New York Times – by Kenneth Chang

A European satellite that mapped Earth’s gravitational field in exquisite detail will be pulled down by gravity to its fiery destruction sometime in the next few days.

 

Where and when it will crash no one knows. It could be almost anywhere on the globe. About 25 to 45 fragments of the one-ton spacecraft are expected to survive all the way to the surface, with the largest perhaps weighing 200 pounds.

It is the latest in a parade of spacecraft falling from the sky in what are worryingly called “uncontrolled entries.” About 100 tons of debris will fall from the sky this year alone. There are, however, no known instances in which anyone has been injured by space debris.   Continue reading “Satellite Will Fall to Earth, but No One Is Sure Where”

Press TV

One month after the FBI shut down Silk Road, a black market website known as “the eBay for drugs,” a new site launched Wednesday under the same name, offering a wide range of narcotics and declaring that its community of buyers and sellers was “even stronger than before.”


Visitors to the new Silk Road site were greeted Wednesday by a message from the site’s administrator.

“It is with great joy that I announce the next chapter of our journey,” wrote the administrator, who used the same nickname as the previous administrator, “Dread Pirate Roberts.” “Silk Road has risen from the ashes, and is now ready and waiting for you all to return home.”   Continue reading “New drug dealing website returns in US”

Press TV

At least two people have been killed and 7 others have been injured after gunfire broke out at a barbershop in the US state of Michigan.


Police spokeswoman Kelly Miner said the shooting happened at Al’s Barber Shop in the 5200 block of East Seven Mile Road near Keystone Street on Detroit’s east side around 6 p.m. Wednesday.

Police are looking for two cars, a 2004 black Chevrolet Impala and a 2004 white Chevrolet Impala, possibly with a broken window and bullet holes in the back, according to Detroit Free Press.   Continue reading “9 people shot at Detroit barbershop”

2 dead candidates winning local elections in Western WashingtonNews Talk 870 am KFLD

We’re not making fun of their passing,  but of the ignorance of the voter!

In a story that’s gathering some national attention, not one but TWO dead candidates are winning races in Western Washington!

in Des Moines, a candidate for King County Water District #54 is leading two other contenders by nearly a 3-1 margin!  The only problem, the 63-year-old political veteran died in August, and King County officials said they didn’t have time to remove him from the ballot!   So far less than 500 votes have been cast in what officials say is a low-level race.  John Rosentangle has 318 of the votes in early counting, his next challenger 129!   Continue reading “Dead Men Don’t Tell Tales, But They DO Win Elections in Western Washington!”

FBIThe Guardian- by Spencer Ackerman

The FBI monitored a prominent anti-war website for years, in part because agents mistakenly believed it had threatened to hack the bureau’s own site.

Internal documents show that the FBI’s monitoring of antiwar.com, a news and commentary website critical of US foreign policy, was sparked in significant measure by a judgment that it had threatened to “hack the FBI website” and involved a formal assessment of the “threat” the site posed to US national security.    Continue reading “FBI monitored anti-war website in error for six years, documents show”

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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) – The state social services department is going to strip food stamp benefits from people who are found to have deliberately overspent their balance when the electronic food stamp service was down last month.

The Department of Children and Family Services announced Wednesday that it would seek to disqualify food stamp recipients through the state’s administrative hearing process.   Continue reading “State to cut food stamp benefits for overspending”

**FILE** Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg speaks at the Real Estate Board of New York on Thursday, May 30, 2013, in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)Washington Times – by Valerie Richardson

DENVER — The biggest loser in this year’s Colorado election cycle may have been New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

Colorado voters kicked the mayor to the curb again at the ballot box Tuesday, rejecting a proposed statewide income-tax hike heavily financed by Mr. Bloomberg just two months after ushering out two Democratic state senators who backed his gun-control agenda.   Continue reading “Colorado voters slap down Bloomberg-backed tax hike”

NRA to Challenge Sunnyvale's Measure C for Second Amendment ViolationsNBC Bay Area – by Lisa Fernandez and Chase Cain

Sunnyvale voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly passed a strict gun control measure that has received the attention of supporter outgoing New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and critics from the National Rifle Association.

With all 54 precincts reporting, 66 percent of voters supported Measure C, according to results from the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters.   Continue reading “Sunnyvale Passes Strict Gun Control Measure C, NRA Vows to Challenge”

NYC Leaders Hold Press Conf. Urging New Iranian President To Carry Out ReformsFrontPage Mag – by Spectator

When the New York Times revealed that New York City Democratic mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio had been an enthusiastic supporter of Nicaragua’s communist Sandinista regime, old arguments from the 1980s were suddenly rekindled, with renewed debate over the nature of that regime. The left once again emerged from the woodwork to insist that the Sandinistas were never bad guys (or even communists) — quite the contrary. The Times quickly published letters-to-the-editor whitewashing the Sandinistas’ tyranny, and one Times’ blogger went so far as to publish a post declaring: “Whatever their failings, the Sandinistas did not impose a repressive regime on their impoverished Central American nation. There was no mass jailing of opponents nor mass execution of opposing soldiers.”   Continue reading “Bill de Blasio’s Communist Pals”

State Sen. Ed Murray appears to have handily won the Seattle mayoral election.Examiner – by Dave Workman

Today’s election coverage in the Seattle Times and Seattle P-I.com is more revealing about local and national politics than one might suspect, unless one happens to be in the firearms community where “grand delusions” give way to matter-of-fact reality.

Both news organs report anti-gun Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn trailing anti-gun Sen. Ed Murray by aconsiderable margin, yet declining to concede. Delusion has been part of McGinn’s problem for the past four years, particularly when it comes to firearms and their owners. He pursued a reckless–at-best attempt to dance around state preemption and lost big time to the Second Amendment Foundation, National Rifle Association and their allies. In the process, he did exactly the opposite of what he intended: He set the legal stage for state preemption to be strengthened.   Continue reading “Does ‘grand delusion’ define the 2013 election, aftermath?”

Science Daily – by Tom Robinette

A pair of University of Cincinnati researchers has seen the light — a bright, powerful light — and it just might change the future of how building interiors are brightened.

In fact, that light comes directly from the sun. And with the help of tiny, electrofluidic cells and a series of open-air “ducts,” sunlight can naturally illuminate windowless work spaces deep inside office buildings and excess energy can be harnessed, stored and directed to other applications.    Continue reading “Bringing Sun’s Light and Energy to Interior Rooms: Innovative Solar Technology May Lead to Interior Lighting Revolution”

Bearing Arms – by Bob Owens

Morrisville, NC Mayor Jackie Holcomb attempted to try to find a way to circumvent North Carolina gun laws that went into effect October 1, which expanded the list of places concealed carriers could legally be armed, including parks and greenways. She’d also joined Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG) even though gun crime is almost nonexistent in Morrisville, and tried to force a local store to give up selling semi-automatic sporting rifles.   Continue reading “MAIG Mayor who tried to circumvent gun laws defeated in NC”

The New Boston Tea Party

Secession or the talk of secession is getting the attention of some politicians; not only are they nervous, but are showing concern. Of late the movement has gathered some steam. In fact the Texas Nationalist Movement has thousand upon thousands of members. Colorado too has joined the band wagon.

We are seeing intra-state divisions and straight-out calls for independence as is the case in Texas. Will this amount to anything is anybody’s guess. The dividing a state into two is a lengthy process. However, the rise of activists is not only a sign of suspicion with the liberal agenda but it is the another shot at the do-gooder politicians. Those seeking independence are not some right wing vigilantes; they are common folks whose desire is to live their life as they sit fit, distanced from big government and its invisible hand.    Continue reading “The Whispers are Getting Louder”

Michael MooreWhy couldn’t they have used this fat smug pr#@k as targets instead of old men, women for target practice?

Fox News

Filmmaker Michael Moore had a lot to say about guns to a paparazzo who caught up with him at LAX, the scene of a shooting last week that left a TSA worker dead.   Continue reading “Michael Moore: ‘Guns don’t kill people, Americans kill people’”