tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24929032937585022202018-03-05T14:23:40.315-08:00Gary Bekkumnoreply@blogger.comBlogger489125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2492903293758502220.post-1438688793902771562015-04-28T15:31:00.000-07:002015-04-28T15:31:26.235-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/musk-thinks-well-be-on-mars-soon-2015-4" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Business Insider: Elon Musk has his heart set on Mars ... If Musk gets his way then that historic landing will happen within the next 12 years, he said during an episode of Neil deGrasse Tyson's StarTalk Radio show.</span></a><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"></span></div>Gary Bekkumhttps://plus.google.com/109001021527770493108noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2492903293758502220.post-85798854383044978772015-03-24T17:02:00.001-07:002015-03-24T17:02:15.544-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-mars-nitrates-curiosity-rover-nitrogen-life-nasa-20150323-story.html" target="_blank">LA TIMES ... NASA rover finds "evidence of nitrates in Martian rock: nitrogen compounds that on Earth are a crucial source of nutrients for living things."</a></span></div>Gary Bekkumhttps://plus.google.com/109001021527770493108noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2492903293758502220.post-13838154258336768452014-07-16T19:07:00.000-07:002014-08-18T21:33:52.198-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="http://www.voanews.com/content/discovery-of-extraterrestrial-life-within-reach-nasa/1958312.html" target="_blank">Voice of America ... NASA scientists say they’re closer than ever to finding life beyond Earth ... NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, a former astronaut, opened the discussion saying “it is improbable that in the limitless vastness of the universe we humans stand alone."</a></div>Gary Bekkumhttps://plus.google.com/109001021527770493108noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2492903293758502220.post-75840745738189809542014-07-09T07:10:00.004-07:002014-07-09T07:10:55.309-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><h2 style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-28223648" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">BBC ... China's President says U.S. China confrontation would be a disaster</span></a></h2></div>Gary Bekkumhttps://plus.google.com/109001021527770493108noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2492903293758502220.post-62611855066350463522014-06-25T17:36:00.003-07:002014-06-25T17:36:49.326-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/06/25/north-korea-says-release-american-comedy-would-be-act-war/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Fox News ... North Korea is warning that the release of a new American comedy about a plot to assassinate leader Kim Jong Un would be an "act of war."</span></a></div>Gary Bekkumhttps://plus.google.com/109001021527770493108noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2492903293758502220.post-66096299399505456462014-05-30T06:55:00.003-07:002014-05-30T06:55:45.053-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/wp/2014/05/30/chinas-cyber-generals-are-reinventing-the-art-of-war/" target="_blank">"It almost sounds like something out of a science fiction novel -- nations locked in a state of perpetual war, fought by shadowy assailants in cyberspace who may or may not be allied with a particular state, using weapons that are virtually undetectable, with the ability to take down a nation with a single keystroke from a remote location." -- Washington Post, "China's cyber-generals are reinventing the art of war"</a></div>Gary Bekkumhttps://plus.google.com/109001021527770493108noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2492903293758502220.post-73623609489256432622014-05-21T06:00:00.002-07:002014-05-21T06:02:18.881-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/20/us-northkorea-nuclear-idUSBREA4J06020140520" target="_blank">Reuters ... Sources claim North Korea may be close to developing nuclear armed missile</a></span></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 23px;"><i>"If you can take Tokyo hostage with nuclear weapons, you can do a lot of things," said Narushige Michishita, a defense expert formerly involved in Japan's security policy.</i></span></h2></div>Gary Bekkumhttps://plus.google.com/109001021527770493108noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2492903293758502220.post-78715888059765020592014-05-07T06:53:00.002-07:002014-05-07T06:53:24.630-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.openminds.tv/open-letter-u-s-air-force-allegations-ufo-disinformation/27071" target="_blank">OpenMindsTV ... "Open letter to the U.S. Air Force regarding allegations of UFO disinformation"</a></span></h2><a href="http://www.openminds.tv/open-letter-u-s-air-force-allegations-ufo-disinformation/27071" target="_blank">Air Force Office of Special Investigations Agent Richard Doty claims to have partaken in the acts of misinforming members of congress, breaking into the private residence of a civilian government contractor, and disseminating known forgeries of government documents while on active duty in the 1980s. Furthermore, he claims to have committed these acts on the orders of his superiors at AFOSI ... Was the U.S. Air Force involved with these criminal acts, as claimed by Doty, and if not what was done regarding his conduct?</a><div><a href="http://www.openminds.tv/open-letter-u-s-air-force-allegations-ufo-disinformation/27071" target="_blank"><br /></a></div><div><a href="http://www.openminds.tv/open-letter-u-s-air-force-allegations-ufo-disinformation/27071" target="_blank">Read the full article at Open MindsTV</a></div></div>Gary Bekkumhttps://plus.google.com/109001021527770493108noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2492903293758502220.post-14794301662165470792014-05-01T08:19:00.001-07:002014-05-01T08:19:23.399-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/pictured-ufo-flying-over-london-3471964" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Mirror (UK) ... Rotating UFO photographed over London</span></a></div>Gary Bekkumhttps://plus.google.com/109001021527770493108noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2492903293758502220.post-58227667377238119942014-04-24T12:49:00.002-07:002014-04-24T12:49:16.420-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/04/23/uk-israel-geller-idUKBREA3M10S20140423" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Reuters (UK) ... "<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23px;">Celebrity psychic Uri Geller is the beaming new face of Israeli disaster-readiness, starring in army-sponsored TV and Internet advertisements on how to take shelter from missile attacks or earthquakes</span>&nbsp;..."&nbsp;</span></a></div>Gary Bekkumhttps://plus.google.com/109001021527770493108noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2492903293758502220.post-26637177106138927262014-04-17T14:16:00.003-07:002014-04-17T14:40:55.217-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_world_/2014/04/17/reports_of_chlorine_attack_are_chemical_weapons_being_used_in_syria_again.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Slate ... World ignores claims of new chemical weapons attack in Syria using chlorine gas ... U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power calls reports “unsubstantiated.”</span></a></div>Gary Bekkumhttps://plus.google.com/109001021527770493108noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2492903293758502220.post-76860240992221027452014-04-13T07:10:00.004-07:002014-05-01T08:19:46.440-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><h2 style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2014/04/12/world/meast/syria-civil-war/index.html?hpt=imi_c2" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">CNN ... New reported use of chemical weapons against Syrian citizens</span></a></h2></div>Gary Bekkumhttps://plus.google.com/109001021527770493108noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2492903293758502220.post-73368510775705547202014-04-07T15:27:00.004-07:002014-04-07T15:27:26.092-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2014/04/07/world/malaysia-alrlines-plane-questions/index.html?hpt=hp_c1" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">CNN ... "Navy commander: Initial optimism over pulse signals becomes more cautious ...&nbsp;Search officials call new pulse signals the best indication so far they are on the right track."</span></a></div>Gary Bekkumhttps://plus.google.com/109001021527770493108noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2492903293758502220.post-28074223890602541262014-04-03T09:14:00.001-07:002014-04-03T16:45:53.835-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MbBBnDu6hXw/Uz3yalAFEuI/AAAAAAAAH_8/Sb0y7zVcXlw/s1600/Bill-Clinton-Jimmy-Kimmel-aliens.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MbBBnDu6hXw/Uz3yalAFEuI/AAAAAAAAH_8/Sb0y7zVcXlw/s1600/Bill-Clinton-Jimmy-Kimmel-aliens.png" height="105" width="200" /></a></div><strong style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.starpod.us/2014/04/03/video-watch-former-president-bill-clinton-talk-to-jimmy-kimmel-about-aliens/" target="_blank">“I’m trying to tell you I don’t know — but if were visited someday, I wouldn’t be surprised. I just hope that it is not like ‘Independence Day.’” — Bill Clinton to Jimmy Kimmel</a>&nbsp;</strong><strong style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #666666; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">[Screenshot/YouTube]</span></strong></div>Gary Bekkumhttps://plus.google.com/109001021527770493108noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2492903293758502220.post-30428399686437394852014-03-27T07:25:00.003-07:002014-03-27T07:25:51.230-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><h2 style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2014/03/26/tech/innovation/dwarf-planet-solar-system/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">CNN ... New dwarf planet discovered at edge of the solar system</span></a></h2></div>Gary Bekkumhttps://plus.google.com/109001021527770493108noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2492903293758502220.post-34683336123058945702014-03-24T14:15:00.003-07:002014-03-24T14:15:34.859-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/malaysia-airlines-flight-370-where-the-search-stands-now/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">CBS News ... A new kind of analysis of satellite data "indicates the missing Malaysia Airlines plane crashed into a remote corner of the Indian Ocean,"&nbsp;according to Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak.</span></a></div>Gary Bekkumhttps://plus.google.com/109001021527770493108noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2492903293758502220.post-51360644220846441062014-03-17T09:34:00.001-07:002014-03-17T09:34:00.620-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/science/2014/03/17/major-discovery-smoking-gun-for-big-bang-expansion-found/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Fox News ... "Smoking gun" discovery of gravitational waves from Big Band expansion announced ... " a direct image of gravitational waves across the entire sky, showing us the early universe."</span></a></div>Gary Bekkumhttps://plus.google.com/109001021527770493108noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2492903293758502220.post-86741028824475853982014-03-12T09:24:00.001-07:002014-03-12T09:24:15.870-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/12/cia-senate-row-documents-feinstein-brennan" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Guardian ... "Dianne Feinstein’s intervention on the Senate floor blew open a feud with the CIA that long been simmering. But what prompted it? Paul Lewis charts a story of double-dealing and intrigue" </span></a></div>Gary Bekkumhttps://plus.google.com/109001021527770493108noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2492903293758502220.post-39529256841603890802014-03-08T07:41:00.000-08:002014-03-08T07:41:02.031-08:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><h2 style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://blogs.voanews.com/science-world/2014/03/07/hubble-watches-and-records-rare-asteroid-disintegration/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Voice of America ... Hubble space telescope watches asteroid disintegrate</span></a></h2></div>Gary Bekkumhttps://plus.google.com/109001021527770493108noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2492903293758502220.post-76411011279869706402014-03-06T06:13:00.003-08:002014-03-06T06:13:41.778-08:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/cia-draws-scrutiny-over-searching-senate-panels-computers-for-interrogation-data/2014/03/05/5d93ac66-a4a4-11e3-a5fa-55f0c77bf39c_story.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Washington Post reports CIA "<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px;">searched computers intended to be used solely by the Senate Intelligence Committee in an apparent effort to determine how committee staff members gained access to a draft version of an internal agency review of its controversial interrogation program" according to U.S. officials.</span></span></a></div>Gary Bekkumhttps://plus.google.com/109001021527770493108noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2492903293758502220.post-49748694247867411102014-03-01T06:44:00.000-08:002014-03-01T06:44:06.202-08:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><h2 style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://rt.com/usa/gchq-optic-nerve-investigation-335/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Russia Today ... OPTIC NERVE: U.S. senators to launch investigation into NSA role in GCHQ Yahoo webcam spying</span></a></h2></div>Gary Bekkumhttps://plus.google.com/109001021527770493108noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2492903293758502220.post-11430108264603929492014-02-27T09:37:00.003-08:002014-02-27T09:37:33.528-08:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/27/gchq-nsa-webcam-images-internet-yahoo" target="_blank">BBC News ... Yahoo web cam images, including private explicitly sexual images, were intercepted by Britain's GCHQ</a></span></h2></div>Gary Bekkumhttps://plus.google.com/109001021527770493108noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2492903293758502220.post-47494981781631823712014-02-26T07:35:00.003-08:002014-02-27T08:06:13.435-08:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://psi-spy.blogspot.com/2014/02/top-secret-gchq-document-reveals-covert.html" target="_blank">TOP SECRET GCHQ document reveals covert psychological warfare methods for the Internet include UFOs</a></span></h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ItGWkgxJMxw/Uw9iVvcPP2I/AAAAAAAAH00/tTTLTvD6O9Y/s1600/GCHQ-deception.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ItGWkgxJMxw/Uw9iVvcPP2I/AAAAAAAAH00/tTTLTvD6O9Y/s1600/GCHQ-deception.png" height="476" width="640" /></a></div></div>Gary Bekkumhttps://plus.google.com/109001021527770493108noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2492903293758502220.post-89483879141940818852014-02-25T13:29:00.001-08:002014-02-25T13:29:01.522-08:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">CBS News ... <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/major-bitcoin-exchange-goes-dark-prices-tumble/">Major bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox goes dark, prices tumble</a></span></h2></div>Gary Bekkumhttps://plus.google.com/109001021527770493108noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2492903293758502220.post-5739805716584003202014-02-20T07:57:00.003-08:002014-02-20T11:19:01.608-08:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><h2 style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2014/02/20/how-the-syrian-electronic-army-hacked-us-a-detailed-timeline/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">Forbes reveals how they were hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army</span></a></h2></div>Gary Bekkumhttps://plus.google.com/109001021527770493108noreply@blogger.com0