Monday, January 30, 2012

Laser guided missiles.

It has been released that Iran has developed Laser Guided Shell Bombs. These bombs are equipped with very current technology and have incredible range. The first one was test fired in 2010 and they are now fully operational and in service. Only 5 countries in the world have the capability to develop such technology. The US, Russia, Iran, China and the United Kingdom are the only countries who can develop it. A series of technology break throughs are supposed to be announced as they approach the 33rd anniversary of the Iranian Revolution in 1979. Interfax also reports the laser guided bombs are planned to be mass produced.
http://rt.com/news/iran-laser-guided-shell-065/

Friday, January 20, 2012

Megaupload shut down

Governmental authorities have shutdown media file sharing giant Megaupload last night. The music and media industry has lost close to $500 million because of the piracy on the website and simultaneous raids were carried out at 10 houses in 9 countries to arrest the websites creators and accomplices. This came only a day after websites such as Wikipedia blacked itself out in retaliation for the SOPA and PIPA acts trying to be passed by congress. The media sharing giant is amongst one of the most visited websites in the world, coming in at 14, and receiving closed to 1 billion hits a day in total with somewhat close to 600 million downloads and uploads a day. The owners of the websites will be sent to court next monday and indicted on charges of money laundering, racketeering and piracy.


http://rt.com/usa/news/megaupload-shut-million-authorities-231/

Anonymous revenge attacks

Anonymous, the internet hacktivist group that has given the government trouble for its unconstitutional acts in the past was at it again last night after the government shut down megaupload. Megaupload, a file sharing website that received between 500 million to 750 million hits a day was shut down by government law for making entertainment industries lose money. The founders of megaupload were arrested in New Zealand and held without bail. Anonymous launched attacks on the government run websites and shut them down. Such websites include http://www.fbi.gov/ , http://universalmusic.com/ and the official white house page, as well as the department of justice.


http://rt.com/news/megaupload-bail-anonymous-attack-269/

PIPA and SOPA indefinitely postponed.

Congress has indefinitely postponed the PIPA and SOPA bill legislation until furthur notice. Congress is going to revise the bill and try to find a fair and happy median between internet users and the entertainment industry. The SOPA and PIPA bills would greatly restrict media sharing on the internet, as well as give the government the authority to shut down any website that holds copyrighted material, wether they are or are not claiming it to be theirs. This is seen as a major victory for internet users as many have been lobbying to keep the internet open and free of government hand.

http://rt.com/usa/news/pipa-indefinitely-sopa-internet-309/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act

Thursday, January 19, 2012

Spy who saved Country leaders dies.

The legendary spy who saved the lives of Josef Stalin, Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt has passed away at the age of 87. In 1943 during the Tehran, Gevork Vartanyan was incharge of a Soviet spy group that uncovered the location of 400 german spies placed in Tehran and uncovered the hiding spot of 7 Nazi commandos that were planning an attack on the big three. Gevork's men captured and killed the Nazi spies. The operation labeled long jump went succesful and was kept under wraps until the 1960's when it was declassified. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visited the funeral of the man to pay respects.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gevork_Vartanian

http://rt.com/news/prime-time/gevork-vartanyan-passed-away-539/

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Spetsnaz, Russia's special forces.

An article has been writing about the Spetsnaz, Russian special forces that have been regarded as the worlds top special forces, even better then the Navy SEALs. The Spetsnaz have been involved in operations around the world, some noteably the school seige of Beslan, operations in Afghanistan and the ongoing war in Chechnya. The Spetsnaz have been buolding a reputation for years and are regarded as the best, and they are now being trained even harer as part of a military build up by the Russian government that is supposed to be complete by December 2012.

http://rt.com/news/russia-special-forces-spetsnaz/

US Arming Iran's neighbors.

The idea of a war with Iran would have seemed somewhat drastic in the past, but it is becoming a quick reality in the recent 6 months. The United States, during growing tensions with Iran has been arming Iranian neighboring countries such as Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Israel. The United States has sold brand new fighter Jets to the Saudi Army, while training and arming turkish troops and moving troops and large arm weapons into the country of Israel. 84 fighter jets are being placed in the Saudi army, a very close ally of the United States. This has Iran worrying and putting out ideas of restrictions and building up its military some more.

http://rt.com/usa/news/us-saudi-week-iran-951/

Troops moved to Israel

Thousands of American soldiers have been moved into Israel, makng critics believe that an all out war is on the brink as Iran builds up nuclear weapons, and Israel and the United States amass arms. It has not been made big in the media but somewhere closed to 5,000 troops have been moved from stationed bases in the middle east to Israel. Another 15,000 marines have been stationed around the straight of hormuz, where tensions have been rising as Iran has threatened to cut off movement in the area, leaving 1/6 the worlds supply of oil stranded from passing.

http://rt.com/usa/news/us-troops-israel-iran-257/

Israel and US Post pone missile drill

The United States and the country of Israel of postponed a joint missile test and training drill amongst growing tentions between Iran, the US, and Israel. Benjamin Natanyahu and President Barack Obama have both stated that the drill was not cancelled due to growing tensions with Iran. The drill would allow America to test its THAAD missiles along side the Israeli Aegis wing ship based missile system and allow both Iron, Arrow, and Patriot missiles to be fired from Israeli ships, thus increasing their arsenal.

http://rt.com/usa/news/israel-iran-us-missile-011/

Costa Concordia wreck

An Italian Cruise ship has sunk and the fight to find survivors has been underway for several days now. The Costa Concordia capsized shortly after departure leaving numerous dead and missing. Viral videos have been released showing people jumping off the boat and managing to escape before being dragged under by the massive cruise liners weight. 11 people have been killed, and just today 5 more were found dead, all in their 50's or 60's. There was 3200 people aboard the ship and most were rescued while divers and helicopters rush to find somewhat 200 people unaccounted for.
http://rt.com/news/costa-concordia-wreck-bodies-005/

Reddit to shut down over SOPA

Reddit, an online website commonly known for its user uploaded content and controversial leaks is going to shut down over SOPA. The Stop online privacy act is an act looking to be passed as a bill to discontinue freedom of speech over the internet. This angers many people, especially the people from anonymous, an internet group who uses peaceful resistance to keep the internet essentially "free". Reddit  brings in a lot of revenue with advertisment and many companies will be losing a ton of money from the site sponsered black outs that keep occuring every so often.


http://rt.com/usa/news/reddit-shut-down-sopa-557/

Wikipedia to shut down

Wikipedia, an online website most known for its vast amounts of user-submitted and sourced information is going to shutdown for 24 hours in a strike against the SOPA wanting to be enacted by the government. SOPA, or Stop online privacy act is a very controversial bill that congress wants to pass restricting what people can or can not say on the internet, it will be taking away first ammendment rights for internet users. Online groups such as anonymous and website giants such as Reddit and Wikipediaare doing what they can to gain support to have the act turned down.

http://rt.com/news/wikipedia-blackout-sopa-pipa-953/

US Radar possibly downed Russian drone

A pacific coast radar system owned by the United States may have quite possibly caused the Russian Phobos-Grunt satillite/bot system to malfunction and lose connection with the Russian Space Communications Agency. An electromagnetic pulse, which was released by the Ameican Radar system may be the cause for the failed mars probe mission. The EMP wave may have disrupted all electronics in the PHobos-Grunt probe and caushed it to malfunction, it is under investigation and under going tests on the pieces that landed back on earth.


http://rt.com/politics/russia-mars-probe-accident-us-radar-967/

Iran to return Drone to U.S as a toy.

An Iranian manufacturing company is going to be returning the hijacked drone to the U.S in the form of a toy. The company planes on releasing toy look alikes of the captured setinal spy drone that is 1:80 of the actual size. They will be sold for about $4 US currency. This comes after the Obama administration has repeatedly asked for the drone to be returned but Iran has denied it because they claim it we as a hostile act and they have all the rights to hold onto the equipment.

http://rt.com/news/iran-us-drone-toy-965/