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  • Hennepin Co. Atty: No charges in stabbing of Mpls. teen(MN)

    11/21/2009 5:49:52 AM PST · by marktwain · 5 replies · 356+ views
    kare11.com ^ | 21 November, 2009 | Jennifer Young
    MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. -- No charges will be filed against a man who stabbed a teenager to death earlier this month in Minneapolis. The Hennepin County Attorney says the man acted in reasonable self defense. Timothy Jackson, 17, died in the early morning hours of November 7. Investigators say Jackson and another teenager tried to rob the man on the Midtown Greenway. The man stabbed Jackson Robbery charges were filed last week against the teenager who was with Jackson.
  • Assembling defense team will be among the initial challenges (perp KSM & classified evidence)

    11/16/2009 3:22:01 PM PST · by Libloather · 3 replies · 155+ views
    Washington Post ^ | 11/15/09 | Peter Finn
    Assembling defense team will be among the initial challengesFederal court set to confront issue of self-representation By Peter Finn Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, November 15, 2009 In a military commission at Guantanamo Bay, Khalid Sheik Mohammed kicked his military attorney off the defense team, forced a civilian lawyer to sit at the back of the courtroom and reluctantly accepted the presence of another advisory civilian counsel to help him defend himself. **SNIP** That is, of course, if Mohammed doesn't attempt to plead guilty to capital charges so he can be executed -- his stated desire in a quest for...
  • Want Peace? Give a Nuke the Nobel

    11/13/2009 12:42:24 PM PST · by backtothestreets · 12 replies · 313+ views
    Time Magazine ^ | Sunday, Oct. 11, 2009 | David Von Drehle
    President Barack Obama was surprisingly given the Nobel Peace Prize "primarily for his work on and commitment to nuclear disarmament," according to Agot Valle, a Norwegian politician who served on the award committee. Valle told the Wall Street Journal that the stewards of the prize wanted to "support" Obama's goal, as expressed recently at the U.N., "of a world without nuclear weapons." It's tough to think of a goal more widely espoused than the dream of an H-bomb-free planet. President Ronald Reagan and activist Jane Fonda, political opposites, came together on this one — in his second term, Reagan stunned...
  • Ex-Lockheed engineer claims F-22 tech 'defective'

    11/12/2009 1:13:48 AM PST · by nickcarraway · 31 replies · 907+ views
    AP ^ | 11/11/09 | GREG BLUESTEIN
    A former engineer for defense contractor Lockheed Martin Corp. claims in a federal whistleblower lawsuit that the company knowingly used "defective" stealth coatings when building its F-22 Raptor stealth jets. Darrol Olsen, a stealth engineer who was fired by Lockheed in 1999, claims Lockheed "falsely certified" the coatings between September 1995 and June 1999, saying they had passed stealth tests and concealing results that showed otherwise. Olsen said in the lawsuit he was told to "stay out of it" when he complained to his superiors. The whistleblower suit was originally filed in October 2007 in California and was unsealed earlier...
  • NRA’s Personal Protection Outside The Home DVD Wins CINE Golden Eagle Award

    11/10/2009 4:17:32 AM PST · by marktwain · 2 replies · 223+ views
    ammoland.com ^ | 9 November, 2009 | na
    FAIRFAX, VA --(AmmoLand.com)– The National Rifle Association and MetaMedia Training International have won a CINE Golden Eagle Award for the Personal Protection Outside The Home DVD in the Business- Safety, Training, and Employee Development category. The training-oriented DVD is based on NRA’s Basic Personal Protection Outside The Home Course, developed by NRA’s Education & Training Division and taught to the public by NRA Certified Instructors. “We focus on educating the public about responsible handling and ownership of firearms. Our nationally-recognized firearms training programs, coupled with MetaMedia’s skill and experience in producing high-quality training videos, make the Personal Protection Outside the...
  • Memories of tragic night: 'It was survival instinct'(OR)

    11/10/2009 4:14:32 AM PST · by marktwain · 7 replies · 672+ views
    KTVZ.com ^ | 9 November, 2009 | Adam Aaro
    Karen Hankins said Monday she doesn't think she'll ever get over what happened last week, when she says she fatally shot her ex-husband in self-defense. But she wants to share her story to help heal and bring awareness of the dangers of mental illness. In her first TV interview, the Redmond woman talked tearfully about how, on a night much like any other, she had to react to a situation not many people could ever dream of facing. "I dropped the phone and took both hands on the gun, and pulled the trigger. Without even thinking. It wasn't a choice....
  • New Airbag Armor Protects Vehicles

    11/05/2009 6:34:20 PM PST · by gaijin · 7 replies · 505+ views
    YouTube ^ | Nov 5th, 2009 | me
    RPG's are cheap, lethal, and they're everywhere. They operate by focusing a jet of explosive gas on one tiny point of armor, piercing it with a tiny stream. Currently, heavy "birdcage"-type armor serves to prematurely detonate that gas stream, diminishing it to a level that proves comparatively harmless --but cage armor is HEAVY. This new armor concept is like a car air bag; the incoming warhead detonates, emitting a recognizable flash. The special light flash is picked up by the vehicle receiver, causing micro-second release of the airbag on the vehicle area of interest. The lightweight but sturdy airbag meets...
  • Can You Hear Us NOW?

    11/04/2009 6:52:31 AM PST · by Any Fate But Submission · 15 replies · 733+ views
    Self | Tom Seaward
    Dear Elected Representative Washington, D.C. Re: CAN YOU HEAR US NOW? You ignored our tee parties, you ignored the 1.7 Million marching on Washington DC on September 12, and you ignored our letters, phone calls and emails. Yesterday despite everything that POTUS and the Democratic Party could do, including pouring 3 times the amount of money into the New Jersey race than the Republican challenger, the electorate said “NO”. “ENOUGH” “STOP THE MADNESS”. C A N Y O U H E A R U S N O W? We are retired with a pension. That means we can dedicate 100%...
  • Arrest made in violent home invasions(NC)

    11/02/2009 3:52:24 AM PST · by marktwain · 33 replies · 1,096+ views
    wcnc.com ^ | 31 October, 2001 | na
    ROWAN COUNTY, N.C.-- Police have made an arrest after a team of robbers invaded a home in Rowan County twice in the same week. Timani Starks and Tiffany Horne have been charged with multiple counts of robbery and Starks is also being charged with attempted murder. Investigators say a home on Corriher Grange Road near Highway 152, was first held up Monday night. NewsChannel 36 spoke exclusively with the Deadmon family after the first home invasion. They told us how the robbers forced them to open the safe at gunpoint. Timani Starks and Tiffany Horne They reported the robbery to...
  • Intruder shot in San Marcos(TX)

    11/01/2009 2:17:26 PM PST · by marktwain · 8 replies · 440+ views
    statesman.com ^ | 22 October, 2009 | Mark Lisheron
    A man San Marcos police said was shot after breaking into a home on Oscar Smith Drive armed with a BB gun, is in stable condition today at University Medical Center Brackenridge, police Commander Penny Dunn said. Police released no names involved in the shooting as they continued their investigation, Dunn said. No charges have been filed in the case, she said. Officers were first called at 9:50 p.m. Wednesday from someone reporting a break-in in progress at the back door of a home in the 700 block of Oscar Smith Drive, Dunn said. One of three people in the...
  • US special forces prepare for additional SCAR influx (new rifle)

    10/30/2009 7:46:37 PM PDT · by gaijin · 36 replies · 1,637+ views
    Jane's ^ | 29 October 2009 | Andrew White
    Initial fielding of FNH USA's Special Operations Forces Combat Assault Rifle (SCAR) to the US Special Operations Command (SOCOM)...is anticipated in early 2010 to fully equip the majority of [SOCOM]. So far 1,200 Mk 16 and Mk 17 SCAR weapon systems have been delivered...but...it expects a larger order for around 20,000 weapons next year...The order will also include...15,000 5.56 mm Mk 16 SCAR-Light and 5,000 Mk 17 7.62 mm SCAR-Heavy weapons as well as a number of 40 mm Mk 13 Enhanced Grenade Launcher Modules.
  • Hate Crime Legislation Attached to the Defense Spending Bill

    10/30/2009 9:56:10 AM PDT · by Starman417 · 4 replies · 140+ views
    Flopping Aces ^ | 10-30-09 | Wordsmith
    Louvon Harris (L) stands with Betty Byrd Boatner (2nd R), both sisters of James Byrd, Jr., as Boatner embraces Judy Shepard, mother of Matthew Shepard during a White House ceremony following the enactment of the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr., Hate Crimes Prevention Act. Shepard was murdered in Wyoming in 1988 because he was gay. Byrd, an African American man, was dragged behind a pickup truck to his death in Texas the same year. Saul Loeb-AFP/Getty Images Matthew Shepard's death was a tragedy. But I think it's a shameful political hoax to make him the poster boy for the...
  • President Obama signs Defense Authorization Act

    10/29/2009 7:44:38 PM PDT · by Ravnagora · 4 replies · 418+ views
    www.army.mil ^ | October 29, 2009 | Gerry J. Gilmore
    Photo credit Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Chad J. McNeeley WASHINGTON, Oct. 28, 2009 - President Barack Obama today signed the fiscal 2010 National Defense Authorization Act during a ceremony at the White House. Obama hailed the act, which contains $680.2 billion in military budget authority, as transformational legislation that targets wasteful defense spending. The president was accompanied by Vice President Joe Biden, congressional leaders and other senior officials, including Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. "There's still more waste we need to cut; there's still more fights that...
  • Patient fatally shot after stabbing Boston psychiatrist (MA)

    10/29/2009 4:42:38 AM PDT · by marktwain · 16 replies · 637+ views
    Boston.com ^ | 27 October, 2009 | Maria Cramer, David Abel, Martin Finucane, Andrew Ryan, Milton Valencia, Globe Staff, and Jack Nicas
    A patient in a psychiatric center near the Massachusetts General Hospital stabbed his doctor this afternoon before being shot dead by an off-duty security guard, police said. maeda_28shooting_met4.jpg(Wendy Maeda/Globe Staff) The physician is in stable condition, Police Commissioner Edward F. Davis said at a press conference this afternoon as he described a chaotic scene. A relative said the victim was Dr. Astrid Desrosiers, a Massachusetts General Hospital psychiatrist who worked at the center. Isabellie Desrosiers, Desrosiers' sister-in-law, said she had been told by Desrosiers' sister that Astrid had been shot. Police identified the patient late this afternoon as 37-year-old Jay...
  • Remarks by the President at the Signing of the National Defense Authorization Act...

    10/29/2009 2:27:00 AM PDT · by Cindy · 10 replies · 462+ views
    WHITEHOUSE.gov ^ | October 28, 2009 | n/a
    Note: The following text is a quote: Home • Briefing Room • Speeches & Remarks The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release October 28, 2009 Remarks by the President at the Signing of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010 East Room 2:42 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. Please, everybody be seated. Good afternoon. I have often said that meeting our greatest challenges would require not only changing policies in Washington but changing the way business is done in Washington; that it would require a government that's more efficient and effective and less...
  • Introducing the Maple-Copter (scientists copy maple seed design ==> helicopter...must see video!)

    10/27/2009 8:43:54 AM PDT · by GodGunsGuts · 23 replies · 1,894+ views
    CEH ^ | October 21, 2009
    Oct 21, 2009 — Plants are not as stationary as one might think. Parts of them, like seeds, can travel for miles. One good example is the maple seed. Its little helicopter seeds can catch an updraft and fly a long distance from the tree. Now, engineers at University of Maryland have imitated its physics and designed a radio-controlled mono-copter that can sustain stable flight for hours...
  • Society

    10/25/2009 10:18:12 PM PDT · by stolinsky · 2 replies · 178+ views
    www.stolinsky.com ^ | 10-26-09 | stolinsky
    Charles Bronson is dead. But if he were still with us, where would he find roles to play? Now many movie heroes are cartoon characters like Spiderman, or magical characters like Harry Potter. Young people may be entertained, but they cannot emulate such fantasy heroes. Many people have become pacifists. They sit on the sidelines of life, watching with smug indifference. They are apathetic spectators, both in our struggle against violent criminals at home, and in our war against terrorists abroad. Many people have been taught not that they should fight evil, but that it is evil to fight. But...
  • NEW SCANDAL!!! Murtha and Moran Donors Get Millions of Earmarks

    10/23/2009 7:51:46 AM PDT · by Shellybenoit · 7 replies · 322+ views
    washingon times/the lid ^ | 10/23/09 | The Lid
    Congressman John Murtha reminds me of Big Julie in play Guys and Dolls, who boasts: “I got a poifect record: thoity-three arrests, no convictions.” Months ago, the FBI raided the offices of the PMA group. What they found suggested that Murtha and his buddies at the PMA Group operated their own little Earmark Factory. But that was just the tip of the iceberg, another one of John Murtha's most favorite contractors was charged for taking $200,000 in kickbacks, the FBI is Investigating Multi-Billion-Dollar Murtha favored Defense Contractor With Tax-Exempt Status, Murtha has even gotten family into the earmark business, and...
  • Law-abiding gun owner was victimized twice(IL)

    10/23/2009 6:56:28 AM PDT · by marktwain · 28 replies · 1,230+ views
    pandagraph.com ^ | 22 October, 2009 | Denny Rogers
    In 2008 an enraged, deranged known drug dealer/crack cocaine smoker attempted a violent attack on a Central Illinois man. The FOID-carrying victim pulled his legally owned, legally carried, unloaded, disassembled, non-functioning, encased semi-automatic pistol, inserted the magazine, readied a bullet and stopped the attack abruptly. The crackhead had a spiritual awakening, a "Come to Jesus" moment. Possible instant death creates instant deep thinkers. Police responded. Police rejected the gun owner's vehicular carry methods. Plus, the gun wasn't unloaded immediately after the event. Police arrested the gun owner on a questionable felony and several questionable misdemeanors. The legitimate, recordless, lawful defender...
  • JFK, Remarks at the Breakfast of the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce, 11/22/1963

    10/18/2009 1:00:19 PM PDT · by DoughtyOne · 51 replies · 3,748+ views
    the University of Californa at Santa Barbara ^ | November 22nd, 1963 | John Fitszgerald Kennedy - 35th President of These United States
    On this forum we share a number of problems with John F. Kennedy.  We could spend a fair amount of time focusing on those problems, and for good reason.  Let's not spend time on that here. I am presenting his last address, because it so well contrasts what the Communists/Fascist Democrats in the United States have become.  I'd like that to remain the focus if you folks don't mind.  We really do want that to be the focus, because it's a very important matter that has not been focused on at all by the left. Note Kennedy's pride in the...
  • Selling China The Rope To Hang Us

    10/16/2009 5:37:32 PM PDT · by raptor22 · 9 replies · 579+ views
    Investor;s Business Daily ^ | October16, 3009 | IBD staff
    National Security: On the eve of a visit by China's No. 2 ranking military officer, the Obama administration loosens export controls on technology that will benefit Chinese missile development. It's deja vu all over again. The Pentagon has announced that Chinese Gen. Xu Caihou will visit the United States and meet with Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Oct. 26. Xu is vice chairman of the People's Liberation Army Central Military Commission. While here, Xu will visit American military installations around the U.S., including the U.S. Pacific Command. Perhaps Xu will bring with him a note of thanks for the administration's...
  • Loosening export controls (Obama moves oversight of selling missile technology to Commerce Dept.)

    10/15/2009 8:36:20 AM PDT · by austinaero · 74 replies · 2,191+ views
    Washington Times ^ | 10/15/09 | Bill Gertz
    President Obama recently shifted authority for approving sales to China of missile and space technology from the White House to the Commerce Department -- a move critics say will loosen export controls and potentially benefit Chinese missile development. The president issued a little-noticed "presidential determination" Sept. 29 that delegated authority for determining whether missile and space exports should be approved for China to Commerce Secretary Gary Locke.
  • Iran threatened by U.S. buster bomb

    10/12/2009 12:21:02 AM PDT · by sonofstrangelove · 41 replies · 2,427+ views
    Space War ^ | 10/08/2009 | Staff Writers
    The Pentagon has acknowledged that it is speeding up plans to deploy a massive bomb capable of knocking out deeply buried enemy facilities. The giant "bunker buster" is believed to add fighting power to the U.S. arsenal against Iran's nuclear program, defense experts argue. U.S. officials, however, have refused to confirm the connection. The 30,000-pound massive ordnance penetrator is capable of penetrating up to 60 meters of earth, or a thick layer of concrete, before exploding. It weighs more than 13 metric tons, allowing just one such bunker buster to be carried by U.S. bomber aircraft. "It is under development...
  • MOP + UON Spells Trouble For Iran

    10/08/2009 5:40:56 PM PDT · by Kaslin · 11 replies · 927+ views
    IBD Editorials ^ | October 8, 2009 | INVESTORS BUSINESS DAILY Staff
    Security: After Iran admits building a second enrichment facility inside a mountain, the Pentagon shifts money from other programs to urgently fund the mother of all bunker-buster bombs. Why the need for speed? At the G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh last month, President Obama announced, "The Islamic Republic of Iran has been building a covert uranium enrichment facility near Qom for several years." U.S. officials said they knew for some time that the facility existed. The announcement was made after U.S. officials learned Iran had told the International Atomic Energy Agency of Qom's existence. Our knowledge of the facility built in...
  • Brazilian brigadier bashes US defense export policies on YouTube

    10/08/2009 9:15:26 PM PDT · by sukhoi-30mki · 1 replies · 390+ views
    flight global ^ | October 8, 2009 | Stephen Trimble
    Brazilian brigadier bashes US defense export policies on YouTube By Stephen Trimble on October 8, 2009 9:07 PM | A video has surfaced on YouTube showing a senior Brazilian officer expressing deep frustrations with the US government's technology transfer policies for military equipment. Complaints about the US government's technology transfer policies are widespread globally, but this video is remarkable for citing examples in such specific detail, including showing photocopies of US government denial letters. The two-day-old clip is attributed to a lecture presented last December by Brigadier Engineer Venancio Alvarenga Gomes, the director of projects for Brazil's command-general for aerospace...
  • Japanese now Leaning towards buying stealthy JSF aircraft

    10/08/2009 8:01:03 PM PDT · by gaijin · 28 replies · 1,833+ views
    Jane's ^ | Oct 7th, 2009 | Jon Grevatt
    Japan is negotiating a contract with the United States that will provide Tokyo with sensitive information about the systems and performance of the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) as it seeks to evaluate the aircraft in a bid to procure a next-generation fighter (FX) for the Japan Air Self-Defense Force. A source at the Japanese Ministry of Defence (MoD) told Jane's on 6 October that the contract is expected to be signed shortly....the development signals a clear move by Japan towards the JSF - and away from the F-22 Raptor ...the MoD has been requesting the US government...
  • MOP + UON Spell Trouble For Iran (Will U.S. Bomb, Bomb Iran?)

    10/08/2009 5:37:37 PM PDT · by raptor22 · 16 replies · 1,440+ views
    Investor's Business Daily ^ | October 8, 2009 | IBD editorial staff
    Security: After Iran admits building a second enrichment facility inside a mountain, the Pentagon shifts money from other programs to urgently fund the mother of all bunker-buster bombs. Why the need for speed? At the G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh last month, President Obama announced, "The Islamic Republic of Iran has been building a covert uranium enrichment facility near Qom for several years." U.S. officials said they knew for some time that the facility existed. The announcement was made after U.S. officials learned Iran had told the International Atomic Energy Agency of Qom's existence. Our knowledge of the facility built in...
  • Pence: "Defense Bill A Vehicle for Liberal Social Policies ...

    10/08/2009 12:55:06 PM PDT · by PhiKapMom · 12 replies · 520+ views
    House Republican Conference ^ | 8 Oct 2009 | Cong Mike Pence
    Pence: "Defense Bill A Vehicle for Liberal Social Policies Wholly Unrelated to Our Country's National Security" Washington, DC - U.S. Congressman Mike Pence, Chairman of the House Republican Conference, made the following statement today on the House floor to oppose the Democrats' attachment of the hate crimes bill to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010: "Throughout my nearly nine years in Congress, I have been downrange with our troops every year in Afghanistan and Iraq. I have also supported every defense authorization bill that has come before this body. And so I rise with a heavy heart...
  • Oregon man, 93, pointed gun before he was shot

    10/06/2009 7:52:11 PM PDT · by marktwain · 5 replies · 498+ views
    KTVZ.com ^ | 28 September, 2009 | AP
    GLENDALE, Ore. (AP) - The Douglas County Sheriff's Office says the shooting death of a 93-year-old man in southwest Oregon appears to have been in self-defense. Spokeswoman Andrea Zielinski said detectives learned Clarence Hartley had been pointing a gun before he was shot by 75-year-old Clement Dewart on Friday. She says Hartley was a relative of the Dewart family and lived on their property in Glendale. Zielinski says the investigation remains active. When it's finished, the results will be forwarded to a grand jury for a review of any possible criminal charges.
  • Where is obama on Missile Defense? (Vanity)

    09/29/2009 9:20:14 PM PDT · by ThunderSleeps · 12 replies · 558+ views
    Self | 9/29/09 | Thunder.Sleeps
    obama recently reneged on a US commitment regarding Missile Defense. obama canceled plans to put long range ground-based interceptors (GBIs) and a powerful radar in Europe. This system was to have two missions: protect both the US and Europe from medium/long range missile attacks originating in the Middle East. obama canceled these plans. The rationale given was a re-assessment of the Iranian missile threat. Supposedly, obama wants to focus on Missile Defense oriented towards thwarting shorter range and regional threats. His stated plan is to defend against these allegedly more likely threats with lower-cost, "proven" mobile land and sea-based systems....
  • Iran to hold missile defense exercise on Yom Kippur

    09/26/2009 7:59:03 PM PDT · by rdl6989 · 15 replies · 846+ views
    Haaretz.com ^ | Sept 26, 2009
    Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards will hold missile defense exercises on the upcoming Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, Iranian media reported on Saturday. The announcement of the war games coincided with increased tension in Iran's nuclear dispute with the West, after the Islamic Republic disclosed that it is building a second uranium enrichment plant. The reports did not say what kind of missiles would be used in the war games, which will start on Sunday, the eve of Yom Kippur. In May, Iran said it had tested a missile that defense analysts said could hit Israel and U.S. bases in the...
  • Barack Obama: President Pantywaist Restores the Satellite States to Their Former Owner

    09/25/2009 2:06:16 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 13 replies · 893+ views
    The Telegraph ^ | Gerlad Warner
    Barack Obama’s chances of re-election in three and a half years’ time may be evaporating at unprecedented speed, but his presidential ambitions could still be realised in another direction. He would be a shoo-in to win the next Russian presidential election, so high is his popularity now running in the land of the bear and the knout. Obama has done more to restore Russia’s hegemonial potential in Eastern and Central Europe than even Vladimir Putin. His latest achievement has been to restore the former satellite states to dependency on Moscow, by wimping out of the missile defence shield plan. This...
  • ACORN rule to affect defense contractos

    09/24/2009 1:36:45 PM PDT · by rstrahan · 4 replies · 467+ views
    Fox News ^ | 9/24/2009 | rstrahan
    Defense contractors are complaining that the ACORN defunding act will affect them...if they've been convicted of wrongdoing. Well, WAH!
  • Get a handgun, save a life

    09/23/2009 8:24:31 PM PDT · by Saije · 3 replies · 628+ views
    Washington Examiner ^ | 9/24/2009 | Gregory Kane
    With one swift slash from a samurai sword, John Pontolillo made a convincing case for ... private ownership of handguns? Oh, you betcha. Pontolillo is an undergraduate at Johns Hopkins University. Before Sept. 15, that's all he was... But nine days ago, Pontolillo went from being a simple college guy to being in the center of the maelstrom that developed after he slashed a burglar in the backyard of a house he shared with fellow JHU students. Pontolillo used a samurai sword to defend himself after the burglar lunged at him. With one swish he nearly severed the burglar's left...
  • President Obama's New Missile Defense Plan Does Not Address U.S. Homeland Population Protection

    09/23/2009 6:14:20 PM PDT · by Nachum · 5 replies · 385+ views
    breitbart ^ | 9/23/09 | PRNewswire
    WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Riki Ellison, Chairman and President of the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance (MDAA) www.missiledefenseadvocacyalliance.org has developed a White Paper that analyzes the recent missile defense decision by President Barack Obama and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates. The White Paper states that the protection of our homeland population is a risk we are facing with the new missile defense plan. Ellison has shared the White Paper with members of Congress, and it is detailed below:
  • Alaska man's quick shot kills charging bear(AK)

    09/22/2009 7:59:05 PM PDT · by marktwain · 55 replies · 3,228+ views
    newsminer ^ | 15 August, 2009 | AP
    ANCHORAGE, Alaska - While walking with his dogs near his house in Soldotna, a snap of a twig prompted Greg Brush to glance over his shoulder. When he turned, he saw a bear charging full speed at him from less than 20 yards away. Backpedaling, Brush was able to fire his gun once or twice. It was enough. The bear dropped dead. "Came with zero warning," Brush told the Anchorage Daily News of the Aug. 2 bear encounter. "No woof, no popping of the teeth, no standing up, nothing like what you think."
  • To Hell With 'Howevers,' Fund SDI

    12/08/2008 5:08:25 PM PST · by Kaslin · 4 replies · 515+ views
    IBD Editorials ^ | December 8, 2008
    Defense: A ballistic missile launched from Alaska is shot down by an interceptor launched from California. With threats from North Korea to Iran, it's time to ignore the skeptics and fully fund missile defense.It was the most realistic and most successful missile defense test ever in a Strategic Defense Initiative that could one day save an American city from a rogue missile strike. Yet the "yeah, but" media greeted this triumph with claims the concept is still unproven. It was as if the Wright brothers had announced man's first flight, only to be greeted with cries that they hadn't built...
  • Scuttling Missile Defense in a Dangerous World

    09/21/2009 9:59:59 AM PDT · by NetRight Nation · 7 replies · 387+ views
    NetRight Nation ^ | September 21, 2009 | Ellen Sauerbrey
    On September 17, 1939, Russia invaded Poland and ironically, seventy years later, the Obama administration rewarded Russia by caving in to its demands regarding the European phase of our anti-ballistic missile defense program. The plan, negotiated by the Bush Administration with two loyal Eastern European allies, was expected to place a ground based interceptor site in Poland and tracking radar on a site in the Czech Republic. Jan Firscher, Interim Czech Prime Minister told reporters that "Just after midnight I was informed in a telephone call by President Barack Obama that (his) administration had decided to pull out from the...
  • Star Wars: The Next Generation

    08/19/2009 5:43:31 PM PDT · by Kaslin · 15 replies · 1,235+ views
    IBD Editorials ^ | August 19, 2009 | INVESTORS BUSINESS DAILY Staff
    Defense: The Air Force airborne laser program successfully completes a simulated kill from a plane able to find, track and destroy a live ballistic missile. We can shoot down enemy missiles. Instead, we're shooting down the laser program.The Aug. 10 effort was the third such test — sort of like a sniper sighting the target with the red dot of a laser without actually pulling the trigger. In early June, the airborne laser (ABL) program engaged two un-instrumented missiles. This was the first in-flight test against an instrumented target missile. A modified Boeing 747-400F aircraft took off from Edwards Air...
  • Entering as US President, Emerging as King of the World

    09/19/2009 8:02:29 AM PDT · by opentalk · 37 replies · 1,537+ views
    Canada FreePress ^ | September 18, 2009 | Judi McLeod
    Americans are being labelled as racists by the Obama administration and are all but routinely lied to by their president. But in the midst of all this manufactured tumult, ask yourself this question: Is there a timeline in effect by Obama to peak in heaving America over the cliff? Warning: Everything about the Obamas is staged.
  • GoldenEye: The Real Meltdown

    10/03/2008 3:09:31 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 17 replies · 1,000+ views
    IBD Editorials ^ | October 2, 2008
    Strategic Defense: A new report says the United States must develop robust missile and space defenses to counter China. If you think the current economic crisis is something, imagine the effects of a nuke over Iowa.Imagine a world in which you can't get money from your bank or can't get a loan. You can't get money from your ATM even if it's within walking distance. You can't drive to one because your car won't work. No, it's not what would happen if the Congress doesn't pass a bailout bill. This is a small snapshot of what would happen if a...
  • Are You Smarter Than a Fifth-Columnist?

    09/18/2009 5:29:28 AM PDT · by ajernig · 11 replies · 581+ views
    Irish Examiner ^ | September 16, 2009 | Alicia Colon
    Many concerned Americans breathed a sigh of relief when the Special Advisor for Green Jobs, Anthony "Van" Jones, resigned. The idea of an avowed communist as the president's "Green Jobs Czar" was not only alarming; it prompted the question of how carefully he was vetted. Is there no longer a requirement that personnel at the White House obtain a security clearance? After viewing the videos of Mr. Jones's radical speeches, however, I was more alarmed at the audience cheering them. How clever are the fifth columnists and how dumb are we that we didn't recognize the enemy?
  • Poll: Obama ..abandoning missile defense shield ... to respond to Iran's threats. Do you agree?

    09/18/2009 11:18:58 AM PDT · by sr4402 · 23 replies · 956+ views
    Washington Times ^ | 09/18/2009 | Washington Times
    President Obama is abandoning plans for a missile defense shield in Eastern Europe in favor of more flexibility to respond to Iran's threats. Do you agree? Thanks for your vote. Response Percent Votes Yes 5% 862 votes No 90% 13278 votes Undecided 3% 495 votes Other 0% 73 votes 14708 total votes
  • Abject Surrender in the Dead of Night

    09/18/2009 3:50:25 AM PDT · by docbnj · 11 replies · 1,256+ views
    Investor's Business Daily ^ | 17 Sep 2009 | anonymous
    Czechs are used to betrayal by their Western allies. It was at Munich in 1938 that British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain sealed their doom in exchange for a piece of paper promising "peace in our time." The fact that this further gutting of missile defense came on the 70th anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Poland on Sept. 17, 1939, is an eerie coincidence. "Just after midnight I was informed in a telephone call by President Barack Obama that (his) administration had decided to pull out from the planned missile defense shield installations" in the Czech Republic and Poland, the...
  • Abject Surrender In Dead Of Night

    09/17/2009 5:25:45 PM PDT · by Kaslin · 26 replies · 2,235+ views
    IBD Editorials ^ | September 17, 2009 | INVESTORS BUSINESS DAILY Staff
    Strategic Defense: With Iran on the verge of a deliverable nuke, the administration tells our allies in the dead of night that we will scuttle missile defense plans in Eastern Europe to please the Russians.Czechs are used to betrayal by their Western allies. It was at Munich in 1938 that British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain sealed their doom in exchange for a piece of paper promising "peace in our time." The fact that this further gutting of missile defense came on the 70th anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Poland on Sept. 17, 1939, is an eerie coincidence. "Just after...
  • Israel Steps It Up

    04/08/2009 6:25:46 PM PDT · by Kaslin · 11 replies · 801+ views
    IBD Editorials ^ | April 8, 2009
    Defense: On the same day a plot to supply Iran with nuclear materials is revealed, Israel conducts a missile defense test. Nothing concentrates the mind quite so wonderfully as the threat of imminent extinction.On Tuesday, word came that the Manhattan district attorney's office had smashed a plot to smuggle nuclear weapons materials to Iran through unwitting New York banks. A 118-count indictment accuses Chinese financier Lei Feng Wei of setting up fake companies to hide that he was selling millions of dollars in potential nuclear materials to Tehran. As the New York Daily News reports, among the materials involved were...
  • Target Alaska: Gov. Palin Pushes SDI

    06/01/2009 9:49:19 PM PDT · by euram · 8 replies · 706+ views
    IBD Editorials ^ | 06-01-09 | Investor's Business Daily
    Security: As Defense Secretary Gates tours our missile defense site at Fort Greely, Alaska, Gov. Sarah Palin calls for restoration of the missile defense cuts. Meanwhile, North Korea points another missile at the U.S.
  • Trading Away Missile Defense

    02/17/2009 5:45:36 PM PST · by Kaslin · 9 replies · 552+ views
    IBD Editorials ^ | February 17, 2009
    National Security: The proposed missile defense system for Europe may be used as a bargaining chip in negotiations with Russia. Is Ronald Reagan's "We win, they lose" now "Let's make a deal"?When President Reagan began the Strategic Defense Initiative in 1983, the only ones who took it seriously were the Soviets. Their global ambitions depended on an America inhibited and even intimidated by the threat of nuclear war. They still do. Just ask Georgia. When Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev met Reagan in Reykjavik, Iceland, in October 1986, he hoped Reagan would be willing to trade SDI away in exchange for...
  • Poland Fears Betrayal

    03/23/2009 5:53:49 PM PDT · by Kaslin · 31 replies · 1,834+ views
    IBD Editorials ^ | March 23, 2009
    Alliances: The U.S. has expressed a willingness to barter away missile defense sites in Poland and the Czech Republic. Now the Polish foreign minister says he hopes his country doesn't regret trusting the United States.The Brussels Forum is a privately organized high-level meeting of the most influential North American and European political, corporate and intellectual leaders to address pressing challenges currently facing both sides of the Atlantic. One of the pressing issues discussed at this year's conference was whether the U.S. is serious about bartering away plans for missile defense sites in Poland and the Czech Republic in exchange for...
  • Sword killing no cause for cheers

    09/17/2009 1:25:06 PM PDT · by George - the Other · 121 replies · 2,794+ views
    Baltimore Sun ^ | September 17, 2009 | Baltimore Sun Editorial
    "This is certainly nothing to celebrate. The glorification of the incident online and around town belies the horror of the killing and its aftermath. Even if it ultimately is judged to have been legally justified, the question of whether the situation couldn't have been handled differently will remain."