Now, Donna Roberts usually tells friends her husband originally texted her by mistake, but the parents of two kids actually met when Mark Ellis found Donna’s phone number on the wall of a toilet at his local pub. Ellis decided to text the number, which was part of a message that read, “If you want … Read more
60 year-old Italian composer and pianist Ludovico Einaudi performed his composition “Elegy for the Arctic” last Friday in the Svalbard islands in Norway facing sub-zero temperatures. A grand piano standing majestically in the middle of melting icebergs is surely not a common sight. Yet, it is not only for the pleasure of the eye or … Read more
Somali pirates are active again in the waters off Somalia, according to the U.S. Secretary of Defense. Read more
Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen advance to the final round of the French election set for May 17. Macron is a politically inexperienced former investment banker in favor of staying in the EU and reforming French economic laws. His supporters often consider Le Pen extremist. Le Pen is anti-immigration and is in favor of … Read more
In the first month of 2016, Islamic attacks in 23 countries took the lives of at least 1,508 people and injured 1,714 others, according to Islamic violence watch group The Religion of Peace. Among the 138 attacks that took place in January, 38 were suicide blasts. Since the World Trade Center attack in 2001, when … Read more
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In the previous year, Islamic violence took the lives of over 27,000 people and critically injured another 26,000, according to an extremism watch organization that tracks Islamic attacks. 2015’s attacks took place in 52 countries worldwide, and included 475 suicide attacks. The Religion of Peace, an organization that collects information about attacks motivated by Islamic ideas and tallies … Read more
Bangkok Metropolitan Police have announced a “New Years Gift” to the city: traffic tickets will be reduced to just 100 baht starting today. The gift has a serious side: the metro police are dealing with a massive backlog of unpaid traffic tickets. Because the repercussions associated with not paying these tickets are usually insignificant, many people … Read more
For plotting to blow up an in-session Parliament, Polish former university professor Brunon Kwiexien has been sentenced to 13 years prison. On Monday a Polish court handed down the sentence to the former Krakow University of Agriculture chemistry professor. Kwiecien, 48, an unaffiliated nationalist, cited as motives for the crime, planned in 2012, a belief … Read more
ISIS will be eliminated in about six months, Assange predicted, who blamed both Russia and Turkey for the jet downing last month Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange spoke via live video stream on a panel on security and surveillance featuring terrorism expert Philip Giraldi, political activist Raymond McGovern, and strategic analyst Gregory Copley Thursday. At the end of the discussion, … Read more
Report by Cambridge professor’s takes a critical look at economics of immigration The current large-scale immigration policy of the UK will result in small gross economic benefits while creating serious negative consequences, according to a UK economics professor who has just published a report on his research. The moral and practical questions related to controlling … Read more
The number of coalition UAVs in the skies over Syria has increased three-fold over the last few days, according the the Russian Ministry of Defense, which released a video this week of a Russian drone filming an American drone from above. With now more than 50 UAVs, often all in the sky at the same time, … Read more