Willow Smith's Summer Fling track blasted as 'inappropriate' for a 12-year-old

She's just 12-years-old. But in her new track Willow Smith is heard singing about a rather grown up love affair - leading fans to brand Summer Fling 'inapporiate'.

'It's just a couple months but we do it anyway', sings precocious Willow.

Despite her tender age Willow has already signed a lucrative record deal with Jay-Z’s Roc Nation record label...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2359183/Willow-Smiths-Summer-Fling-video-stirs-twitter-controversy-age-appropriate-12-year-old-girl.html

Victoria Police: Possibly More Than 300 Conned In Low Tech Gumtree Scam

The scam involves a man contacting people who have posted 'wanted' advertisements on the Gumtree website.

The man claims to have the item the victim is searching for.

A price and terms are negotiated and the offender forwards personal banking details.

The man then asks where the buyer lives and claims to live nearby, but is reportedly unable to drop the goods off in person because of interstate work. But once the victim has transferred money to the man's account the offender severs all contact.

Information from the victims has led investigators to believe the scam may have been committed more than 300 times.

http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/consumer-security/hundreds-conned-in-gumtree-scam-20130725-2qk7m.html

REVIEW: Liberal media love new Jesus book 'Zealot', fail to mention author is Muslim... #anotherjesus #anothergod

Reza Aslan, author of the new book, “Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth” has been interviewed on a host of media outlets in the last week.

Riding a publicity wave, the book has surged to #2 on Amazon's list.

Media reports have introduced Aslan as a “religion scholar” but have failed to mention that he is a devout Muslim.His book is not a historian’s report on Jesus. It is an educated Muslim’s opinion about Jesus -- yet the book is being peddled as objective history on national TV and radio.“Zealot” is a fast-paced demolition of the core beliefs that Christianity has taught about Jesus for 2,000 years.Aslan is not a trained historian. Like tens of thousands of us he has been formally educated in theology and New Testament Greek.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/07/22/liberal-media-love-new-jesus-book-zealot-fail-to-mention-author-is-muslim/#ixzz2Zzvlrp3z
A different God, a different Jesus

ASYLUM SEEKER BOAT AUSTRALIA BOUND SINKS OFF INDONESIA; 9 DEAD

BANDUNG, Indonesia (AP) -- Rescuers were searching Wednesday for several asylum seekers still believed missing a day after their boat sank in Indonesian waters on the way to Australia. Nearly 190 survivors were brought to safety and nine bodies were recovered.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AS_INDONESIA_BOAT_SINKS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2013-07-24-08-16-33

Australia: Tattoo Regret Becomes The Latest Trend

A drunken night out in Sydney's Kings Cross left Rachel Vance with a tattoo on her arm - two tiny stars and a spade. The experience cost her $100 and she regretted it instantly.

Louise Smith got five tattoos at different stages throughout her twenties. One was a butterfly, another commemorated a friend's death and the rest just seemed like a good idea at the time. Until now.

Both women are part of an emerging trend where people are paying upwards of $100 a pop per session of laser treatment to remove tattoos. Oh, and apparently it hurts like hell.

http://mobile.news.com.au/lifestyle/tattoo-regret-becomes-the-latest-trend/story-fneszs56-1226684253823

Earth, as seen from 900 million miles away (with new photos)

Need a little perspective in your life? Take a look at these images of Earth as seen from almost 900 million miles away.In these new images released by NASA, our planet is dwarfed by Saturn's breathtaking rings, and shows up as just a pale blue dot -- a tiny asterisk beneath Saturn's striking beauty.

Earth, from Saturn

Earth appears as a pale blue speck beneath Saturn's rings in this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on July 19.
http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-76757898/

Instagram is even more depressing than Facebook

It's a truism that Facebook is the many-headed frenemy, the great underminer. We know this because science tells us so.The Human-Computer Institute atCarnegie Mellon has found that your "passive consumption" of your friends' feeds and your own "broadcasts to wider audiences" on Facebook correlate with feelings of loneliness and even depression.Earlier this year, two German universities showed that "passive following" on Facebook triggers states of envy and resentment in many users, with vacation photos standing out as a prime trigger.

http://m.smh.com.au/digital-life/digital-life-news/instagram-is-even-more-depressing-than-facebook-20130724-2qink.html

NSA Says It Can't Search Its Own Emails... Doesn’t have the technology.. #serously?

The NSA is a "supercomputing powerhouse" with machines so powerful their speed is measured in thousands of trillions of operations per second.

The agency turns its giant machine brains to the task of sifting through unimaginably large troves of data its surveillance programs capture. 

But ask the NSA, as part of a freedom of information request, to do a seemingly simple search of its own employees' email? The agency says it doesn’t have the technology.

http://www.propublica.org/article/nsa-says-it-cant-search-own-emails

NY mayoral candidate 'Carlos Danger' demanded woman delete messages in sex chats; Promised her job, condo in Chicago...

New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner, who resigned from Congress in 2011 after a sexting scandal, admitted Tuesday that his Internet shenanigans didn’t stop when he stepped down in disgrace.

Hours after a gossip website published raunchy texts and explicit photos it said were from 2012, Weiner held an extraordinary press conference — accompanied by his wife Huma Abedin, an aide to Hillary Clinton — to apologize and ask voters for a second chance.

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/07/23/19640828-anthony-weiner-admits-sexting-continued-after-2011-resignation-from-congress?lite

Weiner Explicit' new sex messages, bathroom pic...Sent graphic smut months after resigning from Congress in shame...

Went by 'Carlos Danger' in sex chats...Demanded woman delete messages; Promised her job, condo in Chicago...

Anthony Weiner's campaign did not respond Tuesday to repeated inquiries about a new set of unverified images suggesting that he exchanged sexually charged messages — and an explicit image — with a woman last summer.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/no-comment-from-weiner-camp-on-new-alleged-sex-chats?s=mobile

Paper: Has global warming stopped? No - it’s just on pause...

Huge amounts of heat – equivalent to the power of 150 billion electric kettles – are being continuously absorbed by the deep ocean, which could explain why global warming has “paused” over the past 10 to 15 years, scientists have concluded in a series of reports to explain why the Earth’s rate of warming has slowed down.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/has-global-warming-stopped-no--its-just-on-pause-insist-scientists-and-its-down-to-the-oceans-8726893.html

Outrage in Brazil, Home of the $30 Cheese Pizza..

Shoppers here with a notion of what items cost abroad need to brace themselves when buying a Samsung Galaxy S4 phone: the same model that costs $615 in the United States is nearly double that in Brazil.

An even bigger shock awaits parents needing a crib: the cheapest one at Tok & Stok costs over $440, more than six times the price of a similarly made item at Ikea in the United States.For Brazilians seething with resentment over wasteful spending by the country’s political elite, the high prices they must pay for just about everything — a large cheese pizza can cost almost $30 — only fuel their ire.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/07/23/world/americas/prices-fuel-outrage-in-brazil-home-of-the-30-cheese-pizza.html?hp=&

Want to Google the 'halal' way?

Putting the “beep” in all that’s un-Islamic, a new online search engine is providing a Muslim alternative to surfing the web.Blocking web content deemed “haram,” or forbidden in Islam, the Halalgoogling site has its own custom filters.

Dubbed the “Haram Filtering System,” it claims to block content based on general category filtering and forbidden sites on a “black list.”It also sifts through links and a list of “haram keywords,” which cannot be used to search on the website.

Read more at http://english.alarabiya.net/en/variety/2013/07/21/Want-to-Google-the-halal-way-There-s-a-site-for-that.html

A Flock Of Seagulls’ Van, Musical Equipment Stolen

A van filled with musical equipment belonging to the ’80s rock band A Flock of Seagulls was stolen at a hotel in Downey early Sunday morning.The band—best known for the 1982 hit “I Ran (So Far Away)”— parked their vehicle in the parking lot of Comfort Inn around 1:45 a.m. after they got back from a show in Bellflower. When they woke up that morning, the vehicle was gone....

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2013/07/22/a-flock-of-seagulls-van-musical-equipment-taken-in-downey/

OBAMA 'PUSHED BOYCOTT OF JERUSALEM,BIBLICAL TERRITORIES'

Israeli diplomats warn of crisis over controversial EU move

A European Union boycott of financial dealings with Jews in the biblical West Bank, Golan Heights and eastern Jerusalem was fully coordinated with the Obama administration, a senior Palestinian negotiator told WND.

“Without the U.S. support, the EU wouldn’t have taken such measures,” the negotiator said.

On Friday, the EU published guidelines forbidding its 28 members from having any financial dealings with what it calls Jewish settlements or territories that have been “occupied” by Israel since 1967.

The preface to the guidelines states “the EU does not recognize Israel’s sovereignty over … the Golan Heights, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including east Jerusalem … and does not consider them to be part of Israel’s territory, irrespective of their legal status under domestic law.”

“Only Israeli entities having their place of establishment within Israel’s pre-1967 borders will be considered eligible as final recipients” of funding such as “grants, prizes and financial instruments.”

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/07/obama-pushed-boycott-of-jerusalem-biblical-territories/#Z0Ju5KDf8fXOH3FR.99

Here's One Really Good Reason to Stop Skipping Breakfast

Another reason to eat breakfast: Skipping it may increase your chances of a heart attack.

A study of older men found those who regularly skipped breakfast had a 27 percent higher risk of a heart attack than those who ate a morning meal. There’s no reason why the results wouldn’t apply to other people, too, the Harvard researchers said.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/07/22/heres-one-really-good-reason-to-stop-skipping-breakfast/

Security Nightmare: Wrong turn sends Pope Francis into the thick of a frenzied Rio crowd

It was a nightmare for security officials, but for the clearly delighted pope just another opportunity to connect.Ecstatic throngs forced his motorcade to repeatedly come to a standstill, weeks after violent protests against the government paralyzed parts of Brazil.

Francis' driver had turned into the wrong side of a boulevard at one point, missing lanes that had been cleared.

http://news.yahoo.com/brazilian-crowds-delight-pope-frustrate-security-004538538.html

Homemade Bomb Found Near Pope Francis's Scheduled Visit Site in Brazil

A homemade bomb has been found near a popular Brazilian shrine ahead of Pope Francis's visit.The explosive was discovered in a lavatory inside the National Sanctuary of Aparecida, which is located between Rio de Janerio and Sao Paolo. http://m.ibtimes.co.uk/pope-francis-brazil-visit-bomb-rio-protests-493584.html

Gold Coast Mansion cost $21m, sells for $5m

ONE of the biggest homes on the Gold Coast has sold for less than a quarter of what it cost to buy the land and build.The huge unfinished house on the elite Sovereign Islands was put on the market by mortgagee, ANZ Bank after court action in Australia and Singapore to evict owner Clare Marks and husband Scott Tyne. http://mobile.news.com.au/realestate/selling/gold-coast-home-cost-2144m-sells-for-53m/story-fndbawks-1226683700784

Hundreds of detainees escape Abu Ghraib after Al Qaeda launches military assault to free them

The deadly raid on the high-security jail happened as Sunni Muslim militants are gaining momentum in their insurgency against the Shi'ite-led government that came to power after the U.S. invasion to oust Saddam Hussein. http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSBRE96L0RM20130722?irpc=932