The Yosemite wildfire, which has been raging for weeks in the back country of the national park, has been captured on camera by fine art landscape photographer Darvin Atkeson.
His epic pictures show the 4,500-acre blaze making its way through one of the most beautiful national parks in America. The Meadow Fire was started by a lightning strike and has turned into a raging inferno due to the drought affecting parts of California. MORE
On 9/11/2014 at 8:42 UTC the Lake Tahoe region experienced a rare earthquake of M 3.5. More precisely the earthquake was located under the dormant Mt. Pluto Volcano. You can read about it here. (HT Karen for all the data) MORE
Anne Marie van Blijenburgh, a key eyewitness to ritual child killings by Dutch royalty and other elites including George Soros, describe the murders that have occurred since 2004 in Belgium and Holland. This is part one of a four part statement she made before officers of the International Common Law Court of Justice this past summer, as part of its prosecution of Pope Francis and others for child trafficking and Ninth Circle ritual killings. MORE
Director of the advertising agency Vanilla Brief (www.vanillabrief.com), Ben Slater, proves that the team at the ad agency are literally at the bleeding edge of exploration into the future of interactive. MORE
Angry teen? Looks more like a grown man (31 yrs?) throwing a tantrum over his unwarranted lifestyle. If he doesn’t calm down, other hateful vices might start brewing. He should be closely monitored under suicide watch. MORE
Authorities say last month’s high surf caused about $20 million in damage to a breakwater at the Los Angeles-Long Beach port complex.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said Tuesday the money is needed to make emergency repairs to breaches and near-breaches damaged by the impact of Hurricane Marie. MORE
The US Air Force has told a sergeant he will have to leave the military unless he agrees to take an oath with the phrase “so help me God,” officials said Tuesday.
In the latest religious controversy to roil the air force, the atheist airman last month was denied his request to re-enlist because of his refusal to swear to God — and he is now poised to take the military to court, his lawyer said. MORE
A report issued this week by the non-partisan Adva Center, which studies social inequalities in Israel, found that in the past two decades the population of Israel had grown by 60 percent and the population of its West Bank settlements by 240 percent. MORE
Just days after two major casino-hotels closed, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie came to this iconic seaside resort Monday to huddle with lawmakers and top executives about how to once again reinvent Atlantic City and save it from economic despair. MORE
Catholicized version of the Republican Party platform could never serve as the unifying, overarching moral vision of a pluralistic liberal democracy. MORE
He sounds like (pope) Francis? “Who am I to judge”
A statue of a naked Satan was erected in Vancouver Canada. The city has now removed the statue and claims that is was not authorized. I thought this was a perfect opportunity to talk about the warped satanic mind! What makes people adopt a satanic worldview? MORE
These truly are the days of old. In the Cold War the US payed American citizens to watch out for Russians invading from the arctic. Well, now Putin is close to doing such. Russia has now conquered an island just off the coast of Alaska. The island is roughly 300 miles away from the shores. Recently, Russians placed a flag on the relatively small piece of uninhabited land and declared it theirs. This is dangerous for the US, Putin has been moving his chest pieces far better than Obama. MORE
An unusual and massive military exercise has been going on in China, and it seems to have had purposes that are more political than military.
“Firepower-2014″ kicked off on July 15, and 10 consecutive live ammunition drills across military regions were launched by the Chinese People’ Liberation Army. In the meantime, the Navy and the Air Force also mobilized to participate in the exercises in the Beibu Gulf, Bohai Sea, Yellow Sea, and East China Sea. MORE
