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My rating: Invaluable, 5 Stars +++ ad infinitum as the Lady clearly states what I knew or should have known and still can not articulate as well; and yes, the 6 Cassettes play for 5+ hours so just turn OFF that Boob-Tube, miss the Big Game and Feed Your Head; for your Mind is your Shield and Sword, the primary weapon! Continue reading “Energy Anatomy, Dr. Caroline Myss”
Maybe it’s something in the water at the National Security Agency, but for some reason, officials there just can’t seem to get enough of spying on us by continually expanding their surveillance dragnet.
As reported by The New American, the agency is now looking into possibly stealing data from Internet-connected biomedical devices like pacemakers, according to the NSA’s deputy director, Richard Ledgett. Continue reading “NSA surveillance extends to biomedical implants including pacemakers to collect data on unsuspecting Americans”
National Guard units seeking to confiscate a cache of recently banned assault weapons were ambushed by elements of a para-military extremist faction. Military and law enforcement sources estimate that 72 were killed and more than 200 injured before government forces were compelled to withdraw.
Speaking after the clash, Massachusetts Governor Thomas Gage declared that the extremist faction, which was made up of local citizens, has links to the radical right-wing tax protest movement. Gage blamed the extremists for recent incidents of vandalism directed against internal revenue offices. The governor, who described the group’s organizers as ‘criminals’, issued an executive order authorizing the summary arrest of any individual who has interfered with the government’s efforts to secure law and order. The military raid on the extremist arsenal followed widespread refusal by the local citizenry to turn over recently outlawed assault weapons. Continue reading “Seventy-Two Killed Resisting Gun Confiscation In Boston”
Josh “Mac” MacDowell of San Antonio Texas had a brilliant idea. He took a Stirling engine, a type of engine developed 200 years ago, and added some 21st-century technology to it. The result is a hybrid electric car so efficient that you never have to stop to recharge, reports Houston’s KHOU11.
The centerpiece of MacDowell’s innovation is the Stirling engine, which was created in 1816. The closed-cycle air engine uses the expansion of hot air and the compression of cold air to generate the power needed to drive an engine. Unlike steam engines which utilize a similar principal, the Stirling engine has an internal regenerative heat exchanger that keeps the hot and cold air at the correct temperature. This recycling feature boosts the engine’s efficiency to a whopping 50 percent. For comparison, a standard internal combustion engine operates only at 14 percent efficiency. Continue reading “Man builds 100mpg engine using 200-year-old technology”
SEATTLE — Two months ago we were near 90 degrees in Seattle, shattering all sorts of heat records.
Today, it’s snowing just a few hours’ drive away.
Snow is falling above about 4,000 feet with web cameras up in the mountains showing surreal winter-like scenes. Continue reading “It’s snowing in the Cascades”
The outrageous, overreaching, privacy violating surveillance conducted on American citizens everyday shows that if you like to go camping you might be considered a terrorist. The financial institutions of America are monitoring every single purchase made and categorically analyzing what is purchased. Continue reading “Enjoy camping? You may be considered a terrorist by the US government.”
Russia Insider – by Moses Birch
The war you don’t hear about: numerous American military aircraft (albeit of the unmanned variety, though with the possibility of being armed and dangerous) have apparently been violating Russian airspace, leading to the Russians shooting – yes, shooting – them down following the refusal of the Americans to acknowledge Russian diplomatic notes of protest.
The military violation of the territory, including the airspace, of a sovereign state is ordinarily taken to be a casus belli – an act of war. Continue reading “The Russians Have Already Shot Down Numerous US Drones Violating Crimean Airspace”
1 Stat. 613, January 30, 1799, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 953 (2004): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan_Act
The Logan Act. When in 1798 a Philadelphia Quaker named Logan went to Paris on his own to undertake a negotiation with the French Government with a view to averting war between France and the United States, his enterprise stimulated Congress to pass “An Act to Prevent Usurpation of Executive Functions,” [574] which, “more honored in the breach than the observance,” still survives on the statute books.[575] The year following John Marshall, then a Member of the House of Representatives, defended President John Adams for delivering a fugitive from justice to Great Britain under the 27th article of the Jay Treaty, instead of leaving the business to the courts. Continue reading “Logan Act.”
Dog owners will often place signs around the property to warn visitors or the poor postman of their pooch’s presence. Most dogs are pretty friendly of course, but that doesn’t stop these creative owners from putting their own twist on the concept of the ‘Beware of the Dog’ sign, with hilarious results! Some of these would definitely be relevant to my home… Continue reading “‘Beware Dog’ Signs by Funny Owners”
On June 2nd just before 4 a.m. MST, a small asteroid hit Earth’s atmosphere and exploded over Arizona. The airburst shook the ground below and produced a flash of light 10x brighter than a full Moon. NASA says it was a 3-meter wide space rock from beyond the orbit of Mars. Shortly after the explosion, Mike Lerch walked out the front door of his house in Phoenix on the way to work, and this is what he saw: Continue reading “Asteroid Explodes Over Arizona”