Russian Space Forces are reporting to Prime Minster Putin today that the United States Air Forces’ Offutt Strategic Command Base located in Nebraska has survived a nuclear cruise missile attack directed against it after it was successfully shot down by one of the Americans particle beam weapons used to protect this most critical of US military bases. So powerful was the explosion when this attacking... 

The Emirates Airlines plane on which Faisal Shahzad was arrested seen on the tarmac at JFK International Airport in New York, May 4, 2011. Pakistani-born U.S. citizen was hauled off a plane about to fly to the Middle East and arrested in the failed attempt to explode a bomb-laden SUV in Times Square, authorities said Tuesday. One official said he claimed to have acted alone. Faisal Shahzad was on board... 

Brig Gen Nontobeko Mpaxa A sergeant major at the SA Army Combat Training Centre at Lohatlha in the Northern Cape is going to court after the general officer commanding of Lohatlha, Brigadier General Nontobeko Mpaxa, allegedly told him that she “hates whites” before spitting on the ground in front of him. Apparently the incident occurred after At Malan was arrested. A bone in his arm was... 

School districts in Arizona are under orders from the state’s Department of Education to remove from classrooms teachers who speak English with a very heavy accent or whose speech is ungrammatical. Officials say they want students who don’t know much English to have teachers who can best model how to speak the language, but, according to The Wall Street Journal, some principals and administrators... 

If Barack Obama wants to be on the ballot in Arizona in 2012, he had better cough up a long form US birth certificate –like the one that lawsuit after lawsuit has asked Obama to produce. The state of Arizona seems to have gone totally off the reservation as far as the Obama regime goes. First all these immigration laws giving Arizona police the power to seek out and arrest illegals, and now... 

Economic Crash The situation of the United Kingdom in fiscal terms is in fact worse than the situation of Greece. That may come as a surprise to you, but if you look at the most recent paper on the subject published by the Bank for International Settlements, it is very clear. The trajectory of U.K. public debt over the next 30 years, absent a major change of policy, will take it to a mind-blowing 500%... 

Israeli soldiers in West Bank arresting a Palestinian protester. Thousands of European Jews, including a number of EU parliament members, have signed a petition warning against systematic support for Israeli policies. The petition, which was slated to be delivered to the European Parliament on Sunday, is signed by more than 3,000 European Jews, including renown French philosophers Bernard-Henri Levy... 

Korean poster depicting US being crushed by North Korea Russian Defense Ministry reports circulating in the Kremlin this evening are warning that that the United States has ordered 3 of its aircraft carrier battle groups belonging to its Northern Pacific Third Fleet Naval forces to “COCKED PISTOL” alert status over growing war fears originating on the Korean Peninsula. The “COCKED PISTOL”... 

The President of the European Central Bank, Jean-Claude Trichet, told Forbes that global governance is extremely necessary if we want to prevent another financial crisis. In his prepared printed and spoken remarks to the Council on Foreign Relations, Trichet emphasized that politicians, economists, and financiers must work across the Atlantic and collaborate on methods to create an international set... 

Portuguese Finance Minister Fernando Teixeira speaks during a parliamentary debate on the govenment’s controversial stability and growth program. As Greece barreled closer to the edge of a debt default this week, fears that the crisis would infect other countries rattled the world’s financial markets. “It’s not a question of the danger of contagion,” Angel Gurria, the... 

On April 17, the Courier-Journal in Louisville, Kentucky, reported on a military exercise dubbed Mangudai, named after the special forces of Genghis Khans Mongol army who could fight for days without food or sleep. The Kentucky newspaper portrayed the exercise as an effort to train soldiers to battle the Taliban in Afghanistan. Designed to test the limits of officers physical, mental and emotional... 

Patriotic tea partiers in Quincy, Ill When hundreds of tea-party protesters – including many elderly women – gathered outside a civic center where President Obama was giving a public speech Wednesday, they were surprised to be greeted by police dispatched in full riot gear. Obama spoke in Quincy, Ill., at the Oakley Lindsay Civic Center. The event was open to the public, and about 2,000 tickets... 

Mystery ... scientists are already planning more missions to Mars NASA scientists last night unveiled compelling evidence of life on Mars. A special mission to the Red Planet has revealed the likely presence of a form of pond scum – the building blocks of life as we know it. NASA unveiled the results of the recent Opportunity and Spirit probes sent millions of miles through the solar system to... 

The super-laser It may be an American project, but it has the potential to greatly affect not only the EU, but the entire planet. Researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory believe they have come up with a way to permanently cure the planet’s energy woes – to create a star on Earth. Now immediately, the entire plan sounds like ‘science-fiction gone mad’ and throws... 

Nigerian senator Ahmad Sani Yerima A Nigerian senator accused of marrying a 13-year-old Egyptian girl says he has done nothing wrong. Ahmad Sani Yerima, 49, told the BBC that his fourth wife was not 13, but would not say how old she was. He denied breaking the law but said he would not respect any law that contradicted his religious beliefs. The Nigerian senate ordered an investigation after complaints...