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Texas Lawmaker Calls for Congressional Probe Into Ban of Christian Prayers at Military Funerals

A Texas lawmaker is calling for a congressional investigation of the Houston National Cemetery after he went undercover and determined that cemetery officials are still preventing Christian prayers at the funerals of military veterans. “The Obama administration continues to try to prevent the word ‘God’ from being used at the funerals of our heroes,” said. Rep. John Culberson (R-Texas). “It’s unacceptable and I’m going to put a stop to it as fast as humanly possible,” Culberson told Fox News Radio. He attended a burial service at the cemetery undercover on July 8, when he says he witnessed volunteer members of the honor guard from the Veterans of Foreign Wars being prohibited from using any references to God. “The Obama administration had told the nation and me they were not interfering with the prayer… 

 

US Is at the Start of 500-Day Retail Recession: Analyst

The latest consumer confidence report aside, Americans are still apprehensive, especially about their jobs, and that fear is likely to weigh on consumer spending in the months ahead, according to one retail industry consultant. Burt Flickinger, managing director of retail consultantcy Strategic Resource Group, said the US has just entered a 500-day retail recession, and before it’s over, the US will see weaker retail sales, more store closures and even additional retailers joining Borders in bankruptcy. Helping to drive the trend…

 

Downgrade may now be unavoidable

The principal risk emerging from the U.S. debt quagmire is not a cataclysmic default that many economists maintain is highly unlikely. Much more realistic is a downgrade to the country’s creditworthiness, which markets are beginning to register as distinctly possible, even if the debt ceiling is raised. “Focusing on default ignores the true issue,” said Michael Gregory, senior economist at BMO Capital Markets. “A lot of people are thinking that there’s no way they can come up with an agreement to avoid a downgrade by at least one of the agencies.”..

 

Betting $4.8 billion on a U.S. default

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — With its winners and losers, Wall Street is often likened to a big casino for obvious reasons. And even when it comes to a possible U.S. default next week, at least a few financial players are looking to cash in on such a bleak turn of events. A small camp of investors are betting that the U.S. government will default on its debt, and they’re putting $4.8 billion of their chips on the table. In the event of a default, that’s how much financial firms will have to pay out to investors who bought credit default swaps against the…

 

IMF chief warns of social unrest in Europe

The new head of the International Monetary Fund warned European leaders of the possibility of social instability as a result of the eurozone’s economic problems. Speaking in New York, where she is now based, Christine Lagarde, the former French finance minister, said that the recent economic turbulence which has seen Greece, Portugal and Ireland suffer debt crises – and the spectre hang over Italy and Spain – could “easily resurface” despite the lift in the markets after last week’s €109bn (£96bn) bailout package for Greece. Referring to the political…

 

Pressure builds on Spain and Italy over debts

Spain’s short-term cost of borrowing hit three-year highs. At an auction of Spanish government debt demand fell, while yields at a sale of six-month Italian paper hit their highest since late 2008. By late afternoon, the yield on Italian 10-year bonds dropped back from 5.72pc to 5.63pc as Italy cancelled a debt auction scheduled for August. Traders said the move…

ATF Manager says he shared Fast and Furious Info with White House

At a lengthy hearing on ATF’s controversial gunwalking operation today, a key ATF manager told Congress he discussed the case with a White House National Security staffer as early as September 2010. The communications were between ATF Special Agent in Charge of the Phoenix office, Bill Newell, and White House National Security Director for North America Kevin O’Reilly. Newell said the two are longtime friends. The content of what Newell shared with O’Reilly is unclear and wasn’t fully explored at the hearing. It’s the first time anyone…

 

Uniformed Mexican soldiers cross into South Texas

DONNA, TX — Almost three dozen uniformed Mexican soldiers in four military vehicles crossed the Rio Grande into South Texas without authorization Tuesday in an international incident U.S. officials were calling inadvertent. U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesman Rick Pauza said no gunfire or injuries were reported…

Bolivia’s president says he fears possible U.S. plot

La Paz, Bolivia (CNN) — Bolivian leader Evo Morales says he’s worried that U.S. authorities will plant something on his presidential plane to link him with drug trafficking when he attends Wednesday’s United Nations General Assembly meeting. “Do you know what? I think they have to be preparing something,” he told a convention of female farm workers over the weekend. “So much that I’m afraid to go with our airplane to the United States. Surely when we arrive, they can plant something and detain the presidential plane.” Morales said he was still…

 

Response to strike from Pak will be very heavy: IAF chief

NEW DELHI: Indian Air Force (IAF) chief Air Chief Marshal P V Naik on Tuesday said Pakistan’s new tactical nuclear missile or expanding arsenal is of no worry to India. He said India followed a ‘no-first-use’ nuclear policy but warned its response would be “very heavy” in the event of any nuclear attack on the country. The IAF chief’s statement came following the news report that Pakistan planned to add 24 nuclear-capable, short-range missiles capable of hitting all major Indian cities to its arsenal this year. The plan is in line with Pakistan’s official policy of…

 

US to Oppose Palestinian Recognition at UN

The United States has made clear it will oppose a possible Palestinian bid for state recognition at the United Nations this September. The Palestinians might seek such recognition because they are frustrated with the lack of progress in direct peace negotiations with Israel. During the final public discussion in the U.N. Security Council about the Israeli-Palestinian situation before the U.N. General Assembly meets in September, U.S. Deputy U.N. Ambassador Rosemary DiCarlo emphatically stated that Washington will not support any bid by the…

 

IDF fears Syrian army will back up border protesters

The army is preparing for the possibility that Syrian soldiers will deploy along the border and actively defend men who try to infiltrate the Golan Heights during demonstrations expected to break out following the Palestinian Authority’s unilateral declaration of statehood at the United Nations in September. The IDF got its first taste of the demonstrations along the Syrian border on May 15 when Palestinian protestors crossed into Majdal Shams. A few weeks later, protests again broke out near Majdal Shams but the IDF succeeded in preventing an… 

 

US to continue spy flights after jets ‘pursued’ by China over Taiwan

Taiwan’s defence ministry said it sent two F-16 fighters to intercept the Chinese Sukhoi-27 jets near the central line across the 113-mile wide Strait in late June, the first such incursion for 12 years. The ministry said that the two Chinese jets quickly turned around. A spokesman added that he believed the incident was “an accident” and that Taiwan had been “in full control” of the situation. China has long objected to US reconnaissance of its coastline, especially since a US spy plane and a People’s Liberation Army jet collided in 2001 near Hainan island…

 

NK Preparing for Military Drill on Yellow Sea

North Korea is known to be preparing for a large-scale military exercise on the Yellow Sea. A South Korean military source says vessels are mobilized at a Navy base in Nampo in North Korea’s South Pyeongan Province and fighter jets are gathered at an Air Force base in Oncheon in the same province. The source says the preparations of the military drill had been detected, and although the weather will be…

DHS Fears a Modified Stuxnet Could Attack U.S. Infrastructure

One year after the discovery of a sophisticated worm that was used to attack centrifuges in Iran’s nuclear program, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security told Congress it fears the same attack could now be used against critical infrastructures in the U.S. DHS “is concerned that attackers could use the increasingly public information about the code to develop…

Japan’s food supply under threat as radiation from Fukushima Daiichi spreads

The Japanese government, anxious to restore the nuclear power supply, has also finally ordered stress tests of its reactors, some of which shut down automatically during the March 11 earthquake that devastated Fukushima Daiichi, others of which have not been restarted after routine maintenance and…

Africa famine experts: 800,000 children may die

(AP) DADAAB, Kenya – Mihag Gedi Farah is 7 months old, and weighs as little as a newborn with the weathered skin of an old man. His mother managed to get him to a field hospital in a Kenyan refugee camp after a weeklong odyssey, but the baby’s anguished eyes, hollow cheeks and fragile limbs show just how severe…

Norway killings: Mysterious group called the Knights Templar

Oslo killer Anders Behring Breivik wrote that the group’s aim was to attempt to “seize political and military control of Western European multiculturalist regimes” and to “try, judge and punish Western European cultural Marxist or multiculturalist perpetrators for crimes committed against the indigenous peoples of Europe.” Using the Latin phrase “pauperes…

CNN’s Piers Morgan ‘told interviewer stories were published based on phone tapping’

Mr Morgan, a former News of the World and Daily Mirror editor who is now a high-profile television presenter in the US, has spent the past week categorically denying ever printing material derived from phone hacking. He spoke out after being accused by a Conservative MP and political bloggers of being involved…

In ‘Anonymous’ Raids, Feds Work From List of Top 1,000 Protesters

t turns out there’s a method behind the FBI’s raids of suspected Anonymous members around the country. The bureau is working from a list, provided by PayPal, of the 1,000 internet IP addresses responsible for the most protest traffic during Anonymous’ DDoS attacks against PayPal last December. FBI agents served 40 search warrants in January on people suspected of hosing…

Joyce Meyer sued by insurance company

ST. LOUIS • An insurance company is asking a federal judge to free it from paying televangelist Joyce Meyer’s legal bills in the Christopher Coleman wrongful death lawsuit. Lawyers for Coleman’s slain wife, Sheri, refiled a lawsuit in May seeking damages from Meyer and her ministry, where Coleman worked as a bodyguard. It alleged that Meyer and her ministry should have known that…

Who knew L.A.’s red-light camera fines were ‘voluntary’?

Bob Brickman spent months fighting a ticket he got last fall from a red-light traffic camera at Wilshire and Sepulveda boulevards in West Los Angeles. The 61-year-old from Playa Vista eventually decided to give up the fight and fork over the $476 fine. Now he’s regretting paying every penny. City officials this week spotlighted a surprising revelation involving red-light camera tickets…

Cat parasite linked to brain cancer

An infectious parasite spread by cats may be a cause of brain cancer in humans, research suggests. The single-celled organism Toxoplasma gondii infects about a third of the world’s population. Often it causes no symptoms, but the parasite can be fatal to unborn babies and damage the nerve systems of people with weak immune systems. The new study shows a positive correlation between rates of infection by T. gondii and brain cancer incidence around the world.

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