Tag: north korea
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secret satellite mission feeds spacewar worries
from danger room: An American missile-warning satellite has died, more than 22,000 miles up. So now, the U.S. is sending a pair of mini-spacecraft on a top secret operation to investigate, Craig Covault reports for Spaceflight Now. If the mission is successful, analysts say, it’ll have a global impact. Because the same technologies used to…
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news on the march: 9/11, police state, miltech, geopolitiks & crash
9/119/11 memorial ready by 10th anniversary* 9/11 holiday pay for massachusetts police criticized*video: baer knows guy who ‘cashed out’ day before 9/11*ex-mi5 chief: response to 9/11 was ‘huge overreaction’*nsa tapped 9/11 hijackers’ phone calls for 2yrs – inside the US*structural engineering council casts doubt on nist’s wtc7 report*video: former ny governor cuomo: ‘maybe I should…
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US prepares to disable north korean nuclear arsenal
from spacewar: The United States is preparing to send experts to North Korea to launch a groundbreaking effort to disable the hardline communist state’s nuclear weapons arsenal following a six-nation agreement. The pact, unveiled by China on Wednesday, was hailed by President George W. Bush as a commitment “to realize a Korean Peninsula that is…
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cheney mulled israeli strike on iran
from reuters: Vice President Dick Cheney had at one point considered asking Israel to launch limited missile strikes at an Iranian nuclear site to provoke a retaliation, Newsweek magazine reported on Sunday. The news comes amid reports that Israel launched an air strike against Syria this month over a suspected nuclear site. Citing two unidentified…
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was israeli raid a dry run for attack on iran?
from guardian: The head of Israel’s airforce, Major-General Eliezer Shkedi, was visiting a base in the coastal city of Herziliya last week. For the 50-year-old general, also the head of Israel’s Iran Command, which would fight a war with Tehran if ordered, it was a morale-boosting affair, a meet-and-greet with pilots and navigators who had…
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gloom & doom in 2007?
from ap/yahoo: Another terrorist attack, a warmer planet, death and destruction from a natural disaster. These are among Americans’ grim predictions for the United States in 2007. Only a minority of people think the U.S. will go to war with Iran or North Korea over those countries’ nuclear ambitions. An overwhelming majority of those surveyed…