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  • UFOs or Space Junk Near the Surface of the Moon? (79 flags) - 1 day agoDid a ATS search and came up blank on this vid below;Space junk?There are clearly objects appearing at different times here but its hard to say how far or near the Moons surface these...
  • Dozens of Women Vanish From Canadian Wilderness (70 flags) - 19 hours agoSo many women have disappeared along the 837-mile stretch of Highway 16 that cuts through the Rocky Mountains in British Columbia that people have started calling it The Highway...
  • Water And Life On Mars (66 flags) - 2 days agoWhen many view satellite images of Mars, they see a dry, uninhabitable wasteland devoid of any water or life. However, in the past couple of years, evidence has surfaced which shows...
  • Wanna Make Some Quick Cash?! (62 flags) - 1 day agoI have been reading a lot of articles and hearing news about how bad things are and how people are out of work. I too recently lost one of my 3 jobs. Well I decided to take up dog walking...
  • Rocket debris washed up in my backyard (39 flags) - 1 day agoNot literally in my backyard, but on a beach nearby. Some surfer friends reported a strange piece of debris on the beach this morning and my flatmate and I went out to investigate....
  • Remembering Whitaker Chambers - 3 days agoOn the 50 th anniversary of Whittaker Chambers’ death, July 9, it is appropriate for the media to address the legacy of international communism and the Western response. Andrew G. Bostom has written a...
  • Intern Event: Free Food & Two Presidents - 3 days agoAccuracy in Academia’s next author’s night will showcase a special report published by AIA’s sister organization—Accuracy in Media. “Headlines and Breadlines: Reaganomics and Obamanomics in the Media ...
  • International Law/Epic Fail - 3 days agoCrime reporter and blogger Tina Trent says that President Obama’s intervention on behalf of an illegal alien killer can be traced back to a 2003 conference that featured Bernardine Dohrn, Van Jones, a...
  • Columbia’s Inner Circle - 5 days ago  Accuracy in Academia’s sister organization, Accuracy in Media, has covered one-quarter of the faculty at the Columbia University School of Journalism and found them wanting. Indeed, it is interest...
  • Climageddon or Simply Seasonal? - 5 days ago  Amongst the plethora of PhDs, hard data sets, hypotheses, and highly involved line graphs at the Heartland Institute’s 6 th annual International Conference on Climate Change, a couple things can b...
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  • Tyrannus Obama Rex - 23 hours agoBarack Obama has many names. He's been called Savior, Messiah, and The Anointed One. He's the first biracial and, some say, first post-racial president. And, he is a tyrant.
  • The Real Cost of Solar Energy - 23 hours agoA simple comparison to show how pie-in-the-sky the solar fantasy really is.
  • No New Tax Cuts - 23 hours agoThis has to stop. The Tax Code has become a whore. It can be anything to any person in a position to impose his will on the American people.
  • Conservative Heretics - 23 hours agoModern progressivism, as a construct, is a church -- one whose practice is reminiscent of the Dark Ages and one that can truly be called an "opiate of the masses."
  • Our Retreat from Prosperity - 23 hours agoThe process that built the United States into the world's wealthiest country has reversed; it's tearing down what it once built.
  • No Assad legitimacy, says Clinton - 49 minutes agoUS Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad has lost legitimacy, after his supporters attack the US embassy in Damascus.
  • UK MPs to quiz police on hacking - 1 hour agoTwo current and two former police officers will be questioned by MPs about inquiries into phone-hacking at the UK newspaper News of the World.
  • Cyprus navy chief killed by blast - 7 hours agoCyprus' navy chief, Andreas Ioannides, was among 12 people killed when gunpowder at its main base exploded, causing widespread devastation.
  • UK's terror threat level reduced - 13 hours agoThe UK terror threat level is being reduced from "severe" to "substantial", the home secretary has announced.
  • Stock markets fall on debt fears - 5 hours agoShares have dropped in Asia, following falls in Europe and the US, as investors continue to worry that the debt crisis in the eurozone could spread to Italy and Spain. EU finance ministers stand ready...
  • Woman 'suffocated her children' - 9 hours agoA woman suffocated her two young children following the breakdown of her relationship with their father, a court is told.
  • Bedridden woman is bitten by rat - 12 hours agoA bedridden woman is bitten by a rat and homes are evacuated amid an infestation in Reading.
  • Window crash owl leaves imprint - 12 hours agoA woman returned to her Cumbrian home to find a near perfect imprint of an owl on her window.
  • £9k fees at third of universities - 4 hours agoMore than a third of England's universities have had their plans to charge £9,000 for every single course officially approved by the official watchdog, it is confirmed.
  • Met officer Yates urged to resign - 6 hours agoThe Met's Assistant Commissioner John Yates "must resign" over the phone hacking scandal, two MPs tell the House of Commons.
  • China’s ‘eye-in-the-sky’ nears par with US - 23 hours agoBuried deep beneath the sediment of the North Atlantic Ocean lies an ancient, lost landscape with furrows cut by rivers and peaks that once belonged to mountains. Geologists recently discovered this r...
  • UN Demands $76 Trillion for “Green Technology” - 23 hours agoWith the Western nations continuing their downward economic spiral, the advocates of the United Nations’ redistributionist schemes also continue to exploit the environmental agenda in their effort to ...
  • Hackers claim they exposed Booz Allen Hamilton data - 23 hours agoHackers flying the AntiSec banner claimed today that they compromised a server at consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton and have released internal data, including about 90,000 military e-mail addresses....
  • Analyst: Even Dollar Stores Struggling In ‘Obama Depression’ - 23 hours agoMore stores across the U.S. that offer deeply-discounted products are seeing their sales decline after years of growth amid America’s “Great Recession” — and one analyst said on Monday it’s another si...
  • Insurance agents say FEMA causing coverage confusion - 23 hours agoInsurance agents in states along the swollen Missouri River basin say federal officials are causing widespread confusion among property owners by pushing the sale of flood insurance policies that migh...
  • Wall Street records worst day in a month, VIX jumps - 7 hours agoNEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks suffered their worst day in nearly a month on Monday as concern about the stalemate in U.S. budget talks and growing debt problems in the euro zone prompted investors to he...
  • Cisco could eliminate as many as 10,000 jobs: report - 1 hour agoSAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Networking equipment company Cisco Systems Inc could eliminate as many as 10,000 jobs, or about 14 percent of its workforce, to revive profit growth, Bloomberg said, citing t...
  • Peabody, ArcelorMittal $5 billion Macarthur bid on strong - 51 minutes agoMELBOURNE (Reuters) - Peabody Energy and ArcelorMittal look set to succeed with their $5 billion takeover offer for Macarthur Coal , investors bet on Tuesday, as they drove the target's shares up ...
  • Home Energy Management: Premature Jocularity - 17 hours agoOne of the hottest cleantech investment segments in recent years has been home energy management (HEM).  HEM technologies enable households to remotely and/or more wisely manage their energy use, enab...
  • Google’s 70 Charging Stations for Employee’s 100 EVs - 5 days agoGoogle, Inc. has deployed more than 70 Coulomb Technologies charging stations at its worldwide headquarters in Mountain View, CA. Over 100 employees who own electric cars use the charging stations. Th...
  • Oil: Releasing Reserves Means Increasing Market Pressures - 1 week agoOn June 23, the head of the International Energy Agency (IEA) announced that IEA’s 28 member countries had agreed to release 60 million barrels of oil in the next month from their reserves “in respons...
  • Wild Is The Wind - 2 weeks agoLate May, the wind industry flocked to Anaheim for its annual gathering, Windpower, hosted by the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA).  For the first time in quite awhile, attendance was down from...
  • Will Crystalline Solar Kill Thin Film? A Conversation with Applied Material’s Solar Head Charlie Gay - 2 weeks agoBy Neal Dikeman I had a chance to chat today with Dr. Charlie Gay, the President of Applied Material’s solar division.  You may recall, we broke the story in the blogosphere 5 years ago about Applied’...
  • Good for Gary Johnson - 9 hours agoGary Johnson gave the finger to the Republican my-family-values-must-be-your-family-values set Presidential candidate and former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson charged today in a formal statement ...
  • The Next Step Past “Unexpected” - 10 hours agoWhat does a statist government do when attaching “unexpected” to all negative economic numbers does not provide the necessary political cover? Argentina’s government has filed criminal charges again...
  • Libertarians as Corporate Whores - 10 hours agoI am amazed lately as the left has tried to pitch libertarians as corporate whores, taking certain small-government positions because they have been paid off by Koch or Exxon. I can understand how t...
  • All Your Salary Are Below To Us - 10 hours agoApparently the newest pro-tax meme out of the Left is that millions of dumb Americans don’t already know that they are benefactors of social spending programs and that if they understood this, they wo...
  • More on Our Dust Storm - 1 day agoI blogged on our dust storm last week.  It was really bizarre to watch it rolling in on us.  It was one of those things that you know intellectually is not really threatening but a steady diet of Step...
  • Queen: Days of Our Lives - 17 hours agoIn 1971, four university students got together to form a band. Since then, that certain band called Queen have released 26 albums and sold over 300 million records worldwide. The popularity of Freddie...
  • Gashole - 1 day agoWhat caused America to go from being a leading exporter of oil to the world’s largest importer? What are the economic and sociological forces that have contributed to that change and impede its soluti...
  • The Day India Burned: Partition - 2 days agoDocumentary about the effects of Britain’s withdrawal from India in 1947 which triggered one of the biggest migrations in history. 15 million were displaced and more than a million lost their lives. T...
  • What A Way To Go: Life at the end of Empire - 3 days agoTim Bennett, middle-class white guy, started waking up to the global environmental nightmare in the mid-1980s. But life was so busy with raising kids and pursuing the American dream that he never got ...
  • That’s Impossible - 4 days agoA series examining seemingly impossible stories and inventions from history, and the technology that could turn science fiction into reality. Each episode has a to do list, which means that if this te...
  • The search for truth in the war over drones - 3 days agoAn  ‘opinion’ piece’ for Defence Management Journal I was asked to write this week :    The news this week that four Afghan civilians had been killed and two injured in a British Reaper UAV strike h...
  • Afghan civilians killed in UK drone strike - 5 days agoThe tragic news that Afghan civilians have been killed in a British drone strike  comes, unfortunately,  as little surprise.  I have been investigating the use of a rmed drones for the past three year...
  • Internal MoD briefing on British drones reveals push to capture public opinion - 1 week agoAn internal briefing on British drones by the leading RAF staff officer working on the controversial weapon system stresses the need for the MoD to develop a “communication strategy” to win over publi...
  • The idiocy of drone strikes - 1 week agoAn unnamed military source confirmed to the Washington Post yesterday that last week’s airstrike in Somalia was carried out by a US drone . While there have been previous reports of drone strikes in S...
  • Drones, targeted killing and international law - 1 week agoI’ve spent the past few days in Berlin at a conference organised by the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) and Amnesty International looking at how, ten years after 9/11 , cou...
  • News without ethics: media the Murdoch way - 24 minutes agoFish rot from the head down. So do unethical businesses and corrupt societies. This is as true when the fish is an unethical business as one of the arm of liberal democratic government – executive, ju...
  • An out of sight, out of mind approach to nuclear waste management - 24 minutes agoThe unassuming town of Tennant Creek hugs the Stuart Highway 500 kilometres north of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory. It is the principal service town of the Barkly, a region the size of the U...
  • Suffocating the economy, one tax at a time - 24 minutes agoIf implemented, Julia Gillard's proposed carbon price starting at $23 per tonne will push us closer to economic stagnation. If the Government wanted to make the 159 million tonnes saving in 2020 i...
  • More to cultural capitals than a new musical theatre - 24 minutes agoIf you had a sense of deja vu reading the comments last weekend by musical theatre producers John Frost and Rodney Rigby calling on the New South Wales Government to build a Broadway-style venue in Sy...
  • Labor's leaky leadership - 6 hours agoJulia Gillard's new tax is not reform. The Productivity Commission head, Gary Banks, said last February, "The term 'reform' is being employed liberally today by the proponents of almo...
  • Astrium to build ESA's Sentinel-4 atmospheric sensors - 15 hours agoESA today awarded a contract worth almost €150 million to Astrium to develop and build two satellite sensors that will monitor Earth's atmosphere as part of Europe's Global Monitoring for Envi...
  • Satellite’s final images focus on changing glaciers - 3 days agoSome of the last images from ESA’s ERS-2 satellite have revealed rapidly changing glacial features in Greenland. In its final days, the veteran satellite gave us frequent views of the Kangerdlugssuaq ...
  • Last Space Shuttle mission launched - 3 days agoSpace Shuttle Atlantis was launched today at 17:29 CEST (15:29 GMT) to the International Space Station on a mission that will end the multi-purpose spaceplane programme’s three-decade era of human spa...
  • Exploding stars can make good dust factories - 4 days agoESA’s Herschel space observatory has discovered that titanic stellar explosions can be excellent dust factories. In space, the dust mixes with gas to become the raw material for new stars, planets an...
  • Eye of Gaia: billion-pixel camera to map Milky Way - 5 days agoThe largest digital camera ever built for a space mission has been painstakingly mosaicked together from 106 separate electronic detectors. The resulting “billion-pixel array” will serve as the super-...
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  • Special Forces - 58 minutes agoJose Alvelo joins our Counterterrorism Board. Jose has over 6 years of all-source military intelligence experience, including collection and analysis of intelligence related to chemical/biological ...
  • Alta Bates Summit Medical Center - 15 hours agoMichael Pinckney joins our Biotech/Medical Board. Michael is Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Physician at University of California, Berkeley and Physician at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center.
  • Giampiero Bonfiglio - 19 hours agoIT Security Consultant Giampiero Bonfiglio joins our Information Sciences Board.
  • Michael Potter - 1 day agoMichael Potter, Singularity University Media Advisor, joins our Media and Arts Board.
  • Dioscuri Prize - 2 days agoFrancesco Galietti, winner of the 2008 Dioscuri Prize for economic journalism, joins our Economics Board.
  • Daily Roundup: July 11, 2011 - 4 hours agoRing of Fire: Scientists discovered 12 new underwater volcanoes. Science Daily Whale Tales: The UK proposed reforms at the annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission. The proposal comes ...
  • Green Fashion Monday: Reclaimed Shades - 8 hours agoOn  Fashion Monday , we highlight a hip, green fashion item. Got a stylish eco-friendly product to recommend?  Tell us about it  and look for it in an upcoming blog post. For these dog days of July,...
  • Green Your DIY: Now You're Cookin' - 12 hours agoWhether you're a habitual tinkerer, an aspiring homesteader, or a hands-on parent in search of activities to fill a child's summer vacation, we've got you covered. This week we'll prov...
  • Daily Roundup: July 8, 2011 - 3 days agoGuess Who's Coming to Dinner: Actress Portia de Rossi, wife of comedian Ellen DeGeneres, said that being gay is easier than being vegan. "People feel more uncomfortable with a vegan at their ...
  • Putting the Chicken Before the Egg - 3 days agoGood news for the nation's chickens: United Egg Producers (UEP), a group that represents egg farmers, will work with animal advocates to seek a federal law requiring larger cages and better treatm...
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  • Disney Applies Technology to Improve Patient Experience - 17 hours agoAt the Roy and Patricia Disney Family Cancer Center in Burbank, CA, radio frequency identification technology isn't just for tracking hospital supplies and equipment; it's being used to improv...
  • 15 HCAHPS Buzzwords Every Provider Should Know - 17 hours agoThe value-based purchasing sweepstakes race is on. It's a national contest to see which acute care teams can score highest in patient experience metrics as evaluated by the Hospital Consumer Asses...
  • GAO Finds Gaps in Antibiotic Resistance Surveillance by CDC - 17 hours agoThough healthcare providers are increasingly fearful of emerging strains of antibiotic-resistant bacteria infections in patients, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has gaps in how it moni...
  • 3 HHS Programs Aim to Reduce States’ Dual Eligible Costs - 17 hours agoSecretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius has announced three efforts she says will help states lower their share of costs for approximately nine million people who are eligible for bot...
  • OIG Slams Medicare for Wheelchair Reimbursements, Again - 3 days agoMedicare paid $95 million during the first half of 2007 for beneficiaries' power wheelchairs that were not medically necessary or for which claims lacked sufficient documentation, according to an ...
  • Publicopoly Exposed - 18 hours agoOn February 25, 2011, Florida State Representative Chris Dorworth (R-Lake Mary) introduced HB 1021. The bill sought to curtail the political power of unions by prohibiting public employers from deduct...
  • The Finland Phenomenon - 3 days agoWhen I heard the news last week that the Department of Education is aiming to subject 4-year-olds to high-stakes testing, all I could do is shake my head in disbelief and despondently mutter a slightl...
  • In Israel, a Tsunami Warning - 4 days agoIn May, in a closed meeting of many of Israel's business leaders, Idan Ofer, a holding-company magnate, warned, "We are quickly turning into South Africa. The economic blow of sanctions will ...
  • Living Color in Naperville - 5 days agoFriends vigorously advised me against buying a house in Naperville, Ill. They could not understand why I, an enlightened, progressive African woman, would consider taking my family to live in a white ...
  • The Religious Left, Born Again - 1 week agoFor three decades, the religious right has monopolized media coverage of religion in American life. But the big story of the next few decades, spiritually speaking, might be the re-emergence of the re...
  • Young Cousteau floats IUCN’s boat - 4 hours agoDedicated marine conservationist Pierre-Yves Cousteau has joined IUCN’s global team of Goodwill Ambassadors.
  • Increased protection urgently needed for tunas - 5 days agoFor the first time, all species of scombrids (tunas, bonitos, mackerels and Spanish mackerels) and billfishes (swordfish and marlins) have been assessed for the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™. O...
  • Greener ways to end poverty - 2 weeks agoPoverty and environmental degradation go hand-in-hand throughout the world; each can cause the other. With the global population likely to reach nine billion by 2050 there is an urgent need to address...
  • Jordan and Germany also join World Heritage - 2 weeks agoThe Wadi Rum Protected Area in Jordan has been declared a World Heritage Site, becoming the 211th natural site to join UNESCO’s prestigious list.
  • Natural wonders in Kenya, Australia and Japan declared World Heritage Sites - 2 weeks agoThe Lakes System in the Great Rift Valley in Kenya, the Ningaloo Coast in Australia and the Ogasawara Islands in Japan have been inscribed on the World Heritage List, following the recommendations of ...
  • Calling All Young Farmers! - 4 days agoWe’ve been contacted by BBC Three producers behind the series celebrating the working heroes of Great Britain. This year they’re on the lookout for young farmers aged 16-25, to showcase the unsung her...
  • New Website Launches – Visit My Farm! - 6 days agoFarmers looking to open their farms for educational visits, now have all the information they need in one place, thanks to a new website developed by LEAF in partnership with FACE (Farming And Country...
  • Strengthening Our European Links - 1 week agoIt was great to get together with some of our European EISA partners earlier this month for a two day study tour to the UK.  Representatives from Germany, France, Luxembourg and Austria and the Europe...
  • An African Open Farm Sunday - 3 weeks agoThis post is by Anthony Goggin, LEAF Marque Technical Manager. I have recently returned from sunny Sub Saharan Africa where I helped with LEAF’s first ever African LEAF Open Farm Sunday in Kenya! …it ...
  • Open Farm Sunday 2011 – Wet but not a washout! - 4 weeks agoJust days after drought was declared in Britain, after one of the driest springs on record the heavens opened, with some parts of the UK getting more than half an inch in less than 24 hours. Unfortuna...
  • ICC issues Gaddafi arrest warrant - 2 weeks agoLibyan leader, his son Saif al-Islam and his spy chief Abdullah Senussi indicted for crimes against humanity. The judges said the indictments and arrest warrants were not proof of guilt, which must be...
  • The Real Truth About the CIA & HAARP - 3 weeks agoClick here to visit the Beyond Top Secrets home page and discover a lot more. Filed under: 2012 End of World, Conspiracy, Fact, Fiction, Illuminati Tagged: Conspiracy, High Frequency Active Auroral Re...
  • Comet Elenin JUNE 2011 (Update) By Russian Reports - 3 weeks ago1st collector for ELENIN UPDATE JUNE 2011 (RUSSIAN REPORTS WARN C… Follow my videos on vodpod After watching this video, it’s actually then that I realized how serious this stuff really is. At the mom...
  • The Cure to Cancer is now becoming a Business Ordeal. - 4 weeks agoThe World and Its Society are now becoming something else. While certain people are fighting for the good and progress of others, the hatters obviously have their negative roles in destroying the good...
  • What is Islamic Fundamentalism? - one month ago“Muslim fundamentalism is fast becoming the chief threat to global peace and security as well as a cause of national and local disturbance through terrorism. It is akin to the menace posed  by Nazism ...
  • Between a Rock and a Hard Place"Israel’s occupation is untenable, there is no doubt. What is also untenable is the situation in which the Palestinians have found themselves. This is one reason why the Palestinians have decided...
  • 10 Ideas that could transform the United States"When fascism came, it was not at the point of a gun, it was not brought by government troops, it was not even imposed by the Corporate CEO or the Hedge Fund manager. Fascism quietly came in the ...
  • Russell Hopfenberg's science"On our watch, the human family appears to be unknowingly precipitating a planetary emergency with potentially profound implications for the future of life as we know it on Earth. If a human-driv...
  • Congresspeak: The Language of Impotence"So, the Libya War is unauthorized and has never been funded with a dime by Congress, but Congress does not object to this -- unless perhaps it does....Only it doesn't really. If the House (t...
  • A Palestinian State redeems the U.N.'s Historic Nakba (Catastrophe)"The real question is not should the Palestinians be admitted to the United Nations, but should be, is Israel a legal member of the United Nations given its defiance of U.N.G.A. Resolution 273 th...
  • Another Universal Video Update - 13 hours agoI finally got around to updating the Universal Video plugin for WordPress yesterday.  Not a lot changed in the updated version (0.7), I mostly just updated the Flowplayer files in it. The changes in...
  • 5 Critical Areas In A Blog Audit - 1 day agoA blog audit is something that should be done at least once or twice a year by anyone serious about improving their blog.  A detailed examination of your blog is a lot like getting a physical from a d...
  • Tweak Your Permalinks For Better SEO - 2 days agoHere’s a quick tip that can help provide a little bump in your search rankings: tweak your blog post permalinks to reduce the amount of words in them. Let me explain by giving you an example.  You’r...
  • Fixing Google Chrome’s HTML5 Video Controls - 3 days agoAre your Google Chrome HTML5 video controls grayed out or looking wonky?  You can probably fix this by modifying your stylesheet. A few months ago I noticed that almost every HTML5 video I posted on...
  • Are QR Codes Ready For Mainstream? - 4 days agoYesterday I noticed a sticker on the front of my newspaper.  It was an advertisement for a local bank that announced some “$3,000,000 savings spectacular”.  Not much else was mentioned in this adverti...
  • Letter sheds light on alleged censorship by Hubble - 8 hours agoAllegations that astronomical pioneer Edwin Hubble may have actively censored the work of one of his competitors have taken on a new twist with the discovery of a letter casting light on the circumsta...
  • Academics and insurers team up to tackle tsunami risk - 10 hours agoPosted on behalf of Chloe McIvor. As murky torrents swirled around Sendai airport in Japan following the earthquake and tsunami in March, geographer Mark Maslin and his team were horrified to see t...
  • Australia puts a price on carbon - 18 hours agoPosted on behalf of Marian Turner. The Australian federal government has given carbon a dollar value. From 1 July 2012, the country’s top 500 emitters will pay AU$23 (US$24) per tonne of carbon, wi...
  • South Korea 'back in the stem cell spotlight' - 2 days agoPosted on behalf of David Cyranoski On 1 July, the Korean Food and Drug Agency approved a stem cell therapy for heart disease. Reuters reported that it will put “South Korea back in the stem spotli...
  • Patients’ attorneys seek to show harm from flawed research at Duke - 3 days agoHave the flaws in troubled geneticist Anil Potti’s research resulted in a lawsuit against Duke University brought by cancer patients enrolled in clinical trials? The New York Times suggested yesterday...
  • Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) Bio Tests in NY & SF - 4 days agoThis video is not complete.  If anyone has the full name of this video or where I can find it on the web, please post information in comments. Related articles Uno de estos días….. en Escritorio No (y...
  • FEMA’s new Go Bag! - 4 days agoFEMA’s new Go Bag wins prepper SHTF GTFO approval from zombie apocalypse victims FEMA Go Bag! Filed under: news Tagged: Arkansas, Business, Business Services, Crime, Emergency management, Federal Emer...
  • Google Makes Facebook Look Socially Awkward - 5 days agoBy ROLFE WINKLER Mark Zuckerberg might want to fast-track Facebook‘s initial public offering. In what appeared to be a hasty response to the launch of Google‘s rival social-networking product, called ...
  • Facebook introduces Skype video calling - 5 days agoBy Nancy Gohring and Juan Carlos Perez July 6, 2011 02:50 PM ET IDG News Service – Facebook on Wednesday announced a new video chat capability it will roll out in conjunction with Skype, in what the s...
  • TSA warns airlines of explosive implants - 5 days agoThe Transportation Security Administration warns airlines and foreign security agencies that terrorists might try to surgically implant bombs in their bodies as a way to evade security. White House sp...
  • Unshackling IPL from cricket - 4 weeks agoFirst posted on CRI on 11 June 2011 The news and analysis cycle over the past few weeks has been negative and depressing. In as much as it concerns me as an Indian citizen, it also depresses me a bit....
  • Baba Ramdev – A Few Thoughts - one month agoFirst published on CRI on 4th June 2011 (morning), before the shameful attack by the Delhi Police on the protestors at the Ramleela Ground. I had earlier written a piece on Anna Hazare (Why “Anna Haza...
  • The coming Global Jihad after Osama’s death - one month agoFirst published on CRI on 2nd May 2011. Republishing on this blog. A lot of people are in a self-congratulatory mood after the killing of Osama Bin Laden in Abbottabad, near Islamabad. I am sure that ...
  • Pakistan and the fruit of hate-mongering - one month agoFirst posted on CRI. As many of us studied in school, the Bible says that the wages of sin is death. What the Bible does not say is the origin of sin? Without getting too philosophical and simply stat...
  • Why Anna Hazare is out of sync with Lakhpat Karore - 3 months agoThe title of my blogpost is tongue-in-cheek, so kindly excuse me for that. It always helps to start with a smile, especially, if we are not going to end with one! For the uninitiated with colloquial “...
  • Pentagon Tightens Grip on Unclassified Information - 10 hours agoIn 2005, the U.S. Army issued a new field manual on the military use of dogs, which it said were being “employed in dynamic ways never before imagined.”  The field manual was approved for public relea...
  • NARA Proposes New Rule on Declassification - 10 hours agoA proposed new rule published for comment by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) last week would establish updated new procedures for the declassification of historical records con...
  • Govt Asks to Keep Risen Grand Jury Material Sealed - 4 days agoGovernment attorneys yesterday told a federal court that most of last year’s grand jury proceedings in which New York Times reporter James Risen was subpoenaed to testify should remain secret in the p...
  • Iran Sanctions, Homeless Veterans, and More from CRS - 4 days agoRecent reports from the Congressional Research Service that have not been made readily available to the public include the following (all pdf). Enforcement of Congressional Rules of Conduct: An Hist...
  • Court Should Not Recognize “Good Leaks,” Govt Says - 6 days agoTo admit the possibility of a “good leak” of classified information would undermine the entire classification system, government attorneys told a court (pdf) last week, and therefore it should not do ...
  • (Portuguese) Cronica – Guia Para se Livrar de Um Zumbi - 15 hours agoNesta semana que viu um centenário jornal bater as botas e ir para a cucuia (meu estilo é popular como um tabloide de Rupert Murdoch), optei por falar da imprensa alternativa, que mencionei na coluna ...
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  • Transforming the War on Terror (VIDEO OF THE WEEK) - 16 hours agoTatsushi Arai is a member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment and an associate professor of conflict transformation at SIT Graduate Institute. His current areas of interest...
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