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Iran requests Joint Operation with US to save Iraq
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Pentagon Finds Iranian Involvement in Defense of Baghdad ‘Concerning’.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says he envisions the effort to save Iraq’s Maliki government from al-Qaeda as something his nation and the US can agree with, and cooperate on.
Iran was the first nation involved when al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) started seizing territory across the nation, and the Iranian...
Canada's Supreme Court rules in Favor of Internet Privacy
Internet service providers should not turn over internet users’ information to law enforcement officials without a warrant, Canada’s Supreme Court has ruled.
Internet service providers should not turn over their users’ private information to law enforcement officials without a warrant, Canada’s Supreme Court has ruled.
The Supreme Court ruled on Friday that warrantless searches are “presumptively...
‘Warp drive’: Faster-than-light NASA spacecraft
A NASA scientist and a renowned graphic artist have teamed up to produce designs for a vessel that may someday allow human beings to travel the universe and beyond in a first-of-its-kind warp drive spacecraft faster than light.
Impressive illustrations of the work-in-progress NASA’s New Design for a Warp Drive Ship” made their way to the web this week while NASA researcher Harold White and Dutch...
Saturn's moon Titan 'smells' aromatic' says NASA
Titan, Saturn’s largest moon appears before the planet as it undergoes seasonal changes in this natural color view from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft in this handout released by NASA August 29, 2012.
The US space agency has come up with a recipe that captures key flavors of Saturn’s moon Titan out of a need to understand a previously unidentified chemical composition hidden beyond its orange...
FIFA 2014 World Cup kicks off in Brazil
A view of the Itaquerao Stadium in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo.
Football fever grips the fans as the World Cup starts in Brazil while police in Sao Paulo clashed with protesters opposing the tournament.
On Thursday, the Itaquerao Stadium shined under blue skies as Brazil kicked off its home World Cup with a football-style carnival.
Some fans reportedly chanted slogans against Brazilian President...
100,000 illegal immigrant kids from Latin America storm into the US
The American people have been inundated with stories over the past few days of a tragic humanitarian crisis.
At least 100,000 kids from Latin America have illegally flooded across the border. Of course, the Obama Regime is claiming this is a result of our lack of “immigration reform” (aka scamnesty). And they’re pretending to be surprised by the whole thing.
But they’re not surprised. Quite...
Ukraine president vows response to plane attack
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has declared Sunday a day of mourning and vowed to punish those responsible for shooting down a military plane in the eastern part of the country.
On Saturday, Poroshenko ordered a meeting of the National Security and Defense Council to be convened due to the deadly events near the eastern city of Lugansk.
“Ukraine needs peace. However, the terrorists will receive...
Kiev military airplane downed in Lugansk Airport
A Ukrainian military Il-76 jet.
Forty-nine Ukrainian troops were killed when their military Il-76 transport jet was taken down by local militia forces just before it started its descent toward Lugansk Airport. Some military hardware and supplies were lost as well.
The death toll was confirmed by the Ukrainian General Prosecutor’s office on Saturday morning in a statement, which said nine crew members...
Russian nuclear bombers intercepted off California coast
Russian Tu-95 Bear-H bombers like the ones that flew close to Alaska and California last week, according to military officials.
A spokesperson for the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) confirmed this week that a fleet of Russian bombers set off alarms in the United States after coming within 50 miles of California’s Pacific coast.
Navy Capt. Jeff Davis, a spokesman for NORAD, told...
Dinosaurs fit middle of metabolic continuum
A research has shown that dinosaurs’ metabolism places them in the middle of the metabolic continuum, forbidding their definite classification as either warm or cold-blooded creatures.
The study used dinosaurs’ body mass and their growth rates to arrive at an evaluation of their metabolism.
University of New Mexico biologist John Grady said, “…By examining animal growth and rates of energy...
The journey to self-awareness
Self-awareness is the capacity to pay conscious attention to all aspects of yourself: to use sensory capacities such as sight, hearing and touch to provide accurate information about the external world; to use feelings such as thirst, hunger, nausea, dizziness and physical pain to provide accurate information about the state of your body and what it needs; to use memory to store and provide access...
Obama considering urgent attacks on Syria and Iraq
The US government is ‘urgently’ considering air assaults on Iraq and Syria in an attempt to flush out the al-Qaeda-linked Takfiri militants operating in the two countries, a US official says.
The unnamed official, quoted by the Guardian, said on Friday that the White House was “urgently and expediently” considering military action to halt the rapid advance of the so-called Islamic State of...
Ukraine used white phosphorus incendiary bombs in Slavyansk
Residents of Slavyansk and its suburbs were awoken overnight on Thursday by what they say were incendiary bombs that were dropped on their city by Kiev’s military. Witnesses and local media reports suggested that the bombs might be phosphorous.
Much of the village of Semyonovka, located in the Slavyansk suburbs, was set ablaze. Local residents told RT that the ground didn’t stop burning for...
Russia Issues Grim Report On North American Magnetic Anomaly
A grim report prepared by Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force Lieutenant-General Viktor Bondarev on the just completed scientific mission of North America carried out by 4 Tupolev Tu-95 strategic aircraft and 2 Ilyushin Il-78 aerial refueling tankers that “electronically swept” for “magnetic anomalies” from Alaska to California warns that a “catastrophic event” may be nearing for this...
Shark-eating monster sought off Australia
Scientists and a filmmaker have gone after an unknown sea monster which they believe has eaten a great white shark traced with a tag. Some say a bigger shark or whale could have been behind the killing, but the gathered data points to other possibilities.
The internet is full of speculation on the nature of the mysterious sea creature, following the release of a viral YouTube video by the Smithsonian...