News Stories relating to "terrorism"
Thursday, July 19, 2012
The Department of Homeland Security will soon be using a laser at airports that can detect everything about you from over 160 feet away. It can actually read you on a molecular level (in case you're hiding something in your genes?)
It will be able to read your adrenaline levels (measuring your level of tension and excitement), as...
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Thursday, February 9, 2012
Weed control has become a matter of national security. Along US southern coastal rivers, most particularly Texas' Rio Grande, an invasive species of plant known as giant reed is encroaching on the water, overrunning
international border access roads, and creating a dense cover for...
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Friday, November 18, 2011
How can we find home-grown terrorists who have been indoctrinated by (usually) internet propaganda, like Army psychiatrist Nidal Malik Hasan, who opened fire at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009, killing 12 people and wounding 31 others?
The Defense Dept. intelligence Agency (DARPA) is asking scientists to look at the emails of groups of...
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Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Those of us who watch our
brave young soldiers on the TV news are often appalled by all the heavy equipment they have to carry, but soon they may be able to
detect IEDs with a single sheet of...
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Tuesday, September 27, 2011
We're prepared not only for a possible nuclear power plant meltdown of our own, but we're also more prepared for a terrorist "dirty bomb." The amount of radiation released during the
Fukushima nuclear disaster was so great that the level...
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Monday, July 25, 2011
If we could
see the future, we would be able to head off potential nuclear strikes. Now researchers have discovered how to use a crystal ball to protect homeland security: They've developed crystals that can be used to detect nuclear threats,...
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Monday, May 30, 2011
Congress just passed the extension of the Patriot Act with hardly a murmur and it was signed into law on May 27. Now Senator Ron Wyden (D Oregon) says that what the public has been led to believe the act allows and how the government secretly interprets it are two different things. The reason is that the government's interpretations of the act are...
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Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Perhaps we could have killed Osama bin-Laden with a drone, but since he rarely left his compound, our soldiers had to
go in and get him instead. In Whitley's new novel
Hybrids, he writes about machine-men who are engineered to...
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Monday, April 18, 2011
The recent Japanese nuclear power plant meltdown has spurred scientists on to find better ways to detect
radiation. They could also use these methods to search for countries (like Iran) that are secretly making nuclear weapons--as well as terrorists who...
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Friday, April 8, 2011
Scientists have developed a spray-on material that both detects
terrorist bombs AND renders them harmless. This may end government restrictions on liquids that can be carried onboard airliners. Researcher Allen Apblett says, "This stuff is going to be used anywhere terrorist...
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Thursday, December 9, 2010
If you're getting ready to fly home for
Christmas, you have to ask yourself this: Are airport
scans and pat downs making us safer or playing into the hands of terrorists? Are they even...
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Tuesday, November 30, 2010
In the past few years, people in the US and UK have been horrified to discover that many of the terrorists in their midst are
"home grown," that is, citizens of their countries who have embraced a
radical...
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Thursday, November 4, 2010
Your doctor and dentist are careful not to give you too many X-rays, but a new report says that Homeland Security has bought 500 mobile X-ray vans that can scan cars, trucks and homes without the drivers or residents even knowing it's been done. The vans contain Z Backscatter X-ray devices, which aim a powerful X-ray beam that can of penetrate 14...
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Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Before it explodes - Would international travel or internet sites and documentary films about foreign places help stop jihadist attacks? Could student foreign exchanges help as well? All these things could help end terrorism if they cause terrorists to be less identified with their own ethnic group.
New research shows...
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Monday, June 21, 2010
One of the main things we worry about in the future is another terrorist attack. Dhiren Barot was an al Qaeda operative involved in plots to blow up the London subway, among other targets. To maximize the damage and the terror, he planned to pack some of his bombs with toxic gas (Whitley's novel Critical Mass explores a similar scenario)....
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Friday, May 7, 2010
A suspicious package was found in Times Square today and thearea was evacuated. The precautionary evacuation wascanceled after the bomb squad determined that the packagedid not contain explosives.
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Thursday, May 6, 2010
If the would-be bomber had read unknowncountry.com (and we're glad he didn't), he would have KNOWN his fertilizer bomb wouldn't ignite, since we reported on this 3 years ago! Support the truth: Subscribe today. And if you love conspiracy as much as we do, don't miss Jim Marrs at this year's Dreamland Festival!
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Friday, April 16, 2010
For your smartphone - Science triumphs again! If you've got a "smartphone," which is the "Swiss Army Knife" of cell phones, you're probably constantly looking for new "apps" to buy for it. Here's one you didn't expect: an app that detects toxic chemicals in the atmosphere.
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Friday, April 2, 2010
What we're REALLY fighting about! - Some researchers think that al-Qaeda IS NOT fighting a war of religion, it's fighting a WATER WAR.
On Alternet.org, Steven Solomon writes: "The unfolding global water crisis increasingly influences the outcome of America's two wars, homeland defense against international terrorism, and...
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Tuesday, March 30, 2010
if marriage customs changed - Suicide bombers are recruited through a sad kind of conspiracy: According to promises made in the Quran, "When a martyr for Allah takes his place in Paradise, he will marry beautiful-eyed young women, will be spared the torments of the tomb, will not submit to the Day of Judgment and will have one...
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Friday, March 26, 2010
As suicide bombers - As well as the potential of cyberattacks that would knock out Western computer networks, terrorists are using their own internet children's websites to recruit suicide bombers, especially among girls, who are faring the worst in these Jihadist battles.
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Friday, March 26, 2010
What happened When We Put LSD in It? - There are new forms of terrorism being planned all the time, but countries (including the US!) were perpetrating vile experiments on their ALLIES as long as 50 years ago.
In the March 11th edition of the Telegraph, Henry Samuel writes about the "cursed bread" mystery of Pont-Saint-...
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Monday, March 22, 2010
Our enemies are figuring out new ways to attack us all the time: There will be new forms of terrorism in the future, and one of these could be a cyberattack, which could knock out both cell phones and computers.
A cyberattack has been simulated recently in order to figure out what defenses need to be put in place, and like earlier...
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Monday, February 22, 2010
What's it REALLY all about? - As the face of terrorism changes, one reporter is asking a provocative question: "Who would benefit politically from a major terrorist incident on American soil, ready, willing and able to step into the breach and exploit the catastrophic loss of human life that would follow in its wake?" His...
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Wednesday, January 20, 2010
In his new novel Critical Mass (which will be given away to everyone who subscribes or renews for at least 6 months through January), Whitley Strieber describes how easy it would be to smuggle a nuclear device into a major city and use this to blackmail a country into adopting Sharia law. Now it turns out that future terrorism may not need a...
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