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No safe bets for Obama despite toned-down agenda
Full Article San Francisco Chronicle
18 Oct 2013

WASHINGTON (AP) — Regrouping after a feud with Congress stalled his agenda, President Barack Obama is laying down a three-item to-do list for Congress that seems meager when compared with the bold, progressive agenda he envisioned at the start of his second term. But given the capital's partisanship, the complexities of the issues and the limited...

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File - President Barack Obama listens to Sen. Tom Harkin, D- Iowa, as Vice President Joe Biden confers with Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., right, during a meeting with a group of senators regarding student loan rates, in the Oval Office, July 16, 2013.
photo: White House / Pete Souza

updated 30 Jan 2013; published 30 Jan 2013
0:38
Obama Will Introduce Own Immigration Bill If Congress Fails To Act
updated 11 Dec 2012; published 11 Dec 2012
7:28
Janet Napolitano Discusses Immigration Agenda
updated 07 Jul 2013; published 07 Jul 2013
0:52
WASHINGTON Breaking News: Immigration, Student Loan Top Congressional Agenda
updated 04 Oct 2013; published 04 Oct 2013
8:39
As Congress Stalls on Immigration Deal, Obama Poised to Deport Two Millionth Immigrant
updated 26 Mar 2013; published 26 Mar 2013
6:55
OBAMA PUSHES Immigration Reform at White House Ceremony
updated 07 Jul 2013; published 07 Jul 2013
0:27
Immigration, student loan top congressional agenda
Edward Snowden: I didn’t take classified documents to Russia
Full Article Chicago Sun-Times
18 Oct 2013

WASHINGTON — Former National Security Agency systems analyst Edward Snowden says that he did not take any secret NSA documents to Russia and that intelligence officials in China as well as Russia could not get access to the documents he had obtained before leaving the United States. In...

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In this image provided by Human Rights Watch, NSA leaker Edward Snowden, center, attends a news conference at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport with Sarah Harrison of WikiLeaks, left, Friday, July 12, 2013.
photo: AP / Human Rights Watch, Tanya Lokshina

updated 30 Aug 2013; published 30 Aug 2013
3:39
Edward Snowden reveals the US 'black budget' of secret intelligence spending - Truthloader
updated 26 Jun 2013; published 26 Jun 2013
1:01
Russia will NOT Extradite Edward Snowden to US
updated 25 Jun 2013; published 25 Jun 2013
3:25
Vladimir Putin "Edward Snowden Won't Be Extradited"
updated 01 Jul 2013; published 01 Jul 2013
2:01
Edward Snowden needs a Travel Agency: N.E.A.T.
updated 24 Jun 2013; published 24 Jun 2013
2:08
Edward Snowden due to quit Moscow in Ecuador asylum bid
updated 24 Jun 2013; published 24 Jun 2013
4:35
Edward Snowden To Leave Russia For Ecuador
Australia wildfires raze homes in New South Wales
Full Article BBC News
18 Oct 2013

A series of major wildfires are burning in the Australian state of New South Wales with fears that hundreds of homes have been destroyed. Fire crews are still tackling the blazes on the outskirts of Sydney, despite temperatures and winds easing. One man has died while trying to protect his home. Correspondents say bush fires are common in Australia...

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Australia wildfires raze homes in New South Wales
photo: AP / FESA, Evan Collis

updated 11 Sep 2013; published 11 Sep 2013
1:27
Australia Wildfires Threaten Homes Near Sydney
updated 18 Oct 2013; published 18 Oct 2013
1:32
Australian wildfires raze homes in New South Wales
updated 10 Sep 2013; published 10 Sep 2013
1:01
Australia wildfires threaten homes near Sydney
updated 18 Oct 2013; published 18 Oct 2013
2:08
New South Wales Australia Wildfires Rage
updated 17 Oct 2013; published 17 Oct 2013
1:01
Australian fires hundreds of properties feared lost
updated 17 Oct 2013; published 17 Oct 2013
0:47
Australia Wildfires 2013:Nearly 100 wildfires Rage In Australia's ,Darken Sydney Skies
Video shows Kenya jihadis casually killing in mall
Full Article The Times of India
18 Oct 2013

Chilling new CCTV footage has emerged of terrorists casually gunning down shoppers during the attack on Kenya's Westgate...

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An armed policeman walks past the shattered glass windows of a shop in the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013.
photo: AP / Rukmini Callimachi

updated 18 Oct 2013; published 18 Oct 2013
2:26
New Kenya Mall Video Shows Terrorists Casually Gun Down Shoppers
updated 17 Oct 2013; published 17 Oct 2013
2:03
Kenya shopping mall attack Chilling new footage from inside Westgate shows terrorist
updated 28 Sep 2013; published 28 Sep 2013
5:24
Kenya Mall Devastation Revealed in New Video | Kenya Attack: New Video Shows Aftermath
updated 05 Oct 2013; published 05 Oct 2013
1:05
Kenya Mall Gunmen Caught on CCTV Starting to Kill Dozens
updated 17 Oct 2013; published 17 Oct 2013
3:24
Kenya mall attackers talked on cell phone, prayed between shootings
updated 18 Oct 2013; published 18 Oct 2013
0:52
HD New CCTV Footage Kenya Mall Attack: New Gunmen Video Emerges
French Secularists Remain Tough on Islam
Full Article WorldNews.com
17 Oct 2013

Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling Promises by France's President Francois Hollande to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, that his nation would remain "tough" on Iran's Islamic Republic and its nuclear enrichment, and wait to see if the more moderate politics of Iran's new President, Hassan Rouhani, would translate in his...

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File - French President Francois Hollande, right, gestures as he speaks during a joint news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu following their meeting at the Elysee Palace, Paris, Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012.
photo: AP / Jacques Brinon

updated 12 Aug 2013; published 12 Aug 2013
8:10
Kerusuhan dg larangan burqa/hijab di Prancis - 'Burqa Ban' Sparks Another Round Of Clashes In France
updated 08 May 2012; published 08 May 2012
4:42
Secular vs Sectarian
updated 13 Jul 2010; published 13 Jul 2010
1:26
French National Assembly approves ban on burqa
updated 21 Jun 2012; published 21 Jun 2012
7:39
Sense and Courage of Dutch on Muslim Immigration.
updated 27 Sep 2013; published 27 Sep 2013
3:28
Same Sex Marriage In America Is Lagal What Now?
updated 12 Dec 2011; published 12 Dec 2011
1:19
Shit Girls Say - Episode 1
Report: 30 Million People Enslaved Worldwide
Full Article Voa News
17 Oct 2013

Anita Powell JOHANNESBURG — The Australian-based Walk Free Foundation has released its first-ever Global Slavery Index - a ranking of 162 countries by their prevalence of modern slavery. The Index found that tens of millions of people worldwide are living in slave-like conditions, most of them in Asia. Slavery is often thought of as a relic of past...

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Indian children, working at a roadside hotel, carry a table in Hyderabad, India, Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2012.
photo: AP / Mahesh Kumar A.

updated 23 Nov 2009; published 23 Nov 2009
10:00
Part 1 Hear Former Slaves Speak
updated 06 Mar 2013; published 06 Mar 2013
14:18
ALL Original Slaves were WHITE - 100%
updated 19 Jun 2013; published 19 Jun 2013
100:41
Should Reparations Be Paid to the Descendants of Slaves? Christopher Hitchens Debate (2001)
updated 29 Jan 2012; published 29 Jan 2012
7:55
THE HISTORY OF BLACK SLAVERY IN NEW YORK CITY: THE MOVIE PT 1
updated 12 Oct 2009; published 12 Oct 2009
8:40
The Arab Muslim Slave Trade Of Africans, The Untold Story
updated 01 Aug 2008; published 01 Aug 2008
9:54
White Slaves 2
Syria: date set for Geneva talks to end conflict
Full Article The Daily Telegraph
17 Oct 2013

Related Articles The damage done to 'Syria's oldest church' seen first hand 16 Oct 2013 Inside Syria's model town: Peace, until al-Qaeda arrived 05 Oct 2013 Eat cats and dogs, imam tells starving Syrians 15 Oct 2013 Asma al-Assad denies leaving Syria 15 Oct 2013 U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Wednesday that efforts are intensifying to try...

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Free Syrian Army fighters look at a Syrian Army jet, not pictured, in Fafeen village, north of Aleppo province, Syria, Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012.
photo: AP / Manu Brabo

updated 13 Sep 2013; published 13 Sep 2013
2:46
Syria chemical weapons talks start in Geneva
updated 14 Sep 2013; published 14 Sep 2013
1:23
US and Russia agree Syria chemical weapons deal in Geneva
updated 12 Sep 2013; published 12 Sep 2013
0:51
Syria Chemical Weapons Deal: Kerry flies to Geneva to discuss plan with Russian FM Lavrov
updated 14 Sep 2013; published 14 Sep 2013
18:12
BREAKING: US- Russia Press Conference Reaching Agreement on Syria Chemical Weapons
updated 14 Sep 2013; published 14 Sep 2013
0:45
US and Russia agree Syria chemical weapons deal in Geneva (14.09.2013)
updated 13 Sep 2013; published 13 Sep 2013
1:33
Geneva: Crunch talks continue over Syria's chemical weapons
Egypt 'illegally detaining Syrian refugees'
Full Article BBC News
17 Oct 2013

Syrian refugees in Egypt often face illegal detention or deportation, Amnesty International says. The authorities are holding hundreds of Syrian refugees in deplorable conditions, among them children as young as one, the rights group says. Some of them are accused of being Muslim Brotherhood supporters, and being complicit in the recent political...

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In this Saturday, Oct. 12, 2013 file photo, a body is lowered down from a Maltese Navy ship at the Valletta harbor, Malta after a Maltese ship brought 143 survivors from a capsized smugglers' boat after 34 people drowned when the boat capsized. Most of the migrants in the latest tragedy were fleeing civil war in Syria.
photo: AP / Lino Arrigo Azzopardi

updated 17 Oct 2013; published 17 Oct 2013
2:57
Amnesty International: Syrian Refugees Detained Illegally In Egypt
updated 17 Oct 2013; published 17 Oct 2013
4:14
Egypt Persecuting Syrian Refugees
updated 17 Oct 2013; published 17 Oct 2013
2:09
Amnesty Urges Egypt to Stop Detaining Syrians
updated 05 Oct 2013; published 05 Oct 2013
2:47
Somalia worried as Kenya moves to expel thousands of Somali refugees
updated 23 Aug 2012; published 23 Aug 2012
27:18
Mosaic News - 08/22/12: Syrian Refugees Fear for Their Country as Revolt Turns into Proxy War
updated 20 Aug 2013; published 20 Aug 2013
1:33
Egypt lawyers urge prison deaths probe
Fiddling in Rome while our food burns
Full Article Al Jazeera
17 Oct 2013

Rumour has it that the Roman emperor Nero played a fiddle and sang while Rome burned for five days in the Great Fire of 64. Nearly 2000 years later, at the very site where this devastating fire started so long ago, history is repeating itself, only the leaders doing the fiddling are delegates to the 40th meeting of the UN Committee on World Food...

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File - Women in Sharga, North Darfur, Sudan, prepare food at the village’s SAFE Centre during a visit from a delegation of European Union ambassadors, 18 October, 2012.
photo: UN / Albert González Farran

updated 17 Oct 2013; published 17 Oct 2013
5:00
Scare Food Resources In Rome
updated 10 Mar 2012; published 10 Mar 2012
34:59
IPO Spotlight on Solazyme: What sets this biofuel company apart from the crowd?
updated 14 Mar 2012; published 14 Mar 2012
0:21
World Biofuels Conference - Rotterdam 2012
updated 26 Aug 2013; published 26 Aug 2013
4:16
Frozen Tilapia Prices Tick Up; HRI Movers; Maple Leaf Foods Selling Rothsay
updated 15 Apr 2011; published 15 Apr 2011
48:28
Jerry Fiddler Principal Zygote Ventures; Chairman Solazyme
updated 17 Aug 2012; published 17 Aug 2012
4:58
Tyler Painter, CFO Solazyme, Inc. "Renewable Oil- for Fuel, for Food, for Life"
US Congress ends default threat, Obama signs debt bill
Full Article The Times of India
17 Oct 2013

WASHINGTON: The US Congress on Wednesday approved an 11th-hour deal to end a partial government shutdown and pull the world's biggest economy back from the brink of a historic debt default that could have threatened financial calamity. Capping weeks of political brinkmanship that had unnerved global markets, President Barack Obama quickly signed...

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President Barack Obama smiles during his interview with The Associated Press, Friday, April 15, 2011, in Chicago.
photo: AP / Pablo Martinez Monsivais

updated 19 Sep 2013; published 19 Sep 2013
1:34
Obama Accuses Republicans Of Extortion Over Raising The Debt Ceiling
updated 12 Oct 2013; published 12 Oct 2013
1:58
Default Deadlock: Obama, Congress play chicken in debt deadline countdown
updated 27 Sep 2013; published 27 Sep 2013
11:45
Obama Warns GOP Of "Economic Shutdown" If Congress Defaults On Debt
updated 17 Oct 2013; published 17 Oct 2013
1:13
U S Congress ends default threat, Obama vows to sign bill
updated 15 Sep 2013; published 15 Sep 2013
1:09
President Obama: "I Will Not Negotiate On The Debt Ceiling"
updated 01 Aug 2011; published 01 Aug 2011
2:04
It's a Deal: Obama, Congress Will Avert Default

Scoop
Thursday, 17 October 2013, 5:01 pm Column: If Hitler Didn't Exist the Pentagon Would Have to Invent Him by October 14, 2013 When video of the October 14th edition of Thom...
Lehigh Valley
Hopefully, President Obama handles the debt ceiling crisis better than his choices on which government services to shut down. His motive was apparent — to make Republicans...
The Guardian
Anger at failure of Home Office and security services to reveal extent of GCHQ's data harvesting operations The scrutiny committee heard little evidence of the data accessed by the...

Unique skull sheds new light on human evolution
Tweet Washington, Oct. 18 (ANI): A new skull, found in Dmanisi, suggests that nearly half a dozen species of our early human ancestor may have been all Homo erectus. The skull found by anthropologists from the University of Zurich as part of a...
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Man - Sleep - Snoring
LOS ANGELES — When we sleep, our brains get rid of gunk that builds up while we’re awake, suggests a study that may provide new clues to treat Alzheimer’s disease and other disorders. This cleaning was detected in the brains of sleeping mice,...
photo: WN / Yolanda Leyba
Human Trafficking Modern Day Slavery
Nearly 30 million people across the world are currently living in slavery, according to a report published Thursday. The inaugural Global Slavery Index, compiled by the Walk Free Foundation, estimates the prevalence of slavery in 162...
photo: WN / Bright Mills
Army Gen. Keith B. Alexander, commander of the U.S. Cyber Command, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010, before the House Armed Services Committee hearing on cyberspace operations.
WASHINGTON - The National Security Agency has been extensively involved in the U.S. government's targeted killing program, collaborating closely with the CIA in the use of drone strikes against terrorists abroad, The Washington Post reported after a...
photo: AP / Manuel Balce Ceneta
A Laos soldier works at the scene of the Laos Airlines plane crash in Pakse, Laos Thursday, Oct. 17, 2013.
BANGKOK (AP) — A Lao Airlines flight crashed yesterday in the Southeast Asian nation, apparently killing all 49 people aboard, including passengers from 11 countries, the Lao government said....
photo: AP / Sakchai Lalit
President Barack Obama meets with congressional leaders in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, July 14, 2011, regarding the debt ceiling. From left are, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif., House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio,, the president, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev.
Washington - The US Senate overwhelmingly approved a deal on Wednesday to end a political crisis that partially shut down the federal government and brought the world's biggest economy to the edge of a debt default that could have threatened...
photo: AP / Charles Dharapak
 Cars drive through a flooded road following overnight heavy rain caused by a powerful Typhoon in Tokyo, Friday, Sept. 7, 2007. Heavy rains and strong winds lashed Tokyo on Friday as Typhoon Fitow headed northward after killing one person, injuring at lea
A powerful typhoon struck eastern Japan on Wednesday, causing landslides and floods that left at least 17 people dead and 43 missing, the police said. Tokyo briefly ground to a halt as bullet trains and flights were suspended when the storm, Typhoon...
photo: AP/Junji Kurokawa