Archive for January 10th, 2012

Construction of facilities on threshold of a military conflict Global Research January 10, 2012 ‘US builds hospitals in Georgia, readies for war with Iran’ The United States is sponsoring the construction of facilities in Georgia on the threshold of a military conflict in Iran, a member of the Georgian opposition movement Public Assembly, Elizbar... »

Michael Collins EnviroReporter.com Jan 09, 2012 Home for the holidays takes on a whole new glow when flying for the first time through Fukushima fallout to our family in Michigan. Packing gets peculiar and precise. Inspector Alert nuclear radiation monitor – check. N-95 approved valved respirators to wear during flight – check. Apple pectin... »

By Spencer Ackerman and Noah Shachtman Wired.com January 9, 2012 Remember when the military actually put human beings in the cockpits of its planes? They still do, but in far fewer numbers. According to a new congressional report acquired by Danger Room, drones now account for 31 percent of all military aircraft. To be... »

By Stephen D. Foster Jr. AddictingInfo.org First, Congress considered the National Defense Authorization Act, sections of which gave the President the authority to use the military to arrest and indefinitely detain Americans without trial or charge. The language was revised because of strong condemnation from the American people. But now a new bill has... »

Brandon Smith Alt-Market.com Tuesday, 10 January 2012 The absurdity of America today never ceases to amaze. In fact, it has become so elaborate that one might even suggest it has reached a kind of poetic symmetry. When a protest group is willing to stick their necks out to expose the horror of the National... »

Civil libertarians worry about the roll-out of Next Generation Identification, a massive expansion of the agency’s current biometric database. By Tana Ganeva AlterNet.org The FBI claims that their fingerprint database (IAFIS) is the “largest biometric database in the world,” containing records for over a hundred million people. But that’s nothing compared to the agency’s... »

Poorrichard’s blog TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 2012 Scientists have long worried that an influenza virus that has ravaged poultry and wild birds in Asia might evolve to pose a threat to humans. Now scientists financed by the National Institutes of Health have shown in a laboratory how that could happen. In the process they created... »

Saman Mohammadi The Excavator January 10, 2012 The brightest spot on the American political scene is the Ron Paul-Military alliance. Anyone who is paying attention to the 2012 presidential race knows that Dr. Paul is the only military candidate, while his Republican foes and President Obama are the Wall Street candidates. Dr. Paul has... »

Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience BusinessInsider.com Jan. 10, 2011 Humanity will soon be getting an update on how close we are to catastrophic destruction, as scientists and security experts decide whether to nudge the hands of the famous “Doomsday Clock” forward toward midnight — and doom — or back toward security and safety. The clock, in... »

by Tyler Durden ZeroHedge.com 01/10/2012 The year is not over yet, and already Greece’s banks have lost €36.7 billion of their deposit base in 2011, and a whopping €64.6 billion since the beginning of 2010, which is down from €233 billion to €173 billion in under two years. In October another €3.5 billion was... »