“Militants in Iraq have used $26 off-the-shelf software to intercept live video feeds from U.S. Predator drones, potentially providing them with information they need to evade or monitor U.S. military operations”, the online version of the Wall Street Journal reported today.

Shiite fighters used programs from the internet, like SkyGrabber, to capture videofeeds from the drones. An apparent security flaw in the drones communication system made this possible. The insurgents were not able to control the drones or alter their flightpath.

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In this remarkable Fox News report, Dr. Archelle Georgiou, a medical expert, talks about adding Lithium to the water supply. Lithium is a trace element that is sometimes naturally found in water. Research has found that in communities where this natural Lithium is in the tap water, suicide rates are much lower.

via: www.infowars.com

In Jekaterinenburg residents saw green dogs. The dogs became green after eating poisonous food that was illegally dumped.

“I see these dogs every day” said Alexei Bukharovsky, “but now they are green.” And in a snowy landscape, these dogs are real eye-catchers.

One of the things that isn’t on the Copenhagen climate convention’s agenda is “Climate Manipulation”, the art of changing the weather artificially.

We all remember China firing chemicals in the air to keep the rain from reaching the Olympics back in 2008. And the United States have their HAARP since 1992, The High-Frequency Active Auroral Research Program based in Gokona, Alaska. HAARP consists of powerful antennas capable of creating “controlled local modifications of the ionosphere”, the upper layer of the atmosphere.

A report from Global Research concludes that the manipulation of climate for military use poses a potentially greater threat to humanity than CO2 emissions.

read: Environmental Modification Techniques (ENMOD) and Climate Change

On the blog of Lilysussman’s Blog, she writes about her laptop issue at the border of Israel. After searching through her luggage, toggling through her photos on her camera… they decided to “blow up her laptop”.

They indeed destroyed her laptop, with 3 mini-bombs, or they just shot it. With 3 “well aimed” shot they killed the laptop (with a . 50 caliber – it really had to die)

Now the fun part… they missed the hard disk. Luckily for the victim of course, she could recuperate all the work from the last years that she had stored.

So as long as the Israeli soldiers don’t get a training in computer technologies and shooting harddisks you could pass with luck. Otherwise buy yourself the armored Latitude E6400 XFR from Dell (extra steel plates welded on it is advised) and the Sonim XP1 to call assistance.

Yesterday an unknown individual (or individuals) stole a service car from Sodexho. In the margin of the theft, the news mentioned the amount of “dienstencheques” – service cheques – in the car and the repercussion this will have on paying back the companies working with these cheques.

What was astonishing, is the administration used to manage this system. Each cheque that has been used, is being copied as proof of use of this cheque, just to cover incidents as the stolen car.
So, a little calculation. Yearly (2008) almost 48.930.000 cheques were used. These cheques are copied on A3 paper. Each A3 paper contains the copies of 24 cheques.

This results in 2.038.750 sheets of paper (no they are not copied recto-verso). This will give you 856.275 meter paper, or 856 km, 5 km less than the distance between Antwerp and Copenhagen.

Lets calculate some time: About 2.5 minutes/copy: this will give you 48 employees who are working 8 hours/day and 220 days a year.

Instead of cutting back on the cheques, maybe they could improve the way of managing it.

iTunes 9 might be taking plenty of plaudits. But it seems it’s causing some serious issues for iPod classic owners, with a raft of reports about the newly minted music software failing to sync with the old–school PMP.

It appears iTunes 9 isn’t just about iTunes LP and iTunes Extras. Complaints on Apple Support forums, along with a lengthy list sent to AppleInsider, show that the software is causing the iPod classic to crash, fail to sync and lose its contents.

Users have complained that iTunes 9 fails to recognise the iPod classic, while one said that their 160GB model failed as soon as iTunes 9 was installed on Snow Leopard.

Hendrik Delagrange from Leuven was advised to buy a new ipod since – sayd by the Apple store in Leuven – his harddisk crashed. But he managed to get his Ipod back to work, with some simple Windows tools.
Please Steve, save my Ipod, I asked Santa already an Xbox.

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Researches in the Arizona University have genetically engineered cyanobacteria that “self-destruct” by dissolving from inside out. This eliminates the problem of getting out the bio-fuel from organisms.

Since the cyanobacteria are photosynthetic microbes, you could say… it is solar power ;-) And let’s hope these bacteria stay in the lab, before they become a widely spread dissolving disaster.

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Why the big fuzz? People panic when a mysterious spiral appears over the Norwegian night sky on Tuesday? “Speculation was increasing today that the display was the result of an embarrassing failed test launch of a jinxed new Russian missile.” says the UK newspaper Daily Mail.

Well… it sure looks beautiful, doesn’t it. But let’s not get too excited about those Russian experiments yet. This apparent special effect for a Norwegian remake of the eighties hit ” The Philadelphia Project” should make you nervous though. See the BLUE shimmering light emanating from the center? Isn’t that like some leaked radioactive cloud? “Captain! The starboard cell has been hit. We are venting plasma!!”

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1234430/Mystery-spiral-blue-light-display-hovers-Norway.html#ixzz0ZHZanaWq

What could we learn from the Copenhagen Climate summit: to pollute to stop the pollution?

With proud, they announced 15.000 participants from all over the world, 5000 press, the largest number ever recorded in Copenhagen.

Even if on a normal day, Copenhagen is the greenest capital in the world, my guess it will take a few years to recover from this:

Facts:

• 15.000 participants

• 5000 press

• 98 world leaders

• ? protesters

• ? staff for hotels/catering

• 1200 limos (5 hybrid cars)

• 140 private jets

• food (locally cultivated?)

Traveling by plane/per passenger:

• Fom the USA 1.179 kg CO₂

• From Australia 2.906 CO₂

• From N Africa 943 CO₂

• From S Africa 2.221 kg CO₂

• From China 1.174 kg CO₂

• From Russia 777 kg CO₂

Traveling by train: nuclear

Traveling by car (60 miles):

• Small car : 1,7 kg CO₂

• Average car: 3,3 kg CO₂

• SUV/ 4 wheel: 4,7 kg CO₂

Total estimated Copenhagen Climate pollution: 41.000.000 kg CO, the equivalent of the emission of Narsaq, the third most populated town in South Greenland, in 1 year

And what about the global Cooling summits from the 80-90; where we were all going to freeze to death.