Where's the hope now? And I thought Barack Hussein Obama’s response to the jobs numbers yesterday was clueless. Obama proposed spending $800 million to create 5,000 jobs, which would install broadband technology where it hasn’t already expanded because of demand, which will cost $160,000 per job. Today, Obama has refined his approach in his weekly address, proposing to spend even more money... 

Workers clean oil and tar balls Wednesday from Biloxi Beach, Miss. University scientists have spotted the first indications oil is entering the Gulf seafood chain — in crab larvae — and one expert warns the effect on fisheries could last “years, probably not a matter of months” and affect many species. Scientists with the University of Southern Mississippi and Tulane University in New Orleans... 

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez (R) and Ecuador’s Rafael Correa wave June 25, 2010, in Otavalo, Ecuador, at the end of the ALBA summit. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has warned of US military engagement in secret missions in North Korea and Iran while world focuses on the World Cup. “They put a bomb in a South Korean ship, and the Yankees did it to try to start a war between the two... 

It appears that this thunderstorm is ejecting suspended oil particles into an upper level wind. I’ve seen several of these storms in Florida in the past two weeks. It seems so far that the only storms that display this phenomenon are moving from west to east. Is it raining oil in Florida? This video was captured on June 17, 2010 looking west from Vero Beach, Florida, which is on the east coast... 

China is set to become the world's biggest manufacturer next year The US remained the world’s biggest manufacturing nation by output last year, but is poised to relinquish this slot in 2011 to China – thus ending a 110-year run as the number one country in factory production. The figures are revealed in a league table being published on Monday by IHS Global Insight, a US-based economics consultancy. Last... 

Tim Adams, the former senior elections clerk for Honolulu, says President Obama was "definitely" not born in Hawaii, and a long-form, hospital-generated birth certificate for Obama does not exist in the state. The former Honolulu elections clerk who says President Obama was “definitely” not born in Hawaii and has no birth certificate from any hospital in the Aloha State says... 

For millions of unemployed Americans, the news about China’s surging export market isn’t necessarily cause for celebration, even if it might be a harbinger for global recovery. Chinese exports surged 50% in May from a year earlier, easily trouncing expectations for a 32% increase, according to a Reuters report citing a leaked statement from a Chinese official. This information is an... 

Multi-ethnic New York: Whites are on the verge of becoming a minority of newborn babies in the U.S., according to census figures (file picture) Whites are on the verge of becoming a minority of newborn babies in the United States. Official census figures show that non-white births, including Hispanics, constituted 48 per cent of children born in America between July 2008 and 2009, up from 46 per cent... 

Facing a number of technical challenges, the Federal Aviation Administration said today it added another research project designed to better understand how unmanned aircraft can be brought safely into the national airspace. The FAA set a two-year research and development agreement with Insitu – an independent subsidiary of Boeing and the New Jersey Air National Guard that will help FAA... 

A recent news article reports “In China, cracks are appearing – in the neighbourhood of the massive Three Gorges Dam, the country’s great prestige project, and also in the Great Internet Firewall of China, enabling the ominous news to leak out. Three years ago stories were already emerging in the Chinese media about landslides, ecological deterioration and accumulation of algae further down... 

The United States is using its citizens as guinea pigs to test biological weapons and simulate germ warfare attacks in different locations across the country, reports say. With the spread of some unknown diseases in the US, speculations started soaring that Washington is engaged in covert biological warfare activities which involve the use of chemical and biological weapons against human beings. According... 

A MiG-29 fighter jet performs a maneuver as the Russian national flag flies in the foreground, during the MAKS-2009 international air show in Zhukovsky, outside Moscow, August 22, 2009. Russia is to supply Syria with warplanes, defense apparatuses and military vehicles in a move that would irk Israel and the United States. Head of Russia’s Federal Agency for Military Cooperation Mikhail Dmitriyev... 

Rosemarie Pence was featured in a book called "Hannah: From Dachau to the Olympics and Beyond" by Jean Messinger. The author stepped forward publicly to report that Pence defrauded her and that the stories in the book are false. A 72-year-old woman who fled Colorado after she was accused of pretending to be a Holocaust survivor to bilk sympathetic neighbors has been found working at a motel... 

Russian Kids Russia suspended all adoptions to U.S. families Thursday until the two countries can agree on procedures, the Foreign Ministry said, a week after an American woman sent her 7-year-old adopted son back to Russia on a plane by himself. The boy’s return — without supervision or explanation aside from a note he carried from his adoptive mother saying he had psychological problems —... 

Former Polish president with US president First reports on the tragic death of Poland’s President Lech Kaczynski [photo with Obama], his wife, top general, head of their central bank, and many more top officials in a plane crash in Smolensk, Russia are said by FSB sources reporting to Prime Minister Putin to have been a “successful decapitation” of that Nation’s leadership putting into power...