President Barack Obama unveils his defense strategy.

President Barack Obama unveiled his defense strategy, which features anemphasis on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) or Drones. This coming fresh on the heels of a drone capture by Iran and a "dronevirus" that plagued some aircraft systems this year. Maybe Iran willcatch a virus if it successfully mines data from the captured RQ-170drone.So [...]

Hope

SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - The family of a U.S. soldier held captive bythe Taliban for over two years said on Wednesday they were optimisticabout the possibility of talks between the Afghan insurgent group andcountries including the United States.They expressed hope that Bowe Bergdahl would be freed "as soon aspossible" in a statement [...]

Insight: West in political crisis has echoes of 1930s

(More Confirmation That Our Present Leaders Have Failed The AmericanPeople)By Stella Dawsonhttp://news.yahoo.com/insight-west-political-crisis-echoes-1930s-130406733.html "When the United States, Europe and China go into a crisis of this sort,it can reasonably be said that the center of gravity of the world'seconomy and most of its military [...]

Tortured Afghan girl, Sahar Gul, to go to India for treatment

                                      Sahar Gul, a 15-year-old Afghan girl who was brutally tortured for months by her mother-in-law, will be sent to India [...]

Guantanamo Bay Taliban Detainees To Be Released: Report

Several high-ranking officials are included among the detainees whowould be released, The Guardian notes. Fox News reported last week thatMullah Mohammed Fazl, who was suspected of killing Shiite Muslims inAfghanistan, is among those being considered for release...Please read the full article:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/03/guantanamo-bay-taliban-release_n_1182074.html?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl10%7Csec3_lnk1%26pLid%3D124612 [...]

Something Is Wrong With The Program (And this is only a few examples)

Life is a satire... More than 100 apples mysteriously rained down upon a small British town on Monday night. The still-unexplained apple shower left 20 yards of city streets and car windshields covered in the cascading fruit just after the daily rush hour. The news immediately brought up comparisons to biblical tales [...]

Al Qaeda and Taliban Uniting With Pakistani Terrorists Against U.S. in Afghanistan.

"On the eve of our peace talks with the terrorists no less. Who saw thatcoming?!"Consul Nicholas Moore Prominent al-Qaida and Afghan Taliban fighters asked Pakistani militantsin a pair of rare meetings to set aside their differences and step upsupport for the battle against U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan, militantcommanders said Monday.The [...]

Could A Solar Storm Shut Down The U.S.?

Damage to power grids and other communications systems could becatastrophic, the scientists conclude, with effects leading to apotential loss of governmental control of the situation.Modern power grids are so interconnected that a big space storm - thetype expected to occur about once a century - could cause a cascade offailures that [...]

Negotiations With The Taliban; Negotiations With Terrorists Still A Go

Please read the full article at the following link-http://news.yahoo.com/taliban-open-office-us-looks-afghan-political-solution-125535808.html "Direct negotiations between the United States and the Taliban beganearly this year and sped up starting in the summer, in part because theWhite House has doubts about the military's ability [...]