Obama has proposed legislation that will give the Department of Homeland Security more “autonomy” in its effort to protect civilian computer networks from ostensible cyber attack, according to Information Week. White House officials testified Monday before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs about the comprehensive plan presented by the administration two weeks ago... 

Netanyahu Addresses US Congress in Unfettered Unapologetic Strange Love Fest. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke for approximately 50 minutes to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday. The politicians/sycophants greeted the Jewish leader with a four minute standing ovation along with another 26 standing ovations and 30 rounds of applause. They know who their master is! Netanyahu made... 

About 1,500 people are unaccounted for in this battered city, a Fire Department official said Tuesday, as rescue workers took advantage of a few hours of sunny weather to continue searching for survivors in buildings leveled by the country’s deadliest tornado in more than 60 years. At least 117 people have died. While the number of those unaccounted for is alarmingly high in a city with only 49,000... 

At least six people have been killed in Oklahoma and Kansas as a new round of tornadoes struck the central and southern US, barely 48 hours after the deadliest twister in modern history hit the town of Joplin, Missouri, killing 122. Authorities in Dallas evacuated the airport and a baseball stadium on Tuesday night when the violent storms moved east, wreaking havoc across a region already suffering... 

Congressman Ron Paul Would Defy Government Military Service If It Conflicted with Conscience. Oft-mentioned Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul of Texas says in a published interview that he would refuse to serve his country as a medical officer in the Middle East as he did during the Viet Nam war. Rep. Paul, a doctor, who served as a flight surgeon during Viet Nam, is quoted in the May Esquire... 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, long criticized for being passive and reactionary, is under pressure to exhibit the Zionist legacy of risk-taking and initiative in his address to Congress today. Four days after publicly spurning President Obama’s vision for ending the Israeli-Arab conflict, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is under pressure from supporters and critics alike to present... 

One of the big threats from the global warming moonbat types is that a rise in temperature will melt the polar ice caps causing the oceans to rise, with the cataclysmic result of skyscrapers being under water. Let’s face it, if you think that the commute into Manhattan is bad now… just wait. There is only one problem with this scenario, Mother Nature isn’t being cooperative. You see it is... 

Sen. Rand Paul, shown last month, led opposition on the Senate floor Monday, arguing that the Patriot Act's provisions allow the government to peer too deeply into Americans' private lives. Senators vote overwhelmingly to extend the anti-terrorism law for four years despite objections of a coalition of conservatives and liberals. The House is expected to follow suit. The Senate voted overwhelmingly... 

Inmates sit for dinner at the California State Prison in Lancaster. A federal overseer of the state’s prison system has suggested freeing the sickest inmates as a way to cut costs. The 5-4 decision represents one of the largest prison release orders in U.S. history. The court majority says overcrowding has caused ‘suffering and death.’ In a sharp dissent, Justice Antonin Scalia warns... 

The Hubble Space Telescope has recently managed to photograph a dwarf galaxy NGC 4214, located in the constellation Canes Venatici at a relatively short distance from the Earth – approximately 13 million light-years. Astrophysicists believe that a number of different characteristics of this object make it ideally suited for studying the evolution of stars. The Constellation Canes Venatici is... 

A neighborhood struck by the tornado in Joplin, Missouri. A tornado steamrolled over Joplin, Mo., on Sunday night, knocking out a hospital and killing dozens of people across the city, according to various reports. Joplin, which was in the direct path of the tornado, was left isolated and in the dark after the destruction, with telephone connections largely cut off and many homes without electricity... 

U.S. Readjusts interventionist policy in the Middle East. In a speech in the early afternoon Thursday (19th), the U.S. president, Barack Obama, announced the general policy of reprogramming that American diplomacy must employ in the Middle East. The adjustment takes place after the administration evaluated the previous policy as a failure, after the uprisings by the Arab peoples against oppressive... 

The former world finance chief accused of rape believed he was the target of a plot organised by Russian PM Vladimir Putin, it was claimed yesterday. A colleague said Dominique Strauss-Kahn told him the Russians wanted him fired as boss of the International Monetary Fund. And the 62-year-old Frenchman, facing charges of trying to rape a hotel maid in New York, accused France and Russia of hatching... 

A screenshot of the website for the Centers for Disease Control, which were swamped by a massive wave of traffic following the tongue-in-cheek warning of an impending “zombie apocalypse.” Are you prepared for the impending zombie invasion? That’s the question posed by the Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention in a Monday blog posting gruesomely titled, “Preparedness 101:... 

While we are still more than half a year away from the moment that Ivy Bridge will make its official appearance, Intel has already revealed a series of details about its 2013 processor architecture, which goes by the name of Haswell. Haswell will follow Intel’s tick-tock development cycle and the first chips to make their appearance in 2013 will be fabricated using the 22nm Tri-Gate technology. This...