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from Business Insider
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]New York City owns a creepy island that almost no one is allowed to visit — here's what it's like
Less than one mile from Manhattan — one of the priciest and most densely populated places in the world — exists a little-known island that people abandoned nearly 55 years ago. "North Brother Island is among New York City’s most extraordinary and least known heritage and natural places," wrote the authors of a recent University of Pennsylvania study about the location.
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from The Spokesman-Review
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from Sputnik
(Russian government-supported propaganda channel)
German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel condemned on Sunday the demand of the Turkish prosecutor’s office to sentence activists of the Amnesty International human rights group to 15 years in jail.
The Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman has commented on Moscow's response to possible US restrictions on the work of RT in the country. "Everything that would be done in relation to Russian journalists and RT reporters on the territory of the United States we qualified as restricting activity, we may use the same measures toward US media on Russian territory," Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in an interview with channel NTV, commenting on Moscow's response to pressure on RT as US lawmakers have been questioning whether the Russian broadcaster should have been registered under FARA.
A day after the Turkish president announced a new military operation in Syria's Idlib, he again lashed out at the West over its alleged "support" of terrorist groups. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that the "West's shadow" is behind terrorist groups, including Daesh and al-Qaeda. He yet again accused the US-backed Syrian Kurds, Ankara believes to be linked to the PKK (outlawed in Turkey), of attempts to create a "terrorist corridor from Afrin to the Mediterranean" on the border with Turkey and vowed to defend his country's security. "Islamic State [Daesh, ISIS, banned in Russia], al-Qaeda, PKK — behind all these organizations you will see the shadow of the West. All of them find refuge in the West. Where is FETO? Also in the West. They receive very serious financial support," President Erdogan said as quoted by RIA Novosti on Sunday, speaking to activists of the ruling Justice and Development Party.
Energy and investment deals between Russia and Saudi Arabia are likely to be mutually lucrative. In economic terms, Riyadh and Moscow have a number of common points, and it is no coincidence that the Saudi king visited Moscow at this particular time, according to Dr. Thierry Bros, Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies. "What is behind the visit is the fact that Russia has suffered from sanctions on the investment level and the Saudi Arabia king could come calling with some money," Bros told Radio Sputnik, pointing out that the sanctions, at the same time, are pushing Russia to develop more advanced technologies in the oil and gas sector.
The Turkish prime minister has commented on coordinating actions with Moscow in the wake of the Turkish President’s announcement of his country’s launching a military operation in Syria’s Idlib, currently under the control of the al-Nusra Front terrorist group.
US President Donald Trump said that he would like to try to establish peace between Israel and Palestine before moving the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. "Right now we are actually working on a plan that everybody says will never work, as for many-many years it has never worked. They say it is the toughest deal of all it is peace between Israel and Palestinians… I do not think it is impossible and I think it is something that can happen. I am not making any predictions, but I want to give that a shot before I even think about moving the embassy to Jerusalem," Trump said Saturday in an interview to Mike Huckabee broadcast by Trinity Broadcast Network.
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from USA Today
Save Puerto Rico from crippling Jones Act
Puerto Rico was an economic wreck even before Hurricane Maria flattened the island. Its 3.4 million U.S. citizens suffered years of economic decline from vanishing business investment, thanks in part to Congress rescinding corporate tax incentives that had propped up the local economy for decades. The territory is burdened by tens of billions of dollars in bond debt and unfunded pension obligations. Making matters worse is an antiquated law, known as the Jones Act, that artificially hikes the cost of living on the island.
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