$100K Personal Jetpack One Parachute Test Closer to Reality

PCMAG Were only life as cool as The Rocketeer, we’ve often asked ourselves: Flying around the sky with a huge, flame-spewing propulsion device perilously strapped to our backs. It would sure cut down the evening commute… and fry most of our pants. Well, the $100,000 Martin Aircraft jetpack is but one step closer to actual [...]

FDA Accused of Endangering U.S. Health by Caving to Cattle Farms on Antibiotics

Adam Klasfeld Courthouse News Service MANHATTAN (CN) – A supine Food and Drug Administration is allowing the use of low doses of antibiotics in animal feed to deal with cramped and unsanitary conditions on cattle farms, according to the Union of Concerned Scientists and four other groups, raising the “specter of untreatable infections” just around the [...]

US wants to report Syria to UN: diplomats

AFP VIENNA (AFP) – The United States will ask the UN atomic watchdog to report Syria to the UN Security Council over its alleged illicit nuclear activity, according to a draft resolution obtained by AFP on Monday. At a meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s board of governors next week, Washington will urge member [...]

Spitting Your Own Feces At A Police Officer’s Face Gets You 60 Days Jail-Time in Colorado

Durango Herald A Durango man was sentenced Friday to 60 days in jail for spitting his own feces on a police officer. Paul Kausalik, 62, stood still and showed no emotion as 6th Judicial District Judge David Dickinson handed down the punishment. Kausalik apologized to his wife, the officer and the community. His wife was [...]

CDC admits flu vaccines don’t work (which is why you need a new one every year)

Mike Adams NaturalNews I’m always amused by the purchasing process of electronics or appliances at big box stores. On one hand, as their sales associate calmly explains to you, whatever product you’re buying is such high quality that you’ll be extremely satisfied with your purchase. But on the other hand, it’s also such a complete [...]

Journalist Who Reported on Pakistan Links to al-Qaeda Found Dead

Melissa Bell The Washington Post Missing since Sunday, Pakistani journalist Syed Saleem Shahzad has been declared dead by his employer Italian news agency Adnkronos. His body was found in southeast Islamabad and reportedly identified by his brother. There were indications that he had been tortured before his death. His disappearance came just days after Shahzad [...]

The Government’s War on Cameras

Homeland security deploys mind reading pre-crime hardware.

Nick Farrell TechEYE.net The US Department of Homeland Security has begun field testing new technology which it thinks can identify people who intend to commit a terrorist act, just by looking at them. According to the magazine Nature, which we get for the spot the Schroedinger’s cat competition, the US spooks have been conducting tests [...]

New Study: WHO officially lists cell phone radiation a potential cancer risk

The Raw Story A new report from the World Health Organization (WHO) classifies cell phones as a possible carcinogen in the same category as lead, engine exhaust and chloroform. A team of 31 scientists from 14 countries in the International Agency for Research on Cancer, the cancer arm of the World Health Organization, made the [...]

Landmark Clinical LSD Study Nears Completion

SantaCruzPatch The first clinical LSD study on the planet in over 35 years is almost complete. The Santa Cruz Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) is currently sponsoring this research, which began in 2008, when Swiss psychiatrist Peter Gasser, M.D., became the first medical researcher in the world to obtain government approval to do therapeutic [...]