Engineering Evil

Kyodo The Defense Ministry is thinking of stationing F-15 fighter jets at a remote airport halfway from Naha to Taiwan to speed up its response to airspace incursions by China near the disputed Senkaku Islands, government sources said Monday. The… Read More ›

Indian army chief warns Pakistan, saying that India would retaliate at “the time and place of its choice”

Indian army chief warns of reprisal Sri Krishna The Statesman Publication Date : 15-01-2013 Talking tough and describing as “unpardonable” the beheading of a soldier by the Pakistan Army on the Line of Control, the Indian Army Chief, Gen Bikram… Read More ›

China to survey islands disputed with Japan

Jan 15, 2013 11:17 Moscow Time Photo: EPA China is to carry out a geographical survey of islands in the East China Sea at the centre of a bitter dispute with Japan. The survey of the Diaoyu islands was… Read More ›

‘Red October’ has been spying on WORLD LEADERS for 5 years – researchers

New flavour of cyberespionage malware uncovered by security bods By John Leyden Posted in Security, 14th January 2013 18:04 GMT Free whitepaper – Shutterfly and Cleversafe Partner Case Study Security watchers have discovered a malware-based cyber-espionage campaign targeting diplomats, governments and… Read More ›

Indian, Pak troops trade gunfire afresh

By Ralph Turchiano on January 13, 2013

News Desk The Statesman Publication Date : 13-01-2013 Indian Air Force chief says India may have to look at “some other options for compliance” if the ceasefire violations by Pakistan continue Indian and Pakistan troops yesterday night traded gunfire along… Read More ›

Prime Minister often finds out about policies from the radio or newspapers, says former advisor Hilton

By Ralph Turchiano on January 13, 2013

James Tapsfield Sunday, 13 January 2013 David Cameron’s former policy guru has spoken of his “horror” at Downing Street’s inability to control government decisions. Steve Hilton has apparently admitted that the Prime Minister often finds out about policies from… Read More ›

N. Korea tells China planning nuclear test: report

AFP Saturday, Jan 12, 2013 SEOUL – A North Korean official has apparently told Chinese authorities that the communist state is planning to conduct a third nuclear test in the coming week, a news report said Saturday. “We’ve heard a… Read More ›

Defence chiefs prepare new plans to defend Falkland Islands: Britain may lack sufficient resources to defend

Defence chiefs have drawn up new contingency plans designed to prevent hostile action by Argentina towards the Falkland Islands. HMS Dauntless’ sails up the Thames river Photo: EPA By Sean Rayment, Defence Correspondent 9:00PM GMT 12 Jan 2013 A series of… Read More ›

Middle-class Greeks to fork out over 40% of annual salary in tax: ” in order to qualify Greece for more bailouts”

Published: 12 January, 2013, 17:20 Edited: 12 January, 2013, 18:31 Athens passed new tax increases to boost revenue by US$3 billion to keep in line with previous commitments to creditors. The new measures limit family benefits and force the middle… Read More ›

China Scrambles Fighters after two Japanese F-15s followed a Chinese military plane

China rebukes Japan after both sides’ planes fly near islands News On Japan via Reuters — Jan 12 China criticized Japan on Friday for “creating tension”, a day after China’s air force scrambled two fighters in response to a… Read More ›

France launches air strike in Mali

Fri, 11 Jan 2013 18:47 GMT Reuters France’s President Francois Hollande leaves after delivering a statement on the situation in Mali at the Elysee Palace in Paris. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer * French armed forces launch Mali operation * French carry out… Read More ›

Provocation against Russia being prepared in Syria

Alexei Lyakhov, Konstantin Garibov Jan 11, 2013 17:59 Moscow Time Photo: EPA In separate interviews with the Voice of Russia broadcast on Thursday, a host of experts mentioned a new round of information warfare against Bashar Assad and… Read More ›

US Senator Rockefeller to announce retirement-Senate source

Fri, 11 Jan 2013 15:19 GMT Reuters WASHINGTON, Jan 11 (Reuters) – Democratic Senator Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia will announce later on Friday that he will not seek a sixth term in the Senate in 2014, according to a… Read More ›

Kuwaitis financed Brotherhood members held in UAE

Islamists held in the United Arab Emirates accused of planning to topple the government were financed by Kuwaiti nationals, Kuwaiti media reported on Friday, lending support to UAE fears of an international plot against its rulers. The… Read More ›

Third testing of China’s anti-satellite weapons?

By Ralph Turchiano on January 10, 2013

Jan 10, 2013 18:23 Moscow Time Photo: EPA A number of US experts in the area of strategic arms based on the information received from the US intelligence community have announced that China is getting ready for the third testing… Read More ›

“Regarding Senkaku, there is no change to my position to resolutely protect this water and territory. There is no room for negotiation on this,”

By Ralph Turchiano on January 10, 2013

Japan PM criticises targeting of firms in China row AFP Friday, Jan 11, 2013 TOKYO – China was “wrong” to deliberately target Japanese business interests as part of a state campaign in a row over disputed territory, Japan’s hawkish new… Read More ›

California Counties Want Millions From Banks for Fixing LIBOR

By Ralph Turchiano on January 10, 2013

By ROBERT KAHN (CN) – Bank of America and other heavy hitters defrauded cities and counties by conspiring to fix, and lie about, the LIBOR rates, four California counties and cities and a Bay Area utilities district claim… Read More ›

Syria must be defenseless for America to illegaly invade, Rated:XXX ” Russian troops are on the ground”

By Ralph Turchiano on January 9, 2013

John Robles Jan 9, 2013 20:31 Moscow Time Photo: EPA Poised and ready to invade Syria and continue its plans for complete global military and political domination at any cost, the US is faltering and has yet to invade Syria…. Read More ›

China and Japan step up drone race as tension builds over disputed islands

Both countries claim drones will be used for surveillance, but experts warn of future skirmishes in region’s airspace Jonathan Kaiman in Beijing and Justin McCurry in Tokyo guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 8 January 2013 11.50 EST The row between China and… Read More ›

US Media continues to Ignore Role of Psychiatric Medications in School shooting

Tuesday, 08 January 2013 Since last month’s horrifying and heartbreaking school massacre in Newtown, Conn., politicians and the press have, as everyone knows, been bizarrely obsessed with firearms. Indeed, President Obama has vowed to impose strong new gun-control measures on… Read More ›

Japan summons China’s envoy in latest escalation of tension over disputed islands

News On Japan via New York Times — Jan 09 The Japanese Foreign Ministry summoned China’s ambassador on Tuesday after Chinese ships entered Japanese-controlled waters for 13 hours, a prolonged incursion that seemed to escalate a standoff over a… Read More ›

Indian soldier ‘mutilated in Pakistan attack’

08 Jan 2013 SRINAGAR, India (AFP) Two Indian soldiers were killed in a firefight with Pakistani troops near their disputed border in Kashmir on Tuesday and one of the bodies was badly mutilated, an army spokesman said. Spokesman Rajesh Kalia told… Read More ›

Qatar steps in to ease Cairo cash crisis

By Ralph Turchiano on January 8, 2013 • ( 1 )

Qatar has lent Cairo a further £1.25bn and donated an extra £300m in an effort to control a currency crisis prompted by Egypt’s political turmoil. Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani announced the doubling of funds… Read More ›

Riots in Belfast: 60 policemen injured

Jan 8, 2013 07:25 Moscow Time Photo: EPA The number of police officers injured in riots continues to grow in Belfast. Clashes are taking place in the capital of Northern Ireland for the fifth day in a row. The number… Read More ›

‘Liquid gold’: How Tide laundry detergent is being used as hard currency by drug addicts buying crack on the street

By Ralph Turchiano on January 7, 2013

By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 17:42 EST, 7 January 2013 | UPDATED: 18:00 EST, 7 January 2013 The pricey detergent is known as ‘liquid gold’ on the streets, with a 150-ounce bottle going for either $5 cash or $10… Read More ›

John McAfee the Belize spymaster uncovers ‘ricin, terrorist plots’

By Ralph Turchiano on January 7, 2013 • ( 1 )

Tycoon: I gave bigwigs laptops stuffed with surveillance malware By John Leyden Posted in Security, 7th January 2013 15:04 GMT Free whitepaper – A Vision for the Data Centre Infosec daredevil John McAfee claims he became a spymaster in Belize after… Read More ›

Poison the well: Chinese city fails to report huge toxic leak, cuts off water to 1 million ” Residents were not notified of the spill for days “

By Ralph Turchiano on January 6, 2013 • ( 1 )

Published: 6 January, 2013, 18:31 Edited: 6 January, 2013, 18:31 Authorities have cut off the water supply of over 1 million people in a northern Chinese city due to an industrial leak. Residents were not notified of the spill for… Read More ›

Simon Burns, minister responsible for train fares, uses £80,000-a-year chauffeur-driven government car to ‘avoid overcrowded trains’

By Ralph Turchiano on January 6, 2013

News is likely to provoke more anger from commuters still reeling from the New Year inflation-busting rise in train fares last week. Rob Williams Sunday, 6 January 2013 The minister responsible for rail fares, Simon Burns, is under fire today… Read More ›

New U.S. Law Seeks Answers On Chinese Nuke Tunnels

Jan. 5, 2013 – 11:55AM By WENDELL MINNICK The U.S. military must consider both conventional and nuclear capabilities to “neutralize” China’s underground nuclear weapons storage facilities, according to a Pentagon authorization signed into law. TAIPEI — The U.S. military must… Read More ›

Poll: Two-thirds of Chinese boycotted Japanese goods over Senkakus dispute

Kyodo Two-thirds of Chinese boycotted Japanese products and almost all Chinese feel anti-Japan sentiment has intensified in the world’s second-largest economy since the government purchased three the Senkaku islets in September, a Kyodo News online survey revealed Saturday. The findings… Read More ›

Japan scrambles F-15 fighter jets after Chinese aircraft spotted near Senkakus

Jiji The Air Self-Defense Force scrambled F-15 fighter jets after a Chinese aircraft on Saturday approached the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea, the Defense Ministry reported. However, the Y-12 propeller plane, operated by China’s State Oceanic Administration, did… Read More ›

Indian troops raid Pakistani military post, killing one – Pakistani army

Sun, 6 Jan 2013 06:48 GMT Source: reuters By Mubasher Bukhari ISLAMABAD, Jan 6 (Reuters) – Indian troops raided a Pakistani military post on Sunday, killing one soldier and injuring another, the Pakistani military said, an incident that could… Read More ›

Workers making $30,000 will take a bigger hit on their pay than those earning $500,000 under new fiscal deal

By Hayley Peterson PUBLISHED: 00:00 EST, 3 January 2013 | UPDATED: 06:25 EST, 4 January 2013 Middle-class workers will take a bigger hit to their income proportionately than those earning between $200,000 and $500,000 under the new fiscal cliff… Read More ›

Why 2013 eerily looks like the world of 1913, on the cusp of the Great War.

Eve of Disaster Foreign Policy BY CHARLES EMMERSON | JANUARY 4, 2013 The leading power of the age is in relative decline, beset by political crisis at home and by steadily eroding economic prowess. Rising powers are jostling for… Read More ›

Saudi jets ‘join US strikes against al-Qaeda in Yemen’

Saudi Arabia said to have secretly joined America’s ‘undeclared aerial war’ against terrorists in Yemen LAST UPDATED AT 09:44 ON Fri 4 Jan 2013 JETS from the Saudi Arabian air force have joined US forces in missions designed to… Read More ›

California judge rules assault wasn’t rape because woman wasn’t married

By: David Ferguson A California appeals court has overturned the rape conviction of a man charged with raping a sleeping woman, basing the decision on an 1872 law that does not protect unmarried women the same protections as those who… Read More ›

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