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If anyone actually cared about these Africans, the last thing they’d do is bring them over to the most expensive and overcrowded cities on earth, where every single item and service costs more than almost anywhere else, and instead try to help them where they are, or as close as possible to where they are. You could build a proper brick and mortar house for every official refugee (real or not) on earth with just the money Germany spent on housing them in the past couple of years.

BALTIMORE — Once a beacon for activity in downtown Baltimore, the Harborplace pavilions will now be torn down by the new owners who are on a mission to revive the area. It's a place that was once booming with tourists. Now, when you take a walk through the Harborplace pavilions, doors are locked and many stores sit vacant. As the entire harbor is getting redeveloped, one project will be tearing down the two pavilions by the new owners, MCB Real Estate. Marketing Managing Director Jarnell Swecker said this is a result of what the community repeatedly shared. "They need something...

It was reported tonight by the New York Post that according to his new book, Hunter Biden laptop repairman John Paul Mac Issac said that an FBI agent threatened him to hush up. According to the Post, John Paul Mac Isaac said in his new book “American Injustice: My Battle to Expose the Truth” that two federal agents came to his Mac Shop in Wilmington, Delaware in December 2019 to recoup the laptop following a subpoena. Mac Issac had reportedly volunteered to hand the laptop over to the feds two months earlier and said the alleged threat came after he...

RALEIGH (WTVD) -- The past two weeks have been restless for Raleigh resident Sandra Taylor, she says construction has been keeping both her and her husband up during the night. "For the past two weeks it's like a large jackhammer, like a massive jackhammer, sort of like blasting, in a way, but it's so extremely loud and it also kind of rattles the house a little bit as well, because it's so loud," Taylor said. She said it usually starts around midnight and can go until 4 am. "We work so to have to go to work the next day,...

A New York Democrat in Congress has filed a bill that would forbid immigration officers from wearing clothing that says “POLICE.” Officials with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) urge that it “may be a matter of life-or-death” for them to do so. 2 ICE agents and officers may initially identify themselves as “police” in an encounter because it is the universally known term for law enforcement, they say.

Glenn Beck on Wednesday used spaghetti and chocolate sauce to indicate just how quickly Ebola can spread. The segment was both hilarious (imagine Beck’s radio co-host, Stu Burguiere, pelting Beck with handfuls of spaghetti to simulate projectile vomiting), and horrifying when you saw just how exposed the health care workers reportedly were at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital. According to a statement by the co-president of National Nurses United, nurses who treated Thomas Eric Duncan — the man who flew from West Africa to Dallas with Ebola — had no real guidelines on how to deal with such an infectious disease,...

What else can the U.S. Air Force F-22A Raptor stealth fighter jet do?

I am between jobs, and considering the odd mix of my skills, I was thinkling of making a CD mini-disk with examples of HTML, Excel, Word, etc., to help me stand out from the other drones. 1) I would like to figure out how to make a self-booting ROM that would run a HTML file on bootup. Any ideas? 2) I think it may be done through Flash. Is there any way to learn simple Flash programming without spending $99 on a professional editor? Thanks in advance to the wise folks in here!

A high school chemistry teacher was arrested after students claimed he taught his class how to make a bomb, authorities said. David Pieski, 42, used an overhead projector in class to give instructions in making explosives to students at Freedom High School, including advising them to use an electric detonator to stay clear from the blast, an Orange County sheriff's arrest report said. In Pieski's classroom in Orlando, authorities found a book labeled "Demo," which includes the chemical breakdown for a powerful explosive, the arrest report said. One student said he set off an explosive device at a golf course...

SAINT PETERSBURG, Sept 6 (AFP) - Around 15,000 people observed a minute of silence here Monday in a demonstration to remember the hundreds of victims of Russia's school hostage crisis and to demand an end to terrorism. The protesters, most of them young people, carried Russian flags and placards bearing slogans including "No to Terrorism" and "Death to the Killers of Children". The protest on Saint Petersburg's Palace Square also heard a children's choir sing Ave Maria while images of hostage-taking incidents carried out in Russia in recent years were broadcast on two large screens. In Moscow meanwhile authorities made...

Please forgive me if I seem to ramble on! I don't have any documented proof, but when you finish reading this, join me and finding the proof to back up my claims and in assumptions. They are out there, I've read, heard, and known this for years! Q:What is Democracy?According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary: Main Entry: de·moc·ra·cy Pronunciation: di-'mä-kr&-sE Function: noun Inflected Form(s): plural -cies Etymology: Middle French democratie, from Late Latin democratia, from Greek dEmokratia, from dEmos + -kratia -cracy 1 a : government by the people; especially : rule of the majority b : a government in which...

Clients upset over donations made for them 2003-08-10 By Nolan Clay The Oklahoman A group of workers’ compensation attorneys is increasingly relying on its clients to finance a political war chest created to influence elections, and some injured workers are angry about it. At least 160 injured workers are among this year’s listed donors — those giving more than $50. Other workers may be among the 350 or so unidentified donors who gave smaller amounts. Attorneys ask the workers to make donations from their awards. Some workers told The Oklahoman they had no problem donating, but others said they hadn’t...

About 200 Palestinian journalists and writers rallied in Gaza City against the war in Iraq on Wednesday, holding Palestinian and Iraqi flags and chanting, "People of Iraq, we are with you!" Also, about 100 women gathered outside the UN office in Gaza, asking the organization to intervene in Iraq. They held pictures of women and children who they said were injured during the recent US-led strikes. "The world should protest the ongoing war and they should say no to America," said Fadwa Mattar, 39, one of the demonstrators. Two American cruise missiles struck a residential area in Baghdad on Wednesday,...

Pro-US Rally By Korean-Americans to Be Held in Washington March 1st by Joo Yong-joong (midway@chosun.com) Korean-American organizations in Washington DC will hold a demonstration against anti-United States sentiment in S. Korea in front of the White House on March 1, while mass gatherings will be held in Seoul opposing the withdrawal of the US Forces Korea. The demonstration in Washington, organized by the Asia Pacific Human Rights Conference and sponsored by Maryland Korean Church Council, will also demand democratization in North Korea and measures to be taken for North Korean refugees. The organizing committee said Tuesday that the security of...

Truly remarkable results gobsmack us A SHARP EYED contributor to Ace's Hardware Forum has noticed that Intel is making some truly remarkable claims for the 3.06GHz Pentium 4. A demo on its site – it requires Flash to view – compares a spreadsheet calculation. That takes five minutes 39.9 seconds on a 3.06GHz Pentium 4 without hyperthreading while with hyperthreading, Intel claims it takes 35.58 seconds. [ Actually, if you see the demo, it is supposed to take the non-hyperthreaded P4 an even longer 6 minutes 15 seconds. (5:40 + :35) ] This is a remarkable feat and leads us...