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Smart weapons, such as the Tomahawk missile is supposed to hit a postage stamp at 300km or more (200 miles or more). But only two out of thirteen actually hit the target. |
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The Top Ten Myths in FBI History
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Posted by Thoth on Saturday, July 26, 2008 (CDT)
 For the past century, the FBI has been a vital player in American history, front and center in some of our country’s most high-profile national security and criminal issues.
Not surprisingly, some myths and misunderstandings about the Bureau have evolved over that time, in part because of the complex and sometimes sensitive nature of our work. We’ve picked out what we think are the top ten myths down through the years, leaving aside ones that are so fanciful that they don’t deserve mention here…
Myth #10) The FBI has Nikola Tesla’s plans for a “death ray.”: If you don’t know the name, Nikola Tesla was a prolific inventor and gifted physicist and engineer—most known for developing the basis for AC power—who was born in Croatia in 1856 and settled in the U.S. in 1884.
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The genesis of modern conspiracy fears
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Posted by Thoth on Monday, March 17, 2008 (CDT)
 Oh, you had to know it’d come ’round to this sooner than later. The incident in Roswell, N.M., on July 7, 1947, is the granddaddy of many a conspiracy theory, many a disbelief in government, many a thought that “we are not alone.” An alien craft crash-landed on a ranch in Roswell on that date. Or it was a military-research balloon. Or a U.S. craft of top-secret technology. Or an aircraft of foreign (but not alien) manufacture.
The way the story was told is the controversy, more so than the incident itself, the base particulars of which have never been in dispute: Something crashed; something was recovered. The devil (or the E.T.) is in the details.
The chief devil, the genesis of disbelief among many who think that the craft was extraterrestrial and there was a government cover-up, comes from a newspaper — the July 8, 1947, edition of the Roswell Daily Record, a reprint of which can be seen, among other places, on Wikipedia, if one does a “Roswell incident” Internet search.
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Freemasons open a lodge at Buckingham Palace
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Posted by Thoth on Tuesday, March 11, 2008 (CDT)
 A branch of the Freemasons secret society is being formed by members of the Royal Household and police who protect the Royal Family. And their decision to call it The Royal Household Lodge has put them on a collision course with Buckingham Palace – as has their plan to co-opt the royal cipher – EIIR – for their regalia, to underline their connection to the Queen.
Although the Queen's cousin, the Duke of Kent, is head of the secretive organisation – he is Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge of England – the new branch has not gone down well with the Royal Family. The Palace has no power to halt the formation of the lodge, but it is determined to stop it adopting its chosen name and block it from hijacking the Queen's EIIR.
Use of the Royal Household title and any related symbols requires official permission. Angry officials clearly feel the new lodge's proposed name is the last thing the Palace needs at a time when it is trying to be seen as more modern and open.
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Old JFK documents may stir controversy
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Posted by Thoth on Tuesday, February 19, 2008 (CST)
 A batch of old documents linked to the slaying of President John F. Kennedy has reportedly been unearthed, including a highly suspect transcript of a conversation between assassin Lee Harvey Oswald and Oswald's killer Jack Ruby, the Dallas Morning News said on Sunday.
The newspaper said the Dallas County district attorney's office, which uncovered the documents, would display its discovery at a news conference on Monday morning. The Morning News said the items found in an old safe in a Dallas courthouse included personal letters from former District Attorney Henry Wade, the prosecutor in the Ruby trial. Ruby shot Oswald two days after the president's death.
Also found were official records from Ruby's trial, a gun holster and clothing that probably belonged to Ruby and Oswald, District Attorney Craig Watkins told the newspaper. But one potentially controversial item is a transcript of an exchange between Oswald and Ruby in which they discuss killing Kennedy to halt the mafia-busting agenda of his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy.
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Great Seal secrets revealed!
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Posted by Thoth on Thursday, February 14, 2008 (CST)
 Conspiracy theorists take note: The myths surrounding one of America's oldest and most enduring national symbols are about to be debunked ... if you believe the government, that is. The keepers of the Great Seal of the United States, the familiar emblem on the back of the $1 bill, want you to know what it is not. It is not a sign that Freemasons run the country, it has nothing to do with the occult, and it does not contain clues to a fabulous hidden treasure.
It is rather the nation's stamp of authority, sovereignty and power, gracing our cash and embossing the most important of documents from its home at the State Department, which has held it since the days of Thomas Jefferson, the first secretary of state.
Not that the Seal's symbols — the all-seeing eye, the unfinished pyramid, the Latin phrases, the bald eagle clutching an olive branch and arrows and the number 13 — aren't powerful. They are, historians say. Yet their meanings have been misidentified, misunderstood and misrepresented almost since the Continental Congress first commissioned the Seal in 1776.
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