theblaze.com Mike Opelka Did this photograph spark a police action that tried to enter a New Jersey home without a warrant? That’s the story being told on a website dedicated to “Open Carry” in the state of Delaware. The title of the story, “The fight has officially been brought […]
Agence France-Presse via rawstory.com North Korea has produced another video showing the United States under attack, this time with the White House and the US Capitol literally in the crosshairs. The four-minute video titled “Firestorms will rain on the Headquarters of War” (http://y2u.be/DyapeCiOl9A) was posted Monday on the […]
technewsdaily.com Douglas Main The Guardium MK I, one of the autonomous vehicles made by the Israeli company G-NIUS. CREDIT: G-NIUS Introduced in 2008, about eight to 10 autonomous cars have been patrolling Israeli borders, said Hugo Guterman, a researcher at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Guterman helped develop […]
CBS Sacramento Thousands of people lined up for hours outside Cal Expo to buy ammunition. The line wrapped around the building for the first day of the two-day gun show. You’ve heard the early bird gets the worm. At the Crossroads of the West gun show it couldn’t […]
Laird Harrison KQED It’s move-in day. You’re sitting in the great new condo you just bought. And suddenly you catch a whiff of cigarettes coming from next door. If you’re a healthy-living type, your home-buyer happiness may be gone in a puff of smoke. Now California Assemblyman Mark […]
inquisitr.com A pit bull insurance law proposed in Tennessee would require owners of the controversial dogs to purchase a $25,000 policy for liability against possible attacks. The proposal has brought controversy among those who work with and own pit bulls. Wendy Jackson, founder of East Tennessee Pit Bull […]
naturalnews.com Summer Tierney (NaturalNews) An ongoing debate over the rights of homeowners to raise and keep their own chickens may soon gain an audience in the Virgina Supreme Court. Attorneys at the Rutherford Institute have filed a Petition for Appeal on behalf of Virginia Beach resident Tracy Gugal-Okroy, […]
washingtontimes.com Stephen Dinan and David Sherfinski Sen. Rand Paul won the 2013 Washington Times-CPAC presidential preference straw poll this past weekend with Sen. Marco Rubio coming in a close second, easily outdistancing the rest of the field and signaling the rise of a new generation of conservative leaders. […]
infowars.com Kurt Nimmo Feinstein’s measures may be added later as amendments to a more comprehensive Democrat bill. California Democrat and influential senator Dianne Feinstein admitted Monday her gun ban proposals will not be part of a Democrat bill to rollback the Second Amendment.
news.cnet.com Leslie Katz While Emma can stand and walk on her own, she lacks the upper-body strength to do things like lift objects and draw. (Credit: Video screenshot by Leslie Katz/CNET) Thanks to 3D-printed plastic appendages, 4.5-year-old Emma Lavelle now plays with blocks. Born with a rare neuromuscular […]
slate.com Will Oremus A man wears a brain-machine interface, equipped with electroencephalographyPhoto by Yoshikazu Tsuno/AFP/Getty Images Behind a locked door in a white-walled basement in a research building in Tempe, Ariz., a monkey sits stone-still in a chair, eyes locked on a computer screen. From his head protrudes […]
wired.com David Kravets The second of two GPS trackers found on the vehicle of a young man in California. Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired The President Barack Obama administration is claiming that authorities do not need court warrants to affix GPS devices to vehicles to monitor their every move.
by R.J. Jacob
Friedrich Nietzsche described the “free spirit” as one who takes his acquired positions, his instincts, his experiences, and holds them as foreground—stressing them, straining them, and discovering
naturalnews.com Mike Bundrant (NaturalNews) In an effort to help parents “take the guesswork out of when to worry” about their children and rush them in for screening and treatment, researchers are ready to tell you that your tantrum-throwing kid is mentally ill. To “characterize the emergence of mental […]
buzzfeed.com Where there’s a will, there’s a way to kill. 1. Although the 2nd Chechen War officially ended in 2009, the violence continues between Russia and Chechen guerrilla fighters. I wouldn’t want to be the first one to test fire this thing.
usatoday.com Denny Gainer, Jerry Mosemak and Brad Heath, USA TODAY At least 48,895 federal convicts — one of every eight — had their prison sentences reduced in exchange for helping government investigators, probe shows. ATLANTA – The prisoners in Atlanta’s hulking downtown jail had a problem. They wanted […]
businessinsider.com Rukmini Callimach, Associated Press AP Photo/File In this Sept. 16, 2012 file photo, fighters from Islamist group Ansar Dine leave after performing a public amputation, severing the hand of a young man found guilty of stealing rice, in Timbuktu, Mali. MOPTI, Mali (AP) — Deep inside caves, […]
jack-donovan.com Jack Donovan And they worshiped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshiped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? Who is able to make war with him? Revelation 13:4 Those who take a cyclical view of history often contend that democracy must eventually end in some form […]
arstechnica.com Megan Geuss Computer security firm McAfee Labs released its annual Threat Predictions report today, taking a look at what we’ll see (and hope not to see) on 2013’s deck of malware and viruses. Interestingly, McAfee’s analysis predicts a decline in Anonymous’ attacks, a rise in the frequency […]
cbsnews.com AP Photo/Denis Farrell People walk their dogs outside the home of former president Nelson Mandela in Johannesburg, Thursday, Dec. 27 2012. / AP Photo/Denis Farrell President Jacob Zuma made critical remarks about pet care that touch on sensitive race relations in South Africa, which was dominated by whites […]
by Shepherd Bliss
On Christmas Eve, when most were at home with family and friends or out-of-town
Evan McMorris-Santoro TPM Tennessee has emerged this week as a center of the “the answer is more guns in schools” sentiment following the Newtown, Conn. elementary school shooting. A member of the Republican-controlled legislature plans during its upcoming session to introduce a bill that would allow the state […]
rt.com Mass shooting in Pennsylvania: At least four reported dead (Reuters/Navesh Chitrakar) At least four people are reported dead after a shooter opened fire early Friday in Frankstown Township in Central Pennsylvania.
what a guy —- dailymail.co.uk Iconic: President Barack Obama has been named as Time Magazine’s Person of the Year for 2012
wired.com The Staff of Danger Room There used to be an established order to the world. A structure to things. You couldn’t print a gun like a term paper. It was impossible to wreck a nuclear production plant with a few lines of code. Flying robots didn’t descend […]
original.antiwar.com Justin Raimondo The anti-Hagel campaign reveals the psychopathology of radical Zionism The campaign to demonize Chuck Hagel in the run up to his possible confirmation hearings as Secretary of Defense is going full swing. As I told my readers the other day, “get ready for a mudslide […]
According to the FBI’s uniform crime report, rifles are the least used class of weapon by any kind of killer in the United States. Alabama, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Idaho, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, and West Virginia reported ZERO killings by […]
rt.com U.S. President Barack Obama (Reuters/Larry Downing) US President Barack Obama supports a proposal from Senator Diane Feinstein (D-California) that would reinstate a ban on the sale of assault weapons in the United States.
foxnews.com William La Jeunesse The prospect of a renewed assault weapons ban in the wake of the Connecticut school massacre has set of a round of buying, as thousands of Americans head to their local gun store to secure the popular AR-15 — the model used by the […]
jack-donovan.com Jack Donovan When people talk about guns in the aftermath of a public shooting tragedy, they argue about what “we” should do about guns in America. “We should limit the capacity of magazines. No one needs the ability to fire off hundreds of rounds.” “We should ban […]
by Shepherd Bliss
Our Veterans Writing Group met the morning after Pearl Harbor Day for our regular winter gathering, as we have convened seasonally for twenty years. Two dozen of us came from throughout Northern California to a spacious redwood home in the Sebastopol countryside.
ocregister.com by SALVADOR HERNANDEZ, MIKE REICHER, SARAH de CRESCENZO, JOSH FRANCIS and KEITH SHARON / THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER NEWPORT BEACH Sadness for far away victims turned to up-close terror Saturday evening as shots rang out at Fashion Island, sending holiday shoppers scrambling for their lives.
bigstory.ap.org BARTLESVILLE, Okla. (AP) — Hours before a gunman opened fire at a Connecticut elementary school, police in Oklahoma arrested a teenager for allegedly plotting to attack his high school and trying to recruit classmates to help him. Police in Bartlesville, a community about 40 miles north of […]
From Paul Myerberg of USA Today’s Twitter:
dailydot.com Kevin Collier For the overwhelming majority of Americans, there’s nothing to do in response to the horrific news of a gunman who killed 18 children in a Connecticut elementary school. So, in what’s becoming an emerging trend in response to news of mass shootings, many gun control […]
rt.com (RT.com / AFP Photo / David Furst) Fifteen times more troops were discharged from the US Army this year due to obesity than five years prior. With scores of recruits unfit to serve due to the extra pounds, the country’s top brass have deemed it a national […]
wired.com Noah Shachtman Artificial limbs like these could be only the beginning of man-machine interfaces, the National Intelligence Council predicts. Photo: DoD 3-D printed organs. Brain chips providing superhuman abilities. Megacities, built from scratch. The U.S. intelligence community is taking a look at the world of 2030. And […]
homelandsecuritynewswire.com Sudanese security forces have captured what they describe as an electronically tagged vulture which was dispatched by the Israeli military on a surveillance mission over Sudan; the Sudanese claimed the vulture was equipped with a camera, a solar-powered satellite uplink, and a GPS device; the Sudanese also […]
rt.com Packaged M75 perfume bottles are displayed at the “Stay Stylish” shop in Gaza City on December 10, 2012. (AFP Photo / Mohammed Abed) A cosmetic company in Gaza has launched M75, a new perfume named after a long-range missile used by Palestinian militants to target Jerusalem and […]
homelandsecuritynewswire.com The United States and some of its European have issues contracts to defense contractors to train Syrian rebels on how to identify, handle, and secure chemical weapons stockpiles in Syria; some of the training is done in Jordan, but some of the contractors are already inside Syria, […]
guardian.co.uk National Intelligence Council also sees water and food shortages and suggests world is at a ‘critical juncture in human history’ The report said: ‘China alone will probably have the largest economy, surpassing that of the United States a few years before 2030.’ Photograph: Toshifumi Kitamura/AFP
antiwar.com by Justin Raimondo “He’s killing his own people!” It’s a familiar refrain to those of us who’ve been paying attention the past decade or so: it’s what our leaders in both parties said about Saddam Hussein by way of justifying the invasion and occupation of Iraq, and […]
computerworld.com Patrick Thibodeau Apple will need to rely on automation to make its U.S. factory work Computerworld – Apple’s planned investment of $100 million next year in a U.S. manufacturing facility is relatively small, but still important. Apple has the money, talent and resources to build a highly […]
fastcompany.com Neal Ungerleider With $5 million from Google, the World Wildlife Fund is deploying unarmed drones to track and hunt down wildlife poachers.
rt.com Screenshot from YouTube user SyrianGirl War A graphic video recently posted to YouTube allegedly shows Syrian rebels forcing a child to behead an unarmed prisoner. A recent series of similarly brutal incidents has done little to dampen foreign calls to arm the Syrian opposition. The video shows […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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