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Happy India Republic Day & Australia Day
Happy India Republic Day :) Above is a vertical interpretation of India's horizontal tricolour national flag. Deep saffron represents courage, spirit and sacrifice; white for truth, peace and purity;...
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Top US Admiral on Australia and Indian Ocean
From Agency France Press as reported in Australian newspapers, February 2, 2013, (eg....
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Russian Sacrifice at Stalingrad
The Motherland Statue (in Volgograd formerly Stalingrad) in commemoration of the Battle of Stalingrad.German advance (Summer 1942) into Soviet oil-Stalingrad...
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Zero Dark Thirty Underestimated US Knowledge of Pakistan
-Osama bin Laden, some time before his execution in early May 2011--It is highly likely that when President Obama assumed office in January 2009 he would have been briefed by American intelligence that...
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Songs: by Julie Fowlis Sings in Gaelic & English
Songs below are by Julie Fowlis http://www.juliefowlis.com/about/ :"Brought up on North Uist in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides, Fowlis has been a proud standard bearer for Gaelic music and culture over the...
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North Korean Nuclear Test Imminent?
Photo above from http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1137842/activity-seen-north-korea-atomic-test-site with caption "This January 4 [2013] satellite image shows North Korea's Punggye-ri test...
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Life near North Korea
South Korea - nuclear bomb wise a dangerous country to live in. In blue is the current track of the KTX Express.-PETE'S COMMENT After reading this evocative article below I assume worldly South...
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North Korea's 3rd Nuclear Test - 6 to 7 Kilotons
Click to expand.At an estimated 6 to 7 kilotons (a kiloton being the explosive equivalent of 1,000 tons of TNT) this 2013 test represents North Korea's second probably successful nuclear test. The...
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Iran involved in North Korean nuclear test?
It is unclear what Mohsen Fakhrizadeh-Mahabadi (the "father of Iran's nuclear program") looks like. Is this him? -The following article might be balanced or might be a way for Israel to leverage North...
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Yuri Dolgorukiy first of the Borey Class SSBNs Enters Service
Click on image to enlarge- The Yuri Dolgorukiy SSBN, lead vessel of the Borey Class, in port. Since the end of the Soviet Union in 1991 the construction of new Russian SSNs and SSBNs has been severely...
View ArticleBen Zygier - Prisoner X contact with Australian Security?
All quite confusing how Ben died? Who knew what and when? [note the Sydney Morning Herald used my phrase "who knew what and when" a day later - third paragraph of its February 23, 2013 article ;-] Are...
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Hyderabad bombings
The Guardian, February 22, 2013 reports http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/22/hyderabad-bomb-india-islamist-militants:"Hyderabad bomb investigators examine links with Islamist militant group"At...
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What's Wrong With Armed Drones?
A Reaper drone letting loose a Hellfire missile. The Obama administration has insisted the "targeted killings" are "a last resort" against those plotting to attack the US....
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Sumer Khan: Alleged agent for Pakistan.
A nuclear capable Mirage 2000 at Iron Fist Sumer Khan (in centre) Update on Sumer Khan espionage network from India Today, March 5, 2013...
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F-35 being sold with promise of a hypersonic missile?
The X-51 hypersonic missile - a test missile under development - here attached to a B-52. Also see my March 3, 2013 post...
View ArticleDido 4 hits from Girl Who Got Away
Dido (short for her real name, Dido Florian Cloud de Bounevialle O'Malley Armstrong) is probably my favorite female soloist. Here are perhaps the best four songs from her new album Girl Who Got Away....
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Israel's Hermes 900 Drone - Predator Clone?
Israel's Hermes 900 drone appears to be an authorised Predator clone. Not only is its appearance almost identical to the Predator (though Hermes has an upturned Predator B/Reaper style tail) but...
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Rossetti - Great Artists
The Beloved by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1865-1866). This work is currently at the Liverpool (UK) Museum, on loan from Tate Gallery, London. In The Beloved, Rossetti looked beyond the Caucasian type of...
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Is the "black" RATTLRS missile an F-35 sales sweetener?
Artist's mockup of an F-35 firing a jet powered supersonic missile Revolutionary Approach To Time Critical Long Range Strike (RATTLRS)-It may well be that an operational missile derivative (now a...
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