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Last week, in the wake of Russian and US airstrikes on ISIS oil convoys, we asked three important questions: 1.Who are the commodity trading firms that have been so generously buying millions of smuggled oil barrels procured by the Islamic State at massive discounts to market, and then reselling them to other interested parties? In other words, who are the middlemen? 2.Can it possibly be true, as officials now claim, that the Obama administration refrained from bombing Islamic State oil trucks because Washington thought the group was "only" making $100 million per year instead of $400 million? 3.Is it likely,...

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Bataclan Theater, where 82 of the over 128 were murdered, was owned by Jews, and previously had been targeted by radical Islamic groups.http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/203376#.Vki_oXarTIU

Absolutely disgusting video! This is the end result of liberal policy in our schools throughout the years... Liberalism IS a mental disorder. **Warning** Do not watch if you have high blood pressure.

Four police officers were injured, including a female officer who was taken to the ground, after responding to a 200-person brawl outside a Pennsylvania high school Thursday. According to reports, the officers were injured as they responded to a fight around 3 p.m. near Allen High School in Allentown. Violent video of the brawl and the attack on the officers was posted to Facebook. Authorities say three students have been arrested so far, the Morning Call reported. When police responded to the fight, which had spilled out to the streets, the students began targeting the officers, the video shows. The...

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A second person has died after a masked man wielding a “knife-like” weapon carried out a stabbing attack at a school in south-west Sweden, the local hospital has said. Swedish media reports said the second victim was a boy, but this could not be immediately confirmed. The first person to be fatally injured in the attack at the school in Trolhättan, an industrial city near Gothenburg, was a teacher. Two other patients, believed to be pupils, remained in a critical condition, but one had stabilised, the hospital said. It was treating the attacker, whom police have identified as a 21-year-old...

<p>Casualties were reported in the explosion, which rocked central Kabul at around 9:15 a.m. local time, the source said.</p> <p>"A few civilians were injured, but we do not have any reports of any death," Afghan ministry of interior spokesperson Najib Danish said.</p>

Barbara Paschke, 85, died as the result of injuries she suffered during a black bear attack inside her home ... from injuries she suffered during a black bear attack inside her Ashley Lake home last Sunday afternoon. The woman, Barbara Paschke, died at 10:30 a.m. while she was hospitalized at Kalispell Regional Medical Center. She died due to injuries from the attack ... The attack occurred inside Paschke’s home between Batavia Lane and Ashley Lake Road; although it’s not clear how the bear got inside Paschke’s home, it exited through a window, investigators said. The attack was severe, officials said,...

Does Rand Paul believe the road to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is paved with endless pandering? At a time when GOP leaders, led by Mitch McConnell, are engaging in the ultimate betrayal and funding Planned Parenthood and all their butchery, Rand Paul is training his fire on….Ted Cruz! He lashed out at the senator from Texas, predicting that he’s “done for in the Senate.” He seemed particularly perturbed by Cruz calling McConnell a liar, even though the senior senator from Kentucky indeed engaged in one of the most verifiable and public acts of lying earlier this year. Sadly, the negativity Rand...

Russian warplanes have begun bombarding Syrian opposition targets in the war torn nation's north, working on behalf of dictator Bashar al Assad, according to a senior military official. The official said airstrikes targeted fighters in the vicinity of Homs, located roughly 60 miles east of a Russian naval facility in Tartus, and were carried out by a "couple" of Russian bombers. It was not clear if the strikes targeted ISIS, Al Qaeda or other forces opposed to Assad, who Moscow is aiding. According to a Twitter handle belonging to the Syrian government, the Russian strikes were initiated at the request...

I am finding that I got the malware page warning now every time I click on a link to the original source page. However, I am finding this doesn't happen if you click from the link to the story from the main Forum page, rather than clicking on the link to the FR story page and then clicking to the original source link from there. I'll be interested to know whether this solution works for anybody else.

Video of Random Attack on 83 Year-Old Man in a Parking Lot. Police have released graphic surveillance video that shows an 83-year-old man being punched in the face and kicked by an assailant in a Santa Ana parking lot. Investigators are asking for help in identifying the male attacker. "Share" this to spread the word. In accordance with his morning routine, he was on his way to buy coffee and a newspaper, police Cpl. Anthony Bertagna said. Footage released by authorities shows Nguyen walking unassumingly when he is suddenly approached by another man, who punches him in the face. In...

BERKELEY (CBS SF) — Berkeley police Thursday said they have arrested an Oakland man in a hammer attack that occurred during a series of protests in December. The alleged assault occurred on Dec. 7, 2014, when the victim, a 55-year-old man, attempted to stop some protesters from damaging a Radio Shack store at Shattuck Avenue and Dwight Way, according to police. One of the people on the scene struck the victim with a hammer on the head, causing serious injuries. The victim was taken to a local hospital for treatment, police said. [SNIP] Police estimate damage to the Radio Shack...

The Russian embassy in Damascus came under mortar fire on Sunday, September 20, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Monday. The ministry said Moscow condemns the "criminal attack" on the Russian diplomatic mission. "At 09:00 a.m. on September 20, a mortar shell hit the territory of the Russian embassy in Damascus. The shell was driven deep into the earth and made no damage," the ministry said. "A large labelled fragment of the shell was later extracted from the earth by Syrian mine clearance specialists. Efforts are now being taken to find out how this shell came across to militants." "We condemn...

U.S. on the 1992 Olympic boxing team; “Every time he’d reach, I’d counter,” he said. “He had my hand in his mouth.” At one point, Nicholson said he was down on one knee, choking the dog. Nicholson suffered bites to his legs, stomach, and hands. “He was strong as hell,” Nicholson said.

Hillary goes on the attack amid sinking poll numbers: Clinton gets partisan at New Hampshire rally as she tries to claw back support Hillary Rodham Clinton attempted to rally thousands of influential New Hampshire Democrats on Saturday with a fiercely partisan message, as she struggled to regain her footing in the primary contest. Calling viewers of the three-hour Republican debate and two-hour undercard on Wednesday night 'gluttons for punishment,' Clinton accused Republicans of focusing on problems the country faces rather than solutions. 'Fifteen candidates, five hours and not a single fighter for the middle class,' she told more than 3,500...

German police have shot and killed a known Islamic extremist, after he went on a rampage with a knife on the streets of Berlin. The attacker, named by security officials as Rafik Mohamad Yousef, threatened passers-by and seriously injured a female officer with the weapon. Police officers were called to Spandau, in western Berlin, in response to reports that a man was wielding a knife in the street. The 41-year-old man attacked the female officer with the weapon before another officer shot and killed him. Yousef, an Iraqi national, was convicted of belonging to an al-Qaeda-linked terror group seven years...

"He celebrated them as three friends who had been headed for a fun reunion in Paris when they "ended up engaging a potential catastrophic situation and pinning down someone who clearly was intent on doing a lot of harm to a lot of people, inflicting terror on the French people."

"..The first excellently radical idea I’ve heard in months came Monday from the struggling campaign of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker who made a name for himself by taking on—and repeatedly beating—public sector unions in Wisconsin.Walker is calling for ending union representation of all federal government employees (FDR and even the former head of the AFL-CIO would agree), making all workplaces “right-to-work” unless a particular state votes differently, shutting down the National Labor Relations Board (which has turned into one of the most effective cudgels of the Obama administration’s ceaseless attack on business), barring automatic withdrawal of union dues from paychecks(to...