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UPS : Stops Funding Boy Scouts Due to Group’s Anti - Gay Policies
Nov 13th, 2012
Daily NewsGlobal Post
Categories: Today's Headlines;Moral Decline

The UPS Foundation has decided to stop giving charitable grants to the Boy Scouts of America until the group lifts its ban on gays and lesbians joining the organization as scouts and scout leaders, the Associated Press reported.

The UPS Foundation donated $150,000 to the Boy Scouts in 2010, according to the AP.

This past July, following a two-year review of its rules, a Boy Scouts committee chose to continue the group’s policy of excluding gay members, prompting criticism from civil rights groups and some current and former scouts.

U.S. 'To Overtake Saudi Oil in Five Years’
Nov 13th, 2012
Daily NewsThe Telegraph - Emma Rowley
Categories: Today's Headlines;Contemporary Issues

No Letup in Rocket Fire from Gaza
Nov 13th, 2012
Daily Newsdebkafile
Categories: The Nation Of Israel;War

Monday evening, Day 3 of the Palestinian missile offensive from Gaza, five Grad missiles were fired at Beersheba, Netivot and Ofakim. Two were intercepted by Iron Dome. No casualties. Earlier Monday, a Grad rocket wrecked a house in Netivot, causing 26 shock victims. Next came three mortar shells exploding on empty ground in the Eshkol district and 5 rockets aimed at Ashkelon, the town and industrial area. Two were intercepted by Iron Dome. Overnight, the Israeli Air Force struck three empty buildings in the Gaza Strip. Popular clamor is building up for the government to approve a major military operation against Palestinian terror from Gaza.

Let the Headlines Speak
Nov 13th, 2012
Daily NewsFrom the Internet
Categories: Today's Headlines;Contemporary Issues

NATO to ‘defend Turkey’ over Syria as border attacks intensify
NATO will defend alliance member Turkey, which struck back after mortar rounds fired from Syria landed inside its border, the alliance’s Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said at a meeting in Prague on Monday. “NATO as an organization will do what it takes to protect and defend Turkey, our ally. '

PM: Damascus should not test Turkey’s patience
Turkey will take decisive steps against Damascus if the Syrian army violates its border, TRT Haber TV channel quotes Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan as saying on Tuesday. Erdogan said that Ankara will answer in the most rigorous way to the border violations by the Syrian army, therefore it would be better for Damascus not to test Turkey's patience.

Deadly fighting near Damascus, Syria border town bombed
Fierce clashes between Syrian regime forces and rebels near Damascus on Tuesday left 10 soldiers and a rebel dead, while warplanes again bombed the strategic border town of Ras al-Ain, a watchdog said. The fighting in the east Damascus suburb of Ghuta came after rebels launched an attack on public buildings in the area, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

Turkish President Warns of Syria's Chemical Threat
President Abdullah Gül has expressed his country's concerns about the possibility of Damascus using chemical weapons against Turkey in an interview with The FT, mentioning Patriot missiles as a deterrent solution against such a threat.“It is known that Syria has chemical weapons and they have old Soviet delivery systems, so if there is in some eventuality some sort of madness in this respect and some action is taken, contingency planning has to be put in place and this is something NATO is doing,” he said.

Earthquake: 3.0 quake strikes near Baker
According to the USGS, the epicenter was 24 miles from Tecopa , 32 miles from Shoshone , 50 miles from Pahrump, Nev. and 75 miles from Las Vegas.

Gold and the Eurozone crisis
Using gold as collateral is not without precedent, both in Europe and further afield in emerging economies. The European Commission itself suggested in a recent Green Paper on Stability Bonds that were Europe to move towards fiscal integration and issue a common euro bond, the credit quality of that bond could be enhanced by collateralising it with gold.

Total Solar Eclipse Webcasts: Watch Tuesday's Sun Event Here
The moon will block the sun Tuesday in a total solar eclipse, but only for spectators in parts of Australia and in the southern Pacific Ocean. For the rest of us, several webcasts will be available to remotely watch the celestial alignment of the sun and moon.

Manitoba gets up to 25.5 inches of snow
For Winnipeg, it was the biggest one-day snowfall since Dec. 30-31, 2006, when 12 1/2 inches fell. The city receives just under 8 1/2 inches in a typical November.

PA sets U.N. vote on upgrading status
The Palestinian Authority will call on the United Nations this month to recognize a Palestinian state as part of a status upgrade, Palestinian officials said. If the General Assembly votes Nov. 29 to upgrade the PA to a non-member "observer state" from a non-member "observer entity," then the PA, which governs parts of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, will be ready to restart peace talks with Israel, President Mahmoud Abbas said.

Venice 'high water' floods 70% of city
Tourists attached plastic bags to their legs or stripped off to take a dip in St Mark's Square in Venice on Sunday as rising sea waters surged through the lagoon city. High water measuring 1.49 metres (5ft) above the normal level of the Adriatic sea came with bad weather that swept Italy at the weekend, causing floods in historic cities including Vicenza as well in the region of Tuscany 250 miles further south.

Alaska’s Cleveland Volcano puffs out some ash
Earth-orbiting satellites detected a small ash cloud from Mount Cleveland – otherwise known as Cleveland Volcano – which makes up a large part of a remote and uninhabited island in the east-central Aleutian Island chain. The satellites took note of the small eruption at 11:47 a.m. local time in Alaska (20:47 UTC). The ash was drifting slowly toward the east-northeast from the volcano’s summit. Scientists keep an eye on this volcano, because it can be hazardous to aircraft.

6.0 magnitude earthquake strikes the southern coastline of Chile
A shallow 6.0 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Aisen, Chile at the shallow depth of 9.7 km (6.0 miles). No tsunami warnings were issued for the region, and there have been no reports of damage.

Israel fires back after month-long attacks from Syria
In the first such operation since the 1973 war, the Israel Army fired a precision-guided anti-tank missile toward a Syrian Army position in the Golan Heights. The Israeli fire on Nov. 11 came after numerous incidents of fire toward Israeli positions.

Arab League divided over support of nascent Syrian coalition
The Arab League fell short of unanimous support for the new Syrian opposition coalition. The body still lacks full recognition, some Arab nations reluctant to back the uprising against President Assad, whom they still view as a legitimate ruler.

Group turns to social media to rally support for Papa John's amid liberal backlash
Wetter is part of an upstart group called Rebooting America that is proposing that Friday be a national day of appreciation for the pizza chain, whose chief executive officer is being attacked for saying employees’ hours might be cut to cover the cost of implementing their health insurance under ObamaCare.

Magnitude 6.4 earthquake strikes Gulf of Alaska
JUNEAU, Alaska - An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.4 struck in the Gulf of Alaska on Monday - the largest quake in that region in nearly 25 years. No tsunami warnings were issued, and there were no reports of damage despite tremors being felt across a large part of southern Alaska. A series of aftershocks also were recorded.

Angela Merkel sticks to austerity script in Portugal as revolt builds
The flying visit came as trade unions led a protest march through Lisbon “in defence of national sovereignty” and the Left Bloc in parliament said its top priority is to “bring down the government” and forge a salvation front.

Texas Petition to Secede Reaches Threshold for Obama Comment
"Peacefully grant the State of Texas to withdraw from the United States of America and create its own NEW government." The petition appeared on a section of the White House website called "We the People" that invites users with a U.S. zip code to submit or sign petitions about policy changes they would like to see. A petition must reach 25,000 signatures within 30 days for the administration to comment on it.

North Korea 'carries out fresh missile equipment tests'
Since the embarrassing flop in April, the communist regime appears to have carried out at least two tests of large motors needed for rockets and worked on a launch platform, the US-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University said. ...Some analysts believe that a North Korean rocket, if successfully developed, could eventually reach the range to hit the United States.

Iran launches ‘biggest ever’ military air drills amid rising tensions with Israel, U.S.
Iran launched military drills across half the country on Monday, warning it would act against aggressors less than a week after Washington accused Iranian warplanes of firing on a U.S. drone. The manoeuvres take place this week across 850,000 square kilometres of Iran’s northeast, east, and southeast regions, Iranian media reported.

David Petraeus scandal widens to include Barack Obama's cabinet
Eric Holder, the head of the Justice Department, was reportedly told in the late summer that FBI agents were investigating the former CIA director's sexual relationship with Paula Broadwell, his biographer. The information was kept inside the Justice Department until last week, even though FBI agents had already discovered classified information on Mrs Broadwell's computer.

Destroy the idols,’ Egyptian jihadist calls for removal of Sphinx, Pyramids
An Egyptian jihad leader, with self-professed links to the Taliban, called for the “destruction of the Sphinx and the Giza Pyramids in Egypt,” drawing ties between the Egyptian relics and Buddha statues, local media reported this week. Murgan Salem al-Gohary, an Islamist leader twice-sentenced under former President Hosni Mubarak for advocating violence, called on Muslims to remove such “idols.”

Thousands gather for Australia solar eclipse
Tens of thousands have gathered in northern Australia in the hope of glimpsing a rare total solar eclipse. The eclipse is expected to plunge parts of Queensland into darkness for just over two minutes on Wednesday morning. However, onlookers fear cloudy weather will dash their chances of seeing the phenomenon.

Syria crisis: Arab League welcomes new opposition bloc
The Arab League has welcomed the formation of a new coalition of Syrian opposition forces, and has called on other opposition parties to join it. The National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces was unveiled in Doha on Sunday. The Arab League stopped short of giving the group full recognition as the sole representative of Syrian people.

Abu Qatada released from prison
Muslim cleric Abu Qatada has been freed on bail after a UK court ruled he might not get a fair trial if deported to Jordan to face terrorism charges. He was released from Long Lartin prison, in Worcestershire, after seven years in British custody. On Monday, a UK court decided that evidence obtained by the torture of others could be used at his trial in Jordan over alleged bomb plots.

US election: Unhappy Americans ask to secede from US
More than 100,000 Americans have petitioned the White House to allow their states to secede from the US, after President Barack Obama's re-election. The appeals were filed on the White House's We the People website. Most of the 20 states with petitions voted for Republican Mitt Romney.

EU to 'stop the clock' on airline carbon tax
The European Commission is proposing to suspend the enforcement of its controversial aviation tax for one year in a bid to allow dissenting non-EU countries to formulate an alternative global solution. ...ETS requires all airlines flying into or out of the EU to pay into a greenhouse gas emission allowance-trading scheme - except those countries which already have a similar system at home.

Civil Unrest! 18 States Petition the Obama White House to Withdraw from Union
Nov 13th, 2012
Daily NewsNTEB
Categories: Today's Headlines;Contemporary Issues

To date, citizens of 18 states have petitioned the White House for consideration of a peaceful withdrawal from the United States. That’s right, thousands of Americans have already signed petitions at whitehouse.gov asking President Obama to allow them to peacefully secede from the union.

The states and their updated totals are: Louisiana, 10,296; Texas, 9196; Florida, 2392; Alabama, 2492; North Carolina, 2434; Kentucky, 1934; Mississippi, 1935; Indiana, 1951; North Dakota, 881; Montana, 1538; Colorado, 1805Oregon, 1594; New Jersey, 1492; New York, 1727; South Carolina, 117; Arkansas, 86; Georgia, 131; Missouri, 149.

The ability to create the petitions is something that the Obama administration promised and delivered on because:

“We want to hear from you. If a petition gets enough support, White House staff will review it, ensure it’s sent to the appropriate policy experts, and issue an official response.”

Any petition requires 25,000 signatures for consideration. As you can see, in just a few days, Louisiana is halfway to the necessary total. In order to sign the petition, users simply need to create a whitehouse.gov account and click “sign the petition.”

Before anyone begins to cry treason or some other fear tactic, this is nothing more than an activist tactic (albeit a very dramatic one) attempting to garner government attention for the state of the electorate and our nation.

As whitehouse.gov clearly reminds us:

“The right to petition your government is guaranteed by the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. We the People provides a new way to petition the Obama Administration to take action on a range of important issues facing our country.”

No one is threatening to secede or to wage war against the United States of America. It is a petition, plain and simple. But as they say, desperate times call for desperate measures, and clearly some Americans are feeling the need to make a dramatic noise.

While Louisiana currently leads the signature count, Texas is a very close second. The Texas petition reads:

“The US continues to suffer economic difficulties stemming from the federal government’s neglect to reform domestic and foreign spending. The citizens of the US suffer from blatant abuses of their rights such as the NDAA, the TSA, etc. Given that the state of Texas maintains a balanced budget and is the 15th largest economy in the world, it is practically feasible for Texas to withdraw from the union, and to do so would protect it’s citizens’ standard of living and re-secure their rights and liberties in accordance with the original ideas and beliefs of our founding fathers which are no longer being reflected by the federal government.”

I have to admit that this move fascinates me, and leaves me wondering what may be next. Certainly there have been whispers and open talk among political pundits via the news media that a civil war is imminent. Retired Army Reserve Colonel Lawrence Sellin writes, ”America is on the verge of fragmentation and civil conflict because its citizens have lost control of their government and lost faith in its political institutions.”

There is no doubt that America is at a crossroads. Just how we navigate this intersection could well define the path of the world forever