Big solar storm heading toward Earth
This is not your usual weather forecast. Big storms are brewing. Your umbrella won’t help, but you might want to keep a flashlight handy.
Teacher Gives 6th Grade Students An Assignment To Compare Adolf Hitler And George W. Bush
A sixth-grade teacher at a Washington, D.C., middle school is in deep water after assigning students to make comparisons between former president George W.
The Ebola Virus Is Spreading ‘Like Wildfire’ In Liberia
With warnings from officials that the Ebola virus is “spreading like wildfire” in Liberia, Sarah Crowe, who works for the UN children’s agency (Unicef), describes her week on the Ebola front line: Flights into disaster zones are usually full of aid workers and journalists. Not this time.
Obama’s Broad Coalition Cracks – UK, Germany Won’t Support Airstrikes In Syria
As The WSJ reports, Germany and the U.K. on Thursday ruled out carrying out air strikes on Islamic State militants in Syria, a day after President Barack Obama authorized the start of U.
Scotland Nationalists Claim U.K. Oil In 40-Year Campaign
The discovery of North Sea riches in the 1970s planted the seed of modern-day Scottish nationalism as supporters of independence cried “It’s our oil!” Four decades later, nothing will be more important to the economic future of Scotland than the oil industry should the country vote to end the 307-year union with the rest of the U.K.
11 Ways You Know You Live In A Country Run By Idiots
Originally posted by Dr. Eowyn at Fellowship of The Minds blog, 1. If you can get arrested for hunting or fishing without a license, but not for being in the country illegally, you live in a country run by idiots.
Rapid City, South Dakota sees earliest snowfall since 1888
An early September winter storm in the Black Hills has dumped up to 8 inches of snow in the area, while Rapid City received its earliest snowfall in more than 120 years. Jon Chamberlain, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Rapid City, said almost 1 inch of snow had fallen in downtown Rapid City by 8:30 a.
Turkey Refuses Obama Request To Use Its Airbases To Fight ISIS
Yesterday, Barack Obama stated, “Turkey needs to be involved in coalition against ISIS.” On Thursday Turkey said it will not allow the US to use its airbases to fight ISIS. The Daily Star reported:
I was a ‘Queen of Scientology’: President’s ex-wife reveals the Church’s innermost secrets and why she was cast into darkness when she finally fled after 35 years
Karen de la Carriere, 70, was a member of the Church of Scientology for 35 years. She was married to its President. She held a level of ‘enlightenment’ and a rank within its organization shared by only a handful of others.
‘Vetted Moderate’ Free Syrian Army Commander Admits Alliance with ISIS
On Monday, the Daily Star in Lebanon quoted a FSA brigade commander saying that his forces were working with the Islamic State and Jabhat al-Nusra, al-Qaeda’s official Syrian affiliate — both U.S.-designated terrorist organizations — near the Syrian/Lebanon border.
While Obama Sleeps, Russia Is Preparing For Nuclear War With America
Did you know that two Russian bombers practiced launching cruise missiles at the United States from a spot in the North Atlantic just the other day? And did you know that Russia is spending massive amounts of money to build and test new nuclear weapons systems? Meanwhile, the Obama administration is doing absolutely nothing to upgrade the U.
Once Again Barack Obama Shows That He Is Clueless About What Is Going On In The Middle East
Why would Barack Obama want to give hundreds of millions of dollars of weapons to groups inside Syria that are selling weapons to ISIS and regularly fighting alongside them? Is he really that clueless about what is going on in the Middle East? The FSA and other groups of “moderate” fighters inside Syria do not consider ISIS to be an enemy.
40 million Americans now have student loan debt
Carrying tens of thousands of dollars in student loan debt has become the new normal. Thanks to climbing tuition and inadequate college savings, 40 million Americans now have at least one outstanding student loan, according to new analysis from credit bureau Experian. That’s up from 29 million consumers in 2008.
Scottish Independence Movement Inspires Dreams Of Statehood Across Europe
A short walk from Edinburgh Castle, past tourist stores hawking kilts and tartan scarves, a church hall is about to become a patch of Barcelona for the day. As Scotland votes next week on whether to break up the U.K.
German TV Shows Nazi Symbols on Helmets of Ukraine Soldiers
Germans were confronted with images of their country’s dark past on Monday night, when German public broadcaster ZDF showed video of Ukrainian soldiers with Nazi symbols on their helmets in its evening newscast. In a report on the fragile cease-fire in eastern Ukraine, Moscow correspondent Bernhard Lichte used pictures of a soldier wearing a combat helmet with the “SS runes” of Hitler’s infamous black-uniformed elite corps. A second soldier was seen with a swastika on his gear.
Human Fetal DNA Fragments In Vaccines Are A Possible Cause For Autism – According To This Stanford Scientist
Dr. Theresa Deisher, a PhD in Molecular and Cellular Physiology from Stanford University, the first person to discover adult cardiac derived stem cells, determined that residual human fetal DNA fragments in vaccines may be one of the causes of autism in children through vaccination. “It is possible that these contaminating fragments could be incorporated into a child’s genome and disrupt normal gene function, leading to autistic phenotypes.