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China is building the world’s fastest wind tunnel to simulate hypersonic flight at speeds of up to 12 kilometres per second.
A hypersonic vehicle flying at this speed from China could reach the west coast of the United States in less than 14 minutes.
Jerusalem (AFP) – Israel’s cabinet voted on Sunday to close a migrant detention centre, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced an agreement to deport 40,000 Africans who entered the country illegally.
Ministers unanimously approved plans to shutter the Holot centre in southern Israel and gave migrants a three-month deadline to leave the country or face deportation, said the interior and public security ministries. Continue reading “Israel to shut migrant centre and deport Africans”
Nov. 19 (UPI) — A U.S. Border Patrol agent died Sunday after sustaining injuries while in the Big Bend Sector, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said.
Agent Rogelio Martinez and his partner were responding to activity while on patrol near Interstate 10 in the Van Horn Station area in Texas when his partner reported they were both injured and in need of assistance, CBP said in a statement. Continue reading “U.S. Border Patrol agent killed while on patrol in Texas”
AMHERST, S.D. – TransCanada Corp. says the company has sent additional crews and equipment to the site of a 210,000-gallon oil spill in South Dakota from its Keystone pipeline.
TransCanada said Saturday it is making progress in its investigation into the spill cause on farmland in Marshall County, near the North Dakota border, about 250 miles west of Minneapolis. But the company did not elaborate on the cause. The company says additional equipment and workers continue to be dispatched to the site. Continue reading “TransCanada sends more crews to Keystone pipeline leak”
Free Thought Project – by John Vibes
Hydraulic fracturing is a natural gas extraction method that has become extremely controversial for its environmental impacts. Fracking is the process of drilling down into the earth before a high-pressure water mixture is directed at the rock to release the gas inside. Water, sand, and chemicals are injected into the rock at high pressure, which allows the gas to flow out to the head of the well. Wastewater produced from this process is highly toxic and filled with a variety of chemicals. Continue reading “Officials Caught Forcing State Scientist to Alter Findings to Cover Up Earthquake Fracking Link”
Peak Prosperity – by Adam Target
The Origins Of The Retirement Plan
Back during the Revolutionary War, the Continental Congress promised a monthly lifetime income to soldiers who fought and survived the conflict. This guaranteed income stream, called a “pension”, was again offered to soldiers in the Civil War and every American war since.
Since then, similar pension promises funded from public coffers expanded to cover retirees from other branches of government. States and cities followed suit — extending pensions to all sorts of municipal workers ranging from policemen to politicians, teachers to trash collectors. Continue reading “The Great Retirement Con”
House leaders are considering a plan to cut legal immigration in exchange for approving some form of DACA amnesty, says GOP Rep. David Brat.
As reported in theHill.com,
Rep. Dave Brat (R-Va.) said the Republicans are eying a plan consisting of three components favored by conservatives: An effort to discourage chain migration; the creation of a mandatory e-verify system to deter hiring immigrants in the country illegally; and the elimination of the diversity visa program.
Continue reading “GOP Leaders Debate Combination Plan to Cut Legal Immigration, Approve a DACA Amnesty”
Independent news agency World Net Daily has launched a “Thank Trump Card Campaign,” allowing Trump supporters to send personalized e-cards to the White House to thank President Donald Trump for his achievements.
As President Trump’s first year in office comes to an end, World Net Daily has launched a campaign to give Americans the chance to thank him personally for his achievements since being elected to office. The Thank Trump Card Campaign allows Americans to select an e-card of their choice, personalize it with a message for President Trump, and have it sent directly to him to express their gratitude for his efforts to Make America Great Again. Continue reading “World Net Daily Launches ‘Thank Trump Card Campaign’”
Sending a sample of your DNA through the post may seem like a harmless and novel way of tracing your ancestry, and millions of Americans have already done so, but there is a more sinister side to this relatively new enterprise.
If you’re suspected of a crime police can, if they have a warrant, request access to your DNA profile from both the Ancestry and 23andMe websites. The latter has received five requests for customer information from law enforcement, although the company says it didn’t comply with any of these requests. Continue reading “Police Can Now Request Your DNA Without Your Consent or Knowledge Via Ancestry Websites”
President Donald Trump hit out early Saturday at ‘crooked’ Hillary Clinton, his defeated election opponent.
Trump called Clinton ‘the worst (and biggest’ loser of all time’ for saying that his election victory has ‘lots of questions about its legitimacy.’
‘She just can’t stop, which is so good for the Republican Party,’ Trump tweeted on Saturday. Continue reading “Trump calls ‘crooked’ Hillary Clinton ‘the worst (and biggest) loser’”
WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department is hitting back at the growing bipartisan criticism of Rex Tillerson’s leadership and accusations he is presiding over a debilitating brain drain of the nation’s diplomatic corps. At the same time, it allowed that a lack of communication with employees about Tillerson’s intent to reorganize the department had contributed to low morale. Continue reading “State Department defends reorganization, admits low morale”
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Children as young as two months of age are being sexually abused online, in what a global charity says is a growing ‘dark’ trend of live-streamed child exploitation. Much of the demand comes from UK-based pedophiles.
‘Cybersex trafficking’ is a new form of exploitation, whereby children are being forced to perform sexual acts for the sexual gratification of online customers. The trend has become rampant in the Philippines, where police are receiving thousands of referrals each month, and almost 100 children have already been rescued in the past year. Continue reading “Live-streaming of child sexual abuse a growing trend, charity warns”
Belfast Telegraph – by Brett Campbell
A Catholic priest who ministers in Co Fermanagh has called for the Church to accept that it has “lost Christmas” and abandon the word altogether.
Father Desmond O’Donnell, who has a congregation in Cleenish Parish near Enniskillen, has urged Christians, no matter the denomination, to accept that the term ‘Christmas’ had been shorn of any sacred meaning. Continue reading “Northern Ireland priest says church should abandon word ‘Christmas’”