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Interview 1115 – New World Next Week with James Evan Pilato

[audio mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2015-11-26%20James%20Evan%20Pilato.mp3"][/audio]This week on the New World Next Week: a new website helps people understand the dangers of geolocation data in photos; space mining is one step closer to reality; and more Americans than ever understand that their government is the enemy.

We Dodged an Asteroid, but What Unseen Dangers Lurk in the Skies?

If you were among those who predicted that a massive asteroid would slam into Earth last weekend, pour yourself a cup of coffee and relax. You’re still here, but it was a near miss.
The 2-mile-wide chunk of rock about a quarter of the size of Mount Everest zipped past the U.K. as Britons snuggled in their beds, passing about a million miles closer than NASA had predicted. The asteroid was more than 15 times larger than any of the other space objects being tracked by the space agency. [1]

Pentagon: Missile defense ‘kill vehicle’ still plagued with problems after years of failure

RT | September 9, 2014 A Pentagon investigation of the “kill vehicle” warhead, part of a weapons system plagued with years of failed tests, found dozens of quality control problems, according to a new report. The Pentagon’s inspector general said in the report released Monday that the “kill vehicle,” a warhead meant to intercept missiles, […]