Citing unchecked climate change and the ongoing threat of nuclear weapons, scientists Thursday moved the hands of the Doomsday Clock two minutes closer to midnight. “It is now three minutes to midnight,” said Kennette Benedict, the executive director and publisher of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists at a news conference in Washington, D.C. “The…
2015: the International Year of Light | CERN
This year, which marks the centenary of the publication of Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, has been named the International Year of Light (link is external) and light-based technologies by the UN General Assembly. CERN is taking this opportunity to communicate about the High Luminosity LHC project and CERN’s involvement in the SESAME synchrotron laboratory…
THE CENSORSHIP BEGINS!!! Facebook Announces Plans To Reduce Hoaxes From The News Feed
Today Facebook has announced that they are reducing the distribution of posts that have been reported as hoaxes. Hoaxes are considered News Feed spam that includes scams or misleading news stories. An annotation is being added to posts that have received many warnings that says the post contains false information. Facebook recently added an option…
Proof! The US has backed Al-Qaeda since the beginning, and The USA & Israel created ISIS
The truth has come out, and this time it has been admitted by a US general, the Obama administration and the US has been sending weaponry to AL-QAEDA, and ISIS. This may come as a shock but this is only the beginning of the tyrannical spiral down the rabbit hole. The truth is out, and…
Russia and Iran sign military cooperation deal – Yahoo News
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran and Russia signed an agreement Tuesday to expand military ties in a visit to Tehran by the Russian defense minister. Sergei Shoigu, in remarks carried by Russian news agencies, said Moscow wants to develop a “long-term and multifaceted” military relationship with Iran. He said that the new agreement includes expanded…
Russia Sending Air Defense Systems To Arctic – Business Insider
Russia has moved some advanced air defense systems to the Arctic in order to increase the capabilities of the country’s Northern Fleet, according to Russia’s Sputnik News. “A division of air defense of the Northern Fleet has adopted into service new S-400 Triumph air defense missile systems,” Vadim Serga, the fleet’s spokesperson, said on Friday….
Japan says jets scrambling at record pace to counter Chinese, Russian intrusions – Yahoo News
TOKYO (Reuters) – (This January 20 story was corrected to say three quarters instead of three months in sixth paragraph)
Japanese air force jets are scrambling at a record pace to counter Chinese fighters intruding into its air space along its southern flank and Russian bombers and spy planes probing its northern defenses, the Defence Ministry said on Tuesday.
Chinese fighter flights have increased in and around the energy-rich East China Sea, where Japan and China both lay claim to a group of islets.
In the nine months ending Dec. 31, Japanese fighters scrambled 744 times, 32 percent more than the same period the previous year, the ministry said. Encounters with Chinese aircraft, which accounted for half of the nine-month total, jumped to 164 in the final quarter of 2014, the most since 1958, when records began.
At the current pace, scrambles for the year to March 31 would exceed the 944 encounters logged 30 years ago at the height of the Cold War.
“With only three quarters of data available, we can’t yet say whether it will be a record year,” a spokesman for Japan’s Air Self-Defence Force told reporters.
In the three quarters to Dec. 31, Japanese jets scrambled 369 times to meet Russian planes, four times the pace of a decade ago.
Japan’s Hokkaido island to the north of the country’s main land mass lies close to four smaller islands which are claimed both by Japan and Russia. That territorial dispute has prevented Japan and Russia from concluding a formal peace treaty.
The unexpected resurge in overflights by Russian aircraft comes as Japan thins out its forces in Hokkaido in order to focus on what it sees as a more immediate threat posed by an assertive China in the southwest.
Japan is buying Boeing Co Osprey tilt-rotor troop carriers, Lockheed Martin Corp F-35 stealth fighters, BAE Systems Plc amphibious assault vehicles and other equipment as it turns its attention to the vast maritime region bordering Chinese territory.
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Distortions, lies and omissions: The New York Times won’t tell you the real story behind Ukraine, Russian economic collapse – Salon.com
A note arrived a few days ago from one of my best informants in Europe. He had just met across a hotel dining table with a senior German executive, and the topic quickly turned to the crisis in Ukraine and the sanctions regime Washington has imposed on Russia. I can do no better than give…
Russian spy ship in Havana on eve of US-Cuba talks – Yahoo News
Havana (AFP) – A Russian intelligence warship docked in Havana on Tuesday, a day before the start of historic US-Cuba talks aimed at normalizing diplomatic relations. There was nothing stealthy about the arrival of the Viktor Leonov CCB-175, which was moored to a pier in Old Havana where cruise ships often dock. But the visit…
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The U.S. has been waging economic, financial, trade, and political war against Russia and even kinetic war-by-proxy in Ukraine. Worryingly, nobody in power in the U.S. or Europe really seems willing to tell us exactly why. From the Russian point of view, everything from their plunging ruble to bitter sanctions to the falling price of…
New police radars can ‘see’ inside homes
WASHINGTON — At least 50 U.S. law enforcement agencies have secretly equipped their officers with radar devices that allow them to effectively peer through the walls of houses to see whether anyone is inside, a practice raising new concerns about the extent of government surveillance. Those agencies, including the FBI and the U.S. Marshals Service,…
Iran Confirms Israeli Airstrike in Southern Syria Killed One of Its Generals – NYTimes.com
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Iran confirmed Monday that one of its generals was among the dead in an Israeli airstrike that also killed several Hezbollah fighters in southern Syria on Sunday, an announcement that added to the tension and unpredictability in the region after the strike. The attack placed Israel in a direct battlefield confrontation on…
