DEBKAfile: Jordan’s King Abdullah II was warned in Washington this week that he had better start introducing political reforms without delay because a revolt against his throne was knocking at his door from neighboring Syria, debkafile’s Washington sources report. The king was handed intelligence updates at the State Department, Pentagon and National Security Council, informing [...]
DEBKAfile: Daryush Rezaee-Nejad, 35, who died Saturday, July 23, when two motorcyclists shot him in the head and throat in front of his home in Tehran, was a rising star of the new generation of Iranian nuclear scientists. debkafile’s Iranian sources disclose he was attached to one of the most secret teams of Iran’s nuclear [...]
The full text of “2083: A European Declaration Of Independence” can be read and downloaded here. Excerpted from the New York Times: On Saturday, Norway’s TV2, citing police sources, reported that the suspect uploaded a video to YouTube and a 1,500-page manifesto, written in English, to the Norwegian Web site Freak.no just hours before the [...]
National Review: In a better time, when the burdens of war were shared by an engaged nation and not shouldered exclusively by military families making up less than 1 percent of the population, the high farce that is the Afghanistan mission would have been obvious before President Obama uttered one word on Wednesday night. All [...]
That’s right folks… there has been no budget or plan offered by the Democrats. This will be the first one. Hard to compromise when the other side is not contributing any plan at all. WSJ Online: Senate Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid is working on a backup plan to increase the debt ceiling by $2.5 [...]
Page Tutor: All this talk about “stimulus packages” and “bailouts”… A billion dollars… A hundred billion dollars… Eight hundred billion dollars… One TRILLION dollars… What does that look like? I mean, these various numbers are tossed around like so many doggie treats, so I thought I’d take Google Sketchup out for a test drive and [...]
CNS News: The liberal activist group MoveOn.org says it is launching a campaign “to build unavoidable public pressure for full investigations” into Rupert Murdoch’s U.S. news outlets – including Fox News, a favorite target of liberals. “Could this be the end of Rupert Murdoch and Fox News?” the group asked in a July 21 email [...]
Daily Mail: Scientists have created more than 150 human-animal hybrid embryos in British laboratories. The hybrids have been produced secretively over the past three years by researchers looking into possible cures for a wide range of diseases. The revelation comes just a day after a committee of scientists warned of a nightmare ‘Planet of the [...]
OSLO, Norway (AP) — The man blamed for attacks on Norway’s government headquarters and a youth retreat said he was motivated by a desire to bring about a revolution in Norwegian society, his lawyer said Sunday. Police and his lawyer have said that Anders Behring Breivik confessed to the twin attacks, but denied criminal responsibility [...]
CNN: Washington (CNN) – President Barack Obama’s approval rating is down to 45 percent, driven in part by growing dissatisfaction on the left with the president’s track record in office, according to a new national survey. A CNN/ORC International Poll also indicates that the Republican “brand” is taking a beating in the minds of Americans. [...]
Fox News: OSLO – The Norwegian man accused of launching twin terror attacks in Oslo and at a nearby summer camp for teenagers that left at least 92 dead has “admitted responsibility,” his lawyer told Norway’s NRK television network Saturday. Police labeled the attacks as acts of terrorism punishable by up to 21 years in [...]
The show was sponsored by Hispanic Supremacist hate group “La Raza”. Komo News: Ten people were injured, some of them seriously, in a mass shooting Saturday afternoon at a low-rider car show and concert off Pacific Highway. Police and medics raced to the scene, in the 23200 block of Pacific Highway, as multiple reports of [...]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – New disagreement erupted late on Saturday between congressional Democrats and Republicans over the timetable for increasing U.S. borrowing authority, possibly jeopardizing efforts to avert a default. Democratic and Republican leaders escalated their fight despite instructions from President Barack Obama earlier to produce a budget plan by Monday that would clear the way [...]