The safety record at the U.S. laboratory that created the atomic bomb is facing intensifying criticism as work ramps up to produce a key component for the nation’s nuclear weapons cache. A series published this week by the Center for Public Integrity cites numerous internal reports and other documents outlining federal regulators’ concerns about safety lapses at Los Alamos National Laboratory over the years, including spilled plutonium and workers positioning plutonium rods in a way that could have been disastrous. In an internal memo obtained by The Associated Press, Los Alamos officials took aim at critics and reassured employees of the safety of the lab’s facility for making plutonium cores used to trigger the explosions in nuclear bombs. “As employees, you sh...
Egypt on Wednesday 27 Sivan delivered fuel to Gaza for its power plant after the PA (Palestinian Authority) has refused to continue pay Israel for electricity and Israel cut electricity to Gaza. Some view the Egyptian move as a sign that relations are improving between Egypt and Hamas as this is the first time that Cairo has permitted a fuel delivery to Gaza since the Hamas takeover in 2007. Tanker trucks flying Egyptian flags were seen driving into Gaza. It is reported that the Egyptians have permitted sufficient fuel to permit seven hours of electricity per day for three days, one million liters. While the Israel Electric Company has curtailed electricity to Gaza, Israeli government officials are signaling the matter in Gaza is an internal one to be worked out between Gaza and Ramallah...
There is a reason that it is men who charge to war. When is the passion that drives a man to rise up to fight informed by the will of God?  When is his rush to arms “righteous indignation” and when is it simply hubris, or worse?  Men all too often become consumed with their passions to right a perceived slight; all too often afire by their quest for power.  In that heat of passion, of indignation, of perceived righteousness a man’s ability to reason is often overwhelmed and his ability to coolly assess his best and most appropriate way forward is too often lost. He is awash in foolish pride. When that happens, when the fire of the moment consumes a man’s ability to reason, he is fortunate indeed if he has a good wife by his side.  And if he ha...
Struggling to advance his agenda in Washington, President Donald Trump traveled to the Midwest for a raucous rally with his loyal supporters — the kind of event he relished before winning the White House. Trump touched down Wednesday evening in rainy Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and headed to a local community college, where he got a look at agriculture technology innovations before leading a campaign-style rally. He reveled in Georgia Republican Karen Handel’s congressional victory in an election viewed as an early referendum on his presidency. “We’re 5-0 in special elections,” Trump said in front of a boisterous crowd that packed a downtown arena. “The truth is, people love us … they haven’t figured it out yet.” He also applauded Republic...
Democratic Party divisions were on glaring display Wednesday as a special election loss in a wildly expensive Georgia House race left bitter lawmakers turning their anger on their own leaders. “We as Democrats have to come to terms with the fact that we lost again,” said Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass. “Personally I think it’s time for a new generation of leadership in the party.” The loss in Georgia followed similar disappointments in special House elections in Kansas and Montana, as well as in South Carolina Tuesday night. The Carolina outcome was closer than in Georgia but drew little national attention. In the well-to-do Atlanta suburbs, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California was the focus of torrents of negative advertising in a House race that co...
India’s population is expected to surpass China’s in about seven years and Nigeria is projected to overtake the United States and become the third most populous country in the world shortly before 2050, a U.N. report said Wednesday. The report by the Department of Economic and Social Affairs’ Population Division forecasts that the current world population of nearly 7.6 billion will increase to 8.6 billion by 2030, 9.8 billion in 2050 and 11.2 billion in 2100. It said roughly 83 million people are added to the world’s population every year and the upward trend is expected to continue even with a continuing decline in fertility rates, which have fallen steadily since the 1960s. John Wilmoth, director of the Population Division, said at a news conference that the re...
Baltimore, MD - June 22, 2017 - On 06/21/17 between 12:00AM and 6:40AM the Pikesville Precinct experienced a total of nine thefts/ attempted thefts from motor vehicles on Western Winds Circle. Access to several of the vehicles was gained by breaking the windows with some sort of a tool and a few of the vehicles were left unlocked. Please remember to lock your vehicles, remove any spare or valet keys and remove any valuables at all times. Please be vigilant of suspicious subjects or vehicles roaming through the neighborhood.  If you notice any suspicious activity, safely get a good description of the subjects or vehicles (including license plates) and immediately contact 911.  We offer Free Home Security Surveys, where a uniformed officer will respond to your home and give you s...
A Democratic strategist criticized for tweeting “#HuntRepublicans” after a shooting that seriously wounded a top GOP leader is defending his bellicose language and doubling down on his support for “hunting.” New Jersey political operative James Devine tweeted Wednesday that Republican Karen Handel’s victory over Democrat Jon Ossoff in Georgia’s special congressional election is evidence that Democrats should adopt more aggressive tactics. He tweeted: “it is time for hunting.” Fox News host Tucker Carlson lambasted Devine in an appearance on his show Tuesday, calling him “unbalanced.” Devine accused Republicans of using violent rhetoric for decades and said Democrats should “fight fire with fire.” He told Carlson he ...
A burglar caught red handed, ended up in quite a sticky situation when the homeowner found him where he wasn’t supposed to be.
Britain’s interior minister says the country has entered a new phase of global terrorism. Home Secretary Amber Rudd told the House of Commons on Thursday that 13 plots linked to or inspired by Islamist extremists were foiled between June 2013 and the Westminster Bridge attack in March this year. She says five plots have been prevented since March. Rudd says that “we now believe we’re experiencing a new trend in the threat we face.” Rudd says more must be done to tackle the extremists who want to “radicalize and weaponized” young people in Britain. Security services have been warning for months that U.K. nationals who have traveled to fight with the Islamic State group pose a danger to Britain when they return home.
A Canadian man from Tunisia shouted “Allah Akbar” in Arabic before stabbing a police officer in the neck at a Michigan airport, and made reference to people being killed overseas during the attack that’s now being investigated as an act of terrorism, federal and court officials said. Amor Ftouhi, 49, of Montreal, was immediately taken into custody. A criminal complaint charging him with committing violence at an airport says Ftouhi asked an officer who subdued him why the officer didn’t kill him. The attack Wednesday at Bishop International Airport in Flint, Michigan, is being investigated as an act of terrorism, but authorities have no indication at this time that the suspect was involved in a “wider plot,” said FBI Special Agent in Charge David...
Jerusalem - Former Israeli Police Maj.- Gen. Arieh Amit said Thursday that security forces should have “no mercy” on ultra-Orthodox protestors involved in civil unrest and attacking Israeli soldiers. “The time has come to deal with those involved in civil unrest and attacking soldiers in Mea She’arim and Beit Shemesh with rubber and artificial bullets. NO MERCY,” wrote Amit in a Facebook post in Hebrew. Amit, who served in the Israeli police for over 20 years, holding senior positions including Head of Operations and Commander Chief of the Jerusalem District, made the comments in response to the ongoing campaign carried out by extremists in the ultra-Orthodox community in Israel against the enlistment of haredi men into the IDF. The campaign has garnered co...
London - Police said on Thursday the cause of death of a man at the scene of a van attack on Muslim worshippers in London this week was his multiple injuries. The vehicle ploughed into people as they left a mosque shortly after midnight on Monday, injuring 11. Makram Ali, 51, had fallen ill at the scene just before the attack, and police initially said it was unclear whether he had been killed in the incident or had died of other causes. But they said on Thursday the preliminary findings of a post mortem had concluded he died of multiple injuries. “We know that he had some form of collapse because of his weak leg, a condition he suffers from, before recovering, sitting up and expressing a wish to return home only to then become a victim of this horrific incident,” Ali...
London - Some 600 buildings in England could have been fitted with flammable external panels like the ones believed to have contributed to a fire that killed at least 79 people in a west London apartment building, Prime Minister Theresa May’s Downing Street office said. Government facilities testing cladding have so far found three tower blocks to have combustible panels. The testing came after local authorities submitted samples following the June 14 fire at Grenfell Tower in north Kensington. Police and fire officials are trying to determine whether the aluminum composite panels contributed to the rapid spread of the blaze, which engulfed the 24-story building in less than an hour. “A number of these tests have come back as combustible,” May said. “The re...
The tight security around Trump Tower has eased up since Melania and Barron Trump left for the White House, and some area merchants are breathing a sigh of relief now that their customers don’t have to go through a series of checkpoints. “Crossing Fifth Avenue initially when all this started was a bit of a hassle,” Jonathan Colon, a salesman at the luxury shoe store Crockett & Jones, a block from Trump Tower, said Tuesday. “So now that the police presence has calmed down a bit it’s just much easier to get around the whole area.” After Trump was elected president on Nov. 8, security around his namesake tower on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue ramped up dramatically, even including a fleet of heavy sanitation department trucks filled with sand t...
Chief Rabbi of Israel Rabbi Dovid Lau Shlita on Wednesday 27 Sivan responded to reports of three swastika attacks in Yerushalayim, including one shul. Rabbi Lau expressed his deep shock at the desecration of the shul and said that “We cannot accept or digest such grave events. I appeal to the enforcement authorities to use the tools available to them and to bring to justice the desecrators of the shul.” “It is inconceivable for worshipers to come to the shul in the center of the Holy City and reveal such harsh scenes.” The Chief Rabbi also addressed clergy of various religions, asking them to issue a statement of condemnation and protest against the blasphemy caused by desecration of the shul as well.
Thousands traveled to the tziyun of the Tana R’ Yonasan ben Uziel in Amuka on Tuesday, 27 Sivan, for the yahrzeit. Mekubal Rav Yechiel Abuchatzera was among the mispallalim, conducting Tikkunim with rabbonim of the yeshiva and kollel who maintain a presence at the tziyun year-round.
A police spokesman on Wednesday morning 27 Sivan reported a man was arrested in the capital on suspicion of assaulting an Arab male in a hate attack. Police over the weekend received a call for a fight in a gas station in which one person was taken to a local hospital with light injuries and the other party fled the scene. Police responded to the scene and began probing the incident. Police learned that shortly before the attack, a 25-year-old Arab male from the eastern capital was there with a 19-year-old female. Police learned a 25-year-old male passed in his vehicle and when he saw the Arab male with the Jerusalem woman, he asked the male “are you Arab”, to which he responded “yes”. Police believe the male in the vehicle then attacked the Arab male with a...
The Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Israel, the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Simon Wiesenthal Center partnered to present a conference on hate speech on the internet and cyber terrorism. The EchoChamber conference was a platform for high-level discussions with top decision-makers, experts and advisers from Israel, the U.S and Europe, held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem, Israel, on June 19, 2017. Director General of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Yuval Rotem, Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, and Dr. Michael Borchard, of Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Israel, gave opening greetings. The Keynote Address was delivered by Julia Klöckner, CDU Deputy Chairwoman. Member of Parliament, in the presence of Germa...
Adrift and nearly out of money after three months of living out of his van in the Washington area, the gunman who shot a top House Republican and four other people on a Virginia baseball field didn’t have any concrete plans to inflict violence on the Republicans he loathed, FBI officials said Wednesday. James T. Hodgkinson, 66, was shot and killed by police after he opened fire on Congressional Republicans practicing for their annual charity baseball game against Democrats last week. Rep. Steve Scalise of Lousiana, the House majority whip, was struck in the hip and gravely wounded. Scalise remains hospitalized, and his condition was upgraded to fair on Wednesday. All five people who were shot, including two U.S. Capitol police officers, survived their injuries. At a news conf...
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