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Atom bomb nearly exploded over North Carolina in 1961: UK paper Reuters – Fri, 20 Sep, 2013 Various articles report: Fallout could have spread over Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia and even New York City, the paper said, threatening the lives of millions of people. 260 times more powerful than the device that destroyed Hiroshima , according to a declassified report published Friday in The Guardian. The accident happened just three days after President John F Kennedy was inaugurated in January 1961. image from:  http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/23/world/asia/pakistan-church-bombing.html?ref=world Scores Are Killed by Suicide Bomb Attack at Historic Church in Pakistan Tunisian women 'waging sex jihad in Syria' The article states: Tunisian women have travelled to Syria to wage "sex jihad" by comforting Islamist fighters battling the regime there, Interior Minister Lotfi ben Jeddou has told MPs. "They have sexual relations with...

pic from The Guardian Update:  Great development today (09/09/13) as Secretary Kerry was asked a question about what Syria could do to avert a strike.  His answer was that they could turn over their chemical weapons' stockpile to be destroyed.  Russia seizes the moment and gets Syria to agree.  A skeptical Obama said that this indeed could avert a strike but (to paraphrase), he's not holding his breath.  With Congress and the American public dead set against this, this could be the way nearly everyone wins.  Obama gets to keep his peace prize (literally and symbolically), Syria and Russia don't get the blow that strikes would represent, Congress and the American people avoid another conflict.  The only ones who loses would be al-Qaeda!  Now imagine that!  What a great way to celebrate 9-11-13!   pic found on The Guardian One week is all we have. One week and the U.S. Congress begins to debate and perhaps sets in motion a si...

When the Arab Spring came to the Middle East, hope rose in the West that this marked a new, positive, democratic and free Middle East in the making.  Events since then have dashed that hope on the rocks of reality.  Image obtained at:  http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/university-front-line-arab-spring Nearly parallel to this development were the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, the nation-building efforts there, American withdrawal and the subsequent state of persecution, in Iraq particularly.  Check out how U.S. foreign policy has impacted Christians in the region: Afghanistan: Despite the U.S. invasion, expulsion of the Taliban from power, its efforts to install a more pro-American government there and rebuild the country, persecution of Christians is still a huge threat.   Iraq:  The U.S. invasion of Iraq and the subsequent fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime and the Baath party there has resulted in a chilling unintended consequence: “In 20...