NY Mayor de Blasio Heckled at Police Graduation Ceremony
Mayor Bill de Blasio on Monday drew heckles and boos as well as cheers when he addressed graduating police cadets on Monday, two days after thousands of uniformed officers turned their backs on him at a slain policeman's funeral.
This Era of Low-Cost Oil Is Different
The world is experiencing much more than a temporary dip in oil prices. Because of a change in the supply model, this is a fundamental shift that will likely have long-lasting effects.
Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant unplugs from the grid for good this week
VERNON, VT -- The 620-megawatt Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant will disconnect from the regional power grid this week after four decades of producing electricity, according to the company's decommissioning website.
Michele Bachmann Accuses Obama Of Assisting Anti-Israel Jihadists
She said she has watched Obama, “at every turn, cut the legs of our ally, Israel, and in fact embrace and lift up the agenda of Islamic jihad.” Obama’s ostensibly enthusiastic support of Iran’s leader as that nation reportedly moves toward the creation of a nuclear weapon, Bachmann said, is a further cause for serious concern.
Judge Jeanine: De Blasio Is A Coward And A Bully With Blood On His Shoes
Instead of uniting the country during these volatile times since the Michael Brown incident in Ferguson, the leaders, Judge Jeanine said, have been stoking the flames of hatred. (Video)
It's Not the Zombie Apocalypse, but Killer Superbugs Could Be on the Way
..drug-resistant superbugs are on pace to kill an extra 10 million people per year worldwide and cost up to $100 trillion by 2050 if global governments and pharmaceutical drug developers don't focus on battling these evolving diseases.
Egypt reports 10th bird flu death this year
The death occurred last week in the southern province of Aswan, health ministry spokesman Hossam Abdel Ghaffar said. In the capital, a 42-year-old man was diagnosed and quarantined on December 26, the 25th case of bird flu in the country this year but the first infection reported in Cairo.
Last Jew in Pakistan Fights for Jewish Cemetery
Engineer Fishel (Faisal) Benkhald, a Pakistani who according to his own estimation is the last Jew in the Muslim country, is struggling to preserve the Jewish cemetery in Karachi, Pakistan's largest city with a population of 20 million.
NYPD cop slayings: Never forget who's to blame
Officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu were executed by a black Muslim thug in Brooklyn, New York, in retaliation for the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner. During the funeral, hundreds of police turned their backs on NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio as he spoke. Why? Because those officers know de Blasio has blood on his hands.
Three dead, thousands flee as storm hits Mindanao
BUTUAN, Philippines — Three people were killed, one is missing and thousands fled their homes as a tropical storm battered the southern Philippines with strong winds and heavy rain, officials said Monday. The storm, locally named “Seniang” and with winds of up to 80 kilometers (50 miles) per hour, slammed into the main southern island of Mindanao before dawn, then crossed to the central islands, the state weather buerau said.
Magnitude 6.1 quake rocks Sulu Sea off Zamboanga City, aftershocks expected
MANILA, Philippines―A magnitude 6.1 earthquake hit the Sulu Sea off Zamboanga City late Monday afternoon with aftershocks expected, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said.
COMET LOVEJOY BRIGHTENS
It's official. Comet Lovejoy (C/2014 Q2) is now a naked-eye object. Science journalist and longtime comet watcher Mariano Ribas of the Planetario de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, reports that as of last night "Comet Lovejoy has reached magnitude 5.0, just above the threshold for human visibility from dark-sky sites.
Auschwitz anniversary a reminder that anti-Semitism at levels not seen since WWII
Ronald S. Lauder told Reuters in an interview anti-Semitism had reached levels not seen since World War Two, driven by Islamist extremists using hatred of Jews as a way to attack Israel, and by far-right nationalists in Europe.
Anti-Police Protesters Plan to Disrupt New Year’s Eve Celebrations
Anti-police protesters are planning to disrupt New Year’s Eve celebrations at major metropolitan sites. The website Stop Mass Incarceration calls upon activists to not allow New Years Eve 2015 “to go down because business as usual in Amerikkka includes wanton police murder of Black people.”
Racial unrest in Ferguson and New York a Communist Revolution
The last words of Eric Garner: “I can’t breathe” were taken directly from his lips, plagiarized and put into use by the Revolutionary Communist Party USA. The overnight outbreak of violence in Ferguson and New York, including looting and burning in Ferguson, is not a spontaneous grassroots community response to the Grand Jury decisions not to indict Michael Brown and Eric Garner. It is being fully scripted and orchestrated by the Revolutionary Communist Party USA as a beefed-up “orientation for making revolution in the imperialist countries such as the U.S.”
Peace on Earth? I Don’t Think So
Around the world millions of Christians joined together to celebrate the birth of Jesus and to pray for “peace on Earth, good will toward men.” The 2015 World Almanac puts the number of Christians in the world at 2,347,171,000, by far the largest group sharing the same spiritual beliefs. It puts the number of Muslims at 1,633,173,000. Of the seven billion residents of planet Earth, more than six billion identify themselves as part of one of the many different faiths, to include Hindu, Buddhist, and others.
Pope Francis's New Year's Resolution: Tackle Climate Change
Pope Francis has rocked both the religious and secular worlds this year by eschewing papal security, embracing the poor and reaching out to gay and lesbian people. And it won’t end there. For 2015 he’s got a whopping New Year’s resolution: Tackle climate change.
Indonesian rescue official: Missing plane likely 'at the bottom of the sea'
Indonesia's top rescue official says authorities believe the missing AirAsia jet is likely at the bottom of the sea, based on radar data from the plane's last contact. "(Because) the coordinate that was given to us and the evolution from the calculation point of the flight track is at sea, our early conjecture is that the plane is in the bottom of the sea," said Marsdya Tni Hendry Bambang, head of Indonesia's national search and rescue agency.
The Interview makes $15m in online release
Controversial Sony film The Interview has become the number one online movie ever released by the studio just four days after its release on 24 December.
Turkey backs Palestinians over holy site tensions
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Sunday that Turkey stands behind Palestinians in their efforts to oppose what he called Israeli attempts to "reduce the Islamic character" of Jerusalem. Davutoglu was speaking to reporters in the central Turkish city of Konya, a day after meeting with exiled Hamas chief Khaled Mashaal.
Hamas bars Gaza children from Israel trip
Gaza's Hamas rulers prevented a group of children from entering Israel on Sunday for a postwar conciliatory trip meant to foster peace, Hamas and organizers said. The 37 children, most of whom have lost a parent in fighting between Hamas and Israel, were to enter Israel on Sunday and spend a week visiting Jewish and Arab communities and a zoo. They were also going to travel to the West Bank for a meeting with the Palestinian president.
Unauthorized Muslim Construction on Temple Mount
Unauthorized work being done on the Temple Mount floor was filmed today (December 28, 2014). The work, which included the breaking up of the Temple Mount surface by jackhammer, was ordered by the Muslim Waqf.