By Brian Montgomery Continued from Part 1 (Know the Law), Part 2 (Airplanes), and Part 3 (Complacency Kills). Carry your gun. Carry it wherever and whenever you can. Also carry a re-load, back-up, flashlight and communication device. Yeah, I know, everyone carries a cell phone, but do you routinely carry a secondary…
Modern Crime: Thieves Steal $16K Worth of iPhones Using Nothing But A Blue Shirt
At Apple Stores, the display computers and phones may be locked down to tables, but the extra devices in the back aren’t. And as it turns out, an enterprising thief needs only a blue shirt and a similarly attired partner to walk off with thousands of dollars in Apple products. That’s exactly what happened in…
What A Veteran Taught Me About Facing My Own War
Bringing Iraq — and my experience in Somalia — to the homeland by MARK WILKERSON Memorial Day is over. You had your barbecue. Now, you can stop thinking about America’s wars and the casualties from them for another year. As for me, I only wish it were so. It’s been Memorial Day for me ever since I first met…
World War II History: 1965 Movie “Battle of the Bulge” Was So Bad Eisenhower Came Out of Retirement To Slam It!
The 1965 movie “The Battle of the Bulge” is generally considered by war movie buffs to be the most inaccurate war movie ever made. It stars Henry Fonda leading a large cast of fictional characters (though Fonda’s Lt. Col. Kiley was based on a real U.S. troop). The film was made to be viewed on a…
History of Terrorism: How British Intelligence Infiltrated the IRA
This is an article from The Atlantic in 2006 but I thought it a great read on the History of the IRA from the British perspective.-SF I first met the man now called Kevin Fulton in London, on Platform 13 at Victoria Station. We almost missed each other in the crowd; he didn’t look at…
World War II History: Separating Fact from Fiction About the Polish Air Force
When the 1950s T.V. documentary series Air Power got around to covering the opening battles of World War II, it unfortunately reinforced a popular, and entirely incorrect, notion. “The Polish air force is caught on the ground,” narrator Walter Cronkite grumbled over images of German bombers pummeling Polish installations. “The Polish air force is destroyed…
History of Terrorism: The Bloody History of the Red Right Hand
This is but one of many thousands of chapters of violence in the History of the Fighting between the IRA and the Ulster Volunteer Force (UFV), also called the Red Right Hand. -SF There was collusion between some police officers and loyalist gunmen who killed six Catholics 22 years ago, a report by NI’s Police…
Survival Tips: 18 Macgyver Like Survival Hacks
Editor’s note: The following tips are excerpted from Survival Hacks: Over 200 Ways to Use Everyday Items for Wilderness Survival by Creek Stewart. Having taught survival skills to thousands of individuals from all over the world for nearly two decades, I’ve come to one conclusion: the most important survival skill is innovation. Using what you have,…
Espionage Files: MI6 Escapes Prosecution in Libyan Rendition Probe
There is “insufficient evidence” to charge anyone from MI6 with involvement in the rendition of two men and their families to Libya, prosecutors say. Ex-Libyan dissident Abdel Hakim Belhaj says MI6 helped to arrange his and his wife’s rendition – saying they were covertly taken from Thailand to Libya. Sami al-Saadi and his family were…
Examining Terrorist Tactics: In Tel Aviv, Jihadi’s Were Disguised as Orthodox Jews, 4 Murdered
Please pray for the families of the murdered Israeli’s and moreover, Pray that Israel be protected from these murderous barbarians…Make no mistake, God has his hand on Israel. -SF An update on this story. “At Least Three Killed, Six Wounded in Shooting Attack at Food and Retail Center in Central Tel Aviv,” by Yaniv Kubovich,…