Last Thursday US Secretary of State John Kerry and Vice President Joe Biden met separately with Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian while the South Caucasus adversaries attended a 50-nation nuclear summit in Washington boycotted by Russian President Vladimir Putin. But no sooner did Kerry pronounce “an ultimate resolution” to the ongoing…
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Important Veterans Issues: “The Burn Pit” is Now Sickening and Killing U.S. Soldiers At Home
Heads Up: If you are a Veteran or Know a Veteran who served in OIF or OEF or any operation where Burn Pit’s were used regularly and are having symptoms related to Cancer, and have been denied service connected disability, I suggest you hire a lawyer NOW and start the process of fighting the VA…
Sweet Mother Russia: Putin’s “Gangster Rules”
Looking at some of the recent headlines in the news, you might almost feel as if you stepped back into a surreal time when the Cold War was not over and we lived with the constant threat that a war full of icy rhetoric could become hot with bullets and bombs. Putin, that lovable New/Old…
Examining Terrorist Tactics: Are Dirty Drones a Realistic Threat?
ISIS is planning to kill thousands of people by sending drones delivering radioactive material over Western cities—or so British Prime Minister David Cameron warned last week at a summit on nuclear terrorism in Washington. Rather than carrying a “dirty bomb” to disperse material with explosives, the drones would work like toxic crop sprayers—”dirty drones” perhaps—and…
Financial News and Analysis: European Banking Stocks Crash for 4th Straight Week
Even with today’s 3% surge – the most in a month – on the heels of Unicredit’s CEO proclaiming that EU banks are “intensely” looking for funding solutions, European banking stocks have collapsed for a 4th straight week for the worst losses since 2012. Following the brief exuberance after Draghi unleashed his latest bazooka…
Modern Crime: Japanese Yakuza Not Going Down Without a Fight
The yakuza, Japan’s notorious organized crime syndicates, are on the decline. While they still wield influence, their numbers have dwindled to around 53,000 members last year from a height of more than 180,000 in the 1960s, according to a recent report in the French newspaper Les Echos that cited data from Japan’s National Police Agency….
Future of Warfare: Metal Foam Armor
For thousands of years, armor was something people wore. Gunpowder, which could launch projectiles straight through metal garments, changed that, and with the invention of the tank in World War I, armor become something people rode inside. The invention of Kevlar in 1965 brought back wearable armor, and then armor-piercing bullets were designed to punch…
Crusader Corner: Hamas Performing “Exorcisms” on Children to Ensure They are Loyal to Islam
Islam is NOT a religion. It is a “Doctrine of Devils” (1 Timothy 4:1). Anything that promotes murder and rape and the physical and psychological abuse of innocent children has nothing to do with God. “Let GOD Arise, let his ENEMIES be scattered. Let them that also Hate Him flee before him.” -Pslams 68:1…
The Surveillance State: Spies in the Skies
America is being watched from above. Government surveillance planes routinely circle over most major cities — but usually take the weekends off. Each weekday, dozens of U.S. government aircraft take to the skies and slowly circle over American cities. Piloted by agents of the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the planes are…