As conflict continued in Iraq, President Barack Obama waged a different kind of war during his vacation at Martha’s Vineyard – on the golf course.
Obama was escorted to the Farm Neck Golf Club, in Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts, by a huge motorcade, which included a SWAT team and two snipers who peered out of an open trunk. MORE
The uncle of a young boy who was photographed gripping the severed head of a slain Syrian soldier says Australia should ‘forget’ the image which has caused outrage.
Khaled Sharrouf’s son, believed to be aged seven, used both hands to hoist the decapitated head up as he posed for a chilling photo. MORE
Hospitals in Europe are preparing for the possible spread of Ebola out of Africa as the World Health Organisation said a vaccine could be ‘rushed through’ by early next year. Doctors at the specialised quarantine unit at Berlin’s Charite hospital today showed off their readiness, amid news that two Germans could be carrying the deadly virus.
One suspected victim was yesterday in isolation at a Hamburg hospital after coming down with a fever after a visit to Sierra Leone, where the virus has claimed 12 lives. MORE
A Yahoo News tweet went out at 4:41 p.m. Eastern) Sunday and it stated that 145 people in the Atlanta area have contracted Ebola. The Yahoo News tweet disappeared about 20 minutes later, only to be replaced by a tweet stating that the first tweet was a mistake. However, the Yahoo News Twitter release was retweeted hundreds of times in that 20 minutes.
The tweet was captured and was replayed on Before Its News. MORE
The cheerful sign outside Jane Cornell’s summer school classroom in Pennsylvania’s wealthiest county reads “Welcome” and “Bienvenidos” in polished handwriting.
Inside, giggling grade-schoolers who mostly come from homes where Spanish is the primary language worked on storytelling with a tale about a crocodile going to the dentist. This poster and classroom at the Mary D. Lang Kindergarten Center are a subtle representation of America’s changing school demographics. MORE
Just another sign of the Godless, pagan-is tic society we are evolving into. MORE
The SUPERMOON will light up the sky in a beautiful spectacle this evening – a phenonmenon which has already begun in parts of the world.
Lunar activity is said to mark the END OF TIME, with some religious groups believing it to be a sign of the JUDGEMENT DAY.
It occurs when the moon’s path of orbit leads it to sweep dangerously close to Earth causing tides to rise and the crust of the planet to shift. MORE
The coastal plains of Florida are facing serious threat from a large Red Tide bloom which has not been seen for almost a decade.
The Red Tide is posing devastating infestation on the marine life of Florida. The incoming tide has already claimed lives of thousands of fish in the Gulf of Mexico and it is now reported to be closing in on the coast. The Red tide bloom is expected to wash ashore striking the mainland in around two weeks. MORE
Not every Yazidi resident in northern Iraq escaped before the Islamic State, formerly known as ISIS, captured towns in the region. The terrorist group told the people to convert to Islam or die, killed 500 of them, buried some alive, and took hundreds of girls as slaves. MORE
$8,200 for the emergency room visit, $180 for the shot, $242 for the bandage and $8 for the ointment, plus hundreds of dollars for the nurse practitioner.
“I got a Band-Aid and a tetanus shot. How could it be $9,000? This is crazy,”
Linda Schwimmer of the New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute said the right price for getting a finger bandaged should be $400 to $1,000. MORE
The study starts with two basic facts: First, looking at the whole sample of about 14,000 American adults, 59 percent answer that they have more sympathy for Israelis and 16 percent say they have more sympathy for Palestinians, a ratio of almost 4-to-1. Second, Newport finds that “religious Americans are significantly more likely than less religious Americans to be sympathetic to the Israelis,” confirming what common sense already tells us. MORE
Creative way of putting the war between Hamas & Israel into perspective with children in a playground. Hamas, Israel, UN & USA are all included in this :40 second piece. No actors were involved, one was possibly hurt but it was difficult to clearly see. MORE
Doctors sent blood samples to the Colorado Department of Health and Environment for testing. The state confirmed that they had identified bubonic plague in her blood culture on Friday.
The woman has since been treated with antibiotics and released from the hospital. MORE
A word of warning is going out across the internet to those in Atlanta, Georgia, be VERY CAREFUL with your drinking water if the source is recycled water via the Atlanta sewage system. According to this brand new report from The Watchers, ebola virus is now being released into Atlanta’s sewage system. MORE
Strange rumblings coming from the tuya Herðubreið are confounding observers as to their possible source.
Vísir reports that visitors to the mesa-shaped volcano in northeast Iceland have been unable to determine if the persistent rumblings coming from Herðubreið are being caused by an avalanche, landslide, or something else entirely. Rangers around Herðubreið were the first to announce the rumblings, which lasted about 30 seconds. MORE and 3 days of darkness