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In 1959, the US Army began building an immense complex underneath the frozen surface of Greenland. It would be a center of research, to the benefit of mankind!
The Army's Underground Nuclear Ice Village
Mining companies spent more than $20 million to sink a tax on profits, and Kevin Rudd's Labor leadership in the process.
Mining firms spent more than $20 million to bury Rudd's tax
Niall Ferguson Video Lecture - "Empires On The Verge Of Chaos" | zero hedge
ForaTV, in conjunction with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, shares another terrific must watch presentation, this time by one of our favorite socioeconomic historians, Niall Ferguson, who in this lecture talks in depth, and with an objective perspective that only few can share, about empires on the verge of decline, emphasizing the precarious position the US has found itself in, now that China's ascendancy is undisputed, and only matched by the accelerating descent of the once great US nation. The fact that Ferguson is Paul Krugman's natural nemesis in all things only makes his insights all that more relevant (not to mention correct).
Jared Loughner’s descent into darkness started long before he bought the gun, the ammunition, or took the cab to that supermarket on a sunny Saturday in Tucson where Gabrielle Giffords was doing her job. We are spending too much time looking for “THE ANSWER”; be it Sarah Palin’s rhetoric, the Tea Party chorus, gun control, and on and on. It is time to look upstream for the clues and then, as a society, really get that “ we are all connected and no one wins unless we all do ”.
Ignoring the Signs of A War at Home - Technorati Politics
Russia's Putin warns West over missile defense: report | Reuters
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin told CNN television that Russia would deploy nuclear weapons and "strike forces" if it were shut out of a Western missile shield, adding punch to a warning from President Dmitry Medvedev. In an interview with Larry King taped on Tuesday, Putin also said the WikiLeaks scandal was "no catastrophe" and told the United States not to meddle with Russian elections.
Iran: Computer Malware Sabotaged Uranium Centrifuges | Threat Level | Wired.com
In what appears to be the first confirmation that the Stuxnet malware hit Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Monday that malicious computer code launched by “enemies” of the state had sabotaged centrifuges used in Iran’s nuclear-enrichment program. The surprise announcement at a press conference coincided with news that two of Iran’s top nuclear scientists had been ambushed Monday by assassins who killed one scientist and seriously injured the other. Iran had previously acknowledged that Stuxnet infected the personal computers of workers at its Bushehr nuclear power plant but had insisted that the malware had not infected work systems involved in the nuclear program, and that the program itself had not been harmed.U.S. Nuclear Weapons Have Been Compromised by Unidentified Aerial Objects | Reuters
WASHINGTON , Sept. 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Witness testimony from more than 120 former or retired military personnel points to an ongoing and alarming intervention by unidentified aerial objects at nuclear weapons sites, as recently as 2003.
SEOUL (Reuters) - Secretive North Korea boasted advances in its nuclear program on Tuesday, making sure it held the world's attention, saying it had thousands of working centrifuges, as pressure built on China to rein in its ally.
North Korea details expanded nuclear program | Reuters
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the U.S. “strongly condemns” the leak of more than 250,000 diplomatic cables as she sought to reassure nations, civic groups and individuals who might be affected. “It puts people’s lives in danger, threatens our national security and undermines our efforts to work with other countries to solve shared problems,” Clinton told reporters today at the State Department.
Iran May Have Missiles From North Korea, Cables Posted by WikiLeaks Show - Bloomberg
Hoekstra: Death Penalty Possible for WikiLeaks Perpetrator
Rep. Pete Hoekstra says the death penalty should be considered for those responsible for the WikiLeaks publication of more than 250,000 classified documents.
WikiLeaks Reveals Plans for North Korean Collapse
BEIJING — Leaked U.S. diplomatic cables show China's frustration with communist ally North Korea and speculate Beijing would accept a future Korean peninsula unified under South Korean rule, according to the documents released by whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks. The memos posted online by media organizations indicate the enormous import American and South Korean diplomats place on China's attitude toward the future survival of the isolated and impoverished hard-line communist regime in Pyongyang. The release of the documents follows new tensions in the region with North Korea unleashing a fiery artillery barrage on a South Korean island that killed four people a week ago.Saudi King Urged US to Attack Iran: WikiLeaks
WASHINGTON – Saudi King Abdullah has repeatedly urged the United States to attack Iran's nuclear program and China directed cyberattacks on the United States, according to a vast cache of diplomatic cables released on Sunday in an embarrassing leak that undermines U.S. diplomacy. The more than 250,000 documents, given to five media groups by the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks, provide candid and at times critical views of foreign leaders as well as sensitive information on terrorism and nuclear proliferation filed by U.S. diplomats, according to The New York Times.Wikileaks had set this afternoon as the date to release another round of secret U.S. government documents - this time, over 250,000 classified cables from various U.S. embassies. Hours prior to the documents' publication, Wikileaks tweeted that the website was experiencing a "mass distributed denial of service attack."
Over 250,000 U.S. Diplomatic Documents Released by Wikileaks
And while smart machines are already very much a part of modern warfare, the Army and its contractors are eager to add more. New robots — none of them particularly human-looking — are being designed to handle a broader range of tasks, from picking off snipers to serving as indefatigable night sentries.
Robots, the Military’s Newest Forces - NYTimes.com
Defense Department scientists are set to conduct a second test launch next year of the Falcon HTV-2 experimental superweapon after the first flight this year ended when the autopilot deliberately crashed the unmanned glider into the ocean as a safety measure. The Falcon Hypersonic Test Vehicle is designed to skim the top of the atmosphere just below space, and is a key element of the Pentagon's Conventional Prompt Global Strike (CPGS) capability — a program to build non-nuclear strategic weapons that can strike conventionally anywhere in the world in less than an hour. In a statement last week, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) revealed for the first time that the first test flight April 20 ended when the autonomous onboard control system — the computer autopilot flying the futuristic superweapon — "commanded flight termination."
Pentagon to Test 2nd Near-space Strike Craft
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