November 2011

Yuan to replace dollar in 10 years

November 18, 2011

Tensions between Beijing and Washington intensified this week as international leaders met to discuss the handling of the South China Sea. As America attempts to involve itself in the region, China is asking Obama and company to butt out. And while once a force to be reckoned with, American dominance may be threatened more than [...]

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U.S. Strategic Comman cannot pin down satellite anomaly

November 17, 2011

The command responsible for U.S. military space operations lacks enough data to determine who interfered with two U.S. government satellites, anomalies behind perhaps the most explosive charge in a report on China sent to Congress on Wednesday. Kehler spoke to reporters during a conference hosted by his command on cyber and space issues. He was [...]

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Border Alert: Nuke war risk rising, Russia warns

November 17, 2011

he danger of local armed conflicts along Russia’s borders exploding into full-scale nuclear war has grown following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia’s chief of staff said on Thursday. General Nikolai Makarov told the Russian Public Chamber there is a dangerous level of mistrust with former Soviet states that border the country. “The possibility [...]

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Fake terror plots, paid informants: the tactics of FBI ‘entrapment’ questioned

November 17, 2011

Instead Williams and three other struggling local men beset by drug, criminal and mental health issues were convicted of an Islamic terrorist plot to blow up Jewish synagogues and shoot down military jets with missiles. Even more shocking was that the organisation, money, weapons and motivation for this plot did not come from real Islamic [...]

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Main opposition leader missing in Belarus

November 17, 2011

A former presidential candidate in Belarus, Andrei Sannikov, has vanished from a penal colony without a trace, his wife said. “Andrei Sannikov has disappeared from Babrujsk colony, neither his relatives nor his lawyer were told of the move,” rights group Free Belarus Now said in a statement. His wife, Iryna Khalip, said she arrived at [...]

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5 Scientific Advances That Should Have Changed Everything

November 17, 2011

Read more: 5 Scientific Advances That Should Have Changed Everything | Cracked.com

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‘Super soldiers’: The quest for the ultimate human killing machine

November 16, 2011

Highly trained and super fit, each one represents a huge investment by the nation that sends them into battle. A soldier who is too tired to fight effectively, who has gone mad or who is suffering from severe stress is like a broken-down tank, no use to anybody. What if soldiers could be made that [...]

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DARPA Is After Your Password

November 16, 2011

Most of the password-replacement action at DARPA is taking place within the Active Authentication program, where researchers are studying “innovative approaches that enable revolutionary advances in science, software, or systems” that authenticate a user’s identity while stationed at a computer terminal without relying on passwords. According to DARPA press materials, the agency is focusing on [...]

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CIA Won’t Give Ex-Agent a Copy of the Book He Wrote Because It’s Classified

November 16, 2011

Former military intelligence officer Anthony Shaffer is suing the Pentagon and the CIA over their extraordinary attempts to censor Operation Dark Heart, the book he wrote recounting his days as a military spy in Afghanistan and elsewhere. One problem he’s run into: The government has the original unredacted manuscript he wrote. And it won’t give [...]

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U.S. military better prepared for cyber warfare: General

November 16, 2011

The Defense Department, in a report made public Tuesday, ratcheted up its warnings, saying the United States reserves the right to retaliate with military force against a cyber attack and is boosting its ability to pinpoint network intruders. “When warranted, we will respond to hostile attacks in cyberspace as we would to any other threat [...]

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Federal Housing Administration could require bailout, audit finds

November 15, 2011

There is a nearly 50% chance that the Federal Housing Administration will require a taxpayer bailout as the struggling housing market continues to eat away at the cash reserves of the agency, which insured about one in seven residential mortgages issued this year, according to a government audit released Tuesday.

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A New Intelligence Org on Climate Change is Needed, DSB Says

November 15, 2011

The U.S. intelligence community needs an organization that can assess the impacts of climate change on U.S. national security interests in an open and collaborative manner, according to a new report from the Defense Science Board (DSB). The Director of National Intelligence should establish a new intelligence group “to concentrate on the effects of climate [...]

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Libya seeks UK firms to develop oil sector and construction industry

November 15, 2011

Libya began touting itself as the next Dubai to UK investors, as the country’s government said it would reward its “friends” when it begins selling off lucrative oil contracts. Oil companies, and their lawyers, have kept a close eye on Libya’s vast reserves, which accounted for more than 95% of the country’s exports before the [...]

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Google X: Secret CIA-like lab of the future?

November 15, 2011

The search giant’s vision of the future is being put to the test in a top-secret lab somewhere in the US Bay Area. The facility is giving shareholders the jitters by drawing resources into far out projects, which could pay out tenfold in the future. Little is known about the clandestine Google X lab, reports [...]

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Safe from a Nuclear Attack?

November 15, 2011

Find out. >> Would I survive a Nuke Related: Map: The Nuclear Bombs in Your Backyard

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Ground-to-air missiles could be deployed at London Olympics

November 14, 2011

Ground-to-air missiles will be deployed to protect the London Olympics next year, under a plan being drawn up by the Ministry of Defence. Both the RAF and Royal Navy have such weapons in their arsenals, but it would be the first time they are deployed to protect civilians, defence officials said

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Chance of 2012 U.S. recession tops 50 percent: Fed paper

November 14, 2011

The European debt crisis is raising the odds of a U.S. recession, with economic contraction more likely than not by early 2012, according to research from the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank. >> Read More: Reuters The street says we never came out of the recession. The current state is called a depression and will [...]

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“Stop Accepting Nonsense” Ally Bank Commercial Remix

November 14, 2011

This is great! >> Source – Youtube: Stop Accepting Nonsense

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Israeli secret service the Mossad linked to Iran military blast

November 14, 2011

A series of news reports linking Israel‘s intelligence agency the Mossad to a blast at a military facility in Iran, in which 17 people were killed and a further 15 wounded, has gained widespread coverage in the Israeli media on Monday. While Iranian officials insist the explosion at the Bid Ganeh base was accidental, caused [...]

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Police seize biggest Rio slum as World Cup clean-up begins

November 14, 2011

A heavily armed, 3,000-strong security force backed by helicopters took control of Rio’s largest slum in a major operation to expel drug traffickers and prove Brazil can be a peaceful venue for the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics. Elite police and Navy commandos encountered little resistance as 18 armoured vehicles boasting grenade launchers and [...]

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Bizarre structures in the desert in China discovered on Google Maps

November 14, 2011

What is China building in a remote desert area? Vast, unidentified, structures have been spotted by satellites in the barren Gobi desert, raising questions about what China might be building in a region it uses for its military, space and nuclear programmes. >> Link To Photos: Telegraph google map coordinates to structures 40.453740,93.743420 40.459781,93.388209 40.452107,93.742118 [...]

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A new Nano Unmanned Aerial System (NUAS) that sits on the palm of a hand

November 14, 2011

BCB International’s Robotics Projects Manager, Barry Davies, said: “The SQ-4 takes surveillance to new heights. Weighing in below 60 grams (2.9 oz) 2 units fits snugly into a soldier’s daypack from which it can be in the air in less than 25 seconds. Using First person View (FPV) it does away with complicated laptops, allowing [...]

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U.S. Hiring Mercenary Air Force for Iraq Rescues

November 14, 2011

The State Department has already requisitioned an army, part of the roughly 5,000 private security contractors State is hiring to protect diplomats stationed in Iraq. Now, State is hiring someone to provide a little help from the air: an “Aviation Advisor” responsible for “Search and Rescue (SAR), medical evacuations (ME), transporting Quick Reaction Forces (QRF) [...]

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DARPA and MIT Are Making a Robo-OSTRICH That Runs Faster Than You

November 14, 2011

Not merely satisfied with having the the top research labs develop robotic dogs and cheetahs and humans, DARPA’s latest endeavor will see the military agency team up with MIT to develop FastRunner, a robotic ostrich capable of outrunning us all. >> Source: Gizmodo

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Ex-Special Forces Heritage Oil Chief Aim to Gain Energy Deals in Libya

November 13, 2011

Tony Buckingham, the British former soldier of fortune who heads Heritage Oil, the exploration firm, appears to have sought assistance from a would-be Conservative MP to get a foothold in Libya, following the role of UK forces there in installing the new regime. According to leaked correspondence, Buckingham – with another ex-special forces soldier, former [...]

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Israel speeds up airliner anti-missile systems

November 12, 2011

Israel is accelerating plans to equip its civil airliners with bathtub-shaped anti-missile pods because Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip are reported to have acquired advanced Russian surface-to-air missiles plundered from Libyan arsenals. The Haaretz daily said passenger jets flown by El Al, Israel’s national carrier, and two other airlines are being fitted with new [...]

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Map: The Nuclear Bombs in Your Backyard

November 12, 2011

The United States currently has 5,113 atomic warheads deployed in silos, bombers, and submarines, mostly in the continental US. That doesn’t include thousands of “zombies” being kept in reserve and a backlog of more than 3,000 warheads awaiting dismantlement. Meanwhile, we’re telling the world that we’re on the path to disarmament, even as we’re spending [...]

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Rio drug kingpin claims half his millions went on police bribes

November 12, 2011

The kingpin who was Rio de Janeiro’s most wanted drug dealer before his arrest this week has claimed that half his earnings went on paying bribes to police officers.

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Feds use more unmanned aircraft to secure border

November 12, 2011

Two Border Patrol agents walked by a patch of brush on a remote ranch and saw nothing. But 19,000 feet overhead in the night sky, a Predator unmanned aircraft kept its heat-sensing eye on the spot. In an operations center about 80 miles away, all eyes were on a suspicious dark cluster on a video [...]

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