Archive for October, 2012
Russia Broadens Definition of Treason
October 24th, 2012Via: Financial Times: Russia has broadened its definition of treason, in a move prompting fears that state authorities will have a new weapon to clamp down on the press and non-governmental organisations. The law was passed on Tuesday by the lower house of parliament, one of several pieces of legislation overseen by President Vladimir Putin […]
CHAMP – Lights Out
October 24th, 2012In other news, Panetta warns of “cyber Pearl Harbor”. *wink* Via: Boeing: Cruising fast over the Western Utah Desert, a lone missile makes history at the Utah Test and Training Range. The missile, known as CHAMP, or Counter-electronics High-powered Advanced Missile Project may one day change modern warfare, by defeating electronic targets with little or […]
A Bandwidth Breakthrough
October 24th, 2012This is a big deal. Via: Technology Review: Academic researchers have improved wireless bandwidth by an order of magnitude—not by adding base stations, tapping more spectrum, or cranking up transmitter wattage, but by using algebra to eliminate the network-clogging task of resending dropped packets of data. By providing new ways for mobile devices to solve […]
U.S. Navy: Laser Arsenal Is Just Two Years Away
October 24th, 2012Also, click through for a must-see picture of the BIOSwimmer, which looks like it was invented by SPECTRE. Via: Wired: “On directed energy” — the term for the Navy’s laser cannons, “I’d say two years,” Rear Adm. Matthew Klunder, the chief of the Office of Naval Research, told Danger Room in a Monday interview. The […]
DHS Moving X-ray Body Scanners from Large Airports to Smaller Ones
October 24th, 2012Via: CNBC: The Transportation Security Administration is removing full-body, X-ray scanners from major U.S. airports, and shipping them to less busy locations.
Iran Threatens to Halt Crude Exports If Sanctions Intensify
October 23rd, 2012Via: Bloomberg: Iran will suspend all oil exports, pushing global crude prices higher, if the U.S. and Europe tighten sanctions further on the OPEC member’s economy, Oil Minister Rostam Qasemi warned. “If you continue to add to the sanctions, we will stop our oil exports to the world,” he said at a news conference in […]
Frack Site Near Pennsylvania Nuclear Plant
October 23rd, 2012Via: Shale Reporter: The new permit granted to Chesapeake is located 1.06 miles from FirstEnergy Corp. nuclear facility in Shippingport. According to DEP records, the permit for an unconventional well was issued to Chesapeake on Oct. 3. Drilling has not yet started. DEP spokesperson John Poister said there are no required setbacks specifically relating to […]
‘IMF’s Epic Plan to Conjure Away Debt and Dethrone Bankers’
October 23rd, 2012If nothing else, it makes for an entertaining read. Via: Telegraph: So there is a magic wand after all. A revolutionary paper by the International Monetary Fund claims that one could eliminate the net public debt of the US at a stroke, and by implication do the same for Britain, Germany, Italy, or Japan. One […]
Sussex Rural Electric Cooperative: ‘Owned by Those it Serves’
October 23rd, 2012Via: northjersey.com: When we buy stuff-gas, groceries, clothes, cars, you name it-we almost always buy from businesses whose primary goal is to make a profit for their owners or shareholders. Profit-based private enterprise has served America well, but in some instances another approach has worked, too: the cooperative method. One of New Jersey’s stellar examples […]
Woman Charged With Publishing Picture of Undercover Officer Found On His Facebook Page
October 23rd, 2012Via: Jonathan Turley: There is an interesting case out of Mesquite, Texas this week. Melissa Walthall, 30, has been arrested for allegedly posting a picture of an undercover officer in a narcotic case — a picture available on the officer’s Facebook page. Walthall was upset with the officer who testified against a friend in the […]
