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Anchor visa holders in America are used to facilitate outsourcing of American jobs.

http://money.cnn.com/2017/02/21/technology/h1b-visa-program-flawed/?iid=EL

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http://www.nasdaq.com/article/americans-prefer-bottled-water-to-carbonated-soda-20170310-00283

>Americans now drink more bottled water than carbonated soft-drinks, amid concerns for health effects of sugary drinks, according to Industry tracker Beverage Marketing Corp.

>In a latest report, bottled water became the largest beverage category by volume in 2016 in the U.S., surpassing sodas.

>In the country, total bottled water volume grew to 12.8 billion gallons last year from 11.8 billion gallons in 2015. Bottled-water consumption reached 39.3 gallons per capita, while carbonated soft drinks were at 38.5 gallons. However, soda still generated more revenue of $39.5 billion in retail sales last year, compared to $21.3 billion for water.

>Beverage Marketing projected that bottled water would hit the 50-gallon per-capita consumption mark by the middle of next decade, while carbonated soft-drink per-capita consumption had exceeded 50 gallons in 2006.

>Michael Bellas, chairman-CEO of Beverage Marketing Corp., said in a statement, "Bottled water effectively reshaped the beverage marketplace. When Perrier first entered the country in the 1970s, few would have predicted the heights to which bottled water would eventually climb. Where once it would have been unimaginable to see Americans walking down the street carrying plastic bottles of water, or driving around with them in their cars' cup holders, now that's the norm."

>In February, another industry tracker Beverage Digest reportedly projected that bottled water volume consumption would surpass carbonated soft drinks in 2017.

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With the hum of the Airbus CC-150 engines in the background, 3rd Canadian Division commander Brig.-Gen.f Simon Hetherington reminded troops deploying to Ukraine on Friday of the importance of their training mission.

The 120 Edmonton-based soldiers will spend the next six months in the west of the country training Ukrainian soldiers in preparation for their fight against Russian-backed separatists in the east of the country as part of a conflict that has been raging since the middle of 2014.

“What skills you’ve supplied them with will save their lives,” Hetherington said just before the troops boarded the plane.

Hetherington said the mission is “incredibly important.”

“They’ve got an armed forces that has been decimated over a number of years of neglect in terms of funding and age and time, so we are helping rebuild their armed forces,” he said.

“The challenge to this is they are rebuilding it while in combat in the east of the country.”

Outbound deputy commanding officer Maj. Alex Nitu said the aim of the mission is to enable the Ukrainian military to become self-sufficient in delivering its own training programs.

Nitu said the mission is being well-received by the Ukrainian military.

“The idea is we are going to work ourselves out of a job in all these things because they are going to become self-sufficient,” he said.

“(We are) building skill sets and professionalizing their force and getting to a point where they are institutionally capable of delivering all the training they require to themselves.”

https://ria.ru/world/20170314/1489988944.html

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Former Democratic Mayor of Fairfax, Va. Richard "Scott" Silverthorne pleaded guilty to a felony drug distribution charge on Monday. The former elected official was arrested in August on the charge according to USA Today.

Silverthorne was arrested on August 4 after selling $200 worth of methamphetamine to undercover officers in exchange for a group sexual encounter.

The ex-mayor will be held in custody until his sentencing hearing. The charge against him carries a maximum of a $500,000 fine and 40 years in prison.

Silverthorne was a substitute teacher in Fairfax County schools and served on the Fairfax City Council from 1990 until 2008 and again in 2011 before being elected mayor. Shortly before his arrest, Silverthorne won re-election for a third term as mayor. He resigned from office shortly after his August arrest.

Two other men were arrested on felony drug charges with Silverthorne during the undercover sting.

http://freebeacon.com/politics/former-democratic-mayor-pleads-guilty-to-felony-drug-distribution/

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Ukrainian nazis of the extreme right group C14 confessed to illegal kidnapping of people for exchange in the East Ukraine. They wrote about this on their official Facebook page with the signature of Eugene Karasia nicknamed Vortex. According to the radicals, they kidnapped two random men, who were called "separatists" from the train, put them on their knees in a forest planting and called the of the police in DNR to demand an exchange of their neonazi partners captured by DNR militia.

During the conversation, the radicals threatened the captured men that "it would be very bad", and the interlocutors from the so-called. The MGB stated that "separs are not people."

According to Karas, the army patrol that he met complimented favorably on what was going on, recommending "not to hammer cattle heavily."

On what grounds the passengers of the unknown train were kidnapped, it is not specified in the record. The radicals themselves write that "during the preparation of the exchange, unknown patriots probably violated several laws."

It should be noted that there is no passenger rail link between LDNR and Kiev-controlled territories. With a high degree of probability, men were abducted at one of the existing stations in the Donetsk region.

http://korrespondent.net/ukraine/3826621-separy-ne-luidy-natsyonalysty-rasskazaly-o-zakhvate-luidei-v-ato

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Poland will seek the arrest and extradition of a Minnesota man exposed by the Associated Press as a former commander in an SS-led unit that burned Polish villages and killed civilians in World War II, prosecutors said Monday.

Prosecutor Robert Janicki said evidence gathered over years of investigation into U.S. citizen Michael K. confirmed "100 percent" that he was a commander of a unit in the SS-led Ukrainian Self Defense Legion.

He did not release the last name, in line with Poland's privacy laws, but the AP has identified the man as 98-year-old Michael Karkoc, from Minneapolis.

"All the pieces of evidence interwoven together allow us to say the person who lives in the U.S. is Michael K., who commanded the Ukrainian Self Defense Legion which carried out the pacification of Polish villages in the Lublin region," Janicki said.

The decision in Poland comes four years after the AP published a story establishing that Michael Karkoc commanded the unit, based on wartime documents, testimony from other members of the unit and Karkoc's own Ukrainian-language memoir.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/03/13/poland-confirms-minnesota-man-nazi-commander/99132818/

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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/13/world/europe/scotland-referendum-independence.html

>Protesting Britain’s plans to exit the European Union, Scotland’s leader, Nicola Sturgeon, called on Monday for a referendum on Scottish independence as early as next year. The announcement was not unexpected, but it reflected the stark divisions in Britain as the government prepares to start the official process to exit the 28-nation bloc.

>Citing the fact that most Scottish voters had opposed a British exit in last year’s referendum — 62 percent voted in favor of staying in the European Union, compared with 48 percent in Britain over all — Ms. Sturgeon said that London had failed to address Scotland’s desire to remain in the single market after Britain leaves the European Union.

>“Not only is there no U.K.-wide agreement on the way ahead, but the U.K. government has not moved even an inch in pursuit of compromise and agreement,” Ms. Sturgeon said in a speech in Edinburgh. “Our efforts at compromise have instead been met with a brick wall of intransigence.”

>Scotland rejected independence from Britain in a closely watched vote in September 2014, and public opinion on the issue remains deeply divided. For Scotland to hold another legally binding referendum, the British Parliament would have to give its approval, as would the Scottish Parliament.
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Emails leaked to Business Insider show long-standing links between Nigel Farage and WikiLeaks' Julian Assange.

>Farage visited the Ecuadorean Embassy on Thursday but declined to say whether he had met Assange, who lives in exile there.

>UKIP has campaigned in the European Parliament on behalf of Assange.
LONDON — There was much confusion Thursday when Nigel Farage was spotted by BuzzFeed leaving the Ecuadorian Embassy in London — the residence of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

>Asked why he was there, Farage replied that he couldn't remember what he was doing in the building, adding, "I never discuss where I go or who I see."

>Emails leaked to Business Insider, however, reveal that UKIP under Farage's leadership had long-standing links to Assange.

>In February 2011, after a European Arrest Warrant had been issued in a case in which prosecutors sought to question Assange in connection with a sexual-assault allegation, UKIP repeatedly reached out to Assange to see how they could work together. Assange has not been charged in the case.

>The office of UKIP MEP Gerard Batten contacted Assange's lawyer Mark Stephens about "the possibility of meeting Mr Julian Assange."

>They added: "So far, UKIP London has been only British political party to openly support Mr Assange fight against EAW and his freedom of speech, and we would very much like to continue doing so.":
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>Leaked minutes of a subsequent meeting between Batten and Stephens reveal that Batten promised to table a motion in support of the WikiLeaks founder in the European Parliament. The party also offered the opportunity of a joint video press conference in Brussels.:
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www.businessinsider.com/leaked-emails-nigel-farage-wikileaks-julian-assange-2017-3

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Ukrainian goverement ordered neonazi gangs under own control to assault russian banks in all territories under control of madian goverment. 3 banks are literally robbed until paper and pencils. others are sealed and covered with red paind and textes calling to kill russians and all who work with them.

ukrainian and NATO controled websites are now starting to publish lists with customers of those banks calling to kill those people and their families.

http://korrespondent.net/ukraine/3826018-sovetnyk-avakova-predlozhyl-vernut-smertnuui-kazn

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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39254974>Cold weather in New York state left one house completely encased in ice.

>The home, on the shore of Lake Ontario, was captured by a local photographer after being battered by water whipped up from the lake by freezing winds.

>The photographer said many people on social media refused to believe the images were genuine.

>John Kucko said he was "amazed at how many people think I sprayed foam on the place" and posted video footage as proof.

>He said he found the house after being "tipped off" by a local and "was on a mission to find the place before sunrise."

>A frigid windstorm last week in New York was strong enough to knock out power to tens of thousands of people. Many were still without power days later.

>New York state remains subject to a blizzard warning from the US National Weather Service, with 12 to 20 inches of snow expected in New York City and surrounding areas on Monday and Tuesday.

http://nbc4i.com/2017/03/13/house-freezes-over-near-lake-ontario/

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The Israel Police arrested four people on Sunday on suspicions they threatened an Arab woman and her daughter with racist motives, in order to force them to...

http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.777001

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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/03/egypt-pharaoh-ramses-statue-discovered-cairo/

>Archaeologists from Egypt and Germany have discovered the remains of an ancient Egyptian statue they believe could depict one of history's most famous rulers.

>The likeness of what may be Pharaoh Ramses II was found submerged in groundwater in a Cairo slum.

>"We found the bust of the statue and the lower part of the head and now we removed the head and we found the crown and the right ear and a fragment of the right eye," Khaled al-Anani, Egypt's antiquities minister, told Reuters.

>The 26-foot statue is made of quartzite and could be up to 3,000 years old. The Antiquities Ministry in Egypt is hailing the discovery as significant. The remains lack an inscription bearing the pharaoh's name, but the discovery's proximity to a temple devoted to Ramses suggest the statue is of his likeness, the ministry says.

>A limestone statue of Pharaoh Seti II, the grandson of Ramses II, was also found at the site.

>The discovery was made by a joint effort between Egypt's Ministry of Antiquities and researchers from the University of Leipzig. A rising water table, industrial waste, and piling rubble have made excavation of the ancient site difficult.
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https://www.buzzfeed.com/sheerafrenkel/apple-says-they-have-patched-the-vulnerabilities-mentioned-i?utm_term=.bqYzv4vEB#.dqgb323z1

>In a statement, Apple said that the bugs mentioned in the WikiLeaks dump of known vulnerabilities to iOS products have been fixed.

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>The police chief in Wilmington, North Carolina, has publicly lambasted one of his officers. The officer recently pulled over a local attorney moonlighting as an Uber driver and told the driver that he could not film the traffic stop.

>"Taking photographs and videos of people that are in plain sight, including the police, is your legal right," Chief Ralph Evangelous said in a Wednesday statement published on the department’s Facebook page. "As a matter of fact, we invite citizens to do so when they believe it is necessary. We believe that public videos help to protect the police as well as our citizens and provide critical information during police and citizen interaction."

>The statement concluded: "A copy of this statement will be disseminated to every officer within the Wilmington Police Department."

>During the February 26 traffic stop, Jesse Bright began filming Sgt. Kenneth Becker when he and other law enforcement officers approached his car. Sgt. Becker, who appeared to be wearing a VieVu body-worn camera, told Bright that a "new law" forbids citizens from filming encounters with police.

>"Turn it off or I’ll take you to jail," Becker said.

>"For recording you?" Bright retorted. "What is the law?"

>The officers were unable to cite him the "new law," as it does not exist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpT-SAunuLk

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/03/lawyer-films-his-traffic-stop-even-after-cop-says-to-stop-citing-made-up-law/

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-39226684

>Amazon.com's bestseller list has been topped by a US political manifesto with a twist - all 266 pages are blank.

>Reasons To Vote For Democrats: A Comprehensive Guide contains no words other than page headings and a bibliography.

>"You can go cover-to-cover in about 15, 20 seconds," author Michael Knowles, a conservative journalist, told Fox News.

>A one-word cover review of the literary phenomenon-cum-political joke simply reads: "Thorough".

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