Syria Crisis: Warplanes Spotted In Cyprus As Tensions Rise In DamascusSigns of advanced readiness at likely hub of air campaign as UN inspection team comes under fire near site of alleged chemical attack Warplanes and military transporters have begun arriving at Britain’s Akrotiri airbase on Cyprus, less than 100 miles from the Syrian coast, in a sign of increasing preparations for a military strike against the- Posted 14 hours ago
Troop Exercises: Turkey Prepares For Retaliatory Syrian Gas AttacksWhat would happen if NATO intervenes in Syria? Turkey, for one, fears that it could be attacked with chemical weapons in retaliation. The country has criticised the United Nations for being too hesitant and is willing to take action itself against Assad — without a UN mandate if necessary. Since the nerve gas attack in Syria last- Posted 14 hours ago
Saudis Offer Russia Secret Oil Deal If It Drops SyriaSaudi Arabia has secretly offered Russian a sweeping deal to control the global oil market and safeguard Russia’s gas contracts, if the Kremlin backs away from the Assad regime in Syria. The revelations come amid high tension in the Middle East, with US, British, and French warship poised for missile strikes in Syria. Iran has- Posted 14 hours ago
U.S. Will Hit Debt Limit In Mid-October, Treasury Secretary WarnsTreasury Secretary Jacob Lew is telling Congress that the U.S. government will hit its borrowing limit in mid-October and urged lawmakers to raise it before then. Lew said in a letter to Speaker John Boehner released Monday that the government is running out of accounting manoeuvres it has used to avoid hitting the US$16.7-trillion borrowing- Posted 14 hours ago
Finance Boss Of Zurich Insurance Found Dead At His HomeThe chief financial officer of Switzerland’s biggest insurer has been found dead at his home. The body of Pierre Wauthier, of Zurich Insurance Group, was discovered on Monday morning in his apartment in Zug, Switzerland. The death of Wauthier, 53, who had dual British and French citizenship, is being investigated by police. A spokesman for- Posted 14 hours ago
Veterans’ Memorial Cross Bombed In OregonA bomb was planted next to a war memorial cross in Coos Bay, Oregon that exploded and damaged the the cement structure. The same monument has been the source of controversy in the past; the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF), a prominent atheist organization which fights against public displays of Christianity, sent a letter to- Posted 14 hours ago
Ret. Major General Jerry Curry: Calling Out Black Leaders For Shorty BeltonBy Major General, USA, (Ret.) Jerry Curry Enough is enough. Last week 88 year old Shorty Belton of Spokane, Washington, a white American and a veteran of World War II fighting in the Pacific, was beaten to death in the streets of Spokane, for no apparent reason, by two black teenagers, a sort of Trayvon- Posted 14 hours ago
Pentagon Labels Founding Fathers, Conservatives As ExtremistsGeorge Washington would not be welcome in the modern U.S. military. Neither would Thomas Jefferson or Benjamin Franklin, according to Department of Defense training documents that depict the Founding Fathers as extremists and conservative organizations as “hate groups.” The Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute training guide was obtained by Judicial Watch under a Freedom of Information Act- Posted 14 hours ago
Report: Russian Ship And Syrian Senior Officials FleeSyrian opposition elements claimed on Monday that a Russian navy ship, which has docked for a long time in the vicinity of the Latakia port, has left its harbor. In addition, it was reported by opposition sources that thousands of family members of top official and figures in the Syria regime escaped to Lebanon and- Posted 14 hours ago
Nonprofit Says It Was Threatened With Arrest For Feeding Raleigh HomelessA spokesman for the Raleigh Police Department says a police officer was enforcing a city ordinance when he reportedly told, without explanation, a group of volunteers Saturday that they could be arrested for serving breakfast to the homeless. Love Wins Ministries posted on its website Saturday that the officer approached them as they were preparing- Posted 14 hours ago
Girl Guide Christians Give In To Secular OathA group of Christian Girl Guides who refused to drop God from their traditional oath have bowed to pressure and agreed to use the new secular promise, despite more than 800 complaints about the oath from Guide members across the country. Guide leaders from Harrogate, North Yorkshire, announced publicly that they would keep the old- Posted 14 hours ago
Iranian Court Rejects American Pastor’s AppealAn Iranian court has rejected an appeal by an American pastor to reduce his eight-year prison sentence, a human rights group representing his family in the US said The decision by a two-judge panel on the Tehran Court of Appeals came Sunday, but the panel refused to provide Saeed Abedini’s lawyer with a copy of- Posted 14 hours ago
Adultery Website Is About To Enter China, Where Demand Is Already HugeThe founder of a dating service promoting adultery is setting his sights on China’s cheating hearts after a controversial launch in Hong Kong. “It is a reality of life, we are an unfaithful society,” said Noel Biderman, the founder of the Ashley Madison “married dating” service. With its slogan “Life is short. Have an affair”,- Posted 15 hours ago
100 Days: Treasury Has Kept Debt Frozen At $16,699,396,000,000The Treasury Department’s latest official daily accounting of the U.S. government’s receipts, expenditures and borrowings–released this afternoon at 4:00 p.m.–indicates that the legally limited debt of the federal government has now been exactly $16,699,396,000,000 for 100 straight days. The Daily Treasury Statement released today showed the status of the government’s accounts as of the close of business- Posted 15 hours ago
Russian Politician Proposes Banning Homosexuals From Donating BloodA Russian politician has reportedly said parliament should ban blood donations from homosexuals, upsetting activists already angry over a nationwide ban on gay “propaganda”. “We will suggest an amendment to the law on (blood) donations on the order of the Health Ministry that returns homosexuals to the list of contra-indicated donors,” Interfax quoted parliamentarian and- Posted 15 hours ago
World’s Largest Geyser Puts On Rare Show At YellowstoneThe world’s largest geyser has exploded to life at Yellowstone National Park for the first time in eight years, sending a high-pressure burst of steamy water 300 feet into the air, a park official said on Thursday. The stream of 160 degree water released on Wednesday night by the so-called Steamboat Geyser lasted for roughly- Posted 15 hours ago
Fukushima Water Handling ‘Like Whack-A-Mole’: MinisterTEPCO’s handling of radioactive water at Fukushima has been like “whack-a-mole”, a minister said Monday after visiting the battered plant, pledging Japan’s government would step up its involvement at the site. The colorful comments come after 300 tonnes of toxic liquid was found to have leaked from one of the hundreds of tanks storing heavily polluted- Posted 15 hours ago
A Rare Snow Falls In Atacama Desert Of ChileResidents of San Pedro de Atacama say the weekend snow was the heaviest in three decades for the desert city, which is 750 miles (1,200 kilometers) north of the capital, Santiago. But local officials say they are concerned the snow and rain that fell over the weekend could cause some rivers to flood as has- Posted 15 hours ago
Activists Want To Name Storms After ‘Global Warming Deniers’Forget Sandy and Katrina. The environmentalists of 350 Action want to start naming hurricanes after Republicans they say deny the existence of manmade global warming. “Since 1954, the World Meteorological Organization has been naming extreme storms after people,” reads the group’s website. “As scientific evidence shows that climate change is creating increasingly frequent and devastating- Posted 15 hours ago
Nasa Astronauts Plan To Lasso An Asteroid, Take Samples From It And Return Them To EarthThe National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has a new mission – to capture an asteroid, send a spaceship to it and collect samples before returning home in less than a month round trip. In an effort to attain a better understanding of asteroids, meteors and other near-space objects, the space exploration arm of the
Tuesday, August 27, 2013
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