My previous post on ‘Gear & Camo’ HERE drew a response about camouflage. This is a very subjective topic and I notice several comments regarding the Vietnam Era Tiger Stripe that I mentioned I was going to try out. I have a few more comments on the camo topic, which I will put down here: Continue reading “Further thoughts on Camouflage”
Month: June 2013
Yahoo News – by Douglas Main, Live Science
Shock waves rippled through the overlapping communities of meteorologists and storm chasers over the weekend with the news that veteran tornado-chasing scientist Tim Samaras, his son Paul and chase partner Carl Young died after running into a powerful twister near El Reno, Okla., on Friday (May 31). Continue reading “Storm-Chaser Deaths a ‘Wake-Up Call,’ Researcher Says”
The United States isn’t the only country that deals with its share of drone-related controversy. Classified footage from a German drone plane shows the unmanned device just barely missing an Afghan passenger plane reportedly carrying 100 people.
Despite being strictly classified, footage of the “Luna” drone narrow made its way to YouTube and has stirred an uproar within Germany over the country’s use of drones and its Defense Minister’s reluctance to build the Luna’s successor with anti-collision technology. Continue reading “Terrifying: The Moment A Drone Narrowly Misses Passenger Plane Carrying 100 People”
Information Clearinghouse – by Mike Marqusee
Taunting and tainting opponents with the charge of anti-semitism is a long-standing Zionist ploy, familiar to everyone involved in the Israel-Palestine issue. As their support weakens in the face of evidence-based argument, Israel’s advocates have stepped up their use of the accusation as a means to close down debate, particularly on proposals for boycott, divestment and sanctions. Continue reading “How a London Court Repudiated Zionist Abuse of the Anti-Semitism Charge”
It’s a scandal.
Monsanto has just announced it’s giving up on most of Europe: people there don’t want GMO food. In America, the struggle is for labeling GMOs.
This is some kind of “fairness doctrine.” Let the US consumer decide what kind of food to buy. Choice. It’s the American way, right? Continue reading “Europe rejects GMO crops; kinder gentler America seeks labeling”
Monsanto’s unapproved genetically engineered (GE) “Roundup Ready” wheat was found growing in a random Oregon field last week.
The farmer doesn’t know how it got there. Neither does anyone else since Monsanto ended field testing this type of wheat eight years ago. The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) is currently investigating the extent of the contamination. Continue reading “Monsanto GE Experiment Out of Control”
Killer bees have been implicated in the tragic death of a Central Texas farmer who accidentally upset a hive of the insects over the weekend.
Larry Goodwin, who had just celebrated his 62nd birthday, disturbed the bees while consolidating brush in Moody, Texas, according to local NBC affiliate KCEN. Continue reading “Killer Bees Death: Texas Farmer Larry Goodwin Dies After Being Attacked By Swarm”
Electronic Frontier Foundation – by JILLIAN C. YORK
We knew it would happen. After months of anticipation, Jordanian authorities have initiated a ban on news sites that have not yet registered and been licensed by the Press and Publications Department, effectively blocking more than 300 news websites. According to local media organization 7iber (which means “ink” in Arabic): Continue reading “Jordan Takes a Disappointing Turn Toward Censorship”
Scientific journals, by their very nature, ought not to be biased towards a particular point of view because such bias can lead that journal’s editorial staff to quash or ignore any legitimate scientific research and data refuting any pre-determined viewpoints.
And yet, as reported online by Earth Open Source, it appears as though the journal Food and Chemical Toxicology may have compromised itself recently by hiring a biotechnology insider who, on the surface, would sure seem to have a pro-industry prejudice. Continue reading “Science journal hires former Monsanto scientist to decide which papers should be accepted or rejected”
As we enter another week of high crimes being identified as scandals, the fact that the international corporate mafia now operates right out in the open, in defiance of we the people and our laws, has become a reality that none can deny.
Eric Holder is now accused of committing perjury before the House Judiciary Committee. Perjury before a federal body would land your average American in a federal penitentiary. So does anyone believe Eric Holder will ever face a charge for any crime he has committed? Don’t forget that Eric Holder already stands in criminal Contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over public documents to the House Judiciary Committee investigating Fast and Furious. Continue reading “Eric Holder: One Man’s Crime, Another Man’s Scandal”
Billings Gazette – by Tom Lutey
Montana’s $1.7 billion wheat industry is watching cautiously as foreign buyers react negatively to unauthorized genetically modified wheat discovered in Oregon.
The discovery, confirmed this week by the U.S. Animal Plant Health Inspection Service, prompted import restrictions by Japan on soft white U.S. wheat. Friday, South Korea halted U.S. wheat imports for further testing, while Taiwan announced it was putting U.S. wheat imports under review. The European Union encouraged its members to test certain shipments for wheat genetically modified to survive exposure to the herbicide Roundup, the trait engineered into the wheat discovered in Oregon. Continue reading “Montana eyes Oregon GMO grain problems”
61st Bilderberg conference to take place on 6-9 June 2013 in Hertfordshire, UK
Hertfordshire, 3 June 2013 – The 61st Bilderberg meeting is set to take place from 6 until 9 June 2013 in Hertfordshire, UK. A total of around 140 participants from 21 European and North American countries have confirmed their attendance. As ever, a diverse group of political leaders and experts from industry, finance, academia and the media have been invited. Continue reading “Bilderberg 2013 Attendee List”
Presidential aides are privately admitting to a growing frustration inside the White House with Attorney General Eric Holder’s political ineptness in the press leak investigations and are hoping the embattled appointee will resign from office, The New York Times reports.
“The White House is apoplectic about him, and has been for a long time,” said an anonymous Democrat source, identified only as a former government employee who acknowledged the White House staffers in question are his friends. Continue reading “NYT: White House Wants Holder to Resign”
LANCASTER, Calif. Nearly 3,000 people from some 700 homes were under evacuation orders Monday as a wildfire north of Los Angeles kept growing, feeding on old, dry brush, some of which hadn’t burned in decades.
The blaze had burned about 35 square miles in the mountains and canyons of the Angeles National Forest, destroying at least six homes and damaging 15 more. Continue reading “Thousands ordered to flee massive blaze outside L.A.”
End the Lie – by Richard Cotrell
Is Turkey next for the CIA’s spring cleaning? It certainly looks that way, from all the clues surrounding the huge riots that have developed seemingly overnight in Istanbul and other large cities.
Ostensibly the trouble began over the plans by the Istanbul municipality to redevelop part of Gezi Park close to Taksim (Constitution) Square, situated in the heart of the country’s largest city. Suddenly – and suspiciously – numbers or protestors swelled dramatically and the police, never renowned for their lightness of touch, moved in with full-scale anti-riot tactics. Continue reading “Riots in Istanbul: Gladio strikes again”
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Continue reading “Supreme Court upholds DNA swabbing of people under arrest”
Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., who cast more votes than any other U.S. senator from New Jersey, died Monday after complications from viral pneumonia.
Lautenberg died at 4:02 a.m., at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center. He was 89 years old. Continue reading “NJ Sen. Lautenberg dies at age 89”