Slaying the US intelligence behemoth

By Philip Smucker WASHINGTON – Most of the United States is still suffering through the final stages of a cataclysmic economic decline, but not so my home town of Alexandria, Virginia, nestled along the banks of the Potomac River, a silver dollar’s toss away from the white marble statues of our founding fathers. Recession – what recession? The military intelligence complex is thriving like never before as has been well described through the dog-days of July in the pages of the Washington Post. A series of investigative reports in the Post have exposed the bloated beast of United States intelligence as is rarely … Continue reading Slaying the US intelligence behemoth

Kim sets sights in succession

By Donald Kirk WASHINGTON – United States military leaders love to talk about “asymmetric warfare” in which their forces wield enormous firepower against seemingly far weaker enemies skilled in hit-and-run attacks and brutal acts of terrorism. No contest in which the United States is engaged would appear more asymmetrical than that between it and North Korea next week in which some of the world’s most advanced navy vessels and fighter planes go through the motions of training for anti-submarine warfare for four days beginning on Sunday off the coast of South Korea. The publicity will be hard to ignore – jets taking off … Continue reading Kim sets sights in succession

Burqa over the Bastille

Burqa over the Bastille By Chan Akya  An Australian friend recently jolted me with an apparently aesthetic but obviously puerile suggestion, “Mate, can we amend this burqa ban so that only ugly women are required to wear them while the good-looking ones are mandated to wear bikinis?” He was referring to the boiling controversy in Europe over the body-covering burqa and the niqab face veil that has swiftly become one of the most hotly debated issues on the continent this summer.  France became the second European country on July 13 to pass a controversial ban on the wearing of burqas (traditional all-body robes, usually … Continue reading Burqa over the Bastille

Burqa over the Bastille By Chan Akya An Australian friend recently jolted me with an apparently aesthetic but obviously puerile suggestion, “Mate, can we amend this burqa ban so that only ugly women are required to wear them while the good-looking ones are mandated to wear bikinis?” He was referring to the boiling controversy in Europe over the body-covering burqa and the niqab face veil that has swiftly become one of the most hotly debated issues on the continent this summer. France became the second European country on July 13 to pass a controversial ban on the wearing of burqas (traditional all-body robes, usually … Continue reading

Ill-wind blows for a ‘neutral’ Afghanistan

By M K Bhadrakumar Maybe there is an air about the brooding Hindu Kush mountains that lends inscrutability to politics and history. It touched Tuesday’s Kabul international conference on Afghanistan, where the subtext was of far greater interest than the open agenda. In fact, when it comes to the Afghan problem, it is almost inevitably the case that the surreal takes precedence over the real. Thus it was surreal that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is still not quite done, after failing to win in Afghanistan, with its first “real” war in its six decades of history as a military … Continue reading Ill-wind blows for a ‘neutral’ Afghanistan

Haraam-E-Zada Mullah Fazlullah wants to kill more innocents

New video shows Mullah Fazlullah dawn.com Fazlullah, who has a Pakistani government bounty on his head, remains at large. — File photo Provinces Swat ATC declares Fazlullah “wanted terrorist” Swat ATC declares Fazlullah “wanted terrorist” PESHAWAR: A newly released video of what appeared to be fugitive radical cleric Mullah Fazlullah shows him firing gunshots and addressing a group of suicide bombers. Fazlullah mounted a violent two-year campaign to enforce Islamic sharia law in the northwestern district of Swat, opposing education for girls and beheading opponents until the government ordered in thousands of troops. The 40-minute video, a copy of which … Continue reading Haraam-E-Zada Mullah Fazlullah wants to kill more innocents

Freed! blasphemy accused after 14 years – accusing Mullah unharmed

LHC frees blasphemy accused after 14 years Staff Report LAHORE: Lahore High Court (LHC) Chief Justice (CJ) Khawaja Muhammad Sharif on Thursday quashed a blasphemy case against a mentally retarded woman, Zaibunnisa, and ordered her release from the Punjab Institute of Mental Health. A case of desecration of the holy Quran was registered with Sahala police on October 26, 1996, against unidentified people. Later, police nominated Zaibunnisa as the accused, and arrested her. The CJ observed that advocate Aftab Ahmed Bajwa brought the matter to the court’s notice otherwise she would have perished in jail. The complainant in the case, … Continue reading Freed! blasphemy accused after 14 years – accusing Mullah unharmed

The Resonance Project

Rise to the Equation! The Resonance Project Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to the unification of all sciences and philosophies emerging from a complete and applied view of the physics underlying the wheelworks of nature. The Resonance Project Foundation’s accomplished team of scientists study the principles of Unified Field Theory and its applications in a sustainable research environment. Our researchers and emissaries share the knowledge and implications of our findings through educational outreach programs, scientific publications, layman’s papers and multimedia presentations. We are living at a critical time in history. The work done in our interdisciplinary research park … Continue reading The Resonance Project

At least 100 ‘Earth-like’ planets discovered in past few weeks

More than 100 ‘Earth-like’ planets discovered in past few weeks By Niall Firth More than 100 planets that are a similar size to Earth have been discovered in just the past few weeks, it has been announced. The discovery was made by the space telescope Kepler which has been scanning the skies for planets that are orbiting stars since it was launched in January last year. The breakthrough raises the tantalising prospect that we may not be alone in the Universe. Scientists now believe that there are likely to be around 100 million planets in the Milky Way that harbour … Continue reading At least 100 ‘Earth-like’ planets discovered in past few weeks