Vanguard Defense Industries was hacked by AntiSec.
Vangard Defense sells the UAV “ShadowHawk” to the military, police and even private companies.
The AntiSec hackers put Vangard documents online, they belong to Senior Vice President Richard T. Garcia. They contain internal meeting notes, contracts, schematics, non-disclosure agreements, employee’s personal information, and counter-terrorism documents.
International observers, tasked with the job of observing compliance with the 1979 peace treaty, between Israel and Egypt, say Israel has violated that treaty.
The 1979 peace treaty was mediated by the United States, and requires that Egypt and Israel do not attack each other. So far, after all these decades, Egypt has kept its promise. But now MFO (Multinational Force and Observer) officials say Israel broke the treaty.
MFO officials say not only did Israel attack Egyptian forces, but Israeli forces crossed into Egypt and fired on Egyptian forces from within Egyptian territory.
In related breaking news Egypt just issued a demand that Israel stop bombing the Palestinian territory know as Gaza: “Egypt denounces the use of force against civilians in any circumstance and strongly advises Israel to immediately stop its military operations against Gaza.”
“There’s no security around the devices which are a very active part of keeping me alive.”-Jay Radcliffe
Idahoan, Jay Radcliffe, discovered you can hack into and remotely control a person’s medical implants.
He recently demonstrated to government officials by hacking into his own implanted insulin pump.
The problem is that wireless implants are supposed to be regulated to prevent such a thing. The U.S. Food and Drug administration recently warned implant makers of a similar problem.
Federal lawmakers asked the Government Accountability Office to investigate the Federal Communications Commission. The FCC is responsible for making sure all radio communication devices are in compliance with regulations.
Paramount and Warner Brother’s have both made U.S.$2 billion in profits so far this year, but not here in the U.S.
The two movie studios made those profits overseas. They’re the first U.S. movie companies to hit such a high overseas profit.
If anyone has been paying attention to where U.S. movies are first released, they’d notice that U.S. movie premiers have been taking place overseas first, before being released in the United States.
The family of a seventh grade special-education student are suing the Republic School District, in Missouri.
The reason is that the girl was raped several times, and then school officials made her write an apology to the boy who raped her, and then she was suspended! After returning to school, after the suspension, she was raped again!
This is what the school says in their own files on the girl: She is “…conflict adverse, behaviorally passive and would forgo her own needs and wishes to satisfy the request of others around so she can be accepted.” Basically the school says she was raped because she wanted to have friends!
Get this. When the girl was raped, after returning to school following her suspension, her mother took her to be examined by doctors. They found semen in the girl, and it was a match to the boy she said raped her. The boy was arrested and pleaded guilty in juvenile court. Yet the school still denies any rapes took place!
Republic School District administrators had this final statement: The girl was at fault because she “…neglected to use reasonable means to protect herself.”
By the way, this is the same Missouri school district that ordered copies of Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five out of its libraries, for contradicting the Bible.
Sick U.S. school administrators!
“If we do that, it means lower costs – career people leave, more non-careers come in. Much of that will be attrition, but I don’t know if we can do that fast enough.”-Patrick Donahoe, Postmaster General
The U.S. Postal Service is being forced to lay off so many postal workers that it’s asking Congress to cancel current Union contracts. 220,000 postal workers will be laid off by 2014.
The reality of the situation is forcing the many different unions, involved with the Postal Service, to scramble to negotiations, not to save those jobs, but to soften the impact on those who will keep their jobs.
Those unions are the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC), the National Postal Mail Handlers Union (NPMHU), and the American Postal Workers’ Union (APWU).
Not only does the USPS want to get rid of 220,000 employees, but they want to shut down as many as 3,700 post offices, close at least 300 processing facilities, and consolidate as many as 20,000 delivery routes.
All that will affect those people who’re “lucky” enough to still have their jobs. If the negotiations with the unions fails, then it’s on to arbitration. USPS workers can not legally go on strike, because they are considered Federal employees.
One reason the USPS is short on money, is because the U.S. Congress essentially stole $75 billion from the Postal Service. Congress said it was to cover the Postal Service’s portion of the Federal Employees Retirement System. The Postmaster General was able to prove that Congress overcharged the USPS. The U.S. Congress refused to refund the money.
Another reason is that Congress has refused to raise Postal rates to reflect the increased cost of operation. It’s almost as if the U.S. Congress wants the USPS to fail!
The United States Postal Service does not make money off taxpayers, they are solely funded by the postage they charge (prices are controlled by Congress, not the USPS), and other products they sell. The cuts being made to the USPS will have no affect on U.S. government debt.
President Obama’s budget chief Jacob Lew has ordered government agencies to submit budgets that are at least 5% less than the past fiscal year’s budgets.
It was also suggested that the different government agencies find ways to cut another 10% through out the next fiscal year. This is part of the Debt Limit Deal (Budget Control Act of 2011) passed a few weeks ago.
A new survey shows that most U.S. citizens on Medicare don’t realize just how much they’re paying out of their own pocket.
The study looked at “specialty tier” drugs under the Part D prescription drug plan. Specialty tier drugs are mainly expensive name brand drugs.
At least half the people surveyed thought only a co-pay was required. Specialty tier drugs require a co-insurance, not just a co-pay. Also, most people greatly underestimated how much they would have to fork up out of their own pockets, even with the specialty tier coverage.
The study was conducted by NERA Economic Consulting.
U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told the Stars & Stripes newspaper that Iraq has agreed to extend U.S. military presence beyond the 2011 deadline.
Iraqi officials responded with: “We have not yet agreed on the issue of keeping training forces, the negotiations are ongoing, and these negotiations have not been finalized.”-Ali Mussawi, advisor to Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki
Another Iraqi official said this on Iraqi TV: “The Iraqi government denies what the American Defense Minister Leon Panetta said that Iraq agreed to extend the presence of U.S. troops in the country after 2011.”
Recently many Iraqi officials have promised that military action would be taken against U.S. troops if they stayed.
“They see the rise of China, the rise of India, the rise of the Soviet Union and our loss militarily going forward.”-Michele Bachmann, presidential candidate
The rise of the Soviet Union!?!
In an interview by Christian radio host Jay Sekulow, Minnesota Representative Michele Bachmann said the greatest enemy of the United States is still…the Soviet Union!?!
Bachmann isn’t the first female presidential candidate to say so. Back in 2010 failed former candidate Christine O’Donnell, told an interviewer that we were in Afghanistan to “finish the job” of fighting the Soviets. I guess the official reason that we’re fighting to prevent another 9/11 didn’t register with her.
Hello people, the Soviet Union disintegrated 20 years ago! Many of the former Soviet republics are now independent countries (mainly in Eastern Europe, some in Central Asia). The only remnants that could be possibly associated with the Soviet Union is the CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States).
The CIS is made up of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan.
Here’s the problem with presidential hopefuls not understanding world history. The primary job of the President of the United States is Foreign Policy, not domestic policy (that’s the U.S. Congress).
Do you really want a President that has the mind set that we’re still living in the Cold War (1946 to 1991), with all that Mutually Assured nuclear Destruction (MAD), and people building fall out shelters, and U.S. presidents engaged in drug running to pay for covert wars in Afghanistan while declaring a War on Drugs within the U.S., and stuff like that?
I wonder how many of you know what I’m talking about?