Environmental groups had called on the Obama administration to restore wilderness protections. The US is to make millions of acres of public land eligible for wilderness protection, officials have said. The order reverses former President George W Bush’s policy forbidding the government from doing so. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Thursday said the new policy would help to protect public... 

Mistaken identity... Carnita Matthews outside court with a friend A BURQA-CLAD mother of seven who claimed she was the victim of mistaken identity has been jailed for six months for making a false complaint against a police officer. Magistrate Robert Rabbidge dismissed Carnita Matthews’ allegations that a highway patrol officer was racist after he pulled her over for a Random Breath Test and... 

An Israeli child plays with Christmas decorations at a market stall in Nazareth in 2009. The mayor of a Jewish suburb of Nazareth sparked outrage on Wednesday after refusing to allow Christmas trees to be placed in town squares, calling them provocative. The mayor of a Jewish suburb of Nazareth sparked outrage on Wednesday after refusing to allow Christmas trees to be placed in town squares, calling... 

Recently we became aware of a statement from an American Jewish women-activist, who some ten years ago with grants from the Swedish government, founded a Jewish ‘study-institute’ with the name “PAIDEIA”, that seems to be involved in subversive activities. The woman, Barbara Lerner Spectre, says in an interview on Israeli IBA-News: 

”Europe has not yet learned how... 

Most of the children will be in France in time for Christmas with their new families. Some 200 Haitian orphans are being brought to France to be with their adoptive families for Christmas. On Wednesday, a plane carrying the first group of more than 100 children arrived in Paris from Port-au-Prince. Another flight carrying another 80 children is expected on Friday. More than 300 adopted children are... 

The Obama administration is preparing an executive order that would formalize indefinite detention without trial for some detainees at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, but allow those detainees and their lawyers to challenge the basis for continued incarceration, U.S. officials said. The administration has long signaled that the use of what the administration calls prolonged detention,... 

One of the police officers arrested a street preacher Telling a street preacher that it is against the law to affirm the Bible’s teaching on homosexuality is costing a team of British policeofficers some $11,000 – plus legal fees. That was the resolution announced by The Christian Institute in a case that it fought on behalf of a street preacher, Dale Mcalpine, who was arrested and detained... 

Soldiers patrolling the streets in Alta Verapaz north of Guatemala City. Guatemala has declared a state of siege in a northern province that authorities claim has been overtaken by Mexican drug traffickers. The government initiated the monthlong measure in the Alta Verapaz province to reclaim cities that have been taken over by the Zetas drug gang, Ronaldo Robles, a spokesman for Alvaro Colom, the... 

South Korean soldiers patrol near Dangjin, South Korea, on Tuesday. South Korea announced new land and sea military exercises on Wednesday, including its largest-ever live-fire drill near North Korea, just as tension on the peninsula was beginning to ease after Pyongyang’s attack on a southern island. The firing drills planned for Thursday near the Koreas’ heavily armed land border signaled... 

Alexander Lukashenko has ruled the country since 1994 and has been dubbed “Europe’s last dictator”. A Belarusian human rights organization says seven of the candidates who ran against the country’s authoritarian leader face charges that could lead to 15 years in prison in the wake of post-election violence and massive arrests. Ales Belyatsky of the human rights center Vesna said the charges... 

UFO encounters became especially frequent in the middle of the 20th century, when it became impossible to disregard incidents of UFO sightings anymore. Special services started establishing special departments for air defense troops, secret laboratories were organized to study the phenomenon. It is not ruled out, that secret services have already had chances to study fragments of alien spaceships... 

Nearly a quarter of all students who try to join the U.S. Army can’t pass the entrance exam, a new study says. The study, “Shut Out of the Military: Today’s High School Education Doesn’t Mean You’re Ready for Today’s Army,” puts the blame on America’s educational system. “This is true for men and women of all races and ethnicities, but especially... 

The European Commission has come under fire for producing more than three million copies of an EU diary for secondary schools which contains no reference to Christmas but includes Jewish, Hindu, Sikh and Muslim festivities. More than 330,000 copies of the diaries, accompanied by 51 pages of glossy information about the EU, have been delivered to British schools as a “sought after” Christmas... 

A major part of the intelligence agencies working for the US government are in fact Israeli companies, a former CIA officer has said. “What is happening is that many of these state agencies are actually Israeli companies that are working for the States,” Philip Giraldi said on Tuesday. “This happened recently in Pennsylvania, where an Israeli company was collecting information on war protesters... 

A peculiar report prepared for Prime Minister Putin by Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) circulating in the Kremlin today states that German Chancellor Angela Merkel has become the latest in a growing line of Western leaders to make a ‘surprise’ visit to Afghanistan this month and follows visits by United States President Obama (December 3rd), British Prime Minister David Cameron (December...