Month: October 2014

The Washington Post – by Craig Whitlock

The mysterious workings of a Pentagon office that oversees clandestine operations are unraveling in federal court, where a criminal investigation has exposed a secret weapons program entwined with allegations of a sweetheart contract, fake badges and trails of destroyed evidence.

Capping an investigation that began almost two years ago, separate trials are scheduled this month in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va., for a civilian Navy intelligence official and a hot-rod auto mechanic from California who prosecutors allege conspired to manufacture an untraceable batch of automatic-rifle silencers.   Continue reading “Probe of silencers leads to web of Pentagon secrets”

Columbus Day

Columbus Day first became an official state holiday in Colorado in 1906, and became a federal holiday in the United States in 1937, though people have celebrated Columbus’s voyage since the colonial period. In 1792, New York City and other U.S. cities celebrated the 300th anniversary of his landing in the New World. President Benjamin Harrison called upon the people of the United States to celebrate Columbus Day on the 400th anniversary of the event. During the four hundredth anniversary in 1892, teachers, preachers, poets and politicians used Columbus Day rituals to teach ideals of patriotism. These patriotic rituals were framed around themes such as support for war, citizenship boundaries, the importance of loyalty to the nation, and celebrating social progress.   Continue reading “Today is Columbus Day, International Skeptics Day, the Navy’s Birthday, as well as English Language Day.”

The Guardian

Over the telephone, in jail and online, a new digital bounty is being harvested: the human voice.

Businesses and governments around the world increasingly are turning to voice biometrics, or voiceprints, to pay pensions, collect taxes, track criminals and replace passwords.   Continue reading “Millions of voiceprints quietly being harvested as latest identification tool”

RT

Since the beginning of October, the residents of Wasco, California have been on alert for sightings of a ghoulish clown, or clowns, in some instances brandishing a weapon, which has already landed one teen copycat in jail.

With Halloween still two weeks away, it is already a safe bet what the most popular costume in several California towns will look like: A horrifying clown with flaming red hair, blackened eyes, and bright yellow overalls; a bit like Ronald McDonald meets Stephen King in a nightmare.   Continue reading “Trick or Terror: ‘Wasco clown’ sightings freak out California town”

RT

The Boeing X-37B, a highly classified robotic spacecraft built for the US Air Force, is to make its third landing after spending more than 670 days in low-Earth orbit. The space plane’s purpose remains a mystery, though surveillance is a likely candidate.

X-37B is expected to land automatically at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, a facility serving as a testing base for the DoD.   Continue reading “Pentagon’s mystery ‘space plane’ to touch down after record time in orbit”

RT

NATO and Afghan officials are disputing an airstrike in E. Afghanistan that killed at least seven people. An Afghan official said all the dead were civilians, including a 12-year-old child, but NATO said the “precision” strike only killed militants.

Abdul Wali Sahi, deputy governor of Paktia province, told Reuters that villagers had found seven bodies in the Udkey area of Gardez city and brought them to the provincial capital following the airstrike. Locals say they were gathering firewood on a mountain side when NATO forces fired upon them on Sunday. An eighth person was reportedly wounded.   Continue reading “7 civilians or 8 militants dead? NATO, Afghans dispute airstrike”

Mail.com

MECHANIC FALLS, Maine (AP) — A mechanical problem caused a Jeep towing a wagon full of passengers to lurch down a steep hill and slam into a tree during a Halloween-themed hayride in the woods, killing a teenager and injuring more than 20 other people, authorities said.

Investigators were inspecting the Jeep to try to determine exactly what kept it from stopping on the hill, and state police were calculating the passengers’ weight to determine if the hay wagon was overloaded and whether that contributed to the mechanical problem, Sgt. Joel Davis of the state fire marshal’s office told reporters.   Continue reading “Mechanical problem blamed for fatal hayride crash”

NOLA – by Daniel Samuels

Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell said late Sunday that he will seek a temporary restraining order to stop the incinerated belongings of Dallas Ebola victim Thomas Eric Duncan from being brought to a Louisiana landfill.

However, there is no evidence that this would spread the dreaded disease.

The items include linens, carpets and bedding from Duncan’s apartment. Six truckloads of the “potential Ebola-contaminated material” were burned at a facility in Port Arthur, Texas, on Friday, Caldwell said in a statement.   Continue reading “State attorney general wants to stop ashes of Ebola victim’s belongings from being brought to Louisiana”

Zen Gardner

It only gets weirder by the day. As the engineered ebola scare rolls out and ISIS supposedly closes in, the US and NATO are slipping into Syria as if no one is looking. Meanwhile, insane Israel is openly planning another Gaza massacre while the Ukrainian genocide continues.  If that’s not enough, the economy is on the verge of collapsing, our food, air and water continue to be poisoned, our oceans and atmosphere are dying, communities are being fracked, and Fukushima continues to erupt while the massive Yellowstone caldera threatens to.

Talk about engineered overload!   Continue reading “So Where Are We Now?”

Natural News – by Antonia

Whether it’s inhaling dust and harmful particles that are a part of the work environment, using harsh cleaning products around the house or simply being subjected to the many toxins and molds that people encounter throughout daily life, one thing is certain: It can take a toll on the respiratory system. Add to this the many people who are already suffering from respiratory complications like asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and it can add insult to injury.   Continue reading “Top herbs to help cleanse lungs, make breathing easier”

Stars and Stripes – by Hugh Lessig

An investigation into the command climate aboard a Norfolk, Va.-based destroyer at sea has resulted in discipline against three of its former leaders.

Cmdr. Curtis Calloway, the former commanding officer of the James E. Williams, was found derelict of duty, as was Cmdr. Ed Handley, the former executive officer who had been scheduled to take command of the ship, according to a news release from U.S. Fleet Forces Command.

In addition, Command Master Chief Travis Biswell was found to be drunk and disorderly, as well as derelict of duty.   Continue reading “In rare move, 3 of Navy destroyer’s leaders removed”

The New American – by Joe Wolverton, II, J.D.

“We need a new constitution.” That is the direct declaration made in a two-part essay written by imminent American historians Andrew Burstein and Nancy Isenberg.

Not only do the pair of professors pronounce the current Constitution dead, but they introduce us to its replacement before the body is even cold.

From the very title of the first installment, however, the saviors of our “democratic republic” start down a road that might lead to a new constitution, but get the very essence of our government wrong.   Continue reading “Prominent Historians Propose a New Constitution”

I am retired as a fire captain and worked at NASA as a fire protection specialist. I have to say I have been talking about Level 4 suits for people with diseases of which there are no cure. NO CITY has taken precautions. Here are my thoughts and opinion. Hope some people listen.

PROTECTING THE PUBLIC   Continue reading “Protection needed to keep Ebola in check”

BATR

Artificial Christians are AWOL: apostate whores – orthodoxy lost. What does it means to be a believer? The most fundamental canon is to accept the Creator as Lord. Since this concept seems to evade the store bought social climbers who pretend to be religious, why not just settle this issue once and for all time.

The total disconnect, from simple logic, would have you accept that a Nation assembled upon the “free exercise thereof” of religion must ban the expression of belief in the Deity of creation, as a condition of a free society. By default this sophistry demands that the standard for the public government MUST be that of the non-believer. Pray tell – the atheist has become the converted idol – for the proclaimed secular humanism deus society. Common sense affirms that prohibition produces replacement. If God is taboo, the State commits the supreme sin of absolute pride.   Continue reading “Pharisee Christians”

Breitbart – by Kristin Tate

HOUSTON, Texas — A smuggler attempting to take a 3-year-old girl from Mexico to her mother in the U.S. allegedly drugged the child.

Authorities caught the smuggler, 24-year-old Maria Guadalupe Gutierrez, as she attempted to cross the Pharr International Bridge on the Texas-Mexico border, according to Action4 News. Gutierrez and the child were in a taxi at the time.    Continue reading “Toddler Allegedly Drugged, Smuggled Across Border to Reunite With Mother”