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New “Smart” Motorcycle Helmet Gives Riders A View Of Their Surroundings

<![CDATA[<a alignleft="" bike="" height="251" href="http://ift.tt/1CtNUWm%20class=" size-medium="" src="http://ift.tt/1ScGdpk; alt=" width="400" wp-image-35643=""></a>Earlier this year, a new company set on designing a safer motorcycle helmet was able to raise <a _blank="" href="http://ift.tt/1CtNVcA;%20target=">$2,446,824 by 1,940 people in 2 months</a> on the crowd-funding website Indiegogo.<br />
Not soon after that, the company, SKULLY, was able to raise another $11 million, thanks to investors from Walden Riverwood Ventures and Intel Capital led the round, Formation 8, Techstars, and Western Technology Investments.<br />
The great idea that has everyone so excited is the SKULLY motorcycle helmet, which gives riders a view of their surroundings with screens placed inside the helmet. This saves the rider from looking down to their rear view mirrors and taking their eyes off the road.<br />
<em>“There are a lot of expenses involved in the manufacturing part of it. Funds from this round will help carry SKULLY through its manufacturing milestones and accelerate our technology roadmap</em>,” <a _blank="" href="http://ift.tt/1ScGdpm;%20target=">SKULLY founder and CEO Marcus Weller told Tech Crunch.</a><br />
It has been reported that the price tag for this device will be anywhere between $1500 and $3000, but many riders are saying that the added safety is worth the cost.<br />
Similar technologies have already taken to the road, as we reported last month, <a _blank="" href="http://ift.tt/1CtNVcC;%20target=">Samsung recently announced</a> the creation of an innovative ‘Safety Truck’ that is designed with a giant video display on the back. The video display allows drivers to see what is going on in the area of the road surrounding the truck, so they can pass with caution and confidence, instead of going in blind and making a risky maneuver.<br />
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<a _blank="" href="http://ift.tt/1HNhKFA;%20target=">John Vibes</a> writes for True Activist and is an author, researcher and investigative journalist who takes a special interest in the counter culture and the drug war.<br />
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The Pentagon’s “Operation Jade Helm 15″: The Floodgate Towards Martial Law and World War III?

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<p><em>First we learned that Operation Jade Helm 15 is coming this summer from mid-July through mid-September to a Southwest neighborhood near you stretching from Texas to California. Per government sources and their mainstream media outlets like the <a href="http://ift.tt/1NAE2tv" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Washington Post</a>, it’s nothing more than a benign massive military drill designed to test how effectively US Special Operations forces can covertly and as seamlessly as possible embed themselves into the civilian populace as a mere security training exercise to keep us all safe in the future. The Washington Post March 31<sup>st</sup> headline – “Why Operation Jade Helm 15 is Freaking out the Internet and Why it Shouldn’t Be” – then goes on to list several alternative news sites like <a href="http://ift.tt/1yjfT3D" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">InfoWars</a> making the claim that martial law in America is coming soon.</em></p>
<p>According to last August’s <a href="http://ift.tt/1msArAt" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><em>CNN poll, </em>an all-time high of 87%</a> of Americans simply do not trust their own government nor mainstream media as truthful or credible. More and more Americans are turning to alternative news sources in an attempt to find out what’s really going on in their world.</p>
<p>But the rash of “sky is falling” headlines from the internet news sources have created a media firestorm. Millions of Americans could hardly be consoled by the <em>Washington Post</em> article encouraging them not to worry that our government once again is up to no good. Instead those distrusting MSM believe Jade Helm 15 is a training exercise that will pave the way for US martial law similar to how the <a href="http://ift.tt/1JygMvB" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Boston Marathon false flag</a> was a litmus test for martial law imposed on a major US metropolitan city. Except this time Jade Helm’s unprecedented size and scope covers a large expansive area taking up the southwestern quadrant of the United States.</p>
<p>The US military has designated certain states like <a href="http://ift.tt/1NAE2tv" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Texas, Utah and part of Southern California</a> during this operation as “hostile,” adding that “New Mexico isn’t much friendlier.” That the one time reputable DC newspaper that broke Watergate in the 70’s describes the Jade Helm operation in terms as if it were some kind of board game like Risk or Monopoly doesn’t help its already dubious credibility. Millions of Americans have realized their own oligarchic government has betrayed them and their interests and simply can no longer be trusted. So in the eyes of the feds, that would automatically make them “hostile.” The <em>Post</em> article also list several past covert military operations where states have been labeled as hostile territory for purposes of the training exercises. And of course that they went by unnoticed should give us solace the Jade’s outcome will be no different.</p>
<p>Now that the fascist totalitarian oligarchy posing as our federal government has been busily expanding its military wars from the Middle East to American soil against its own law abiding citizens, the <em>Post</em> tells us we shouldn’t worry. George W Bush once infamously proclaimed “you’re either with us or against us.”</p>
<p>The fact that police in America armed with the same heavy weaponry look identical to US combat troops fighting foreign wars are now murdering unarmed US citizens at an unprecedented rate, we shouldn’t worry? The number of Americans civilians since 9/11 killed by militant police is closing in on the number of American soldiers killed in action fighting in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars (<a href="http://ift.tt/1guH7Pv" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">as of a year ago 6802</a>). Though no actual records are conveniently kept of police killing Americans, a year and a half ago it was reported that estimates of <a href="http://ift.tt/1gDfNP5" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">over 5000 Americans were killed by police since 9/11</a>. Tack on the mounting numbers of police killings that have increased exponentially in the last year and a half and it could well exceed the KIA’s from foreign wars by now. That tells us the same counterinsurgency wars the US has been brutally waging on foreign soil is now being fought against us in the streets of America. As such, we stand to lose our life <a href="http://ift.tt/1B3iCCG" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">55 times greater from our own police</a> than any actual terrorists. And if you happen to be an African American male, that likelihood skyrockets.</p>
<p>As of the <a href="http://ift.tt/1INTi7Y" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">2012 NDAA, military forces can enter our homes</a> without warrants or charges and lock us up indefinitely without trial or legal representation. And according to that <em>Washington Post</em> article, apparently we should have no concerns about Special Forces showing up at our doorstep or roaming through our neighborhoods for several months over the summer. Our friendly state propagandist <em>Washington Post</em> says that when the elite wing of Big Brother’s killing machine invades our local communities, we should actually feel safer. Military spokesman <a href="http://ift.tt/1NAE2tv" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Army Lt. Col. Mark Lastoria’s e-mail</a> stated, “Training exercise Jade Helm is going to assist our Special Operations Soldiers and leadership in refining the skills needed against an ever changing foreign threat.” And we should all believe this because the military has such a great track record of always telling us the truth.</p>
<p>From the <a href="http://ift.tt/1JygMvB" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Boston Marathon bombings</a> to <a href="http://ift.tt/NOIUTR" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Sandy Hook</a>, the government has been executing false flags for purposes of imposing absolute NWO control over its citizens. Ever since the <a href="http://ift.tt/1symsxT" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">neocons’ inside 9/11 job</a> the feds have used their “national security” card ad nauseam as their flimsy excuse to willfully <a href="http://ift.tt/WOp25u" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">betray our Constitution</a> that they all swore oaths to uphold. And in its place treasonous governments in the West have systematically enacted draconian Orwellian laws of tyranny and oppression to conveniently <a href="http://ift.tt/14srANp" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">vilify citizens bold enough to demand their civil liberties</a> and privacy rights back. We dissidents who do not approve of our government’s obliteration of our constitutional rights have become <a href="http://ift.tt/1DZh93I" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">the feds’ targeted enemy</a> and deemed potential homegrown terrorists. Even homecoming <a href="http://ift.tt/ktNHn6" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">veterans from US foreign wars are perceived as threats</a>.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://ift.tt/1CkwRnz" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">international criminal cabal</a> beholding to the Western oligarchs has infiltrated and hijacked the governments of Israel and the United States as well as Europe, Canada, Australia and Japan. We have a crime syndicate that has protected the international <a href="http://ift.tt/1gVRf1a" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">banksters who’ve been laundering drug money</a> for multiple decades in its international drug trade. There’s nothing new here as the <a href="http://ift.tt/1INTi83" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Bush crime family has been running drugs from South and Central America</a> since the 1970’s. For years the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the State Department, the CIA, the FBI, the US military and their paramilitary private contractors have <a href="http://ift.tt/KVPnLb" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">been flooding America</a> and especially its inner cities with drugs – crack cocaine from Latin America and heroin from Afghanistan. High levels of the US government have partnered with drug cartels from Mexico, Peru, Colombia, Central America, and Dominican Republic to maintain their criminal activities. At the same time, ever since the late 1970’s high levels within these same US rogue crime agencies have also been <a href="http://ift.tt/1wBH9cN" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">partnering with al Qaeda/ISIS to create their invented “war on terror.”</a></p>
<p>And now if you believe many of the independent media sources, as of this summer all these sinister elements appear to be converging to soon cause catastrophic upheaval in the US Southwest, likely to change America forever. According to <a href="http://ift.tt/1H3VXbR" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Judicial Watch</a><em> </em>earlier this week, the independent federal watchdog organization revealed that the US government is complicit with both the Mexican government and the Sinaloa drug cartel to be involved in joint training camp operations with ISIS a few miles from El Paso, Texas across the border in Mexico. Judicial Watch claims a Mexican military field grade officer and a Mexican Federal Police Inspector are among its sources. The camp is said to be located just eight miles from the US border. Despite the US intelligence community being well aware of this claim that terrorists might be currently training a few miles from our border and apparently planning an alleged invasion of the United States, President Obama as commander-in-chief apparently is laying low with only the already announced plans of Jade Helm operations that neither include a false flag war involving ISIS nor World War III as much of the <a href="http://ift.tt/1INTioi" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">internet media is all abuzz</a>.</p>
<p>Between the <a href="http://ift.tt/1jHjenq" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">US State Department’s Fast and Furious gun smuggling operation</a> that was caught “inadvertently” arming drug cartels several years ago, and the feds’ funding and secret backing of <a href="http://ift.tt/1HG2bxc" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">ISIS as their proxy mercenary allies</a>, several independent media sites maintain that a <a href="http://ift.tt/1HgUtYR" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">covert operation involving ISIS’ hybrid terrorists</a> have been “slipping” across the border into the United States as provocateur forces designed to kill American citizens. Jade Helm and this latest ISIS piece converging on the states bordering Mexico are said to be the Obama excuse he’s been planning to implement martial law, illegally arresting American dissidents after a false flag event where Americans are murdered by the feds’ terrorist stooges.</p>
<p>Even more alarming is <em>The Common Sense Show’s</em>  <a href="http://ift.tt/1Hjvt6l" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Dave Hodges most recent post</a> including photos of surface to air missiles at a US Air Force base that literally appeared overnight near Lubbock, Texas. In the designated hostile state of Texas, Hodges believes more than just martial law will be initiated but an actual US invasion and World War III is planned.</p>
<p>These days it is becoming increasingly more difficult to ferret out the truth, be it mainstream or independent media sources. A major strategy the federal government commonly uses to discredit alternative media is planting disinformation within its ranks. Government moles have infiltrated the so called independent online media, intentionally muddying the waters so murky as to obscure the facts. When alternative sites cry out that the sky is falling and then it doesn’t, it conditions consumers of independent media to no longer believe them either, thus rendering all independent news outlets “whacked out conspiracy theorists.” Through various PSYOPS the <a href="http://ift.tt/1iktYVv" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">US intelligence community has targeted both social media</a> as well as alternative news media as viably effective outlets to spread further disinformation and propaganda lies. Of course this malicious agenda of the US government purposely keeping Americans uninformed in the dark, too dumbed down and confused, not knowing who or what to believe or trust as the actual truth, is exactly where the feds want us.</p>
<p>After checking with their inside sources, Veterans Today editors <a href="http://ift.tt/1D0ha08" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Gordon Duff and Jim W. Dean</a> have drawn the conclusion that the neocon feds have purposely used Jade Helm 15 to deceive and discredit independent news sources that are running with the ISIS invasion story.</p>
<p>This writer is uncertain of the coming events this summer. I’m unwilling to completely rule out the dire forecast of “an ISIS invasion” while simultaneously I’m unwilling to trust what the feds, the military or the <em>Washington Post</em> claim Jade Helm will bring as well. It bears in mind today to be skeptical in a healthy way toward any and all news outlets. Unfortunately it requires some vigilance and a willingness to do homework cross-checking sources to arrive at a more informed and accurate assessment of what may actually be transpiring in the world. By design the sub-standard educational system fails miserably in teaching discriminative, critical thinking amongst our population. Many people of course don’t have the luxury of time to invest in seeking out multiple sources to arrive at the truth in their fast paced, muddled, upside down world. Too many hidden agendas from both the right and the left carry misinformation and deception, whether intended or not. Ultimately the rule of thumb should minimally be to check the sources of whatever news information you utilize in order to draw your own conclusions.</p>
<p><strong><em>Joachim Hagopian</em></strong><em> is a West Point graduate and former US Army officer. He has written a manuscript based on his unique military experience entitled </em><a href="http://ift.tt/1HgUrjU" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect"><em>“Don’t Let The Bastards Getcha Down.”</em></a><em> It examines and focuses on US international relations, leadership and national security issues. After the military, Joachim earned a master’s degree in Clinical Psychology and worked as a licensed therapist in the mental health field for more than a quarter century. He now concentrates on his writing and has a blog site at </em><a href="http://ift.tt/1INTion" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect"><em>http://empireexposed. blogspot. com/</em></a>. <em>He is also a regular contributor to </em><a href="http://ift.tt/14srC7O" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect"><em>Global Research</em></a><em> and a syndicated columnist at </em><a href="http://ift.tt/1INTiop" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect"><em>Veterans Today</em></a>.</p>
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12 Major Events Are Going To Happen By The End of September and Why You Need To Know About Them… (Eye-Opening Video)

<p>Twelve, that is the number of major events that have happened or are going to happen during or before the month of September.</p>
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<p>It seems a lot of people lately are having a gut feeling that something “Big” is about to unfold, but no one knows exactly what it is. Maybe people are feeling that way because of the events that are taking place around them. From signs in the heavens, to military stockpiling, to politically disturbing events. There seems to be a confluence of activity both in the political and spiritual realm culminating in 2015 causing peoples alarms to go off. Could it be that people are feeling this way because of the eerie events that are culminating in September?? I believe so…</p>
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<p>Here is a list of 12 major events that are happening or will happen by the end of September:</p>
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Awesome ‘Origami’ Pots Grow With Your Plants

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London-based designers have invented an 'origami' pot that grows with your plant!</div>
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In order to create the ‘origami’ pots, <em>GROWTH</em> uses a carefully calculated pattern to mimic what nature has mastered. As you can see in the photos, the pot transforms <em>with the plant</em>, something not usually witnessed in inanimate objects.<br />
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<em>In nature, everything evolves, adapts, grows, blooms, degrades, dies, gets absorbed, reused,”</em> the designers, Bike and Begum Ayaskan, <a attachment_35616="" class="wp-caption aligncenter" href="http://ift.tt/1LZkq5J%20Contemporist%3C/a%3E.%20%3Cem%3E%E2%80%9CThe%20modern%20approach%20to%20building%20is%20the%20opposite.%20Here,%20things%20exist%20in%20stages:%20objects%20are%20produced,%20used,%20discarded%E2%80%A6%20Growth,%3C/em%3E%20through%20%3Cem%3Eit%E2%80%99s%20carefully%20calculated%20origami%20pattern,%20mimics%20nature%E2%80%99s%20ability%20to%20grow%20and%20transform%20by%20unfolding%20over%20time,%20bringing%20these%20qualities%20to%20the%20manufactured%20object.%E2%80%9D%3C/em%3E%3C/p%3E%20%3C/blockquote%3E%20%3Cdiv%20id="></a><a attachment="" href="http://ift.tt/1HnuhuS;%20rel=" wp-att-35616=""><img alaskan="" class="wp-image-35616" credit:="" height="955" src="http://ift.tt/1LZkrGJ; alt=" studio="" width="730" /></a> <br />
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New Law Protects People Who Break Into Hot Cars To Save Pets

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Most states have penalties for people who leave animals in hot cars, but Tennessee is the first to offer protection for people who come to their rescue.</div>
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<em>Good news!</em> In Tennessee, it’s now legal to break into a car – as long as you’re trying to save an animal.<br />
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End Of Aspartame: Study Links Diet Soda To Major Problems

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In the largest study of its kind, researchers declare diet soda to contribute to a number of health problems.</div>
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It’s nothing new to report that aspartame is an artificial sweetener <em>everyone</em> should aim to avoid. In the past, it has been <a 2014="" a="" bzq="" href="http://ift.tt/1D3Zy58%20to%20contribute%20to%20a%20list%20of%20ailments%3C/a%3E,%20including%20Diabetes,%20neurological%20concerns,%20weight%20gain,%20brain%20fog,%20and%20%3Cem%3Emore%3C/em%3E.%3C/p%3E%20%3Cp%3EBut%20in%20a%20study%20(%3Ca%20href=" http:="" ift.tt="" in="">) which took place over 10 years and involved 60,000 women, it was determined that <strong>women who drink two or more diet drinks a day have much higher cardiovascular disease rates and are more likely to die from the disease</strong>.</a><br />
In the <em>largest study of its kind</em>, The University of Iowa <a 38="" href="http://ift.tt/1HQLbZs%20the%20following%3C/a%3E:%3C/p%3E%20%3Cblockquote%20readability="> </a><br />
<a 38="" href="http://ift.tt/1HQLbZs%20the%20following%3C/a%3E:%3C/p%3E%20%3Cblockquote%20readability="><em>[C]ompared to women who never or only rarely consume diet drinks, those who consume two or more a day are 30 percent more likely to have a cardiovascular event [heart attack or stroke] and 50 percent more likely to die from related disease.</em></a><br />
<a 38="" href="http://ift.tt/1HQLbZs%20the%20following%3C/a%3E:%3C/p%3E%20%3Cblockquote%20readability="> <em>This is one of the largest studies on this topic, and our findings are consistent with some previous data, especially those linking diet drinks to the metabolic syndrome, says Dr. Ankur Vyas the lead investigator of the study.</em><br />
 <em>The association persisted even after researchers adjusted the data to account for demographic characteristics and other cardiovascular risk factors, including body mass index, smoking, hormone therapy use, physical activity, energy intake, salt intake, diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol, and sugar-sweetened beverage intake.</em><br />
 <em>On average, women who consumed two or more diet drinks a day were younger, more likely to be smokers, and had a higher prevalence of diabetes, high blood pressure, and higher body mass index.</em><br />
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But <a a="" href="http://ift.tt/1D3ZxOA%20finding%3C/a%3E%20comes%20with%20good%20news%20as%20well.%20%3Cem%3ETime%20Magazine%3C/em%3E%20has%20%3Ca%20href=" http:="" ift.tt="" in="" recent="" y5a="" years=""> a <em>huge</em> decline in diet soda beverages: </a><br />
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<a a="" href="http://ift.tt/1D3ZxOA%20finding%3C/a%3E%20comes%20with%20good%20news%20as%20well.%20%3Cem%3ETime%20Magazine%3C/em%3E%20has%20%3Ca%20href=" http:="" ift.tt="" in="" recent="" y5a="" years=""><em>One reason for the decline could be a growing awareness of the obesity epidemic in the US and growing health concerns surrounding sugar-sweetened beverages. According to Reuters, industry experts say the beverage industry is shrinking under the scrutiny. Even diet-branded drinks have suffered a loss of sales with concerns over artificial sweeteners.</em></a></blockquote>
<a a="" href="http://ift.tt/1D3ZxOA%20finding%3C/a%3E%20comes%20with%20good%20news%20as%20well.%20%3Cem%3ETime%20Magazine%3C/em%3E%20has%20%3Ca%20href=" http:="" ift.tt="" in="" recent="" y5a="" years=""> It seems consumers are becoming aware of the importance their diet and lifestyle play in warding off modern-day diseases of affluence, and in effect are making more conscious choices.<br />
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Life can still be sweet…</h2>
There are plenty of natural, healthy sweeteners one can indulge in from time to time. Some low-glycemic options (don’t raise blood sugar) are stevia, coconut nectar, yacon syrup, and xylitol. And other unrefined, wholesome sweeteners are whole, dried fruits (dates, raisins, apricots), raw honey, agave syrup, brown rice syrup, and cane sugar (unprocessed), among others.<br />
 Overall, however, a switch to a predominantly plant-based, whole foods, low-glycemic, and unprocessed diet will lend great favor in one’s quest to get healthier and ward off diseases related to their diet, lifestyle, and thoughts.<br />
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