NEW YORK (AFP) – International scientists nudged back the minute hand of the symbolic Doomsday clock Thursday, as they praised President Barack Obama for helping to pull the world back from nuclear or environmental catastrophe. “It is six minutes to midnight,” the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists (BAS), which created the Doomsday clock in 1947 as [...]
From Politico The Rev. Pat Robertson, on his CBN broadcast today, offered his own explanation of the earthquake in Haiti: “Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it,” he said. “They were under the heel of the French … and they got together and swore a [...]
I hope James has the good sense not to go down the road of Spiderman 3 and ruin the whole series with a crappy third installment of Avatar. Sequels are always great , it’s the part 3 that is usually crap. By now everyone knows that not only is “Avatar” a huge hit, but also [...]
Wow, these crazies are really making a “go” of this tea party thing. God bless their sorry souls…. Ex-AK Gov. Sarah Palin’s keynote speech at the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville will now be open to the press at her urging, according to the event organizer. Tea Party Nation, the group hosting the sold-out [...]
A woman checks a body after an earthquake in Port-au-Prince January 14, 2010. The death toll from Haiti’s earthquake could be between 45,000 and 50,000, with a further three million people hurt or homeless, a senior Haitian Red Cross official said on Thursday. REUTERS/Kena Betancur
As a massive human tragedy unfolds in Haiti, relief organizations are soliciting credit-card donations through their hotlines and websites. About 97 percent of these donations will actually make it to the designated organizations — but the other 3 percent will be skimmed off by banks and credit card companies to cover their “transaction costs.” Thanks [...]
Watch the news video clip here Witnesses have described their horror at seeing a tourist being eaten by a “gigantic” shark in South Africa’s most popular holiday destination. Lloyd Skinner was pulled under the surf and dragged out to sea by the shark, believed to be a great white, off Fish Hoek beach in Cape [...]
