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Secret Bases And Trends For 2012
Major trends for 2012. Here are several of them that he highlighted
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Eight Strategic Factors to Consider in 2012
Rarely in the past six decades has global context counted for as much in strategic forecasting — trend analysis — as it does at the dawn of 2012. Reliance on stove-piped analysis of “strategic
Read More »Iran sentences American ex-Marine to death for spying
American Amir Mirzai Hekmati, who also holds Iranian citizenship, has been sentenced to death by a judge in Iran for spying for the CIA, local media reported on Monday
Read More »Iran, Russia dump dollar for rial, ruble
Iranian Ambassador to Moscow Seyyed Reza Sajjadi says Iran and Russia have turned to their national hard currencies instead of the American dollar in reciprocal trade exchanges
Read More »‘Musharraf to be detained upon return’
A government prosecutor says former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf will be arrested in connection with the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto if he returns to the country
Read More »25 new predictions for 2012 – 2015
Carrying on with this new year tradition, here's a new round of predictions for 2012 and beyond. Before you read these, keep in mind that while these are primarily "negative" predictions, there will always
Read More »Simmering unrest in Indian Army goes sweltering
If the former Fort Williams boss, as he was known as during his last posting, General VK Singh the Chief of world’s 2nd largest army i.e. the Indian Army, made life extremely miserable for
Read More »The Debt Bomb: 7,600,000,000,000 Dollars Of Debt Must Be Rolled Over In 2012
When it comes to government debt, it is not just new debt that is the problem. Every single year, governments around the world must "roll over" gigantic mountains of debt that come due.
Read More »The day it was so windy the waterfall ran uphill: Britain battered by 106mph gales which leave two dead – and there’s more to come in the next 24 hours
Winds of up to 106mph battered Britain yesterday, bringing death and destruction as many returned to work after the Christmas holidays. A driver was killed when a tree fell on his van. The storm also
Read More »Look Up! The Quadrantids Are Coming!
NASA will stream video from an all-sky camera in Huntsville, Ala., in the hope those with cloudy skies may still enjoy the meteor shower (see bottom of article for the live feed)
Read More »2012 Will Be More Difficult Than 2011
Do you believe that 2012 will be more difficult for the global economy than 2011 was? Well, that is what German Chancellor Angela Merkel believes. The woman that has become the most
Read More »5 Sci-Fi Technologies People Achieved By Hacking the Kinect
On June 1, 2009, Microsoft announced the Kinect, and with it, they promised the birth of a new generation of motion-controlled video games. Instead, we got a virtual puppy petting machine and awkward wedding-dance
Read More »NATO seeks resumption of Pakistan ties
NATO seeks to mend fences with Islamabad to restart using the crucial route in Pakistan through which supplies are sent for foreign forces in Afghanistan, a coalition spokesman has said. Islamabad stopped the supply convoys
Read More »3.5 Million Homeless and 18.5 Million Vacant Homes in the US
The National Economic and Social Rights Initiative along with Amnesty International are asking the U.S. to step up its efforts to address the foreclosure crisis, including by giving serious consideration to the growing call
Read More »Sudden ionospheric disturbance reported over Europe as Sun unleashes more flares
SUDDEN IONOSPHERIC DISTURBANCE: Around 1320 UT, a wave of ionization swept through the high atmosphere over Europe after sunspot AR1389 unleashed another M2-class solar flare. “There was a very clear sudden ionospheric disturbance on
Read More »We’ve Been Impoverished and It’s Only Going to Get A Whole Lot Worse
The dollar is losing value, but this fact is not just some recent phenomenon. In case you missed the charts comparing the decline of the US dollar to the Roman silver denarius, what they
Read More »Debris Field The Size Of California From Japanese Tsunami Begins To Litter West Coast
The fact that no federal agency is preparing for this huge wave of radiated garbage shows just how insane the leaders of this once great country have become. A massive debris field the size of
Read More »Iran boasts of surveillance of aircraft carrier and claims U.S. ‘is not in a position’ to prevent blockage of major shipping lane
Iran has ramped up its war of words with the U.S. - by revealing it filmed and photographed one of its aircraft carriers in the Persian Gulf. Tensions between the two countries are escalating on
Read More »Pakistan defies US, honors Iran gas deal
Islamabad has stepped up work on its bilateral agreements with Tehran including the implementation of a Pak-Iran gas pipeline project despite US threats
Read More »LulzXmas goes on: ‘Robin Hood hackers’ rob military retailer
Hacktivists from Anonymous have allegedly gained access to thousands of passwords and credit card numbers from Specialforces.com, an online military and law enforcement equipment retailer. Fourteen thousand passwords and 8,000 credit card numbers were stolen
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