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The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency on Friday formally declassified an image then-US President Donald Trump tweeted in 2019 of a highly classified satellite photograph depicting the site of a failed Iranian rocket launch. NPR reported that the NGA declassified the image after a “grueling Pentagon-wide review to determine whether the briefing slide it came from could be shared with the public” in response to a Freedom of Information Act request from the radio network. Many details on the original image remain redacted – a clear sign that Trump was sharing some of the US government's most prized intelligence on social media,...

© NASA/JPL/University of Arizona ============================================================ On the Red Planet’s Hellas Planitia expanse, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has spotted a rather conspicuous logo that will have trekkies jumping for joy, while rekindling old rivalries with the Star Wars fandom in the process. “Enterprising viewers will make the discovery that these features look conspicuously like a famous logo,” wrote Ross Beyer of the University of Arizona in a statement discussing the unusual formation which bears more than a passing resemblance to Star Treks’ Starfleet logo. The likeness did not go unnoticed by one of Star Trek’s biggest stars, William Shatner, who couldn’t...

The California Federation of Teachers filed a lawsuit today against Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and other state officials to recoup $12 billion in education funds it says the state owes schools. The suit in San Francisco Superior Court comes as CFT campaigns against Proposition 1A, a spending limit and temporary tax hike on the May 19 ballot. That proposal, in conjunction with Proposition 1B, would help provide schools $9.3 billion of the $12 billion that CFT is demanding. But CFT opposes Proposition 1A because it believes the measure would limit long-term funding for schools. The lawsuit is partly a political attempt...

The AZ Federation of Taxpayers/Americans for Prosperity put on the biggest AZ conservative event of the year, their third annual Legislative Awards Luncheon. In addition to crediting the guys who put it on, Chad Kirkpatrick and Tom Jenney (on the left), the governor should be credited for frightening so many people into coming this year.This year’s award for the biggest government spender and taxer was renamed from the Vladimir I. Lenin award to the Empty Wallet Award and went to Rep. Steve Farley, who received a 14% rating from AZ Taxpayers, the lowest of any legislator. Farley did not show...

A beautiful photo of a spectacular moonset, with night on the left and full daylight on the right, taken by a crewmember aboard the International Space Station on 11 May 2003 (20:03:04 UTC) while over Russia. The moon "floating" inside Earth's atmosphere is an impressive illusion. Via photo 61 at http://ChamorroBible.org/gpw/gpw-200702.htm Image Links 1540 x 1015 pixels: http://ChamorroBible.org/images/photos/gpw-200702-61-NASA-ISS007-E-5379-night-terminator-day-moonset-20030511-Russian-Federation-medium.jpg 3030 x 2000 pixels: http://ChamorroBible.org/images/photos/gpw-200702-61-NASA-ISS007-E-5379-night-terminator-day-moonset-20030511-Russian-Federation-large.jpg

A photograph taken in Beavercreek has some hoping it's proof of top-secret 'pulse jet' tests. BEAVERCREEK — A Beavercreek man's photograph of an unusual aircraft condensation trail has sparked a high-flying debate among scientists and aviation fans over whether the Air Force or NASA is flying an aerospace vehicle with an exotic new propulsion system. The photo of the vapor trail, taken Nov. 10 by amateur meteorologist Bill Telzerow from his backyard, shows a distinctive "doughnuts-on-a-rope" shape. The photo has raised questions about whether an experimental propulsion system that uses pulse detonation engine technology is being tested here. The propulsion...

US Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld made his strongest public case for a plan, opposed by some in the US Congress and by Russia, to convert some Navy long-range missiles from a nuclear to a conventional role for potential use against terrorist targets anywhere in the world. Rumsfeld held talks Sunday with Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov, and they discussed the issue at a joint news conference. Opponents of the plan argue that it could create a situation in which a conventionally armed US Trident missile, launched from a submarine, would be mistaken for a nuclear launch, thus risking the...

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Full steam ahead: Brussels draws up plan for 'EU navy' By Justin Stares in Brussels (Filed: 21/05/2006) The European Commission has drawn up plans to set up a European coastguard, which critics fear is a back-door attempt by Brussels to create an EU navy with its own powers to stop and search shipping. Plans to upgrade the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) into a fully-fledged coastguard are buried in a document revising European Union (EU) transport policy that is due to be published next month. Armed coastguard will be embryonic naval service They come on the back of other "empire...

Moscow - Senior Russian and Iranian officials met in Moscow Thursday to discuss completion of the nuclear power plant at Bushehr and a proposal to enrich uranium in Russia for use in Tehran's civil nuclear power industry. Sergei Kiriyenko, the head of Russia's nuclear power agency Rosatom, hosted the meeting with Iranian ambassador Gholamreza Ansari and Mohammad Saeedi, deputy head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran. Saeedi said before leaving Tehran that he wanted to discuss 'fuel deliveries to the Bushehr nuclear power plant and a final date for its physical launch.' The first reactor of the station is...

The Arabic word indihar is being used these days by Palestinians who view Israel's withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and northern West Bank as a victory for the al-Aksa intifada, which erupted in September 2000. And there appears to be a growing number of Palestinians who are truly convinced that the pullout is nothing but a retreat achieved through the blood of thousands of shahids, or martyrs. Still, many also consider it a conspiracy designed to tighten Israel's grip on the West Bank and Jerusalem. The Hans Wehr Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic translates indihar as "banishment and defeat." Hamas...

Russia is gradually sinking into the abyss of facism. Its seeds have been sown by those in power and are now shooting forth in society. The Kremlin, using the patriotic feelings of its own subjects, has created a political force with a name vivid and dear to every Russian's heart - Rodina, or Motherland. This organization, with the support of President Vladimir Putin's administration, has not only gained access to all mass media (television, radio, and newspapers), but surpassed the 5 per cent barrier and made it into the State Duma. For the purpose of strengthening its own power, today's...

DUSHANBE, June 24 (RIA Novosti) - The first phase of CIS combined military exercises began at the Telemba firing range in the Chita region in southwestern Russia Friday. The exercise will last until July 10, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov told a press conference in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, following a meeting of the CIS Council of Defense Ministers. The Russian Air Force, the Baltic Fleet's anti-aircraft defense units and Belarus' anti-aircraft defense troops are taking part in the exercises. "The second phase will take place on Kazakhstan territory in Saryshagan, from August 5-12," Ivanov said. The second phase involves Kazakhstan's air...

Bratislava (Slovakia), Feb. 25 (Reuters): Incensed by US talk of a lack of press freedom in Russia, two Russian reporters tried to turn the tables on President George W. Bush during his summit news conference with Vladimir Putin yesterday. After Bush said he had raised concerns about Russia’s democracy in talks with the Russian President and felt reassured, he suddenly found himself on the defensive. “What is that lack of freedom all about?” a reporter from the Russian news agency Interfax asked the US President. Before Bush could answer, the reporter then turned on Putin and demanded to know why...

ASTANA (Reuters) - Russia rejected on Wednesday U.S. criticism of sweeping political changes proposed by President Vladimir Putin, saying this was strictly Moscow's business. "First of all, the processes that are under way in Russia are our internal affair," Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said, referring to comments by Secretary of State Colin Powell. Lavrov, speaking in Kazakhstan on the sidelines of a meeting of ex-Soviet states, said Washington had no right to impose its own model of democracy on anyone else. "And it is at least strange that, while talking about a certain 'pulling back', as he (Powell) put it,...

MOSCOW, Sept. 14 -- President Vladimir Putin's move to enhance his power in response to a wave of terrorism does not take on the real problem: the corrupt and unreformed security services that produced Putin in the first place, according to many politicians and analysts.

A US-European rift surfaced today over how harshly to deal with Iran and its suspect nuclear program, with the Europeans ignoring American suggestions and circulating their own recommendations to other delegates at a key meeting of the UN atomic agency. Diplomats at a board of governors meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency had suggested earlier that the United States and the European Union were making progress in drafting common language for a resolution that would set a deadline for Iran to meet demands designed to dispel fears it was trying to make nuclear arms.But the latest draft, obtained...

President Vladimir Putin announced radical changes to Russia's democratic institutions yesterday that will give the Kremlin greater power than at any time since the fall of the Soviet Union.In what critics say amounts to a serious setback for Russian democracy, Mr Putin effectively negated the right of citizens to elect a regional representative. Instead, the country's 89 regional governors will be proposed by the president.   President Putin: it will 'make Russia safer and easier to govern' The former KGB spy also announced that seats in the Duma allocated to single-member constituencies will be scrapped in favour of a fully...

Mikhail Khodorkovsky / Photo:Reuters “I Should Have Left Business 3 Years Ago” Created: 10.09.2004 16:37 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 16:37 MSK, 19 hours 26 minutes ago Jailed oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky answers questions from readers of www.khodorkovsky.ru. In July-August of this year the Web-site invited questions to the jailed oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky from its readers. Over the past two months the site received hundreds of letters. A list of questions was forwarded to the entrepreneur through his defense team. 1) How is it possible to amass such an enormous fortune — $15 billion — in such a short period of...