Six people have been arrested on suspicion of attempting to break into a synagogue in what police are calling an “anti-Semitic incident”. They were among a group of people – thought to have come from a nearby house party – who were attempting to gain access to the building. A police spokesma[...]
Archive for March 22nd, 2015
Was last night’s Wal-Mart melee a domestic terrorism attack?
Around midnight last night, a group of people entered a Walmart store in Arizona and assaulted a female store employee, then attacked police in the parking lot when the officers arrived. One suspect was killed, another wounded, and all eight responding police officers suffered minor injuries, along [...]
Stephen King pays $1.4 million of Maine taxes and is called a tax cheat by America’s dumbest governor
Stephen King is one of America’s most prolific and popular fiction writers, famous for his mastery of the horror genre, and is financially very successful. He’s hardly the only rich and famous American to own a vacation home in Florida, but his legal residence is Maine, and he pays Maine[...]
Arab-Israelis: New rainmakers of Israeli politics?
by David Preston The Arab party coalition known as the “Joint List” came in third in the recent Israeli national election. This means they could theoretically form either a long-term coalition or temporary voting bloc with either Netanyahu’s Likud party or the runner-up Zionist Uni[...]
Russia moves to stop same-sex spouses receiving UN staff benefits. Vote due Tuesday.
Russia asks UN to put recognition of same-sex marriage for 43,000 staff worldwide to a vote this Tuesday Current policy is to recognize same-sex marriages among its staff, Previously UN workers’ personal status was determined by the laws of their country of nationality. Russia wants the g[...]
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Origins of the Brits
A nation of immigrants: how a new genetic map tells a story of Britons’ survival Geneticists and historians astonished to find patterns in DNA of today’s Britons that reflect historical events going back centuries, and in some cases millennia[...]