It's no secret the Central Intelligence Agency has an investment firm that funds startups that could have a big impact for the Agency. 

If there is a company out there doing intelligence research, it's likely that In-Q-Tel, the CIA's personal investor, either…

The Gates Foundation gift was recently announced at the London Summit on Family Planning, which has three goals:

1. Convince the world that the best way to fight poverty is to prevent poor people from being…

Texas executed 54-year-old Marvin Wilson, despite evidence that he was mentally disabled and reportedly sucked his thumb into adulthood. Wilson's lawyers had argued that an IQ test on which Wilson scored 61 -- nine points below the standard for competency -- should have saved him from execution under a 2002 U.S. Supreme Court ruling barring execution of the intellectually disabled. Wilson is the second prisoner in Texas to be executed by a new lethal injection method involving a single…

Across America, doctors are putting foster children on powerful, mind-altering drugs at rates up to 13 times that of children in the general population. What's more, doctors are prescribing foster children drugs at doses beyond what the Food and Drug Administration has approved, sometimes in potentially dangerous combinations, according to a new report by the federal Government Accountability…

A total 41,000 troops, police officers, private security staff, etc were deployed in London.

There also comes a long list of equipment on the ground and in the air: a Navy aircraft carrier HMS Bulwark and the force’s largest warship HMS Ocean will watch the city, Typhoon fighter jets, Apache Helicopters, eagle-eyed surveillance drones and E-3 Sentinel spy planes will swarm the skies, radars and surface-to-air…

Karen Parisian's cancer stricken 8 year old daughter Sarah, of Minnetonka, Minn., was having a lot of difficulties following a single cycle of chemotherapy. Besides the standard hair loss, Sarah lost weight and suffered from nausea and a sore throat. The week that the chemo had to start Sarah was sleeping 22 hours a day. 

Because of the chemo's negative effects, Sarah's family wanted…

Google has Mapped Arms Data visualization, using information from the UN Statistics Division’s Commodity Trade Statistics Database (CoMtraDe), is entirely real. It depicts the personal arms (from pistols to machine guns) that every country in the world has imported and exported over nearly the last 20 years. And the US looks to lead the pack, with nearly $1 billion in imports and…

Backed by $2 billion a year in funding, the Pentagon’s Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) recently unleashed the news after years of secret experimentation and study. The organization did not say whether or not genetically modified humans currently exist to any extent; however, it is known based on previous reports that human chimeras have already been…

A rather long article by a retired Colonel of the US Army but, worth a reading. The write up appeared in the Small Wars Journal. The link to the article source is given below, at the end of the post.            

The U.S. Army’s…

New from the New Jersey ACLU.



Says ACLU-NJ



Citizens can hold police accountable in the palms of their hands with "Police Tape," a smartphone application from the ACLU of New Jersey that allows people to securely and discreetly record and store interactions with police, as well as provide legal information about citizens' rights when interacting with the police. Thanks to the generosity of app developer OpenWatch, the ACLU-NJ is…