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Washington Post is leading a Media Crusade against Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman over the Khashoggi killing The CIA has no evidence against him despite all the spin We need to make decisions based on US strategic interests not media attacks Khashoggi Case- Analysis of an Information Operation The killing of Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey caught the attention of the entire world for an extended period of time, much longer than the news of one murder would normally do. Security Studies Group decided to examine why.We took a rigorous look at the actual origins and spread of the unique...

The Next Big Discovery in Astronomy? We Probably Found It Years Ago — But Don't Know It Yet By Eileen Meyer, University of Maryland, Baltimore County | June 3, 2018 08:44am ET MORE An artist's illustration of a black hole "eating" a star.Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Earlier this year, astronomers stumbled upon a fascinating finding: Thousands of black holes likely exist near the center of our galaxy. The X-ray images that enabled this discovery weren't from some state-of-the-art new telescope. Nor were...

Elder R. Jackson, left, and Daisy Ferguson rejoice during the baptism in Columbia on Sunday. __________________________________________________________ With the cry of “Let Jordan roll!” from the pulpit, the spray from fire hoses rained down on a pulsating crowd of worshippers, celebrating salvation and renewal Sunday in a mass baptism that covered nearly a block of Read Street. Dueling praise bands from Columbia and Charlotte blasted a brassy, joyful noise. Men, women and children, dressed in white cotton emblematic of innocence, raised their hands to the heavens. One young boy in his mother’s arms cried in apparent fear, but most of the...

Boiling Water, Home-made Flame Throwers, and Union Goons Employees of a construction company, a subcontractor to a steel giant, POSCO, barricaded themselves at POSCO headquarter and have been battling riot police for several days. They poured boiling water to riot cops, and also fired home-made flame throwers (made out of garden hose and LPG in portable containers) at them. In the following video, you can see riot cops pinned at the stair well, their shields up to protect themselves from flames, while some others are busy putting out fire using fire hose. The pictures below show the "weapons" they kept(note:...