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Cuba once more seeks U.N. condemnation of U.S. embargo

Featured image: La Habana, Cuba, September 2005. CREDIT: Vgenecr from nl SOURCE: Wikipedia Commons (This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license).

From WHTC Monday, October 07, 2013 1:48 p.m. EDT By Marc Frank

HAVANA (Reuters) – For the 22nd consecutive year, Cuba will ask the United Nations to condemn the United States economic embargo against the island, a top Cuban official announced on Monday, accusing Washington of tightening sanctions in place for more than half a century.

U.S. President Barack Obama, who stated before taking office that he wanted to recast long-hostile U.S.-Cuba relations, has been a disappointment to the Cuban government, which expected him to do more to dismantle the embargo. . . . Read Complete Report

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Image: A U.S. Navy Lockheed SP-2H Neptune (BuNo 140986) of patrol squadron VP-18 Flying Phantoms flying over a Soviet freighter. The freigher is most probably the Okhotsk, which left the left the port at Nuevita carrying 12 IL-28 airplanes on 5 December 1962. CREDIT: US Navy SOURCE: Wikipedia Commons (Public Domain). 

Cuba-P-2H_Neptune_over_Soviet_ship_Oct_1962 CREDIT US Navy SOURCE Wikipedia Commons public Domain

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US army seeks new technology to replace GPS

Featured Image: Artist Interpretation of GPS satellite; image courtesy of NASA

From GPS Daily  by Staff Writers
Washington (AFP) April 25, 2013

The US army is working to limit its dependence on GPS by developing the next generation of navigation technology, including a tiny autonomous chip, the director of the Pentagon’s research agency said Wednesday.

DARPA, the research group behind a range of spy tech and which helped invent the Internet, was also the driving force behind the creation of the Global Positioning System, director Arati Prabhakar said at a press conference. . . . Read Complete Report

Gov’t Seeks to Take Pot Users Guns (Video Report)

from youtube

Published on Sep 14, 2012 by 

The Obama Administration through the Justice Department has given the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) the authority to “seize and administratively forfeit property involved in controlled-substance abuses.” In effect: those who are convicted of crimes involving alcohol and/or substance abusers will have their right to bear arms revoked.
http://www.infowars.com/new-attack-on-2nd-amendment-obama-says-substance-abus…
by Susanne Posel . . . Text Posted to Youtube