Author: mediahitman

By Josh Peterson The public may soon have the ability to search through the names of persons and organizations operating drones within the United States. Massachusetts Democratic Rep. Ed Markey introduced the Drone Aircraft Privacy and Transparency Act (DAPTA) Tuesday, which attempts to create guidelines and limitations on how the FAA issues drone licenses.

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Death BEFORE Dallas: NO press coverage (or statement from the White House) whatsoever about the sudden death of a Secret Service agent (first, the details:) Agent Thomas B. Shipman (White House Garage Detail, dies before the Dallas trip): A major discovery by the author was made when perusing a passage buried in Col. George J. McNally’s14 very obscure and non-indexed book, A Million Miles of Presidents. The relevant passage reads: “One of the President’s drivers, Tom Shipman, died suddenly.”

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Craig Stellpflug Natural News Severe, acute kidney injuries have doubled over the last decade and continue to rise by 10 percent a year according to a hot new study out of the University of California, San Francisco. Raymond K. Hsu, MD, a UCSF nephrologist who led the research said “That was a staggering revelation of how increasingly common and how life-threatening acute kidney injury has become over the past decade in the United States.” Of course, doctors are clueless and cannot account for the rise in acute kidney injury.

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Jaikumar Vijayan Computer World Verizon’s attempt — unsuccessful so far — to secure a patent for a so-called ‘snooping technology,’ which in this case would let television advertisers target individual viewers based on what they’re doing or saying in front of their sets, capped another challenging year for privacy advocates.

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By Michael Jaccarino Eric Stamatin’s expeditions into his family’s wooded suburban Detroit backyard have yielded plenty of interesting finds, but none to rival the 13,000-year-old artifact he and his cousin dug up last summer. Eric and cousin Andrew Gainariu, who are both 11, were building a dam in the creek that flows through the yard when Eric saw a strange-looking rock sticking up from the ground. At least, he thought it was a rock.

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It is an astonishing image that shows the beauty and majesty of the Himalaya region. A climber and filmmaker has created the stunning mosaic of images to show the effect of climate change on the the area surrounding Mount Everest. The 477 individual images that make up the gigapixel image of the Khumbu glacier were captured by David Breashears during the spring of 2012, from the Pumori viewpoint near Mount Everest. Use your mouse to navigate around the image below, and click on the hand under the green boxes to jump to key areas (please note, this requires Flash so…

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USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69), USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77), USS Enterprise (CVN 65), USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75), and USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) are all in port at Naval Station Norfolk, Va., the world’s largest naval station. (U.S. Navy photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Ryan J. Courtade/Released)

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By Megan McCloskey The Department of the Army also showed strains, with soldier suicides outnumbering combat-related deaths for the year. Through November this year, potentially 303 active-duty, Reserve and National Guard soldiers took their own lives. In Afghanistan 212 soldiers were killed as of Dec. 7.

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Florida. Ohio. These are states that have earned reputations as prime destinations for stupid crimes and bizarre behavior. But strange, head-scratching, and just plain inexplicable stuff happens all across this great country of ours — so much of it, in fact, that even the most insane news reports can slip through the cracks.

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