US Warns Syria: "Don't Invade North Lebanon!"

Could this be game-changer' McCain needs to get Americas attention off the economy? "Stern US warning to Syria not to invade Northern LebanonDEBKAfile Exclusive Report2 Oct.: Washington accompanied this warning to Damascus, DEBKAfile has learned, with its first...

Inflation will push precious metal prices much higher « Peter J. Cooper’s ...

" Once this obvious truth becomes generally accepted then we can expect a sudden shift by retail investors into gold and silver for protection against inflation. Both are very small markets by comparison to global equities, real estate or bonds - particularly silver, so the...

Historic $100 bounce in the gold price, gold as money « Peter J. Cooper’s ...

"What are we to make of the more than $100 gains in the gold price within the past 24 hours? It is certainly a historic day with the biggest movements in precious metals ever seen. But as US President Ronald Regan once commented: ‘You ain’t seen nothing yet!’"

UK police to map all citizen's car journeys and save data for five years

Th UK is already the world's most spied on by state and private CCTV cameras. Now the UK police are using the technology to map all citizens' car journeys and keep the data on record for five years. This is...

Man who beheaded bus seat mate defiled body, police tape says

"TORONTO, Ontario (AP) -- A police officer at the scene of a grisly beheading on a Canadian bus reported seeing the attacker hacking off pieces of the victim's body and eating them, according to a police tape leaked on the Internet Saturday. ...

Global warning: Melting ice threatens Arctic foxes

Some more wildlife animals are on the brink of extinction because of  global warming. "Polar bears may not be the only Arctic wildlife threatened by global warming. Scientists have discovered that Arctic foxes also struggle as the ice disappears because they rely on the...

Pictured: Colourful Kingfisher caught before being ringed

"Beak wide open and clearly in distress, this bird appears to have hopelessly trapped itself in garden netting. In fact the tiny kingfisher in this extraordinary photograph was captured by experts recording bird...

Obama: Dating Radical Chic

OpinionBarry Aritise, Now Public ContributorThough I am not up on American Politics, I do know something of the Radical Left, the Left who espouse equality for all, except when it comes to themselves.To appease any...

Key to all optical illusions discovered

" Humans can see into the future, says a cognitive scientist. It's nothing like the alleged predictive powers of Nostradamus, but we do get a glimpse of events one-tenth of a second before they occur.And the...

Tracking cell phone use could help curb epidemics -- study

Tracking demographic movement through cell phone usage can potentially curtail spread of communicable diseases, researchers found." Scientists searching for patterns in seemingly random human movements have found that people, in the aggregate, go about their daily lives with...

Does the digital age ruin subcultures?

An interesting snack for thought: with all types of media and culture now widely accessible on the web, can subcultures stay underground anymore? Or are indie kids all too willing to be in the Facebook spotlight,...

Disney makes an appearance at the World Science Festival

Disney gave an impressive show at the World Science Festival today, talking about all the science that goes into Disney magic."And there was science — physics, chemistry, biology, computer science and environmental...

China trying to get arms to Mugabe

Nice to know China is there to help out Mugabe "Genocide Style", something China is good at."Ship trying to get arms to MugabeReutersPublished: Sunday, April 20, 2008A Chinese ship carrying arms to Zimbabwe that...

Pakistan To Free Nuclear Weapons Peddler?

With Bush, Cheney and Petraeus ramping up the push to attack Iran for its legal nuclear weapons program, it is amazing that A.Q.Khan, Pakistani creator of the Islamic Bomb, who also sold nuclear weapons technology to...

'Traffic-shaping' New Internet Buzzword

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorYou know I thought the new Buzzword MisRemembering and MisSpeaking made infamous by Hillary was a new one, apparently this pales in comparison to this weeks New Buzzword...

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