Strangely Perfect

A Secret Shared: – Is Not  a Secret One Third of Second-Hand Hard Drives Contain Secrets This is the astonishing findings from research conducted by three Universities, from Wales, the US & Australia (see here). In an absolutely random sample of second-hand discs bought at computer fairs and places like eBay, 34% had secret, classified [...]

Chinese Censorship: As part of the BBCs “take” on the international views on the new, 44th President of the United States, their China correspondent Michael Bristow has reported that his inauguration speech was censored in China. Apparently, the English version on the Xinghua News site is okay, but the Chinese version for the locals has [...]

Admiral Mark Fitzgerald told the BBC that  Somali pirates ‘hard to defeat’.  So even though NATO want to install missiles all over Europe to counter a mythical threat, and even though they have highly advanced RADAR, monitoring and communication systems, they still can’t manage to do what the Royal Navy did very effectively 200 years ago [...]

Well the chickens are not only coming home to roost – they’ve actually laid eggs and the chicks are starting to hatch, like a plot from a sixties spy paperback. Today’s news, (Russia to upgrade nuclear systems), that the Russians are initiating plans for their own missile defence shield shows what happens when god-fearing idiots [...]

Following on from the two bombers landing in Venezuela only 11 days ago (which I reported here when talking about the decreasing effectualness of Bush and USA power in the world), they will shortly be joined by a mean and capable looking ship called Peter the Great as well as a few others. They are [...]

This Associated Press article,  Analysis: North Korea nuclear deal falling apart, points out yet another consequence of the failings of policy and purpose from the outgoing George W Bush USA administration. As I pointed out in the second part of my article, bbc-science-disguised-as-validation-for-911-bush-continues-to-lose-influence, it’s the continuing failure in all areas of American life that have [...]

In this piece, Fusion power seeks super steels, and trying to use some of the news spill from the LHC, Jennifer Carpenter says; Scientists say an understanding of how the Twin Towers collapsed will help them develop the materials needed to build fusion reactors. Er, No.  It’ll teach them to stay on the right side [...]

Russian efforts to counter U.S. missile defense network gaining momentum Russia, Belarus To build Air Defense Against U.S. Missile Shield Russian efforts to counter U.S. missile defense network gaining momentum In a display of mistrust not seen for some time, the Russians have decided that they need to defend themselves on Belarus soil against the [...]

Or Does it Mean, Ignoring History? Key Links: US, Poland OK missile defense base, riling Moscow Russia condemns US missile deal I can agree with US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, for her statement, “Missile defence, of course, is aimed at no one. It is in our defence that we do this.” And it sounds [...]

Presumably, the next time someone wants to do a bit of propaganda, they’ll check the pictures first!  This is (apparently) the story from the UK’s Daily Telegraph this morning. I don’t know the truth of who did what, but it’s a classic example of crap Photoshop work and a salutary warning not to believe ANY [...]

Like I said in a previous recent posting,  the next war will be fought OVER Europe. There’s another little domino being added to the stack that will one day, come falling down around our ears.  Typically, it’s US led.  They want to post “defence” missiles as far away from the “homeland” as they possibly can [...]

Today’s decision by UK.gov to slow down the massive uptake in biofuels has come as a welcome step in the right direction.  Initially, it was a way for the Tabitha’s and Josh’s in Chelsea and Islington to feel good about running their ridiculous cars – to appease their guilty consciences if you like.  Soon, the [...]

Today’s little mention on this news item here on The BBC News website about the auction house sale of a key that unlocks the door to the Kaaba, shows, at the beginning and end of the article, the true meaning of religion – certainly in the ones stemming from “Abraham”. It’s states it’s the “12th [...]

Showing how the excuse to shoot down a spy satellite is a cover story for bravado and secrecy. This is proved by reference to the two, very public, Shuttle disasters, comparing at a simple science level the logic behind certain statements.