Back to Africa to help blacks leave America if Donald Trump becomes President (Source empireherald.com) South African Billionaire Femi Adenugame has created the “back to Africa” movement urging all Black Americans to leave the United States before Donald Trump becomes president. Concerns about Donald Trump becoming President has prompted a South African billionaire to invest his fortune in helping African Americans leave the United States to avoid further discrimination and inequality. According to reports, Femi Adenugame has invested over 500 million dollars to the project. Adenugame owns commercial 747 jets a fleet of cruise ship which he plans to use to transport those interested in returning to Africa from the United States.

WHY DO AMERICANS CONSUME 80% OF ALL PRESCRIPTION PAINKILLERS? (Source blacklistednews.com) Less than 5% of the world’s population lives in this country, and yet Americans buy four-fifths of these highly addictive drugs.  In the United States today, approximately 4.7 million Americans are addicted to prescription pain relievers, and that represents about a 300% increase since 1999.  Someone that was formally living a very healthy and normal life can be reduced to a total basket case within a matter of weeks. And of course many don’t make it back at all.  According to the CDC,  HYPERLINK “https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/getting-painkillers-seems-easy-getting-help-to-fight-painkiller-addiction-is-hard/2016/03/14/2a85f060-df29-11e5-846c-10191d1fc4ec_story.html” \o “more than 28,000 Americans” \t “_blank” more than 28,000 Americans died from opioid overdoses in 2014.  Incredibly, those deaths  HYPERLINK “http://www.businessinsider.com/robert-califf-abuse-deterrent-drugs-have-a-big-flaw-2016-3” \o “represented 60 percent of all drug overdose deaths in the United States for that year” \t “_blank” represented 60 percent of all drug overdose deaths in the United States for that year. Many Americans that start out on legal opioids quickly find themselves moving over to heroin because it is often cheaper and easier to obtain, and the U.S. is now facing a tremendous epidemic of heroin abuse as well.  In fact, the number of Americans that die of a heroin overdose  HYPERLINK “http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/03/07/senate-poised-pass-bill-combat-heroin-use-and-prescription-drug-abuse/81437324/” \o “nearly quadrupled” \t “_blank” nearly quadrupled between 2000 and 2013. As long as doctors are writing thousands upon thousands of new prescriptions for these painkillers each year, this crisis is not going to go away any time soon.

Palestine Becomes A Full Member Of “The Court Of Arbitration” (Source globalresearch.ca)

Palestine was awarded a full membership in the  HYPERLINK “http://www.imemc.org/article/%E2%80%9Dhttps:/pca-cpa.org/en/home/%E2%80%9D” \t “_blank” Permanent Court of Arbitration, after 57 countries votes in favor, 24 abstained and zero voted against. The Palestinian application was filed to Holland on January 29, 2015, officially requesting membership with the International Court of Arbitration, but the United States led a strong opposition, and managed to get the court’s leadership to postpone the vote, until a special committee reviewed the application. The Palestinian Foreign Ministry said it send a strong letter to its Dutch counterpart, demanding that the government of Holland, which houses the court at The Hague, to revoke his decision to suspend the application, and threatened to take the case to specialized international courts. Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki also held a meeting with his Dutch counterpart, on the sidelines of the Human Rights Council sessions, and asked him to find a solution to the issue, and the later promised to help in resolving it.

On its part, the Palestinian Mission in Holland also held talks with various countries, members of the court, and managed to come up with a coordinated position, before asking for a date for discussing Palestine’s full membership. The United States, Canada and Israel strongly opposed the move, and presented a number of proposals that were meant to obstruct the vote under various “justifications,” including the claim that membership with this court requires a full membership with the United Nations. The majority of world countries rejected those claims, and affirmed the Palestinian right to become a member with the court.

Signs That The West Coast Is Being Absolutely Fried With Nuclear Radiation From Fukushima (Source thetruthwins.com) Every single day, 300 tons of radioactive water from Fukushima enters the Pacific Ocean.  That means that the total amount of radioactive material released from Fukushima is constantly increasing, and it is steadily building up in our food chain. Polar bears, seals and walruses along the Alaska coastline are suffering from  HYPERLINK “http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/04/08/11083494-fur-loss-open-sores-seen-in-polar-bears” \o “fur loss and open sores” \t “_blank” fur loss and open sores. The bears were among 33 spotted near Barrow, Alaska, during routine survey work along the Arctic coastline. Tests showed they had “alopecia, or loss of fur, and other skin lesions,”  HYPERLINK “http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=3162” \o “the U.S. Geological Survey said in a statement” \t “_blank” the U.S. Geological Survey said in a statement. There is an  HYPERLINK “http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2013-03-31/fukushima-radiation-causing-epidemic-dead-and-starving-sea-lions-california” \o “epidemic of sea lion deaths” \t “_blank” epidemic of sea lion deaths along the California coastline. At island rookeries off the Southern California coast, 45 % of the pups born in June have died, said Sharon Melin, a wildlife biologist for the National Marine Fisheries Service based in Seattle.  Along the Pacific coast of Canada and the Alaska coastline, the population of sockeye salmon is at  HYPERLINK “http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/lake-babine-sockeye-fishery-at-risk-of-unprecedented-closure/article13715638/?service=print” \o “a historic low” \t “_blank” a historic low.  Something is causing fish all along the west coast of Canada  HYPERLINK “http://www.canada.com/investigating+reports+bleeding+herring/8795535/story.html” \o “to bleed from their gills, bellies and eyeballs” \t “_blank” to bleed from their gills, bellies and eyeballs. A vast field of radioactive debris from Fukushima that is  HYPERLINK “http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/03/radioactive-debris-washing-up-on-pacific-coast.html” \o “approximately the size of California” \t “_blank” approximately the size of California has crossed the Pacific Ocean and is starting to collide with the west coast. It is being projected that the radioactivity of coastal waters off the U.S. west coast  HYPERLINK “http://environmentalresearchweb.org/cws/article/news/50176” \o “could double” \t “_blank” could double over the next five to six years.  Experts have found  HYPERLINK “http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/05/22/national/researchers-find-high-cesium-in-some-pacific-plankton/” \l “.UZu7-GfYGTc” \o “very high levels of cesium-137” \t “_blank” very high levels of cesium-137 in plankton living in the waters of the Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and the west coast. One test in California found that  HYPERLINK “http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/05/absolutely-every-one-of-the-15-bluefin-tuna-tested-in-california-waters-contaminated-with-fukushima-radiation.html” \o “15 out of 15” \t “_blank” 15 out of 15 bluefin tuna were contaminated with radiation from Fukushima. The Vancouver Sun in 2012 reported that cesium-137 was found in  HYPERLINK “http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/343-203/9463-canada-fish-eaters-threatened-by-fukushima-radiation” \o “a very high percentage” \t “_blank” a  high percentage of the fish Japan sold to Canada.73 %t of mackerel tested, 91 % of the halibut, 92% of the sardines, 93 % of the tuna, 94 % of the cod.

IMF Issues New Warning on Global Economy as Chinese Exports Plunge (Source globalresearch.ca)

The International Monetary Fund warned this week of a further weakening of the global economy following the release of figures showing a significant decline in Chinese and global trade. In a major speech to the National Association for Business Economics in Washington on Tuesday, the first deputy managing director of the IMF, David Lipton, said that it was “most disconcerting” that the rise in “risk aversion” was leading to a “sharp retrenchment in global capital and trade flows.” He noted that emerging markets experienced a capital outflow of $200 billion last year compared to a net inflow of $125 billion in 2014. “Trade flows meanwhile are being dragged down by weak export and import growth in large emerging markets such as China, as well as Russia and Brazil, which have been under considerable stress,” he said. Lipton made his remarks following the release of data showing that Chinese exports experienced their biggest contraction since 2009. It was another sign that, far from the world economy being on the road to “recovery,” global demand is continuing to fall.

China won’t budge on South China Sea sovereignty (Source Aljazeera.com) China’s foreign minister took a hard line on the country’s claims to virtually all the South China Sea, saying Beijing will not permit other nations to infringe on what it considers its sovereign rights in the strategically vital area. Wang Yi said another nation’s claim to freedom of navigation in the region didn’t give it the right to do whatever it wants – an apparent reference to the United States, which has sent naval ships past reefs where China has engaged in island-building. “The South China Sea has been subject to colonial invasion and illegal occupation and now some people are trying to stir up waves, while some others are showing off forces,” Wang said. “However, like the tide that comes and goes, none of these attempts will have any impact. History will prove who is merely the guest and who is the real host.” Wang sought to deflect allegations that China is militarising the region by building military facilities on the artificial islands. He said China’s development there was defensive and that other nations were being militaristic – not China. China has conducted a massive program of land reclamation in the South China Sea over the past two years, piling sand on top of reefs then adding airstrips and military facilities. Beijing claims nearly all of the South China Sea, including small islands that are hundreds of kilometres from its southern coast.

Mysterious Outbreak in Wisconsin Infects 44, 18 Die(Source newser.com) A mysterious blood infection is spreading in Wisconsin, and officials don’t know how or why. Members of the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are now on the ground alongside state investigators hoping to find exactly what is causing the spread of the bacteria Elizabethkingia, which has so far infected 44 people, most of them older than 65, reports the  HYPERLINK “https://www.dhs.wisconsin.gov/disease/elizabethkingia.htm” \t “_blank” Wisconsin Department of Health Services. Though these bacteria typically don’t cause illness in humans, symptoms can range from fever and shortness of breath to rash and cellulitis—but in this unusual outbreak, 18 of the patients have died, reports the  HYPERLINK “http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/midwest/ct-bacterial-infection-wisconsin-deaths-20160303-story.html” \t “_blank” Chicago Tribune. “We are keeping every possibility on the table, but it does not seem to be [spread] from person to person,” state health officer Karen McKeown says. Six cases of the infection were initially recorded between Dec. 29, 2015, and Jan. 4, 2016, and when state health officials notified local partners the number grew and was found to date back to a case in November of 2015. Everyone affected already had serious underlying health conditions or compromised immune systems, and none are children. And while Elizabethkingia (named after Elizabeth King, who discovered the bacterium in 1959, reports  HYPERLINK “http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/03/health/wisconsin-elizabethkingia-outbreak/” \t “_blank” CNN) is abundant in our environment, including water and soil, infections are rare. So far none of the possible sources the CDC has investigated, including health care products and water, have proven to be the common link.

Chinese foreign ministry opposing ZTE trade restrictions (Source zdnet.com) The Chinese Foreign Ministry has said it opposes the decision by the United States Department of Commerce to restrict US equipment exports to Chinese telecommunications hardware manufacturer ZTE after allegations of contravening US export controls on Iran. According to Reuters, the trade restrictions will be in place from Tuesday, and will require companies wanting to ship US-made equipment or parts to ZTE to apply for a licence, with most  HYPERLINK “http://www.zdnet.com/article/zte-facing-us-export-restrictions-after-us-kit-sales-to-iran-report/” \t “_blank” applications expected to be declined. “China is opposed to the US, citing domestic laws to place sanctions on Chinese enterprises,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hong Lei said. “We hope the US stops this erroneous action, and avoids damaging Sino-US trade cooperation and bilateral relations.” Along with ZTE, the export restrictions also apply to two Chinese affiliates — ZTE Kangxun Telecommunications and Beijing 8-Star — as well as Iranian company ZTE Parsian. ZTE shares were suspended from trading on the stock markets in Hong Kong and Shenzhen on Monday. The US Department of Commerce Bureau of Industry and Security explained that despite a deal reached between Iran and the United States, China, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, and Russia in 2015 to lift sanctions in return for Iran  HYPERLINK “https://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/foreign-policy/iran-deal” not developing a nuclear weapon, its export controls over Iran were not amended.

Russia has a chance to control 73% of the world’s oil (Source businessinsider.com) Russia has played a master stroke in the current oil crisis by taking the lead in forming a new cartel, but it’s a move that could spell geopolitical disaster. The meeting between Russia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela on 16 February 2016 was the first step. During the next meeting in mid-March, which is with a larger group of participants, if Russia manages to build a consensus—however small—it will further strengthen its leadership position. Until the current oil crisis, Saudi Arabia called the crude oil price shots; however, its clout has been weakening in the aftermath of the massive price drop with the emergence of US shale. The smaller OPEC nations have been calling for a production cut to support prices, but the last OPEC meeting in December 2015 ended without any agreement. Now, with Russia stepping in to negotiate with OPEC nations, a new picture is emerging. With its military might, Russia can assume de facto leadership of the oil-producing nations in the name of stabilizing oil prices. Russia has been in the forefront of plans to move away from Petrodollars, and Moscow has formed pacts with various nations to trade oil in local currencies. With this new cartel of ROPEC (Russia and OPEC nations), a move away from petrodollars will become a reality sooner rather than later. Russia is smart. Vladimir Putin is genius. Moscow senses the opportunity that is almost tangibly floating about in the low crude price environment and appears to be ready to capitalize on it in a way that would reshape the geopolitical landscape exponentially. Though a solution in Syria is welcome, a large cartel of major oil producing nations of the world with Russia as the head would be a major upset to the current balance of power. With this potential in mind, the mid-march meeting should be very interesting for the global oil patch well beyond talk of production cuts and supply gluts.

Trump’s rise spooks Europe as sideshow turns serious (Source AFP) Europe’s bemusement at the rise of Donald Trump has switched to concern as his presidential campaign has gained ground in what observers said was a warning to traditional parties about ignoring populists. German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier this week spoke about the “politics of fear” in the US campaign in a thinly-veiled reference to Trump and drew parallels to the rise of European demagogues. “In Germany and in Europe, something is gaining momentum in our domestic politics. And to be honest, I am also seeing it here in the United States during the campaign: it’s the politics of fear,” he told university students during a visit to Washington. European commentators have also issued increasingly stark warnings in recent days as the once-improbable prospect of the billionaire clinching the Republican presidential nomination is looking ever more likely.