Report: Jews suffer hostility in 71 countriesViolence and discrimination against religious groups by governments and rival faiths have reached new highs in all regions of the world except the Americas, according to a new Pew Research Center report. Jewish leaders fear online surge of Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ fuels new wave of hateOriginally published in
IMF official sees optimism for global economy in 2014 and beyond“My great hope is that 2014 will prove momentous in another way — the year in which the ‘seven weak years,’ economically speaking, slide into ‘seven strong years,'” she said. “Is this wishful thinking? No, but it will not simply happen on its own. Getting
NSA ‘ harvested around 200m text messages a day’ The US National Security Agency has been gathering nearly 200 million text messages a day from around the world, gathering data on people’s travel plans, contacts and credit card transactions, according to the Guardian newspaper. Code-named “Dishfire,” the NSA programme collects “pretty much everything it can,”
Obamacare Time Bomb: Heirs May Face Bill for Your HealthcareAs part of the 1993 budget reconciliation bill, Congress required states to implement the Medicaid Estate Recovery Program (MERP) to seek reimbursement of payments for nursing homes and long-term care facilities. Obamacare, officially known as The Affordable Care Act, greatly expanded the services for which reimbursement
On the same wavelength– literally Researchers at the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience and Centre for the Biology of Memory at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) have discovered a mechanism that the brain uses to filter out distracting thoughts to focus on a single bit of information. Their results are reported in
Women who have had an abortion are 636% more likely to develop breast cancer that those who have not The debate over abortion rights intensifies with the release of a study in India that says that women who have had an abortion are 636% more likely to develop breast cancer that those who have not.
Russian security forces battle militants before OlympicsThree Russian servicemen and four gunmen were killed in a shootout in southern Russia on Wednesday during a sweep for militants before the Sochi Winter Olympics. Russia’s National Anti-terrorism Committee (NAC) said the dead gunmen included a man accused of carrying out a car bomb attack in the city
You’re ‘Not Allowed to Talk About the Bible’: Teacher Reportedly Cuts Off First-Grader’s Classroom SpeechAn advocacy group is claiming that a teacher at California’s Helen Hunt-Jackson Elementary School showed undue hostility toward a first grader’s faith last month during a presentation about holiday traditions. …Brynn Williams was speaking to her class about her family’s Christmas
NSA able to target offline computers using radio-waves for surveillance, cyber-attacks The secret technology uses covert radio waves transmitted from small circuit boards and USB cards clandestinely inserted into targeted computers, The New York Times reported. The waves can then be sent to a briefcase-sized relay station intelligence agencies can set up just miles away,
Joel Osteen Tells Larry King ‘Scripture Says Homosexuality Is A Sin.. But I Don’t Want To Preach About It’ King asked Osteen, “What are your views on homosexuality?” to which Osteen replied “The same that they’ve been. I believe that scripture says that it’s a sin but I always follow that up by saying you