Category: News

LATimes – by Dan Weikel, Ralph Vartabedian and Laura J. Nelson

SAN FRANCISCO — The pilots flying the Asiana Airlines jetliner that crashed in San Francisco told federal investigators that an automatic throttle — a system akin to a car’s cruise control — had failed to keep the jetliner at the proper speed for landing.

Mail.com

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — The Navy will attempt to land a drone the size of a fighter jet aboard an aircraft carrier for the first time Wednesday, showcasing the military’s capability to have a computer program perform one of the most difficult tasks a pilot is asked to do.

If all goes as planned, a successful landing of the X-47B experimental aircraft will mean the Navy can move forward with its plans to develop another unmanned aircraft that will join the fleet alongside traditional airplanes to provide around-the-clock surveillance while also possessing a strike capability. The aircraft’s success would pave the way for the U.S. to launch unmanned aircraft without the need to obtain permission from other countries to use their bases.   Continue reading “Navy to attempt 1st unmanned carrier landing”

Natural News – by Tony Isaacs

According to the new book Rich Food, Poor Food, ingredients commonly found in up to 80 percent of all pre-packaged foods on grocers shelves in the U.S. have been banned in other countries. As alarming as such information is, our food safety outlook becomes even bleaker when we consider other banned and toxic food items.   Continue reading “Eighty percent of the packaged foods on our grocers shelves are banned in other countries”

Before It’s News

The Plant Kingdom has evolved along with the rest of us for over fifty million years and has tailored itself to our needs to the point where certain plants like Turmeric, ginger and garlic are beginning to be recognized in the West as disease-preventives because they ‘beef up’ the Immune system, which is an ‘automatic’ function of the body – but works only if it’is getting the right nutrients.

If “you are what you eat”, then it can’t be fun if you’re fast, cheap, easy and fake…   Continue reading “If Hippocrates’ advice Were Followed “Let Food Be Thy Medicine & Thy Medicine Shall Be Thy Food”, there Might Not BE an Autism Epidemic…”

Wired – by KYLE VANHEMERT

There’s a decent chance you know what’s going on inside a gun. You pull the trigger; the trigger releases the hammer; the hammer slaps the cartridge, and out the bullet fires. But what’s going on inside each of those cartridges? That’s what you can see here. “Ammo,” by Sabine Pearlman, is a series of photos of perfectly bisected projectiles. All have some sort of recognizable silhouette–either the short, stubby shape of a 9 mm cartridge, the chunky rectangular body of a shotgun shell, or the long menacing lines of higher-powered ammunition–but inside, we see, each has its own unique architecture.   Continue reading “Look at These Amazing Cross Sections of Bullets”

Current problems associated with the end of the third industrial revolution 

Humanity is being confronted with the same problems as those at the end of the second industrial revolution such as decreasing stock exchange rates, highly increasing unemployment, towering debts of companies and governments and bad financial positions of  banks. Every production phase or civilization or other human invention goes through a so called transformation process, a transition.   Continue reading “Without knowledge of the past there is no future”

James Kirk Piccione

REASON #1: Talking to the police CANNOT help you.

If the police are talking to you, it’s because they suspect you have committed a crime. If they have detained you, it’s because they already have enough evidence to arrest you and they want to see if you will admit it and thus, give them an even stronger case against you.

If they have evidence to arrest you for a crime, they will. If they don’t, they won’t. It’s as simple as that.   Continue reading “Top Ten Reasons Why You Should Not Talk to the Police”

Techlicious – by Fox Van Allen

Childnet International, a non-profit working to keep kids safe on the Internet, has issued a stern warning to computer owners today: Hackers can take over webcams without your knowledge, so keep them covered up when not in use.

Once your computer is infected by a Trojan virus – often acquired by visiting the wrong website or by opening malicious email attachments – criminals can control your webcam without your knowledge. These types of hackings are rapidly becoming big business: The BBC has uncovered an entire industry centering on the buying and selling of access to compromised webcams, especially those owned by women.   Continue reading “Warning: Cover Up Your Webcam When Not in Use”

Common Dreams – by Abbey Zimet

In response to protests against test drilling for a controversial proposed $1.5 billion open-pit iron ore mine in northern Wisconsin by Gogebic Taconite, the mining company has hired masked, camouflaged, assault-rifle-toting guards from a self-described “no compromise” security force that boasts of “rigorous tactical firearms training” and “professional operators” who combine “logistics with tactical support” to “instinctively and smoothly manage surrounding threats.”  Thanks to the mindless Rambo-ing up, the “surrounding threats” are now mostly the once-peaceable, now-pissed residents who, in a letter from Democratic legislators, blast the company’s “confrontational and incendiary step that will clearly do more to intimidate local citizens and increase local tensions than it will to make you, your staff, or your equipment any safer.”   Continue reading “Bulletproof Security: Mining Company Hires Paramilitary Commandos to Guard Their Precious Equipment, Wisconsin Is Unhappy”

Washington’s Blog

A Real Court Needs to Hear Both Sides

We’ve noted that there is no real oversight by the courts or Congress on the NSA’s spying programs.

The New York Times reports that the court overseeing the government’s spying programs only hears one side of the case:   Continue reading “Even FISA Court Judge Says It’s a Kangaroo Court”

Freedom Outpost – by Tim Brown

As Barack Obama has made it known, the Obamacare employer mandate will be pushed back a year. Just like he did in regards to immigration laws and DOMA (Defense of Marriage Act) he has picked and chosen what he will uphold and enforce as law. Now he’s doing it with his own healthcare law and it’s all political, make no mistake about it, but none of this is surprise to his administration. They’ve known they wouldn’t be able to fully implement the Obamacare Beast for months. Now people are losing their jobs because of it and more.   Continue reading “Obama Administration Has Known For Months Obamacare Implementation Would Collapse”

McClatchy – by Jonathan S. Landay and Marisa Taylor

CNN -by Eliott C. McLaughlin. Ben Brumfield. Paula Newton and Joe Sterling

Lac-Megantic, Quebec (CNN) — Canadian authorities have found evidence that a train that crashed in Lac-Megantic, Quebec, was tampered with, provincial police Capt. Michel Forget said Tuesday.

There have been many questions about the train explosion that wiped out a swath of Lac-Megantic’s downtown, killing at least 15 people. As of Tuesday evening, 35 people were still missing, Forget said.   Continue reading “Police say there’s evidence Canada train was tampered with”

Max Velocity Tactical

I wrote a post back in May on ‘Combat Rifle – Solid Basics to Keep You Alive’ and it would be worthwhile you reading that post in conjunction with this one. The purpose of this post is to really drill down on the procedures for your initial reaction to enemy contact.

Reaction to enemy fire is what I first concentrate on on my Combat Rifle / Contact Drills weekend classes. I work on this at an individual level and then combine into buddy pairs and then four man teams for both offensive and break contact battle drills. However, at every level the reaction to contact is still a very individual drill, which you conduct whether on your own or surrounded by a team. It forms that initial reaction and the building block from which the rest of your individual and team drills will flow.   Continue reading “React to Contact – Solid Drills to Keep You Alive”