Today's News: April 29, 2019

World News
Boeing didn’t advise airlines and FAA that malfunctioning sensors warning system has been shut off on #737MAX
Airlive – The safety feature is an alert that lights up in the cockpit if a plane’s angle-of-attack sensors transmit faulty data about the pitch of the plane’s nose. This feature is known as an angle-of-attack disagree light and was included in previous versions of the 737.
Southwest did not know about the change until after the fatal crash of a Lion Air flight in Indonesia.
Southwest said Boeing told the airline that the disagree lights were inoperable only after the Lion Air crash. The airline subsequently took action to turn the alerts on.
In the past 6 weeks, churches, mosques and a synagogue have been attacked
CNN – In the past six weeks, churches, mosques and a synagogue have been targeted in a series of shootings and bombings spanning three countries.
On Saturday, a gunman entered a synagogue outside San Diego and opened fire with an “AR-type assault weapon,” killing one woman and wounding three other people.
The shooting at Chabad of Poway is the latest in a series of deadly attacks targeting places of worship. The gunman shot people as they gathered to celebrate the end of Passover, one of the holiest holidays on the Jewish calendar.
Just days earlier, a series of coordinated attacks on Christian churches rocked Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday. And last month dozens were killed in an attack on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand.
The violence is a grim reminder that prejudice knows no borders and threatens people of different skin colors and religions.
In a statement, Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, condemned such attacks and the motives behind them.
“Creating divisions between people because of how they pray, what they look like and what they believe is the life’s blood of extremists,” Greenblatt said. “Faith groups of all kinds must stand up with each other and reject not only the violence, but also the destructive narratives that seek to drive a wedge between them whenever and wherever they arise.”
Burkina Faso church attack: At least five killed including priest
Independent – At least five people have been killed, including a priest, following an reported attack on a protestant church in Burkina Faso.
The victims were gunned down around noon on Sunday, after armed men arrived on motorbikes and entered the building towards the end of a service.
The attackers shot their guns into the air before killing their victims.
At least two people are missing, according to a security source who spoke to the AFP news agency.
The priest’s two sons were killed alongside him in the attack, according to BBC Africa.
Mystery surrounds anti-terror bust: Cops tight-lipped after swarming a Melbourne church and arresting a suspect wearing a forensic jumpsuit
Daily Mail – Police remain tight-lipped over what prompted armed officers to zero in on two people near a church in a counter-terrorism operation in Melbourne.
A handcuffed man in a white forensic jumpsuit was seen in video footage on Friday afternoon being led from nearby St Mary’s Church in North Melbourne to a waiting vehicle.
A woman was also cuffed and arrested, according to reports.
New Mexico County Declares Local Emergency Over Abandoned Border Patrol Checkpoints
NPR – For people familiar with the lonesome highways of far West Texas and New Mexico, it’s an unusual sight: The ubiquitous Border Patrol checkpoints are all closed. Last month, Homeland Security shifted the checkpoint agents to the border to help process the crush of migrant asylum-seekers.
Otero County, N.M., is so alarmed by the possibility of illegal narcotics flowing north unchecked that it has declared a local state of emergency.
Normally, if you drive from Las Cruces to Alamogordo, N.M., on U.S. Route 70, you have to pull into a federal inspection station. A stern, green-suited agent asks whether you’re a U.S. citizen, while another one with a dog sniffs your car for drugs.
Nowadays, traffic roars past orange cones that block the entrance to the checkpoint. Customs and Border Protection has closed all six checkpoints in the El Paso Sector, which covers West Texas and New Mexico. Checkpoints elsewhere along the Southern border are operating normally.
Griffin, chairman of the Otero County Board of Commissioners, was the force behind the surprise move last week when the county declared a state of emergency over the shuttered checkpoint.
“What I’m really hoping comes out of [this emergency declaration] is that our governor will recommission the National Guard which she pulled off of the border earlier this year,” he says.
Global military spending at new post-Cold War high, fueled by U.S., China – think-tank
Reuters – Global military expenditure reached its highest level last year since the end of the Cold War, fueled by increased spending in the United States and China, the world’s two biggest economies, a leading defense think-tank said on Monday.
U.S. News, Politics & Government
Trump Announces U.S. Withdrawal From UN Arms Trade Treaty
The New American – During his speech April 26 to the NRA-ILA Leadership Forum at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, President Donald Trump revealed that he will end the participation of the United States in the United Nations’ Arms Trade Treaty (ATT).
“Today, I’m proud to announce another historic step to protect your Second Amendment rights,” the president told those gathered to discuss the future of the right to keep and bear arms.
Then, after informing the audience that he had not informed the NRA-ILA leadership in advance that he intended to make this praiseworthy parting of ways with the UN, President Trump spelled out his motivation for abandoning the ATT:
So, in the last administration, President Obama signed the U.N. Arms Trade Treaty.  And in his waning days in office, he sent the treaty to the Senate to begin the ratification process.
This treaty threatened your subjugate — and you know exactly what’s going on here — your rights and your constitutional and international rules and restrictions and regulations.
Under my administration, we will never surrender American sovereignty to anyone. We will never allow foreign bureaucrats to trample on your Second Amendment freedom.  And that is why my administration will never ratify the U.N. Arms Trade Treaty. I hope you’re happy.
Just in case anyone didn’t hear the president clearly, or for those who were worried that he would do the tyranny two-step after he wasn’t surrounded by hundreds of card-carrying NRA members, President Trump put a fine point on his policy and his philosophy:
I am officially announcing today that the United States will be revoking the effect of America’s signature from this badly misguided agreement.  We’re taking our signature back. The United Nations will soon receive a formal notice that America is rejecting this treaty.
As part of this decision, I will sign right now, in front of a lot of witnesses — a lot — it’s a lot of witnesses — a message asking the Senate to discontinue the treaty ratification process and to return the now-rejected treaty right back to me, in the Oval Office, where I will dispose of it. [The photo above shows the president holding up the message after he signed it.]
Kansas Supreme Court rules abortion a right under state constitution
Fox – The Kansas Supreme Court Friday struck down a ban on surgical abortions, ruling that the state’s constitution protected women’s choice to engage in that activity as a “right.”
In a 6-1 decision, the Court ruled that the state constitution incorporated language from the Declaration of Independence that recognized that certain rights predated the country. The Declaration’s “natural, inalienable rights,” the Court said, included “personal autonomy” and therefore abortion.
“This right allows a woman to make her own decisions regarding her body, health, family formation, and family life—decisions that can include whether to continue a pregnancy,” the majority opinion read.
The case emerged after two abortion doctors challenged a 2015 law — known as the Kansas Unborn Child Protection from Dismemberment Abortion Act — which prohibits dilation and evacuation abortions, often referred to as “dismemberment abortions” because, as a lower court said, the procedure sometimes involved dismembering the fetus.
Newly-elected Governor Laura Kelly praised the Court’s decision for recognizing at a state level what federal law has already said.
On Monday, Kelly also vetoed a bill that would require doctors to notify patients of a way to halt a medication abortion.
U.S. envoy signed North Korea document to pay for Warmbier’s care: Bolton
Reuters – The United States signed a document agreeing to pay North Korea for the care of American Otto Warmbier but never paid the $2 million Pyongyang demanded, White House national security adviser John Bolton said on Sunday.
Next LGBT wedding-cake trial scheduled
WND – A California court has set a trial date in a case brought by two lesbians against a cake baker whose claims the women were searching for a lawsuit, not a wedding cake, when they came to her shop.
Superior Court Judge David Lampe on Monday scheduled Christian baker Cathy Miller’s trial for June 22.
The state Department for Fair Employment & Housing sued Miller in October 2018 on behalf of the same-sex couple.
It is the second lawsuit by the state regarding the incident. The previous case ended when a judge declared Miller’s actions were protected by the First Amendment. The state refused to appeal, and, despite the judge’s conclusion, filed a second lawsuit.
The Freedom of Conscience Defense Fund, representing Miller, filed a brief making the same First Amendment argument but also asserts the same-sex couple “fraudulently” presented themselves as customers to provoke a lawsuit and, therefore, were “unlawful trespassers.”
Trump accuses New York state of laying siege to NRA
Rueters – U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday accused New York state officials of trying to “take down” the National Rifle Association as the powerful gun rights group faces internal divisions and allegations of financial improprieties.
Economy & Business
Consumer spending biggest gain since ’09
Reuters – The surge in consumer spending reported by the Commerce Department on Monday sets a stronger base for growth in consumption heading into the second quarter after it slowed sharply in the first three months of the year. Tame inflation, however, supports the Federal Reserve’s recent decision to suspend further interest rate increases this year.
Fed officials are scheduled to meet on Tuesday and Wednesday to assess the economy and deliberate on the future course of monetary policy. The U.S. central bank in March dropped forecasts for any interest rate increases this year, halting a three-year policy tightening campaign. The Fed raised borrowing costs four times in 2018.
Energy & Environment
Move Over, San Andreas: There’s an Ominous New Fault in Town
Wired – .S. route 395 is a geologic master class disguised as a road. It runs north from the arid outskirts of Los Angeles, carrying travelers up to Reno along the eastern flank of the Sierra Nevada. On the way, they pass the black cinder cones of Coso Volcanic Field and the eroded scars of a mighty 19th-century earthquake near Lone Pine. In winter, drivers might see steam rising from Hot Creek, where water boils up from an active supervolcano deep underground. About an hour from the Nevada border, Mono Lake appears, with its bulbous and surreal mineral formations known as tufa towers. Even for someone with no particular interest in rocks, these are captivating, otherworldly sights. But for James Faulds, Nevada’s state geologist, they are something more—clues to a great tectonic mystery unfolding in the American West. If he’s right, all of this, from the wastes of the Mojave Desert to the night-lit casinos of Reno, will someday be beachfront property.
For more than a century, the San Andreas Fault has been considered the undisputed heavyweight champion of large-scale deformation in the West. It is here that the North American and Pacific Plates meet, jostling for position with often violent results. Eventually, the theory goes, the thin sliver of land between the fault and the ocean—from the southern tip of the Baja Peninsula to the Santa Cruz Mountains—will break off from the mainland and slide north, until LA drifts past San Francisco. But there’s at least one problem with this scenario: The San Andreas appears to have gotten jammed. Northwest of LA, near the town of Frazier Park, the fault is kinked out of alignment so dramatically that many geologists suspect the pent-up tectonic strain will have to seek release somewhere else.
Faulds thinks he’s found the spot. It’s an emerging zone of instability, known as the Walker Lane, that closely follows Route 395. He believes that, over the next 8 million to 10 million years, the North American continent will unzip along this stretch of land, east of the San Andreas. The Gulf of California, which separates the Baja Peninsula from Mexico, will surge north into Nevada, turning thousands of square miles of dry land into ocean floor. (Mapmakers, if they still exist, may label the new body of water the Reno Sea.) While this geologic realignment will take long enough for human civilization to fall, rise, and fall again hundreds of times over, Faulds’ hypothesis is more than an academic curiosity. It represents a radical shift in how geologists use up-to-the-minute tools—satellite data, aerial surveys, computer simulations—to fathom age-old processes. And for residents of the West, it is an invitation to think in an altogether new way about the familiar-seeming ground beneath them.
Cyclone Kenneth leads to five deaths and dangerous floods in Mozambique
Vox -Cyclone Kenneth has left five dead in Mozambique as of Sunday as rescuers struggled through floods to reach stranded people and move them to safety. The flooding is worst in the northern port city of Pemba, where 4,500 people have left their homes for refugee shelters.
Throughout the country, more than 160,000 people have been displaced by the cyclone, 30,000 houses have been destroyed, and 24,000 people are in need of shelter, according to the World Food Program.
200,000 ‘never-before-seen’ viruses discovered lurking in ocean
The Sun – VIRUSES that have never been seen before have been discovered hidden deep in the ocean.
Almost 200,000 of the infectious pathogens were found during a global marine life expedition, which took over 10 years to complete.
Most of the viruses are harmless to humans but can infect marine life, such as whales and crustaceans.
Scientists have said that the discovery of all these viruses is important because they can teach us more about life on the planet and the impact of climate change.
The viruses could help researchers calculate the balance of oxygen and carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere as organisms in the sea help to recycle oxygen.
As oceans are known to absorb and store a lot of CO2, life in the ocean is needed to help covert this compound into other forms because too much CO2 could acidifying oceans and kill off marine life.
Science & Technology
Teen sues Apple for $1B, blames facial recognition for wrongful arrests
Fox – A young man from New York is suing Apple for $1 billion, claiming that a facial recognition system falsely connected him to a series of thefts, which caused him great humiliation, a missed midterm exam and hours traveling to different states to prove he was innocent.
In a bit of irony, the larceny thefts for which Ousmane Bah, 18, is accused of occurred at several Apple stores on the East Coast, which sell the facial recognition technology.
In a federal suit filed in the Southern District of New York on Monday, Bah names Apple in Cupertino and Security Industry Specialists in Culver City, both in California, as the defendants.
In a phone call, an Apple spokeswoman confirmed that the company doesn’t use facial recognition technology in its stores, but wouldn’t say more.
Bah has been charged in multiple jurisdictions, including Delaware, Massachusetts, New Jersey and New York, according to the lawsuit. Three of the cases have been dropped, the suit said, but the one in New Jersey is still pending.
“We believe the video clearly exonerates Mr. Bah and puts the onus on Apple to answer how did they identify my client as the perpetrator of a crime if they weren’t using facial recognition,” Bah’s attorney, Subhan Tariq, told KTVU in an email.
Facebook’s new chief lawyer helped write the Patriot Act
The Verge – Jennifer Newstead, a Trump appointee who served in the Justice Department under President Bush, will soon be taking over as general counsel of Facebook, the company announced in a press release on Monday afternoon. Newstead will take over from Colin Stretch, who announced plans to retire last year.
“Jennifer is a seasoned leader whose global perspective and experience will help us fulfill our mission,” Sheryl Sandberg said in a statement included with the release.
But many are already troubled by Newstead’s history lobbying and legislating for more powerful electronic surveillance. As The Hill points out, a 2002 Justice Department press release describes her as “helping craft” the legislation. Notorious Bush administration lawyer John Yoo described her as the “day-to-day manager of the Patriot Act in Congress” in his 2006 book.
Health
This Food Causes More Sickness Than Any Other, According to the CDC
Cooking LIght – Chicken is far and away the most popular source of protein in the U.S. Who doesn’t love a glorious roast chicken or, let’s face it, a hearty serving of fried chicken from time to time? However, it’s important to note this popular protein is also the most popular when it comes to food poisoning.
According to a recent report from the CDC, announcements about several types of food poisoning infections have been increasing in frequency over the last few years. This doesn’t necessarily mean food is getting less safe, however, but mostly shows that the new tools put in place to identify outbreaks are working.
The most common cases of infection consistently remain the same—salmonella and campylobacter, which are both bacteria—and government agencies are putting more effort into reducing and tracking these outbreaks. Both are spread through animal feces and are often found in chicken products.
Eating Garlic Could Protect Brain Health
Mercola – Eating garlic may be good for your brain, particularly as you age. The pungent herb may protect brain health by fighting age-related changes in gut health linked to cognitive function, according to University of Louisville researchers.
The study, which was presented at the American Physiological Society’s 2019 annual meeting, adds more credence to garlic’s status as a superfood, and support for its powerful medicinal properties, which have been valued since ancient times.
A high diversity of gut bacteria tends to be associated with better health, but as you age, gut diversity may decline. At the same time, neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s tend to develop in later life, leading researchers to look into the association between changes in gut microbiota and cognitive decline associated with aging, and how garlic may help.
Have a glass of (golden) milk: What is turmeric milk and what are its health benefits?
NaturalNews – Turmeric is an incredible spice with many health benefits. In fact, it’s even used to make golden milk, a dairy-based drink that has anti-inflammatory properties.
Golden milk: An antioxidant-rich beverage that’s good for you
Golden milk contains turmeric and is served either hot or cold. Depending on your preference, turmeric milk can be made from almond, cashew, coconut, or cow milk.
The beverage may also contain other ingredients such as black pepper, cinnamon, ginger, and honey. Black pepper is believed to boost your body’s ability to absorb curcumin, turmeric’s main bioactive compound.
Curcumin is used in Ayurvedic medicine because of its powerful antioxidant properties. Antioxidants are compounds that prevent cell damage to protect the body from oxidative stress. Antioxidants help your cells function, and studies have shown that diets full of antioxidants can help lower your risk of disease and infections.
Turmeric milk is a traditional drink consumed in India. It is used in Ayurvedic medicine to address cold, coughs, and insomnia.
Below is a list of the seven health benefits of turmeric milk.

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1. It can improve digestion and gut health
2. It can relieve achy joints
3. It’s good for your heart
4. It boosts your immunity
5. It can keep your memory sharp
6. It can help boost your mood
7. It can help you fall asleep

How to make turmeric milk
If you want to try making golden milk at home, follow the recipe below. Adjust the recipe based on your personal preferences or health needs.
No-nonsense golden milk
This basic recipe has black pepper for some spice. Black pepper also boosts the health benefits of turmeric.
Ingredients:

• 1 cup milk
• 1 teaspoon turmeric powder
• A pinch of black pepper
• A pinch of ground cinnamon (Optional)
• A pinch of ground cardamom (Optional)
• 1 teaspoon honey (Optional)
• 1 teaspoon coconut oil (Optional)

Steps:

1. Blend all of the ingredients together. If you don’t have a blender, heat the ingredients in a saucepan and whisk until combined. Alternatively, you can use a countertop blender or an immersion blender.
2. Warm the mixture in a saucepan on the stove. Let the milk simmer for about 15 minutes, but don’t let it boil.
3. Transfer to a mug before serving.

It’s flavor might take some getting used to, but if you want to enjoy it’s many health benefits, drink turmeric milk regularly.

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