The larger house of congress the house of representatives passed what they call a reality budget Friday night. After weeks of extended committee work and nine days of marathon plenary sessions, the House of Representatives historically before midnight of Friday approved the proposed P1.816-trillion General Appropriations Act for 2012, a budget “grounded on the realities” [...] [...more]
STRATFOR came out with a excellent analysis from the US perspective of the difficulties and successes of the decade long US search for Bin Laden. It goes in depth into the difficulties of dealing with human intelligence deployments in unfriendly environments where ‘one man’s terrorists is another’s hero’. A problem not only for the US Intel community but others as well across the [...] [...more]
Posting verbatim; Update 5 on effects of TY Chedeng (Songda) as in PAOR area. Heavy rain has already caused damage and floods as this wide storm moves slowly towards Luzon Island. At 4:00 am today, The eye of typhoon “CHEDENG” was estimated based on radar, satellite and surface data at 270 km east Northeast of [...] [...more]
STRATFOR, the global security and geopolitical think tank based in Texas. Came out with an interesting guide to show those not in the know some very basic pointers on ‘How to tell if your neighbor is a bomb-maker’, I’ll just republish Scott Stewart’s execlent article below. It looks at the over-all picture from a global view and [...] [...more]
A report by www.stratfor.com republished with permission: A March 12 explosion at the earthquake-damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Japan, appears to have caused a reactor meltdown. The key piece of technology in a nuclear reactor is the control rods. Nuclear fuel generates neutrons; controlling the flow and production rate of these neutrons is [...] [...more]
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