Three-Year Old Boy Arrested As Suspected Terrorist
04-29-2010: NASA mulls 28 potential ’search for life’ missions
US space agency NASA is pondering 28 potential missions focusing on finding life beyond Earth inside our solar system, a US researcher said Wednesday.
04-29-2010: Reagan admin ‘hyped Soviet failures into threats,’ documents show
In its efforts to keep Congress funding huge military budgets in the 1980s, the Reagan administration exaggerated the threat from the Soviet Union’s military projects, newly published documents show.
04-29-2010: Tax outrage: U.S. taxpayers to send billions more towards Greek bailout
The International Monetary Fund is looking at raising its share of Greece’s financial rescue package by €10bn ($13.2bn) amid fears that the planned €45bn bail-out will fail to prevent the country’s debt crisis from spiralling out of control.
04-29-2010: PTSD, infertility and other consequences of war
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and its effects on U.S. soldiers and their families is a ghastly story with no end. PTSD is, in large part, though, an entirely Pentagon, or American war machine, inflicted wound.
04-29-2010: Report: Violence In Afghanistan Up 90%
Violence in Afghanistan is up nearly 90 percent from this time last year, according to a new Pentagon report submitted to Congress Wednesday.
04-29-2010: Intel: Pakistan Taliban chief now believed alive
The head of the Pakistani Taliban is now believed to have survived a U.S. missile strike earlier this year, intelligence officials said Thursday, reversing earlier claims he had died and handing the militants something of a propaganda victory.
04-29-2010: Washington To Use Armenian Territory To Attack Iran According To MP
According to MP Eldar Ibrahimov, the United States is planning to use Armenia for offensive against Iran.
04-29-2010: Japan Seeks To Put Humanoid Robot On Moon By 2015
The association, which consists of six private space technology companies and has connections to governmental space research institutions, estimates it will take a whopping $10.5 million to make the project work.
04-28-2010: Huge May Day Rally Of Illegal Immigrants Planned
U.S. Hispanics and Democratic lawmakers furious over Arizona’s harsh crackdown on illegal immigrants expect huge weekend rallies across the United States, piling pressure on President Barack Obama to overhaul immigration laws in this election year.
04-28-2010: Pat Bertroche, Iowa GOP candidate, wants microchips in illegal immigrants
Pat Bertroche, a GOP congressional candidate in Iowa’s Third District, has a unique approach to the nation’s illegal immigration policy. It’s kind of like how we catch, tag, and release wild animals for monitoring. Only this is for humans.
04-28-2010: Spring snowstorm hits northern NY, New England
A late-season storm expected to dump as much as a foot of snow across the hills and mountains of northern New York and New England was a boon for skiers and ski resorts in a region largely spared by the massive storms that blasted the rest of the nation this winter.
04-28-2010: Grads Head to College In Record Numbers
The share of new high-school graduates enrolled in college reached a record high last year, likely reflecting the weak job market they faced.
04-28-2010: Afghanistan Launches Internet Crackdown
Afghanistan’s government is introducing new rules to ban internet users from accessing sites promoting pornography, alcohol and gambling or other activities that conflict with the country’s Islamic culture, a senior official said on Wednesday.
04-28-2010: LockMart Supports National Security Agency’s 2010 Cyber Defense Exercise
Teams of cyber security experts from the National Security Agency and the nation’s service academies are squaring off this week in one of the nation’s most expansive and sophisticated cyber "war games," the Cyber Defense Exercise (CDX).
04-28-2010: Iraqis tortured at secret Baghdad prison, says watchdog
Iraqis held at a secret prison in Baghdad were routinely tortured using whips, electric shocks and rape, according to an investigation by Human Rights Watch.
Top secret space plane has America’s enemies scared
Coast Guard sets oil slick ablaze
04-28-2010: Ice Discovered on Asteroid, Suggests Earth’s Oceans Came From Space
“What we’ve found suggests that an asteroid like this one may have hit Earth and brought our planet its water,” said astronomer Humberto Campins of the University of Central Florida, the lead of one of the two separate teams that reported similar findings April 28 in Nature.
Campaigners used pot petition to dupe voters into registering as Republicans
04-28-2010: Water Ice and Organic Material Found for First Time on Asteroid
A thin film of water ice and organic materials coats the space rock named 24 Themis, according to a study released today.
04-28-2010: Is The CIA Behind Mexico’s Bloody Drug War?
The massacre in downtown Juarez is just the latest incident in Mexico’s bloody drug war. Between 5 to 6 more people will be killed on Saturday, and on every day thereafter with no end in sight. It’s a war that cannot be won, but that hasn’t stopped the Mexican government from sticking to its basic game-plan.
04-28-2010: North Korea Makes Major Troop Shift, Postures For Direct Attack
The North Korean military has recently altered its wartime contingency plans against South Korea to concentrate on attacking the Seoul metropolitan region, a military source said yesterday. South Korean commanders will meet next month to discuss the change and their response to it.
US generals given baffling PowerPoint presentation to try to explain Afghanistan mess
FBI agent short on details on militia inquiry
NASA: Evidence Of Life On Mars
MI5 Files On 7/7 Attacks Impossible To Access
04-28-2010: Spain downgraded, Europe debt crisis widens
Europe’s debt crisis mushroomed Wednesday as Spain saw its credit rating lowered, just as Germany sought to reassure nervous investors that Greece would not be allowed to go under, saying Berlin’s share of a key aid package could be approved in the next few days.
04-28-2010: House and Senate Ramming Through Secret Bill Add-Ons to Block Supplements
Congressman Waxman Slips Obscure Anti-Supplement Measure into Wall St. “Reform” Bill Passed by the House;
04-28-2010: SEND IN THE DRONES: PREDATORS TO FLY ABOVE TEX-MEX BORDER
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told a Senate hearing Tuesday that unmanned aerial drones will soon fly through Texas skies!
04-28-2010: ’Debt Like Cancer’ Addressed by Obama Commission on U.S. Debt
President Barack Obama’s debt commission started grappling with how to reduce the U.S. government’s red ink in the first of a series of meetings aimed at producing a plan to be sent to Congress.
04-28-2010: Former Air Force Intelligence Specialist Claims to Have Bomb and Fake Passport Aboard Trans-Atlantic Flight
The father of a former Air Force intelligence specialist was left to wonder why his son went from leading a "squeaky clean" life to being accused of claiming he had explosives aboard a trans-Atlantic flight, forcing the jetliner and its passengers to spend the night in Bangor.
04-28-2010: Royal Dutch Shell Reports 57% Climb In Profits
Royal Dutch Shell on Wednesday reported a 57% climb in first-quarter profit, with the energy giant benefiting from a surge in oil and gas prices as well as improving production.
NASA Announces Wednesday Media Teleconference About Search For Extraterrestrial Life
04-27-2010: Inside NASA’s world-class supercomputer center
At NASA’s advanced supercomputing facility, at its Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif., the space agency maintains Pleiades, which at a current official measurement of 973 teraflops–or 973 trillion floating point operations per second–is the world’s sixth-most powerful computer.
04-27-2010: NASA Claims They Have Located Lost Soviet Moon Rover
Along with bell bottoms, Nehru jackets and the pet rock craze, number another forgotten piece of 1970s history: a Soviet robotic rover that the Russians lost somewhere on the lunar surface.
Corporate Media Again Ties Tea Partiers As Racists
04-27-2010: Pentagon to comply with only part of Fort Hood probe
The Pentagon said on Tuesday it agreed to provide some, but not all, information sought in a congressional probe of last year’s shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, that left 13 soldiers dead and an Army psychiatrist charged with murder.
04-27-2010: Al-Qa’ida struggling to find recruits in Iraq: US general Ralph Baker
AL-QA’IDA in Iraq is struggling to recruit volunteers for suicide bombings and other attacks, the US army says, hours after the jihadist network confirmed the deaths of its top commanders.
US Gulf of Mexico oilspill spreads as well leaks
04-27-2010: Banks Bet Against U.S. Cities, States
Amidst growing pessimism about the financial condition of U.S. cities and states, investors are increasingly buying financial instruments that essentially allow them to short sell – or bet against – cities and states, says a Wall Street Journal report.
04-27-2010: Pentagon’s Mach 20 Glider Disappears, Whacking ‘Global Strike’ Plans
The Pentagon’s controversial plan to hit terrorists half a planet away suffered a setback this weekend, after an experimental hypersonic glider disappeared over the Pacific Ocean.
04-27-2010: Pentagon: Boost Training With Computer-Troop Mind Meld
The Pentagon is looking to better train its troops — by scanning their minds as they play video games.
04-27-2010: Military cancels nuclear attack test NLE
The U.S. military has canceled a major field exercise that tests its response to a nuclear attack, angering some officials who say that what is now planned for this month will be a waste of time.
04-27-2010: Doctors sterilise Uzbek women by stealth
WHEN her baby died soon after delivery, Gulbahor Zavidova, 28, a poor farmer’s wife, longed to be pregnant again. After months of trying she and her husband visited a doctor who told her she could never have another child because she had been sterilised.
04-27-2010: NASA Claims Some Craters Of The Moon May Be Electrified
Exploring the craters at the moon’s north and south poles may be even more challenging than previously thought for future astronauts. New NASA calculations now show that solar wind streaming over the rough lunar surface may electrically charge polar craters on the moon.
We Have Met The Enemy And He Is Powerpoint
04-27-2010: Child sex `no breach of virtue’, some priests believe
SOME priests didn’t see the molestation of boys as a breach of their celibacy vows, retired Catholic bishop Geoffrey Robinson says.
04-27-2010: Police State Canada 2010 and the G20 Summit
The G20 summit will be held on June 26-27 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre preceded by the G8 summit which will take place in Huntsville, Ontario. The secretive meetings will be attended by world leaders, finance ministers, central bank governors, along with thousands of other delegates.
America Is Losing Its Imperial Status, And Global Institutions Such As The IMF, G20 And BIS Are Filling The Void
04-27-2010: Mexico Issues Travel Warning For Arizona
Mexicans in Arizona should carry documentation and “act carefully” after the state passed a law requiring local police to determine the immigration status of anyone suspected of being in the country illegally, Mexico’s Foreign Ministry said.
Goldman Sachs Trade Denies Wrong Doing In Probe
Reid Committed To Both Climate And Immigration Bills
04-27-2010: Blackwater Trained Canadian Troops
The National Defence Department has spent more than $6-million having its troops trained by the controversial Blackwater security company, whose own employees have been accused of needlessly killing civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan, documents show.
Volcano Ash: Airfares To Rise
FEMA Mismanaged $40 Million IT System Says IG
04-27-2010: Unforgivable Persecution Of The Bushmen
Ever since 1996, I have been following one of the most poignant tragedies of the modern world – the ruthless drive by the Botswanan government to expel the last remaining Bushmen, the original inhabitants of Africa, from their ancestral homeland in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve.
04-27-2010: Austrailia: Problems with government healthcare
The government is throwing around our tax money around without a care. My concern is that this money is being borrowed from foreign governments and will have to be repaid by the taxpayers. The government cheerleaders, also known as the mainstream media, appear to be going along with it without question.
Town Proposes To Make Voting Mandatory
04-27-2010: Greek Debt Rating Cut To Junk Status
Greece’s credit rating was lowered to junk status Tuesday by a leading credit agency, a decision that rocked financial markets and deepened fears that a debt crisis in Europe could spiral out of control.
04-27-2010: Archives reveal belief in Loch Ness Monster
The existence of the Loch Ness Monster was “beyond doubt” in the mind of one of Scotland’s most senior police officers, according to a file released yesterday by the National Archives of Scotland.
04-27-2010: Friends suggest armed man no threat to Obama in NC
An Ohio man who authorities say was carrying a gun and driving a car loaded with law enforcement equipment when he said he wanted to see the president is a "public-service-minded" ham-radio, weather and police buff, acquaintances said Monday.
Claims That Noah’s Ark Was Found In Turkey
Dead Kaczynski’s twin to run for Poland president
04-27-2010: CIA To Spend Millions To Improve Spy Techniques
The plan renews the agency’s year-old goal to increase the number of analysts and overseas operatives fluent in other languages.
The Mystery Of Poland’s Presidential Plane Crash Deepens
04-27-2010: Chavez accuses US plane of `electronic warfare’
A day after saying he hopes to eventually cool tensions with Colombia, President Hugo Chavez charged that his neighbor recently allowed a U.S. military plane to carry out "electronic warfare" operations against Venezuela.
04-26-2010: Hundreds Camp Out For Job Opps In Queens
Desperate times call for desperate measures – even if it means camping out in the rain for a chance at a job application.
04-26-2010: Armed Man Named Joseph Sean McVey Held at Airport as Obama’s Plane Departed
An armed man was arrested in an airplane parking lot just after President Barack Obama’s plane departed, saying he wanted to see the president. He was to appear before a judge Monday. Authorities arrested Joseph Sean McVey, 23, on Sunday afternoon at the Asheville Regional Airport in North Carolina.
04-26-2010: Coast Guard now says just 1 blast on oil rig
The Coast Guard has retracted its statement that a second explosion occurred on an oil platform that sank off the Louisiana coast.
04-26-2010: Jet refit left Met Office in dark over ash from Iceland volcano
THE Met Office was unable to establish a complete picture of the volcanic ash cloud over Britain until almost a week into the crisis because its specialist monitoring jet was out of action, it has emerged.
U.S. Treasury Taking Online Donations To Pay Down Debt (Ridiculous!)
04-26-2010: Police seize Gizmodo’s computers in iPhone probe
Police have seized computers and servers belonging to an editor of Gizmodo in an investigation that appears to stem from the gadget blog’s purchase of a lost Apple iPhone prototype.
04-26-2010: Amtrak trials first cow-powered train
US rail operator Amtrak may have given the term "cattle car" a whole new meaning with the first test of a biodiesel train that runs on beef byproducts.
04-26-2010: Sony Announces the Death of the Floppy Disk
Fully 12 years after the original G3 iMac dropped support for the 3.5-inch floppy disk, Sony has finally decided to stop making them. The reason is a lack of demand. The surprise is that it took so long.
04-26-2010: Special army unit ready to be deployed on American soil just before Nov. elections
In October of this year, one month prior to the November midterm elections, a special army unit known as ‘Consequence Management Response Force’ will be ready for deployment on American soil if so ordered by the President.
04-26-2010: Government plans to seize farm land from family
The federal government is taking a Franklin County farm family to court. The Department of Homeland Security is threatening to take part of their land through eminent domain to increase border security.
04-26-2010: Thailand is close to civil war as its British-born PM rejects deal with angry Red Shirts
He came to power as the decent leader: a smooth British-born and Oxford-educated Thai aristocrat who promised to end political turmoil and restore democracy.
04-26-2010: Remember that ash cloud? It didn’t exist, says new evidence
Britain’s airspace was closed under false pretences, with satellite images revealing there was no doomsday volcanic ash cloud over the entire country.
04-26-2010: British ambassador to Yemen escapes assassination attempt by suicide bomber
The British ambassador to Yemen narrowly escaped an assassination attempt by a suicide bomber on Monday, an assault that Yemeni officials said had the hallmarks of an attack by al-Qaeda.
04-26-2010: 90,000 Protest U.S. Base on Okinawa
More than 90,000 Okinawans rallied Sunday to oppose the relocation of an American air base on their island, adding to the pressure on Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama to resolve an issue that has divided Tokyo and Washington.
04-26-2010: Bunker mentality: the ultimate underground shelter
Vivos is building 20 underground "assurance of life" resorts across the US, capable of sustaining up to 4,000 people for a year when the earth no longer can.
04-26-2010: George W Bush set to admit mistakes for the first time as he reveals new details on 9/11 in memoir
Although he has famously avoided acknowledging that he did anything wrong during his two terms in the White House, his publisher claims Mr Bush ‘writes honestly and directly about his flaws and mistakes, as well as his historic achievements.’
04-26-2010: Ghost sightings highest in 25 years
There have been nearly 1,000 reports of demonic activity in the past quarter of a century, with Yorkshire the nation’s most ghostly county.
04-26-2010: Chavez threatens to nationalise gold mines
President Hugo Chavez threatened to nationalise gold mining concessions in Venezuela.
04-26-2010: US extradites Noriega to France
The U.S. extradited former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega to France on Monday, clearing the way for him to stand trial there on money laundering charges.
Samsung Issues 3D TV Health Warning
04-26-2010: Third Earthquake Since Tuesday Hits East Tennessee
Residents of Blount County in East Tennessee have experienced their third earthquake in less than 48 hours.
04-26-2010: GM Crops Go to US High Court, Environmental Laws on the Line
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday in its first-ever case involving genetically modified crops. The decision in this case may have a significant impact on both the future of genetically modified foods and government oversight of that and other environmental issues.
04-26-2010: Greek Meltdown In Danger Of Spreading
Germany, France and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) must act quickly to bail out Greece to prevent a slide in confidence in financial markets, Alistair Darling said yesterday.
S510 Is Hissing In The Grass
04-26-2010: Hyperfast Missile to Hit Anywhere in an Hour
HAUNTED by the memory of a lost opportunity to kill Osama Bin Laden before he attacked the World Trade Center in New York, US military planners have won President Barack Obama’s support for a new generation of high-speed weapons that are intended to strike anywhere on Earth within an hour.
04-26-2010: CIA Director Says Cyber Attack Could Be Next Pearl Harbor
Central Intelligence Agency director Leon Panetta told 300 Sacramento Metro Chamber Cap-to-Cap delegates that the next “Pearl Harbor” is likely to be an attack on the United States’ power, financial, military and other Internet systems.
04-26-2010: More American Expatriates Give Up Citizenship
Amid mounting frustration over taxation and banking problems, small but growing numbers of overseas Americans are taking the weighty step of renouncing their citizenship.
04-26-2010: China’s Population Control Program to Begin Sterilization
Health authorities are planning to sterilise nearly 10,000 people in southern China over the next four days as part of a population control programme.
Geithner: I Never Had A Real Job
04-25-2010: State reps want to fight violence with National Guard’s help
Two state representatives called on Gov. Pat Quinn Sunday to deploy the Illinois National Guard to safeguard Chicago‘s streets.
04-25-2010: UK: How David Cameron And Boris Johnson Are Related
The estimable genealogical site findmypast.co.uk, in its latest newsletter, has injected some colour into this lacklustre election campaign with an item entitled “The family history of the political party leaders”. It explores the antecedents of Dave, Gordie No-Mates and Nick Clegg with some entertaining results.
04-25-2010: Superspy in the sky could soon be patrolling over British cities to search for hidden terror cells
A Top-secret US unmanned drone used to locate Al Qaeda and Taliban hideouts in Pakistan and Afghanistan could soon be patrolling over British cities to search for hidden terror cells.
04-25-2010: Goldman Sachs ‘made fortune betting against clients’
Burglars broke into the offices occupied by two members of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s legal defense team overnight and stole eight computers and a safe, police said Friday.
