Politics

A Syrian army outpost south of Damascus was hit by an “Israeli bombardment,” according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Deutsche Welle reports: “The location was targeted by three missile strikes, which caused physical damage,” the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said in a report. “It is unknown whether members of Hezbollah were inside the location or not,” SOHR added, referring to an armed Lebanese Shiite movement allied with the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

An internet privacy organization has planned nationwide protests over a court order pressuring Apple Inc. to build a backdoor into their encryption security, used on their smart-phones, to allow the FBI access. Fight for the Future, dedicated to fighting basic internet rights and freedoms, is organizing protests at Apple stores nationwide. Sputnik reports: The protests will not be against Apple, who has released a message to their customers decrying the order and vowing to challenge it, but against the US government.

A Russian expert has claimed that the crashed Malaysian Boeing-777 (MH17) was shot down by an air-2-air missile  and not the BUK missile system as stated by the Dutch commission.  The claims are from the chief researcher of the Central Research Institute of the Ministry of Defence Force, Zahar Omarov. “I can say that our results refute the conclusion that the aircraft was shot down by a missile from the anti-aircraft missile system of “Beech”.

The United Nations (UN) say that they are in contact with someone who claims to be an extraterrestrial from another planet who desperately needs to talk to Hillary Clinton.  Hillary Clinton, who has promised to release all of the top secret files the U.S. holds on aliens and UFOs if she becomes President, has yet to respond to the alien named ‘Mogay’. Express.co.uk reports: The UN correspondence provided was a reply Ms McFadden to a qeury entitled “Did the UN have a reseetlement process and protection policy about extraterrestrial being?”.

President Obama has snubbed the funeral of US Supreme Justice Antonin Scalia, causing confusion among government officials at the White House and Congress. “If we want to reduce partisanship, we can start by honoring great public servants who we disagree with,” Obama’s former “car czar” Steven Rattner tweeted after hearing about Obama skipping the funeral service.