Author: NC

The Slog – by John Ward

Before kicking off today, I would like to make two things crystal clear:

1. I do not condone what ‘ISIS’ has done (or appears to have done). I regard Islamism – and its millions of assenting fellow-travelers – as a development fueled by male misogyny and medieval concepts. It represents a murderous fanaticism far worse than anything the Nazis displayed, and it will be even harder to eradicate.

2. I think it highly probable that David Haines was a good and brave man, doing his duty and very sadly dying in the process.   Continue reading “Britain Heads Towards A War Based On Poor Intelligence, Corporate Disinformation, Spook Manipulation, Business Lobbyists & Political Ego”

CBC News

CBS Houston – by Benjamin Fearnow

Midland County, Texas (CBS HOUSTON) – Midland County Sheriff Gary Painter said that law enforcement agencies along the “wide open” border have received alerts to be on the lookout for terrorists from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria crossing into the United States.

Painter, who said he has worked along the border for “about eight years,” stated that alerts have been issued to border law enforcement to be on the lookout for suspicious terrorist activity, specifically involving ISIS cells being smuggled into the United States.   Continue reading “Texas Sheriff: Reports Warn Of ISIS Terrorist Cells Coming Across The Border”

The Japan News – by Eiji Noyori and Hiroyuki Oyama

The Guardian

Japan‘s nuclear watchdog has given the green light for two reactors to restart but the operator still has to persuade local communities they are safe.

Widespread anti-nuclear sentiment has simmered in Japan ever since an earthquake and tsunami in March 2011 caused meltdowns at the Fukushima power plant, sparking the worst atomic disaster since Chernobyl.   Continue reading “Japan To Restart Two Nuclear Reactors”

Natural Gas Asia

Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) and BP Singapore (BPS), an affiliate of BP Group have signed an agreement under which the Japanese utility will purchase up to 1.20 million tons of LNG per year over 17 years from the British firm.

LNG supplies are expected to commence in April 2017 and the gas would be sourced from multiple sources the BP holds, TEPCO said Friday in a statement. The prices will be linked to the US Henry Hub gas index rather than oil prices.   Continue reading “TEPCO Signs LNG Purchase Deal With BP”

WFLA – by Peter Bernard

Scientists warn two solar flares heading our way are some of the biggest seen in several years.

But what exactly are they?

Jeff Rodgers from the Bishop Planetarium in Bradenton explains solar flares originate in sun spots, and are a wave of charged particles blasted from the surface.   Continue reading “Two giant solar flares head to earth”

New York Times – by Roger Cohen

It was the time of unraveling. Long afterward, in the ruins, people asked: How could it happen?

It was a time of beheadings. With a left-handed sawing motion, against a desert backdrop, in bright sunlight, a Muslim with a British accent cut off the heads of two American journalists and a British aid worker. The jihadi seemed comfortable in his work, unhurried. His victims were broken. Terror is theater. Burning skyscrapers, severed heads: The terrorist takes movie images of unbearable lightness and gives them weight enough to embed themselves in the psyche.   Continue reading “The Great Unraveling”

Computer World – by Patrick Thibodeau

In Boyers, Pa., a recently opened 2,000-sq.-ft. data center has been purpose-built to protect against an electromagnetic pulse (EMP), either generated by a solar storm or a nuclear event.

The company that built the facility isn’t disclosing exactly how the data center was constructed or what materials were used. But broadly, it did say that the structure has an inner skin and an outer skin that use a combination of thicknesses and metals to provide EMP protection.   Continue reading “New data center protects against solar storms and nuclear EMPs”

Breitbart – by Brandon Darby

NOGALES, Arizona — On September 11, 2014, individuals or a group in Mexico hung a message to America over the U.S.-Mexico border wall condemning American support for Israel and declaring support for Palestine. U.S. federal agents discovered the banner draped over the primary border fence in Arizona’s Yuma Sector in a restricted area that could only have been reached from Mexico. The message also contained an image described by authorities as an anarchist symbol. The incident was kept secret from the American public by federal authorities. Breitbart Texas exclusively obtained the leaked incident report from federal agents on the condition their identities remain private.   Continue reading “Feds Find Anti-Israel and Pro-Palestine 9/11 Message to America on Border Fence”

Ubergizmo – by Edwin Kee

A Samsung Group subsidiary has worked on a robot sentry that they call the SGR-A1, and this particular robot will carry a fair amount of weapons that ought to make you think twice about crossing the borders of South Korea illegally – as it has been tested out at the demilitarized zone along the border over with its neighbor, North Korea. The SGR-A1 will be able to detect intruders with the help of machine vision (read: cameras), alongside a combination of heat and motion sensors.   Continue reading “Samsung SGR-A1 Robot Sentry Is One Cold Machine”

Activist Post – by Brandon Turbeville

Only hours after delivering his ridiculous address to the American people regarding his strategy to combat an organization that is entirely the product of the United States and NATO and one that is still under complete control of these powers, Obama conducted a meeting with “foreign policy experts,” former government officials, and journalists.

The meeting, of course, is nothing more than round two in the volley of propaganda coming from the White House in its attempt to drum up more support from the American people for direct military intervention in Syria and an open use of U.S. military forces against the secular government of Bashar al-Assad. All of those within an ear’s reach of the reports regarding Obama’s meeting should be firmly aware that it is nothing more than an attempt to milk the original speech for more propaganda against Assad’s Syria and provide a since of inevitability about the coming conflict there.   Continue reading “Obama: If Assad Defends Against US Attack, US Will Attack”

Breitbart – by ILDEFONSO ORTIZ

PATAGONIA, Arizona – Agents along the South Texas Border arrested close to 6,800 illegal immigrants including 19 convicted rapists and three fugitives wanted for sexual abuse of children and child pornography within a two week span. During that time frame agents also seized more than $15.5 million in marijuana.

In the Rio Grande Valley sector from August 28 to September 11, agents arrested 6,800 immigrants with 4,300 of those being from countries other than Mexico. Among the arrests, agents arrested three criminal aliens who had sexually related warrants for their arrests and 19 convicted sexual predators half of which had victimized children, information released to Breitbart Texas by the U.S. Border Patrol shows.   Continue reading “Among Over 6k Immigrants Arrested in Texas, 22 Sexual Predators”

CBS New York

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — A man armed with a machete and two others are accused of stealing a cash register from a restaurant in Chelsea.

As WCBS 880’s Jim Smith reported, the owners of the Mexican restaurant Crema on West 17th Street near Sixth Avenue were busy Saturday searching through security video for any clues as to who the suspects are.   Continue reading “Police: Man With Machete, 2 Others Rob Restaurant In Chelsea”

EAG News – by Kyle Olson

STOURBRIDGE, England – A school is implementing a biometric system to better track what students are eating each day.

The Express & Star reports students at Redhill School in Stourbridge, England will be fingerprinted in an attempt to reduce lunch lines and “monitor pupils’ diets.”

The system requires pupils to press a finger against a machine which converts the print into biometric data.   Continue reading “School to fingerprint students to ‘monitor their diets’”

New York Times – by Matt Apuzzo

WASHINGTON — In his first year in office, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. put new limits on when the government could dismiss lawsuits in the name of protecting national security. Now, in what he has said is likely his final year, Mr. Holder has claimed broad authority to do just that in a case unlike any other.

The Justice Department intervened late Friday in a defamation lawsuit against United Against Nuclear Iran, a prominent advocacy group that pushes for tough sanctions against Tehran. The government said the case should be dropped because forcing the group to open its files would jeopardize national security.   Continue reading “Holder Says Private Suit Risks State Secrets”

The Washington Post – by David A. Fahrenthold

Sen. Rand Paul wanted to eliminate aid to Israel. Now he doesn’t. He wanted to scrap the Medicare system. Now he’s not sure.

He didn’t like the idea of a border fence — it was expensive, and it reminded him of the Berlin Wall. Now he wants two fences, one behind the other.

And what about same-sex marriage? Paul’s position — such marriages are morally wrong, but Republicans should stop obsessing about them — seems so muddled that an Iowa pastor recently confronted him in frustration.   Continue reading “Shifting his views, Rand Paul seeks broader appeal — but may risk his outsider image”