Archive for July 5th, 2009

Despite last week's naval drill, defense official says there will be no permanent deployment in Eilat of German-made submarines that could be used in strike on Iran Israel has no plan to station submarines in Eilat, a defense official said on Sunday, playing down speculation the Red Sea port could become a forward base for naval attacks on...
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Mossad head Meir Dagan assured Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu that Saudi Arabia would allow IAF jets to fly over the kingdom during any future raid on Iran's nuclear facilities, The Sunday Times reported. The British paper reported that Dagan held talks with Saudi officials earlier this year on the topic. However, the Prime Minister's Office issued an...
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Uzi Mahnaimi in Tel Aviv and Sarah Baxter The head of Mossad, Israel’s overseas intelligence service, has assured Benjamin Netanyahu, its prime minister, that Saudi Arabia would turn a blind eye to Israeli jets flying over the kingdom during any future raid on Iran’s nuclear sites. Earlier this year Meir Dagan, Mossad’s director since 2002, held secret talks...
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Says Jewish state 'has sovereign right' to choose own path By Aaron Klein JERUSALEM – The U.S. will not stand in the way if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu believes Israeli military action is needed to eliminate the Iranian nuclear threat, Vice President Joe Biden said during an interview with ABC News today. The statements mark the first time the...
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CCTV, RFID tags and GPS-enabled phones are among the technologies that can be used to keep track of your movements.   By Claudine Beaumont  Big Brother is watching you: CCTV cameras have become one of the most contentious pieces of technology in public use Photo: PA The furore around the Chinese government’s Green Dam software has raised the issue...
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Researchers are using Bluetooth technology to observe the meanderings of tens of thousands of festival-goers at a top European rock festival, hoping their findings will launch a new generation of tracking devices. The team from the University of Ghent in Belgium believes the research could yield new satellite navigation applications for the retail and security sectors. "We have installed 36...
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President Obama hosted a reception at the White House celebrating LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) Pride Month. Black Christians should take note and learn a few things about our black president. As they say, we are what we do. It tells us something that Mr. Obama had no time to host an event for the National Day...
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By Joe Kovacs WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – Many Americans from coast-to-coast turned Independence Day 2009 into a "counterattack" against what they call the high-spending, freedom-shrinking policies of President Barack Obama and members of Congress, irrespective of party affiliation. An unidentified couple displays a sign as they wait for the Independence Day tea party to commence In West Palm Beach,...
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Every July 4, we retreat to fireworks, feast and festival in celebration of an independence that is rapidly becoming little more than a memory. Our ancestors declared their independence in 1776 from a tyrannical, overbearing government. The independence claimed by the authors of the U.S. Constitution helped them create a government expressly prohibited from becoming tyrannical and overbearing, by limiting...
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Court wades into brewing battle over rights of Internet journalists By Drew Zahn Joe Kaufman When Internet journalist Joe Kaufman wrote an article exposing terrorist connections in two American Muslim groups, he was sued by a swarm of Islamic organizations, none of which he had mentioned in his online article. The technique is called by some "legal jihad"...
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