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Looks like it's another bad week for the pussy hats. Just like everyone with a brain said, Trump didn't obstruct anything.


http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/exclusive-comey-stop-short-trump-obstructed-justice-flynn/story?id=47865739&cid=clicksource_4380645_1_hero_headlines_bsq_hed

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2sxui_khD8

A rocket was launched from Tanegashima Space Centre early on Thursday morning as part of Japan's efforts to construct its own global positioning system. The H-IIA 34 rocket was carrying a quasi-zenith satellite system named ‘Michibiki’, meaning ‘guidance’. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and Mitsubishi Heavy Industry plan to launch two more such satellites by next spring to complete Japan's GPS. In Japan, users currently rely on location information provided by the US GPS. Once the system is completed, many hope to get much more precise location information.

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4556528/Mary-Kay-Letourneau-Vili-Fualaau-SPLIT-20-years.html

>Vili Fualaau filed for legal separation from Mary Kay Letourneau earlier this month

>Letourneau was 34-years-old and a married mother of four young children when she began having a relationship with Fualaau, who was 12 and her student

>She got pregnant with their first daughter Audrey when Fualaau was just 13, and gave birth shortly before pleading guilty to second-degree child rape

>Her six-month sentence was eventually commuted to just three months, under the condition that she not have contact with Fualaau

>The two were caught having sex in a car withing weeks, leaving Letourneau pregnant with daughter Georgia and back in jail for seven years

>Fualaau, now 33, was banned from seeing Letourneau, now 55, in prison, but the pair were married in 2005 after her release

>They gave their last major interview two years ago, sitting down with Barbara Walters on the eve of their tenth wedding anniversary

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwcy7AHVMDI

The US and Japan have confirmed that North Korea fired a missile just one week after it launched its Hwasong-12 rocket. The new missile had a shorter range, according to Washington, and possibly landed off Japan’s east coast, inflicting no damage to ships in the area.

Pyongyang said it has successfully tested the Pukguksong-2 intermediate range ballistic missile, after it was detected landing off Japan’s east coast, causing no damage. The nuclear-capable missile was launched just one week after the previous test by North Korea.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un personally supervised the test of the new missile, which the KCNA state news agency said verified the reliability of the late-stage guidance system of the nuclear warhead and tested its solid-fuel engine, Reuters reported.
Earlier, the US and Japan confirmed that North Korea fired a missile just one week after it launched its Hwasong-12 rocket.

“The US mainland and the Pacific operational theater are within the strike range of the DPRK and the DPRK has all kinds of powerful means for annihilating retaliatory strike,” North Korea’s state agency KCNA said in its announcement of the test, as cited by Reuters.

The ballistic missile reached an altitude of about 560km (348 miles), according to a South Korean military official. An earlier Reuters report suggested that the missile flew about 500km and landed outside Japan’s exclusive economic zone.

South Korean military officials said it was a solid-fuel rocket, in contrast to last week’s liquid-fuel test rocket. Solid-fuel rockets, such as those used in previous submarine-launched tests, are considered more complex to design and operate, but are more stable, and offer greater long-term military capability.
The White House said that the rocket had a shorter range than those fired during the three recent tests.

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http://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-satellite-idUSKBN18S3WG

Once the four satellites are in orbit, at least one satellite will be flying over Japan for eight hours per day.

Combining with the U.S. GPS and the Japanese system will enhance the stability of receiving radio waves and increase the precision of position information.

The U.S. GPS has a margin of error of about 10 meters (about 33 feet) but together with the Japanese system positioning error will be reduced to only several centimeters (a few inches).

The system is expected to used for such activities as driverless tractors in farming and to help develop automated construction machines.

By fiscal 2023 the government plans to have launched a total of seven satellites into orbit and secure Japan's own GPS system without depending on the U.S. system.

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Susanna Dawn Burhans a 47 year old Alabama mail carrier faces up to ten years jail if convicted of feeding a dog meat balls that contained nails.

Upon her arrest on Thursday, the U.S Postal Service worker was charged with aggravated cruelty to animals, a Class C felony. A report via AL told of the mail worker since released from the Madison County Jail after posting $2,500 bail.

Susanna Burhans was arrested after a joint investigation by the Madison County Sheriff’s Office and the Postal Service. The investigation determined the postal worker feeding the meatballs with nails to at least one dog in the Woody Circle area of the New Hope community, said sheriff’s Capt. Mike Salomonsky.

Ed Glover, a resident on Burhan’s mail route, told WHNT News 19 that he became suspicious after finding a nail-filled meatball on the ground next to his mailbox. He took his dog, Missy, to the veterinarian, where staff X-rayed her stomach and saw that she had consumed nails.

The dog’s condition was not reported.

Reiterated Salomonsky: ‘We gathered intelligence from the Postal Service and put everything together,’

‘Right now, we know for sure there’s one dog. But there’s another neighbor that had a complaint, so there might be two or more.’

USPS spokeswoman Jeldrys Lowry told of Burhans, a USPS employee of more than 21 years currently on non-duty status.

Told Lowry via the nypost: ‘This type of alleged behavior within the Postal Service is not tolerated and the overwhelming majority of Postal Service employees, which serve the public, are honest, hardworking, and trustworthy individuals who would never consider engaging in any type of criminal behavior’.

It wasn’t necessarily clear whether the woman had been previously censored for other behavior or if she had been in trouble with the law before.

https://scallywagandvagabond.com/2017/06/susanna-dawn-burhans-alabama-mail-carrier-postal-worker-fed-dog-meatball-nails/

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A few weeks ago, after some particularly incompetent parenting on my part (nuts in the dessert, a rushed trip to an emergency room after my child's allergic reaction), I visited the local pharmacy to fill an EpiPen prescription.

You might recall EpiPen as last year's poster child for out-of-control drug prices. Though this simple medical device contains only about $1 of the drug epinephrine, the company that sells it, Mylan, earned the public's enmity and lawmakers' scrutiny after ratcheting up prices to $609 a box.

Outraged parents, presidential candidates and even both parties in Congress managed to unite to attack Mylan for the price increases. By August, the company, which sells thousands of drugs and says it fills one in every 13 American prescriptions, was making mea culpas and renewing its promise to "do what's right, not what's easy," as the company's mission statement goes.

More from New York Times:

>Trial will decide if ABC News sullied a company with 'pink slime'
'Wonder Woman' could be the superhero women in Hollywood need
A tax cut might be nice. But remember the deficit.

>So I was surprised when my pharmacist informed me, months after those floggings and apologies had faded from the headlines, that I would still need to pay $609 for a box of two EpiPens.

>Didn't we solve this problem?

>Not quite. What's more, Mylan is back in the news. On Wednesday, regulators said the company had most likely overcharged Medicaid by $1.27 billion for EpiPens. The same day, a group of pension funds announced that they hoped to unseat much of Mylan's board for "new lows in corporate stewardship," including paying the chairman $97 million in 2016, more than the salaries of the chief executives at Disney, General Electric and Walmart combined.

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/05/outcry-over-epipen-prices-hasnt-made-them-lower.html

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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/01/us/politics/climate-accord-trump-china-global-leadership.html

>WASHINGTON — President Trump has managed to turn America First into America Isolated.

In pulling out of the Paris climate accord, Mr. Trump has created a vacuum of global leadership that presents ripe opportunities to allies and adversaries alike to reorder the world’s power structure. His decision is perhaps the greatest strategic gift to the Chinese, who are eager to fill the void that Washington is leaving around the world on everything from setting the rules of trade and environmental standards to financing the infrastructure projects that give Beijing vast influence.

Mr. Trump’s remarks in the Rose Garden on Thursday were also a retreat from leadership on the one issue, climate change, that unified America’s European allies, its rising superpower competitor in the Pacific, and even some of its adversaries, including Iran. He did it over the objections of much of the American business community and his secretary of state, Rex W. Tillerson, who embraced the Paris accord when he ran Exxon Mobil, less out of a sense of moral responsibility and more as part of the new price of doing business around the world.

As Mr. Trump announced his decision, the Paris agreement’s goals were conspicuously reaffirmed by friends and rivals alike, including nations where it would have the most impact, like China and India, as well as the major European Union states and Russia.

The announcement came only days after he declined to give his NATO allies a forceful reaffirmation of America’s commitment to their security, and a few months after he abandoned a trade deal, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, that was designed to put the United States at the center of a trade group that would compete with — and, some argue, contain — China’s fast-growing economic might.

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U.S. President Donald Trump reportedly does not plan to invoke executive privilege in an attempt to prevent former FBI director James Comey from disclosing potentially harmful information to Congress about statements Trump made about his embattled former national security director. The decision was reported by the New York Times, which attributed information about the decision to…

https://allsorce.com/ny-times-trump-not-planning-invoke-executive-privilege-comey-testimony/

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Iran attacks: 'IS' hits parliament and Khomeini mausoleum.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-40184641

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only this year alone NATO ran 5 operations in Baltics.

Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė called the existence of Russia and Belarus in the east a major threat to the Baltic States and Poland. The Lithuanian leader announced this to the local press today, June 5, before the beginning of the state visit to Estonia.

In particular, the head of the Lithuanian state reminded that the Baltic countries and Poland are the "eastern border of NATO". The very neighborhood with Russia and Belarus is a threat to him. Plus the militarization of the Kaliningrad region, plus the use of the territory of Belarus for "various experiments and aggressive games directed against the West."

By "aggressive games" and challenges, Gribauskaite attributed the Belarusian-Russian maneuvers "West-2017". As noted earlier in Lithuania, they can serve as a prelude to an armed invasion and subsequent occupation.

In this regard, the Lithuanian Supreme Commander-in-Chief believes, the Baltic countries and Poland should solidarily strengthen the defense capability of their states and, first of all, air defense (air defense). It is necessary to saturate the "eastern wing" as much as possible with air defense systems and other weapons. This will cool the ardor of the aggressors and sober them up.

As for the cover-up plans, NATO should become more flexible in the context of decision-making, ensure the deblockade of the Baltic states in the event of the capture of the so-called Suwalk corridor.

On these and other challenges, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Poland should unanimously speak at the summit of the leaders of the NATO member states in the summer of 2018 to make significant progress in strengthening security, President Grybauskaite said.

http://baltnews.lt/vilnius_news/20170605/1017216565.html

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https://euobserver.com/foreign/138141

>The EU budget should be used for military research and the bloc could become a defence alliance akin to Nato, the European Commission is poised to say.
The Commission is to outline its ideas in a legislative proposal on spending and in an ideas paper on defence due out on Wednesday (7 June).

>“The development of a new generation of many major defence systems is today beyond the reach of a single EU member state … ‘More Europe’ in defence and security is clearly needed”, the draft proposals, seen by Bloomberg, a US news agency, said.

>The reflection paper adds that the “nature of the trans-Atlantic relationship is evolving” and that “more than ever, Europeans need to take greater responsibility for their own security”.

>It outlines three scenarios, one of which speaks of “common defence and security” in which defence of Europe “would become a mutually reinforcing responsibility of the EU and Nato”.

>It says the EU should have “pre-positioned permanently available forces” for deployment “on behalf of the union” that could be used in anti-crisis or counter-terrorist operations in hostile areas.

>The less ambitious scenarios speak of voluntary contributions to joint defence on ad-hoc basis.

>The new military research budget is to be worth €250 million in its first year in 2020 rising to up to €1 billion a year from the €150-billion EU budget.

>It is to be spent on research into surveillance drones and cyber defence in its initial phase, but this would still mark the first time EU money had been spent directly on military assets.

>The defence integration is to take place until 2025.

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http://www.reuters.com/article/us-gulf-qatar-idUSKBN18W0DQ

>The Arab world's biggest powers cut ties with Qatar on Monday over alleged support for Islamists and Iran, reopening a festering wound two weeks after U.S. President Donald Trump's demand for Muslim states to fight terrorism.

>Saudi Arabia, Egypt, United Arab Emirates and Bahrain severed diplomatic relations with Qatar in a coordinated move. Yemen, Libya's eastern-based government and the Maldives joined later. Transport links shut down, triggering supply shortages.

>Qatar, a small peninsular nation of 2.5 million people, denounced the action as predicated on lies about it supporting militants. It has often been accused of being a funding source for Islamists, as has Saudi Arabia.

>Iran, long at odds with Saudi Arabia and a behind-the-scenes target of the move, blamed Trump's visit last month to Riyadh and called for the sides to overcome their differences.

>"What is happening is the preliminary result of the sword dance," tweeted Hamid Aboutalebi, deputy chief of staff to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, referring to Trump's joining in a traditional dance with the Saudi king at the meeting.

>Closing all transport links with Qatar, the three Gulf states gave Qatari visitors and residents two weeks to leave, and Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Egypt banned Qatari planes from landing and forbade them from crossing their air space.

>The UAE and Saudi Arabia stopped exports of white sugar to Qatar, a potential hit to consumers during the holy month of Ramadan, when demand is high. Some residents in Qatar began stockpiling food and supplies, an expatriate said.
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Google translate seems to need help translating Russian to English.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/31/us/politics/covfefe-trump-twitter.html