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X-Files Axed: UFO Reports To Be Destroyed
Huw Borland, Sky News Online
The Ministry of Defence will destroy all future UFO reports it receives so it does not have to make them public, a previously secret memo has revealed.
Britain’s official UFO investigation unit and hotline were closed down at the start of December.
Since then, reports of strange sights in the skies sent to [...]
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Iraq
The U.S. military has prepared contingency plans to delay the planned withdrawal of all combat forces in Iraq, citing the prospects for political instability and increased violence as Iraqis hold national elections next month.
Under a deadline set by President Obama, all combat forces are slated to withdraw from Iraq by the end of August, and [...]
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Russia’s T-50 Stealth Fighter Jet
Gizmodo
Russia’s been testing its new T-50 “Sukhhoi” stealth fighter jets and so far they’re a success. This video shows the first test flight and is supposedly also the very first time the public is getting to see the bird.
With the T-50’s “basic specs” including “greater agility, sustained supersonic-flight capability in non-afterburning mode, low radar [...]
Israel OKs new controversial weapon
PressTV
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak has approved the use and sale of a new weapon that simulates a feeling of being shot in those targeted.
The cannon called “the Thunder Generator” has been produced by the Netanya-based technology development advisory firm, ArmyTec company, and is capable of creating shockwaves that pass through people.
The feeling of “being [...]
Dangerous Crossroads: U.S. Moves Missiles And Troops To Russian Border
Nuclear and Conventional Arms Pacts Stalled
Rick Rozoff / Global Research
2010 is proceeding in a manner more befitting the third month of the year, named after the Roman god of war, than the first whose name is derived from a pacific deity.
On January 13 the Associated Press reported that the White House will submit its Quadrennial [...]
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Haiti
Despite criticism for the US military presence in quake-stricken Haiti, Washington says it has a long-term plan to stay in the country.“We are there for the long term, this is not something that will be resolved quickly and easily,” US Ambassador to the UN Alejandro Wolff said on Thursday. leading international aid organization, Medecins [...]
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Haiti
Looks like I spoke too soon the other day when I said a bunch of bloggers saved the Haitian internet. What it looks like is, we only kept it on life support for a week.Reynold Guerrier, the lone network engineer left to operate the country’s internet NAP (network access point), yesterday emailed U.S. military and [...]
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U.S. Military Weapons Inscribed With Secret ‘Jesus’ Bible Codes
Pentagon Supplier for Rifle Sights Says It Has ‘Always’ Added New Testament References
Joseph Rhee, Tahman Bradley And Brian Ross/ABC
Coded references to New Testament Bible passages about Jesus Christ are inscribed on high-powered rifle sights provided to the United States military by a Michigan company, an ABC News investigation has found.
The sights are used by U.S. [...]
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Haiti
Obama Right to Tap Bush for Haiti Aid Effort
Like a child who begrudgingly has to invite his weird cousin to his birthday party, there are some things a president simply must do. So it must have been when President Obama asked George W. Bush to join with U.N. special envoy to Haiti Bill Clinton to [...]
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HAARP: The Military’s Pandora’s Box