Blue-helmeted United Nations peacekeepers deployed in African countries may soon have a new tool in their arsenal: the surveillance drone.

Drones are heading to the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as part of an intervention force to root out the rebel groups that have destabilized the region for years. Meanwhile, the UN is mulling the idea of unarmed drones sent to Ivory Coast as the country recovers from nearly a decade of civil unrest.

Experts say unarmed drones could give often-beleaguered peacekeepers an edge in missions where they can be outfoxed by guerrillas, who often have greater numbers and more local knowledge than UN forces possess.

Ruler of The Nations
by Gary DeMar.
Biblical Principles for Government.
Does the Bible have answers for the complex problems of modern civil government?
Yes. Absolutely.
Scandal ridden and conspiracy laden, our entire government system is in trouble. From the court houseto the White House, the government of our land has been crippled with corruption, bureaucratic red tape, and political finagling.
Many constitutional experts fear that if the system does not soon recover it’s integrity – and thus the confidence of it’s citizenry – it will not survive to the end of this century. But theyhave little or no idea how to correct that integrity. They don’t have the answers.
But the Bible does.
In this volume of the ground-breaking Biblical Blueprint Series, Gary DeMar outlines specifically what those answers are. He shows us howwe can regain the greatness of the American system.
The Bible tells us what to do, when, where, how, and why. It offers us a “blueprint” for civil stability, Ruler of the Nations, lays out that“blueprint” simply, practically, and understandingly.

President Barack Obama on Tuesday forcefully defended his policy towards Syria.
Obama batted down calls for America to escalate its role in Syria's civil war after U.S. intelligence concluded that President Bashar al-Assad likely used the deadly nerve agent sarin on rebels seeking his ouster. Obama said proof that Assad unleashed chemical weapons would be a "game-changer" but warned that the United States cannot "rush to judgment."

"We don’t know how they were used, when they were used, who used them, we don’t have a chain of custody that establishes what exactly happened," Obama told reporters during the hastily announced question-and-answer session in the White House briefing room. "I’ve got to make sure I’ve got the facts."

"If we end up rushing to judgment without hard, effective evidence” confirming the U.S. intelligence community's preliminary finding that Assad likely used the deadly nerve agent sarin, then America may find it hard to rally support from the international community and even some partners in the region who support Assad's ouster. So "it’s important for us to do this in a prudent way," Obama said.

But the president repeated that the use of chemical weapons would be a game-changer "because what that portends is potentially even more devastating attacks on civilians, and it raises the strong possibility that those chemical weapons can fall into the wrong hands,."

"By game changer I mean that we would have to rethink the range of options that are available to us," said Obama, who has sent aid to Syria's opposition and neighboring countries like Turkey and Jordan but thus far resisted calls to arm the rebels or attack Assad's forces directly.

Obama said there is "a spectrum of options" that are "on the shelf right now" but might be used because using chemical weapons would represent "an escalation, in our view, of the threat."

Americans have a peculiar conviction that the one thing money can't give us is satisfaction.You can't buy happiness, we've all been told. "Mo Money Mo Problems" , Biggie concurred. And while we can all agree that desperate poverty is hideous, there is a broadly held view that after a certain level of income (around $75,000, say), more money doesn't buy more well-being.
But it's just not so. Economists Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers have been arguing for years that, yes, richer families tend to be happier, and no, there is not an automatic cut-off point. In other words: Mo money, fewer problems .
Their elegant and straightforward new paper can be nicely summed up in the two graphs below. The first graph looks at income groups within countries. In all nations surveyed, richer households reported more life satisfaction. (Statistical note: This graph is logarithmic. That means doubling your income from $1,000 to $2,000 raises satisfaction by the same amount as doubling your income from $10,000 to $20,000. You can imagine why this might make a good theoretical case for income redistribution
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The next graph compares different countries, rather than different households within countries. Here, each circle represents a nation, with the richest ones clustered on the right. If extra income didn't matter for well-being, you'd expect the line to flatten. Instead, it steepens. More money doesn't just mean happier families. It means happier countries.
But Biggie was ontosomething. Even though the United States seems to score the highest in life satisfaction in the first graph, other studies have suggested an overall flat-lining of happiness here. Economist Daniel Kahneman found that people earning above $75,000 "do not appear to enjoy either more positive affect nor less negative affect than those earning just below that," Stevenson and Wolfers report. In a past paper , the duo found that, although the U.S economy had doubled in size since the early 1970s,overallwell-being has declined.
Stevenson and Wolfers' two-part explanation could be summed up as, well,mo money, mo problems. Those problems would be social turmoil (such as the rise of single-parent households) and income inequality, which they suggested could act as a tax on self-reported satisfaction, counteracting the effects of rising total income.
That's not a reason to stop reaching for policies that grow the pie. But it might be a reason to consider better policies to divide it so that more reaches the poorest families.
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Islamic socialism ?

Is England better then America ?

Excursion by Michael K. Jones.

Investigators on Monday removed bags of evidence including some containing DNA samples from the home in Rhode Island where the widow of suspected Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev has been living, according to a person familiar with the investigation.
The longer this goes on, the nastier it stinks. How many of the people around the bombers knew about it/helped???

Hollywood actor Walken starred in the1996 video game Ripper, a gruesome adventure which seesa brutal serial killer terrorising New York in the year 2040.
Chilling: 'Canadian cannibal' suspect Luka Magnotta in an image from his own website. He is believed to have been inspired by a video game starring Christopher Walken as a serial killer addicted to butchering his victims
The game can have a number of different endings depending on the path the player follows and although the Vince Magnotta character isostensibly a police officer investigating the murders, one outcome sees him as the 'Ripper'.
More...
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The International Monetary Fund and Egyptian officials said on Sunday they were working to reach a deal on a proposed $4.8 billion loan in "coming weeks," citing progress in weekend talks in Washington.
"Work will continue with the objective of reaching agreement on an IMF stand-by arrangement to support the authorities' national economic program in the coming weeks," IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde and Egyptian finance officials said in a joint statement.
The talks, held on the sidelines of twice-yearly meetings of the IMF and World Bank, included Egypt's central bank governor, Hisham Ramez, Finance Minister Al-Mursi al-Sayed Hejazy, and Planning Minister Ashraf El-Araby.
The statement said Egypt was "firmly committed to addressing its economic and financial challenges with the objective of restoring sustained and socially balanced growth, and they are already taking encouraging actions in this direction".

And how much of that money do you really think is going to help the average Egyptian it is only going to further the brotherhood?!

Sharia Finance Helps To Finance Islamic Terrorism.
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Shariah-compliant banking, sometimes called Islamic banking, is growing in popularity in the Western and Islamic worlds. But critics sayAmerican interest in the system at a time of economic crisis is opening the door to increased Islamic influence in the American banking system. Worse yet, some fear the banks may be helping to finance international terrorism.
Allowing Shariah-compliant finance in the U.S. is green-lighting a seditious system that supports jihad, said Frank Gaffney, founder and president of the Center for Security Policy in Washington,D.C.
“If you understand what Shariah is, you understand that it is a pretty awful system. Not something that you’dwant insinuated in your society and becoming a major feature of your economic system,” Gaffney said.

OTTAWA (Reuters) - A Canadian man accused of murdering and dismembering a Chinese student, eating parts of the corpse and posting an online video of the crime will go on trial in Montreal on September 15, 2014, an official said on Monday.

Luka Rocco Magnotta, 30, is accused of killing Jun Lin in Montreal in May 2012, posting a video on the Internet of the stabbing death and defiling the body and eating parts of it.

He has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder, indignities to a body and publishing obscene materials.

Jean Pascal Boucher, a spokesman for Quebec's prosecution service, said a crowded court schedule explains why the trial cannot be held until next year. Lawyers for both sides estimate the trial will last between six and eight weeks, he added.
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canibal rasist?!?

Tens of millions of U.S. dollars in cash were delivered by the CIA in suitcases, backpacks and plastic shopping bags to the office of Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai for more than a decade, according to the New York Times, citing current and former advisers to the Afghan leader.

The so-called "ghost money" was meant to buy influence for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) but instead fuelled corruption and empowered warlords, undermining Washington's exit strategy from Afghanistan, the newspaper quoted U.S. officials as saying.

"The biggest source of corruption in Afghanistan", one American official said, "was the United States."

The CIA declined to comment on the report and the U.S. State Department did not immediately comment. The New York Times did not publish any comment from Karzai or his office.

"We called it ‘ghost money'," Khalil Roman, who served as Karzai's chief of staff from 2002 until 2005, told the New York Times. "It came in secret and it left in secret."

For more than a decade the cash was dropped off every month or so at the Afghan president's office, the newspaper said.

Handing out cash has been standard procedure for the CIA in Afghanistan since the start of the war.

The cash payments to the president's office do not appear to be subject to oversight and restrictions placed on official American aid to the country or the CIA's formal assistance programs, like financing Afghan intelligence agencies, and do not appear to violate U.S. laws, said the New York Times.

There was no evidence that Karzai personally received any of the money, Afghan officials told the newspaper. The cash was handled by his National Security Council, it added.

U.S. and Afghan officials familiar with the payments were quoted as saying that the main goal in providing the cash was to maintain access to Karzai and his inner circle and to guarantee the CIA's influence at the presidential palace, which wields tremendous power in Afghanistan's highly centralized government.

Much of the money went to warlords and politicians, many with ties to the drug trade and in some cases the Taliban, the New York Times said. U.S. and Afghan officials were quoted as saying the CIA supported the same patronage networks that U.S. diplomats and law enforcement agents struggled to dismantle, leaving the government in the grip of organized crime.

In 2010, Karzai said his office received cash in bags from Iran, but that it was a transparent form of aid that helped cover expenses at the presidential palace. He said at the time that the United States made similar payments.

The latest New York Times report said much of the Iranian cash, like the CIA money, went to pay warlords and politicians.

For most of Karzai's 11-year reign, there has been little interest in anti-corruption in the army or police. The country's two most powerful institutions receive billions of dollars from donors annually but struggle just to recruit and maintain a force bled by high rates of desertion.

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The gruesome trial of an abortion provider resumes in Philadelphia Monday. The doctor, Kermit Gosnell, is charged with killing a female patient and seven babies.
Gosnell's name may not be familiar, and that makes some abortion rights opponents angry. The case has suddenly become a political firestorm.
Dr. Kermit Gosnell Murder Trial: Unlicensed doc fled Pa. abortion clinic raid, receptionist testifies
This week, prosecutors will continue to call witnesses as they seek the death penalty against Gosnell. So far, several patients and about a half dozen former employees have testified about the conditions at his clinic.
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It resembles the stereotypical image of extraterrestrials and had UFO enthusiasts around the world going into conspiracy-theory overdrive.
But the 6-inch skeleton found in theAtacama Desert in Chile in 2003 by a treasure hunter - dubbed the 'AtacamaHumanoid' or 'Ata' for short - has been declared human. It puts paid to claims that the figure was a monkey, or as some suggested an alien that crash-landed on Earth.
In a documentary called 'Sirius', which premiered on Monday in Hollywood, Stanford scientists conclude that the odd looking figure is in fact human and lived for up to eight years before death.
Stanford scientists conclude that the odd looking figure is not a monkey, but human
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"I can say with absolute certainty that it is not a monkey. It is human -- closer to human than chimpanzees. It lived to the age of sixto eight. Obviously, itwas breathing, it waseating, it was metabolizing. It calls into question how big the thing might have been when it was born,"said Garry Nolan, director of stem cell biology at Stanford University's School of Medicine in California.
According to a Chilean local newspaper, a treasure hunter OscarMunoz found the remains on October 19, 2003 when he was looking for objects of historical value in La Noria, an abandoned town in the Atacama Desert.
UFO experts hoped that the discovery would reveal the firstconfirmed visitation to Earth by extraterrestrial life.
However, the Stanford team concluded that it wasan 'interesting mutation' of a male human that had survived post-birth for between six and eight years.
The team of scientists also refuted that the specimen was a hoax, citing clear signs of the existenceof organs and bone marrow material.
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Basically, it posits that if life becomes more complex at a steadily exponential rate that can be extrapolated from recent evolutionary history, then life predates Earth.
In a thought-provoking paper published at arXiv (a non-peer-reviewed journal that’s a favorite of mathematicians and physicists for pre-press papers), Alexei Sharov, a staff scientist at the U.S. National Institute on Aging, and Richard Gordon, a theoretical biologist at the Gulf Specimen Marine Laboratory in Florida,examined recent increases in genetic complexity. They plotted “genome complexity,” measured by the genome size of majorphylogenetic trees, on a logarithmic scale over time. The resulting graph, shown above, determines that life gets doubly more complex about every 376 million years.
Sharov and Gordon said the relationship reminded them of Moore’s law, which describes how computers increase in complexity exponentially. Moore’s law holds that the number of transistors on a computer processing unit will double every two years (sometimes given as 18 months), accounting for an exponential growth in processing power.
If you use Moore’s law to extrapolate backward from modern computers, you’ll get back to zero in the 1960s, when microchips originated.
But if you apply the same logic to the genomic data (going back to a genome size of just a single DNA base pair) the equation doesn’t seem to square – life would have to originate around 9.7 billion years ago. TheEarth itself is only 4.5 billion years old. On its face, the graph seems to argue for the development of life on other planets -- did our pre-cellular ancestors ride here on the back of an asteroid?
There are several problems with this theory, though. The major one is that, obviously, we don’t have any 9.7-billion-year-old fossils to confirm what’s projected on the graph. As XKCD -- the popular nerdy webcomic -- illustrates, extrapolating beyondyour data can be a dangerous thing.
The “origin point” onthe graph, with a lifeform consisting ofjust a single DNA base pair, is also not really likely to have ever existed. Many scientists think that the early forms of lifeon Earth had genomes made of RNA, or possible some other kind of nucleotide.
What might really raise the eyebrows ofbiologists is the fact that Sharov and Gordon used genomesize as a measure of “genetic complexity.”The largest known genome on Earth belongs to either the amoeba Polychaos dubium (possibly 670 billion base pairs of DNA long, though this claim is disputed) or a rare Japanese flower called Paris japonica (149 billion base pairs of DNA). Humans (3.2 billion DNA base pairs) don’teven rank highest among vertebrates; that honor goes to the marbled lungfish,which has a genome made of 130 billion base pairs of DNA.
Also, Moore’s law of doubling complexity applies to the development of microchips; it wasn’t designed to describe the behavior of a messy biological process like evolution.
Evolution as we understand it now is not a linear path of developing complexity; the theory of punctuatedequilibrium assumes a more chaotic process full of spikes and dips. Short periods can see a furious radiation of evolution and speciation, thanks to a number of factors. A certain trait (like the ability to breatheair) could arise and allow organisms to colonize new territory, or some massive extinction event (like the asteroid blamed for the end of the dinosaurs) clears the board for a new set of species to take over. Some organisms change rapidly over the generations; others, like the coelacanth , are content to stay pretty much the way they are for millions of years.
“Is it reasonable to think that the complexity of life hasincreased at the same rate throughout Earth’s history?” the arXiv blog on MIT’s Technology Review wondered. “Perhaps the early steps in the origin of life created complexity much more quickly than evolution does now, which will allow the timescale to be squeezed into the lifespan of the Earth.”
SOURCE: Sharov et al. “Life Before Earth.”
http://www.ibtimes.co.in/articles/461497/20130426/evolution-moores-law-genome-moores-law-dna-moores-law-life-predate-earth-genetic-complexity-moores-l.htm

Enough American blood has been spilled in this useless part of the world. No more American troops in the middle east. No more American money to support future terrorists.
I vote that we let MUSLIM countries solve this one........Saudi, Kuwait and UAE have lots of money and lots of idle young men doing nothing ........so let them help this muslim situation.......NOT OUR BUSINESS............

How many more people like these two brothers are living in our country and working to kill Americans?