Category Archives: USA

Virus-Built Wearable Batteries Could Power Military

By Gideon Swift | Published: August 31, 2010
Source:  ABC News Batteries, built by viruses, could someday be sprayed onto military uniforms as wearable power sources. … If the Maryland research pans out, the parts for lithium ion batteries could be grown in and harvested from tobacco plants. The MIT research, meanwhile, could produce lithium ion batteries that could be woven into clothing [...]
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Cyber threats can unite Japan and America

By Gideon Swift | Published: August 29, 2010
Source: FT.com Both Japan, with its many key high-tech industries, and the US, with enterprises clamouring for Chinese market opportunities, are clearly concerned about cyber threats. In their May meeting, officials from both nations agreed to work jointly to stop cyber-based attacks on their respective businesses and governments, and to lead discussions on this topic [...]
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AP Exclusive: Russia, US chase jet in hijack drill

By Gideon Swift | Published: August 9, 2010
In a historic first for Cold War adversaries, U.S., Canadian and Russian military officers directed fighter jets and ground controllers to test how well they could track an international terrorist hijacking over the Pacific Ocean. A chartered American jet code-named Fencing 1220 sent a mock distress signal shortly after taking off from Anchorage, Alaska, on [...]
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Preparing for World War III, Targeting Iran

By Gideon Swift | Published: August 1, 2010
Source: GlobalResearch.ca Preparing for World War III, Targeting Iran Part I: Global Warfare by Michel Chossudovsky Global Research, August 1, 2010 Humanity is at a dangerous crossroads. War preparations to attack Iran are in “an advanced state of readiness”. Hi tech weapons systems including nuclear warheads are fully deployed. This military adventure has been on [...]
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Arrest warrants issued for US soldiers

By Gideon Swift | Published: July 30, 2010
Source: presstv.ir In Spain, a judge has re-issued arrest warrants for three US soldiers over the killing of a Spanish TV cameraman who died in US tank fire in Iraq in 2003. Spain’s National Court announced Thursday that it has re-issued an the arrest warrants because the soldiers are implicated in an attack on Baghdad’s [...]
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Ahmadinejad says expects U.S. to attack MidEast soon

By Gideon Swift | Published: July 27, 2010
Source:  Yahoo! News Iran expects the United States to launch a military strike on "at least two countries" in the Middle East in the next three months, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told state-run Press TV. In an interview recorded on Monday, Ahmadinejad did not specify whether he thought Iran itself would be attacked nor did [...]
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Wikileaks Doc Dump: Reports From the Ground in Afghanistan

By Gideon Swift | Published: July 26, 2010
Source: NYTimes.com A six-year archive of classified military documents made public on Sunday offers an unvarnished, ground-level picture of the war in Afghanistan that is in many respects more grim than the official portrayal. The secret documents, released on the Internet by an organization called WikiLeaks, are a daily diary of an American-led force often [...]
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Security Plan for Canada-U.S. Border Announced

By Gideon Swift | Published: July 16, 2010
Source: Security Plan for Canada-U.S. Border Announced Canada and the United States have announced their first formal plan to enhance the security of their common 5,525-mile border, the longest in the world. “Crystallizing a shared vision of border security that facilitates trade is a priority if we are to mitigate threats to our joint security [...]
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Netanyahu: U.S., Israel Alliance Is Not Faltering

By Gideon Swift | Published: July 12, 2010
I remain unconvinced. Sorry Bibi baby. Source: FOXNews.com Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his meeting in Washington with President Obama should lay "to rest" the idea that the decades-old alliance between their two countries has frayed. Speaking on "Fox News Sunday," the prime minister described his visit as positive and productive, saying Obama expressed [...]
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