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Category: Military Industrial Complex
Self-Guided Bullet
The breakthrough comes courtesy of engineers at the government’s Sandia National Laboratories. They’ve successfully tested a prototype of the bullet at distances up to 2, 000 meters — more than a mile. The photo above is an actual image taken during one of those tests. A light-emitting diode was attached to the bullet, showing the amazing pathway that the munition made through the night sky.
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Army Veteran Declared Dead 4 Times
Despite rumors to the contrary, Army veteran Jerry Miller is still very much alive.
“I’m alive. I’m very alive,” Miller told WESH 2 News.
The U.S. Veterans Administration has declared him dead four times, but Miller, a Brevard County resident, has refuted the claims.
“To me, it’s stupid. I can’t die but one time. They have killed me four times,” he said.
Miller, a former drill sergeant, served 10 years in the Army. He said he lives on a government pension and Social Security.
The confusion started in July 2010 when he received a letter addressed to his estate that expressed sympathy for his death and politely explained that, as a dead man, he was not eligible for the veterans benefits he was paid.
Miller said he informed the VA that he was still alive, and his benefits were restarted. But the letters kept coming, each one stopping his benefits.
“I’m alive, you see. This can’t keep going on and on,” Miller said.
He said a letter came this month — addressed to his estate — requesting repayment of more than $94,000 in benefits he shouldn’t have received, because he was dead, and that it included polite instructions how to make the payment.
Miller said he has no idea why he was declared dead.
A VA spokesman told WESH 2 News that the organization was looking into the case.
Miller said he asked his congressman to do the same, but so far, being alive has not been sufficient proof that he is not dead.
$12 Million a Day Wasted in Our Wars
A nonpartisan panel reporting to Congress says the United States is wasting $12 million a day among contracts issued in support of American efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Commission on Wartime Contracting spent the past three years documenting whether American funding went where it was supposed to. The findings show misdirected money has totaled between $31 billion and $60 billion, and that both the government and the contractors are to blame for fraud and waste.
Commissioner Katherine Schinasi told reporters at a news conference Wednesday that the numbers don’t seem to have an impact on people concerned about spending.
To make it easier to grasp the magnitude of the problem, Schinasi said, “we’ve broken it down to $12 million a day.”
http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/08/31/wartime.contracting/index.html?hpt=hp_c1
Area 51 explained tonight on the Nat Geo channel
Area 51 Declassifiedpremieres on the National Geographic Channel on tonight at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT.
After a rash of declassifications, details of Cold War workings at the Nevada base, which to this day does not officially exist, are coming to light—including never before released images of an A-12 crash and its cover-up.
Area 51 was created so that U.S. Cold Warriors with the highest security clearances could secretly pursue cutting-edge aeronautical projects.
During the 1950s and ’60s Area 51’s top-secret OXCART program developed the A-12 as the successor to the U-2 spy plane.
Nearly undetectable to radar, the A-12 could fly at 2,200 miles an hour (3,540 kilometers an hour)—fast enough to cross the continental U.S. in 70 minutes. From 90,000 feet (27,400 meters), the plane’s cameras could capture foot-long (0.3-meter-long) objects on the ground below.
But pushing the limits came with risks—and a catastrophic 1963 crash of an A-12 based out of Area 51.
A rapid government cover-up removed nearly all public traces of the wrecked A-12—pictured publicly for the first time in this gallery, thanks to the CIA’s recent declassification of the images.
Read here about how the government hides aircraft in Area 51: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/05/110520-area-51-secret-hid-craft-base-declassified-a-12-plane/
And read here for more general information about Area 51: http://science.howstuffworks.com/space/aliens-ufos/area-51.htm
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