War

Following our discussion of the unprecedented bombing-fest that has been undertaken during President Obama's reign...

Seven years after being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his "extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples," despite having been in office for less than one year and having pretty much no actual, tangible foreign diplomacy accomplishments at the time, President Obama will depart the White House having dropped 26,171 bombs on foreign countries around the world in 2016, 3,027 more than 2015.

Scientific research predicts civil unrest by 2020 as political turmoil reaches a peak. Social order as we know it will collapse in three years, plunging the world into unrest and chaos. Professor Peter Turchin says his assumptions are not predictions, but are based on latest research using historical facts and mathematical models. The Sunday Express reports: Prof Turchin has developed a subject known as “cliodynamics” which analyses history as a science, which includes predictions and models based on past experiences.

Federal prosecutors filed court documents on Saturday charging Ft. Lauderdale airport shooting suspect Esteban Santiago with carrying out an act of violence at an international airport resulting in death - a charge which carries a maximum punishment of the death penalty. The 26-year-old Iraq war veteran, who claimed he was "mind-controlled" by a US intelligence agency, was also charged with two firearms offenses. He is accused of killing five people and wounding six others on Friday when he opened fire at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International baggage claim. 

Surveillance footage has emerged of the Jerusalem truck ramming attack in which four were killed and 13 were wounded on Sunday. The footage shows the moments leading up to the the truck ramming into a group of Israeli soldiers visiting an observation post in the capital's Jewish neighborhood Armon Hanatziv. 

The video was shot from a distance of about 30 meters from the scene of the attack, and shows the truck speeding through the crowd, narrowly missing the standing bus. It then stops and starts maneuvering, moving backwards and turning, before finally coming to a stop.

A truck rammed into a group of Israeli soldiers who were disembarking from a bus in Jerusalem on Sunday, killing four people and wounding 15 others, AP reported citing Israeli police and rescue services said. 

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