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US Marine's letter to Senator over proposed Ban on Assault Weapons goes Viral
Anger: U.S. Marine Corporal Joshua Boston’s letter to Senator Diane Feinstein telling her that he will not comply with her proposed legislation to ban assault weapons has gone viral
A scathing letter written by a Marine veteran blasting a proposed ban on assault weapons has gone viral online.
Cpl. Joshua Boston wrote the letter to U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a Democrat from California, who proposed...
NASA crashes Grail probes into lunar mountain
The image shows the final flight path for NASA’s twin Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (Grail) mission spacecraft, which impacted the Moon on Dec. 17, 2012.
NASA’s twin Grail probes have smashed themselves into a lunar mountain, ending their year-long mission of mapping lunar gravity and providing data on its composition.
The Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory, known as Grail,...
Cop cars to be replaced with drones by 2025
Honda R&D Americas, Advanced Design Studio, California
Law enforcement agencies across the US are lining up to be among the first to use drones to serve and protect, but unmanned vehicles are likely to replace the traditional cop cruiser in just a few short years.
In places like California, Texas and Washington State, police officers in recent weeks have intensified their demands for surveillance...
TSA arrested artist for wearing 'weird' watch
The watch which Geoffrey McGann wore when he got arrested by the TSA
TSA arrested a Southern California man for wearing an unusual watch, calling a bomb squad to inspect the gadget while the man was taken into custody.
Geoffrey McGann, 49, considered his strange-looking watch a work of art. Created to look like a timer with switches, wires and fuses, security officers were alarmed and immediately detained...
Monsanto Stops California GMO Food Labeling Law
President Obama wasn’t the only big winner on Tuesday: the Monsanto Co. and the billion-dollar business behind genetically modified foods were victorious in California, where a measure that would’ve required the labeling of GMOs lost at the polls.
Proposition 37, a state-wide initiative that aimed to increase consumer awareness about the food industry’s growing use of genetically modified...
White Whale Mimics Human Conversation
Beluga white whale, NOC
American scientists have identified a male beluga whale capable of making human-like sounds and spontaneously mimicking human conversations.
According to a paper published online in Current Biology, researchers heard a nine-year-old whale named NOC emitting sounds octaves below normal ones.
The discovery occurred when a diver at the National Marine Mammal Foundation in California...
Tesla Motors Launches Revolutionary Supercharger Enabling Free Long Distance Travel
Today Tesla Motors unveiled its highly anticipated Supercharger network, which is said to make long distance travel in cars totally free thanks to the use of solar energy and electricity. So far the network is made up of six Supercharger stations stretching across California, as well as parts of Nevada and Arizona. These stations will allow the Tesla Model S to recharge for free, and each charge is...
Alleged creator of infamous anti-Muslim film questioned by police in LA
The filmmaker allegedly responsible for the anti-Muslim film ‘Innocence of Muslims,’ which sparked anti-US protests around world, was called in by Los Angeles police for questioning, county officials confirmed.
Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, 55, was taken to a police station in Cerritos, California, where he was interviewed by federal probation officers, LA County Sheriff Department spokesperson...
9 arrested as anti-GMO activists block Monsanto site in California
Nine anti-GMO protesters were arrested for blocking the gates to a large Monsanto seed plant in Southern California. The action aimed to draw attention to a November ballot initiative that would require labels on genetically modified food.
Around a dozen activists from the Occupy Monsanto movement, some wearing biohazard suits, arrived at the plant on Wednesday morning and chained themselves to...
Apple Granted Patent To Disable Cameras According To Location
Recording, communicating during protests, political events could be restricted.
Apple was granted a patent last week that will enable it to wirelessly disable the camera on iphones in certain locations, sparking fears that such techniques could be used to prevent citizens from communicating with each other or taking video during protests or events such as political conventions and gatherings.
The...
South Korea’s Samsung to contest US court ruling
A sign is posted in front of a Samsung Electronics office on July 30, 2012 in San Jose, California.
South Korea’s Samsung Electronics says it will contest a United States court ruling ordering the company to pay damages to the American rival Apple.
“We will move immediately to file post-verdict motions to overturn this decision in this court and if we are not successful, we will appeal this...
Man ruled innocent by US judge still in prison
A young American man who has wrongly spent 13 years in a US prison is still incarcerated despite being declared innocent by a federal judge two years ago.
Daniel Larsen was sent to prison for 27 years to life under California’s controversial three strikes law, after he was found guilty of possessing a concealed weapon in 1999.
However, a federal judge overturned the ruling and declared that...
Internet should not have gatekeepers or regulators - Steve Wozniak
Apple’s co-founder fears that freedom of information is under attack, with the internet controlled and regulated in unnecessary and harmful ways. RT talked to Steve Wozniak on a range of topics, from Wikileaks to Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom.
Steve Wozniak knew personal computers would change the world someday, even during his start at Apple, a company he co-founded with Steve Jobs in the early...
Carbon Agenda Sets Stage for Rolling Blackouts in California
It is said that as California goes, so goes the nation. The Golden State is about to experience what the rest of the nation will experience after the globalists phase in their carbon-free agenda under the demonstrably bogus global climate change scam.
“California’s electricity grid operator issued a rare statewide alert on Thursday warning residents to curb power usage in coming days as a heat...
Anaheim police filmed firing on women & children at protest
A second case of deadly police-involved shooting is reported in Anaheim over the weekend. It comes just a day after police shot a 24-year-old man, sparking chaotic protests.
Police shot dead a handcuffed man in the Guinida neighborhood of the city, reports OC Weekly, citing eyewitness accounts.
Family friends told the Weekly that the victim was Joel Acevedo, a resident of Anaheim.
Residents on the...