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TRIPOLI: An armed group hijacked a Royal Jordanian Airlines plane in Libyan capital Tripoli on Monday.
According to foreign media reports flight, scheduled to take off for Amman, was hijacked in Tripoli International Airport. Continue reading “Jordanian airlines plane hijacked in Libyan capital”
Before It’s News – by Alton Parrish
The Persistent Close Air Support (PCAS) program aims to improve air-to-ground fire coordination, but could revolutionize military tech development and deployment as well.
Air-ground fire coordination—also known as Close Air Support or CAS—is a dangerous and difficult business. Pilots and dismounted ground agents must ensure they hit only the intended target using just voice directions and, if they’re lucky, a common paper map. It can often take up to an hour to confer, get in position and strike—time in which targets can attack first or move out of reach. To help address these challenges, DARPA recently awarded a contract for Phase II of its Persistent Close Air Support (PCAS)program to the Raytheon Company of Waltham, Mass. Continue reading “New Precision Bombing Technology Unveiled”
Wake Up America – by Susan Duclos
According to Raw Story and the video details of the footage you will see below, Iraq war veteran Emily Yates was arrested on Friday after a dispute with police about where she could stand while playing her banjo during a protest against U.S. military action in Syria.
Yates was asking the Federal Parks Police why they were demanding she move from a shady area at Independence Mall in Philadelphia. Continue reading “Female War Veteran Violently Arrested For Playing Banjo In The Wrong Place At Syria War Protest”
Reuters – by Andrea Shalal-Esa
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz and other ships in its strike group are heading west toward the Red Sea to help support a limited U.S. strike on Syria, if needed, defense officials said on Sunday.
The Nimitz carrier strike group, which includes four destroyers and a cruiser, has no specific orders to move to the eastern Mediterranean at this point, but is moving west in the Arabian Sea so it can do so if asked. It was not immediately clear when the ships would enter the Red Sea, but they had not arrived by Sunday evening, said one official. Continue reading “USS Nimitz carrier group rerouted for possible help with Syria”
(THE BLAZE) — Lots of folks have seen the photo of President Obama with his foot on the Oval Office desk, which hit the front page of the Drudge Report Sunday. Continue reading “Does Seeing President Obama’s Foot On The Oval Office Desk Make Your Blood Boil?”
CAIRO (Ma’an) — Egyptian forces deployed along the Suez Canal on Saturday
after an alleged terrorist attack was thwarted, Egyptian military sources
said.
Forces supported by armored vehicles and Apache helicopters deployed on both
sides of the canal, military officials told Ma’an. Continue reading “Egyptian forces deploy around Suez Canal”
During a short interview with Germany’s DW News last Monday, former US National Security Adviser and Trilateral Commission co-founder Zbigniew Brzezinski commented on the growing inefficiency of war due to the increased political knowledge of the public.
“Given the contemporary reality of what I have called in my writings ‘Global Political Awakening,’ a policy of force based primarily on Western and in some cases former colonial powers does not seem to me a very promising avenue to an eventual solution to the regional problem,” said Brzezinski, referring to the situation in Syria. Continue reading “Brzezinski: ‘Global Political Awakening’ Making Syrian War Difficult”
Secretary of State John Kerry opened his speech Friday by describing the horrors victims of the chemical weapon attack suffered, including twitching, spasms and difficulty breathing.
Attempting to drive the point home, Kerry referenced a photograph used by the BBC illustrating a child jumping over hundreds of dead bodies covered in white shrouds. The photo was meant to depict victims who allegedly succumbed to the effects of chemical weapons via Assad’s regime. Continue reading “Kerry Caught Using Fake Photos to Fuel Syrian War”
There was what could prove to be an instructive moment for the Deplorable Nanny State Mayor this week, provided courtesy of the citizens of Ohio. The group Mayors Against Illegal Guns hosted a “rally” in Columbus, Ohio to build support for additional gun control legislation, but as the intro to the local news report asked (video below), “what happens when you throw a political rally, but nobody shows up except your opposition?” Continue reading “Gun control rally turns into gun rights rally”
Breitbart – by CHRISS W. STREET
As President Barack Obama has outwardly attempted to curtail Americans’ Constitutional Second Amendment right to bear arms, his Administration has approved huge increases in defense spending and export sales. The Administration is now seeking to eliminate stringent State Department controls on exports and foreign licensing of dozens of categories of weapons and technology from the United States Munitions List (USML) by transferring control to the pro-business Commerce Department. Continue reading “Obama Disarms Americans While Arming the World”
Prescriptions for painkillers in the United States have nearly tripled in the past two decades and fatal overdoses reached epidemic levels, exceeding those from heroin and cocaine combined, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
At the same time, the first-ever global analysis of illicit drug abuse, published this month in the British medical journal The Lancet, found that addictions to heroin and popular painkillers, including Vicodin and OxyContin, kill the most people and cause the greatest health burden, compared with illicit drugs such as marijuana and cocaine. Continue reading “Painkiller addictions worst drug epidemic in US history”
A rocket carrying an Israeli communications satellite has been successfully launched from a Russian facility in Kazakhstan, Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) said in a statement on Sunday, the AFP news agency reports.
It said that the AMOS-4 satellite lifted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome atop a Russian Zenit rocket on Saturday night. Continue reading “Israeli Satellite Launches from Kazakhstan”
Earlier this week, a video surfaced online showing a Rochester police officer attacking a young Rochester woman, even though she repeatedly told the officer that she was pregnant. While details surrounding the arrest remain unclear, the video shows the officer using brutal and excessive force while arresting the woman on residential property.
The video shows the officer throwing the woman against a banister and hitting her head as she cries hysterically and screams, “I’m pregnant! Get off me. You’re going to kill my baby.” Continue reading “Police Brutally Attack Pregnant Woman in Rochester, NY”
The theft of a metal bar used to link two rails caused the train crash last weekend in the southeastern Mexican state of Tabasco that left 12 dead, the Communications and Transportation Secretariat said.
The secretariat said in a statement Friday that specialized technicians with Ferrocarril del Istmo de Tehuantepec, the operator of the railway line, made that determination. Continue reading “Officials Say Mexican Train Derailment Caused by Theft of Track Parts”
The Telegraph – by Nile Gardiner
One voice in Washington that has been remarkably absent from this week’s Syria debate has been that of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The frontrunner for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, Mrs. Clinton hasn’t said anything at all about President Obama’s plans for military strikes against the dictatorship in Damascus. As someone who dominated the US foreign policy landscape over the past four years, Clinton’s silence on Syria is striking. What explains this? Continue reading “Why a nervous Hillary Clinton is remarkably silent on Syria”
Egyptian security forces have destroyed a number of tunnels connecting the Gaza Strip and Egypt.
Video footage showed explosions and then clouds of smoke rising up in the town of Rafah, on the border between the Palestinian territory and Egypt on Saturday.
About 80 percent of the tunnels, which are used to transfer goods and medicines into Gaza from Egypt, are no longer functional due to similar incidents carried out by the Egyptian security forces. Continue reading “Egypt destroys tunnels into Gaza”
Fellowship of the Minds – by Eowyn
This is a screenshot I took of the snot (red arrow) dribbling from M.O.’s left nostril at the 14:20 mark of a White House video of her speech at the National Governors Association Meeting on Feb. 28, 2011. Click here for the video.
Public school students across America are saying the healthy school lunches that are a signature issue promoted by “First Lady of Snot” Moochie Obama taste like regurgitated food. Continue reading “Kids say Michelle’s school lunch tastes like vomit”
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