Category: News

IFL Science – by Lisa Winter

The Rosetta spacecraft and its Philae lander have a lot to teach scientists about what Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko looks like, is composed of, and even what it smells like, but what does the comet sound like? The day before Philae made history by landing on the surface of the comet, ESA released an audio clip of 67P/C-G singing. Unfortunately, its song is creepy as hell and sounds a lot like Predator, the alien that tried to kill Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Of course, sound waves can’t travel through space, so it isn’t a direct audio recording. Instead, Rosetta’s Plasma Consortium (RPC) picked up variations in the magnetic field around the comet, due to interactions between 67P/C-G’s coma and the plasma from the Sun, better known as solar wind. These variations resulted in frequencies between 40 to 50 millihertz, about 10,000 times lower than can be detected by humans. ESA scientists altered the frequency of the comet’s song into human hearing range, and discovered it was a series of clicks that are very reminiscent of Predator’s growl.   Continue reading “Eerie Sound Detected Coming From Rosetta’s Comet”

Business Insider

San Francisco – US justice officials are scooping up mobile phone data from unwitting Americans as part of a sophisticated airborne surveillance program designed to catch criminals, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Small aircraft deployed by the US Marshals Service from at least five major airports have been taking to the skies with “dirtbox” equipment designed to mimic signals from cell towers, according to the Journal.   Continue reading “US spies on mobile phones from the sky”

The Daily Caller – by Sarah Hurtubise

Immigrants and their families are disproportionately taking advantage of Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion, according to a new study from the anti-amnesty Center for Immigration Studies.

Immigrants and their U.S.-born children account for 42 percent of the growth of Medicaid enrollment between 2011 and 2013, according to the report, although they make up just 17 percent of the U.S. population. By 2013, a quarter of all immigrants and their children were on Medicaid; in contrast, 16 percent of natural-born Americans and their children are on the health program for those with low incomes.   Continue reading “Study: Immigrants Are Boosting Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansion Rolls The Most”

NewsMax – by Elliot Jager

A group of illegal immigrants have filed a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security demanding that deportations be halted until President Barack Obama clarifies his amnesty plans, The Washington Post reported.

The National Day Laborer Organizing Network,  the advocacy group behind the lawsuit, wants deportations frozen and the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program expanded. The group had filed a petition in February with DHS demanding the “temporary suspension of deportations for the millions of undocumented immigrants who would likely benefit from near–term congressional action on immigration.”   Continue reading “Illegals File Suit Against DHS to Stop Deportations”

Mail.com

MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — Liberia’s president said Thursday she is lifting a state of emergency imposed to control an Ebola outbreak that has ravaged the country, as Mali reported a fourth person now believed to have died of Ebola in its capital.

Also Thursday, Doctors Without Borders announced that accelerated clinical trials will be launched in West Africa to speed the search for a treatment for the virus that has killed more than 5,000 people.   Continue reading “Liberia president to end Ebola state of emergency”

Mail.com

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah truck driver accused of keeping two women as sex slaves in his semitrailer as he traveled the country had four more victims, federal prosecutors said in court documents.

Some of the new accusations against defendant Timothy Jay Vafeades date back 20 years. In two of the new incidents detailed in the documents filed Monday, prosecutors say Vafeades, now 54, lured the women to his truck, then forcibly altered their appearances and ground down their teeth while holding them prisoner for months.   Continue reading “Utah trucker accused of keeping more sex slaves”

Mail.com

ISTANBUL (AP) — Militant leaders from the Islamic State group and al-Qaida gathered at a farm house in northern Syria last week and agreed on a plan to stop fighting each other and work together against their opponents, a high-level Syrian opposition official and a rebel commander have told The Associated Press.

Such an accord could present new difficulties for Washington’s strategy against the IS group. While warplanes from a U.S.-led coalition strike militants from the air, the Obama administration has counted on arming “moderate” rebel factions to push them back on the ground. Those rebels, already considered relatively weak and disorganized, would face far stronger opposition if the two heavy-hitting militant groups now are working together.   Continue reading “AP sources: IS, al-Qaida reach accord in Syria”

ABC News – by Michelle R. Smith

A graduate student has sued a textile company for refusing to hire her for a two-month internship because she uses medical marijuana to treat frequent and debilitating migraine headaches, a decision her lawyer calls discrimination.

Christine Callaghan, who is studying textiles at the University of Rhode Island, sued Westerly-based Darlington Fabrics Corp. and its parent, the Moore Company, on Wednesday. The Rhode Island chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, which is representing Callaghan, said it believes it’s the first lawsuit of its kind in the state.   Continue reading “Marijuana Patient Sues After Firm Won’t Hire Her”

McClatchy DC – by Nancy A Youssef

WASHINGTON — Less than a week after the Obama administration announced that it would double the U.S. troop presence in Iraq, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff told Congress Thursday that U.S. troops might eventually accompany Iraqi troops to the front lines in their battle to reclaim ground from the Islamic State.

Army Gen. Martin Dempsey’s comments, made during testimony before the House Armed Services Committee, further fueled fears that the U.S. mission in Iraq is creeping toward a combat role for American troops, a prospect President Barack Obama repeatedly has ruled out.    Continue reading “Dempsey again cites possibility of sending U.S. troops into Iraq combat”

LA Times – by NABIH BULOS

Money might be the root of all evil, but that’s a risk Islamic State seems willing to take.

In a bid to shed the “tyrannical monetary system that was imposed upon the Muslims” and avoid becoming “easy prey for the Jews and Crusaders,” the militant group has decided to create a new currency, according to a statement released Thursday by the Financial Diwan [Office] of the Islamic State.   Continue reading “Islamic State wants to create its own currency”

SooperMexican

Geez these people really believe we’re as stupid and incompetent as they are. Here’s Nancy Pelosi on the Gruber comments saying Obamacare was deceptively written:

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday tried to downplay comments by an architect of Obamacare, who was caught talking about the “stupidity of the American voter,” by saying she doesn’t even know who he is.   Continue reading “Nancy Pelosi Says She Doesn’t Know Who Gruber Is, But Quoted Him in 2009”

Common Dreams – by Sarah Lazare

Israel announced Wednesday it will refuse entry to United Nations human rights investigators who seek to probe potential war crimes committed in the latest 50-day military assault on Gaza.

The 47-member UN Human Rights Council in July approved the inquiry into “all violations of international humanitarian law and international human rights law in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and the occupied Gaza Strip in the context of military operations conducted since mid June,” focusing on the actions of Israel as well as Hamas. Twenty-nine nations voted in favor of the investigation, with the U.S. issuing the sole “no” vote.   Continue reading “Israeli Government To Refuse Entry to UN Team Investigating War Crimes in Gaza”

Universal Free Press

Washington’s new gun control law. At least 5,500 are going to choose to openly violate the gun control  law, I-594, at the state capitol in Olympia on December 13th. The law goes into effect on December 4th, after the Secretary of State certifies the election results. No mainstream media source has mentioned the rare event, even though reservations increase every day.

Basically unheard of in the modern era; 5,500 people will willingly violate the law through civil disobedience, and violate felony gun laws. Washington is one of few remaining states that has stayed friendly to gun owners, but gun owners are outraged that a few billionaires were able to buy the election, contributing almost half the $10 million gave to the race to support I-594, which was right at 10 times as much as the opposition. Unsuccessful at coercing the legislature to pass the law, gun control supporters relied on billionaires to push it through as an initiative. Their money provided the funds to run non-stop misleading ads on TV.   Continue reading “Over 5,000 Gun Owners Set to Publicly Defy New Gun Control Law”

AOL – by Ryan Gorman

The Pennsylvania survivalist charged in the shooting death of one state trooper and the severe wounding of another now faces terrorism charges for trying to spark an armed revolution against the government.

Survivalist Eric Frein, 31, was hit with two charges of terrorism for trying to “influence the policy of government” through “assassination” during a late Thursday afternoon court hearing, authorities said. He appeared via closed-circuit television.   Continue reading “PA survivalist Eric Frein charged with terrorism after boasting of state trooper’s ‘assassination’”

The Gateway Pundit – by Jim Hoft

St. Louis area schools and townships are warning residents to stock up on water, food and medicine before the Mike Brown court decision.

Local officials fear a violent response to the St. Louis County Court’s decision.

Over three dozen businesses were vandalized and looted during the Ferguson rioting in August.

The City of Berkeley, near Ferguson, released this statement warning residents to stock up on water, food and medicine before the verdict is announced.   Continue reading “St. Louis Schools – Townships Warn Residents to STOCK UP ON WATER, FOOD, MEDICINE Before #MikeBrown Decision”

If you have been around firearms and have had training in firearm safety………..well lets just say, if this happens to you then you deserve it.

Free Thought Project – by John Vibes

Iowa City, Iowa – Earlier this week, an Iowa City police officer shot himself and another officer while they were cleaning their firearms.

The incident reportedly happened on Monday, November 10, 2014 around 8:30 p.m. Two ambulances were immediately called to the scene, and the officers were taken to nearby hospitals where they were later treated and released.   Continue reading ““Oops, My Bad” Cop Accidentally Shoots Himself And Another Officer”