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A Sydney suburb has banned the construction of a synagogue because it could be a terrorist target, a decision that has infuriated religious leaders. The temple was to be built in Bondi, a short walk from Australia’s famous Bondi Beach. But locals worried that the space would pose a security risk to nearby residents, motorists and pedestrians. As evidence of that threat, the council pointed to the synagogue’s own design, which included setback buildings and blast walls. ***In its decision, the court explained that western countries are under threat from Daesh, also known as ISIS or ISIL, and that the...

Has anyone else heard about Malia Obama being fired from her job as an intern at the Spanish Embassy?

For those trips that are a bit too short to justify a plane ticket and just long enough to make driving inconvenient, there's no easy answer. Do you hop on a $5 bus and spend hours stuck in traffic? Or is it easier to cough up the money, hop on a plane and deal with TSA and flight delays? Cabin, a brand-new luxury bus company, offers a solution to this conundrum. Its fleet of high-end buses makes overnight trips between Los Angeles and San Francisco that depart at 11 p.m. and arrive by 7 a.m., which means you don't lose...

For the People's Daily finally in the Sino-Korean relations, said the truth of praise 2017-08-07 China is the energy transfer Click on the top】 【blue font free attention! China - DPRK in the precarious situation Today, the DPRK Central News Agency issued an article titled "Do not do recklessly talk about the rudeness of the DPRK-China relations", and criticized China's policy toward the DPRK and issued a tough threat to China. The Chinese version of the text still left a little face, the DPRK version of the Chinese government and Chinese leaders ridicule and abuse is simply unsightly. The next...

August 9, 2017 Wednesday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time Reading 1 Nm 13:1-2, 25–14:1, 26a-29a, 34-35The LORD said to Moses [in the desert of Paran,]"Send men to reconnoiter the land of Canaan,which I am giving the children of Israel.You shall send one man from each ancestral tribe,all of them princes." After reconnoitering the land for forty days they returned,met Moses and Aaron and the whole congregation of the children of Israelin the desert of Paran at Kadesh,made a report to them all,and showed the fruit of the countryto the whole congregation.They told Moses: "We went into the...

Hollywood police arrested four young men, including two juveniles, for vandalizing a city police car and a city code enforcement vehicle one day last month. Investigators said Johnathan Berroa, Zachary Novak and two juveniles were arrested on July 23rd for vandalizing the cars parked outside a Hollywood Police Department substation along N 69th Ave. According to a police report, “The front windshield and rear window of the marked police unit had been shattered. Multiple dents were observed on the vehicle along with melted candy on the hood. A firecracker had been ignited on the hood of the vehicle.” The report...

California is a global environmental leader, but it’s falling behind in one key respect: phasing out gasoline cars. Germany, India, Norway and the Netherlands are moving to ban the sale of gas-powered vehicles by or before 2030, and France and the United Kingdom by 2040. Here’s why California should join that list. It would: Fight climate change: Every gallon of gas burned emits 20 pounds of carbon dioxide, the main driver of climate change. Transportation is our biggest source of carbon emissions. Shifting to electric vehicles today would cut tailpipe carbon emissions to zero, and total carbon emissions by 75...

how did a man end up nailed to a tree in the Bosque? It's a mystery police are still working to solve. But for the first time, video has revealed what police discovered that day in May and what the victim said. This case just keeps getting more complicated. In an interview with police, the man nailed to the tree said the Ku Klux Klan was after him. He also told police that it's not the first time he's been attacked. The call came in from a city employee who was picking up trash in the Bosque. The video shows...

A man accused of burglarizing a Southern California home took a bathroom break and left DNA evidence in the toilet that led to his arrest, an investigator said Tuesday. The suspect "did his business and didn't flush it" during the October break-in in the city of Thousand Oaks, said Detective Tim Lohman of the Ventura County Sheriff's Office. That allowed investigators to collect evidence to conduct a DNA profile. It matched another profile in a national database and detectives tracked down the suspect at his home in the nearby city of Ventura.

N. Korea: 'All-out War' Against US Preventive War Write : 2017-08-09 09:18:09 Update : 2017-08-09 09:24:46 North Korea has threatened “all-out war” against the United States in response to the U.S.’ recent threat of a “preventive war.” According to the North state-run Korean Central News Agency, the General Staff Department of the Korean People’s Army said in a statement on Wednesday that the U.S. is devising a preventive war against the North and that any plans to execute this would be met with an all-out war wiping out all the strongholds of enemies including the U.S. mainland. The North said...

PUEBLO, Colo. (KKTV) - On Tuesday morning Doyen Elements officially broke ground on a 234-thousand square foot cannabis grow facility in Pueblo. It'll be located at 1900 Freeway Drive in Pueblo, which is the former Pepsi bottling facility. "We've taken the facility and we are retrofitting it into a 234,000 square foot grow facility that will be developed into three separate phases," said Geoff Thompson with Doyen Elements. "Phase one will take 9-11 months and then the next two phases through an 18 to 24 month period of time." Once construction is complete the entire facility will run 24 hours...

Google Memo: Fired Employee Speaks Out! James Damore and Stephan Moleneux

Microsoft has announced that Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is coming to Windows Server.Microsoft's adding it to Windows Server for the same reasons it added it to Windows: it wants developers to have whatever tools they prefer at their disposal.Sysadmins are also on Redmond's mind, it says. “If you’re a server engineer that needs to run node.js, Ruby, Python, Perl, Bash scripts or other tools that expect Linux behaviors, environment or filesystem-layout, the ability to install and run Linux with WSL expands the tools at your disposal on Windows Server.”Redmond snuck WSL into Windows Server Insider Build 16237 without including...

Public defenders in Baltimore say hundreds of criminal cases could be tossed out after two incidents discovered on police body cameras this summer show officers allegedly planting drug evidence. So far some 40 criminal cases have been dropped, mostly involving drug and weapons-related felonies. But lawyers there say that's just the beginning. "I would say there are hundreds and hundreds of cases directly affected between the two cases," Debbie Katz Levi, director of special litigation for Baltimore's Office of the Public Defender tells NPR. "I think it's safe to say if you included all of the officers, you're probably at...

Proverb 9 (NKJV)The Way of Wisdom Wisdom's Invitation01 Wisdom has built her house, 00 She has hewn out her seven pillars; 02 She has slaughtered her meat, 00 She has mixed her wine, 00 She has also furnished her table. 03 She has sent out her maidens, 00 She cries out from the highest places of the city, 04 "Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!" 00 As for him who lacks understanding, she says to him, 05 "Come, eat of my bread 00 And drink of the wine I have mixed. 06 Forsake foolishness and live, 00...

The nation's top nuclear energy regulator voted on Tuesday to proceed with the information-gathering stage of approving a license for the contentious nuclear waste storage site at Yucca Mountain in Nevada. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission voted 2-1 to begin actions related to the review of the Department of Energy's license to build the radioactive waste facility after the Obama administration attempted to scuttle the program entirely. "These next steps involve information-gathering activities related to the suspended adjudication on the application," the regulatory agency said in a statement. "These activities will enable efficient, informed decisions in support of executing any further...

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft may double its pleasure during its next deep-space flyby 16 months from now. On Jan. 1, 2019, New Horizons is scheduled to have a close encounter with a body called 2014 MU69, which lies 1 billion miles (1.6 billion kilometers) beyond Pluto in the distant, frigid Kuiper Belt. (The probe famously zoomed past Pluto in July 2015, returning the first-ever up-close images of that mysterious world. This second flyby is the key component of New Horizons' extended mission.) Not much is known about 2014 MU69, so the New Horizons team planned out a campaign to watch...

ATLANTA, GA -- Governor Nathan Deal today announced that ASOS, a leading online global fashion and beauty retailer, will establish an East Coast e-commerce fulfillment center in Union City, creating more than 1,600 jobs and investing more than $40 million in Fulton County throughout the next five years. In the first phase of development, the fulfillment center will have a 10 million-unit capacity with additional room for future growth. "Georgia is an ideal location for innovative international retailers like ASOS to reach new customers," said Deal. "In choosing to locate in Fulton County, ASOS will benefit from the robust transportation...

Andrea Parker speaks at :04)....They're still upstairs arguing witnesses and who's going to be allowed to testify..... Andrea Parker speaks at :15)....cross examination of Special Agent Joel Willis (FBI). Marchese (defense lawyer) got up there and put out that Eric (defendant Eric Parker) doesn't have his "III Percent of Idaho" tattoo at the time of the Bundy Ranch...... (WARNING: SOME PROFANITY GETS INTO THIS VIDEO AS ANDREA PARKER BECOMES INCREDULOUS AT 10 MINUTES INTO THE VIDEO WHEN FBI GUY WILLIS SAYS HE DIDN'T USE GPS TO HELP COORDINATE HIS VISUAL EVIDENCE AGAINST THE DEFENDANTS BECAUSE IT WASN'T AVAILABLE TO HIM)

Tim Russert interviewing @realDonaldTrump in 1999 about launching a pre-emptive strike against North Korea. Could be key to his thinking.