5 Nuclear Sites That Could Launch War With Iran
By Spencer Ackerman Wired/Danger Room This week, the U.S. and its allies will sit down with some of their arch-nemeses: the Iranians. The meeting in Baghdad is the definition of high stakes, as 2012 has been characterized by frequent speculation that Israel would bomb Teheran to prevent it from going nuclear, launching a war that would inevitably draw [...]
Read More →Russian Parliament Approves Huge Increase in Protest Fines
RiaN Russia’s lower house of parliament approved in its first hearing on Tuesday a controversial draft bill that could increase fines for taking part in or organizing unsanctioned protests by as much as two hundred times. “This amendment tells the poor – eke out your pitiful existence and don’t speak out of turn,” wrote Sergei [...]
Read More →A Universe with Billions of Binary Planets?
DailyGalaxy The discovery that there are perhaps billions of solo rogue planets and binary planet systems in the Milky Way alone has led to a new theoretical study by astronomer Hagai Perets and his colleague at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics that proposes a possible answer: the distant planets are not part of the original [...]
Read More →Nuclear Meltdowns 200x More Likely Than Previously Estimated
ScienceBlog Catastrophic nuclear accidents such as the core meltdowns in Chernobyl and Fukushima are more likely to happen than previously assumed. Based on the operating hours of all civil nuclear reactors and the number of nuclear meltdowns that have occurred, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz have calculated that such events [...]
Read More →Exclusive: U.S. lets China bypass Wall Street for Treasury orders
Reuters China can now bypass Wall Street when buying U.S. government debt and go straight to the U.S. Treasury, in what is the Treasury’s first-ever direct relationship with a foreign government, according to documents viewed by Reuters. The relationship means the People’s Bank of China buys U.S. debt using a different method than any other central [...]
Read More →U.S. Has Spent $642 Billion on Afghan War, Including almost $200 Billion for This Year and Next
AllGov While Washington’s rhetoric has focused recently on the coming end to the war inAfghanistan, its spending on the conflict is not at all waning. Between this year and next, the federal government plans to spend nearly $200 billion on the war. If it does so, the U.S. will have spent about $642 billion since [...]
Read More →NYPD officer to suspect: ‘My dick will go in your mouth’ (Video)
Raw Story A New York City Police Department sergeant has been caught on video threatening several Brooklyn men with his gun and with sexual assault. Cell phone video obtained by the New York Post shows Sgt. Lesly Charles launching into a profane tirade while talking to several men who are suspected of criminal behavior. “I have a long [...]
Read More →Harvard Medical School Facing Trial Over Massive Alzheimer’s Disease Research Fraud
Alliance for Human Research Protection The US Court of Appeals, 1st Circuit overturned a summary judgement by a lower court ordering a whistleblower lawsuit filed by Dr. Kenneth Jones against Harvard Medical School, its teaching hospitals, Brigham and Women’s and Massachusetts General Hospital, and Dr. Marilyn Albert (Principal Investigator) and Dr. Ronald Killiany to proceed [...]
Read More →Bomb threat forces evacuation at Utah spy site, FBI says
Reuters A bomb threat forced the evacuation of a National Security Agency facility under construction in Utah on Monday but investigators found nothing suspicious, an FBI spokeswoman said. The site for the spy agency is being built at Camp Williams, a military base just south of Salt Lake City. The Army Corps of Engineers is [...]
Read More →US Selling Drones to Iraq
Jim Michaels RSN The United States has agreed to sell unarmed surveillance drones to Iraq’s navy as part of an effort to help protect that nation’s oil exports amid growing tensions in the Persian Gulf and to strengthen U.S.-Iraqi ties. “They understand the importance of the mission to protect its oil platforms,” said Army Lt. Gen. Robert Caslen, who [...]
Read More →German Finance Expert Accuses Merkel of ‘Holocaust Guilt’
INN Former German Bundesbank member Thilo Sarrazin has stoked fresh controversy with a new book claiming that Chancellor Angela Merkel’s European policy is motivated by German guilt for the Holocaust and World War II. In 2010, Sarrazin caused outrage with his best-selling book which argued that Germany was being swamped with illiterate, semi-criminal Muslim immigrants. The British Independent reported [...]
Read More →For Iran’s spiritual leader, dialogue with the U.S. is no longer taboo
Zvi Bar’el Haaretz An extraordinary report was published on Saturday in the conservative Iranian website Botia. According to the report, the chief of the Revolutionary Guards’ Quds Force, General Qasem Suleimani, warned Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah not to attack Israel. The website reported that during a meeting between the two, Suleimani explained to Nasrallah that [...]
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