The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Hagel to Israel: Military option will be considered after Iranian elections
U.S. officials show Israeli counterparts video trial of ‘bunker buster' bomb that could be used to destroy Iran's Fordow nuclear installation, Wall Street Journal reports.
Proxy Warfare and the Future of Conflict
RUSI Journal, Apr 2013, Vol. 158, No. 2
UN report calls for killer robot moratorium
Human compassion, intuition may be required for life-and-death decisions, author argues
Now, this is real crowd-sourcing
http://www.sciencedaily.com/
Apr. 25, 2013 — You are walking down the street with a friend. A shot is fired. The two of you duck behind the nearest cover and you pull out your smartphone. A map of the neighborhood pops up on its screen with a large red arrow pointing in the direction the shot came from.
3D printing technology is taking off in the medical science community, especially in emerging methods known as “bioprinting.” Instead of inks, plastics and other artificial materials, science and medical labs use a patient’s actual living human cells to replicate organs that the body can recognize and accept.
3D bioprinting has tremendous promise for medical professionals, but it could also forever change areas such as cosmetic surgery and food engineering (not to mention counterfeiting or spy disguises). Here are some of the latest innovations happening in 3D printing and 3D bioprinting.
Here’s a selection of 3D bioprinting’s bright ideas and bodyshocks from International Business Times’s “11 Fascinating And Frightening Ways 3D Bioprinting Is The Next Big Thing In Medicine And Science”:
This is perhaps the saddest story of all concerning the bees. As is so often the case today, I take it to be a an example of a state of consciousness that is killing us, as surely as it is killing the bees. Bee keepers steal all the honey from the bees that they lay up to keep themselves healthy, and feed them high fructose corn syrup. It is now emerging that this is one of! the reasons the bees are dying.
Honey May Be Bees’ Best Medicine for Colony Collapse Disorder
BREANNA DRAXLER – Discover
The Great Schism Trend is reaching a kind of crescendo, whose outcome is unclear to me. This could pass, or it could continue to develop to crisis. I am using this South Carolina story, but I could have picked Alabama, or Kansas. All at the same time. This is an assertion of states rights over federal laws, and it must go to the Supreme Court, as will several of the others cases! .
South Carolina House Passes Nullification Bill to Make Obamacare a Crime
DAVID EDWARDS – The Raw Story
Syria: Comment: Israeli and Western news outlets report the Syrian government is rebounding and the army is on the offensive. The clearest sign of greater vigor is President Asad's public appearance at a power station in Damascus. This is his first public appearance since January, but he gave two televised interviews in April.
While Asad activities are confidence builders, the army's continuing offensive against rebel-held sections of the city of Homs is a more tangible manifestation of resurgence. The operation, thus far, has succeeded in taking back parts of Homs that had been held by rebels for a year.
Hezbollah is providing flank support by attacking opposition fighters on the border town of Qusayr, which is located along the route between Damascus and the Alawite core region to the north. Syria forces also are fighting in the port town of Baniyas.
A reasonably successful offensive in this region would secure the western and most productive parts of Syria for the regime and essentially fragment the country. It also would ensure that attempts to provide western arms to the rebels via the Mediterranean ports would be subject to capture by Syrian and Hezbollah forces.
Syrian leaders appear to be trying to improve their political and military positions before the US leadership makes up its mind about increased intervention. They are also taking advantage of continuing disunity and fractiousness among the rebel groups. The Times of Israel judged that the decline in opposition fortunes began when the rebel al Nusrah Front announced its allegiance to al Qaida.
Not the best source, but worth factoring into the over-all picture.
Iran says bombing will be used as excuse to attack
Reza Kahlili
WND, 2 May 2013
New reports reveal Iran believes the United States will use the Boston bombings as a pretext for attacking the Islamic regime.
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The most important fact is that through new collaboration between Russia and America, the Boston bombings can become another Sept. 11 scenario leading up to a confrontation with Iran, said Dr. Motahreh Hosseini, a researcher and analyst of the Islamic Republic. This collaboration will have grave implications for the world, he said.
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“My personal belief is that such activity (terrorism) is not possible but with the collaboration of elements in America,” said Hosseini, who added that America’s own security organizations must have played a role in the bombings.
“If we look at it with an international view … this scenario (Boston bombings as a pretext) is designed for the purpose of buying Russia in a collaboration against Syria and Iran,” Hosseini said. Its main goal, he said, was for America to target Iran and put the revolutionary Middle East in a tight spot, have a U.S. presence in Russia’s backyard and further pressure China.
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This Powerful Spy Software Is Being Abused By Governments Around The World
Michael Kelley
Business Insider | May 2, 2013
A new report presents overwhelming evidence that sophisticated spying software is being abused by governments around the world.
The findings by The Citizen Lab, a digital research laboratory at the University of Toronto, detail how the software marketed to track criminals is being used against dissidents and human rights activists.
Titled “For Their Eyes Only: The Commercialization of Digital Spying,” the report focuses on a type of surveillance software called FinSpy that can remotely monitor webmail and social networks in real time as well as collect encrypted data and communications of unsuspecting targets.
