CBS Kept Obama Benghazi Clip Secret to Help Re-Election CBS News investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson says CBS News executives kept a clip of President Obama refusing to call the Benghazi attacks terrorism secret until after the election in order to help Obama's re-election.
Obama orders 'mental-health' testing for schoolkids
Using “gun violence” as its cover, the Obama administration has quietly unleashed a cache of federal dollars that will be used for testing students for signs of mental health issues in K-12 schools. Critics say personal information scooped up in the screenings will be logged into databases that will follow the child throughout his or her academic career and beyond.
Poll: Political Parties Coming Together On Value of Gun Ownership
Today, six in 10 Americans back owning a gun for safety, while only 30 percent believe it is dangerous. What’s more, members of every political party are warming to the idea of gun ownership.
What the Bible Really Says About Homosexuality
The testimony of Scripture remains unchanged: The Bible forbids homosexual practice. rather than interpreting their sexuality through the lens of the Scriptures, they are interpreting the Scriptures through the lens of their sexuality. This is a guaranteed path to deception.
Israel Aerospace Industry announces succesful test launch of Barak 8 system
After the successful launch, the system is expected to be fully operational for use by the Navy in the coming months. According to a high-ranking source in the aerospace industry, the system will also be able to intercept advanced P-800 Oniks coastal missiles from Syria, which Israel suspects will also be used by the hands of Hezbollah.
Jewish man narrowly escapes attempted lynch
The man, in his 40s, was visiting friends in the town and was on his way home when he was attacked. "I have worked with people from the Arab sector all my life, I have good relations with so many of them. I cannot believe something like this can happen. It was very scary. I can only hope this doesn't happen again, to anybody."
Libyan city is first outside Syria, Iraq to join ISIS
Vow of allegiance in Darna, known for strict enforcement of Sharia law, gives jihadists a foothold in oil-rich Libya.
Wiccan Priest Opens Alabama City Council Meeting With Invocation to ‘Gentle Goddess, Loving God’
A Wiccan priest opened an Alabama city council meeting with an invocation to the ‘gentle goddess and loving god’ this past week in an effort to make the prayers that open each session more diverse, appeasing church-state separation groups.
Bill Gates’ Dire Warning: World Not Prepared For Future Epidemic
Bill Gates gave this ominous warning. “The world as a whole doesn’t have the preparedness for epidemics, and we’ve had a few flu scares that got us to do some minor things, but not enough. If this thing [Ebola] had been twice as transmissive, we’d be in a lot of trouble, and there are agents that have a real chance of coming on in the next several decades that are far more transmissive than this is.
New rules proposed to put an end 'too big to fail' banks
Global regulators on Monday proposed new rules to ensure that bank creditors rather than taxpayers pick up the bill when a big lender collapses. Mark Carney, chairman of the Financial Stability Board and Bank of England governor, said the plans marked a watershed in ending banks that are too big to be allowed to fail.
Obama urges China to be partner in ensuring world order
Obama said on Monday a successful China was in the interests of the United States and the world but Beijing had to be a partner in underwriting international order, and not undermine it.
CME TARGETS EARTH, AFTER ALL
The CME left the sun traveling approximately 600 km/s (1.3 million mph) If the computer models are correct, the outskirts of the cloud should reach Earth mid-day on Nov. 10th (Universal Time). First contact could spark a G2-class geomagnetic storm on Nov. 10th
CHANCE OF FLARES
Sunspot AR2205 was mostly quiet over the weekend, but it still poses a threat for potent eruptions. NOAA forecasters estimate a 70% chance of M-class flares and a 30% chance of X-flares on Nov. 10th. Any eruptions will likely be geoeffective as the sunspot is directly facing Earth.
The state of the U.S. nuclear arsenal is slowly getting worse … and the government has no plan to fix it
The cracks appear not just in the military forces equipped with nuclear weapons but also in the civilian bureaucracy that controls them, justifies their cost, plans their future and is responsible for explaining a defense policy that says nuclear weapons are at once essential and excessive.
Phivolcs: Magnitude 5.5 quake hits Surigao
A magnitude-5.5 quake rocked the Surigao area in Mindanao shortly after noon Monday, with state seismologists warning of possible aftershocks. It was the second earthquake of at least 4.4 magnitude that Phivolcs monitored in the country in less than six hours. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the quake was tectonic in origin and was recorded at 12:41 p.m.
Nevada Seeing Swarms of Earthquakes
Since summer, Nevada has seen hundreds of earthquakes, some coming in bunched groups called swarms, which appear to have intensified recently. Since July, hundreds of small quakes have hit an area in the Northwest portion of the state near the Sheldon National Wildlife refuge, and they have become even stronger since October 30.
Minor earthquakes rattle parts of NC, Tennessee
Two small earthquakes rattled parts of western North Carolina and Tennessee on Saturday. The Asheville Citizen-Times reported that an earthquake of a 2.4 magnitude on the Richter scale struck northern Madison County in the evening, although no damage or injuries were reported.
Nigeria school assembly in Potiskum hit by blast
At least 47 students have been killed by a suicide bomber at a school assembly in the north-east Nigerian town of Potiskum, police have said. The explosion happened at a boys' science and technical school in the town. Militant group Boko Haram is believed to have caused the blast, police said.
Iran claims it successfully tested drone modeled on US technology
Iran's version of a United States stealth drone it captured three years ago is now fully operational, the Islamic Republic said Monday. General Amir Ali Hajizade, an aerospace commander in Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corp announced at a military ceremony that a video of the successful test flight would soon be released to the public.
Abbas says he seeks to move Arafat shrine to Jerusalem
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said that he intends to move the shrine for late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to Jerusalem, the Bethlehem-based Ma'an News Agency reported Sunday. Speaking during a memorial marking 10 years since Arafat's death in Ramallah, Abbas said Arafat should "remain immortal in the hearts of our people."
Obama says momentum building on 'historic' trans-Pacific trade deal
BEIJING - U.S. President Barack Obama said on Monday he sees momentum building for a Washington-backed free trade agreement in the Asia-Pacific, after arriving in Beijing on the first leg of an eight-day Asia tour.
Netanyahu: Most of the Incitement Comes from the PA
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Sunday once again reiterated that incitement is behind much of the tension in Jerusalem and the region, and that the bulk of this incitement comes from the Palestinian Authority (PA) and its chairman, Mahmoud Abbas.
Arctic Blast via Polar Vortex to Chill 42 US States
As the polar vortex gets displaced to the south, the door will open for arctic air to plunge over the most of the United States as the new week progresses.Only the Southwest, Hawaii, Alaska and South Florida will escape the grip of the upcoming arctic blast that the polar vortex can be blamed for.
Theater of Nonsense: Scurrilous Liberal Mission to Discredit All Opposition
One of the most regrettable—and perhaps wholly inevitable elements of today’s life in the West is the wretched mission of liberals to eradicate any trace of intellectual disagreement with their convictions. In every conceivable arena, any non-conformist theories against progressive shibboleths—such as the current war over global warming—receive the most disrespectful and wholesale trashing.
The United States Congressional Elections: The Significance for Israel
President Barack Obama’s first six years in the White House were marked by personal strain between him and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and disagreements between them on key issues, above all the Israeli-Palestinian political process and the Iranian nuclear issue. While the two leaders have met many times, sharp disagreements have continued to cloud their relations. The coming two years will severely test the relations between the two leaders and US-Israel bilateral relations, due to the complexity of the issues on the agenda and the results of the recent American elections, which gave the Republican Party control of both houses of Congress.
A decade after dying, Arafat still divides Israelis
Jerusalem - For most Israelis, the late Yasser Arafat with his trademark black-and-white keffiyeh represents the embodiment of the "arch-terrorist." But a minority in Israel look back fondly on the former Palestinian leader -- who died 10 years ago this week -- as the man who dared to sign an peace accord with the Jewish state.
Iran, U.S., EU nuclear talks in Oman seen going to second day
MUSCAT - Iran, the United States and European Union will hold an unscheduled second day of talks on Monday on disagreements blocking resolution of a dispute over Tehran's nuclear program, a U.S. official and Iranian state media said.
Worst east Ukraine shelling for month; ceasefire looks in doubt
DONETSK Ukraine - East Ukraine's rebel stronghold Donetsk was pummeled on Sunday by the heaviest shelling in a month, and the OSCE said it spotted an armored column of troops without insignia in rebel territory that Kiev said proved Moscow had sent reinforcements.
From Occupy Central to Tibet, China sees 'hostile foreign forces'
As pro-democracy demonstrations in Hong Kong stretch into their second month, the Chinese government is in no doubt about who is behind them: “Hostile foreign forces," led by the United States.
Iraqi military reach Baiji; Baghdadi's fate unclear
BAGHDAD - Iraqi military forces reached the center of the northern city of Baiji on Sunday in an effort to break an Islamic State siege of the country's biggest refinery, triggering fierce clashes with the militants, according to an army colonel and a witness.
Five nuclear engineers murdered near Damascus
Beirut - Unknown assailants killed five nuclear engineers Sunday while they were on a bus just north of Damascus near the research centre where they worked, a monitor said on Sunday.
Iran’s Khamenei: No Cure for Barbaric Israel but Annihilation
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei took to Twitter to call for the destruction of Israel over the weekend. He first started with a string of vitriolic anti-Israel tweets that called for the destruction of the “barbaric, wolflike & infanticidal regime of Israel.”