International Waters are Not Free

From U.N., Wikipedia and World Net Daily sources: The U.N. has now taken upon itself to regulateInternational Waters--setting in motion, what had beenpreviously very dangerous precedents, into fact.From the U.N. A Constitution of the Oceans, ratified and implementedback...

US Readiness for Flu Outbreak "Spotty"- RapidRecon

Putting aside for a moment whether an outbreak of Pandemic avian flu (H5N1) is on the horizon or not, the recent outbreaks in China (where no concrete connections have yet been proven) and in Pakistan (where a small chain of human to human transmission has occurred...

DailyBriefings--Center for Threat Awareness

December 21, 2007  1. China’s intelligence service gained access to a secret NSA listening post in Hawaii through a Chinese-language translation service. 2. Suicide bomber again targets Pakistani Interior Ministry, kills 50 at Eid prayers in mosque. 3. Belgium...

Torture chamber found in Iraq

I fail to see how the United States is responsible for this gruesome atrocity. From Yahoo, via AP News: BAGHDAD - Blood-splotches on walls, chains hanging from a ceiling and swords on the killing floor — the artifacts left a disturbing tale of brutalities inside a...

US Military Not Told of Turkey Bomb Plan

I'm not sure what to make of this. From Drudge, via MyWay: WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. military commanders in Iraq didn't know Turkey was sending warplanes to bomb in northern Iraq until the planes had already crossed the border, said defense and diplomatic officials, who were...

Questions of intelligence

Via the Boston Globe: FOR 15 YEARS in my various government and parliament duties for the State of Israel, I have been closely tracking Iran's nuclear program. I do so because I consider it a threat to the international community and an existential threat to my...

Map: How Iran Feeds Iraq Iinsurgency

Iran is actively killing our soldiers world-wide, is developing ballistic technology, enriching uranium, and threatening to "Wipe Israel off the Map." Why study History? We are doomed to repeat the horrors of it. WWIII redux. From the Long War Journal: Iran's...

Our Financial Institutions may Implode

And according to the Wall Street Journal, the "Rich" well they just "Don't Trust Their Advisers." The wealthy should be relying more than ever on their financial advisers. Investing, especially for the rich, has become ever more complicated. The well-heeled used to be...

New Buchanan Book Declares 'End Of America'

From the Drudge Report:  "America is coming apart, decomposing, and...the likelihood of her survival as one nation...is improbable -- and impossible if America continues on her current course," declares Pat Buchanan. "For we are on a path to national suicide."The...

Now is the biggest transfer of wealth from the poor and middle class to the a...

Goldman says the Cost Of The Crunch Is $2 Trillion. The firm's economic team put a $2 trillion price tag on the ultimate economic cost of the credit crunch, including $400 billion in losses directly tied to mortgages--well north of recent estimates by economists,...

Experts Say Suitcase Nuke a Myth

Duh! Anybody who has any working knowledge of nuclear weapons knows that always referred to mounting a nuclear weapon on a mobile trajectory, such as a car, truck, bus, and using ballistic capabilites. Nobody sans a few experts have that expertise.