Al-Qaeda trained surgeons put the bomb in suicide bombers

http://rt.com/news/al-qaeda-implant-bomb-151/

The hunt is on for doctors implanting explosives in suicide bombers in Yemen. Security has been stepped up at airports worldwide as surgically-doctored terrorists plot revenge attacks following the one-year anniversary of Osama Bin Laden’s death.

The implanted bombs would be undetectable to airport body scanners, dramatically increasing the likelihood of a mid-flight terrorist attack, the Daily mail reports.

Experts say explosive compounds such as PETN (pentaerythritol tetranitrate) could be inserted inside of would-be bombers.

The implanted explosives would then be detonated via injection.

A western security source is quoted by the Sunday Times as saying: “This is a transferable skill and there is still some concern.”

Western intelligence agencies fear doctors are currently working with Al-Qaeda’s chief bomb maker in Yemen, Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri, to realize his plans.

The CIA is now racing against the clock to catch the ‘body-bombers’ before they go off.

Al-Asiri’s bomb plots have had a particularly intimate touch in recent years.

He was responsible for sewing a packet of PETN into Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s underwear in the failed 2009 Christmas Day bombing on a US jetliner en route to Detroit. Al-Asiri also shoved a bomb up his brother Abdullah’s rectum in a botched 2009 suicide mission targeting Saudi intelligence chief Prince Muhammad bin Nayef.

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wah wah wah..blah blah blah..the TSA getting ready to probe your cavities now..dont believe me?

someone will be probed..bank on it..

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Moody’s downgrades credit of 26 Italian banks

http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/banking/story/2012-05-14/moodys-downgrades-italian-banks/54960870/1

Moody’s Investors Service downgraded the debt ratings of 26 Italian banks Monday as they struggled with the effect of the weak economy and government austerity measures.

The move means Moody’s now ranks Italy’s banks lower than most of their Western European peers.

The ratings agency said the banks are suffering because Italy is back in recession and government measures are cutting demand for loans. Banks are facing more loan losses, limited access to funding and weaker profits.

Moody’s noted, however, that support from the European Central Bank lowered the default risk of many of the banks.

The firm lowered its long-term debt and deposit ratings by one notch each for 10 banks, by two notches for eight banks, by three notches for six banks and by four notches for two banks. It also downgraded the short-term rating on 21 banks by one or two notches, which triggered long-term rating downgrades.

The firm’s outlook for all 26 banks is negative.

Moody’s said Italy relapsed into recession in early 2012 and there are no clear signs of recovery.

The government’s austerity measures and other reforms are weighing on the country’s economy, and that could cause further loan delinquencies, particularly among corporate and small-business borrowers.

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oh italy..we didnt forget you either..more downgrades are coming in the next few weeks.. french banks next..

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Australia the most “obvious” bubble in 30 years says economist

http://business.financialpost.com/2012/05/03/australia-the-most-obvious-bubble-in-30-years-says-economist/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:%20FP_TopStories%20(Financial%20Post%20-%20Top%20Stories).

As far as bubbles go, they don’t get more obvious than Australia, according to one economist and noted bear.

Albert Edwards, economist with Société Générale, put out a note on Thursday morning whose title says it all: “The biggest bubble in recent history is heading for the mother of all hard landings.”

Mr. Edwards cites Australia’s extreme reliance on the Chinese economy as the foundation for the current bubble. After all, Australia, a global heavyweight in mining, is dependent on the global commodity boom that China has largely helped fuel over the last decade.

“All we have in Australia, at its simplest, is a credit bubble built upon a commodity boom dependent for its sustenance on an even greater credit bubble in China,” he said.

Bubble or not, there is no doubt Australia’s economic ties and proximity to China have made its economy red hot. Of the G7 countries, Australia currently maintains the tightest monetary policy, with interest rates currently at 3.75% (compare that to Canada, which at 1% has the second highest interest rates in the G7).

Domestically, strong economic growth and a flurry of foreign investment has made Australia a very unaffordable place to live. Mr. Edwards notes that not a single Australian urban centre is classified as “affordable”. Cities such as Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne fall under the “extremely unaffordable” category under the 2012 Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey.

Mr. Edwards adds that the current bubble has been percipatated by the fact that Australia has not experienced a recession for more than 20 years — making investors complacent as a result.

“The absence of any recession since 1991 has led Australians to have an excessive appetite for debt in the belief the future will reflect the past,” he said.

And complacency, of course, is a big factor in bubble creation. That has led Mr. Edwards to conclude the following about Australia:

“Of all the bubbles I have seen over the last 30 years in this industry, this one is even more obvious than the rather prominent nose on my increasingly haggard face,” he said.

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as china revised their growth back..again..a bubble goes “pop”.. i agree with this guy..hes on the money..

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10 Famous Men You Didn’t Know Were Freemasons

http://www.fraternalties.com/blogs/news/tagged/famous-masons

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dont be surprised..everyone who is anyone is connected to a secret club..its just how it is..

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London is becoming a police state for the Olympics

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/11/britain-olympics-sonic-idUSL5E8GBAIX20120511

Britain’s military will be armed with a sonic device that can be used as a high-volume loudspeaker or a non-lethal weapon to disperse crowds at this summer’s Olympic Games in London, the defence ministry said on Friday.

The equipment, which can project a piercing sound over hundreds of metres causing physical pain, has been used during protests at the G20 summit in Pittsburgh in 2009 and against pirates operating off the Somali coast.

The Ministry of Defence said it expected to use it primarily in loudspeaker mode to communicate with boats it wants to stop on the River Thames.

Defence chiefs have already caused controversy by announcing plans to put surface-to-air missiles on the top of residential buildings near the Olympics site in east London.

Fighter jets roared over the capital and helicopters were seen hovering over the Houses of Parliament this month during a nine-day military exercise to prepare for Britain’s biggest peacetime security operation.

The LRAD (Long Range Acoustic Device), made by U.S. company LRAD Corporation, can be mounted on the side of a ship or on the top of a vehicle. Some versions are roughly the same size and shape as a dustbin lid.

It can generate noises up to around 150 decibels, similar to a gunshot, and has a maximum range of 3 km or 1.8 miles.

The device can also emit a warning alarm that sounds like a police siren and “potentially prevents the use of harmful or deadly force”, LRAD says on its website.

Police and military planners say they are preparing for a range of security threats at the Olympics including protesters trying to disrupt events and attacks using hijacked airliners.

Around 13,500 soldiers will help the police during the Games, which run from July 27 to Aug. 12.

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the thing about laws being brought in for special events or rearguard actions..is when do they stop using them?..never..for example,can you see the patriot act ever being repealed?

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The Tiny Dot

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squash the dot..we outnumber them heavily..awaken oh masses..break the hypnotists spell..

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Nasa trains astronauts for asteroid mission

http://mytechnologyworld9.blogspot.in/2012/05/nasa-trains-astronauts-for-asteroid.html

The first official British European Space Agency astronaut Tim Peake is being trained for a mission to land on an asteroid, it can be revealed.

Next month Tim will begin a training programme that will teach him how to operate vehicles, conduct spacewalks and gather samples on the surface of an asteroid

It is a space mission straight from the Hollywood film Armageddon.

A team of astronauts are being trained to land on an asteroid to explore its surface, search for minerals and even learn the skills they may need to destroy it should one pose a threat to the Earth.

Nasa, the US space agency, is planning to send humans far further than they have ever been before to by making contact with an asteroid up to three million miles away by the end of the next decade.

It would take astronauts far beyond the current limit of human endeavour – the Moon, which is 239,000 miles from Earth.

Travelling at around 50,000 miles per hour around the Sun with almost non-existent gravity due to their small size, landing safely on these space rocks will present a significant challenge.

A team of astronauts, however, have already started preparing for just such a mission. Among them is Major Tim Peake, a former British Army helicopter test pilot who is now the first official British astronaut with the European Space Agency.

Next month they will begin a training programme that will teach them how to operate vehicles, conduct spacewalks and gather samples on the surface of an asteroid.

While the primary goal of a mission to an asteroid will be scientific to learn more about their hostile environments, the skills needed to work on their surface could also prove invaluable should scientists discover one on a collision course with Earth.

Nasa is currently monitoring more than 400 objects with potential to hit the Earth, although most are considered to be low risk.

Major Peake said: “With the technology we have available and are developing today, an asteroid mission of up to a year is definitely achievable.

“Asteroids are interesting on a number of different levels. Nasa is focused on the science you can achieve as asteroids are essentially a historical record of billions of years of our universe where we can take samples from.

“These objects are also coming extremely close to Earth all the time, but we rarely hear about it. In the last year we had an asteroid come within Earth’s geostationary orbit, which is closer than some satellites.

“With enough warning we would probably send a robotic mission to deflect an asteroid, but if something is spotted late and is big enough we might come into Armageddon type scenarios where we may have to look at manned missions to deflect it.

“That is when the skills we are learning about how to work on an asteroid could be useful.”

Officials at Nasa are due to reveal details of a manned mission to an asteroid at a conference later this month in Japan.

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thanks to xxx for the link..

its happening..i am curious as to what else they are being trained for..interesting story that keeps growing..

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