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on April 9, 2015 in World News

Icebound: 10-15 ships stranded in frozen Lake Superior

Icebound: 10-15 ships stranded in frozen Lake Superior Harsh spring weather has caused up to 15 American and Canadian ships to become stranded in ice-covered Lake Superior, with coastguards working on a rescue operation. One of the freighters has been damaged by the crushing grip of the ice. Canadian icebreaker Pierre Radisson on Wednesday set out to join other rescue ships to help break the ice in Whitefish Bay, according to the US Coast Guard. Some of the vessels have been stranded since Sunday. “They’re just waiting … for us to get a track through it,” the director of vessel… View Article

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on April 9, 2015 in World News

Cops trained to justify use of deadly force – former US Marshal

Cops trained to justify use of deadly force – former US Marshal When it comes to officer-involved shootings, the problem lies with law enforcement’s training that instructs cops to say they felt the suspects were a threat, either to the officers or to the public, a retired US Marshal told RT. Retired Chief Deputy US Marshal Matthew Fogg, who served as a law enforcement officer for 32 years, spoke with RT’s Ben Swann about the recent spate of officer-involved shootings in which police killed unarmed suspects and claimed they feared for their safety or for the safety of others. He… View Article

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on April 9, 2015 in World News

Obama gun control push backfires as industry sees unprecedented surge

Obama gun control push backfires as industry sees unprecedented surge By Stephen Dinan – The Washington Times – Wednesday, April 8, 2015 The American firearms industry is as healthy as ever, seeing an unprecedented surge that has sent production of guns soaring to more than 10.8 million manufactured in 2013 alone — double the total of just three years earlier. The 2013 surge — the latest for which the government has figures — came in the first full year after the December 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, signaling that the push for stricter gun controls, strongly backed by… View Article

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on April 8, 2015 in World News

Government Demands Father Demolish Cardboard Fort He Built For His Kids

Government Demands Father Demolish Cardboard Fort He Built For His Kids Code enforcement crackdown on Utah family A father in Ogden, Utah who lovingly built a fort made out of cardboard for his kids and their friends almost immediately received a letter from Ogden City’s code enforcement office ordering the family to demolish the creation or face being fined....

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on April 8, 2015 in World News

Scientists create system that allows people to FEEL holograms using ultrasound

Scientists create system that allows people to FEEL holograms using ultrasound The system uses sound waves focused on an area above the device Air disturbances created by the waves create the feeling of 3D objects These can be combined with 3D displays to create a ‘haptic hologram’ It could have practical applications, such as allowing surgeons to explore a CT scan by enabling them to feel a disease A Star Trek-style holodeck could be closer to reality following the creation of a system that lets people feel holograms with their bare hands. Using ultrasound to precisely project sensations through the… View Article

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on April 8, 2015 in World News

USA Today wants to know why there are so many white guys on Wisconsin basketball team

USA Today wants to know why there are so many white guys on Wisconsin basketball team Liberals today are absolutely obsessed with the topic of race, and if you doubt that’s true, just scroll through the top stories of any given day of the week, and I guarantee you’ll run across some blubbering lefty shedding crocodile tears and spewing fake outrage about some non-existent racial injustice. And if you still aren’t convinced from that little exercise, then perhaps the USA Today kerfuffle over the number of white guys on the Wisconsin Badgers basketball team will do the trick. Yes, those… View Article

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on April 8, 2015 in World News

Ohio insists it can censor pro-life campaign ads

Ohio insists it can censor pro-life campaign ads Left-leaning ACLU joins conservative justice groups in fight against state The left-leaning American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio has joined with conservative organizations such as the Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence and the Justice and Freedom Fund in a case against the state of Ohio, which insists it has the right to censor campaign ads. Looming before the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is an attempt by the pro-life Susan B. Anthony List to have the state’s “false statements” campaign rule thrown out as unconstitutional. We’re with you, the ACLU said in… View Article

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on April 8, 2015 in World News

Stargate mountain: Pentagon moves comm gear back to Cold War-era bunker

Stargate mountain: Pentagon moves comm gear back to Cold War-era bunker The United States’ airspace defense military is planning to move its communications equipment back to its iconic nuclear Cold War-era bunker which was abandoned nearly a decade ago, the head of the agency announced. The Cheyenne Mountain bunker in Colorado Springs, which was the filming location for the popular Stargate SG-1 science fiction TV series, was first built in 1965 to resist a Soviet nuclear attack. It was a key center for United States Space Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), which scanned Canadian and US airspace… View Article

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on April 8, 2015 in World News

Nuns grow spirulina for malnourished children – You can grow this superfood at home

Nuns grow spirulina for malnourished children – You can grow this superfood at home Many people believe the word “superfood” is a term used for click bait and nothing more, but superfoods not only exist, they are the superheroes of the food world. Spirulina is one such food. In the Central African Republic, Catholic nuns are using the blue-green algae to fight malnutrition at the St. Joseph Health Center. Bangui, where the nuns are located, has been dealing with the effects of a conflict that has made resources scarce. The lack of food has had an especially pronounced effect on… View Article

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on April 8, 2015 in World News

Court mulls revealing secret government plan to cut cell phone service

Court mulls revealing secret government plan to cut cell phone service Feds: SOP 303 mobile-phone kill-switch policy would endanger public if disclosed. A federal appeals court is asking the Obama administration to explain why the government should be allowed to keep secret its plan to shutter mobile phone service during “critical emergencies.” The Department of Homeland Security came up with the plan—known as Standing Operating Procedure 303—after cellular phones were used to detonate explosives targeting a London public transportation system. SOP 303 is a powerful tool in the digital age, and it spells out a “unified voluntary process for the… View Article

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