Saturday, April 7, 2018

THE WEEK IN REVIEW: APRIL 1-7, 2018

APRIL 7 MARKS THE 70TH ANNIVERSARY
OF THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION.
APRIL 14 IS THE 190TH ANNIVERSARY
OF NOAH WEBSTER’S FIRST DICTIONARY.


AMONGST EVENTS AROUND THE WORLD THIS PAST WEEK…
*Carlos Alvarado is the new President of Costa Rica.
*Julius Maada Bio is the new President of Sierra Leone.
*Mokgweetsi Masasi has replaced the retiring Ian Khama as the new President of Botswana.
*Tiangong-1, China’s first space station, has crash landed in the Pacific Ocean near Tahiti.
*Dinosaur footprints have been found on the Isle of Skye!



THE TERRORIST REPORT…
*Twitter is proud of its terrorist account suspension record.
*The Free Choice E-zine does not support terrorism, no matter what the “cause” or alleged “justification”. Thus we will only be posting news items in this section whenever terrorists are brought to justice.

😭PASSING PARADE…
*TV producer/writer Stephen Bochco (LA Law, Hill Street Blues, and much more) is no longer with us.
*Actor Soon-Tek Oh (James Bond’s The Man With The Golden Gun, the original Hawaii 5-0) has taken his last bow on life’s stage.
*The victim(s?) of the fire at Trump Tower in New York City.
*Federal Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the Ninth Circuit of Appeals.

WITHIN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA…
POLITICALLY…
*President Trump doesn’t like the revelation that Trade Wars and Tariffs work both ways. Yet he still wants to impose more tariffs. (There are 3/THREE separate links in this item.)
*The Trump Administration is suing California over land sales.
*The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA) and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) are “over” as far as Donald Trump is concerned.
*President Trump wants a former caddy to be his new White House Communications Director???
*The Trump Administration will soon be losing its infrastructure policy adviser too.
*President Trump doesn't like his Chief of Staff either???
*The latest on Donald Trump’s plans for the 2020 Census.
*If he can’t have his wall and Congress has failed to enact tougher border security measures, Trump will dispatch the National Guard to “secure” the Mexican border. (There are 2/TWO separate links in this item.)
*Just how does Trump currently feel about the media??? And just who is the Sinclair Broadcast Group??? (There are 2/TWO separate links in this item.)
*Trump probably won't be attending the White House Correspondents Dinner this year.
*The latest on Donald Trump versus "Stormy" Daniels, and what might lie ahead. (There are 2/TWO separate links in this item.)
*Some opinions as to possibly why Donald Trump doesn't like Amazon.
MEANWHILE…
*Do some Republicans still consider Hillary Clinton a “threat” to their (re)election efforts???
*A Republican California Gubernatorial candidate wants to INSTITUTIONALIZE the homeless!!!
*Republican Ted Cruz is facing a tough Democratic challenger for re-election this year.
*Texas' Republican U.S. Representative Blake Farenthold has announced his resignation.
ELSEWHERE…
*The suspect in the April 3 attack on YouTube headquarters in San Bruno, California killed herself rather than be arrested.
*The final results of the 2018 Men’s and Women’s NCAA College Basketball tournaments. (There are 2/TWO separate links in this item.)
*Possibly the next best comedy writer is only NINE years old!



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