Monday, August 26, 2013

In the news, Monday, August 26, 2013


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from ACLJ

Is the Obama White House Taking Brutal Attacks on Christians Seriously?

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from Breitbart

DEM REPS SPONSOR BILL FOR 20 PERCENT TAX ON HANDGUNS

OBAMA ADMIN DEFIES UN ON SYRIA INSPECTIONS

FARMER'S ALMANAC PREDICTS 'BITTERLY COLD' WINTER

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from CNSNews.com

Obamascare: Scams Related To Health Care Expected to Rise

MSNBC Still in Freefall, Loses 22 Percent of Viewers From Last Summer

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from Daily Mail

'Recall Parliament NOW': MPs say Cameron must go to the Commons to debate Syria as Britain and U.S. prepare missile strikes 'within days'
David Cameron and Barack Obama discussed plan in 40-minute phone call
They are now expected to finalise details within 48 hours
Want to send warning to dictator Bashar Al-Assad over deaths of 1,300

Is that why they call it a bendy bus? Double decker loses its shape after going under a bridge that's too small
Mechanic was taking the bus for a test drive when it became stuck under a bridge causing miles of traffic jams near Bournemouth
Yellow Buses said the vehicle was not using one of its usual routes
Fortunately no passengers were on board during the incident

Rare night clouds and glowing aurora: Astronomer captures incredible footage of two phenomena in Scottish night sky
Maciej Winiarczyk, 41, captured the images in Caithness, Scotland
Noctilucent, or 'night-shining', clouds are normally too faint to be seen
Half way through the video the clouds are joined by a spectacular aurora

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from Facecrooks

How to Protect your Personal Data from Facebook Applications your Friends Use

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from The Farmacy

How Gardening Will Phase Out The Welfare State

PepsiCo Says It Will Halt Use of Aborted Fetal Cells in Flavor Research

Scientists say high fructose corn syrup is as addictive as cocaine

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from Fox News

Mother of Gun Violence Victims: 'Stop and Frisk' Could Have Saved My Son

Cruz presses ahead with defunding ObamaCare, says it will take a 'tsunami' of support
Senator Ted Cruz: "I believe if we see a grass-roots tsunami, that is going to cause Republicans and Democrats to listen to the people."

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from Greatist

5 Healthy Summer Cocktail Recipes from Around the Web

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from The Guardian

Zurich opens drive-in 'sex boxes'
Swiss city aims to increase safety of sex workers and contain trade with doorless, alarmed buildings in a former industrial area

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from iFIBER ONE News

Lightning storm knocks out power for 6,500 in Grant County Sunday

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from The Jerusalem Post

US will make legal case for striking Syria without UN approval
Sources tell 'Post' the United States is preparing justification for use of force against Syria with allies, which will circumvent Russia, China vows to block military intervention; military action possible in coming days.

Diplomats: Iran adding to atom capacity, limiting stockpile growth
Report by UN nuclear watchdog expected to show Iran pressing ahead with nuclear program, in spite of contradictory IAEA data.

UN inspectors reach Syria gas victims despite sniper fire
Unidentified snipers shot at and damaged a vehicle being used by U.N. chemical weapons investigators in Damascus on Monday as they sought to reach the site of a suspected poison gas attack, a U.N. spokesman said.

Assad rejects chemical weapons allegations, warns US against attack
In interview in Russian paper, Assad warns US war in Syria would end in failure like Vietnam.

Report: UK's Cameron pressing Obama for strike on Syria
British PM is urging US president to launch attack in coming week on Assad regime, The Times of London reports.

Analysis: How will the US and its allies strike Syria?
Strike would likely be in a limited, determined and surgical manner to destroy Assad gov't command and control centers, air strips, arms caches, fuel sources and other targets.

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from KREM 2 News

Second suspect in fatal WWII veteran beating arrested

Police: 8-year-old shoots, kills caregiver after playing video game

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from KXLY 4 News

Second suspect arrested in murder of Delbert Belton

Friend pleads for beating suspect to turn himself in

One man dead in Coeur d'Alene officer-involved shooting

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from Money Talks News

Retirees: How to Pick the Best Credit Card
Yes, you’re retired, but you still need to work on your credit score. If your household debt – mortgage or car loan – is paid off, responsible use of your credit cards will be your best way to keep your scores high.

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from Natural Society

Mortality Rate Doubles: Study Shows that even “Safe” Levels of Sugar Aren’t Safe

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from NPR

Talk Of Strike On Syria Moves From 'Will It Happen?' To When
American officials say there's little doubt the Assad regime used chemical weapons to kill scores of people last week. As U.S. Navy ships close in, analysts say it's likely that cruise missiles will be fired at Syrian "command and control" centers in coming days. The goal? Alter Assad's behavior.

In the Beginning, There Were ... Dumplings?
From Warsaw to Wuhan, people around the world love dumplings. They're tasty little packages that can be made of any grain and stuffed with whatever the locals crave. But where did they come from? Some think prehistoric people may have been cooking them up.

Pain, Loss And Tears Come With Medal Of Honor
Staff Sergeant Ty Carter earned the nation's highest military honor for his actions during an ambush in Afghanistan in 2009. He feels privileged, but says "I would never tell any soldier or service member, 'Hey, go out and get the Medal of Honor', because of the amount of pain and loss and tears that has to be shed in order to receive it."

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from POLITICO

Barack Obama, reluctant warrior
Are the forces pushing the president toward war powerful enough to overcome overwhelming domestic opposition, let alone the president’s own deep ambivalence?

When energy dreams fall short
Many of the nation’s most ambitious energy projects have fallen far short of their lofty goals, either because they were unrealistically optimistic, took too long develop or were abandoned as markets shifted.

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from PreventDisease.com

Star Size Comparison HD
Most people have no idea how large the universe is. Many think Earth is the center of the universe without even a concept of how many hundreds of billions of galaxies there are. We are only in one of them (the Milky Way). No, we are not alone. Take a look at this fascinating video which depicts a size comparison of planets and stars.

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from Space.com

NASA Maps Dangerous Asteroids That May Threaten Earth
Earlier this month, NASA released a new map of the orbital paths of more than 1,400 "potentially hazardous asteroids," although none of the asteroids mapped pose an impact threat to Earth within the next 100 years, agency officials said.

What Was Frigid 'Snowball Earth' Really Like?
During vast ice ages millions of years ago, sheets of glaciers stretched from the poles almost to the equator, covering the Earth in a frozen skin. Here we take a look at what the "snowball Earth" was really like and how the idea has evolved along with the technology that studies it.

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from The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, WA)

Then and Now photos: Armour and Co. packing plant
Armour and Co. began preparing and distributing meats in Spokane in 1900 when it purchased Morris Packing Co. Originally at Wall Street and Railroad Avenue, the company moved to 3300 E. Trent Ave. in 1917 when it purchased the E.H. Stanton Co.

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from The Star (Grand Coulee, WA)

Powerful storm hits area

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from The Wall Street Journal

China Rethinks Deals for Resources
A dusty $8 million Australian mine that has yet to export a chunk of iron ore is emblematic of why the world’s No. 2 economy is rethinking its huge effort to buy up resources abroad.

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