January 2012

Bio-engineered ‘bulletproof’ human skin reinforced with spider silk

January 31, 2012

This story was reported back in August 2011: Spider silk and goat milk can make human skin bulletproof FYI: DARPA: Human Engineered Tissue on a Computer Chip and Automated ‘cell factory’ churns out human tissue and more   Source: Daily Mail/New Scientist Human skin can stop a bullet – with a little help from genetically modified [...]

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Convincing Us Into Believing We Have Choice

January 31, 2012

When a voter is asked by a Corporate reporter which candidate they are going to cast their vote. The voters response is, “ I am voting for the politician who aligns with my beliefs, my views and my way of life”. They are not aligned to their candidate by any belief, any view or any [...]

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Illinois nuclear plant loses power. What got vented into the air?

January 31, 2012

Nuclear regulators are keeping close tabs on an Illinois nuclear plant after a loss of off-site power to the plant Monday morning. One of two reactors at the Byron nuclear power plant shut down when a transformer supplying electricity to the plant failed. Backup generators immediately kicked in to supply electricity to the reactor’s safety [...]

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Mossad chief held talks on Iran in US visit: CIA

January 31, 2012

Source: AFP The head of Israel’s intelligence service paid a secret visit to Washington last week to discuss Iran’s nuclear program, the CIA director and a top US lawmaker said Tuesday. Mossad chief Tamir Pardo flew to the US capital to consult with his American counterparts amid speculation over a possible Israeli strike against Iranian [...]

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Destination Persian Gulf? US nuclear sub and destroyer enter Red Sea

January 31, 2012

  Two ships of the US Navy, the nuclear submarine USS Annapolis and the destroyer USS Momsen have passed through the Suez Canal into the Red Sea. Although their destination is confidential, they are now getting dangerously close to the Persian Gulf. ­The ships’ passage was a major operation for the Suez administration as due [...]

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Facebook’s Oregon Data Center Uses As Much Power As The Entire County It’s In

January 31, 2012

Source: Gizmodo Data centers are power-hungry, and Facebook’s Oregon center in Crook County is no exception, using 28MW. While that’s fairly standard, it has doubled the power use of the county. The entirety of Crook County uses just under 30MW. Add to that the fact that this is only Facebook’s first phase of data centers [...]

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Iran, perceiving threat from West, willing to attack on U.S. soil, U.S. intelligence report finds

January 31, 2012

Bogus.Terror Propaganda to take away our constitutional rights.  FYI: The fast and furious plot to occupy Iran   U.S. intelligence agencies believe that Iran is prepared to launch terrorist attacks inside the United States in response to perceived threats from America and its allies, the U.S. spy chief said Tuesday. Director of National Intelligence James [...]

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Peres: Iran’s ‘evil’ leaders must not be allowed to gain nuclear weapons

January 31, 2012

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting. – George Orwell Source: Haaretz Iran’s “evil” leaders cannot be allowed to obtain nuclear weapons, President Shimon Peres said on Tuesday, calling the Islamic Republic’s nuclear ambitions the world’s single most important issue. Peres’ comments came at [...]

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Euro zone jobless hits highest level since birth of euro

January 31, 2012

Euro zone unemployment has risen to its highest level since before the euro was introduced, data showed on Tuesday, a day after EU leaders promised to focus on creating millions of new jobs to try to kickstart Europe’s floundering economy. Joblessness among the 17 countries sharing the single currency rose to 10.4 percent in December, [...]

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Latest Congressional Budget Outlook For 2012-2022 Released, Says Real Unemployment Rate Is 10%

January 31, 2012

What do the NAR, Consumer Confidence and CBO forecasts have in common? If you said, “they are all completely worthless” you are absolutely correct. Alas, the market needs to “trade” off numbers, which is why the just released CBO numbers apparently are important… And the fact that the CBO predicted negative $2.5 trillion in net [...]

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UN: It is ‘crucially important’ the Security Council act on Syria

January 31, 2012

 Let me guess. Declare a  humanitarian no fly zone over Syria   Source: Telegraph Speaking in Amman, Ban Ki-moon said: “I don’t think we can go on like this way. So many people have already been killed, even when the League of Arab States monitoring missions have been there, more than a few hundred people [...]

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Obama confirms US drone strikes in Pakistan

January 30, 2012

The U.S. becoming an Orwellian controlled police state. Conditioning the population that drone attacks are just as normal as baking an apple pie with Grandma. Future news headlines will read. Obama confirms US drone strikes in Montana.  The drones targeted those who are on a list of active US patriots, who were standing up for [...]

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Money From MF Global Feared Gone [Stolen]

January 30, 2012

Clients personal accounts were raided by the corporate mafia. The money is not missing or gone. The money was stolen! Source: WSJ Nearly three months after MF Global Holdings Ltd. collapsed, officials hunting for an estimated $1.2 billion in missing customer money increasingly believe that much of it might never be recovered, according to people [...]

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Self-Guided Bullet Spots, Steers and Nails Its Target

January 30, 2012

FYI: New Rifle Uses Programmable Rounds To Blow Up Enemies 500 Yards Away Source: Wired The U.S. military has been after self-guided bulletsfor years. Now, government researchers have finally made it happen: a bullet that can navigate itself a full mile before successfully nailing its target. The breakthrough comes courtesy of engineers at Sandia National [...]

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Chinese swoop on 16 dairy farms in New Zealand

January 30, 2012

More info on the sale  Chinese might train on Crafar dairy farms Source: AP/Independent Chinese investors are buying New Zealand farmland for the first time, causing anxiety in a country heavily reliant on agriculture. New Zealand’s government approved the sale of 16 dairy farms to a Chinese developer, whose total investment in the project will [...]

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Britain warns Russia not to block UN effort over Syria

January 30, 2012

Foreign Secretary William Hague was on Monday flying to New York to lend Britain’s support to an Arab-backed draft resolution calling on the country’s authoritarian leader Bashar al-Assad to step down and pave the way for a transfer of power. The suspension of the mission at the weekend was followed by an upsurge in violence, [...]

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Futuristic Navy railgun with 220-mile range closer to reality

January 30, 2012

That’s the Navy’s futuristic electromagnetic railgun, a project that could be deployed on the service’s ships by 2025, and which is now a little bit closer to reality with the signing of a deal with Raytheon for the development of what’s known as the pulse-forming network. Rather than using explosives to fire projectiles as do [...]

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FDA staffers sue agency over surveillance of personal e-mail

January 30, 2012

The Food and Drug Administration secretly monitored the personal e-mail of a group of its own scientists and doctors after they warned Congress that the agency was approving medical devices that they believed posed unacceptable risks to patients, government documents show. The surveillance — detailed in e-mails and memos unearthed by six of the scientists [...]

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India and China says it won’t cut back on Iran oil imports, in defiance of stiffer US and EU sanctions

January 30, 2012

Analyst will provide any opinion for the right price. India to pay gold instead of dollars for Iranian oil   India has joined China in saying it will not cut back on oil imports from Iran, despite stiff new U.S. and European sanctions designed to pressure Tehran over its nuclear program. “It is not possible [...]

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Pentagon Unable to Account for Missing Iraqi Millions

January 30, 2012

Old news. Missing millions/billions of U.S. dollars is a common theme in war zones. Are there missing records or do you mean deleted, burned or never keep records? FYI: Missing Iraq money may have been stolen[$6.6 billion] he Pentagon doesn’t know what happened to more than $100 million in cash held at Saddam Hussein’s palace [...]

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Israeli drone the size of a Boeing 737 crashes

January 30, 2012

Source: Telegraph The Heron TP drone is also known locally as the Eitan. It has a wingspan of 86 feet, making it the size of a Boeing 737 passenger jet. It is the largest unmanned aircraft in Israel’s military arsenal. No injuries were reported in the accident. Israel’s military is understood to be launching an [...]

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Anonymous claims Stratfor spied on OWS

January 29, 2012

  Video: Youtube FYI: Anonymous claims Stratfor spied on OWS

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Doctor who led us to bin Laden was CIA agent, says US

January 28, 2012

The United States has confirmed publicly for the first time that a Pakistani doctor long suspected of collecting vital evidence before the assassination of Osama bin Laden was indeed working for them. Defence Secretary Leon Panetta told 60 Minutes on CBS, in a profile to be broadcast today, that Shakil Afridi helped provide proof that [...]

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UK riots: British paratroopers are trained in riot control

January 28, 2012

LAPD and  US special forces conducting military operations in Los Angeles, British 3rd Battalion Parachute Regiment and Public Order Battalion preparing for riots. Is a world wide bank holiday in the foreseeable future? Economic martial law? FYI: LAPD And Special Forces Conduct Military Maneuvers In The Skies Above Downtown LA   Hundreds of soldiers from [...]

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Germany wants Greece to give up its sovereignty to European Banksters

January 28, 2012

UPDATE: Greeks reject German plan for EU budget commissioner Lucas Papademos, PM of Greece is a technocrat [technical term for banker] . Lucas Papademos will do as he is told. FYI: What price the new democracy? Goldman Sachs conquers Europe ———————————————————————————————————————————————————————– The people of Greece have lost their independence as a sovereign nation. The people will [...]

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Navy converting ship into floating commando base in Middle East

January 27, 2012

The U.S. Navy is working to place a ‘mothership’ for Special Operations Forces in the Middle East, Fox News confirms. The USS Ponce, which was most recently being used as a dock in the Mediterranean Sea for the Libyan operation, was scheduled to be decommissioned in December. Navy officials now tell Fox News that the [...]

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DARPA-Funded Hacker’s Tiny $50 Spy Computer Hides In Offices, Drops From Drones

January 27, 2012

Source: FORBES At the Shmoocon security conference Friday in Washington D.C., O’Connor plans to present the F-BOMB, or Falling or Ballistically-launched Object that Makes Backdoors. Built from just the hardware in a commercially-available PogoPlug mini-computer, a few tiny antennae, eight gigabytes of flash memory and some 3D-printed plastic casing, the F-BOMB serves as 3.5 by [...]

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Call for a ‘ UN peacekeepers’ force in cyberspace.

January 27, 2012

Its mission? To create “a world class cyberwarrior force”, and to develop cyberspace as an “active domain”. That’s according to Lieutenant General Rhett Hernandez, Arcyber commander, speaking at a London conference on cyber defence this week. He spoke of the explosive complexity of living in a digital age, and a cyber threat that was “growing, [...]

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Bratton: ‘Nothing Wrong’ With LAPD Consulting With CIA ‘From Time To Time’

January 27, 2012

Source: CBS Los Angeles The former chief of the Los Angeles Police Department is shedding some light on how local law enforcement cooperates with federal intelligence agencies. In an interview with Current TV, William Bratton deflected criticism of the NYPD — where Bratton also served as chief until 2002 — for working with the Central [...]

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