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A specter has been haunting the Western Hemisphere since mid-summer 2012, the specter of China's People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) routinely patrolling the waters of the Atlantic Ocean. At first sight, it might seem that Beijing is truly laying the groundwork for its foothold in the Atlantic Rim. Not least, Chinese government signed a free-trade agreement with Iceland in April and PLAN vessels recently made a month-long trip in the Mediterranean Sea and Eastern Atlantic. Even so, China's strategic projection in the Atlantic is still far from becoming reality. The whole psychodrama unfolded at the end of June 2012, when...

A South African company in the spotlight for paying $100,000 in speaking fees to White House adviser David Plouffe is also in business with a Liberian official under U.N. sanctions for his ties to convicted war criminal and former Liberian dictator Charles Taylor. That's among the latest details to emerge on the connections involving MTN Group, a subsidiary of which paid President Obama's former campaign manager for engagements in late 2010, shortly before he joined the White House. The ties to Liberia's bloody Taylor era center on Benoni Urey, who was commissioner of maritime affairs in Liberia during Taylor's reign....

Washington, Oct.19 (ANI): Security researchers have detected a new Trojan, scarily similar to the infamous Stuxnet worm, which could disrupt computers controlling power plants, oil refineries and other critical infrastructure networks. The Trojan, dubbed "Duqu" by the security firm Symantec, appears, based on its code, to have been written by the same authors as the Stuxnet worm, which last July was used to cripple an Iranian nuclear-fuel processing plant, Fox News reports.

Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) member and Fatah party member Fuad Kokali put the lie to PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' claims he will negotiate with Israel Thursday. In an interview with the pro-'Palestinian' Alternative Information Center, Kokali said "it is a must to have this reconciliation because we need the world to recognize a... Palestinian state and without Gaza ... this weakens our position." "And now they are building a new policy to stop the Palestinian state in September," Kokali said about opposition to unilateral PA efforts outside the Oslo framework that circumvent peace negotiations with Israel, to gain a declaration...

Video Clip: http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/2436.htm "Title of Video: Yousuf Al-Sharrafi, Palestinian Legislative Council Member from Hamas, Calls for Suicide Operations in Israeli Buses and Restaurants" Clip #2436 Broadcast: March 17, 2010 # Transcript: http://www.memritv.org/clip_transcript/en/2436.htm March 17, 2010 Clip No. 2436 "Yousuf Al-Sharrafi, Palestinian Legislative Council Member from Hamas, Calls for Suicide Operations in Israeli Buses and Restaurants" SNIPPET: "The following are excerpts from an interview with PLC member Dr. Yousef Al-Sharrafi, which aired on Al-Aqsa TV on March 17, 2010." SNIPPET: "If the enemy knew that it would pay the price – especially through martyrdom operations in its buses and its restaurants...

Here is video last night of Bill O'Reilly defending CNN's Lou Dobbs against demands by The Southern Poverty Law Center that Dobbs be fired for his treatment of the Obama Birth Certificate issue. O'Reilly said he had investigated the issue himself a year ago a found it is "an absurd story," and "totally bogus." But O'Reilly defended Dobbs' right to free speech, and said it is not right to demand his firing just because one finds his speech offensive. O'Reilly talked with a representative of The Southern Poverty Law Center. . . . (Watch Video)

Mar. 4, 2006 20:26 Fatah debates joining Hamas-led PLC government By ASSOCIATED PRESS Top officials of Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah Party gathered Saturday to discuss the movement's defeat in Palestinian legislative elections and to decide whether to join a new government led by Hamas. Saturday night's meeting opened three days of talks by the Fatah Revolutionary Council, a 123-member body that sets party policies. The council was expected to reject an alliance with Hamas, though a formal decision is unlikely before the end of the gathering.

Wiring an old hotel for wireless Internet access can easily cost more than $1 million in construction and cabling costs, and that doesn't even factor in the lost revenue when rooms are unavailable due to the work. But some hotels have found a way around that problem using power line communications, or PLC, products, from TELKONET Inc. The company's technology, also known as "broadband over power line," is installed in the basement of a building and connects to its existing electrical system. To get wired broadband access, guests simply plug a modem into any electrical outlet. "It did not make...

Ok well I'm 19 now in college. I'm leaning towards being a lawyer (I know, I know, I'll try to be a good one though) and was just looking into some of my options. Does anybody have any background knowledge of a program like this? The PLC-Law program specifically. I'm sure it's good and all but I'm just wondering if people have any other kind of suggestions or comments.My first post so hopefully I did it right and won't upset the elders.

Internet noise threatens emergency radio 10:31 14 January 2005 Exclusive from New Scientist Print Edition Barry Fox After the tsunami hit Sri Lanka on 26 December, Victor Goonetilleke, head of the island's amateur radio society, delivered a short-wave radio set and two 12-volt car batteries to the prime minister's emergency headquarters in Colombo. At the same time, three of his friends drove through the devastation to Hambantota, on the hard-hit south-east coast, where they set up another battery-powered short-wave radio. For two days, while the military struggled to restore electricity supplies and phone lines, the prime minister was able to...

A Palestinian Legislative Council investigation into the reasons for the chaos in the Palestinian Authority found that the main reason for the anarchy is that the PA and its leader, Yasser Arafat, have failed to make a clear political decision to end it. The report also calls for an end to Qassam rocket fire into Israel and attacks inside Israel, the resignation of the members of the Qureia government and general elections. "The main reason for the failure of the Palestinian security forces and their lack of action in restoring law and order," says the report prepared by the...

[IMRA: While various Washington officials sang the praises of Abu Mazen until his resignation, Abu Mazen explains in the following excerpt of his resignation speech how he avoided complying with the requirements of the Roadmap.] PA's Mahmud Abbas Addresses PLC Closed Session, Criticizes Arafat's Policies GMP20030910000030 London Quds Press (Internet Version-WWW) in Arabic 1045 GMT 09 Sep 03 Ramallah Al-Ayyam Arabic 07 Sep 03 Reasons for PA Government's Resignation as Presented By Mahmud Abbas to LC GMP20030907000064 Jerusalem Al-Quds Arabic 07 Sep 03 ["Text" of speech outgoing Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmud Abbas delivered at a closed Palestinian Legislative Council session...

Senior Palestinian official: Arafat tells Fatah faction he wants PLC speaker Ahmed Qureia as next PM

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said that a few days ago a senior Palestinian official called him and suggested that the two sides resume negotiations, Yediot Aharonot reported today. "I offered my readiness to meet with him," Sharon said in an interview that will be published on Friday. Yesterday, Sharon announced that he would allow the Palestinian Legislative Council to meet next week in Ramallah. Sharon did not say who the senior Palestinian official was. Previously he has stated that he would not agree to talks with the Palestinian Authority as long as terrorism continued. At the end of March, Sharon...