an exact figure he got for the whole series he does mentions that around the release of the fourth game, he got a royalty cheque of a whooping $4 million.
Read more: http://gearnuke.com/pro-skater-tony-hawk-4-million-royalty-check/?source=Snapzu

Researchers Want to Find Biomarkers for Violent Criminals. But What About White-Collar Offenders?

Done right, this research could help us vet those vying for the most powerful, and therefore potentially most dangerous, positions in society. Back in 2000, a man known only as Mr. Oft began to grapple with an unwanted realization: He was becoming a pedophile. In fact, it wasn’t long before he was charged with child molestation. But the day before his prison sentence, his head felt like it was about to burst, and a few brain scans later, an egg-size tumor was found burrowing through his brain.
Read more: https://slate.com/technology/2018/05/researchers-want-to-find-biomarkers-for-violent-crime-but-what-about-white-collar-crime.html?source=Snapzu

Children face mental health epidemic, say teachers

Britain’s schoolchildren are suffering from an epidemic of anxiety, depression and suicidal thoughts, yet barely half get the NHS treatment they need, teachers say. Almost four in five (78%) teachers have seen a pupil struggle with a mental health problem in the past year, with one in seven (14%) cases involving suicidal thoughts or behaviour. Anxiety is the most common problem, with two-thirds of the 300 teachers surveyed by the mental health charity stem4 having come across a young person at their school dealing with the condition in the past year.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/jun/23/schoolchildren-facing-mental-help-epidemic?source=Snapzu

China will partly lift internet censorship for one of its provinces to promote tourism

China plans to lift some internet censorship on the southern tropical island of Hainan to promote tourism. Visitors to select areas of Hainan will be able to access Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, according to a new plan authorities have put together to turn the province into a free trade port by 2020. It’s not clear if other banned platforms will be uncensored. The three-year action plan was published on Thursday, but removed from the local government website by Friday, as spotted by the South China Morning Post.
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/22/17493202/china-internet-censorship-lift-tourism-hainan?source=Snapzu

Uber crash driver was 'watching TV'

The police report suggests the safety operator was streaming The Voice just before a fatal collision.
Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-44574290?source=Snapzu

The City of London will be powered with 100% renewable energy by October 2018

The City of London, the historic “Square Mile” central district of London, will soon switch to clean energy in a big way. Starting in October 2018, the City of London will source 100 percent of its power needs from renewable energy sources by installing solar panels on local buildings, investing in larger solar and wind projects and purchasing clean energy from the grid. Though no longer a square mile, closer now to 1.12 square miles, the City of London is a major financial center within the city and the world. Its green energy transformation sends a clear message that London intends to take strong action against climate change.
Read more: https://inhabitat.com/the-city-of-london-will-be-powered-with-100-renewable-energy-by-october-2018/?source=Snapzu