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Liberty Reserve Shut Down: Cybercrime Community In Disarray
The popular Costa Rica-based virtual currency exchange Liberty Reserve appears to have been shut down permanently, while its founder has arrested on suspicion of using the site for money laundering purposes. The news has caused uproar within the Webs underground cybercrime community, with hundreds of people reporting that theyre no longer able to access funds stored on the site, which in some cases amount to thousands of dollars. Continue reading
Rachel Maddow AP Lawyer David Schulz Freedom
Rachel Maddow AP Lawyer David Schulz Freedom Security At Odds In Doj Seizures Of Ap Records By: 100dazed Continue reading
NASA – Security Alert: International Space Station Leaks (May 2013) – Video
NASA – Security Alert: International Space Station Leaks (May 2013) By: NaughtyMissTee Continue reading
Iran a top persecutor in religious freedom report- OPINION: Mass exodus of Christians is underway
The report specifically names Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as a violator of religious freedom. (AP)AP Religious freedom is in short supply in the Middle East, according to the bipartisan U.S Continue reading
Rep Doug LaMalfa Amends Cyber Security Bill to Ensure Individual Liberty – Video
Rep Doug LaMalfa Amends Cyber Security Bill to Ensure Individual Liberty Rep. Doug LaMalfa (R-CA) authored an amendment to HR 624 CISPA which clarifies the law to ensure the government cannot use the this act to spy on American Ci.. Continue reading
Sikorsky Aerospace Services Launches State-of-the-Art BLACK HAWK Training Center in Colombia
RIO DE JANEIRO, April 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ –Sikorsky Aerospace Services (SAS) today announced the opening of a new UH-60 BLACK HAWK Helicopter Flight Simulator Training Center at the Colombian Air Force Base in Melgar. The first of its kind in South America, the center provides pilot and flight crew training for the Colombian Armed Services and Sikorsky military customers throughout the region. Sikorsky Aerospace Services, Sikorsky’s aftermarket business, is overseeing training and support efforts in Colombia Continue reading
NASA Pulls Technical Database Offline During Spy Investigation
NASA has taken its huge database of technical reports offline in response to the arrest last weekend of a former contractor suspected of spying for China. Continue reading
US, Japan Discuss Plan to Counter China over Disputed Islands
Analysts say the Pentagon’s recent announcement that it is working with Japan to counter any Chinese military action to seize disputed islands in the East China Sea is a surprisingly blunt warning to Beijing. A U.S. Continue reading
Former NASA Contractor Arrested at Dulles Airport
WASHINGTON A former NASA contractor was arrested March 16 by the FBI at Dulles International Airport outside Washington while trying to catch a one-way flight to his native China, U.S. Continue reading
NASA Media Accreditation Open for Test Flight of Orbital’s Antares Rocket
WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. — Media accreditation is open for a test flight of Orbital Sciences Corporation’s Antares rocket from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport’s Pad-0A at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia Continue reading
Audit to probe reports of leaked military secrets from NASA facilities
Shown here is an aerial shot of the Ames Research Center.NASA.gov The cover page of a report, obtained by FoxNews.com and purportedly presented to the FBI, alleging that confidential Defense Department missile secrets were leaked to foreign countries.FoxNews.com The NASA office of the inspector general will audit NASAs Ames research facility in the wake of a FoxNews.com report on violations of International Trade in Arms Regulations (ITAR) laws at a storied California space-research facility. Documents obtained by FoxNews.com last month detail a four-year FBI investigation into the transfer of classified weapons technology — including rocket engine tech for missile defense systems — to China and other countries from NASAs Ames Research Center. The documents also purport that an investigation into the security lapses that led to the event are being stonewalled Continue reading
N Korea tells South to leave islands
16 March 2013 Last updated at 10:42 ET A North Korean propaganda website has warned of strikes against Southern islands and advised residents to leave. The Uriminzokkiri website, linked to the regime, mentioned targets including Yeonpyeong island, which was attacked by Northern forces in 2010 Continue reading
Donald Dunn, Former Clinton White House Political Affairs Official, Joins Fuel Freedom Foundation
IRVINE, CA–(Marketwire – Mar 12, 2013) – Fuel Freedom Foundation, a nonpartisan, nonprofit campaign dedicated to breaking America’s oil addiction, announced today that Donald Dunn, fundraiser and political campaign strategist, has been appointed as Executive Vice President of Development. Dunn will lead the development and fundraising efforts for the foundation. Continue reading
PAE Employee Posthumously Honored with Defense of Freedom Medal
ARLINGTON, Va., March 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ –Santa Gracia Ramirez, a PAE employee who was killed in 2007 while deployed to Afghanistan, was honored with the Defense of Freedom medal in a ceremony heldlast weekend in Gilbert, Ariz. Ramirez was killed by a suicide bomber while supporting the U.S. Department of State Corrections System Support Program, through which she mentored, trained and advised prison officials within the Afghan corrections system and advocated for the humane treatment of incarcerated Afghans, with a special focus on the rights of female prisoners. Continue reading
ACRM | American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine Announces Co-Editors-in-Chief of Archives of Physical Medicine and …
The ACRM | American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine announces that effective 1 January 2013, Leighton Chan, MD, MPH, and Allen W. Heinemann, PhD, ABPP, were appointed Co-Editors-in-Chief of its journal, the Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. Continue reading
Arrow 3 Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) Space and Missiles MLM Products Arrow Weapon System – Video
Arrow 3 Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) Space and Missiles MLM Products Arrow Weapon System Israel successfully carried out Monday, February 25, 2013, the first flight test of its Arrow III ballistic missile interceptor (Read more www.armyrecognition.com ), the Israeli Defense Ministry said in a statement. Continue reading
Islands Want Climate Change Seen As Security Threat By UN
UNITED NATIONS (AP) The Marshall Islands and other low-lying island nations appealed to the U.N. Security Council to recognize climate change as an international security threat that jeopardizes their very survival. Continue reading
Islands want UN to see climate as threat
The Marshall Islands and other low-lying island nations have appealed to the UN Security Council to recognise climate change as an international security threat that jeopardises their very survival. Tony deBrum, a minister and assistant to the Marshall Islands president, says the island nations are facing opposition from Security Council permanent members Russia and China and a group of more than 130 mainly developing nations, which argue that the UN’s most powerful body is the wrong place to address climate change. DeBrum told reporters on Friday after a closed Security Council meeting on the ‘Security Dimensions of Climate Change,’ organised by Britain and Pakistan, that he hopes more council members will be convinced that ‘this is a security issue and not just an economic-political-social issue.’ The low-lying islands, which are already being inundated with sea water, want the council to bring its ‘political weight’ to the issue and help their countries survive, for example, by harnessing new technologies and ensuring alternative energy supplies, he said. Continue reading
Islands want UN to see climate as security threat
UNITED NATIONS (AP) The Marshall Islands and other low-lying island nations appealed to the U.N. Security Council to recognize climate change as an international security threat that jeopardizes their very survival Continue reading