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The wave of anti-Semitic harassment and violence in the US that accompanied the start of the Trump administration has expanded:  As Jewish Community Centers (JCC) in eleven states were forced to evacuate because of bomb threats.  "Today, bomb threats were called into schools and/or JCCs in Alabama, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Virginia," read a statement from the JCC Association of North America.  "Many affected institutions have already been declared clear and have returned to regular operations.  All previous bomb threats to JCCs this year were determined to be hoaxes."  Authorities are pretty clear that at least some of these are coordinated.

Meanwhile, nearly 500 gravestones were damaged at a Jewish cemetery in Philadelphia; three adjacent Christian cemeteries were left undamaged.  This comes less than a week after a Jewish cemetery near St. Louis, Missouri, were defaced or toppled.  The Anne Frank Center is calling on Donald Trump to act following the latest desecrations:  "Whether or not your intention, your presidency has given the oxygen of incitement to some of the most viciously hateful elements in our society."

Meanwhile, the orange clown has previewed a budget proposal that would increase US military spending by US$54 Billion, roughly ten percent.  Other priorities, such as foreign aid, would see significant reductions.  Despite the US spending more on its military than the next seven countries combined, Trump said something idiotic about the US needing to win more wars, like it did when he was in high school - that was the Vietnam War which the US didn't win and which Trump evaded service.  Anyway, Medicare and Social Security would supposedly be untouched (yeah right); the administration is also planning to slash taxes, which would probably further add to the debt. 

Former Soviet gymnast Olga Korbut has been forced to auction off her Gold and Silver Medals to pay the bills.  Now 61 years old and living in Arizona, The sale of the medals raised almost US$230,000 - which seems cheap compared to her accomplishments in an era when the Olympics were actually about internationalism and athletics, not selling soft drinks and shoes.  Korbut's breathtaking gymnastics won millions of admirers in the West at the height of the Cold War.

More than four million people are without water service in Santiago, Chile after rain and mudslides contaminated the main fresh water source for the South American nation's capital.  Officials say the supply from the Maipo River will be cut of until the water clears.  "Emergency teams are working on the ground to connect with isolated persons and re-establish the water supply wherever possible," Chilean President Michelle Bachelet said.  Hundreds of people are cut off in small Cajon de Maipo communities, and four people were swept away by flooding.

A killing in El Salvador is provoking public rage in a nation where the murder rate is so high that most people have become jaded.  Police say someone slashed and hacked at Gustavito, a popular hippopotamus at the National Zoo.  Authorities described it as a cowardly and inhumane attack on one of the zoo's most iconic animals.  As for the human toll, ten people per day have been murdered in El Salvador so far this year.

Islamist terrorists in the Philippines beheaded a German hostage, after the deadline for a US$600,000 ransom.  70-year old Juergen Kantner's boat was found in the Sabah Sea last November, his companion Sabine Merz's body was aboard.  The seafaring couple had survived a kidnapping by Somali pirates a little less than a decade earlier.