Showing posts with label Saudi Arabia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Saudi Arabia. Show all posts

Sunday, May 21, 2017

Show Notes 05-20-17

Saturday Show 5-20-17

Trumps on tour: Donald and Melania (plus Ivanka) are greeted by the Saudi king as they land in Riyadh for his crucial first test abroad
President Donald Trump has landed in Saudi Arabia as he begins his first foreign tour since taking office. He touched down in the Middle East Saturday morning, hours after tweeting about his excitement for his first 'big foreign trip.'
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Stephen Hawking says humans must flee Earth within century
Stephen Hawking is giving humanity a tall order: Colonize Mars in the next century or watch as life on Earth fizzles out. After last year claiming that humans have 1,000 years left on Earth, Hawking says in a new documentary that we instead have about 100 years until we'll need to jump ship as Earth is overwhelmed by overpopulation, climate change, disease, and artificial intelligence.
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Fox News Fires ‘The Five’ Co-Host Bob Beckel Over Racist Comment
“Bob Beckel was terminated today for making an insensitive remark to an African-American employee,” the network said in a statement. The dismissal opens — or perhaps closes — another chapter in an off-and-on relationship Beckel has had with the 21st Century Fox-owned cable-news outlet over the years.
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Judge: Lois Lerner’s tea party-targeting testimony can stay secret — for now
Lois G. Lerner and Holly Paz, two key figures in the IRS‘ tea party-targeting, can keep testimony about their role in the targeting secret, at least for now, a federal judge ruled Thursday.
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Armed Forces Day in the United States
On August 31, 1949, Louis Johnson, who was the United States’ Secretary of Defense, announced the creation of an Armed Forces Day to replace separate Army, Navy and Air Force Days.
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US-Saudi Arabia seal weapons deal worth nearly $110 billion immediately, $350 billion over 10 years
The United States has sealed an arms deal to Saudi Arabia, the White House announced on Saturday, a move that solidifies its decades-long alliance with the world's largest energy producer just as President Donald Trump begins his maiden trip abroad as leader of the free world.
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US-Led Coalition Attacks Pro-Assad Regime Forces in Syria
In a rare move, the U.S.-led coalition on Thursday attacked forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in southern Syria, although Defense Secretary James Mattis said the incident did not mean an increased U.S. role in the Syrian civil war.
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25 'IMPEACHABLE' OBAMA SCANDALS FAR MORE SERIOUS THAN COMEY FIRING
Wasting no time Wednesday, the mainstream media sprang into action, enthusiastically echoing the left’s impeachment calls. MSNBC launched a Watergate ad implying Trump is America’s new Richard Nixon.
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Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Show Notes 04-17-2016

Sunday Show 04-17-16

Report: ISIS has destroyed the ancient Babylonian city of Nineveh
The Islamic State has destroyed the ancient city of Nineveh, YNET reported Friday. The Israeli news site didn’t provide any details of the destruction, but the news followed an earlier report this week about the destruction of the gates of Nineveh.
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2016 Nissan Titan XD Test Drive
The Titan XD is a big truck that Nissan hopes will fit into a small market niche that it’s either discovered … or is trying to create.
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ABSCAM agents to FBI chief: Bureau's 'reputation' on the line in Clinton probe
Former FBI agents who worked the notorious 1970s sting operation known as ABSCAM have written FBI Director James Comey to warn that nothing less than the bureau's "reputation" is on the line as the investigation into Hillary Clinton's email practices enters a critical phase.
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ABSCAM 
Abscam—sometimes written ABSCAM—was a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) sting operation that took place in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
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Senate Committee Subpoenas EPA Over Gold King Mine Disaster
Senate Indian Affairs Chairman John Barrasso (R,-Wyo.) and Vice Chairman John Tester (D.-Mont.) agreed Wednesday to subpoena Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy or a top aide to appear at an upcoming oversight field hearing on the Gold King Mine disaster scheduled for April 22nd in Phoenix.
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THE 1 THING NEEDED TO SECURE RIGHTS OF A FREE PEOPLE
Noah Webster first published his “American Dictionary of the English Language” on April 14, 1828. In order to evaluate the etymology of words, he learned 26 languages, including Old English, German, Greek, Latin, Italian, Spanish, French, Hebrew, Arabic and Sanskrit.
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Saudi Arabia Warns of Economic Fallout if Congress Passes 9/11 Bill
Saudi Arabia has told the Obama administration and members of Congress that it will sell off hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of American assets held by the kingdom if Congress passes a bill that would allow the Saudi government to be held responsible in American courts for any role in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
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High protein man foods that aren't steak
If you're a "Man's Man" you probably like steak – thick, juicy, and full of flavor. And while steak is an excellent source of protein – about 40 grams of protein in a 5-ounce serving -- there are other sources of protein that will also put hair on your chest, so to speak.
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Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Sunday Show 03-08-2015

Sunday show 03-08-15

Strangers clear snow so elderly man can reach wife's memorial
There's really nothing to do at Lakeside Park in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin -- at least not in the winter. So why then, for the past couple months, have two city workers -- Jerrod Ebert and Kevin Schultz -- been sneaking off, on their own, to shovel a walkway no one really needs to walk on?
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Out of work dad holds sign at Philadelphia train station in hopes of getting a job
An out-of-work father is job-hunting in a unique way -- by holding a sign in front of thousands of commuters at a Philadelphia train station for four hours a day. According to MyFoxPhilly.com, Rob Crozier, 36, splits his days between student teaching and holding a sign at 30th Street Station asking commuters to ask him for his resume.
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Coburn: Convention of States Needed Because Washington Will Never Fix Itself
 “Washington is never going to fix itself,” said former Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK), explaining why he intends to spend the next few years trying to “cheat history” by helping to organize the nation’s first-ever Convention of the States.
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The dog no one owned but everyone loved
If there is one thing that has stood the test of time, it is humans' affection toward dogs. The only proof you need is located along a stretch of country road in Coles County, Illinois.
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Couple denied role as foster parents over permits to carry guns
A Nevada couple were denied their request to serve as foster parents because they have permits to carry guns. Brian and Valerie Wilson, of Las Vegas, told “Fox & Friends” Sunday that they have always planned to become foster parents and eventually adopt, but have been denied permission to do so because of a state regulation that prohibits the carrying of loaded weapons with foster children.
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Amnesty advocates looking to co-opt Bloody Sunday Selma Commemoration
Pro-amnesty advocates will try to co-opt Sunday’s commemoration of the “Bloody Sunday” march in Selma–one of the most seminal moments in the civil rights movement and the history of the country–to again push the false narrative that amnesty for illegal immigrants is the new civil rights movement.
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Saudis Concerned About Iran’s Involvement in Same 4 Countries Netanyahu Listed, including Iraq
Saudi Foreign Minister Saud Al-Faisal on Thursday accused Iran of “taking over” Iraq, and voiced concern about its involvement in Syria, Lebanon and Yemen – citing the same four countries Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu warned this week that Iran was “gobbling up.”In a joint press appearance with Secretary of State John Kerry in Riyadh, Saud said while the kingdom was obviously worried about Iran’s nuclear program, “we’re equally concerned about the nature of action and hegemonistic tendencies that Iran has in the region.”
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Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Show Notes 11/16/2014

Sunday Show 11/16/14

Legislation favoring Keystone oil pipeline heads to Senate after House approval
Congress inched closer to a possible showdown with President Barack Obama over the Keystone XL oil pipeline as the Republican-controlled House approved the project. Supporters in the Democratic-run Senate predicted they will get the 60 votes needed to pass it next week.
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Saudi Arabia outlaws tempting eyes
A new law in Saudi Arabia banning ‘tempting eyes’ has become the latest example of female oppression in the country. The law, which states that women with alluring eyes will be forced to wear a full veil, has been branded ‘stupid’ by dissenters and roundly criticised on social media, aina.org reports.
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Long Island USPS workers fired for sleeping on job
Instead of repairing mail trucks, U.S. Postal Service employees at the Hicksville Maintenance Facility allegedly napped. Then lied about completing the fixes, sending potentially unsafe vehicles onto the road, an anonymous employee told Newsday.
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Georgia developer still trying to build coal plant
Deep in rural Georgia, a developer is betting he can build one of the last new coal-fired power plants in the United States as the rest of the country moves away from the fuel.
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Marijuana meddle: UN official rips US states over legal pot policies
A Russian diplomat who heads the United Nations’ drug policy office reportedly chided U.S. states for legalizing recreational marijuana and vowed to take up his concerns with officials in Washington -- in the latest incident of a U.N. official meddling in local U.S. affairs.
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Dem Think Tank Secret Email: ‘All Hands On Deck’ to Sell Iran Deal to Public
A leading liberal think tank in Washington, D.C., has begun enlisting its associates in an “all-hands-on-deck effort to support” the Obama administration as it seeks to ink a nuclear deal with Iran by the end of the month, according to emails obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
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More federal agencies are using undercover operations
The federal government has significantly expanded undercover operations in recent years, with officers from at least 40 agencies posing as business people, welfare recipients, political protesters and even doctors or ministers to ferret out wrongdoing, records and interviews show.
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End of family life as we know it
Your young son wants a new video game with explicit violence to which you object, but you find out later a government social worker overruled your decision and facilitated his access to the game.
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