Miltary Budget
Pentagon wants $582bn in 2017 budget, quadrupling of spending in Europe rt
Carter said the budget was guided by five factors: the rise of power from Russia and China; the threat of North Korea to the US and its Pacific allies; Iran's “malign influence” against allies in the Gulf; and the ongoing fight against Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL).
North Korea
Missile Test Condemned By UN Security Council; Obama Rejects Pyongyang’s Proposal ibtimes
"The members of the Security Council agreed that the Security Council would continue to closely monitor the situation and take further significant measures in line with the council's previously expressed determination," the council said, in a statement, according to Reuters. "The members of the Security Council emphasized that the DPRK's development and testing of new ballistic missile capabilities, even if launches are failures, is clearly prohibited by these resolutions."
Israel
Jordan Warns Israel to Block Jews from Visiting Temple Mount jewishpress
... Jordan warned Israel on Sunday there would be “grave repercussions” if Jews continue to ascend to the Temple Mount to visit Judaism’s holiest site over the Passover holiday.
See also Jordan warns Israel of ‘consequences’ over Temple Mount ‘violations’
Abbas Accuses Israel of Destroying the Environment With Settlements breitbart
He then called on the representatives from 175 countries who were present at the landmark agreement to “help us in putting an end to the occupation and to settlements.”
Large majority of U.S. Senate pushes Obama to boost Israel aid uk.reuters
Eighty-three of the 100 senators signed the letter, led by Republican Lindsey Graham and Democrat Chris Coons. Senator Ted Cruz, a 2016 presidential candidate, was one of the 51 Republicans on board. The Senate's Democratic White House hopeful, Bernie Sanders, was not among the 32 Democrats.
Archaeology
A timely reminder of the Exodus: Ancient Egyptian scarab seal found near Haifa jpost
The University of Haifa announced on Sunday the discovery of a rare scarab seal belonging to a senior official of the Thirteenth Pharaonic Dynasty, which reigned in Egypt during the 18th-17th centuries BCE.
Society
Charlotte gay wedding defies United Methodist Church rules charlotteobserver v
...the mainline denomination’s Book of Discipline sanctions only marriage between a man and a woman. So there could be consequences for the Rev. Val Rosenquist and Bishop Melvin Talbert – the clergy who performed the wedding – if any complaints are filed with Bishop Larry Goodpaster, who leads the Western North Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church.
"the mainline denomination's Book of Discipline only marriage between a man and a woman" - that says it all as to how not just this church, but denomination as a whole has fallen. A book of rules made by changing men is the standard, and not the unchanging Word of God.
Colorado Supreme Court declines to hear gay wedding cake case washingtontimes
The Colorado Supreme Court on Monday refused to review Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Craig, a case featuring a religious wedding cake baker who was punished for declining to service a same-sex wedding celebration.
See also 3 Common Myths Used Against Christian Bakers v
Peace
Obama: We are living in the most peaceful era in human history timesofisrael
“If you had to choose a moment in time to be born, any time in human history, and you didn’t know ahead of time what nationality you were or what gender or what your economic status might be, you’d choose today,” the president said, highlighting an increase in democracies across the world, and improving global health and education standards. He cautioned, however, that this “isn’t to say that there is not still enormous suffering and enormous tragedy and so much work for us to do.”
Some of that work, presumably, surrounds efforts to end the bloody civil war in Syria, which has taken more than a quarter of a million lives in the past five years.
Global Currency
A Bitcoin Exchange Just Got Approval to Operate Across the EU wired
“With this,” says Dan Morehead, the chairman of Bitstamp and the CEO of Pantera Capital, a firm that specializes in investments related to bitcoin, “Bitstamp is able to do business in all 28 countries of the EU.”
Space
Inside the 'Heart-Shaped' Sunspot - Plasma's Magnetic Flow Captured space v
A Sunspot...large enough to fit three Earth-sized planets, was monitored by [NASA]...during its Earth-facing rotation of the Sun’s surface. The magnetic imager aboard the solar probe captured detailed imagery of the plasma motion in and around the active region.
Future Tech
Sound of your skull could soon be your new password rt
...the technology sends a sound pattern into the user’s skull and then records the unique sounds that ping back. Then each time the user wants to access the device, SkullConduct repeats the process to identify them.
Google's unusually close relationship with the White House raises lots of questions mashable
It’s a relationship that bears watching. “Americans know surprisingly little about what Google wants and gets from our government,” said Anne Weismann, executive director of Campaign for Accountability, a nonprofit watchdog organization. Seeking to change that, Weismann’s group is spearheading a data transparency project about Google’s interactions in Washington.
Odd
Md. brush fire possibly started by meteor wtop
Firefighters haven’t confirmed the cause yet, but when they finally got the fire out, they found a crater with a rock at the bottom.
Mike Kelley, a program scientist in NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office, tells WTOP that there’s no way a meteorite caused the fire in Bowie on Sunday evening.
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