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Bush And Abe Regret North Korea Delay In Disbanding Nuclear Arsenal
Washington (AFP) May 14, 2007US President George W. Bush and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe expressed regret that North Korea has not fulfilled its promise to begin dismantling its nuclear weapons program, the White House said Monday. North Korea is reluctant to shut down its key Yongbyon reactor, as pledged in a February 13 multinational agreement, until it receives 25 million dollars of its funds frozen in a Macau ban ... more US Military Makes YouTube And MySpace Off Limits 
San Francisco (AFP) May 14, 2007US military officials said on Monday that MySpace, YouTube and about ten other social-networking websites are off limits to soldiers using Department of Defense computer systems. The regulation is intended primarily to prevent military Internet connections from being clogged with uploads or downloads of data-rich files such as video clips, said Defense Department spokesman Commander Jeffrey Gord ... more Raytheon And Aerojet Test New Propulsion System For Air-Launched Missile Defense System 
Tucson AZ (SPX) May 15, 2007Raytheon has demonstrated a key propulsion component of the Network Centric Airborne Defense Element (NCADE) program. NCADE is a missile defense system that will affordably leverage operational tactical missile technologies and infrastructure. As part of the NCADE risk-reduction program, Raytheon and partner Aerojet tested an advanced hydroxylammonium nitrate thruster that provided more th ... more Experts Inspect Czech Radar Site As Poland Holds ABM Talks With US 
Prague (AFP) May 14, 2007US experts began Monday fresh inspections at a site in the Czech Republic earmarked to host a tracking radar which would form part of its expanded missile defence shield, the Czech defence ministry said. Inspections at the Czech military base at Brdy, southwest of Prague, should last until the end of the week. They follow on from the launch of initial negotiations last week between Prague ... more Ahmadinejad Warns US Against Military Action 
Muscat (AFP) May 14, 2007President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warned the United States on Monday that Tehran would retaliate severely to any possible attack over its controversial nuclear programme. "They (the Americans) understand that if they should make this mistake, the retaliation of the Iranian people will be severe and they will repent," he told reporters in Abu Dhabi at the end of a landmark visit to the United Arab Em ... more |
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Yokohama (AFP) Japan, May 14, 2007Japanese scientists who want to be in tune with their work can now stand in the eye of a typhoon or observe close-up walls of whirling wind -- with the help of some goggles. In what is billed as unique technology, Japanese researchers have created three-dimensional images from stocks of data culled over the years and fed into computers. "Thanks to this system, we can discover so much more ... more Venezuela Nationalizes Foreign Oil Rigs 
Caracas (AFP) May 14, 2007The Venezuelan government of firebrand President Hugo Chavez said Monday it was taking control of oil rigs from multinational firms, in the latest of a wave of nationalizations. Energy Minister Rafael Ramirez, who also heads the state-owned energy company PDVSA, said the firm had in the past ceded control of 18 offshore drilling platforms to foreign giants. "These companies demand millions ... more Consumers Willing To Pay More For Environmentally Responsible Fuels Including Clean Coal 
Washington DC (SPX) May 15, 2007A majority of consumers said they would pay more for clean energy because it is good for the environment, according to a recent survey conducted by the Energy and Resources industry group of Deloitte. "The most dramatic finding was the growing willingness of electricity consumers to pay higher costs to use fuels that are less damaging to the environment, including coal, if delivered as clean coa ... more The Energy Nexus Of Russia And Central Asia 
Moscow, Russia (RIA-Novosti) May 15, 2007Last Thursday, Russia's President Putin arrived in Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan, for the start of a week-long visit to Central Asia, which will focus on energy. But the visit is not just about oil and gas. Electricity generation and transmission and atomic energy were also on the agenda, with Moscow and Astana agreeing to establish an international uranium enrichment center originally propo ... more Bush Vies To Wean US Off Foreign Oil 
Washington (AFP) May 14, 2007President George W. Bush, facing mounting disquiet about global warming and sky-high fuel prices, Monday ordered his government to slash America's dependence on foreign oil. Bush said his directive to cut gasoline usage by 20 percent in the next 10 years will make the United States "more secure for generations to come," help economic growth and safeguard the environment. The so-called "20 ... more |
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Bethesda MD (SPX) May 14, 2007Iridium Satellite announces that it has 183,000 subscribers worldwide as of March 31, 2007, a 23.6 percent increase over the company's 148,000 subscribers at the end of the first quarter 2006. The company had first quarter revenue of $52.7 million and EBITDA (Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization) of $13.6 million. Iridium had revenue of $212.4 million and EBITDA of $53. ... more Japan Develop Laser Weapons Amid North Korea Threat 
Tokyo (AFP) May 13, 2007Japan plans to develop high-power laser weapons next year to strengthen its anti-missile defence system, in response to the growing military threat from North Korea, a report said Sunday. The Defence Ministry will ask for funds for research and development of ground-based laser weapons in the annual budget request for fiscal 2008, the Mainichi Shimbun daily reported, without clarifying sources.< ... more From Radio Telescopes To Electromagnetic Weapons 
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) May 14, 2007A group of Russian scientists from Tomsk, Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod and Moscow have developed a series of unique compact generators capable of producing high-energy pulses of hundreds and even thousands of megawatts. This compares with the capacity of a major Soviet hydropower station on the Dnieper or an energy unit at a modern nuclear power plant. The new generators are sources of electr ... more Estonia To Discuss Cyber-Attacks With NATO And EU 
Tallinn (AFP) May 11, 2007Estonia is to raise the issue of how to handle cyber-attacks against state computer systems in meetings with partner member states of the NATO military alliance and European Union, officials said Friday. "If the ports of a NATO member country are under attack, it is considered an attack against the whole of NATO, and the military alliance comes to help," Defence Minister Jaak Aaviksoo said. ... more Brave New War 
Washington (UPI) May 11, 2007While the White House and the Pentagon continue their long vacation in Cloud Cuckoo Land, in the real world the literature on Fourth Generation war continues to grow. An important addition is John Robb's new book, "Brave New War: The Next Stage of Terrorism and the End of Globalization." As the title implies, this book dares to question the inevitability of the globalist future decreed by the in ... more
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