Wednesday, May 21, 2014

In the news, Thursday, May 1, 2014


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APR 30      INDEX      MAY 02
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from ACLJ (American Center for Law and Justice)

Hamas Clings to Jihad as America’s Top Diplomat Labels Israel an “Apartheid” State

A Day of Reckoning
The time has come for the American People to insist that the dishonesty stop, and that the simple truth about why four Americans died is acknowledged. For far too long, a political game has been made a higher priority than the truth. We must not accept that any longer. It is time for the truth, and only the truth.

A Nation’s History of Prayer
Today, May 1, 2014, is the 63rd annual National Day of Prayer.  However, our nation’s dependence on prayer reaches all the way back to our founding.  Our first President, George Washington, officially called the nation to prayer and Thanksgiving in 1789, and even before that, our first Congress opened its 1774 session with prayer, and returned repeatedly to prayer during its deliberations.

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from The Blaze

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from CNSNews.com (& MRC & NewsBusters)

Lindsey Graham: You Couldn't 'Increase MSNBC's Ratings If You Put Guns To Their Heads'

Krauthammer: ‘Media Are Somewhat Embarrassed’ By Missing Benghazi Dissembling

CBS: Law on Drug Abuse While Pregnant Limits 'What Women Can' Do With Their Bodies?

NBC’s Chuck Todd Rushes to Provide Cover for White House Over Latest Benghazi Emails

Joe Scarborough Eviscerates Donny Deutsch's 'Disgraceful' Defense of White House on Benghazi

Joke of the Day: Hillary's Largest 2016 Obstacle Is... The Media??

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from Columbia Basin Herald

Young Professionals group hosts candidates night at Pillar Rock Grill
Community members will have an opportunity to hear from some of the Fourth Congressional District candidates during a forum in Moses Lake later this month. The Young Professionals of the Columbia Basin is hosting a Candidates Night May 14 at Pillar Rock Grill. The group is inviting all of the candidates who filed to run for the position to attend the event, Emily Braunwart, of the Young Professionals, said.

One Washington school included in federal sex assault probe
Fifty-five colleges and universities - big and small, public and private - are being investigated over their handling of sexual abuse complaints, including Washington State University, the Education Department revealed Thursday.

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from The D.C. Clothesline
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from EarthSky

See Uranus from Saturn
Looking beyond the rings of Saturn, Uranus is that tiny blue dot in the upper left in this first ever image of the planet, taken by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft.

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from End Of The American Dream (Michael Snyder)

Our tax dollars are being used to help arm and supply radical jihadists that are beheading and crucifying Christians.  And yet none of the big media organizations considers this to be news.

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from Examiner.com
[Information from this site may not be vetted.]
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from The Farmacy (& Strawbale City)
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

Lemon & Baking Soda Shown To Be Powerful Healing Combination

5 Powerful Antibiotics That Don’t Require A PrescriptionGarlic, Colloidal Silver, Oil of Oregano, Echinacea, Manuka Honey

Antidepressants May Worsen Depression And Psychological Problems
[via exposingtruth.com]

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from The Federalist

No, George Orwell’s “Animal Farm” Was Not An Endorsement Of Socialism
I once declared Kristen Stewart’s comments to be the silliest misreading of Orwell to date. Unfortunately, I had not reckoned with the minds at MSNBC, who make Stewart look positively erudite.

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from Fox News (& affiliates)
O'Reilly on Benghazi: Obama Admin Is 'Completely Derelict and the Press Doesn't Give a Damn'

'Dude, This Was Two Years Ago!': Fmr WH Security Spox Blusters Over '#TBT' Benghazi, Said Obama Not in Situation Room

Judge Napolitano: WH Benghazi Emails Could Be Violation of Federal Law
The White House scrambled yesterday to explain new emails, obtained by Judicial Watch, that may point to a cover-up of how the Benghazi attack occurred.

Re-Sentencing Ordered for Rapist Who Served 30 Days in Jail
There’s hope for justice in a shocking case out of Montana where a convicted rapist was sentenced to just 30 days in jail.

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from Gizmodo
from Greatist

How to Navigate a Mexican Menu
All that cheesy Chimichanga deliciousness isn’t usually the most nutritious way to fuel up. So before you say ole, take a look at our tips and tricks for making your Mexican fiesta (at home or at a restaurant) just a little bit healthier.

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from The Heritage Foundation  (The Foundry)

Attkisson: Why Can’t We See Photos at White House During Benghazi Attack?

The Media’s Double Standard on Sexual Assault
So an increase in reporting on college campuses is something positive, but an increase in reporting in the military is proof of systemic problems? Only in Washington.

Making a Movie About Kermit Gosnell: Confronting Evil by Exposing It

Why Sean Hannity Believes This Is the ‘Smoking Gun’ on Benghazi
Sean Hannity believes Americans now have “cold, hard evidence” of a White House cover-up of the Benghazi terrorist attack.

Two Brothers at Center of Benghazi Controversy: One Runs CBS News, the Other Is Obama’s Adviser

No Speech Can Fix This
America doesn’t need a policy speech; it needs a national security strategy backed by serious military modernization.

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from Homestead & Survival

27 Ways To Make Your Groceries Last Longer

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from Huffington Post
from iFIBER ONE News (WA)

Blue Winds Care Farm offers outdoor therapy for veterans
Career nurse Ingrid Huffman-Martinez is developing a military veteran’s care farm at her property on the edge of Quincy.

Soap Lake prepares for annual powwow taking place in June
The Soap Lake Powwow is a celebration of Northwest Native American culture.

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from The Independent (UK)
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from International Christian Concern
(PERSECUTION.org)

Egypt ‘Christians Expecting Death Any Time’
ICC Note: Egyptian Christians remain in a state of intense anxiety, not knowing when the next violent attack will come to their door or confront them in the streets. In the context of an extremely unstable state the Christian community has regularly come under attack and security forces appear either unable or unwilling to bring an end to the violence. The current government is implementing harsh crackdowns that have limited the rights of protesters, but in many cases this serves only to increase the intensity of the outrage.

More Church Demolitions to Come in Eastern China?
ICC Note: The forced demolition of the 4,000 seat Sanjiang Christian Church on Monday in Zhejiang Province has many Christians in the area seriously concerned that a campaign of church demolitions is about to begin. In 2000, authorities launched a devastating campaign that demolished hundreds of church buildings across the province, one of China's most Christian.

“A Medieval Kind of Slavery,” Abuducted School Girls Forced to Marry their Islamic Captors
ICC Note: As the search continues for more than 230 school girls abducted by suspected Boko Haram militants on the night of April 14th from their secondary school in predominantly-Christian Chibok, recent reports state the girls are being forcefully sold and married to their Islamic captors. Feared as having been ferried to Boko Haram strongholds in Chad and Cameroon, the Nigerian Army's ability to find and release the girls grows increasingly dismal as hundreds of protesters gathered in Abuja yesterday to demand the Nigerian state due more to increase security, stabilize the nation's north, and #BringBackOurGirls, as the twitter firestorm read. Receiving a ransom note late last night, community leaders from Borno State have allegedly initiated negotiations for the girls’ safe return. Take an opportunity this National Day of Prayer to lift up the abducted girls, their families, and the nation of Nigeria.

Sri Lanka Announces Cap on Places of Worship
ICC Note: The Sri Lankan government has announced that it has placed a cap on the number of places of worship allowed to be built in Sri Lanka. This has been done in an attempt to curb religious conflict which has been dramatically escalating over recent years. According to the cap, there are to be only 10,000 Buddhist temples, 5,000 Hindu temples, 2,500 churches and 2,500 mosques in Sri Lanka. In the past, the Sri Lankan government has used registration requirements in an attempt to stop the growth of churches. With house churches showing signs of success, this cap on places of worship will likely be used as a means to further restrict the growth of Christianity, which is seen as a foreign religion.

Hotels Across Malaysia Ordered to Remove Bibles
ICC Note: In another move that has Christians and other religious minorities alarmed, 147 hotels in the Malaysian state of Pahang have been ordered to remove all Bibles from their rooms. The order comes only a few months after the president and a staff member of the Malaysian Bible Society were arrested and hundreds of Bibles were confiscated by Malaysian authorities. The controversy over Bibles, sparked by a recent court ruling declaring the use of the Arabic word for God, 'Allah', by any non-Muslims to be illegal, is part of a larger overall trend of rising intolerance towards religious minorities in the country.

USCIRF Concerned by Religious Freedom Abuses in Sri Lanka
ICC Note: The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has expressed its concern over rising levels of religious freedom abuses on the island nation of Sri Lanka and has asked the U.S. State Department to focus on this concern. Over the past several years, attacks on Christians and Muslims in Sri Lanka has escalated dramatically. These attacks are driven in large part by Buddhist nationalist ideal spreading in Sri Lanka's Buddhist majority population. These Buddhist nationalists believe they must protect the traditional Buddhist heritage of Sri Lanka from invading religions like Christianity and Islam. To this end, they attack churches, mosques and religious leader across the country.

Pakistan Tops New List of Religious Freedom Abusers
ICC Note: According to a new report by the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), Pakistan is among the top countries who abuse the religious freedom of minorities found within their borders. Christians, who only make up 2% of Pakistan's population, are among those minorities who are forced to suffer both discrimination from the government and open hostility from radical elements within Pakistan's Sunni Muslim majority. Blasphemy laws, forced conversions, church bombings, grinding poverty and discrimination only begins to fill out the list of abuses experienced by Christians and other religious minorities within Pakistan. USCIRF is recommending Pakistan be designated a "Country of Particular Concern" for its religious freedom abuses. Please pray for Christians in Pakistan as they face near constant persecution.


from LiveScience

Spidey Science: 4 Bits of Real Science in 'The Amazing Spider-Man 2'

Teen Suicide Clusters Linked to Newspaper Reports

Sly Birds Cleverly 'Cry Wolf' to Steal Food
The red-eyed, black-feathered fork-tailed drongo is an irrepressible mimic, capable of reproducing the calls of everything from other birds to mongoose-like meerkats. Now, a new study finds that these drongo birds are strategic copycats: They "cry wolf" about potential danger, startling other animals and stealing their food.

New Super-Heavy Element 117 Confirmed by Scientists

Solved! How Ancient Egyptians Moved Massive Pyramid Stones

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from Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Conservative political star Ben Carson appears in Milwaukee
Doctor speaks to 1,500 at Wisconsin Right to Life Education Fund Dinner

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from Money Talks News

Microsoft Has a Security Fix for Internet Explorer
Microsoft issued an emergency security update Thursday, meant to fix a major security flaw in all versions of the Internet Explorer Web browser. In a surprising twist, Microsoft’s fix will also safeguard IE on Windows XP operating systems.

10 Low-Cost Ways to Keep Your Kids Entertained This Summer

from Mother Nature Network
from National Geographic

Fatal Superbugs: Antibiotics Losing Effectiveness, WHO Says
"Genetics is working against us, almost like a science-fiction story."
The spread of superbugs—bacteria that have changed in ways that render antibiotics ineffective against them—is a serious and growing threat around the world, according to the World Health Organization's first global report on antibiotic resistance.

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from National Journal
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from NWCN (ID-OR-WA)

Portland Audubon: Windmills are 'giant Cuisinarts for birds'

Missing Tacoma airman returns home after nearly 45 years
U.S. Air force pilot, Captain Douglas Ferguson, was shot down over Laos in 1969.

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from The Omak-Okanogan County Chronicle

Kettle Falls driver killed in head-on crash
Jay E. Pratt, 34, of Kettle Falls, was pronounced dead at Mount Carmel Hospital, the Washington State Patrol reported.

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from POLITICO

Lindsey Graham: White House officials ‘scumbags’

Buck McKeon disses Darrell Issa over Benghazi witness
McKeon (R-Calif.) called Brig. Gen. Robert Lovell an unreliable witness and criticized Lovell’s assertion that the State Department was not quick to deploy troops to respond to the 2012 terrorist attack in Libya. Lovell testified Thursday before Issa’s (R-Calif.) oversight panel.

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from Popular Science

The States People Want To Get The Hell Out Of
[Infographic]  Survey says: people want to leave Illinois.

Learning More About China’s New Massive Warship Plan
(055 Cruiser) Just as the US did with the AEGIS and Zumwalt class cruisers and destroyers, modern naval engineering in China starts by first building full scale, land based mock ups of advanced warships. The rationale is that they provide a cheaper and less risky alternative to rushing directly into ship construction; it is far easier to measure, modify and fine tune a land based system as opposed to a seagoing prototype hull.

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from PreventDisease.com
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]


The Higher Your Vitamin D Levels, The Better Your Chance To Both Prevent and Survive Cancer
The active form of vitamin D essentially shuts down cancer cells by several mechanisms which inhibit proteins involved in metastases. Now Chinese researchers have found breast and colorectalcancer patients with higher levels of vitamin D at the time of diagnosis may have better chances of survival and remain in remission longer those who are deficient, according to a scientific review.

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from Real Clear Politics

Krauthammer on Benghazi Emails: "The Equivalent of What Was Discovered With The Nixon Tapes"

Fmr. NSC Spokesman Tommy Vietor: Obama Was Not In The Situation Room During Benghazi Attack

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from The Right Scoop

from ScienceDaily

Increased drought portends lower future Midwestern U.S. crop yields
Increasingly harsh drought conditions in the US Midwest's Corn Belt may take a serious toll on corn and soybean yields over the next half-century, according to new research. Corn yields could drop by 15 to 30 percent, according to the paper's estimates.

Undersea warfare: Viruses hijack deep-sea bacteria at hydrothermal vents
More than a mile beneath the ocean's surface, as dark clouds of mineral-rich water billow from seafloor hot springs called hydrothermal vents, unseen armies of viruses and bacteria wage war.

Missing piece of biogeochemical puzzle in aquifers discovered
New research may dramatically shift our understanding of the complex dance of microbes and minerals that takes place in aquifers deep underground. This dance affects groundwater quality, the fate of contaminants in the ground and the emerging science of carbon sequestration.

Spinal cord neurons that control skilled limb movement identified
Two types of neurons that enable the spinal cord to control skilled forelimb movement have been found by researchers. The first is a group of excitatory interneurons that are needed to make accurate and precise movements; the second is a group of inhibitory interneurons necessary for achieving smooth movement of the limbs. The findings are important steps toward understanding normal human motor function and potentially treating movement disorders that arise from injury or disease.

Whales hear us more than we realize: Sonar signal 'leaks' likely audible to some marine mammals
Killer whales and other marine mammals likely hear sonar signals more than we’ve known. That’s because commercially available sonar systems, which are designed to create signals beyond the range of hearing of such animals, also emit signals known to be within their hearing range, scientists have discovered.

Ground-breaking technique traces DNA direct to your ancestor's home 1,000 years ago
Tracing where your DNA was formed over 1,000 years ago is now possible, thanks to a revolutionary technique. The ground-breaking Geographic Population Structure tool works similarly to a satellite navigation system as it helps you to find your way home, but not the one you currently live in -- but rather your actual ancestor's home from 1,000 years ago.

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from Space.com (& CollectSpace)

3 Space History Surprises in 'The Amazing Spider-Man 2'
"The Amazing Spider-Man 2" may be about a web-slinging mutant on Earth, but that doesn't mean there aren't a few great moments in the movie for space fans, too.

Jupiter Moon's 'Club Sandwich' Ocean Could Potentially Support Life
Jupiter may have two moons capable of supporting life as we know it. Like its famous neighbor Europa, the huge Jovian satellite Ganymede might have an ocean of liquid water in contact with a rocky seafloor, a new study reports.

Why Is Mars So Much Smaller Than Earth?
New ideas about how the solar system took shape are helping astronomers tackle a planetary puzzle — why Mars is so much smaller than its rocky neighbor worlds.

Could Alien Life Cope with a Hotter, Brighter Star?

3D Printing: 10 Ways It Could Transform Space Travel

'Battlestar Galactica's' Richard Hatch Talks 'Star Trek' and Sci-Fi History

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from The Spokesman-Review

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from The Washington Post (DC)
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from WIRED

What’s the Pressure Inside an Exploding Whale?

Science Graphic of the Week: Dying Star Collapsing Into Black Hole Emits Corkscrew Light

Why the Smart Reading Device of the Future May Be … Paper

Cops Must Swear Silence to Access Vehicle Tracking System
It’s no secret that police departments around the country are deploying automated license plate readers to build massive databases to identify the location of vehicles. But one company behind this Orwellian tracking system is determined to stay out of the news.

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from WND (World Net Daily)

DOBSON TEARS INTO OBAMA: 'COME AND GET ME'
Christian leader refuses to bow to 'wicked regulations' of 'abortion president'

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from 100 Percent FED Up

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