Ebola at tipping point to be stopped before global spread, says CDC boss
Sustainability Innovation Tuesday, Sep 2, 2014 8:10 PM UTC CDC: Ebola could rapidly spread beyond West Africa "The level of outbreak is beyond anything we've seen -- or even imagined" Joanna Rothkopf Follow Share Topics: ebola, cdC, Thomas frieden, Epidemic, Sustainability News, News (Credit: CDC) D ...
Château Miraval: the French hideaway where Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt got married
Château Miraval: the French hideaway where Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt got married Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt chose none other than their Château Miraval in the south of France as the perfect backdrop to their secret wedding. The sprawling French hideaway, nestled in the beautiful Provence countr ...
Nuevo video muestra decapitación del periodista norteamericano Steven Sotloff por el grupo terrorista Estado Islámico ISIS
Tomado de http://www.martinoticias.com/content/article/74065.html Nuevo video muestra decapitación de periodista norteamericano ******** En el video, un hombre enmascarado también amenaza a un rehén británico, al que identifica como David Haines, y advierte a los gobiernos que no respalden "la alian ...
Mark Levin: A Flaming Ignoramus on the Civil War
I originally posted the article belon on February 6, 2010. Today, September 2, 2014, Mark Levin again displayed his ignorance on his radio show by praising Abraham Lincoln. Mark no doubts thinks the Russians are terrible aggressors for invading the Ukraine this week -- and he'd be right. For some re ...
9 Beliefs that are Preventing Humans from Evolving
I love Star Trek. But before you let that scare you off from reading this, hear me out. One of my favorite quotes of all time comes from the character Q, an omnipotent god. In the last episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, he says to Captain Picard, "The exploration that awaits you [is] not map ...
Summer Holidays!
Heyy guys, well as you know summer is almost over (I'm not sure about America because I live in England) so I thought I'd share my summer with you guys! So on the first week of the summer holidays I went to Costa de Almeria, Spain for a week with my dad. We had an amazing time and I met two friends; ...
Foreign jihadists: countries of origin and why they join
Click chart to enlarge Excerpts from The Economist, Aug. 30, 2014: The Soufan Group, a New York-based intelligence outfit, reckons that by the end of May as many as 12,000 fighters from 81 nations had joined the fray [Islamic State], among them some 3,000 from the West (see chart above). The number ...
America's Strategy for ISIS/ISIL
I think it might be wise to handle them quite different than al Qaeda in Afghanistan. They are a very mobile bunch and, perhaps like a herd of bison, need to be "allowed" to run together into a cul de sac where they can be slaughtered en masse. As I understand it there are a few thousand of them. Th ...
Bloom on New Left
"But the activists had no special quarrel with the classic texts, and they were even a bit infected by their Frankfurt School masters' habit of parading their intimacy with high culture. Radicals had at an earlier stage of egalitarianism already dealt with the monarchic, aristocratic and antidemocra ...
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North America. Canada. August 2014 'Wherefore, Joseph truly saw our day. And he obtained a promise of the Lord, that out of the fruit of his loins the Lord God would raise up a righteous branch unto the house of Israel; not the Messiah, but a branch which was to be broken off, nevertheless, to be re ...
How America Made ISIS: Their Videos and Ours, Their ‘Caliphate’ and Ours
This piece first appeared at TomDispatch. Whatever your politics, you’re not likely to feel great about America right now. After all, there’s Ferguson (the whole world was watching!), an increasingly unpopular president, a Congress whose approval ...
America’s housing not ready for ever-expanding over-50 population
Americans are living longer and America doesn’t have the housing for them, according to a new report by the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies and AARP Foundation. The study, Housing America’s Older Adults — Meeting the Needs of An Aging ...
The reason Hawkeye wasn't in 'Captain America 2: The Winter Soldier'
Did you find it peculiar that one of Marvel's top S.H.I.E.L.D agents, Hawkeye, was not present in the pursuit of Captain America when he went rogue in "Captain America 2: The Winter Soldier"? You definitely weren't alone and the filmmakers for Marvel's ...
Solomon rebels against Made In America
IF THIS weekend's Made In America festival proved one thing, it showed that not much is made in America anymore. We used to make steel, cars, clothing and shoes. Now all we make are cat videos and people. And among those people, the only ones who count are ...
Bank of America Still in Big Trouble
Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC) may have settled on a $16.65 billion fine for mortgage law violations. However, if faces at least one more large lawsuit, customer service problems and pressure on earnings over the next several years. Bank of America is ...
A Photographer’s Paradise in America
PERPIGNAN, France — Jean-Pierre Laffont’s book, “Photographer’s Paradise” will be launched this Thursday at the Visa Pour l’Image festival. Jean-Pierre Laffont’s America is a land of poverty, corporate greed, racism and violence. But it is ...
'America's Next Top Model' Recap: Party String and a Cold Shower Spell Trouble
America's Next Top Model's first "real" (?) episode picked up this week right where the fun ended last week after the top 14 models were chosen to move forward and the remaining eight were left standing on the beach with nothing to show for their work ...