Misc. News 5: Joke punished as Hate-Crime, Communist Statues removed, Gov't accidentally Poisons city, Sanctuary-County for Guns, Striking Syria · 6:10am Apr 25th, 2018
"Man fined for hate crime after filming pug's "Nazi salutes"" from British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC):
"Lenin and Karl Marx statues removed from North Korea's Kim Il-sung Square" from Daily Telegraph:
"Daily Skimm for April 9th" from Skimm:
"Effingham County in Illinois declares itself a sanctuary for gun owners" from Associated Press/Chicago Tribune/Daily Herald:
I enclosed two corroborating reports from USA Today & Washington Times, respectively:
"Illinois county votes to become 'sanctuary county' for gun owners"
""Sanctuary-county" declared for Illinois gun owners; citizens "tired of being pushed around""
"US Hits Syria with Confusion Bomb":
Below, I enclosed its facts I considered most notable:
1) An air-strike successfully destroyed three targets linked to Syria’s chemical weapons-production (0:51)
2) US, UK, France conducted that joint-strike (0:58)
3) France claimed to convince US' forces to remain in Syria (1:05)
4) Salon seems to contradict itself, stating President Trump "& allies approach World War III" whilst asserting President Trump serves Russia (2:22)
5) Former Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton supported that strike (4:12)
6) Russia & Syria blocked chemical weapons-inspectors from investigating (5:47)
7) "The attack is pretty consistent with how Assad operates" since Syria previously conducted chemical attacks after the US announced a hands-off approach, provoking a strike; the US possess evidence of chemical attacks & other sources corroborate (6:18)
8) President Trump criticized intervention in Syria five years ago (7:03)
9) President Obama ordered multiple air-strikes against Syria, but reneged on a red-line related to chemical weapons (7:19)
The United States’ total forest-area increased by 3% from 1907 to 2012, from the United States' Department of Agriculture & Just Facts' Just Facts Daily.
