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Goodbye TV, hello smartphone: Young Americans going mobile for news
The days of catching up on the news with a morning paper or breakfast show may be slowly drifting away. According to a new survey, Internet and mobile platforms seem to be leaving traditional news outlets in the dust.
America’s transforming news landscape has already left a sizable dent in the country’s newspapers – but the nation’s television news outlets may be under threat too, according...
Obama threatens Iran in UN speech
From New York, US President Barack Obama told the United Nations General Assembly that he advocates a diplomatic resolution to the Iranian nuclear conflict and condemns the anti-Islamic film that has sparked violent protests overseas.
Tuesday morning’s speech before the General Assembly marked President Obama’s last scheduled international address before he is up for re-election in November, and...
US threatens sanctions against Ukraine over Tymoshenko case
The US Senate has threatened to impose political sanctions on Ukraine over the jailing of former Prime Minister, Yulia Tymoshenko, urging Kiev to immediately release the opposition leader.
The Senate adopted a resolution on Saturday that stressed that the Tymoshenko trial was “politically motivated” and urged her immediate release citing her poor health condition.
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry...
Agenda 21 Mega-Cities to Replace Growing Cities and Rural Areas
The globalist march toward Agenda 21 includes the demonization of population growth and our current urban cities. As if there were a correlation between social upheaval and the explosion of urbanization, the propaganda abounds creating villains out of those who fight against eminent domain, the right to live in sprawling rural areas and retain their farm lands.
The UN Population Fund (UNPF) calls...
Aerial pesticide spray to fight West Nile causes fear in cities
Several state and city governments across the US say that the aerial spraying of pesticides has decimated the threat of West Nile Virus in certain locales. Experts, on the other hand, say these efforts are exaggerated, fabricated and even impossible.
Despite claims in places such as Dallas, Texas and Boston, Massachusetts that the blasting pesticides onto the Earth from airplanes above is aiding the...
US nuclear arsenal to undergo costliest-ever modernization process
A US Air Force B-2 Spirit nuclear-capable bomber
The United States is to treat its nuclear arsenal to the costliest modernization process ever, with the projected expenditure estimated to stand at USD hundreds of billions.
The Washington Post reported the prospect of the wholesale overhaul on Saturday, saying the country’s 5,113-strong arsenal of nuclear warheads is to undergo an upgrade and maintenance...
US to flex naval might in Persian Gulf war games
The US Navy is leading its largest-ever war games in the Persian Gulf, with warships from 25 countries being deployed in the region. Tehran, in return, is preparing for its biggest air defense war game in the history of Islamic Republic next month.
The countries that deployed the largest number of warships for the 12-day training mission are the US, Britain, France, Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
The exact...
Society now criminalizing parents that allow children to play in the yard
A Virginia mother was recently interrogated four times by police, and visited twice by social services, after neighbors spotted the mother’s children playing in their own yard unsupervised, and decided to report the non-incident to local authorities.
According to Lenore Skenazy of Free-Range Kids, such hysteria and Stasi-style paranoia are becoming the norm in America, where children are being excessively...
Israel Provides "Intelligence" That May Prompt US to Join Iranian Strike
Angelina Jolie, member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations has arrived in Syria to survey the destruction caused by the proxy war created by the US and Israel; as well as confirm that there is a need for the continued supply and support of the CIA-sponsored Free Syrian Army (FSA).
Jolie, after spending time with the estimated 253,000 Syrian refugees,...
University Researchers Develop a Technique to Remotely Control Cockroaches
Researchers at North Carolina State University (NCSU) have made a quite major step forward in developing a technique which leverages an electronic interface to remotely control cockroaches.
While this is supposedly to be used for positive purposes, namely, to find survivors in a building destroyed by an earthquake, I think it is quite obvious that this is not the only thing it could be used for. The...
Over 46 million US citizens live in poverty
People wait in line with boxes to carry food from a food bank in northern New York in June.
New official data show that the US government has failed to reduce the level of poverty in the country amid weak economic growth.
The US Census Bureau said in an annual report on Wednesday that 46.2 million Americans are still living below the poverty line.
The overall poverty rate stood at 15 percent in 2011,...
Europe to Open Its Skies to Drones by 2016
In an obscure working document, the European Commission has announced it is working on plans to open European civil airspace to unmanned drones by 2016. This follows the signing by President Obama earlier this year of the FAA Appropriations bill which mandated that US airspace must be opened to drones by 2015.
The European Commission (EC) plan was revealed in a Staff Working Paper published on September...
USA gets ready for another war
Mitt Romney, the Republican candidate for the U.S. presidency, in the event of victory may take steps to a more active involvement of the country in global processes. According to Vice-President Joseph Biden, if Romney wins, Washington may initiate several military conflicts. This theory is supported by other facts.
But is this really the case? What are the real views of the presidential candidate...
US insurance firms unlikely to cover $1 billion in home damage after record-breaking drought
Thousands of US homes are in critical disrepair as the country continues to suffer from this summer’s record-breaking drought. And the damages are unlikely to be paid by insurance companies.
As moisture is sucked away from the ground, houses are shifting, cracking and racking up huge repair bills for surprised homeowners – bills that insurance companies rarely ever cover.
Some repairs have topped...
EU and China on verge of solar energy price war?
Employees work on a solar panel production line at a solar company workshop in Hefei, Anhui province, China.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called for a frank assessment of a solar panel trade dispute with China. The EU is mulling an anti-dumping inquiry into China after the US took similar action in one of the world’s fastest-developing markets.
“I suggest the European Commission and...