June 15, 2014

JUN 9, 2014

Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed bipartisan legislation to reform the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) acquisition management.

H.R. 4228, the DHS Acquisition Accountability and…

June 10, 2014 

I picked up the following report and video from James White at Northwest Liberty News:

As many who study the “war on terror” will agree, the apparatus implemented by the Federal Government to fight the phony war has been turned around on the American…

June 14, 2014

Law enforcement authorities in Canada require a search warrant to obtain users’ private data from the internet providers during investigations. The Supreme Court’s unprecedented ruling ensures the Canadians’ right for online privacy and anonymity.

The top court’s ruling came in an appeal of a 19-year-old Matthew David…

April 28, 2014

Recently, NBC predicted that in 2017, we will all be tagged with microchip, implanted to help identify individuals immediately. According to the report, the technology is used to answer one question, “Am I who I say I am?”

Some worry, however, that the RFID Microchip will give the government too much power, allowing them to track every move. In…

June 14, 2014

President Barack Obama has said that the United States will not be sending its troops back to Iraq, but is reviewing other options to assist the Iraqi government threatened by an advancing armed group.

"We will not be sending US troops back into combat in Iraq, but I have asked my national security team to…

June 12, 2014

Facebook is to start providing advertisers with more user data, drawing from browsing habits and external websites visited, in addition to their current 'likes.' This will be the first time that Facebook has used information from outside the network.

The company announced the change early on Thursday, saying…

June 13, 2014

Bowe Bergdahl, the army sergeant who spent five years as a Taliban captive, is enroute to the United States.

Bergdahl will arrive in San Antonio on Friday and make his way to Brooke Army Medical Centre after spending two weeks recovering in Langstuhl, Germany.

Navy Rear Admiral John Kirby, a Pentagon…

Can anybody really build a house made of sandbags?

Sandbags conjure up images of winter flooding or cheap mobile barriers used at roadsides, construction sites and the natural extension of this thought process may not be to use of sandbags to build structures, even homes. To the contrary, these simple materials create solid and virtually impregnable walls, which are…

Homemade De-Skunker Solution

You will need:

1 quart of 3% hydrogen peroxide (this is the kind you find in the first aid section of your average grocery store. It’s very cheap.)

1/4 cup Baking Soda

1-2 drops of liquid dish soap (optional) 

It has been shown on mythbuster.…

June 11, 2014

BAGHDAD –  Al-Qaeda-inspired militants seized effective control Wednesday of Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit, expanding their offensive closer to the Iraqi capital as…

June 10, 2014

After photos of metal spikes designed to prevent homeless people from sleeping in posh London neighborhoods surfaced online, people have been venting their outrage with controversial invention all over the social media.

Homelessness rife in UK: Research shows…

June 10, 2014

Passport staff have been working seven days a week to cope with the number of applications. 

The Passport Office has denied that it is failing to cope with applications, despite claims of severe delays.

Paul…

June 10, 2014

The Pentagon has an awful lot of leftovers, but luckily for law enforcement agencies across the United States they aren’t going to waste.

Millions of dollars’ worth of military gear is distributed to local police forces on an annual basis, and these regular exchanges are occurring from coast to coast in towns…

JUNE 6, 2014

Jun 9, 2014

Nine years after being freed from Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Moazzam Begg was arrested once again and charged with “providing terrorist training and funding terrorism overseas.” This latest arrest, on February 25, 2014, is the third time this century that Begg has been arrested in the United Kingdom and his…

When I was young our family had a hand-cranked ice cream maker not unlike the one pictured above, although ours had an aluminum case and not wood. On winter days we would fill the inner cylinder with a mixture of milk, cream, vanilla, sugar, the outer cylinder with ice and salt, sit outside in the snow and churn away. With the right mixture of ingredients and persistence we…

June 06, 2014

A shootout with a police deputy kept a man armed with explosives and an assault rifle from entering a courthouse in north Georgia on Friday morning. The deputy was injured; the suspect was killed.

The gunman, who police identified as Dennis Marx, was due in court to plead out on drug and weapons charges at the…

Prime Minister Tony Abbott & Joe Hockey before the election that if elected they would cut red tape when it come to small businesses, that hasn't happened. The Australian Federal Government wants to force doctors to become tax collectors with charging patients a $7 co-payment when seeking medical treatment every time with their General Practitioner.

The…

June 05, 2014 

Welcome to the post-Snowden era, where everything you say or do can be monitored by secret services - regardless of a court of law. One year on,here are the top 10 revelations showing us how the world has been fundamentally transformed by state snooping.…