Five crew members are missing after a U.S. Navy helicopter crashed in the Red Sea on Sunday during routine flight operations, military officials said. The MH-60S Knighthawk helicopter, assigned to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 6 — nicknamed the HSC Indians — went down in the Central Red Sea at about noon local time, according to an official with the U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet.
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“USDA Organic” is simply a marketing term those who take government ethics at face value. The goal has always been to increase agricultural sales, not promote organic farming. The public seems to confide in this label through sheer ignorance. The National Organic Program (NOP) which governs the “USDA Organic” label has no interest in organic farming, improving soil, quality of the produce, or factors that pollute the environment. In another blow to their organics program that will further downgrade consumer confidence, the USDA announced this week that the agency has changed the process for exempting otherwise prohibited substances (such as…
The NYPD has heightened security at key locations around the city in response to the ongoing attack on a mall in Kenya that has left dozens killed, though officials say there are no specific threats to the city. Counterterror units have been deployed throughout the city and authorities say extra officers will be on the streets Sunday, especially in heavily trafficked areas like Times Square and Penn Station.
The SAS soldier who made astonishing claims Princess Diana was murdered by special forces has apparently fled Britain just days before he is set to be questioned by police. The former sniper, known only as soldier N, is said to have left the country as Scotland Yard launches a new investigation into the Princess’ death. He allegedly told his wife that a member of an elite unit shone a light in her chauffeur’s face causing him to crash in August 1997.
The US Air Force inadvertently dropped an atomic bomb over North Carolina in 1961. If a simple safety switch had not prevented the explosive from detonating, millions of lives across the northeast would have been at risk, a new document has revealed. The revelation offers the first conclusive evidence after decades of speculation that the US military narrowly avoided a self-inflicted disaster. The incident is explained in detail in a recently declassified document written by Parker F. Jones, supervisor of the nuclear weapons safety department at Sandia National Laboratories.
By Adrianne Jeffries Website owners whose sites profit from linking to unauthorized copyrighted material can now be jailed for up to six years under a new measure that passed today in Spain. Spain is considered one of the worst offenders in Europe when it comes to illegally downloading content; one study reported that 98.7 of music Spaniards listen to is pirated. The law will spare peer-to-peer filesharing sites, search engines, and users of the link-sharing sites.
Fukushima nuclear plant will be turned into a training base, said TEPCO, according to Japanese media. The company also discovered loose bolts in a storage tank which are believed to have caused the daily leak of 300 tons of toxic water into the ocean. Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), the plant’s former operator which is now responsible for the clean-up, is considering turning the crippled Fukushima Daiichi plant into a “decommissioning center,” sources told Asahi Shimbun newspaper on Friday.
A group of Neo-Nazis have set their sights on a North Dakota Town in the U.S. Native Americans and other activists have formed a protest to speak out against this organized act of terrorizing non-white communities, and Indigenous peoples of the Dakotas in particular. Native American activists and UnityND have released a statement “Caravan leaves at 1:30 pm central to Leith, ND.” The rally at 3 pm Sunday, September 22nd
An encryption algorithm with a suspected NSA-designed backdoor has been declared insecure by the developer after years of extensive use by customers worldwide, including the US federal agencies and government entities. Major US computer security company RSA Security, a division of EMC, has privately warned thousands of its customers on Thursday to immediately discontinue using all versions of company’s BSAFE toolkit and Data Protection Manager (DPM), both using Dual_EC_DRNG (Dual Elliptic Curve Deterministic Random Bit Generator) encryption algorithm to protect sensitive data.
Defense attorneys for the Guantanamo Bay detainees charged with plotting the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks told the court this week that the Wi-Fi connection at Starbucks was more secure than the Pentagon’s own system. Lawyers for the accused terrorists said in pretrial hearings previously that they often relied on the wireless Internet provided at coffee shops to conduct work over the Web, but on Thursday the attorneys went as far as to say that the Starbucks’ Wi-Fi was significantly the most secure connection available.
Bolivian President Evo Morales will file a lawsuit against the US government for crimes against humanity. He has decried the US for its intimidation tactics and fear-mongering after the Venezuelan presidential jet was blocked from entering US airspace. “I would like to announce that we are preparing a lawsuit against Barack Obama to condemn him for crimes against humanity,” said President Morales at a press conference in the Bolivian city of Santa Cruz. He branded the US president as a “criminal” who violates international law.
Local officials voted 6-1 Thursday night to terminate the police chief of a small Pennsylvania borough who came under fire earlier this year for posting profanity-laced YouTube videos featuring his arsenal of firearms. The sun will likely soon set on Chief Mark Kessler’s tenure as Gilberton, PA police chief following Thursday’s meeting in which the council governing the borough of barely 800 people moved to terminate its loud mouth local YouTube sensation and the area’s only full-time lawman.
By Henry Porter Last week, Starbucks asked its American customers to please not bring their guns into the coffee shop. This is part of the company’s concern about customer safety and follows a ban in the summer on smoking within 25 feet of a coffee shop entrance and an earlier ruling about scalding hot coffee. After the celebrated Liebeck v McDonald’s case in 1994, involving a woman who suffered third-degree burns to her thighs, Starbucks complies with the Specialty Coffee Association of America’s recommendation that drinks should be served at a maximum temperature of 82C.
By Luke Dale-Harris In September 1995, a secret agreement was signed inside the Romanian government giving convicted criminal Frank Timis the rights to mine Europe’s largest gold deposit, located under the ancient mountain town of Rosia Montana. Soon after, the deposits were floated on the Canadian Stock Exchange, listed under Timis’ firm, Gabriel Resources, a newly created mining company registered in the tax haven of Jersey, with no previous mining experience and a bank balance of close to zero.
By Josh Pennell The Telegram, Canada A number of dead birds found near the base of a Bell Aliant cellular tower in Conception Bay South have both a resident and a councillor concerned. Ward 3 councillor and C.B.S. candidate for the mayor’s chair Ken McDonald was out campaigning Thursday evening when a call came in from a resident who had been walking his dog near the cellular tower on Eason’s Road behind the Manuels River Interpretation Centre.
Two teenagers — 13 and 14 years old — are in custody in Spokane, Washington, and the mother of one of the teens is recuperating in a hospital after she was attacked by the boys following a pill-taking episode, authorities said. The boys apparently had planned to kill the woman, who is the 13-year-old’s mother, and eat her liver, Spokane County Sheriff’s Deputy Craig Chamberlin told CNN Friday.
Information on innocent Americans is still routinely collected by a nationwide counter-terrorism program that has received scrutiny in the past, according to a public records request. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and other rights organizations released 1,800 so-called suspicious activity reports sent by various levels of law enforcement to two California intelligence fusion centers. The centers, along with 70 others, were created after 9/11 in an effort to coordinate information sharing.
Computer security experts at Symantec say they’ve identified an elite group of Chinese hackers who have targeted the systems of Google, Adobe and other big name United States-based companies. A 28-page report released by the Silicon Valley-based security firm this week accuses the group “Hidden Lynx” with an array of high-profile hacks that have targeted major technology companies and government contractors alike since at least 2009.