Cold War Redux http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iIgesHH9fg (New Russian ICBM test-fired) ... I mean there are more spies in this country now than at the height of the Cold War after all http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-57431837/more-spies-in-u.s-than-ever-says-ex-cia-officer/ ... sending a message to the US/European/NATO alliance? Still makes me wonder if the real geo-political chess battle is merely East versus ... Read More

Financial terrorism suspected in 2008 economic crash - Washington Times Many have said the term 'Financial Terrorism' was extreme to describe what happened to the economy in 2008. No more. The Pentagon confirms the reality. I agree with everything in this article about causes of the crash, and glad the government is ... Read More

Trademark dispute over blog name pits Ping against 'Ping' - Star-Telegram The Star-Telegram is reporting on a good friend of mine, Kent Pingel, whose site PingWi-Fi.com, appearing on the bottom of the menu column at the right, has been requested by Ping, Inc. to give up his site name and brand because ... Read More

"Europe's fiscal Fascism brings British withdrawal ever closer" - Ambrose Evans-Pritchard - Telegraph "Just when you thought the EU could not go any further down the road towards authoritarian excess, it gets worse." - Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Things are spinning out of control in Europe, economically, fiscally and socially. German Chancellor Angela Merkel ... Read More

I only heard about this yesterday, but the news apparently broke in May of this year, as I understand it. Terrible story. For the sake of a Euro, the company, Trafigura (or rather another company they hired allegedly), illegally dumped toxic wastes in the Ivory Coast city of Aberjian that ... Read More

Excerpt from this article in which Murdoch speaks about government involvement in journalism: "As for the government stepping in , Murdoch said he feared, and others should to, the growing drumbeat for government assistance should be as alarming as overregulation. That includes providing taxpayer funds for journalism or giving them nonprofit ... Read More

(Original): http://homelandsecuritynewswire.com/single.php?id=8200 (Archived): http://www.westerfunk.net/ ... common%20language/ "The former cybersecurity director at DHS had some sobering words last week about the battle for cybersecurity. 'We lost,' the former director, now chief executive officer of NetWitness Corp., said at the Symantec Government Symposium in Washington. 'We lost the cyber war over the last 15 ... Read More

(Original): ALIEN microbes living just below the Martian soil are responsible for a haze of methane around the Red Planet, Nasa scientists believe. (Archived): http://www.westerfunk.net/archives/science/Life%20on%20Mars/ So now, I suppose the implicit argument from NASA goes,"Let's spend next to a trillion $'s of tax-payer money that we don't have (maybe more) trying ... Read More

http://www.dbtechno.com/internet/2008/0 ... for-wi-fi/ This is a great deal, seeing as how the T-Mobile Wi-Fi was way over-priced to begin with. Those of you using AT&T DSL already will now have free access at all of the Starbucks locations offering Wi-Fi. Excellent ... ... Read More

Tornadoes rip through South, killing 47 How tragic. So would Pat Robertson say the same thing about these Southern states that he said about New Orleans and New York? That the judgment of God is falling on these places in the form of massive tragedies because of their blasphemies and idolatries, ... Read More