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Fox News – by Edmund DeMarche

A top U.S. Navy official said he is “receptive” to idea of letting his Chinese crewmen tour a U.S. aircraft carrier based in Japan, but experts warn such access could be a risky intelligence giveaway.

Adm. Jonathan W. Greenert, chief of naval operations, told The Wall Street Journal that his Chinese counterpart mentioned the idea of a U.S. carrier crew touring its lone Liaoning carrier and a Chinese crew touring the USS George Washington.   Continue reading “U.S. Navy admiral says he’s open to idea of giving Chinese Navy tour of carrier”

Washington Free Beacon – by Elizabeth Harrington

The Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) decision to grant a waiver to provide favorable status in wireless auctions to an Obama donor is “as unlawful as it is absurd,” FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai said Wednesday.

On a 3-2 party-line vote, Democratic commissioners at the FCC granted Grain Management, LLC., status as a “designated entity” (DE) on Tuesday, allowing the company to receive discounts designed for small businesses when bidding for wireless licenses. David Grain, a major bundler for Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign, owns the firm.   Continue reading “Commissioner: FCC Waiver to Obama Donor ‘as Unlawful as It Is Absurd’”

Breitbart

STOCKTON, Calif. (AP) — Prosecutors in Central California have obtained an arrest warrant for a tuberculosis patient who they say is contagious and has refused treatment.

San Joaquin County Deputy District Attorney Stephen Taylor said Thursday that police are looking for 25-year-old Eduardo Rosas Cruz, a transient who comes from a part of Mexico known for a drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis.     Continue reading “Arrest Warrant Issued for Possible Illegal Alien with Drug-Resistant Strain of Tuberculosis”

The Next Big Future

 Milchberg and his lab report using an “air waveguide” to enhance light signals collected from distant sources. These air waveguides could have many applications, including long-range laser communications, detecting pollution in the atmosphere, making high-resolution topographic maps and laser weapons.   Continue reading “Lasers make fiber optic tubes out of thin air and can be used for communication, sensing and weapon applications”

The Mac Security Blog – by Graham Cluley

A data forensics expert and jailbreaker has discovered what he claims to be a undocumented “backdoor” in the iOS operating system used on iPhones and iPads that could be exploited by the NSA and other law enforcement agencies.

Jonathan Zdziarski (also known as “NerveGas”) presented his findings this month at the annual Hackers on Planet Earth (HOPE X) conference in New York.   Continue reading “Hacker Claims to Have Discovered Undocumented iOS “Backdoor”; Apple Denies NSA Collusion”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

When we reported on the government’s decisiosn to withhold irrigation water to California for the first time in 54 years, we warned there would be consequences: farmers are hit hardest as “they’re all on pins and needles trying to figure out how they’re going to get through this.” Fields will go unplanted (supply lower mean food prices higher), or farmers will pay top dollar for water that’s on the market (and those costs can only be passed on via higher food prices). Sure enough, as Bloomberg reports, farmers in California’s Central Valley, the world’s most productive agricultural region, are paying as much as 10 times more for water than they did before the state’s record drought cut supply.   Continue reading “Food Inflation Watch: California Farmers’ Water Costs Surge 700% After Government Cuts Supply”

Western Journalism – by F. Peter Brown

You’ll be shocked when you found out what things are more popular than Congress.  Get ready…some of these are downright gross:   Continue reading “You Won’t Believe The 14 Awful Things That Are STILL More Popular Than Congress”

LA Times – by Joseph Serna

President Obama may rake in the money from fawning donors during his two-day fundraising sweep through Los Angeles this week, but he’s not winning any fans among commuters who, as they do, take to social media to vent.

“Obama is visiting Los Angeles today which means I won’t be home till around 7:30pm due to traffic delays. #SMH” tweeted Twitter user West Coastin’.   Continue reading “L.A. gets snarky about Obama traffic delays: #ThanksObama”

RT

Millions of pounds could be paid to communities that consider burying the UK’s nuclear waste in their area, the government has announced.

Payments of up to £1 million (US$1.6 million) a year could be doled out to localities that even contemplate accommodating an underground Geological Disposal Facility (GDF) to permanently store radioactive waste from nuclear power, industry, and defense. The UK’s spent nuclear fuel is currently stored at radioactive sites across the country.    Continue reading “Radioactive rewards: UK offers ‘bribes’ for areas to consider nuclear waste site”

The Clarion Project

There have been reports that the Islamic State has issued a fatwa(Islamic decree) mandating female genital mutilation for all women aged 11 to 46. Female genital mutilation (FGM) involves the removal of part or all of the external genitalia of a woman.

However, other reports suggest that it may have been a fake put out by one of the Islamic State’s many enemies.   Continue reading “‘Islamic State’ Consolidates Power, Enforces Brutal Sharia”

The Clarion Project

Recent Boko Haram attacks have left 11 parents of the 220 girls abducted by the group dead. In an attack on the Kautakari village by the Islamist militants, seven fathers of the missing girls were killed. A total of 51 villagers died in the attack on the village, which is loactedclose to Chibok.

In addition to the seven fathers, four other parents of the kidnapped girls have died due to illnesses caused by the trauma of having their daughters taken. One is reported to have died of heart failure, another from high blood pressure and the two others of natural causes related to the trauma.   Continue reading “Boko Haram Kills Parents of Kidnapped Girls”

The Daily Star

BEIRUT: An Air Algerie plane crashed Thursday enroute from Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso to Algiers with more than 100 passengers onboard, an Algerian aviation official said. The plane had disappeared from radar Thursday morning, with at least 20 of its passengers Lebanese, a source at Lebanon’s consulate in Burkina Faso initially told The Daily Star, with officials later confirming the number.

On Thursday evening, Mali’s president announced that the wreckage of the Air Algerie flight has been spotted between the northern towns of Aguelhoc and Kidal.   Continue reading “Air Algerie flight crashes, 20 Lebanese onboard”

Reason – by Ed Krayewski

Police in Enfield, Connecticut, were ready to arrest one of their own, Matthew Worden, for punching a suspect when it was “neither necessary nor needed.” They prepared a 7-page arrest warrant where it sounded like the cop’s excuse was that his victim got in the way of his punches, but the state’s attorney in Hartford rejected the application because, well, the incident was too complicated to follow.

The cops’ allegations against Worden and the state’s attorney explanation for rejecting them,via The Courant:   Continue reading “Connecticut Police Department Tries to Arrest One of Its Own For Brutality, State’s Attorney Says Nope, Too Complicated”

Illinois Review 

CHICAGO – Governor Quinn’s staff discussed a local mayoral election when considering how to divvy up $2 million in Neighborhood Recovery Initiative funds, a Sun-Times story revealed Wednesday.

While one Maywood group was found to have been the most qualified to be funded by NRI head Barbara Shaw, the governor’s staff decided the money should be split between two groups because one of them was rumored to be involved in challenging Maywood’s incumbent village president – the husband of Cook County Recorder of Deeds Karen Yarborough.   Continue reading “Uncovered Quinn Staff Emails Discuss Maywood Mayoral Race and NRA Funds”