Eruption In Ecuador

Is it a coup attempt or just police protests against salary cuts? The 24 hour rule is in effect. Ecuador ‘coup’: 50 injured in clashes “We’ve treated 50 people in Quito for medical emergencies due to asphyxiation due to tear gas and impacts from pellets and teargas canisters,” said Jorge Arteaga, a Red Cross spokesman. [...]

When Petulant Allies Act Up Like The Enemy

Pakistan is upset because we chased terrorists across their border in hot pursuit. Nevermind that they don’t control their own border and the Taliban have unconstrained sanctuary in Pakistani territory that Pakistan doesn’t control either. Pakistan Halts NATO Supplies After Attack Pakistan has blocked a vital supply route for NATO forces in Afghanistan, after a [...]

They’re Here!

And apparently, they like to play around with our nuclear weapons. Aliens Are Monitoring Our Nukes, Worry Ex-Air Force Officers Captain Robert Salas was on duty in Montana in 1967 when a UFO shut down the nuclear missiles on his base. And he’s hardly the only one to make such a claim. On Monday, six [...]

Keeping Up With The Bad Guys

I don’t see any problem with this at all. Law enforcement is still going to need a search warrant and if they have enough evidence to get a warrant, they should be able to listen in. Why should criminals and terrorists be given an advantage just because they’re smart enough to communicate using the internet? [...]

Weekly Watch List

NFLX BIDU IGTE PPO MELI CMG APKT CXO HMIN HLF PRGO ARMH AAPL SHOO SAN RADS AKAM SAM SINA CMI FCFS Additions: CXO FCFS SAN SINA Subtractions: HAS LXK ORCL VGR Last week, all the major indexes moved higher again. The Nasdaq added 2.8%, the Dow moved up 2.4%, the S&P 500 advanced 2.1%, and [...]

Pushing The Cyberwarfare Envelope

A computer worm so sophisticated that it attacks specific targets in specific countries, gee I wonder who would be capable of developing something that advanced? Stuxnet Compromise at Iranian Nuclear Plant May Be By Design Iran has confirmed that more than 30,000 PCs have been infected by the Stuxnet worm in that country, including some [...]

Lady Al Qaeda Goes To Jail, Pakistan Seethes

Remember boys and girls, Pakistan is our ally. Pakistani Woman Sentenced for Attacks on U.S. Troops A suspected al-Qaeda agent was sentenced yesterday to more than eight decades in U.S. prison for the July 2008 attempted killings of U.S. troops, Agence France-Presse reported. At the time of the MIT-educated neuroscientist’s arrest, she was reportedly in [...]

Must Be Election Season

Oh, sure, it’s cheap political theater, but it’s the thought that counts and it’s got Democrats howling, so it serves its purpose. In run-up to Nov. vote, GOP unveils ‘Pledge to America’ House Republican leaders vowed to reverse the course of Washington and “realign our country’s compass” in a wide-ranging agenda unveiled six weeks before [...]

Weakest Link In The Chain

Who’s running the show here, Microsoft? Cyber Command chief suggests Pentagon networks are vulnerable In his first hearing before the House Armed Services Committee, new US Cyber Command head Gen. Keith Alexander offered a troubling window into the threats that Pentagon networks face at the hands of terrorist and criminal syndicates, foreign intelligence organizations, and [...]

When Countries Collide

China and Japan have a long history of animosity toward each other and the recent “boat collision incidents” in disputed waters are only inflaming age old territorial disagreements. Japan’s continuing arrest of the Chinese captain is further escalating this standoff by the day. Japan-China island tensions rise The ins and outs of the spat over [...]