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The L’Osservatore Romano is the daily newspaper of the Vatican City State. The paper was founded in 1861. It is classified as a semi-official newspaper of the Holy See.
The paper this week praised communist founder Karl Marx.
More than a 100 million people were killed by communist regimes in the 20th century. Continue reading “Vatican Newspaper Under Pope Francis Praises Karl Marx the Founder of Communism”
With as many as 150,000 victims of female genital mutilation residing in the Scandinavian country that consistently ranks at the top of various equality ratings, Swedish Social Democrat Gursimer Singh has advocated rigorous measures to stop this illegal and immensely painful procedure from happening.
Continue reading “Swedish Politician Proposes Female Genital Mutilation Checks at Airports”
Ebola is back, and in a “new phase.” The deadly hemorrhagic fever is no longer confined to the remote regions of the Congo. On Wednesday, a man was diagnosed in Mbandaka, a city with a population of nearly 1.2 million people in Equateur Province, which is in the northwestern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Ebola has gone urban. Continue reading “Ebola Goes Urban: WHO Warns of “Potential for EXPLOSIVE INCREASE””
The U.S. Justice Department has agreed to provide congressional investigators confidential records on a failed gun-trafficking operation during the Obama administration known as “Fast and Furious” that long has been criticized by Republican lawmakers.
In a statement issued on Wednesday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said the Justice Department would hand over documents to the Republican-led House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform that had been withheld by Democratic former President Barack Obama’s administration. Continue reading “Trump administration to provide records on Obama-era gun-smuggling probe”
Diesel prices have jumped 22 percent from a year ago and stand at their highest level in 41 months.
The average price of diesel reached $3.24 per gallon Monday, up from $2.54 a year ago, according to the latest U.S. Energy Information Administration fuel pricing report.
This is creating higher expenses for businesses that need to ship goods. Continue reading “Shippers, Truckers Face Diesel Prices 22 Percent Above A Year Ago”
It appears the police in Brookhaven, Georgia are not content with just having their own ‘Operation Plugged In’ cam-share program.
What they have done is create one of the most disturbing corporate/police relationships I have had the displeasure of writing about. Continue reading “Georgia Power Company leasing license plate readers to police departments”
A senior at Kent State University whose graduation photos show her wearing an AR-10 rifle and a cap that reads “COME AND TAKE IT” is reportedly receiving death threats.
This week, Kaitlin Bennett tweeted the images, writing, “Now that I graduated from @KentState, I can finally arm myself on campus. I should have been able to do so as a student — especially since 4 unarmed students were shot and killed by the government on this campus,” with the hashtag #CampusCarryNow. Continue reading “Pro-Trump college grad’s assault rifle photo shoot goes viral: ‘Come and take it’”
A military base of the U.S.-led international coalition established in 2014 in Syria has already become a point of concern for most parties in the region. There is no doubt that the declared purpose of fighting against ISIS is far from being primary intention of the U.S. It is no secret either that the base serves to train anti-governmental military formations that actually haven’t succeeded in the fight against terrorism so far.
So-called moderate opposition groups are key tools of the Pentagon in its war against Assad regime in Syria. Americans supply militants with weapons and give them the ideological drive in order to make them fight for vague values. Continue reading “Al-Tanf U.S. military base as a threat to the security of the region”
More than three years after taking title to the land where the audacious Chicago Spire was once envisioned, and more than two years after soliciting designs from a half-dozen architecture firms, Related Midwest on Tuesday unveiled a bold plan for the waterfront site.
The long-awaited vision for the 2.2-acre site along the Chicago River and Lake Michigan, unveiled in the first community meeting for the project, is toned down a bit from the 2,000-foot-tall Spire plan that stirred emotions but never advanced beyond a 76-foot-deep foundation hole. The design, by One World Trade Center architect David Childs, includes a south tower rising 1,100 feet and an 850-foot north tower. Continue reading “First look at two-tower plan for Spire site: ‘There will not be a shot of Chicago that doesn’t have these buildings in them’”
Business Insider – by Lindsay Dodgson
Psychopaths are difficult to spot most of the time. They’re not the “Jack the Ripper” caricatures you see in films or read about in books. Often, psychopaths appear normal, which makes them hard to identify.
In the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM-5, someone with a psychopathic personality type is defined as having an inflated, grandiose sense of themself, and a knack for manipulating other people. But a diagnosis is rarely simple.
One thing psychopaths tend to have in common is the careers they go for. For example, you’re likely to find a lot of them in leadership positions because of their ruthlessness, charisma, and fearlessness. They’re very good at making snap decisions, but not so good at the empathetic professions like nursing or therapy.
Kevin Dutton, a British psychologist and writer, specialises in the study of psychopathy. In his book “The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success,” he made a list of the types of jobs that attract the most psychopaths.
“Functional psychopaths,” as Dutton calls them, “use their detached, unflinching, and charismatic personalities to succeed in mainstream society.” In other words, psychopaths often live as normal people with a few traits that make them different.
Scroll down to see what the top 10 career choices for psychopaths are, ranked in ascending order by popularity.
Continue reading “The 10 professions with the most psychopaths”
Georgia state Sen. Michael Williams made waves with his “deportation bus” ad, and for several hours, YouTube had taken the video down for violating its hate speech policy before later putting it back up, The Hill reported.
“They are doing everything they can to keep our message from reaching voters with the truth,” Williams said in a statement Wednesday. “They will not silence me nor our movement.” Continue reading “YouTube removed GOP candidate’s ‘deportation bus’ ad for hate speech — then put it back up”
A $5,000 reward is being offered by the Air Force for the return of a box of grenade rounds that accidently dropped on a North Dakota road from a vehicle driven by an airman from the 91st Missile Wing Security Forces team, The Washington Post is reporting.
The vehicle was traveling between two intercontinental ballistic missile sites on May 1 when the back hatch of the vehicle opened and the container of explosive ammunition fell out. The security forces of the 91st Missile Wing are responsible for guarding the intercontinental missile silos that Minot Air Force Base oversees. Continue reading “Air Force Offering Reward for Missing Box of Grenades”
If you are reading this, you are likely one of the more than 14 million people who vehemently believe that this audio clip is saying either the word “Yanny” or the word “Laurel.”
If you haven’t heard it yet, take a listen: Continue reading “‘Yanny’ or ‘Laurel’? Why People Hear Different Things In That Viral Clip”
An Illinois school resource officer stopped an armed teenager at a high school this morning, according to the local police chief, who applauded the officer for saving “countless” lives.
When the 19-year-old suspect fired several shots this morning near a gym at Dixon High School, the school resource officer reported the incident to authorities and then confronted the gunman, Dixon police chief Steven Howell said at a news conference. Continue reading “‘Heroic’ resource officer hailed for stopping armed teen at high school, saving lives”
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