An armored vehicle drives a battering ram through John Geer's door. (Source: ABC7 WJLA)Police State USA – by O.D.

SPRINGFIELD, VA — A paramilitary force was dispatched to a townhouse after a woman reported a domestic dispute between her and her boyfriend.  When her boyfriend stubbornly chose to stay inside his home, police shot him and drove an armored truck through his front door.

The situation began on August 29th around 2:40 p.m. when John Geer — a 46-year-old kitchen designer and installer — was told by his girlfriend that she had decided to leave him.  The couple had two daughters together, ages 13 and 17.  Emotionally distraught over the breakup, Geer exacerbated the situation by throwing her belongings onto the lawn of their townhouse.   Continue reading “Police shot unarmed man, drove an armored truck through his door when he did not exit his property on command”

Rendering of the “knitter”Bloomberg’s Business Week – by Ashlee Vance

Elon Musk tantalized the world in August with his plans for the Hyperloop, a mode of travel that would blast people between cities at 800 miles per hour in capsules zipping through an above-ground tube. In a 58-page report, Musk, the chief executive officer of Tesla Motors (TSLA) and SpaceX, outlined his vision for the technology, which would use supercharged electric motors for propulsion. Musk’s paper called on the public to help refine the design and bring the Hyperloop to fruition. Armchair advisers have since arrived en masse.   Continue reading “Autodesk’s Idea to Knit the Hyperloop Out of Carbon Fiber”

Business Insider – by KIRSTEN ACUNA

Last weekend’s “Saturday Night Live” opening skit poked fun at the difficulty people had gaining access to the Obamacare HealthCare website.

In the skit below Kate McKinnon portrayed Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius in the cold open joking the site “was only designed to handle six users at a time.”   Continue reading “Here’s The ‘SNL’ Skit That Correctly Predicted How Few Users Would Sign Up For Obamacare”

Activist Post – by Chris Dougherty

NSA hacks Google. How could it affect you? Emails? Online searches? Think bigger…

Recently it was leaked that the National Security Agency tapped into primary overseas communication links that connect Yahoo and Google data centers around the world. According to former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, the agency has access to raw data from hundreds of millions of Internet users, and many of them are Americans.   Continue reading “NSA Hacks Google, You Need To See The Bigger Picture”