Back to School? “No Thanks” Say Millions of New Homeschooling Parents

According to a recent USA Today/Ipsos poll, 60 percent of parents surveyed said they will likely choose at-home learning this fall rather than send their children to school even if the schools reopen for in-person learning. Thirty percent of parents surveyed said they…

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/teachers-scared-after-all-florida-schools-ordered-reopen-august

In what is sure to be discussed with some "blood on their hands" headline in the next 24 hour news cycle, Fox35 Orlando…

SWAT team kills 107-year-old Arkansas man in shootout

CBS NEWS/ September 8, 2013, 7:07 AM

A 107-year-old man was killed during a shootout with members of an Arkansas SWAT team Saturday evening.

In a…

World's biggest volcano found under Pacific Ocean

Scientists have confirmed that an underwater mass in the Pacific is the world's biggest volcano and have named it Tamu Massif after Texas A&M University.

Extremists attack Eurosceptic party leader

Published: 26 Aug 2013 09:20 CET

he head of Germany’s eurosceptic party has called for a crackdown on left-wing extremists after he was attacked at a political rally on Saturday.

Bernd Lucke, head of the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party, was speaking at the rally in Bremen when a…

Merkel: Greece joining euro was a mistake

Published: 28 Aug 2013 14:00 CET 

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said, a month before elections, that struggling Greece should never have been allowed into the eurozone, blaming her political rivals for letting it happen.

She heaped blame for Europe's debt and recession troubles on…

Tel Aviv Stock Exchange chairman Bronfeld steps down, blames ISA

Denver officials evict murdered woman's family 72 hours after her slaying

Published time: August 20, 2013 19:45

Three days after a Denver woman was brutally murdered, the city’s housing authority evicted her family because the slain woman was the only one on the lease.

Just days after losing a loved one, the victim’s mother and autistic son are now homeless,…

New Jersey to pay $425k to disabled man beaten by police

Published time: August 22, 2013 18:56

Who the hell are these "Crisis Actors"?  It's proclaimed they're pro-Morsi protesters.  Yet why is it that two of the posters being held-up by two famale "protesters", reads; "Marcy" or Morsy" - which isn't an Egyptian pet name for "President Morsi" in which they are…

Man, 70, has 10cm steel kitchen fork removed from inside his PENIS after sexual adventure goes wrong

• Doctors from Canberra, Australia,  have published a case in which an elderly man 'lost' and entire piece of cutlery inside his body
• Man underwent general anaesthetic and surgeons used forceps traction and 'copious lubrication' to remove the foreign…

HMS Westminster arrives in Gibraltar a day after Spanish fishermen’s stand-off with Royal Navy after going into British waters 

• Warship seen approaching port of Gibraltar at around 7.15am GMT
• Day after fishermen protested over artificial reef at British outpost
• They say the concrete blocks ruin traditional fishing…

Scotland Yard examines new information on death of Diana, Princess of Wales

Scotland Yard has launched an investigation into new claims that Diana, Princess of Wales was murdered by a member of the British military.

Norwegian Vikings grew hemp

The Sosteli farmsted, in Norway's southermmost Vest-Agder County, offers strong evidence that Vikings farmers actively cultivated cannabis, a recent analysis shows. The cannabis remains from the farmsted date from 650 AD to 800 AD.

This is not the first sign of hemp cultivation in Norway this far back in time, but the find is much more extensive than previous…

Crewmembers killed as Indian submarine explodes, sinks at naval dockyard

Published time: August 14, 2013 02:47 

Edited time: August 14, 2013 06:48

India’s defense minister has said navy personnel died in a submarine explosion in a Mumbai port. Earlier reports stated that at least 18 people have been on board the submarine that caught fire, exploded and partially sank at the naval dockyard.

The blast happened on the…

Northern Ireland clashes leave 56 police, 2 civilians injured

(Reuters) - Fifty-six police officers and two civilians were injured in clashes in central Belfast in the latest flare-up in tensions between Northern Ireland's Protestant and Catholic communities, authorities said on Saturday.

Many of the injuries were minor, but four officers were taken to hospital after the clashes late on Friday, during which police fired plastic bullets and water cannon after being…

‘Possessed’ by real-life ‘Amityville Horror’ killer, Brazilian boy kills family, goes to school 

A Sao Paulo boy, 13, killed his parents, grandmother and great-aunt, then calmly went to school and committed suicide after classes. He was reportedly inspired by mass killer in Amityville, N.Y.…

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/payroll-growth-seen-tepid-may-072622785.html

By Lucia Mutikani

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Jobs growth slowed more than expected in August, setting the stage for the Federal Reserve to pump additional money into the sluggish economy next week and dealing a blow to President Obama as he seeks reelection in November.

Nonfarm payrolls…

All-in-one magic makeup camouflages soldiers, repels mosquitoes AND protects against bomb blasts

• Makeup can protect soldiers against intense explosions up to 600 degrees Celsius
• Scientists used silicone so it can't melt in  high heat
• Face paint also contains a mosquito  repellant, is waterproof and…

West Nile epidemic 'worst in history'  as virus infects 1,118 in  America and leaves 41 dead

• 41 people killed this year by mosquito-borne  virus
• 1,120 recorded  cases compared to under 300 in average year
• Half of all cases of West Nile this year  have been in Texas…