Here's The Main Driver Of Today's GDP Surprise
Today's Q3 GDP release beat expectations – the economy grew 2.0 percent in the third quarter, according to this first reading, while economists expected a 1.8 percent gain. The main reason the report...
View ArticleBritain Rejects US Request To Use UK Bases In Nuclear Standoff With Iran
Britain has rebuffed US pleas to use military bases in the UK to support the build-up of forces in the Gulf, citing secret legal advice which states that any pre-emptive strike on Iran could be in...
View ArticleA Triple-Amputee Veteran Threw Out The First Pitch For Game 2 And It Was An...
Marine Corporal Nicholas Kimmel, who lost both legs and one of his arms during his second tour of duty in Afghanistan, threw out the first pitch prior to game two of the World Series. Kimmel is part...
View ArticleThe War In Syria Has Spread To A Whole New Battlefield
The war has spread to a fertile region east of Aleppo WOMEN, their faces wrapped in scarves to protect them from the sun, bend over in the fields to pick cotton. Flocks of sheep kick up dust from...
View ArticleThe Private Sector Space Program Is Only Credible Because NASA Bet Over $1...
COMMERCIAL spaceflight start-ups all admit this about their fledgling industry: that the pie remains firmly lodged in the sky. At a meeting of such "astropreneurs" in Seattle on October 16th, Tom...
View ArticleThis British Terror Cell Was Plotting A Creative Rampage Before Their Arrest
A British terror cell allegedly planned to buy five AK47 assault rifles by borrowing £100,000 in loans, a court heard. The alleged ringleader of a British jihadist group, Irfan Naseer, boasted how he...
View ArticleThis Attack Plan For Iran Is So Extensive There's No Way The US Could Go It...
With Britain questioning the legality of a strike on Iran, denying the U.S. access to pivotal airbases, and the U.S. presidential election just days away, we wanted to re-examine how extensive an...
View ArticleHere's Why Israel (Probably) Bombed A Factory In Sudan
If Israel was behind the bombing of a Sudanese munitions plant on Wednesday—as everyone assumes it was—then it's easy to recognize the motives for such a mission. Israeli military commentators said...
View ArticleHere Are The 10 Coolest Military Robots You've Never Heard About
Like it or not, robots are swiftly making their way deeper and deeper into battlefield operations. Though the airborne drone seems to take precedent, both in combat operations as well as media...
View Article8 Reasons Why The Syrian Ceasefire Was Doomed
The Syrian ceasefire 'agreement' was reported with optimism—and there was a lull in the fighting as it went into effect today at dawn—but it's fallen apart since then. In the morning there were there...
View ArticleDocuments Reveal Hitler's Epic Rant To Senior Nazis 8 Days Before He Died
Hitler told senior Nazis that "everyone has lied to me, everyone has deceived me" just eight days before he killed himself in his bunker, according to newly disclosed documents. Guy Liddell, the...
View ArticleJon Stewart Rails On The Absurdity Of The US Health Care System Refusing To...
Jon Stewart, during an exclusive taping which appeared only on the web, interviewed two Army medics with experience in Iraq, who had actually saved lives in combat. Stewart gave them mock job...
View ArticleThe World Never Came Closer To Nuclear War Than On January 25, 1995
In the 67 years since the detonation of the world's first nuclear weapon there is only one time the so-called nuclear briefcases were broken out and opened up. On January 25, 1995 they not only...
View ArticleThis Plane May Have Saved More US Troops Than Any Other In The World
When you're hunkered down behind a thin sliver of cover taking heavy fire, there is no more reassuring sound than the twin engines of the A-10 Thunderbolt screaming in from the distance. Check out the...
View ArticleA Florida Plane Carrying Absentee Ballots To US Troops In Afghanistan Crashed...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Federal officials say that absentee ballots being sent to U.S. military serving in Afghanistan may have been burned in a plane crash. A top official in the Federal Voting...
View ArticleA Close Look At Iran's Burgeoning Military Arsenal
Iran's military has 545,000 active personnel and some of the most advanced military technology of anyone out there. The thing is, the United States gave them a lot of it. See the weapons > Granted,...
View ArticleThe US And Britain Are Putting Final Touches On A Possible Military Operation...
LONDON (AP) — Britain is involved in military contingency planning with the United States over Iran and other potential flashpoints in the Middle East, officials said Friday — but they insisted the...
View ArticleMicro-Drones Combined With DNA Hacking Could Create A Very Scary Future
Sightings of insect-sized micro drones have been occurring for years, but combined with the direction of genome sequencing outlined in this Atlantic piece — the pair make for a futuristic and...
View ArticleGetting Married Is The Single Worst Thing A Young Marine Can Do
Somewhere between the peak and the valley is the normal; where a human finds themselves most waking hours. I walked down the aisle on October 6, took the plunge, and pledged half of everything I do...
View ArticleSatellite Images Offers The Best Proof Of A 'Surgical' Air Strike Against...
An explosion and fire at a Sudanese munitions factory this week appears to have been caused by airstrikes, a US-based non-profit monitoring group said Saturday. The Satellite Sentinel Project started...
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