NEWS #4

5 Things Americans Can't Have Because Of Sanctions (PHOTOS)

THE HUFFINGTON POST
by: Carlo Davis

CUBAN CIGARS
Cuban cigars have been banned in the U.S. ever since 1962 and is known to be the most recognizable sanction. The cuban cigars are said to derive their world renowned quality due to the temperate climate and alkaling soil of Cuba. And that gives the cigars a great amount of "earthy aroma".

IRANIAN PISTACHIOS
Americans have not been able to eat Iranian pistachios since 2010. Not only Americans do not eat these pistachios, but the rest of the World is also missing out. America has banned the import of these pistachios as a agressive round of sanctions, and according to the New York Times, this is what helpred accelerate Iranian inflation. Tehran banned all exports of Pistachios for six months in order to keep domestic prices low.

IRANIAN CAVIAR
Caviar is too good to even talk about it...

CYPRIOT RAKI
This is some weird type of Turkish drink that turns into a milky white when it is mixed with water, thank goodness, we are not allowed to have any of it.

NORTH KOREAN SOJU
This is a liquor very similar to Vodka, and is extremely popular in the Koreas, but it is not available in America. A Korean-American got a license to get some of this Soju and is very few, but according to some, this drink actually tastes horrible and people have lost interest due to its horrible tastes.

NEWS #3

NATO Plane Crashes In Afghanistan, Killing 4

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By THOMAS WAGNER

In Kabul, Afghanistan a NATO plane crash in southern Afghanistan unfortunately killed four international troops. During that same day the Taliban announced that they will target military sites with suicide bombers and infiltrate enemy forces. The Afghan Defense Ministry said that their security forces are prepared for the Taliban's new campaign, which is some good news for the American soldiers. The ministry says that, "The Afghan National Army is ready to neutralize the offensive," which sounds like a lot of action. The Taliban gave an announcement, vowing to step up on their violent attacks due to the fact that the winter is over and it is now summer, which makes traveling and fighting a lot easier for them, but it most likely means the same for our troops. The Taliban also mention that they will use whatever tactics that they know against the "foreigners". Their Muslim military commander, Khalid ibn al-Walid, is also known as the "Drawn Sword of God," is supposedly a companion of Islam's Prophet Muhammad, just so that we know what we are dealing with.

4/20/2013 NEWS #2

North Korea Won't Give Up Nuclear Weapons, Pyongyang Says
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North Korea says that they will not give their nuclear weapons and they have decided to reject our U.S. conditions for negotiating, but America's generosity seems to be at its peek and is still willing to discuss their disarmament. According to the way North Korea is acting up, it shows us a sign that they may be at a near end within a couple of weeks. North Korea has offered a list of conditions for both the United States and South Korea on Thursday. They are also demanding that the U.N. sanctions are lifted off them. The United States is not going to respond until there are "clear signals" that North Korea would stop their process of creating nuclear weapons. Unfortunately for Kim Jung-Un, he considers his nuclear weapons a "treasured sword" and continues to do nuclear tests.

4/20/2013 NEWS #1

The Huffington Post

By: Matthew Lee

Syrian Rebels To Receive $123 Million More In Aid From United States

This has been almost a two year war that the rebels have fighting against President Bashar Assad's regime in Syria. America wants to send 123Million with the intention of helping stop the violence as quick as possible, since more than 70,000 people have suffered because of the civil war. The aid America will send may include armored vehicles, body armor, night vision goggles and other defensive military supplies. There is also another twenty five million dollars worth of food assistance to any of the citizens that will be staying in Syria. Hopefully the rebels will have enough to stop this civil war and bring peace once again to Syria so that the citizens can go back to doing what they used to do and what they wish to do once again.

Blog #14

What factors contribute to such prejudice and how? (e.g., television, parental attitudes).
Factors that really effect the thought of many individuals usually comes from the media and those whom you are around. Parents should be the greatest impact on an individual, parents are your guideline to success and help you with what ever you need. However, media such as television or music can effect too, by showing an individual how different everything is and giving new options. Media and parents always make us think that what they say is alright and that we should follow along.

Discuss Adolf Hitler's reported statement, "Who still tells nowadays of the extermination of the Armenians?" Does this statement have any validity today?
Hitler uses the Armenian genocide as a perfect example of how the Turks exterminated nearly all of the Armenian race and that no one knows of it, and still do not today. Hitler thought that the same would happen with the Jewish people, but his mistake was killing in extremely large numbers, around a million and a half Armenians have been massacred due to the genocide, but for the Armenian population, those are extremely large numbers. It is a shame that more than half the world most likely does not know what and Armenian is.

Blog #13

Medieval Knight Found Under Parking Lot In Scotland; Mysterious Remains Thrill Archeologists

THE HUFFINGTON POST

by: Meredith Bennett- Smith

Archaeologists found a unknown body of a nobleman or a knight under a Scottish parking lot earlier this week. This body was well preserved and is able to be tested for DNA tests. It is explained how close it is buried to a church, and the closer the body is buried to the church or monastery, the more significant the individual is. There was also a sandstone slab found near it and they are both believed to date back to the thirteenth century, from Blackfriars Monastery. "The knight would have been buried in the graveyard associated with the monastery meaning he had money or was important in the society of time," Murray told HuffPost. After a DNA analysis, scientists say that the body found belonged to King Richard the third.

Blog #12

Comets & Life On Earth: Impacts May Have Jump-Started Biological Evolution

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By: Mike Wall

There are many theories of how Earth has formed, many collisions and the most famous one would be the, Big Bang theory. The Big Bang theory is known to have been a colossal explosion and formed the Milky Way, and formed all of our planets. Here, we have a new theory of how Earth its self was formed, through the impacts of comets or meteorites. They have concluded that comets or meteorites might have "jump-started" our biological evolution on Earth. A team of chemists say that linked pairs of amino acids called dipeptides can be created in space conditions. Dipeptides was supposedly brought to Earth from either a comet or a meteorite billions of years ago. This is what just may have formed the even more complex molecules which are necessary for life as we know it, such as proteins and sugars.