Archive for January 19th, 2011

By Jon Christian Ryter January 19, 2011 NewsWithViews.com The acrid odor of gun smoke had barely cleared the air over the Safeway Supermarket parking lot in Casas Adobes, in the Greater Tucson area of Pima County, Arizona on Saturday, Jan. 8, 2011 before Democratic politicians and leftwing talking heads were placing the blame for... »

Suggests controversy could hurt president’s re-election chances By Jerome R. Corsi WorldNetDaily.com January 18, 2011 Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie suggested in an interview published today that a long-form, hospital-generated birth certificate for Barack Obama may not exist within the vital records maintained by the Hawaii Department of Health. Abercrombie told the Honolulu Star Advertiser... »

AIRPrint performs ranged fingerprint scanning, won’t let the terrorists win By Michael Gorman EnGadget.com Jan 18th 2011 Systems (AOS) is doing its best to keep fingerprints as the preferred method for identifying enemies of the state. The company has built a fingerprint scanner with the ability to accurately read a print up to two... »

DailyAstorian.com BEND (AP) — Aerial drones could begin flying test runs over remote areas of Central Oregon in the near future, if a proposal to open a military operations area to the testing gets federal approval. The unmanned aircraft are currently prohibited from flying in general airspace, and testing is usually allowed only in... »

DailyGalaxy.com January 18, 2011 This past summer, as torrential rains flooded Pakistan creating the worst natural disaster in Pakistan’s history, an anonymous veteran intelligence analyst,who heads the CIA’s year old Center on Climate Change and National Security, viewed the catastrophe as a warning to the major powers. Climate experts have zeroed in on La... »

Conceivablytech.com Samsung just received confirmation for a patent that describes an unmanned automatic shooting mechanism that is designed to support and replace security forces in locations such as airports, harbors, and nuclear power plants. Samsung fuels the 2011 IT patent frenzy with 151 patents granted in the second week of the year. One of... »

Fifty years ago, President Eisenhower warned of the danger of the ‘military-industrial complex’. The huge budget and reach of America’s modern defence industry has proved him correct Rupert Cornwell IndependentUK If you doubt, half a century on, that Dwight Eisenhower had it right, then consider the advertisements on WTOP, the Washington region’s all-news radio... »

by Prof Michael Hudson and Prof. Jeffrey Sommers Global Research January 18, 2011 spectre is haunting Europe: the illusion that Latvia’s financial and fiscal austerity is a model for other countries to emulate. Bankers and the financial press are asking governments from Greece to Ireland and now Spain as well: “Why can’t you be... »

Former prime minister will call for Barack Obama to take the lead in helping the 81 million people under the age of 25 Larry Elliot Guardian.co.uk Tuesday 18 January 2011 Gordon Brown will warn on Thursday that the world faces youth unemployment of “epidemic proportions”, as he urges joint action by the G20 group... »