Iran: Oil field is ours, not Iraq’s – Israel News, Ynetnews

Posted by Matt in December 19th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Iran, Oil, Borderline, International Borders, Iran Oil, iraq, Iraq News, Israel, Israel News, Oil Field, Soil, tehran, Ynetnews

Tehran denies Iraqi claim to borderline oil field, says troops are ‘on Iranian soil, as defined by known international borders’
Iran: Oil field is ours, not Iraq’s – Israel News, Ynetnews

U.S. sees homegrown Muslim extremism as rising threat — latimes.com

Posted by Matt in December 7th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Islam, Terrorism, American Muslims, Anti Terrorism, English Language, Homegrown, Hot Spots, Islamic Terrorism, Latimes, Muslim Extremism, Pakistan, Propaganda, Radicalization, Signs, Soil, Somalia, Spate, Terrorism Experts

This may have been the most dangerous year since 9/11, anti-terrorism experts say.
Reporting from Washington – The Obama administration, grappling with a spate of recent Islamic terrorism cases on U.S. soil, has concluded that the country confronts a rising threat from homegrown extremism.
Anti-terrorism officials and experts see signs of accelerated radicalization among American Muslims, driven [...]

It’s getting chilly between Turkey and Israel

Posted by Matt in October 21st, 2009 | 1 comment

Published in Israel, Turkey, Allies, Back Seat, Balance Of Power, Coolness, Fault Line, Gaza, Invitation, Iraq Relations, Israel, Israel Relations, Middle East, NATO, Nato Exercise, Opposition, Palestinians, Participation, Ramifications, Soil, Syria, United States And Italy

As Turkey gets friendlier with Syria and Iraq, relations with Israel take a back seat.
A strategic fault line is opening up in the Middle East with balance of power ramifications for the region. It is the growing coolness between two previously close allies: Turkey and Israel.
Last week “Anatolian Eagle,” a planned NATO exercise on Turkish [...]

Iran’s nuclear ambitions threaten economic meltdown – Telegraph Blogs

Posted by Matt in September 25th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Iran, China, defiance, Eminating, Enrichment Facility, Financial Crisis, Global Financial Crisis, Iran Nuclear, Nightmare Scenario, Nuclear Ambitions, Nuclear Meltdown, Revelations, Ruination, Russia, sanctions, Shock, Soil, Telegraph, Un Security Council, Uranium Enrichment, World Economy

The biggest threat to recovery in the world economy has long seemed to me to be not that of a further leg in the financial crisis or even the fiscal ruination of developed economies, but some kind of geo-political shock, most likely eminating from Iran.
Revelations of a second, covert uranium enrichment facility on Iranian soil [...]

U.S. Military Base Plan Puts Colombia in Hot Water – TIME

Posted by Matt in August 12th, 2009 | no comment

Published in general, Air Bases, Continent, Drug Traffickers, Hot Water, Latin-America, Military Base, Neighbors, Odds, Plan Colombia, Political Tide, President Alvaro Uribe, Rebels, Soil, Water Time

As one of the few surviving pro-U.S. conservative heads of state in a continent that has swung left, Colombia’s President, Alvaro Uribe, is used to being at odds with his neighbors. But accustomed though he may be to swimming against Latin America’s political tide, Uribe is scrambling to explain his less-than-transparent decision to allow the [...]

Mexico: Borderless drug wars

Posted by Matt in November 26th, 2008 | 1 comment

Published in Americas, Mexico, American Congress, Borderless, Boston, Broad Daylight, Chief Of Police, Corrupt Police, Crimes, Doorstep, Drug Cartels, Drug Traffickers, Drug Trafficking, Drug Violence, Drug Wars, Federal Authorities, Federal Police Officer, Foreign Affair, Gangsters, Honolulu, Innocents, Kidnappings, Mexico, Money Laundering, Seattle, Sister Point, Slayings, Soil, United States, Wage War

The drug violence that has left nearly 4,000 people dead this year in Mexico is spreading deep into the United States, leaving a trail of slayings, kidnappings and other crimes in at least 195 cities as far afield as Atlanta, Boston, Seattle and Honolulu, according to federal authorities.
The involvement of the top four Mexican drug-trafficking [...]

Future Perfect

Posted by Matt in November 9th, 2008 | no comment

Published in general, Accuracy, Barrage, Bets, Commodity Futures Trading, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Commodity Futures Trading Commission Cftc, Corporations, Decisions, Economists, Futures Trading Commission, Iem, Iowa Electronic Markets, Opinion Surveys, Prediction Markets, Presidential Elections, Pundits, Real Money, Regulatory Body, Sanction, Soil, University Of Iowa

For years, prediction markets have forecast elections with eerie accuracy. Now, they’re coming soon to a policy near you.
Want to know who the next U.S. president will be? Forget the daily barrage of polls: For 20 years, an online project run out of the University of Iowa has predicted the winner of presidential elections more [...]

Evidence found for Syrian nuke probe

Posted by Matt in October 29th, 2008 | no comment

Published in Nuclear, Syria, Air Samples, Israel, Nuclear Reactor, Nuke, Soil, Suspicion, Western Diplomats

Freshly evaluated soil and air samples from a Syrian site bombed by Israel on suspicion it was a covert nuclear reactor provide enough evidence for a UN probe, Western diplomats said yesterday.
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Iran is sinking as groundwater resources disappear

Posted by Matt in September 24th, 2008 | no comment

Published in Iran, Water, Chunks, Compaction, Farmland, Groundwater, Groundwater Resources, Insatiable Demand, Iran, Soil, Study Estimates, Water Levels

Iran’s insatiable demand for water, which is being drawn out of aquifers far faster than it can be replenished, is causing large chunks of farmland to sink and buildings to crack, according to a new study.
Estimates suggest the water levels in Iranian aquifers have declined by an average of nearly 1.5 feet (half a [...]