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Matt Taibbi The deal was announced quietly, just before the holidays, almost like the government was hoping people were too busy hanging stockings by the fireplace to notice. Flooring politicians, lawyers and investigators all over the world, the U.S. Justice Department granted a total walk to executives of the British-based bank HSBC for the largest drug-and-terrorism money-laundering case ever. Yes, they issued a fine – $1.9 billion, or about [...] North Korea is a serious threat to U.S., says American Defence Secretary Panetta after secretive state’s successful nuclear test A third nuclear test has been widely anticipated since December Suggests country is closer to mounting a bomb on a missile ‘Greater explosive force’ than the 2006 and 2009 tests North Korea a ‘serious threat’ to U.S., says Defence Secretary Leon Panetta President Obama has condemned North Korea’s [...] by Mac Slavo, SHTFPlan: In May of 2009 North Korea’s controversial nuclear weapons tests were dismissed by global intelligence agencies as failures due to their low explosive yield. But EMPact America President Dr. Peter Vincent Pry, a former CIA nuclear weapons analyst, had his own assessment. It appears, according to Pry, that while the yield from the nuclear tests was weak with respect to destructive power in terms of the nuclear blast itself, the tests indicated [...] Mac Slavo
In May of 2009 North Korea’s controversial nuclear weapons tests were dismissed by global intelligence agencies as failures due to their low explosive yield. But EMPact America President Dr. Peter Vincent Pry, a former CIA nuclear weapons analyst, had his own assessment. It appears, according to Pry, that while the yield from the nuclear tests was weak with respect to destructive power in terms of the nuclear blast itself, the tests [...] Looks like the Banksters are at it again. Executives with Europe’s biggest bank, HSBC, were subjected to a humiliating onslaught from US senators on Tuesday over revelations that staff at its global subsidiarieslaundered billions of dollars for drug cartels, terrorists and pariah states. http://worldtruth.tv/hsbc-laundered-money-for-drug-lords-rogue-states-and-terrorists/ ‘Scheming’ bank ‘hid $250 billion worth of transactions with Iranian government’ British banking giant Standard Chartered is accused of exposing the US to terrorists and weapon dealers by hiding $250 billion (£160 billion) worth of transactions with the Iranian government. Standard Chartered, one of the top [...] The biggest conventional bomb ever developed is ready to wreak destruction upon the enemies of the US, after Air Force Secretary Michael Donley said its record-breaking bunker-buster has become operational after years of testing. “If it needed to go today, we would be ready to do that,” said Donley. “We continue to do testing on the bomb to refine its capabilities, and that is ongoing. We also have the capability to go with [...] Thomas R. Eddlem The United Nations is polishing up a global Arms Transfer Treaty (ATT) this month in a New York convention that would create a global registry of private ownership of firearms. This treaty — which would also mandate creation of a national collection agency for those guns and is contrary to the U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment — has the long-standing and enthusiastic backing of the Obama State Department, [...] allgov.com In the 1984 hit sci-fi movie The Terminator, the artificial intelligence network Skynet becomes self-aware and initiates a nuclear world war against humankind. In the real world of the early 21st Century, the nations of the world are preparing for very different sorts of cyber-war threats, which could arise from terrorists, hactivists, rogue states or organized crime. The U.S.-dominated North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in 2008 even established the NATO [...] Independent.co.uk America should not be allowed to dominate the debate over who controls sensitive scientific information that could be misused in biowarfare terrorism, say the scientists who created a highly dangerous form of bird-flu virus in a study that has been partially censored by the US government. Ron Fouchier and Ab Osterhaus of Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam accept recommendations by the US government’s National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity, which said [...] The U.S. searched Iraq for weapons of mass destruction, including smallpox, after the 2003 invasion. None were found. But fears that other rogue states might hold smallpox are part of the reason the U.S. entered into a $433-million contract for an experimental drug. (Carolyn Cole, Los Angeles Times / November 13, 2011) By David Willman, Los Angeles TimesNovember 13, 2011 Reporting from Washington— Over the last year, the Obama administration has aggressively pushed a $433-million plan to [...] |
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