Thermal Energy Storage Device for Directed Energy Weapons Tested
General Atomics’ Advanced Power Systems Division has announced that it has completed testing of an advanced thermal energy storage device capable of cooling directed energy weapons (DEW).
First spacecraft to land on an asteroid due back on Earth
The first spacecraft to land on an asteroid and collect samples from its surface is limping back to earth more than seven years after setting off on its epic journey.
You Couldn’t Make This Up Dept.: "There’s a Monolith on Mars’ Moon, Phobos"
Clam boat pulls up canisters off NY, crew sickened
A doctor treating a commercial fisherman who was sickened after his clamming boat pulled up munitions tainted with chemicals says tests show he was exposed to mustard gas.
‘The Rig’s on Fire! I Told You This Was Gonna Happen!’
Whoever was on the other end of the line was apparently trying to calm Harrell down. "I am fucking calm," he went on, according to Buzbee. "You realize the rig is burning?"
Decorative eggs prompt Atlanta federal building evacuation
A harmless package of decorative eggs prompted a grenade scare and the evacuation of an Atlanta federal building on Tuesday, according to law enforcement officials.
New Health law could ban low-cost plans
Part of the health care overhaul due to kick in this September could strip more than 1 million people of their insurance coverage, violating a key goal of President Barack Obama’s reforms.
U.S. Confirms Underwater Oil Plumes
The government said water tests have confirmed underwater oil plumes dozens of miles from the broken wellhead off Louisiana
Reports at BP over years find systemic history of problems
Allegations that BP or its contractors falsified safety and inspection reports are a recurring theme. Similar allegations were attributed to workers in 2001 and 2004 internal reports on Alaska, but the internal auditors did not confirm that fraud had occurred.
NORAD leader pledges support for G8, G20
Gen. Walt Natynczyk welcomed the new NORAD commander, U.S. Admiral James Winnefeld, who pledged the Americans’ full military support during the upcoming G8 and G20 summits in Toronto.
Massachusetts legislature mulls monthly limit on gun purchases
A proposal to limit the number of guns a person can buy in Massachusetts is being mulled by the Legislature’s Judiciary Committee today, sparking hope among supporters that the bill may finally come to a vote.
G20 protesters could be hit with sonic guns
The addition of sound cannons to the arsenal available to security forces managing G20 protests comes as no surprise to groups planning to demonstrate in Toronto at next month’s summit.
Turning Poverty Into A Multibillion-Dollar Industry
Payday lending operations have grown rapidly in the United States since the early 1990s. At the industry’s peak a few years ago, there were more payday lenders in the United States than McDonald’s and Burger King stores — combined.
Bernie Madoff: ‘F— my victims. I carried them for 20 years’
That’s right. That charming quote comes from New York magazine, whose reporter Steve Fishman has just written about life inside prison for the world’s most infamous Ponzi scheme investor.
The Dominant Force In World Financial Markets In 2010 Is Fear
Extreme volatility is not a sign of health for financial markets. But in 2010 financial markets around the globe are experiencing unprecented volatility. Why? It is because the entire world financial system has been gripped by fear.
Investment Banker: It’s Going To Get Nasty – Buy Land, Barbed Wire And Guns
Bond markets could get very nasty over the coming months, while stock investors could take a few months off and stop attempting to trade volatile swings in the markets, Anthony Fry, senior managing director at Evercore Partners, told CNBC Monday.
Food and Depopulation: Rockefeller Family
The intention is to rob us blind and kill us. It’s time to wake up.
‘US funding terrorist group against Iran’
Ali Motlaq is a member of The Royalist Association of Iran or Tondar, a terrorist group that has claimed responsibility for the attacks across Iran in the last 5 years. They have killed and wounded hundreds.
America today: Medicated drivers, toxic foods and counterfeit money supply
There are a great many reasons to love America. For one thing, Freedom of Speech remains largely intact in the USA (although the FDA has struck a serious blow to the principle with its ongoing censorship of free speech about nutritional supplements).
Senator confirms reports that wellbore is pierced; oil seeping from seabed in multiple places
Goldman Sachs subpoenaed for failing to cooperate with finance probe
A high profile panel investigating the causes of the financial crisis announced Monday it had subpoenaed Goldman Sachs for failing to cooperate with the probe.
Afghan war overtakes Vietnam to become the longest conflict in U.S. history
Hooked on Gadgets, and Paying a Mental Price
Afghan Warlords Gain U.S. Funding by Rebranding as “Private Security Companies”
China’s ‘cancer villages’ reveal dark side of economic boom
Drugs for Europe: Protected by Powerful Western Interests, Afghanistan Heroin Transits Through Kosovo
The Truth Behind the Bilderberg Group
For years, anyone that believed that there was a secret Bilderberg Group and that these super economic, business, and political elite of the world held private meetings directing world affairs was labeled a conspiracy nut in the managed, mainstream media.
Long-Term Unemployed Now 46 Percent Of Unemployed, Highest Percentage On Record
FTC floats Drudge tax
BP buys Google, Yahoo search words to keep people away from real news on Gulf oil spill disaster
Brain scans being misused as lie detectors, experts say
Measures are needed to stop brain scans being misused by courts, insurers and employers, experts have warned.
Cutting The UK Deficit. BP To The Rescue!
Already raising eyebrows is the apparent decision to line up the former boss of BP, Lord Browne to advise the Government on private sector practices for the public sector, in order to slash costs.
Pre-paid cell phones might be outlawed
Democratic New York Sen. Chuck Schumer now has teamed with his Republican colleague from Texas, John Cornyn, and introduced a bill that would employ the heavy hand of federal law to prohibit anonymous cell phones.
Doctors group says Bush Administration conducted medical experiments on detainees
A new report by the watchdog group Physicians for Human Rights alleges Monday that the Bush Administration experimented on terrorism suspects during their enhanced interrogation program put in force starting in 2002.
Afghanistan: Security Companies Using American Money to Fund Insurgents, Bribe Taliban
For months, reports have abounded here that the Afghan mercenaries who escort American and other NATO convoys through the badlands have been bribing Taliban insurgents to let them pass.
Every Google search to be logged and saved for two years under new Euro MP plan
Every Google web search could be stored for up to two years under a controversial new EU plan that has the backing of more than 300 Euro-MEPs.
UK fits psychiatric patients with satellite tracking devices
Some of Britain’s most dangerous psychiatric patients, including murderers, rapists and paedophiles, are being fitted with satellite tracking devices to stop them escaping and reoffending.
G8/G20 security costs could reach $900-million
Security for the G8-G20 summits will cost taxpayers close to $1-billion.
U.S. Will be Like Greece in ‘Seven to 10 Years,’ Say Congressmen, Experts
U.S. National Debt 2010
To give you an idea of just how much a trillion dollars is, if you had started spending one million dollars every single day when Christ was born, you still would not have spent one trillion dollars by now.
Antidepressants during pregnancy cause alarming 68 percent increased risk of miscarriage
Green Police To Search Trash, Fine Offenders
BIN police are planning to fine people £1,000 if they fail to recycle their rubbish.
North Korea Parliament To Hold Rare Second Annual Session Monday, Major Announcement Expected
U.S. Intelligence Analyst Arrested in Wikileaks Video Probe
Federal officials have arrested an Army intelligence analyst who boasted of giving classified U.S. combat video and hundreds of thousands of classified State Department records to whistleblower site Wikileaks, Wired.com has learned.
New Director of National Intelligence: Overseeing Aggression Abroad, Repression at Home
The Amount Of Neurotoxin Pesticide Corexit Sprayed By BP Tops 1 Million Gallons
BP’s latest oil spill response update for June 4th says the total amount of the dispersant used in the Gulf of Mexico more than 1,021,000 gallons.
U.S.’s $13 Trillion Debt Poised to Overtake GDP
Economic problems ‘worse than thought’, says Cameron
In a speech he will say how the £156bn deficit is tackled will affect "our economy, our society – indeed our whole way of life".
G-20 Coordination Fails as Global policy makers start to clash
Global policy makers are starting to clash over their individual prescriptions for recovery as Europe demands lower budget deficits while the U.S. warns against pushing exports instead of domestic demand.
Replicators: Builders of the Final Machine
Many Gulf federal judges have oil links
More than half of the federal judges in districts where the bulk of Gulf oil spill-related lawsuits are pending have financial connections to the oil and gas industry, complicating the task of finding judges without conflicts to hear the cases
IDF admits doctoring audio of raid on Gaza flotilla
30 Shocking Quotes About The Gulf Of Mexico Oil Spill That Reveal The Soul-Crushing Horror This Disaster Is Causing
Why Banks Try to Make Borrowers Feel Like Sinners When They Can’t Pay off Their Mortgages
Crazy views about homeownership are helping the very bankers who screwed us in the first place.
As the Sun Awakens, NASA Keeps a Wary Eye on Space Weather
Earth and space are about to come into contact in a way that’s new to human history. To make preparations, authorities in Washington DC are holding a meeting: The Space Weather Enterprise Forum at the National Press Club on June 8th.
Canada wins key fight against global bank tax
Canada has won a key fight in its high-profile international campaign against a global bank tax as G20 finance ministers Saturday approved a plan that allows countries to manage the issue as they see fit.
GM lobby helped draw up crucial report on Britain’s food supplies
Only a totalitarian state disarms law-abiding citizens
You could not look for a better encapsulation of the mentality of the state-worshipping ruling elite than the claim by Sir Ian Blair, former disastrous Metropolitan Police Commissioner and newly-appointed peer (nothing succeeds like failure), writing in The Guardian on the topic of gun control: “The possession of a firearm is a privilege, not, except in a few cases, a necessity.”
Oil Might Keep Leaking for Months After Relief Wells are Drilled
Many technical experts have said that the first attempts to complete the relief well in August could miss entirely on the first try, as it is difficult to intersect the blown-out well at the precise location and angle needed.
Space, the final frontier of Chinese news manipulation
Lecture gives Chinese public rare insight into way the state stage-manages events, including space exploration and riots
Nato warns of strike against cyber attackers
The move follows a series of Russian-linked hacking against Nato members and warnings from intelligence services of the growing threat from China.
AP Enterprise: Sub attack was near US-SKorea drill
On the night a torpedo-armed North Korean submarine allegedly sank a South Korean patrol ship, the U.S. and South Korea were engaged in joint anti-submarine warfare exercises just 75 miles away, military officials told The Associated Press.
Companies Now Requiring Job Applicants to Already Have a Job
Still waiting for a response to the 300 resumés you sent out last month? Bad news: Some companies are ignoring all unemployed applicants.
BP spill spreads to Pensacola, Florida: White beaches blotted with oily tarballs
BP chief Tony Hayward sold shares weeks before oil spill
The chief executive of BP sold £1.4 million of his shares in the fuel giant weeks before the Gulf of Mexico oil spill caused its value to collapse.
US demands N. Korea be made to pay for ‘provocations’
The United States demanded North Korea pay a price for allegedly sinking a South Korean warship even as Washington and its Asian allies brace for possible “provocations” by the Pyongyang regime.
APD hands out $30,000 in grocery vouchers for guns
There was an overwhelming response to the Austin Police Department’s first ever “Guns for Groceries” event. Hundreds of people turned out Saturday to exchange unwanted guns for vouchers to buy groceries.
Japanese firm wants to transform the Moon into a giant solar power plant
The Luna Ring: Electric power generated by a belt of solar cells around the lunar equator would be transmitted and beamed to the Earth from the near side of the Moon. Image credit: Shimizu Corporation.
Reid statement defends Israel, essentially blames activists for their deaths
Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) is facing a bruising battle this election year, and probably needs all the help he can get. According to Maplight.org, the Senate Majority Leader has received $179,640 in pro-Israel campaign contributions.
Activists: Israeli boat raiders had ‘assassination list’
Passengers aboard the Mavi Marmara, the ship raided by Israel Monday, claim they found what they say is a list of people the Israeli military intended to target during their raid, a news report out of Great Britain states.
US to go ahead with ‘essential’ drone attacks in Pakistan despite UN call to stop
Notwithstanding a report by a top UN official, which called for the discontinuation of unmanned Predator drone attacks in Pakistan’s troubled tribal areas along the Afghan border, the United States has defended the missile strikes, which many believe have killed more civilians than extremists.
FDIC massive problems ahead with smaller bank failures. 105 banks hold 77 percent of all banking assets. $10 trillion held in too big to fail while 775 banks appear on the FDIC problem list.
Sovereign Credit-Default Swaps Surge on Hungarian Debt Crisis
Minister: Britain will open the door to Frankenstein food
Caroline Spelman shocked colleagues by suggesting that the coalition government will take a more pro-GM stance than its Labour predecessor.
Mobile phones responsible for disappearance of honey bee
The growing use of mobile telephones is behind the disappearance of honey bees and the collapse of their hives, scientists have claimed.
Glenn Beck pins blame for 9/11 attacks on Saudi Prince, major News Corp. stakeholder
Obama secretly deploys US special forces to 75 countries across world
President Obama has secretly sanctioned a huge increase in the number of US special forces carrying out search-and-destroy missions against al-Qaeda around the world, with American troops now operating in 75 countries.
Scientists find a ‘hint of life’ on Saturn’s moon Titan
They have discovered clues that primitive aliens are breathing in Titan’s atmosphere and feeding on fuel at the surface.
Israeli forces board the Rachel Corrie
No one was reported hurt.
World Govt Non-Elect: Engdahl on Bilderberg
For more insight into the Bilderberg Group, a notorious club made up of powerful politicians and business leaders which is meeting in Spain, RT has spoken to author and economic researcher F. William Engdahl.
Power of the Purse Now Released and Available!
US attendees at ‘world government’ meeting may be breaking law: activists
Israeli commando who shot six passengers in aid convoy in line for medal
Six of the nine passengers killed in an Israeli raid on an aid convoy bound for Gaza were shot by a single Israeli commando, who is being considered for a medal of valour for saving his injured comrades as passengers attacked them with clubs, knives and even guns they had taken from downed Navy Seal