http://wackygeeks.com Embracing our Inner Geek Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:38:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A Pennsylvania woman has been charged with plotting to kill a Swedish man and trying to recruit fighters via the Internet to commit violent attacks overseas, the U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday.Colleen LaRose, who also went by the pseudonym of "Fatima LaRose" and "JihadJane," was charged with conspiracy to ... http://wackygeeks.com/2010/03/meet-jihad-jane/ By the 2020s, U.S. special-forces troops will need a stealthy new airlifter to sneak past ever-improving radar and missile systems into "denied areas," says the Pentagon's top civilian special operations official.NOT STEALTHY ENOUGH: The MC-130H Combat Talon II provides global, day, night and adverse weather capability to deliver personnel and ... http://wackygeeks.com/2010/03/stealth-transport-sought-for-special-forces/ By BRUCE ROLFSEN Published: 6 Mar 2010 16:07 A U.S. AIR Force B-2 Spirit bomber is towed to a parking spot Feb. 12 at Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii. The 30-year Air Force plan calls for development of a new long-range strike aircraft by 2020. (TECH. SGT. SHANE A. ... http://wackygeeks.com/2010/03/usaf-publishes-30-year-plan/ CNN) -- Two days before his official trip to Afghanistan, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, a "big lie" intended to pave the way for the invasion of a war-torn nation, according to Iranian state media.Ahmadinejad, known for his harsh rhetoric toward the West ... http://wackygeeks.com/2010/03/iranian-president-mahmoud-amanutjob-says-911-attacks-are-a-lie/ CNN) -- A man coolly walked up to the Pentagon's screening area Thursday evening and opened fire, slightly wounding two Pentagon police officers before they returned fire, critically wounding him, officials said.The incident happened at 6:40 p.m., when the man -- with "no real emotion in his face" -- approached ... http://wackygeeks.com/2010/03/pentagon-shooter-was-calm-and-collected/ Osama bin Laden -(UBL) remember him? Where is he, and is the U.S. getting closer to killing or capturing him?Those are the questions hovering over several recent developments in the Afghanistan war: the capture of Afghan Taliban military leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the killing of two key Taliban ... http://wackygeeks.com/2010/03/ubl-does-anyone-even-care-anymore/ Image:The International Space Station is featured in this image photographed by an STS-130 crew member on space shuttle Endeavour after the station and shuttle began their post-undocking relative separation. Credit: NASA The International Space Station Program has won the 2009 Collier Trophy, which is considered the top award in aviation. ... http://wackygeeks.com/2010/03/the-international-space-station-program-has-won-the-2009-collier-trophy/ NEW YORK—A child apparently directed pilots last month from the air-traffic control center at John F. Kennedy Airport, one of the nation's busiest airports, according to audio clips. The Federal Aviation Administration said Wednesday that it was investigating."Pending the outcome of our investigation, the employees involved in this incident are ... http://wackygeeks.com/2010/03/big-bird-you-are-cleared-for-runway-two-niner/ Baghdad, Iraq (CNN) -- A suicide bomber ended a series of deadly attacks in central Iraq by detonating explosives in a hospital emergency ward where victims of two earlier blasts were being treated.At least 29 people were killed and 42 wounded in the triple bombing attack in Baquba, northeast of ... http://wackygeeks.com/2010/03/cowardly-terrorists-strike-at-weak-hospitalized/ Aviation Week:Boeing officials plan to begin taxi tests on the company’s Phantom Ray demonstrator in July, a slight delay from earlier plans, but first flight is still targeted for December 2010, according Darryl Davis, Boeing Phantom Works president.Phantom Ray is a revived version of the defunct X-45C program. It is ... http://wackygeeks.com/2010/03/boeing-schedules-flight-tests-of-phantom-ray/ Russia To Build New Strategic BomberBy Nabi Abdullaev MOSCOW - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Monday that Russia will start building a new strategic bomber."We should not confine ourselves to developing just one new model," Putin said of the Russian T-50 fifth-generation stealth fighter that had its maiden flight Jan. ... http://wackygeeks.com/2010/03/russia-to-build-stealth-bomber/ New York (CNN) -- The son of a founder of the Palestinian militant group, Hamas, Tuesday told CNN that he was a spy for Israel. For 10 years, Mosab Yousef said he gathered information about Hamas terrorist plots and fed them to Israel's domestic security service Shin Bet. Yousef, in an exclusive ... http://wackygeeks.com/2010/03/why-i-spied-for-israel-son-of-hamas-leader-talks/ Two F-5 Tiger fighter jets crashed into a mountain in eastern South Korea during a routine training flight on Tuesday, the Yonhap news agency reported.The accident took place near the coastal city of Gangneung, about 237 kilometers (147 miles) east of Seoul."We are currently searching for the missing pilots near ... http://wackygeeks.com/2010/03/south-korea-looses-two-jets/ Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- The man believed to be the suicide bomber who killed seven CIA employees and contractors last year appears in a newly released video, claiming to have tricked Jordanian intelligence officers as a double agent.The 43-minute video, posted on various Islamic radical Web sites Saturday, shows Humam ... http://wackygeeks.com/2010/03/suspected-cia-suicide-bomber-calls-american-team-gift-from-god/ Jerusalem (CNN) -- The killers of Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Mabhouh first injected him with a muscle relaxant and then suffocated him, Dubai police said Sunday.Toxicology tests on the Hamas leader found significant amounts of succinylcholine, a drug that is used to relax muscles during surgery or as an anesthetic."The assassins ... http://wackygeeks.com/2010/02/autopsy-finds-hamas-leader-was-drugged-suffocated/ Watch CBS News Videos Online Go to Source http://wackygeeks.com/2010/02/selling-out-his-country-for-cash/ I decided to dash out to the Walmart today - needed some groceries badly -haven't been out since I've been sick - when a tiny voice in the back of my brain told me I'd better bring my camera. Boy am I glad I did! I caught this iconic symbol ... http://wackygeeks.com/2010/02/bald-eagle-a-the-walmart/ Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Deadly blasts targeting foreigners in the Afghan capital Friday killed at least 17 people and wounded many others.Authorities were trying to determine how many people died and the nationalities of those slain.Kabir Al-Amiri, an employee at Kabul hospital, said eight Indians and one Pakistani national were ... http://wackygeeks.com/2010/02/17-killed-in-kabul-suicide-blasts/ Kabul(CNN) -- Two huge explosions shook Afghanistan's capital early Friday, wounding at least five people, a hospital coordinator said.The blast erupted near the Safi Landmark Hotel in the neighborhood of Shahr-E-Naw, where there are a number of government buildings and U.N. offices as well as supermarkets, banks, diplomatic facilities and ... http://wackygeeks.com/2010/02/breaking-explosions-rock-kabul/ Jerusalem (CNN) -- The son of a Hamas official worked for Israeli intelligence and was the Jewish state's "most valuable source in the militant organization's leadership," a news report said Wednesday.The Israeli newspaper Haaretz said Mosab Hassan Yousef, 32, son of the Palestinian Islamic movement Hamas founder Sheikh Hassan Yousef, ... http://wackygeeks.com/2010/02/deep-mole-hamas-founders-son-worked-for-israel-as-spy/ By Terry Datetdate@eagletribune.comPELHAM — Cracking ice, earth tremors or tractor-trailers bouncing off frost heaves. None explain the all-hour booms and earthshaking in northern Pelham the past several weeks, according to residents who reported them. Neither do blasting, power lines arcing nor frost cracking or snow thunder.Maj. Tim Acerno of New ... http://wackygeeks.com/2010/02/mysterious-sounds-and-shaking-ground-continue-in-pelham/ AVIATION WEEK & SPACE TECHNOLOGYBy Guy Norris General Atomics-Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) expects to get the go-ahead from FAA to start tests of the stealthy, turbofan-powered unmanned Predator C Avenger at the U.S. Air Force’s Edwards Air Force Base test range in California.“We anticipate receiving approval from the FAA in the ... http://wackygeeks.com/2010/02/predator-c-gray-eagle-slated-to-begin-tests-at-edwards/ The Pentagon has been researching nonlethal pain rays since the mid-’90s, but finding a vehicle to carry them has proven to be a challenge. Researchers have mounted these microwave weapons—which repel people by heating water molecules just under the skin, reportedly without damaging tissue—on trucks, guard towers and Humvees, but ... http://wackygeeks.com/2010/02/pain-in-the-air-special-ops-gunships-to-get-pain-inducing-weapons/ LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNALMore than 70 warplanes will be taking off and landing at Nellis Air Force Base twice a day during another Red Flag air combat training exercise .The increased flight activity from the base to the 15,000-square-mile range north of Las Vegas Valley began Monday and runs through March ... http://wackygeeks.com/2010/02/red-flag-revs-up/ One man was killed and another man injured late Monday when they drove a stolen car through the Luke Air Force Base security gate and were shot by guards there, officials said.The stolen vehicle broke through the gate about midnight and was about to cross a bridge that connects the ... http://wackygeeks.com/2010/02/car-tries-to-crash-gate-at-luke-afb-one-killed-another-injured/ London, England (CNN) -- In the name of improved security a hacker showed how a biometric passport issued in the name of long-dead rock 'n' roll king Elvis Presley could be cleared through an automated passport scanning system being tested at an international airport.Using a doctored passport at a self-serve ... http://wackygeeks.com/2010/02/hackers-use-elvis-to-show-passport-scanners-are-stupid/ Shortly after it was installed on the International Space Station, fighting broke out among the astronauts over who got the office with the window.; ) Go to Source http://wackygeeks.com/2010/02/chuckle-snort/ NASA’s Room With a ViewBy PHIL PATTONPublished: February 20, 2010Ten years after astronauts first moved into the International Space Station, they finally installed a picture window last week to take in the neighborhood.The Italian-built “cupola,” delivered by the shuttle Endeavour, has seven large windows centered on a 30-inch central pane. ... http://wackygeeks.com/2010/02/space-station-gets-room-with-a-view/ CNN) -- As coalition and Afghan forces entered the second week of a major offensive against the Taliban in southern Afghanistan, the head of U.S. Central Command warned that the potential loss of lives among U.S. forces in the operation "will be tough."Gen. David Petraeus said the losses could be ... http://wackygeeks.com/2010/02/tough-road-ahead-in-afghanistan/ Every once in awhile I am given a challenge. These challenges come in the form of digital photographs either purporting to be of new secret black project aircraft or UFOs.I relish these tests. I just love taking a photo apart (down to the pixel level) and discovering ... http://wackygeeks.com/2010/02/cseti-et-hoax-revealed-too-easily-i-might-add/ (CNN) -- The FBI has opened an investigation into allegations that a Pennsylvania school official remotely monitored a student at home, a law enforcement official with knowledge of the case told CNN on Saturday.The official, who asked not to be identified, said the FBI became involved in the case after ... http://wackygeeks.com/2010/02/fbi-probe-reveals-web-cam-was-used-to-spy-on-students/ The weeks have passed and, in most cases, their nerves have calmed. What began as shock, that they were almost victims of an in-flight terrorist attack, has morphed for many into contemplation. There are those who are still talking about what happened to them on Christmas Day, and there are ... http://wackygeeks.com/2010/02/passengers-who-flew-with-accused-underwear-bomber-speak-out/ By Bill Sweetman.AVWKThe Beast of Kandahar gets around. The hitherto-classified Lockheed Martin RQ-170 Sentinel unmanned air vehicle (UAV), its existence disclosed after our enquiries in December, has been sighted outside Afghanistan.A Korean newspaper report - overlooked when it appeared in December - has now surfaced and states that the UAV ... http://wackygeeks.com/2010/02/beast-of-kandahar-spotted-in-korea/ (CNN) -- North Korea vowed Friday not to dismantle its nuclear program -- not even in exchange for economic aid -- as long as the United States continues a "hostile policy.""It was none other than the U.S. that pushed [North Korea] to acquiring nuclear deterrence and it is, therefore, wholly ... http://wackygeeks.com/2010/02/north-korea-bent-on-being-destroyed-in-future-nuclear-holocaust/ (CNN) -- Iran has launched a new guided missile destroyer Friday, Iran's state-run news agencies reported.The announcement comes at a time when nuclear watchdogs have accused Iran of working to develop a nuclear warhead for a missile.The new vessel, called Jamaran, has the capacity to carry about 120 people and ... http://wackygeeks.com/2010/02/iran-launches-new-destroyer/ Mystery in the air in Pelham, New HampshireUpdated: Thursday, 18 Feb 2010, 12:21 PM ESTPublished : Thursday, 18 Feb 2010, 12:21 PM ESTPELHAM, N.H. (FOX25, myfoxboston) - A mysterious noise in one New Hampshire town has residents confused.A startling sound has been waking some Pelham residents up from sleep since ... http://wackygeeks.com/2010/02/another-skyquake-this-time-east-coast/ Washington (CNN) -- The FBI announced that it has concluded its investigation into the 2001 anthrax mailings, saying Friday that a biodefense researcher carried out the attacks alone.The anthrax letters killed five people and sickened 17 shortly after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The letters, filled with bacterial spores, ... http://wackygeeks.com/2010/02/2001-anthrax-attack-was-work-of-lone-nut-says-fbi/ SALT LAKE CITY — Airport officials say an airliner en route to San Francisco has been diverted to Salt Lake City following a bomb threat.Salt Lake City Superintendent of Airport Operations Dave Korzep says the FBI and airport police are on scene searching the plane.Korzep says the 193 passengers ... http://wackygeeks.com/2010/02/united-747-diverted-to-salt-lake-city-due-to-bomb-threat/ CNN) -- An Austin, Texas, resident with an apparent grudge against the Internal Revenue Service set his house on fire Thursday and then crashed a small plane into a building housing an IRS office with nearly 200 employees, officials said.Federal authorities identified the pilot of the Piper Cherokee PA-28 as ... http://wackygeeks.com/2010/02/texas-man-burns-home-leaves-note-and-crashes-plane-into-irs-building-in-austin/ Another Taliban leader captured in PakistanAt least one other Taliban leader has been seized in neighboring Pakistan by security forces, sources tell CNN. Mullah Abdul Salam was arrested last week, according to Afghan government officials, Taliban sources and a U.S official."The Taliban is down another shadow governor," the American source ... http://wackygeeks.com/2010/02/closing-in-on-ubl-another-taliban-leader-captured/