Today, more than ever before in the history of the world, electronics are fast playing a central role in military warefare. In 2010, the Air Force constructed a $300 million research facility at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida called the United States Reprogramming Laboratory. The ominous sounding laboratory is actually a facility intended to fine-tune [...]

Sickened by social injustice, corporate greed and a huge gulf between the rich and the poor, hundreds of protesters marched through Grand Circus Park in Detroit on Friday 14 October, 2011 in an act of rebellion against “issues that are crushing the people of Detroit.” The protest has been named  ”Occupy Detroit”, a term initially [...]

This month, author Thomas Winship has released his new book titled “Vaempires: Revolution”. It is a post-apocalyptic story where an evil, mutated species of vampire start a rampaging effort to destroy humanity and take over the world. It is by and large another book that seeks to capitalize upon the booming genre of vampires that [...]

As more and more news reports roll in surrounding additional protests around the country following the lead of Occupy Wall Street, it seems apparent that there are a great deal of misconceptions and misinformation already cropping up about the movement and its purpose. From what I personally seen coming from the Occupy camps – Occupy [...]

The following story was an episode that happened to me personally, during a time when I was operating a debt management blog. The irony is that I have always been as financially responsible as possible, trying to maintain an excellent credit score by paying bills on time and never taking on more debt than our [...]

You’ve probably heard about convicted criminals being forced to wear GPS-enabled ankle monitoring systems that allow authorities to track people convicted and sentenced for certain crimes, but the technology has advanced to the point where ankle devices can even detect alcohol consumption from the sweat from a person’s body. Early in October, a Littleton, Colorado [...]

“Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent’s fate” -Sun Tzu, The Art of War In the age of a vast ecosystem of readily accessible media, it has become paramount to manage public opinion. Gone are the [...]

On January 5th, 2011, the U.S. Congress passed the Budget Control Act of 2011. The Act was a measure enacted by Congress to reign in government overspending and to ensure that future government budgets and plans are financially sound. Part of the Act included the creation of a Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction (JSC), [...]

Are Zac Brown and Jimmy Buffett telling you to be knee deep in the water somewhere? Is Bob Marley reminding you not to worry ‘bout a thing? Who doesn’t want a few days away from it all in paradise? Leave behind the politicians and bosses fighting for more real estate in your brain. Drop the [...]

This past summer, Hardie Grant Books released David Rosenberg’s Inside Pine Gap: the Spy Who Came in from the Desert. Rosenberg was employed at the Joint Australia-American Defense Facility known as Pine Gap in Alice Springs for 18 years. According to his author’s bio, Rosenberg’s expertise was in signals intelligence and how it related to [...]