Sunday, September 14, 2014

In the news, Wednesday, September 3, 2014


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SEP 02      INDEX      SEP 04
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Information from some sites may not be reliable, or may not be vetted.
Some sources may require subscription.

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from ABC News (& affiliates)
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from ABC News (Australia)

Australia to open embassy in Kiev and consider 'non-lethal' military assistance to Ukraine, PM Tony Abbott says
Australia will open an embassy in Kiev and is considering providing military assistance to Ukraine as it battles Russian-backed rebels, Prime Minister Tony Abbott has told Parliament.

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from ACLJ (American Center for Law and Justice)
from The Blaze
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from Christian News Network

‘Freedom of Religion Does Not Require Freedom From Religion:’ Gov. Vows to Defend Memorial
The governor of Indiana is vowing to defend the display of a veterans’ memorial in one the state parks after a prominent atheist activist organization expressed opposition to the carving because it includes a cross.

Pope Francis Claims: ‘The Christian Who Does Not Feel Mary Is His Mother Is an Orphan’

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from CNET

Brain-to-brain verbal communication in humans achieved for the first time
A team of researchers has successfully achieved brain-to-brain human communication using non-invasive technologies across a distance of 5,000 miles.

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from CNSNews.com (& MRC & NewsBusters)

Predictable: Libs Sneer at Phil Robertson’s ISIL Views
Phil Robertson had already dodged a bullet Tuesday morning by giving a clever answer to ABC reporter Ryan Owens, who asked Phil Robertson if “he was a homophobe,” As news broke that a second American journalist had been beheaded by ISIL, Hannity asked Robertson what America’s options were for dealing with the terrorists. Robinson replied, “In this case, you either have to convert them,” Robertson paused. “Which I think would be next to impossible.” He explained, “I’m not giving up on them, but I’m just saying, either convert them or kill them."

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from The Daily Caller

Taxpayers Pay Justice Department Employees To Do Union Work

from EarthSky

Your brain on coffee
We love coffee! Coffee is the second most-traded commodity on Earth, after oil. How does the world’s favorite drug actually work?

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from East Oregonian

Loss of Athena PGG store will impact small community

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from FactCheck.org

Another Arkansas Whopper
An ad from the Republican Governors Association claims that Democratic gubernatorial nominee Mike Ross of Arkansas got a “sweetheart deal” on the 2007 sale of his family-owned pharmacy. That’s not so. The claim is based on an appraisal that state regulators later found to be bogus.

Democratic Assault on Cassidy’s Record

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from Forum for Middle East Understanding
(FFMU) (Shoebat.com)  [Information from this site may be unreliable.]

Officials Warn ELEVEN Missing Airplanes In Libya Could Be Used To Carry Out Terrorist Attack On 9/11 Anniversary

ISIS Declares War On Putin
ISIS has a new enemy – Russia. Based on that country’s alliance with Syria’s Bashar al-Assad, ISIS is threatening to ‘liberate Chechnya’ from Vladimir Putin’s Russia. One of the consequences of this is that Russia and the U.S. now have common cause in defeating a common enemy.

American Journalist Sotloff Beheaded By Muslim Terrorists He Befriended
Andrew Sotloff was the Jewish grandson of holocaust survivors. Despite this, he befriended Muslim Brotherhood terrorists who are descendants of Hitler’s allies.

ISIS Expands Into Pakistan And Afghanistan

Six Muslim Men Dress As Police Officers, Take Pregnant Woman, And Gang Rape Her In The Middle Of A Public Street

Syrian Government Kills 346 ISIS Thugs In One Of The Most Brutal Battles In The Nation

US Government Says Video Of Steven Sotloff’s Beheading Is Authentic

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from Fox News (& affiliates)
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from The Guardian (UK)

Milky Way is on the outskirts of 'immeasurable heaven' supercluster
Astronomers discover that our galaxy is a suburb of a supercluster of 100,000 large galaxies they have called Laniakea

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from The Heritage Foundation

North Korea: Oh Where is Dennis Rodman When You Need Him?

Federal Judge: U.S. Constitution Doesn’t Require Redefinition of Marriage

What You Need to Know About Obamacare’s 18 Taxes

Illegal Immigrant Convicted of Killing 2 Girls Released From Jail, Won’t Be Deported
An illegal immigrant convicted of killing two young girls in a hit-and-run accident in Oregon won’t serve jail time or be deported.

Phil Robertson Delivered Quite a Zinger During a TV Interview Yesterday. And No, It’s Not About ISIS.
"Duck Dynasty" patriarch Phil Robertson's appearance on Fox News' "Hannity" earned him headlines ... but not for the zinger he delivered on Obamacare.



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from iFIBER ONE News (WA)

Sheriff's office asks for help identifying fuel thieves
Two men were caught on camera stealing fuel from a Moses Lake area farm early Wednesday morning.

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from KyivPost.com (Ukraine)

Edward Lucas: ‘Russia is a revisionist power; greater dangers lie ahead’
Written testimony given by Edward Lucas to the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee in the U.K. on Sept. 3, 2014.

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from Mad World News

Duck Dynasty’s Phil Robertson Has the Perfect Plan to Take Care of ISIS“In this case, you either have to convert them, which I think would be next to impossible. I’m not giving up on them, but I’m just saying either convert them or kill them,” Robertson told Hannity.

ISIS Now Threatens… Putin?

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from MEDIAite

Hannity Guest Confronts Him on Phil Robertson’s ‘Convert or Die’ ISIS Remark

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from Money Talks News

Now You Can Earn Big Rewards on Credit Cards Without an Annual Fee

US Cities With the Safest Drivers
Where Northwest cities ranked on a list of 200 ranked by Allstate: 3. Boise, ID; 22. Eugene, OR; 71. Spokane, WA; 94. Vancouver, WA; 102. Salem, OR; 153, Tacoma, WA; 175. Seattle, WA; 177 Portland, OR.

How to Get Into the Stock Market — Safely

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from National Geographic

New Deep-Sea Animal Species Look Like Mushrooms but Defy Classification
A handful of strange mushroom-shaped animals discovered in the deep sea off Australia in the 1980s have finally been named by scientists. The organisms are so unique that they may rearrange the earliest branches of the animal family tree.

Archaeologists Train "Monuments Men" to Save Syria's Past
Amid the devastation and danger of civil war, Syrian archaeologists and activists are risking their lives in the battle against looting.

New Map Locates Milky Way in Neighborhood of 100,000 Galaxies
Astronomers have defined a huge group of galaxies called a supercluster, now named Laniakea, with the Milky Way on its fringes.

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from National Review

The Islamic State Is Nothing New 
Its differences with other Islamic-supremacist groups are irrelevant.

How Should Christians Expect Our Nation to Respond to ISIS? With Wrath and Vengeance  By David French

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from Nature News and Comment

Earth's new address: 'Solar System, Milky Way, Laniakea'
Analysis of galaxies shows local supercluster to be 100 times larger than previously thought.

Put focus back on basic research, say science unions
Survey of 12 countries shows discontent with governments that prioritize short-term rewards.

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from NBC News (& affiliates)

Biden Warns: We Will Chase ISIS 'to the Gates of Hell'
Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday that the United States will follow militant group ISIS "to the gates of Hell."

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from Pamela Geller (Atlas Shrugs)

Slain Islamic State fighter worked for Delta at Minneapolis Airport

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from Patheos
[Information from this site may be questionable.]

ISIS, Steve Sotloff, Kim Kardashian and the New Normal
Catholic Channel

Does the Quran Command Beheading?
Catholic Channel

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from Rare
[Information from this site may not be vetted.]

A mean old man tried to shut down a kid’s lemonade stand, but it totally backfired

Man ejected from public meeting after refusing to stand for a prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance
The Freedom from Religion Foundation (FFRM) has filed a complaint.

Missing Libyan airliners could spell another 9/11

What Rand Paul would do about ISIS
“If I were President, I would call a joint session of Congress. I would lay out the reasoning of why ISIS is a threat to our national security and seek congressional authorization to destroy ISIS militarily.”

Phil Robertson on ISIS: “Convert them or kill them”

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from Real Clear Politics

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from The Right Scoop

MARK LEVIN: America could destroy the heart of Islamic State in three weeks, but we refuse to do it

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CAM and HeadachesA recent editorial entitled “CAM in the Real World: You May Practice Evidence-Based Medicine, But Your Patients Don’t” published in Headache: The Journal of Head and Face Pain by Robert Cowan, a headache specialist, addresses the use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in the treatment of headaches. Unfortunately he propagates many common misconceptions about CAM in the article.

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from ScienceDaily

Direct brain-to-brain communication demonstrated in human subjects
In a first-of-its-kind study, an international team of neuroscientists and robotics engineers has demonstrated the viability of direct brain-to-brain communication in humans.

Nature or nurture? It's all about the message
Simply telling people that hard work is more important than genetics causes positive changes in the brain and may make them willing to try harder, a study shows. "Giving people messages that encourage learning and motivation may promote more efficient performance," said the lead investigator. "In contrast, telling people that intelligence is genetically fixed may inadvertently hamper learning."

Carbon stored in world's soils more vulnerable to climate change than expected
The response of soil microbial communities to changes in temperature increases the potential for more carbon dioxide to be released from the world's soils as global temperatures rise, scientists have revealed.

Newly identified galactic supercluster is home to the Milky Way
Astronomers using the Green Bank Telescope -- among other telescopes -- have determined that our own Milky Way galaxy is part of a newly identified ginormous supercluster of galaxies, which they have dubbed 'Laniakea,' which means 'immense heaven' in Hawaiian.

Scientists discover how to 'switch off' autoimmune diseases
Scientists have made an important breakthrough in the fight against debilitating autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis by revealing how to stop cells attacking healthy body tissue. Rather than the body's immune system destroying its own tissue by mistake, researchers have discovered how cells convert from being aggressive to actually protecting against disease.

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from Slate
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

Three Myths About Police Body Cams
Filming interactions between law enforcement and citizens might not stop the next Ferguson from happening.

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from Snopes.com

Missing Planes
Claim:   Eleven passenger planes are missing from an airport in Libya.  MOSTLY FALSE

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from Space.com (& CollectSpace)

NASA Wants Your Future Predictions for Asteroid-bound Time Capsule

China to Launch Recoverable Moon Orbiter Prototype This Year

Intense Solar Eruption Captured by NASA Spacecraft  (Video)

New Galactic Supercluster Map Shows Milky Way's 'Heavenly' Home

Cosmic Spider Swallows Starlight in Amazing Telescope View  (Video, Photos)

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from The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, WA)

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from The Star (Grand Coulee, WA)

New school open house expanded
Superintendent Dr. Dennis Carlson said Tuesday that the district will have a ribbon cutting at 10 a.m. Friday, Sept. 12, with tours of the new complex to follow. Carlson said that another tour will be added from 6-8 p.m. to accommodate those who work in the daytime and can’t get to the earlier open house. The new school will welcome students, Monday, Sept. 15.

Town will clean up burned house
A house at 609 Holly Street which burned about two years ago and has been the focus of concern in Coulee Dam will soon be razed. Owner Jimmy Sales, whose parents owned The Green Hut, said that he would be cooperative in the matter. Coulee Dam Mayor Greg Wilder said the agreement was reached three weeks ago.

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from Tablet Magazine

The Bialy—the Bagel’s Long-Neglected Cousin—Tries for a Comeback
At Kossar’s on the Lower East Side, new owners hope that combining a new look with old recipes will save bialys from extinction

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from The Telegraph (UK)

World War Two anniversary: how news broke that 'Britain and Germany are at war'
Archive news reel from 1939 announces the official declaration of the Second World War with the words "the fateful hour has struck, Britain and Germany are at war"

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from USA Today

Biden: We'll follow Islamic State to 'gates of hell'

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from Voice of America
(United States government-supported propaganda channel)

Gaza War Presents Quandary for Many American Jews

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from The Washington Examiner (DC)

Immigration group: Surge will cost schools $761 million
Tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors from Central America who have recently crossed into the United States will cost state and local governments a staggering $761 million dollars this year, a group that favors immigration reduction has calculated.

DOJ pays 4,000 employees to do union work at taxpayer expense

John Boehner: Obama 'sowed seeds' of current foreign policy crises

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from The Washington Post (DC)
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from The Weekly Standard

A Rush to Judgment on Body Cams
Body cameras seem great, but why no debate?

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from The Western Center for Journalism
(Western Journalism)

Watch: MLK Jr.’s Niece Just Blasted Obama With Criticism He Would Be Foolish To Ignore

Wow: You Won’t Believe What State Just Took An Unexpected Stand For The 2nd Amendment
A bill that has already faced challenges even among the state’s Democrat leadership was ultimately defeated in California’s legislature recently. Senate Bill 53 was designed to force citizens in the state to register with the Justice Department and pass a background check before being allowed to buy ammunition.

Revealed: Big Faith Secrets Journalist Steven Sotloff Kept From ISIS Captors Before His Beheading

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from Yahoo News

China books no opposition in Hong Kong clampdown
Beijing's denial of open elections for Hong Kong's next leader demonstrates the ruling Communist Party's desire for complete political control and its resolve to quash any opposition, whatever the cost, observers say.

IS militants vow to 'de-throne' Putin over Syria support
Islamic State militants have issued a threat to President Vladimir Putin, vowing to oust him and "liberate" the volatile North Caucasus over his support of the Syrian regime.

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from 100 Percent FED Up


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