Friday, April 23, 2010

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Human Torpedoes Sunk South Korean Warship – Report



Posted: 23 Apr 2010 12:28 AM PDT


The UK’s Telegraph reports that a South Korean warship was destroyed by an elite North Korean suicide squad of ‘human torpedoes’ on the express orders of the regime’s leader, Kim Jong-il.
The story says the the attack on the 1,220-ton Cheonan, which sank on March 26 was in retaliation for a skirmish between warships of [...]

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Prompt Global Strike, Missile Reaches Anywhere In Under An Hour



Posted: 22 Apr 2010 07:43 PM PDT


The NY Times has an interesting article that details a new class of weapons capable of reaching any corner of the earth from the United States in under an hour and with such accuracy and force that they would greatly diminish America’s reliance on its nuclear arsenal.
Yet even now, concerns about the technology are so [...]

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NYPD Working With TSA Experts On Subway Searches



Posted: 22 Apr 2010 07:25 PM PDT


The NYPD is using a dozen explosives experts from the city’s airports to assist in random bag searches in the subway.
The NYPD says the eight workers and four supervisors have worked doing passenger security sweeps at area airports for the Transportation Security Administration.
The pilot program started Thursday. The TSA members will work with police at [...]

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Do Databases Cross a Line In Border Checks?



Posted: 22 Apr 2010 07:16 PM PDT


In the past three years, Ann Wright, who lives in Hawaii, has traveled to Canada five times and been denied entry twice. Each of the five times, Canadian authorities questioned the 63-year-old based on their own review of U.S. criminal justice databases containing Wright’s misdemeanor arrest record. In 2007, Wright says, she was turned back [...]

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Man Added To No-Fly List While Airborne



Posted: 22 Apr 2010 07:10 PM PDT


A man from West Africa who boarded a New York-bound flight in Senegal was added to the no-fly list while the plane was already heading over the Atlantic Ocean, according to a passenger on the flight and two sources with knowledge of the situation.
On Wednesday night, Delta Airlines Flight 215 departed from Abuja, Nigeria, stopping [...]

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Potentially Deadly Fungus Spreading in US, or Is It?



Posted: 22 Apr 2010 07:01 PM PDT


A potentially deadly strain of fungus is spreading among animals and people in the northwestern United States and the Canadian province of British Columbia, researchers reported on Thursday.
The airborne fungus, called Cryptococcus gattii, usually only infects transplant and AIDS patients and people with otherwise compromised immune systems, but the new strain is genetically different, the [...]

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