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Aftenposten: Germany, US plan secret spy project
Source: WP Oslo, Norway -- Wikileaks documents published by Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten say that Germany and the U.S. are engaged in a $270 million satellite spying program that is causing friction in the European Union. Citing diplomatic cables sent from the U.S. Embassy in Berlin, the newspaper said Monday that the project was presented as a commercial enterprise but is actually run by the German intelligence service. Aftenposten cites cables revealing that the HiROS venture - a network ...

Aftenposten: Germany, US plan secret spy project
OSLO, Norway - Wikileaks documents published by Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten say that Germany and the U.S. are engaged in a $270 million satellite spying program that is causing friction in the European Union. Citing diplomatic cables sent from the U.S. Embassy in Berlin, the newspaper said Monday that the project was presented as a commercial enterprise but is actually run by the German intelligence service. Aftenposten cites cables revealing that the HiROS venture — a network of...

Aftenposten: Germany, US plan secret spy project
Oslo, Norway — Germany and the U.S. are planning a $270 million satellite spying program that is causing friction in the European Union, according to Wikileaks documents published by Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten on Monday. Citing diplomatic cables sent from the U.S. Embassy in Berlin, the newspaper said the project was presented as a commercial enterprise but is actually run by the German intelligence service and the German Aerospace Center, DLR. According to the cables sent in 200...

Aftenposten: Israel gears up for Iran attack
OSLO, Norway - Wikileaks documents published in a Norwegian newspaper indicate that Israel would have 10-12 minutes' warning if Iran launched rockets against that country. Norwegian daily Aftenposten cites a cable describing a Nov. 15, 2009, meeting between an American congressional delegation and Israel's Military chief in which he reportedly said Israel was gearing up to defend itself against such attacks. The paper on Sunday cited Lt. Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi as telling the delegation that I...

France top at stealing secrets
OSLO: France is the country that conducts the most industrial Espionage on other European countries, even ahead of China and Russia, leaked US diplomatic cables say. ''French Espionage is so widespread that the damages [it causes] the German Economy are larger as a whole than those caused by China or Russia,'' an undated note from the US Embassy in Berlin said, the Norwegian daily Aftenposten said yesterday. The newspaper said last month it had obtained all the 250,000 US diplomatic cables WikiL...

Media Distortion about Israel - One Example
Mark Lavie, a long-time Associated Press reporter in Israel, should know a thing or two about the politics in that country. But he writes today at "Israel's Labor: We'll quit if no progress to peace" about tensions in the ruling coalition that An exit by Labor, a moderate party sitting uncomfortably alongside hawks in the ruling coalition, could undermine Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's parliamentary majority and force an election. That would sideline Mideast peace efforts for months. Even i...

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Newsmax : Israel Preparing for 'Large-scale War' — Cable Sunday, 02 Jan 2011 Israel's army chief told a U.S. Congress delegation in late 2009 he was preparing for a large war in the Middle East, probably against Hamas or Hezbollah, leaked U.S. diplomatic cables showed on Sunday. "I am preparing the Israeli army for a large scale war, since it is easier to scale down to a smaller operation than to do the opposite," Lieutenant General Gabi Ashkenazi was quoted as saying in a cable from the U.S...

Israel preparing for large scale war: cable
Stumble This! Oslo — Israel's army chief told a US Congress delegation in late 2009 he was preparing for a large war in the Middle East, probably against Hamas or Hezbollah, leaked US diplomatic cables showed on Sunday. "I am preparing the Israeli army for a large scale war, since it is easier to scale down to a smaller operation than to do the opposite," Lieutenant General Gabi Ashkenazi was quoted as saying in a cable from the US Embassy in Tel Aviv. The document, dated November 15, 200...

WikiLeaks exposes Israel's plans for war
OSLO: Israel's army chief told a US Congress delegation in late 2009 he was preparing for a big war in the Middle East, probably against Hamas or Hezbollah, a leaked US diplomatic cable shows. ''I am preparing the Israeli army for a large-scale war since it is easier to scale down to a smaller operation than to do the opposite,'' Lieutenant-General Gabi Ashkenazi was quoted as saying in a cable sent from the US Embassy in Tel Aviv. The document, dated November 15, was quoted on Sunday by the Osl...

Israel preparing for large scale war: cable
Stumble This! Oslo — Israel's army chief told a US Congress delegation in late 2009 he was preparing for a large war in the Middle East, probably against Hamas or Hezbollah, leaked US diplomatic cables showed on Sunday. "I am preparing the Israeli army for a large scale war, since it is easier to scale down to a smaller operation than to do the opposite," Lieutenant General Gabi Ashkenazi was quoted as saying in a cable from the US Embassy in Tel Aviv. The document, dated November 15, 200...

LEAK: US, Germany in joint spy satellite project...
The United States and Germany are jointly developing secret spy satellites under the guise of a commercial programme despite opposition from France, leaked US diplomatic cables showed Monday. The project, named HiROS, envisions the construction of an undetermined number of high-resolution observation satellites capable of spotting any object on the planet down to a size of just 50 centimetres (about 1.5 feet), according to classified cables from US Embassy in Berlin leaked to Wikileaks and obta...

US and Germany in joint spy satellite project: cable
Stumble This! Oslo (AFP) - The United States and Germany are jointly developing secret spy satellites under the guise of a commercial programme despite opposition from France, leaked US diplomatic cables showed Monday. The project, named HiROS, envisions the construction of an undetermined number of high-resolution observation satellites capable of spotting any object on the planet down to a size of just 50 centimetres (about 1.5 feet), according to classified cables from US Embassy in Be...

Report: Israel Planning for Large Scale War
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Auroras and Meteors
"Wow!" exclaims Fredrik Broms of Kvaløya, Norway. "Tonight Earth's upper atmosphere got hit full force both by the solar wind, producing some amazing coronas in purple and green, and every now and then by a fragment from shattered comet 2003 EH1, source of the Quadrantid meteor shower." He took this picture using his Nikon D3: © Fredrik Broms "Bitter cold weather here in northern Norway made the photo-session a bit shorter than I hoped--indeed, my lens was completely covered in ice cryst...

Nikki Stone: An Olympic Hero Everyone Should Resolve To Be Like
To kick off the New Year, I wanted to share a story on a man that everyone should resolve to be like. Shortly after my Retirement from aerial skiing, I was elected to the U.S. Olympic Committee's Athlete Advisory Council. At my very first meeting, I was fortunate to hear a special Olympic guest talk about a program he'd started to help the most disadvantaged Children in the world. He told us about a young girl so traumatized by seeing both her parents killed in the Rwandan Genocide that she be...

Valley snow prompts road closures
At least two roads were closed Monday morning after winter storms brought snow to the Las Vegas Valley. State Route 160 was reported closed at State Route 159, authorities said. Snow tires were recommended for state routes 156, 157 and 158. The Las Vegas Beltway was also closed to northbound traffic at the Summerlin Parkway on-ramp because of an accident. Drivers were asked to use caution Monday because of the slick roads....

Traffic flowing slowly on California highways
LOS ANGELES -- Traffic along Southern California mountain and desert roads started flowing Monday afternoon, but motorists were told to use caution because of ice in some areas. "It's cold and wet," Highway Patrol officer Krystal Carter said. Hundreds of stranded motorists spent a freezing night in their cars Sunday when a winter storm closed Interstate 5 at the 4,160-foot-high Tejon Pass, the major route between Southern and Central California. CHP units began escorting vehicles in groups of ab...

Life stinks -- but goes on -- for suicide man
A New York man trying to commit Suicide won a new lease on life after his nine-floor plunge ended atop a heap of garbage bags, news reports said Monday. The suicidal Manhattan resident jumped from a window on Sunday, the Daily News and New York Post reported. But he survived when his fall was broken by one of many piles of uncollected black rubbish bags littering New York's sidewalks in the aftermath of a blizzard last week. "Maybe it was lucky we had this snow and they hadn't cleared the garb...

Americans Claim Healthy Diet
(The New York Post) - Almost nine in 10 Americans claim they have a healthy diet, but only about a quarter limit their sugar and fat intake each day, the New York Post reported Tuesday. A total of 89.7 percent of Americans rated their own diets as "somewhat" (52.6 percent), "very" (31.5 percent) or "extremely" (5.6 percent) healthy, a Consumer Reports poll of 1,234 Americans found. But a mere 28 percent said they limited sweets and sugar every day, and just 26 percent said they curbed fat consum...

Ka-ching in clink for US murderer: report
Money sits in a box as receipts are filled out in New Jersey 2009. A US man... A US man imprisoned for killing his mother-in-law can look forward to a life of ease thanks to a tidy inheritance -- from his Victim, a report said Monday. Brandon Palladino, a 24-year-old Heroin addict, is doing 25 years minus time served after killing his in-law during an attempted jewelry theft, The New York Post reported. But in a twist of fate, he stands to enjoy at least a quarter of a million dollars in asset...

Team Canada mulls goaltending change
BUFFALO, N.Y. - Olivier Roy repented more than once, and in both official languages, less than an hour after stumbling across the biggest stage of his young career. “Obviously, I don’t think I played my best game,” he said, stoically. “But it’s over, and there’s nothing I can control about it. I’m just going to try to re-focus and, if the coach decides to put me back in, I’ll be ready for the next one.” It is unclear when that next star...

Aftenposten: Israel gears up for Iran attack
WikiLeaks documents published in a Norwegian newspaper indicate that Israel would have 10-12 minutes' warning if Iran launched rockets against that country. Norwegian daily Aftenposten cites a cable describing a Nov. 15, 2009, meeting between an American congressional delegation and Israel's Military chief in which he reportedly said Israel was gearing up to defend itself against such attacks. The paper on Sunday cited Lt. Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi as telling the delegation that Iran has 300 Shihab ro...

Team Canadas fate in Visentins shaky hands
BUFFALO, N.Y. — The last time Canada had to switch goaltenders in the middle of a major international competition, it worked out pretty well, truth be told. That was in Vancouver, when Martin Brodeur lost the plot before our eyes and Roberto Luongo was handed the reins, along with the weight of the world. The load placed on the slender shoulders of Mark Visentin Sunday was not quite suitable for Atlas, but it was a weight nonetheless. Two days after a 6-5 shootout loss to Sweden in which C...

Aftenposten: Israel gears up for Iran attack
OSLO, Norway - Israel believes it would have only 10-12 minutes' warning if Iran launched rockets but that threats from Hamas and Hezbollah are the most pressing, according to leaked U.S. State Department cables published in a Norwegian newspaper. The Aftenposten daily on Sunday cited a cable describing a Nov. 15, 2009, meeting between an American congressional delegation and Israel's Military chief in which he reportedly said Israel was preparing to defend itself against such attacks. The...

South Texas and Eagle Ford Shale hottest area for new oil wells in 2011
Houston Chronicle: Though still facing uncertainty on many fronts as 2011 begins, the Oil and gas industry knows one thing: It likes what it sees in South Texas. That's the site of the Eagle Ford shale formation, a vast underground network of dense rock layers, discovered only recently and now thought to be one of the nation's biggest Oil and gas fields. To this point, the formation has existed in the shadow of other big domestic shale formations best known for their supplies of Natural Gas, in...