5 Things You Should Be Paying Attention To Right Now

Thousands of US troops have arrived in Europe in what has been described as "one of the largest deployments since the Cold War." This comes just days after it was reported that some 2,800 tanks, trucks, and other military equipment had been deployed to Germany to aid NATO reinforcements as part of a buildup against "Russian expansion." Some 4,000 American troops have landed and made their way to Wroclaw, Poland where they will be on a nine-month rotation under Operation Atlantic Resolve, a mission designed to demonstrate to Moscow Washington's commitment to defend allies in Europe.

A federal lawsuit filed by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) led to the release of documents confirming details on the planned "Protective Action Guides" (PAGs) to be implemented which include the new radically higher maximum allowable radiation levels in your drinking water. Only after the lawsuit forced the EPA to release the documents did it become clear how much the levels were to be increased. The agency's justification for withholding the new proposed limits from the public until after the proposal had been adopted was that it wanted to "avoid confusion."

Protests in Mexico push the country to the brink of revolution and nobody's talking about it. A recent increase in gas prices broke the camels back as long-simmering social tensions are threatening to boil over as compounded with rampant inflation, stagnant standards of living, and open corruption between a working Narco-State collaboration. The current "gasolinazo" protests are over a 20% rise which are expected to rise even further as fuel subsidies will be completely phased out by March 2017. It currently takes the equivalent of twelve days of a minimum wage to fill a tank of gas - compared to the US' seven hours.

The UN just claimed that the Temple Mount in Jerusalem is historically associated with Islam, NOT with the Jewish people. Just a few days ago, a new resolution called "Occupied Palestine" denies any connection between Judaism, Christianity, and the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. The only countries to vote against these resolutions were the US, UK, Germany, Holland, Lithuania, and Estonia. Rising tensions in the area in connection with the new UN resolution could be the equivalent of a bucket of gasoline next to an open flame.

Just because she lost doesn't mean that the FBI probe into Hillary Clinton went away. The Clinton probe has now expanded to public corruption track. The development follows press reports over the past year about the potential overlap of State Department and Clinton Foundation work, and questions over whether donors benefited from their contacts inside the administration. Three unidentified intelligence officers have submitted new evidence of the corruption connections dealing with the the Clinton Foundation.

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