Category: News

RT News

Attorneys for the Electronic Frontier Foundation have sued the Obama administration and are demanding the White House stop the dragnet surveillance programs operated by the National Security Agency.

Both the White House and Congress have weighed in on the case of Edward Snowden and the revelations he’s made by leaking National Security Agency documents. Now the courts are having their turn to opine, and with opportunities aplenty.   Continue reading “Obama administration drowning in lawsuits filed over NSA surveillance”

RT News

The FBI has ordered a Florida medical examiner’s office not to release the autopsy report of a Chechen man who was killed during an FBI interview in May over his ties to one of the suspected Boston Marathon bombers.

The autopsy report for Ibragim Todashev, 27, killed by an FBI agent during an interrogation which took place in his apartment on May 22 was ready for release on July 8. However, the FBI barred its publication, saying an internal probe into his death is ongoing.    Continue reading “FBI withholds autopsy of Tsarnaev associate ‘shot in head’ during questioning”

RT News

The Army and the FBI have detected radiation in a former nuclear weapons bunker in Texas and have launched an investigation to determine the extent of the contamination. About 30 people who work in the bunker are undergoing radiation tests.

Investigators have discovered radiation at a former nuclear weapons bunker at Fort Bliss, Texas. The above-ground concrete bunker sits in a desert area and is covered in dirt. A sign posted at its entrance warns of radiation danger inside the former weapons storage facility.   Continue reading “Army fights to contain radiation in Fort Bliss military base”

RT News

A United States military drone presumed to be a QF-4 crashed, exploded and sent up a large black cloud of smoke Wednesday morning at Tyndall Air Force Base.

Local news outlets from the Florida panhandle region reported Wednesday morning that an unmanned aerial vehicle crashed on the drone runway at Tyndall AFB during take-off at 8:20 a.m. EST that morning.   Continue reading “Air Force drone crashes and explodes in Florida, shutting down highway”

RT News

The American Civil Liberties Union has released documents confirming that police license plate readers capture vast amounts of data on innocent people, and in many instances this intelligence is kept forever.

According to documents obtained through a number of Freedom of Information Act requests filed by ACLU offices across the United States, law enforcement agencies are tracking the whereabouts of innocent persons en masse by utilizing a still up-and-coming technology.   Continue reading “‘You are being tracked’: ACLU reveals docs of mass license plate reader surveillance”

The Organic Prepper

People like to shake their heads at the eccentricities of those of us who eschew vaccines for ourselves and our families, but a recent document that was published (then immediately removed from the website) by the CDC gives even more credibility to our claims of “You just don’t know what’s in that stuff.”

A polio vaccine injection that was given to people between 1955-1963 contained a live cancer virus.  Here is a cached copy of the CDC document.   Continue reading “Tragic Mistake Or Deliberate Plan? 30 Million People Injected with Mandatory Vaccination Containing Live SV40 Cancer Virus”

Liberty Bliztkrieg

The rampant hypocrisy in the position of the mega banks on the issue of credit unions is so glaring it’s almost hard to believe. Then again, there is nothing we shouldn’t assume when it comes to mega bank criminality and culturally destructive behavior after these last few years of unlimited nerve, gall and theft. Why? They are above the law and they know it. From the LA Times:   Continue reading “Mega Banks Go After Credit Unions”

Story Leak – by Daniel G. J.

Patriotism may not be the real reason why big companies like AT&T, Google, and Verizon have been so eagerly cooperating with the NSA’s eavesdropping on our private communications. The Associated Press and U.S. Senator Elect Ed Markey (D-Massachusetts) discovered that the companies get paid when the NSA spies on one of their customers in a story that Storyleak is now highlighting from the back section of the news.   Continue reading “Money Trail: Corporations Paid Big Bucks by NSA for Allowing Spying”

Fox News

Secret courts. Secret emails. Phone surveillance. Drones. The list of cloak-and-dagger tactics employed by the Obama administration — and those that preceded it — keeps growing, as NSA leaker Ed Snowden feeds classified materials to the media and other reports show the extent of the U.S. government’s more opaque dealings.

The latest was a report by The Associated Press that said the administration had military files about the Navy SEAL raid on Usama bin Laden’s hideout transferred to the CIA, where they would be harder to uncover by the press and public.     Continue reading “Transparency Troubles: Secrecy concerns mount for Obama in 2nd term”

AmmoLand

Wilsonville, OR – -(Ammoland.com)- After a blaring horn sounds behind you, the clock begins ticking.

You hastily unholster a pistol, slide in the magazine, and align the sights.

Then the trigger tugging starts—as more precious seconds pass. A series of steel targets drop with a pronounced metallic clang, then you dash to a nearby barrel where you pull out a shotgun, stuff shells into the semi-auto’s lower, and start shooting. After more steel targets tumble, you clear the shotgun, check the safety, and drop the gun back into the barrel. Next, you make a mad dash for a distant table, pick up an AR rifle, insert and tug the magazine, then start shooting the many targets ahead in your lane. The clock continues ticking away the seconds.   Continue reading “The Thrill of 3-Gun”

Before It’s News – by Monica Davis

His Russian attorney says Edward Snowden has applied for temporary asylum in Russia. With all of the international attention being paid  to  Edward Snowden, we are really forgetting that he is also being used as a proxy for a fight between the US and Russia.

Russian president Vladimir Putin is in heaven, thumbing his nose at the US, calling us out for human rights violations with regard to Snowden.   Continue reading “Russian Lawyer Says Snowden Has Applied For Tempory Assylum In Russia”

Before It’s News – by Mort Amsel

The tiny town of Deer Trail, Colo. — barely more than a wide spot on Interstate 70 about 55 miles east of Denver, population 546 — is considering an ordinance that would authorize licensed bounty hunters to shoot down unmanned aircraft violating its “sovereign airspace.”

A six-page petition circulated by a resident says that the threat of surveillance from drones — regardless of who is piloting them — is a threat to “traditional American ideas of Liberty and Freedom” enjoyed by Deer Trail’s “ranchers, farmers, cowboys and Indians, as well as contemporary citizens.”   Continue reading “Colorado Town Considers Licensing Bounty Hunters To Shoot Down Drones”

Max Velocity Tactical

I posted previously about ‘Tactical Mobility – How it might affect you’ and I have also written about realistic PT for light infantry style operations. The Tactical Mobility post led onto another discussion, carried on a little in comments, about realistic times for ruck marching and similar. I am writing now to clarify that a little.

There are several elements to consider here:   Continue reading “More Detail on Rucking Fitness”

Wall Street Journal – by Mort Zuckerman

In recent months, Americans have heard reports out of Washington and in the media that the economy is looking up—that recovery from the Great Recession is gathering steam. If only it were true. The longest and worst recession since the end of World War II has been marked by the weakest recovery from any U.S. recession in that same period.

The jobless nature of the recovery is particularly unsettling. In June, the government’s Household Survey reported that since the start of the year, the number of people with jobs increased by 753,000—but there are jobs and then there are “jobs.” No fewer than 557,000 of these positions were only part-time. The survey also reported that in June full-time jobs declined by 240,000, while part-time jobs soared by 360,000 and have now reached an all-time high of 28,059,000—three million more part-time positions than when the recession began at the end of 2007.   Continue reading “A Jobless Recovery Is a Phony Recovery”

Century Link – by RUSSELL CONTRERAS – Associated Press

BERNALILLO, N.M. (AP) — The month long criminal trial and all its salacious stories of law officer affairs and a blundering investigation are over, but a civil trial looms for a former Albuquerque policeman acquitted of killing his depressed wife with his department-issued gun.

After more than 10 hours of deliberations, a jury acquitted Levi Chavez, 32, of murdering of his wife, 26-year-old Tera Chavez, in 2007 and trying to make the hairdresser’s death look like a suicide.   Continue reading “Ex-police officer acquitted of murder of wife”

The Daily Caller – by Neil Munro

Americans’ after-inflation wages have dropped by almost 3 percent since President Barack Obama’s inauguration, according to a new analysis by a left-wing advocacy group.

The biggest drop was felt by lower-income workers, while upper-income professionals were hit by a 2 percent drop. The study was released by the National Employment Law Project, which is headed by left-wing employment lawyers, union officials and a former economist in Obama’s White House, Jared Bernstein.   Continue reading “Left-wing group: Americans’ wages down during Obama’s term”

CBC News

Panama has detained a North Korean-flagged ship coming from Cuba as it approached the Panama Canal with undeclared weapons, President Ricardo Martinelli said.

The weapons, hidden in containers of brown sugar, were detected after Panamanian authorities stopped the ship, suspecting it was carrying drugs. The vessel was pulled over near the port of Manzanillo on the Atlantic side of the canal.     Continue reading “Panama finds ‘undeclared weapons’ on North Korean ship”