The Oil Crash Has Claimed Its First Casualty

 Excelerate Energy’s Texan liquefied natural gas terminal plan has become the first victim of an oil price slump threatening the economics of U.S. LNG export projects. A halving in the oil price since June has upended assumptions by developers that cheap U.S. LNG would muscle into high-value Asian energy markets, which relied on oil prices… [Read More]

Updated: Indonesia Verifies Reports on AirAsia Flight QZ8501 Plane’s Emergency Landing

 A relative of a missing passenger has reportedly received a text message from an unknown sender, stating that the plane made an emergency landing and all passengers are alive. The Indonesian Ministry of Transportation is currently verifying information claiming that the missing AirAsia aircraft has made an emergency landing in the eastern part of the Belitung island in the Java… [Read More]

Former CIA Chief: ISIS to Attack U.S. Soon

Ex-CIA Director Morrell says terrorist attack in U.S. “guaranteed” Former CIA Director Mike Morrell said terrorists will attack the U.S. “sometime over the next year or so, guaranteed.”  Morrell was commenting on the current Sydney, Australia, hostage situation on CBS Monday when he claimed jihadist militants will likely carry out a similar operation in the… [Read More]

Hostage taking in Sydney cafe sparks fears of Islamist-linked attack

 Australian police locked down the center of the country’s biggest city on Monday after an armed man walked into a downtown Sydney cafe, took hostages and forced them to display an Islamic flag, igniting fears of a jihadist attack. Police said they knew of one armed assailant involved in the incident at the Lindt chocolate… [Read More]

VIDEO: Muslim Fast-Food Worker Has Shocking Reaction to Someone Ordering Bacon

Ah, the joys of tolerance.  Sydney, Australia has begun to learn them after opening several Muslim-friendly restaurants that serve only halal food that is permissible to be eaten under Shariah law. One of those restaurants is featured in this video of a Muslim man who completely loses it when a customer, apparently unaware that he… [Read More]

Deep impact: can subsea survey technology locate Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370?

 Offshore survey specialist Fugro is employing multi-beam sonar and subsea sled technology in the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370.  Julian Turner talks to Rob Luijnenburg, Fugro’s director of corporate strategy and communication, about the company’s state-of-the-art survey vessels and the challenge of sniffing out aircraft fuel in the uncharted southern Indian Ocean…. [Read More]

Mysterious Disappearance? Search Continues for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

 PERTH, Australia — Somewhere off the coast of this western Australian city, most likely deep on the Indian Ocean sea bed, may lie answers to the mysterious disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. Eight months after the Boeing 777 vanished, the international squadrons of reconnaissance aircraft and fleets of frigates and icebreakers are gone. So… [Read More]

Putin’s Ass plans to leave G20 early after West blasts Russia over Ukraine

 Russian President Vladimir Putin plans to leave the G20 summit early, a member of his delegation said, after Western leaders blasted Moscow on Saturday for the crisis in Ukraine and threatened more sanctions. The Russian official told Reuters that Putin planned to skip a working session on Sunday at the two-day summit in Brisbane and… [Read More]

Australian MH370 search agency says to continue mission

 Australia on Tuesday said it remained committed to searching for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 after comments by one of the airline’s directors suggesting the plane would be declared officially “lost” angered passengers’ families. Malaysia Airlines commercial director Hugh Dunleavy inflamed already testy relations between the airline and the families of those aboard the missing… [Read More]