An astrophotographer points his cameras towards the sky hoping to capture the Camelopardalid meteor shower, north of Castaic Lake, California, May 24, 2014 (Reuters / Gene Blevins)RT News

A rare Camelopardalid meteor shower lit up the skies early Saturday, after experts had struggled with the enigma of predicting how the meteor storm – the first of its kind – would present itself.

The meteor shower reached its peak when the Earth passed through debris consisting of up to 1,000 pieces of a comet it shed in the 1800s falling all around, every hour, at speeds of 12 miles per second (19.3kps) left by the comet 209P/LINEAR.   Continue reading “New kind of rare meteor shower hits Earth”

Highway 26 crashKATU 2 News

MANNING, Ore. – A 19-year-old man who held his breath while driving through a tunnel on Highway 26 fainted and caused a three-vehicle crash Sunday afternoon, state police said.

Daniel J. Calhoon of Snohomish, Wash., was driving a Toyota Camry west of Manning when he fainted in a tunnel. His car crossed the center line and crashed head-on into an SUV, according to police.   Continue reading “Police: Driver holding breath in tunnel faints, causes crash”

CNN anchor Deborah FeyerickRaw Story – by David Edwards

CNN anchor Deborah Feyerick was called out by an expert on Saturday after the host tried to shut down all discussion of gun control in connection to a weekend mass shooting in California.

During coverage of the breaking news that seven people had died when 22-year-old Elliot Rodger went on a shooting spree near UC Santa Barbara’s campus, Feyerick hosted segments pointing to mental health problems and video games as possible triggers for the mass murders.   Continue reading “CNN host bans all gun control talk after Calif. mass shooting, then gets schooled by panelists”

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Donetsk self-defense forces claim on Twitter to have regained control over the international airport in the eastern city after Ukrainian troops launched a military operation there, deploying fighter jets and helicopters.

“The people’s army has the airport in Donetsk back under control. We are rooting out the remaining Kiev’s remaining troops. Airstrikes have stopped for now,” said the tweet from the self-proclaimed People’s Republic of Donetsk.   Continue reading “Gunfire, airstrikes leave Donetsk Intl airport up in smoke”

Violence In The Face Of Tyranny Is Often NecessaryMilitia News – by Brandon Smith

It was the winter of 1939, only a few months earlier the Soviet Union and Hitler’s Third Reich had signed a partially secret accord known as the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact; essentially a non-aggression treaty which divided Europe down the middle between the fascists and the communists. Hitler would take the West, and Stalin would take the East. Stalin’s war machine had already steamrolled into Latvia. Lithuania, and Estonia. The soviets used unprecedented social and political purges, rigged elections, and genocide, while the rest of the world was distracted by the Nazi blitzkrieg in Poland. In the midst of this mechanized power grab was the relatively tiny nation of Finland, which had been apportioned to the communists.    Continue reading “Violence In The Face Of Tyranny Is Often Necessary”