Early risers got an unexpected treat on Sunday in Spain, as a fireball whistled across the country – lighting up the morning sky. It passed through eight regions, traveling the length of the country, leaving a trail of smoke in its wake.
The Spanish Meteor Network confirmed the fireball had passed over the country; however, they did not know where it had originated, the Local reported. MORE
1. If you can get arrested for hunting or fishing without a license, but not for being in the country illegally, you live in a country run by idiots.
2. If you have to get your parents’ permission to go on a field trip or take an aspirin in school, but not to get an abortion, you live in a country run by idiots. MORE
“If you are a Jew in Turkey not even a funeral is peaceful” says Burak Bekdil who is based in Ankara, Turkey. Here is the rest of his story:
Just imagine a Turkish Jew having a legal dispute with a Muslim Turk and facing this judge in the courtroom… MORE
“Old maid!”
The latest to call for a radical change in the Church’s practice and doctrine on marriage is the Belgian bishop of Antwerp, Johan Jozef Bonny. He did so in early September with a thirty-page memorandum in multiple languages, which he also sent to Pope Francis. MORE
From the man who believes the biggest problems facing our world today are not the decline of Christendom, the flooding of the world with vice, or the abortion holocaust, but instead the unemployment of the youth and the loneliness of the elderly, now comes yet another gem of Jesuit wisdom. At his Sunday Angelus address on September 7, 2014, the Argentinian apostate-claiming-to-be Pope, Jorge Bergoglio, said the following on the topic of fraternal correction: MORE
Two Russian strategic bombers conducted practice cruise missile attacks on the United States during a training mission last week that defense officials say appeared timed to the NATO summit in Wales.
The Russian Tu-95 Bear bombers were tracked flying a route across the northern Atlantic near Iceland, Greenland, and Canada’s northeast. MORE
U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday urged the devil to coverup his horns when he asked Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to “combat anti-Semitism” amidst reports that say that Turkish Jews are leaving the country due to growing anti-Semitism, exacerbated by the Islamist AKP government’s antagonism towards Israel and Jews. Turkey is emulating Nazi Germany. MORE
Police in the German city of Wuppertal are investigating a case of several young men who announced themselves to be ‘Sharia police’. The group was ‘patrolling’ the streets, urging people to refrain from various sorts of activities and entertainment.
The young men wearing orange safety vests with the words “Shariah police” written on the back caught both residents’ and police attention in Wuppertal in North Rhine-Westphalia in western Germany earlier this week. MORE
The 72-year-old (female) pensioner Waltraud Z. couldn’t believe her eyes when she came across this letter from Austria Homes (its shareholders are Caritas, Raika and the bishophric of St. Pölten) in her mailbox on 11 August.
“We hereby notify you that your rental contract cannot be extended as of 30/4/2015 as this flat is urgently needed to provide accommodation for asylum seekers. Salzburg Social Work is responsible for further assignment.” MORE
Nearly ever since the devastating 2011 Fukushima earthquake, we’ve been sharing censored news about the dying Pacific Ocean and this latest story from ENENews is a heartbreaker as we learn that not only are killer whales dying along the West coast and are now at their lowest level in 30 years, but that NO babies have been born in the last two years. MORE
Winter weather isn’t waiting for the calendar to say when it’s time to hit the northern U.S. this year, with snowfall predicted across as many as seven states by Tuesday. Montana, Wyoming, the Dakotas, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan should all see some snow in the coming week, if the new GFS model is correct, as expected temperatures dip into the 30s.
For the lucky in Wyoming, that snow will only fall on the mountains. MORE
Someone out there wants them cloned. And depending on how quickly science and biotechnology develops, that might come about sooner rather than later.
Cloning is the process of creating an exact genetic replica of an organism. We have cloned animals in the past, but recent discoveries of woolly mammoth mummies have highlighted just how close we are to resurrecting the extinct and the deceased. MORE
More than 800,000 people each year worldwide commit suicide – around one person every 40 seconds – with many using poisoning, hanging or shooting to end their own lives, says the study released Thursday. MORE
Severe thunderstorms across the Northeast on Sunday slowed operations at airports, wreaked havoc at outdoor sporting and musical events in New York and Philadelphia and sent people scurrying from a beach after three men were struck by lightning.
The men were injured at Orchard Beach on Pelham Bay in the Bronx on Sunday evening as bad storms rolled through the area, the Fire Department of New York said. The men were being treated at a hospital, and the extent of their injuries was unknown. MORE