Brazil gunmen shoot at convoy carrying nuclear fuel in Angra dos Reis

Gunmen have attacked a convoy of trucks carrying uranium fuel to a nuclear power plant near the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro, police say. The convoy came under attack as it drove past a community controlled by drug traffickers in Angra dos Reis, a tourist city 145km (90 miles) from Rio. Police escorting the convoy responded and a shootout followed. No-one was injured or detained. The convoy reached the Angra 2 plant safely 20 minutes after the attack.

The attack in the Rio-Santos highway is the latest in a series of violent incidents in an area popular with visitors. In 2017, a British woman was shot and wounded after her family's car drove by mistake into a community run by gangs. The convoy was carrying uranium fuel fabricated in Resende, in Rio de Janeiro state, to supply Angra 2, one of the two nuclear power plants in Angra dos Reis, which began operations in 2001. The gunmen targeted the police officers that were part of the convoy as it passed the Frade community at around 12:00 local time on Tuesday (15:00 GMT), Brazil's federal highway police said in a statement.

"Sadly, attacks by criminals have become frequent in that area… Such a beautiful region, with great tourist demand has become a dangerous place," spokesman José Hélio Macedo was quoted by O Globo newspaper as saying. The uranium was being transported in armoured containers in a "natural state" and would not have offered any risk as it had the same level of radioactivity as when it is found in nature, Brazil's nuclear agency Eletronuclear said. The agency, however, said the convoy "had not been attacked by bandits" directly - it was passing in the area at the moment a shootout was happening. Some bandits scared by the heavy police presence shot at a police vehicle in the convoy, it added in a statement. Violence has increased in Angra dos Reis in recent years and heavily armed criminals are now present in once-peaceful communities, correspondents say. Reports say the shootout in Frade was a result of fighting between rival gangs. Angra dos Reis Mayor Fernando Jordão urged the state's government to improve security in the region. "We have nuclear plants here. It's a sensitive area."

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-47635706

Merkel Is Destroying NATO, Not Trump

The narrative the Left has been promoting, which has been aided and abetted by the corrupt legacy media, is that President Donald Trump is ‘destroying NATO’. He allegedly has been doing this by attempting to jawbone the leaders of NATO member countries to pay what they agreed to pay for their own defense. The United States currently pays approximately 70% of military expenditures in the alliance. The EU trading area is the largest economic force in the world. Germany, the largest and most dynamic economy on The Continent, pays just a paltry 1.2% of its GDP on its military. This is while Germany is finalizing plans to further link the German economy to cheap Russian natural gas via the Nord Stream II pipeline under the Baltic Sea and destroy its energy security forever. It is reported Germany has barely a dozen combat aircraft that can actually fly.

This has infuriated POTUS and he has said so many time publicly. Apparently this is taboo in the double speak media that only wants to bring down our president and doesn’t give a damn about American national security. No, they only want power, and they don’t care how they get it. Let’s look at some other fun facts.

Who intentionally let in over one million Middle Eastern migrants into Germany and pushed the same on other member nations of the alliance? Who has irreparably destroyed European culture and security by her actions in this manner? Angela Merkel of course. Thousands of ISIS fighters have used the migration to embed themselves in Western European society, forever cementing the terrorist threat in the alliance.

Who was also born, raised and educated in a tyrannical, communist country (East Germany) under the boot of Russia? Who is best buddies with Russian President Vladimir Putin? Yep, you guessed it. If I was a conspiracy theorist, I would say that a German leader who was raised by the East German communist secret police, who leads Germany to spend nothing on its own defense, who cements energy dependence on Russian gas, who destroys her own countries culture and security, and who is best friends with the former Soviet KGB leader of Russia…just might be a greater risk to the NATO alliance than The Donald? Enquiring minds want to know.

https://creativedestructionmedia.com/opinion/2019/03/20/merkel-is-destroying-nato-not-trump/

European Parliament Agrees With Trump, Demands Nord Stream II Pipeline To Be Stopped, Preventing Energy Dependence On Russia

The Nord Stream II pipeline is a natural gas delivery system to bring Russia gas to the German shore under the Baltic Sea. It is scheduled to be completed by the end of this year. U.S. President Trump has mocked the Germans for constructing the pipeline, saying it will enhance German dependence on Russian gas, all the while sanctioning Russia for its malign behavior worldwide. Germany pays little for its own defense and is the strongest economy in Europe. Today, the European Parliament issued a report essentially agreeing with POTUS.

“Russia and the EU will remain key economic partners in the foreseeable future, but Nord Stream 2 reinforces EU dependency on Russian gas supplies, threatens the EU internal market and is not in line with EU energy policy, and therefore needs to be stopped,” the report says, reported Russian state news agency TASS.

“The EU’s dependency on Russian gas supplies has increased since 2015,” according to the report. “The deepening of EU integration and coherence between its internal and external policies is the key to a more coherent, effective and successful EU external and security policy, including vis-a-vis Russia.” It remains to be seen if this resolution has any teeth or while impact German behavior in any way. Berlin says it considers Nord Stream II to be a ‘commercial project’.

https://tsarizm.com/news/eastern-europe/2019/03/12/european-parliament-agrees-with-trip-demands-nord-stream-ii-pipeline-to-be-stopped-preventing-energy-dependence-on-russia/