Monthly Archives: August 2015

Saudi Arabia must cut Billions From Its Budget due the Oil Crash

Saudi Arabia is seeking advice on how to cut billions of dollars from next year’s budget because of the slump in crude prices, according to two people familiar with the matter. The government is working with advisers on a review … Continue reading

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Korean Air 007 – 1983

Korean Air Lines Flight 007 (also known as KAL007 and KE007[note 2]) was a scheduled Korean Air Lines flight from New York City to Seoul via Anchorage. On September 1, 1983, the airliner serving the flight was shot down by … Continue reading

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Venezuela declares state of emergency along Colombia border

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has extended indefinitely the closure of a popular border crossing with Colombia and declared a 60-day state of emergency in several western cities as authorities attempt to reassert control in a notoriously lawless area where three … Continue reading

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Turkey: ten customs officials kidnapped in eastern province

At least ten customs officials have been kidnapped by suspected members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in eastern Van province, the Turkish military said Sunday. Turkish military announced Sunday that 12 people, including 11 customs officials and a driver … Continue reading

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That Nagging French Unemployment and the effect on violence

It is 10.8%, much higher than Germany’s 4.7% and quite lower than Spain’s 22.7% Youth unemployment is at 23.6% and that create the idol hands causes mischief or violence. More than 60% of jobless Italians have not worked in over … Continue reading

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Motorcycle bomb rips Bangkok

At least 27 people are dead and 78 injured in an explosion that rocked the area near the Erawan shrine in Bangkok, Thailand. Thai officials say a second bomb has been safely destroyed and a third located The explosion took … Continue reading

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Kaspersky Lab faked malware to harm rivals?

Kaspersky Lab denies it harms rivals. Interesting to note is the constant reverse engineering of code and reselling it. http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/14/us-kaspersky-rivals-idUSKCN0QJ1CR20150814

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How Facebook tracks you therefore the NSA tracks you

Aran Khanna, a Harvard University student, discovered a flaw that could sense and give the geolocations of your friends on the Facebook messenger. His application, called Marauder’s Map,  was a Chrome extension that used data from Facebook Messenger to map … Continue reading

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Iraq may have to be partitioned

WE mentioned this several times. Now an Army chief says it. General Raymond Odierno, who once served as the top U.S. commander in Iraq and retires Friday after nearly 40 years in uniform, said the U.S. focus for now should … Continue reading

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Germany’s Threat Prevention, But does Violet goes willingly?

IF you discount the 2011 Frankfurt attack directed toward the US on German soil, it would be nearly 20 years since the 1996 attack in a German church. A bomb exploded at a Christmas Eve service in a Lutheran church … Continue reading

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