Month: May 2015

RT

A US Air Force general has been forced to step down over his “inappropriate comment” at a disciplinary hearing. He studied a photo showing two officers, describing them as “drunker than 10,000 Indians.”

“I inadvertently made an unfortunate comment, I own it, and I hold myself accountable to the same high standards my subordinate commanders are held to,” Major General Michael Keltz said in a statement.   Continue reading “‘Drunker than 10,000 Indians’: US Air Force general resigns over comment in court”

Mail.com

HOPE, Ark. (AP) — Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee is preparing another bid for the Republican presidential nomination, eight years after his first efforts to expand on the support of evangelical Christians helped him win eight states in the 2008 primaries.

The ordained Baptist minister turned politician returns Tuesday to his hometown of Hope, Arkansas — the same small town where former President Bill Clinton was born — to make official what the local newspaper called “the worst kept secret” in the state.   Continue reading “In Arkansas, Huckabee poised to launch 2nd White House bid”

MassPrivateI

A Southern Connecticut State University student named Steve Abbagnaro of Durham is developing technology for DHS through his company, Queralt Inc.

“Started in January 2011 with private funding from the Department of Homeland Security, a multi-national industrial gas company and private shareholders, Queralt has grown from developing elementary sensor solutions to offering the leading cloud-based platform for powering intelligent real-time actions based on multiple sensory and data inputs.” Continue reading “DHS is working on an RFID biometric ID badge that knows when you go the bathroom”

Sparks 31

The Anytone TERMN-08R is a recent entry into the amateur/land mobile HT market. It is a dual-band (2m & 70cm) FM handheld amateur radio transceiver that is also FCC Part 90 certified for land mobile radio (LMR) use. The FCC ID numbers on the radio are T4K-QZQX3318 and T4K-8RSERIES. The Grantee ID indicates this radio is made by Qixiang Electron Science & Technology Co. Ltd. in Quanzhou, Fujian China. An FCC ID search shows an authorization granted for Part 90 operation and denied for Part 95 (GMRS & MURS) operation.   Continue reading “Signal-3: Anytone TERMN-08R Review”

Guns America – by DAVE HIGGINBOTHAM

Comparing a Coonan .357 Magnum to an old Colt Python may not seem like a logical paring. The Coonan is in production now. The Python is not. And in this specific case, I’m looking at a compact Coonan and a stretched out Python. Clearly it isn’t an apples-to-apples comparison. The only similarity is the .357 Magnum round. Every other aspect of the guns is markedly different. At stake here is something much more than the Coonan V Python question; this is the revolver pitted against the automatic.   Continue reading “.357 Shoot-off-Coonan Vs. Python”

Free North Carolina – by Mike Scruggs

On November 21, 2014, President Obama declared a unilateral executive amnesty for about five million illegal immigrants. This action was not within President Obama’s constitutional authority.  But in early March 2015, after promising strong opposition to this unlawful amnesty,  Republican Speaker John Boehner of the U.S. House and Republican Senate Leader Mitch McConnell of the U.S. Senate and their leadership teams essentially joined the Obama Administration and 100 percent of the Democrats in Congress to block conservative Republican attempts to defund it. Boehner and McConnell actively worked to secure enough Republican votes to assure Obama could have his amnesty. Thus a great outrage against the Constitution and the American people was allowed to begin its course to change the nation from a center-right political majority to a center-left political majority relentlessly pursuing a radical left social and economic majority with only token conservative opposition in the foreseeable future.   Continue reading “Nine Million More Immigrant Voters by 2016? Changing America by Invasion”

Fox News

U.S. officials said Monday that President Obama will nominate Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford Jr. as the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

A combat-hardened commander, Dunford led the Afghanistan war coalition during a key transition in 2013-2014 and has served as an infantry officer at all levels.

The move cuts short Dunford’s service as the commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps, a job he began last October. But the rapid promotion is one of several that have marked Dunford’s fast-tracked military career, which saw him leap from a one-star brigadier general to four stars in about three years.   Continue reading “Marine General Joseph Dunford chosen as Joint Chiefs chairman”

The Guardian – by Ed Pilkington

The idea that police officers should use handcuffs and leg shackles to control an unruly individual is hardly unusual in the US, where fondness for the use of metal restraints runs through the criminal justice system.

What is unusual is when the individual in question is five years old, and the arrest takes place in an elementary school.   Continue reading “New York state police handcuff and shackle ‘combative’ five-year-old”

Sputnik

Never before seen types of military hardware, including new Armata main battle tanks and infantry fighting vehicles, will be showcased during the Moscow Victory Day Parade on May 9.

The Russian Defense Ministry posted on its website photos of its latest, most advanced models of military hardware that will be displayed in the Moscow Victory Day Parade on May 9.   Continue reading “Armata, Kurganets & Co: Sneak Peak at Russia’s Brand New Military Equipment”

TheBlaze – by Jason Howerton

The second gunman suspected in the attack on a free speech event in Garland, Texas, has been identified as Nadir Soofi, the roommate of the previously identified attacker Elton Simpson, according to several reports. Both men reportedly lived together in Phoenix.

While Simpson was reportedly known by the FBI and convicted in 2010 for lying to authorities about plans to travel to Africa, Soofi was apparently not under surveillance by law enforcement or widely known.   Continue reading “Second Suspected Gunman in Attack on Free Speech Event in Texas Identified”

Econintersect – by Niall McCarthy

Statista’s latest chart featured in The Independent took a glance at the history of the British empire.

According to the book “All the Countries We’ve Ever Invaded: And the Few We Never Got Round To”, there are only 22 countries Britain never invaded throughout the course of history.   Continue reading “Only 22 Countries have Never been Invaded by Britain”

NASA Spaceflight – by José Rodal, Ph.D, Jeremiah Mullikin and Noel Munson – subedited by Chris Gebhardt

A group at NASA’s Johnson Space Center has successfully tested an electromagnetic (EM) propulsion drive in a vacuum – a major breakthrough for a multi-year international effort comprising several competing research teams. Thrust measurements of the EM Drive defy classical physics’ expectations that such a closed (microwave) cavity should be unusable for space propulsion because of the law of conservation of momentum.   Continue reading “Evaluating NASA’s Futuristic EM Drive”

Land Destroyer Report – by Tony Cartalucci

May 4, 2015 (Tony Cartalucci – LD) – ABC News confirms that one of the suspects of the Garland Texas shooting incident, featuring professional war propagandists of the so-called “American Freedom Defense Intitiative” (AFDI), has been under FBI surveillance and investigation since at least as early as 2007.

Their report, “Garland Shooting Suspect Elton Simpson’s Father: ‘My Son Made a Bad Choice’,” states:   Continue reading “Garland Shooting: Gladio – Texas-Style”

SHTF Plan – by Jeremiah Johnson

Jeremiah Johnson is a retired Green Beret of the United States Army Special Forces (Airborne) and a graduate of the U.S. Army’s SERE school (Survival Evasion Resistance Escape).

This is the final installment of our personal stance-series (Part 1, Part 2)

Today we will discuss rucksacks, the uses for vehicles, and specialty gear you may want to consider.  Keep in mind: these are ideas to provide you with food for thought.  They are not rules set in stone, nor are they foolproof.  What I detail works for me, and I will give you reasons for things not immediately self-explanatory so that you may weigh them in the decisions you make for yourself.   Continue reading “A Green Beret’s Guide To Basics and Priorities: Rucksacks, Vehicles and Specialty Gear”