Blackberry ‘predicted a century ago’ by pioneering physicist Nikola Tesla The Blackberry was first predicted more than a century ago, by Nikola Tesla, the electrical engineer, it has been claimed. By Andrew Hough telegraph.co.uk Tesla wrote that, one day it would be possible to transmit wireless messages all over the world. Photo: AFP US President Barack Obama, a fan of the Blackberry, uses the device as he walks to the Oval Office. Photo: AFP The invention of the Blackberry was predicted over a 100 years ago by Tesla. Photo: AP Tesla, a pioneering American physicist, made the prediction about the … Continue reading Blackberry was first predicted more than a century ago!

Times Square bomb plot: Don’t rush to judgment Whether the person behind the bungled Times Square bomb was Taliban or Tea Partier, all we have to fear is fear itself Robert Dreyfuss guardian.co.uk A police officer stands guard in Times Square as the area resumes normal operations, with increased police presence, following the discovery of a car bomb. Photograph: Yana Paskova/Getty Images It may be that the Pakistan-based Taliban, the Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP), has quietly established a Connecticut franchise while we weren’t looking. That’s possible. But it seems far more likely to me that the perpetrator of the bungled … Continue reading Sarah Palins terrorists involved in Times Square bomb plot?

China has good reason to stay quiet By Peter J Brown The US Air Force’s (USAF) launch of the mysterious robotic X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle – a small, unmanned reusable space plane which resembles but is dwarfed by the much larger space shuttle – from Florida on Thursday came just hours after the launch from California of the Falcon Hypersonic Test Vehicle-2 (HTV-2). The HTV-2 is an unmanned glider developed by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) which was reportedly supposed to travel more than 4,000 miles (6,437 kilometers) on its test-flight in just 30 minutes. While the … Continue reading China has a secret Spaceplane in production?

By Gareth Porter WASHINGTON – The Pentagon was still trying to spin its report on the war in Afghanistan issued last week as holding out hope because the instability had leveled off, even as some news outlets were noting that it documents the continued expansion of Taliban capabilities and operations. The most significant revelation in the report, however, is that General Stanley McChrystal and the United States-North Atlantic Treaty organization (NATO) International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) joint command now acknowledge officially that the Taliban insurgents dominate a vast contiguous zone of heavily populated territory across southern Afghanistan that McChrystal regards … Continue reading Pentagon map belies Taliban’s sphere

Militants write their answer in blood By Syed Saleem Shahzad ISLAMABAD – When villagers of Karamkot near the town of Mir Ali in Pakistan’s North Waziristan tribal area on Friday came across a bullet-riddled body they thought at first it was just another little-known person killed by militants on suspicion of being a traitor, as often happens in the area. The tag attached to the body told another story: it was retired squadron leader Khalid Khawaja, a former Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) official and a close friend of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden during the resistance in Afghanistan against the Soviets … Continue reading Sticks for Takfiri Mullahs – no more carrots!

By Victor Kotsev As the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle, the United States Air Force’s new robotic mini-shuttle, made its maiden flight into space last Thursday, many of the details surrounding the spacecraft remained veiled in secrecy. It is known that the X-37B project is based on a National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) model which was earlier scrapped, probably reducing costs, and that the project is entirely funded by the Department of Defense’s black box. However, its total budget is unclear, as is its exact mission – “classified experiments” – the location of its mission control and the duration of … Continue reading US military’s robotic shuttle spooks Iran