Ian Hunter: BBC Inheritance Tracks

Ian Hunter recently appeared on a BBC 4 program called Inheritance Tracks, where he discusses the song ‘A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square’. The segment is available as a podcast.

Sat, 23 Feb 13, 7 minutes, Mott the Hoople lead singer Ian Hunter chooses 'A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square' by Leslie Hutchinson and one of his own tracks 'Life'.

China, Islamists Given American Missile Defense Systems Info

The claims originate with several past and current NASA employees concerned with the systemic leak of highly sensitive information relating to missile defense systems, as well as what they call a troubled investigation into the leak.

Foreign nationals working at Ames Research Center allegedly stole materials and the U.S. attorney’s office in the Northern California district was ultimately denied by the Justice Department when it tried to proceed with indictments. The sources allege that Ames Director Simon P. “Pete” Worden and Will Marshall, a British citizen, shared the moon lander project - and the missile defense technology – with individuals from foreign countries including China, South Korea, and Saudi Arabia.

Obama Escalation of troops to Niger

Obama says the 100-troop deployment will help France in its effort to drive militants out of northern Mali.

Former Secret Service Agent: 2nd Amendment in Peril

Dan Bongino lost his race for the U.S. Senate last Fall and the former Secret Service agent was finally closing up shop on his campaign offices when his phone started ringing like crazy. Television and radio shows were calling to ask Dan if he was free… free to talk about this brief speech he gave on January 19th at a Guns Across America rally in Annapolis Maryland.

Woodward: Obama Lie on Sequester

Budget cuts

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/bob-woodward-obamas-sequester-deal-changer/2013/02/22/c0b65b5e-7ce1-11e2-9a75-dab0201670da_print.html

Obama's Illegal Family

Should You Go to Jail for Unlocking your Phone?

QUADROCOPTER DRONES PLAYING CATCH WITH A STICK

Researchers at ETH Zürich, an engineering, science, technology, mathematics and management university, have shown two quadrocopters throwing and catching a stick with each other.

VIRGINIA IMAM SHEIKH SHAKER CALLS FOR VIOLENT JIHAD

Short version

Bill Whittle on “Gun Control”

Al Qaeda Tells Us How to Avoid Obama's Drones

Below are the original in Arabic and a translation in English.

The list in full (English):
1. It is possible to know the intention and the mission of the drone by using the Russianmade “sky grabber” device to infiltrate the drone’s waves and the frequencies. The device is available in the market for $2,595 and the one who operates it should be a computer know-how.
2. Using devices that broadcast frequencies or pack of frequencies to disconnect the contacts and confuse the frequencies used to control the drone. The Mujahideen have had successful experiments using the Russian-made “Racal.”
3. Spreading the reflective pieces of glass on a car or on the roof of the building.
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4. Placing a group of skilled snipers to hunt the drone, especially the reconnaissance ones because they fly low, about six kilometres or less.
5. Jamming of and confusing of electronic communication using the ordinary water-lifting dynamo fitted with a 30-metre copper pole.
6. Jamming of and confusing of electronic communication using old equipment and keeping them 24-hour running because of their strong frequencies and it is possible using simple ideas of deception of equipment to attract the electronic waves devices similar to that used by the Yugoslav army when they used the microwave (oven) in attracting and confusing the Nato missiles fitted with electromagnetic searching devices.
7. Using general confusion methods and not to use permanent headquarters.
8. Discovering the presence of a drone through well-placed reconnaissance networks and to warn all the formations to halt any movement in the area.
9. To hide from being directly or indirectly spotted, especially at night.
10. To hide under thick trees because they are the best cover against the planes.
11. To stay in places unlit by the sun such as the shadows of the buildings or the trees.
12. Maintain complete silence of all wireless contacts.
13. Disembark of vehicles and keep away from them especially when being chased or during combat.
14. To deceive the drone by entering places of multiple entrances and exits.
15. Using underground shelters because the missiles fired by these planes are usually of the fragmented anti-personnel and not anti-buildings type.
16. To avoid gathering in open areas and in urgent cases, use building of multiple doors or exits.
17. Forming anti-spies groups to look for spies and agents.
18. Formation of fake gatherings such as using dolls and statutes to be placed outside false ditches to mislead the enemy.
19. When discovering that a drone is after a car, leave the car immediately and everyone should go in different direction because the planes are unable to get after everyone.
20. Using natural barricades like forests and caves when there is an urgent need for training or gathering.
21. In frequently targeted areas, use smoke as cover by burning tires.
22. As for the leaders or those sought after, they should not use communications equipment because the enemy usually keeps a voice tag through which they can identify the speaking person and then locate him.
Source: AP

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4,700 OBAMA KILLS VIA DRONES

There are several credible sources that dispute the number but they are high.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/02/21/4700-thats-how-many-people-one-senator-says-weve-killed-via-drones/

‘WHERE’S THE FENCE?’: RESIDENT CONFRONTING MCCAIN ON IMMIGRATION

Obama North Korea Failure: secret talks in North on at least three occasions in 2011 and 2012

Secret U.S. military flights carried officials, equipment to N. Korea

U.S. Air Force developing tiny unmanned drones that hover, crawl and kill

Blue Yeti Pro USB Microphone

A cardioid (from the Greek καρδία "heart") is a plane curve traced by a point on the perimeter of a circle that is rolling around a fixed circle of the same radius. It is therefore a type of limaçon and can also be defined as an epicycloid having a single cusp. It is also a type of sinusoidal spiral, and an inverse curve of the parabola with the focus as the center of inversion.

The name was coined by de Castillon in 1741 but had been the subject of study decades beforehand. Named for its heart-like form, it is shaped more like the outline of the cross section of a round apple without the stalk.

A cardioid microphone exhibits an acoustic pickup pattern that, when graphed in two dimensions, resembles a cardioid, (any 2d plane containing the 3d straight line of the microphone body.) In three dimensions, the cardioid is shaped like an apple centred around the microphone which is the "stalk" of the apple.

A cardioid pickup pattern means pickup to the front of the microphone, and to a lesser extent the sides, with good rejection of sound to the back of the microphone.

Cardioid microphones are recommended for vocal applications, live taping/recording, and most other situations where the acoustics of the recording environment are good, but not perfect.

When indoors, and recording vocals, something handy is a pop filter. Pop filters are a light, nearly transparent mesh placed over a wire or plastic frame, and held in place over a microphone diaphragm with a special clamp. This is useful in reducing "plosives", or exaggerated P and S noises.

One thing to avoid are pop filters with spring-loaded clasps. Only pop filters that attach to your microphone stand by clamp are helpful.

Mandiant suspects Chinese military is behind hacking attacks

A secretive Chinese military unit is believed to be behind a series of hacking attacks, a U.S. computer security company said, prompting a strong denial by China and accusations that it was in fact the victim of U.S. hacking.

Hagel: Israel Apartheid, Netanyahu a ‘Radical’

Contemporaneous account by Rutgers University Law student of 2010 speech

44K for Stripping, Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Swords, Dogs, Scenes of 9/11

Emlyn Hughes stripped and played footage of 9/11, Adolf Hitler, North Korea, and Saddam Hussein; the “Frontiers of Science” course is one of Columbia University’s core classes.

CAPTION THAT PHOTO!: THE WINNER

The winner:

Stay thirsty, my friends.– 24ICONOCLAST24

Runners up…

Wolf Blitzer: “It’s the story that won’t go away. Now, an unnamed source tells CNN that Rubio left this bottle on the podium instead of putting it in a recycling bin. We’ll cover this explosive new allegation.”– RMAN 3

Just testing the waters.– THECROW2123