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Has Israel already conceded East Jerusalem to the Palestinians before negotiations have even begun?

Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak made the following statement just this week: "West Jerusalem and 12 Jewish neighborhoods that are home to 200,000 residents will be ours. The Arab neighborhoods in which close to a quarter million Palestinians live will be theirs."

Barack Obama says that he is optimistic his team would succeed in jumpstarting direct talks aimed at ending Israel’s "occupation" and leading to the formation of a new Palestinian state.

Israeli troops sealed off swaths of the southern West Bank today in the aftermath of the killing of four Israeli settlers in a drive-by ambush.

Debka is reporting that on August 30, Hezbollah put its forces on a state of war alert and issued a partial call-up of reservists.

A Florida group has caught on video an Orlando mosque in the act of raising money for a supporter of Hamas.

Hurricane Earl is a powerful Category 3 storm packing 125-mph winds, and coastal residents in its path need to take action now, FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate told reporters on Thursday.

A well connected to an oil and gas production platform caught on fire in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday, engulfing the vessel in flames about 100 miles off the central coast of Louisiana and forcing 13 people overboard, Governor Bobby Jindal said.

A very large amount of U.S. government debt is due to rollover this fall.

Are government finances so bad in Greece at this point that default is only a matter of time?

As depositors thronged branches of Afghanistan's biggest bank, Mahmoud Karzai, the brother of the Afghan president and a major shareholder in beleaguered Kabul Bank called on Thursday for intervention by the United States to head off a financial meltdown.

The U.S. housing market is already in a double-dip recession, Moody’s Analytics chief economist Mark Zandi told CNBC on Monday.

China's auto sales jumped 55.7 percent in August from a year earlier, boosted by Beijing's new subsidies scheme for energy-saving vehicles, state media said Thursday.

Are U.S. investors actually hoping for gridlock in Washington D.C.?

Now even some "conservative Republicans" want to impose a carbon tax on the nation.

The number of "preppers" in the United States is growing very rapidly.

Justice Department civil rights lawyers filed suit against Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona on Thursday after talks collapsed on a deal to provide federal investigators with requested documents.

It has now been discovered that in its 1984 World Development Report, the World Bank threatened nations who are slow in implementing the Bank’s "population policies" with "drastic steps, less compatible with individual choice and freedom".

A lawsuit has been launched against the sheriff's office in Marin County, Calif., over an episode in which deputies barged uninvited into a 64-year-old man's home and shot him three times with a Taser, screaming "stop resisting" while the incapacitated victim writhed in pain on the floor.

Is there no surveillance power too intrusive or unaccountable for our political class provided the word “terrorism” is invoked to “justify” those powers.

The mentally and morally “unfit” should be sterilized, Professor David Marsland, a sociologist and health expert, said this weekend on BBC Radio.

Al Gore’s Church of Climatism has claimed a new glorious martyr. His name is James Lee – the Discovery channel attempted eco-suicide-bomber – and if he’d had his way he wouldn’t have been the only one who ended up in the great recycling bin in the sky.

Southern Hemisphere sea ice is now approaching record high levels.

Russia has already seen it’s first snow accumulation of the season.

The Christian Medical Association blasted the Obama administration Tuesday for trying to lift an injunction blocking the federal funding of embryonic stem cell research.

The Obama administration has shifted more than $1 billion out of its nuclear, biological, and chemical defense programs to underwrite a new White House priority on vaccine development.

Two New York lawmakers want farmers to vaccinate their chickens against salmonella.

The aluminum content of a range of the most popular brands of infant formulas remains high, and particularly so for a product designed for preterm infants and a soya-based product designed for infants with cow's milk intolerances and allergies, researchers have found.

A recent study published online in the journal Biology of Reproductionfurther reveals the disruptive nature of bisphenol-A (BPA) in gene expression. According to the data, pregnant mice exposed to BPA experience significant genetic changes in their fetal ovaries, indicating that the next generation of their offspring will likely be born with serious genetic defects.

A product survey conducted by The Independentfound that the toxic chemical bisphenol-A (BPA) is used in 18 on the 20 top-selling canned food products in the United Kingdom.

Researchers from the University of Liverpool have discovered new benefits to eating both broccoli and plantains -- two high-fiber foods -- that may help people with Crohn's disease and other digestive disorders.

According to a study by the California Integrated Waste Management board, 63 percent of the average supermarket's waste stream is food. This comes out to 3,000 pounds per store per year.

Time Magazine has published an article with this stunning headline: "Will Human Cloning Cause the Next Financial Crisis?"

A large percentage of Americans believe in ghosts and UFOs.

Indonesia's Mount Sinabung continued erupting yesterday, two days after it sprang back into life after over 400 years of inactivity.

Millions of killer giant squid are not only devouring vast amounts of fish.  There are disturbing reports that they have now even started attacking humans.

Righthaven LLC has struck a deal with Arkansas-based WEHCO Media to expand its copyright litigation campaign, in which bloggers and aggregators across the country are being sued on allegations of infringement.

The U.K. has seen a 24 percent increase in the number of homes infested by bedbugs.

Pest control company Terminex released a list Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2010 of the 15 most bedbug-infested cities, and New York, Philadelphia and Detroit have scratched their way to the top.

Lastly, world famous physicist Stephen Hawking argues that God did not create the universe in a new book that aims to banish a divine creator from physics.

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Hurricane Earl is headed toward the east coast of the United States, driving tourists from North Carolina vacation islands and threatening damaging winds and waves up and down the Atlantic coast.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin threatened Monday to launch a crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations as he gave fresh hints that he planned to return to the Kremlin as President in 2012.

Ahead of start of direct peace talks in Washington, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak says that Jerusalem's Arab neighborhoods will be part of a Palestinian state and that a "special regime" will govern Jerusalem's holy sites.

It is being reported that Israel is considering construction of an underwater gas pipeline to export natural gas to Europe and Greece.

Taiwan plans to deploy its own cruise missiles by the end of this year, a lawmaker and military pundit said Tuesday, reflecting continued tension with China despite warming ties.

The Chinese navy has begun artillery exercises in the Yellow Sea.  This comes just days before the U.S. and South Korea are scheduled to hold similar exercises there.

General Motors announced on Wednesday that U.S. sales in August slumped 24.9% to 185,176 vehicles from 246,479 in August 2009.

Ford reported an 11% drop in sales from a year ago.

At 14.3%, the state of Nevada now has the highest unemployment rate in the nation.

For many Americans, a new job means lower pay.

It is becoming increasingly difficult to "get by" in America.

The Obama administration is “taking the first steps to confiscate retirement dollars,” according to Dr. Jerome Corsi who predicts that the end result will be retirees with 401(k) plans holding near-worthless government debt “that will be paid off in a devalued currency worth … pennies on the dollar.”

An economist at the nonpartisan Hudson Institute says that if House and Senate Democrats pass the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) -- known as the “card check bill” -- in this Congress, it would create a “ponzi scheme” environment.

Thanks to a new SEC rule, unions and human-rights advocates can now vote their own candidates onto a company's board of directors.

The Federal Reserve on Tuesday approved a proposal by Chinese sovereign wealth fund China Investment Corp. to buy up to 10 percent of the voting shares of Morgan Stanley.

It is being reported that a Russian mini-submarine may have found billions of pounds worth of lost gold in a Siberian lake.

A group of black conservatives were explaining their affiliation with the Tea Party movement during the “Restoring Honor” event in Washington DC. A couple of liberal counter-protesters began challenging their political and religious beliefs and asked why they affiliated with Christianity, a “white man’s religion”.

A suburban school district near Chicago has become one of the first in the nation to begin using GPS technology to track schoolchildren riding buses to and from school each day.

The bodies of poor and indigent people for whom Des Moines County would be required to pick up the bill for burial or cremation will soon be offered up to medical schools to use for educational purposes before being laid to rest at public expense.

This fall San Francisco will bar unvaccinated kids from school for three weeks (the disease’s incubation period) after each reported case of whooping cough.

A lot of "conspiracy theories" actually turn out to be quite true in the end.

The Washington Post has published a story with this startling headline: "Glenn Beck's Generic God".

In the U.K., the public is being urged to back a campaign to scrap a 300-year-old law which prohibits Catholics from ascending the throne.

Six in 10 American “Millennials” – those born between 1980 and 1991 – see nothing wrong with two people of the same gender getting married.

Lastly, just what kind of freedom did we bring to Iraq?  The gospel cannot be preached openly in Iraq today, but in Baghdad markets gigantic piles of pornography from America are openly for sale.

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The Palestinian Authority religious affairs minster is warning of war if Jerusalem is not "returned" to "its owners".

Benjamin Netanyahu has reassured his right-wing Likud bloc in Israel’s ruling coalition that he will not bow to territorial concessions in direct peace talks with the Palestinians.

There are reports that Israel will receive an arms package as compensation from the United States in the event that it reaches a peace agreement with the Palestinians that entails significant concessions.

Iran will target Israel's Dimona reactor in a retaliatory attack if the Islamic regime is hit by an Israeli or US air strike, a Iranian official told the Arabic-language newspaper Asharq al-Awsat on Monday.

Four Israelis -- including a pregnant woman -- were killed in a shooting near Hebron in the West Bank on Tuesday, Israeli medical sources and the army said.

Twenty-one American troops have been killed in Afghanistan since Friday in one of the bloodiest periods of the summer.

Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi called on Europe to convert to Islam during a trip to Italy on Monday.

Two Yemeni men arriving in Amsterdam on a flight from Chicago were arrested Monday on suspicion of preparing a terrorist attack after peculiar items turned up in their luggage.

A proposed $60 billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia, one of the largest-ever U.S. weapons sales, marks the consolidation of America as the kingdom's main arms supplier after years of strain following 9/11.

The U.S. has broadened financial sanctions against North Korea, freezing the American assets of four North Korean citizens and eight firms in part to punish it for the sinking of a South Korean warship.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-il is reportedly calling for the reopening of six-party international nuclear talks.

It is being reported that North Korea's ambassador to Cuba says that, if attacked, his country would respond with nuclear weapons.

Vladimir Putin has hinted that he will seek re-election as Russian president - raising the prospect that he could remain the country's head of state until the age of 71.

While the world focuses on the flood-ravaged Indus River valley, a quiet geopolitical crisis is unfolding in the Himalayan borderlands of northern Pakistan, where Islamabad is handing over de facto control of the strategic Gilgit-Baltistan region in the northwest corner of disputed Kashmir to China.

Closer contacts between retired Taiwanese generals and Chinese government authorities have sparked concerns in Washington.

With growing instances of affluent Chinese parents flouting the one-child policy norm, the Beijing government has warned people that the second child will not be given citizenship if parents failed to register them before November 1.

A top British codebreaker found mysteriously dead last week in his flat had worked with the NSA and British intelligence to intercept email messages that helped convict would-be bombers in the U.K., according to a news report.

A whole host of statistics that have been released recently show that the middle class in America is shrinking rapidly.

The FDIC listed 829 U.S. banks with a total of $403 billion in assets as "problem" banks during the second quarter of 2010.  That was up significantly from 775 problem banks in the first quarter of 2010.

U.S. Rep. Ron Paul says that he plans to introduce legislation next year to force an audit of U.S. holdings of gold.

Japan has launched a fresh monetary and fiscal boost to shore up its faltering recovery and stem the slide into deflation.

Do U.S. home prices have even further to fall?

The city of Miami is so broke that it's forcing employees to take pay cuts, even though they're under contract.

Several school systems in Alabama have had to take out private loans just to make it through the year.

It has gotten even more difficult for law school graduates in America to find jobs.

According to the Pew Economic Policy Group, the recent financial crisis has cost the American people $3.4 trillion in lost real estate, $7.4 trillion in lost stock wealth, and 5.5 million jobs.

Are more Americans than ever living in fear because the American Dream is evaporating right before their very eyes?

Less than two years ago, Democrats received 70 percent of the donations from Wall Street; since June, when the financial regulation bill was nearing passage, Republicans were receiving 68 percent of the donations, according to an analysis by the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan research group.

A new Gallup poll released Monday shows Republicans with a record 10-point edge over Democrats on the "generic ballot" test — the question of whether voters prefer a Democratic or Republican congressional candidate. It’s the largest GOP polling edge at this stage in the 68 years of the generic ballot poll.

With a number of polls showing a sustained level of opposition to the Democrats’ health care reform efforts more than five months after passage, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said the Obama administration has “a lot of reeducation to do” heading into the midterms.

Would Barack Obama's Environmental Protection Agency really force Americans to pay a tax on "rainwater runoff" from homes and small businesses?

The words "homeland security" are found 41 times in the text of the bill S. 510, also known as the Food Safety Modernization Act.  Unprecedented powers over food are set to be handed over to Homeland Security if the bill is not stopped.

One of the gun dealers at Austin's Gun Show has been sentenced to 6 months at a federal work camp for selling a weapon to an undocumented immigrant.

An investigation has found that foreign diplomats are abusing their immunity from prosecution to keep domestic workers as slaves in Britain.

Hurricane Earl may prompt evacuations along the U.S. Atlantic coast even if it does not make landfall, since it may come close enough to trigger storm surge flooding and high winds, officials said Tuesday.

Unusually cold temperatures in part of Bolivia's tropical region hit freshwater species hard this year, killing an estimated 6 million fish and thousands of alligators, turtles and river dolphins.

Aircraft have had to be diverted and more than 21,000 people evacuated after an Indonesian volcano erupted for the second day in a row.

The worst floods in Pakistan's history already have swept through the nation's most important breadbasket provinces, destroying cotton and corn crops, vegetables and orchards, and leaving many people in need of emergency food.

North America as a whole has experienced uncharacteristically good weather for the last 18 consecutive years, which, combined with improvements in agriculture, has resulted in near-record harvests.  So what happens when the good weather stops?

Massive swarms of crop-destroying locusts have invaded some 40 villages in eastern Guinea-Bissau and are heading north towards neighbouring Senegal.

Does a "social justice" mental framework focusing on multiculturalism, an absence of competition, and a general loathing for America and distrust of traditional American values now dominate in American public schools?

The State Department included a Justice Department lawsuit against Arizona's immigration law in a United Nations human rights report to show how U.S. rule of law can be an example to the world, a State Department spokesman said Monday.

A former pastor confessed to taking out million dollar life insurance policies on a blind man, then ordering him killed.

Barack Obama's top education official urged government employees to attend a rally that the Rev. Al Sharpton organized to counter a larger conservative event on the Mall.

Glenn Beck says that most Americans do not recognize Barack Obama's Christianity.

A few weeks before organizing a massive rally on the Mall that had the feel of a religious revival, Glenn Beck sought the blessing of some of the country's most prominent conservative Christian leaders.

It is being reported that Prince Harry is now "hooked on yoga".

After a suspected arson and reports of gunshots at an Islamic center in Tennessee over the weekend, nearby mosques have hired security guards, installed surveillance cameras and requested the presence of federal agents at prayer services.

Lastly, a new poll has found that 71 percent of New Yorkers want the developers of an Islamic center and mosque near ground zero to voluntarily move the project.

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Israel is planning to attack Hezbollah arms depots and weapons manufacturing plants in Syria, the Kuwaiti newspaper Al Rai reported on Saturday.

The Lebanon-based Shi'ite militant group Hezbollah and the Syrian army have initiated significant levels of military cooperation in joint preparation for the possibility of a future armed conflict with Israel, the Kuwaiti daily al-Rai reported on Monday.

As he prepared to fly to Washington to renew peace talks with the Palestinians, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that Israel had the chance to secure a stable peace that could endure for generations.

Arab League chief Amr Moussa said on Sunday he had little hope that direct peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians, which are due to start on Thursday, will be successful.

The Jerusalem Post is reporting that the U.S. warned Lebanon that if it did not prevent any recurrence of the border-fire incident that occurred earlier this month, the IDF would destroy the Lebanese Armed Forces within four hours.

The Israeli partners in a U.S.-led consortium developing a natural gas field off the Mediterranean coast say that up to 4.2 billion barrels of oil may lie under the seafloor in Israeli waters.

14 U.S. troops have been killed in action in eastern and southern Afghanistan over the past three days.

The Pentagon is contemplating an aggressive approach to defending its computer systems that includes preemptive actions such as knocking out parts of an adversary's computer network overseas - but it is still wrestling with how to pursue the strategy legally.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin says that NATO officials have purposely deceived his government.

Putin also recently opened the Russian section of an oil pipeline that will boost oil exports to China from East Siberia.

China will hold live-fire naval exercises in the Yellow Sea this week, state media reported Sunday, after voicing opposition to similar war games to be staged there by the United States and South Korea.

Government anti-poverty programs that have exploded in size to meet the needs of recession victims now serve a record one in six Americans and are continuing to expand.

Mexico has become the latest nation to ban large cash transactions.

The number of homes in the $1-million-and-up slice of the market that have become bank owned has tripled during the last three years in Los Angeles County, and the trend has shown little sign of slowing.

U.S. families have $6 trillion less in housing wealth than they did just three years ago.

The percentage of income going to the top 10 percent of Americans is once again at record highs.

The Obama administration has not decided whether it should resurrect a popular tax credit for first-time homebuyers, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan said on Sunday.

Consumer spending in the U.S. has turned into a tale of two cities in 2010, with an entire segment of consumers splurging confidently on the finer things in life, while another segment, concerned about unemployment and with little or no discretionary income, spends only on bare necessities.

Wheat prices are up nearly 55 percent since early June.

The Bank of Japan is to hold an emergency policy meeting Monday amid speculation it will implement additional easing measures to help the economy, which is being battered by a strong yen.

Is the Federal Reserve completely confused about what to do next?

The United States needs to stop printing money and take on austerity measures like the Europeans did, in order for the economy to recover, said billionaire investor Jim Rogers, chairman of Rogers Holdings.

Barack Obama recently made the following stunning comment during an interview with Brian Williams: "I can't spend all my time with my birth certificate plastered on my forehead."

A recent Department of Justice guide for investigators of criminal and extremist groups lists "constitutionalists" and "survivalists" alongside organizations like Al-Qaeda and the Aryan Brotherhood.

A leading think tank in the U.K. recommends that the government fight back against "conspiracy theories" by infiltrating Internet sites to dispute these theories.

One family in Florida received word last Friday that test results on the water in their swimming pool showed 50.3 ppm of 2-butoxyethanol, a marker for the dispersant Corexit 9527A used to break up and sink BP’s oil in the Gulf of Mexico.

Veteran chemist Bob Naman says that Corexit is still being sprayed in the Gulf, and that he found 13.3 parts per million in Cotton Bayou, Alabama.

Hurricane Earl strengthened into a category 3 storm as it lumbered across the Atlantic on Monday.

An Indonesian volcano, inactive for four centuries, erupted again on Monday, pitching ash 1.5 miles into the air and sending nearby residents scurrying from their homes.

A third earthquake in less than six weeks has hit Iran, killing at least three people and injuring 21. The 5.9-magnitude quake hit the city of Damghan in northern Iran, 175 miles east of Tehran, late Friday night. Fifteen villages were reportedly damaged.

Two massive sinkholes developed right in the middle of a central Florida subdivision on Saturday.

In Georgia, heavy rains are being blamed for a giant sinkhole that nearly swallowed part of a Sonic fast food restaurant.

Aid agencies are warning that 10 million people are already facing severe food shortages, particularly in the landlocked countries of Chad and Niger, after a drought led to the failure of last year's crops. As many as 400,000 children are at risk of dying from starvation in Niger alone, according to Save the Children.

Plagued by a free fall in carbon emissions prices and the perennial failure of Washington to pass any binding Cap and Trade Bill, it seems that the Chicago Climate Exchange is on its last leg, announcing that it will be scaling back its operations.

A recent Rasmussen poll found that 52 percent of Americans are concerned about the safety of vaccines as we approach the start of school and college terms, where many children and teenagers will be required to take shots before they can attend.

Family rights campaigners in the U.K. have called for a change in the law after it was revealed that girls as young as 12 can be given the cervical cancer vaccine without the consent of their parents.

A product survey conducted by The Independentfound that the toxic chemical bisphenol-A (BPA) is used in 18 on the 20 top-selling canned food products in the United Kingdom.

As technology continues to advance by leaps and bounds, many transhumanists are now proclaiming that a future where men have fully merged with machines is inevitable.

Could thorium solve our energy problems and supply very cheap energy for society for hundreds of thousands of years?

The output of a mysterious radio station in Russia, which has been broadcasting the same monotonous signal almost continuously for 20 years, has suddenly changed.

Israeli archaeologists unveiled a 2,000 year old cameo bearing the image of Cupid on Monday, which the Israel Antiquities Authorities said was among several items located in the City of David archaeological area in Jerusalem's Old City in the last 12 months.

Glenn Beck is trying to position himself as the new leader of the conservative Christian movement in America.

Conservative commentator Glenn Beck voiced sharper criticism of President Obama's religious beliefs on Sunday than he and other speakers offered from the podium of the rally Beck organized at the Lincoln Memorial a day earlier.

The Muslim center planned near the site of the World Trade Center attack could qualify for tax-free financing, a spokesman for City Comptroller John Liu said on Friday, and Liu is willing to consider approving the public subsidy.

On Tuesday, the Muslim Brotherhood-associated "Coordinating Council of Muslim Organizations" will bring 25-30 Muslim leaders of 20 national Muslim groups to attend a special workshop presented by the White House and U.S. Government agencies (Agriculture, Education, Homeland Security, Health and Human Services etc.) to provide the groups "funding, government assistance and resources."

Lastly, Sid Roth recently interviewed Dean Braxton about the time when he died for an hour and a half, went to heaven and actually talked directly with Jesus Christ.