The warning pinpointed an area “of concern” in St. George, Utah, where background radiation levels more than doubled today from the typical reading. In Reno, “the current background radiation level has increased suddenly by more than 200 points from the typical average.” LINK

“We have again reviewed the ads submitted for the SSM Cardinal Glennon Children’s Medical Center and have concluded that we will accept the original requested commercial.  It will run in Saturday’s VCU at Northern Iowa basketball game on ESPNU.  This decision is consistent with our practice of individual review of all ads under our commercial advocacy standards.” LINK

The IMF’s team of monkeys has been working around the clock on this one, figuring that developed nations can increase their overall tax revenue by increasing tax rates. They’ve singled out the US, suggesting that the US government could maximize its tax revenue by increasing tax brackets to as high as 71%. LINK

Californian scientists tweaked two genetic pathways in the worm Caenorhabditis elegans to amplify its lifespan. They said the worms lived to the human equivalent of 400 to 500 years. Research raises the prospect of anti-ageing treatments based on genetic interactions, and the next step is to investigate if the effects occur in mice. LINK

Obama fearing a revolution against him by the states, has moved swiftly by nationalizing nearly all National Guard Forces in multiple states; Georgia, Alabama, Kansas, Minnesota,Tennessee, Virginia, Louisiana, South Carolina – to name a few. 

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Gene-doping is a series of techniques for genetic manipulation and modification.  You may have heard of it in the past as being called gene-therepy, a practice which manipulates genetics in order to help sick people.  Whether you call it gene-doping or gene-therepy depends if you are using the techniques on a healthy person or a sick person, LINK

President Obama’s hands may be clean. However, there are a multitude of people that have been close to this president who have not lived to talk about what they know about this administration. Are these coincidences, or are these deaths the result of Obama’s handlers? LINK

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The “coming persecution of Christians” has already begun.  It is already here.  So why is the mainstream media in the United States almost totally silent about this phenomenon?  When some politician somewhere around the globe inadvertently offends homosexuals or Muslims, it instantly makes headline news. LINK

Slate writer Aisha Harris recently published an op-ed headlined “Santa Claus Should Not Be a White Man Anymore.” In it, she recalled feeling “insecurity and shame” growing up as a black girl with a white Santa. “Isn’t it time that our image of Santa better serve all the children he delights each Christmas?” she ponders. LINK

What’s new is that Hersh says that the main reason Obama backed down from war wasn’t Putin’s brilliant chess move – or even the overwhelming opposition of the American people to war. LINK

President Obama’s new staff adviser, senior progressive strategist John Podesta, is a key player in an initiative seeking more government regulation of the oceans and the ceding of U.S. oceans to United Nations-based international law.LINK

The Bishop made these calls to self-defense as a response to the jihadist take over of the ancient Christian village of Maloula, in which 12 nuns and orphanage workers were kidnapped. LINK

Sports or Catholicism? The answer is _________. Next round of choices inevitably are going to get harder. (Hint: if you choose sports: ‘Game over man, game over.’) LINK