Geography professor claims to have found Osama bin Laden lol can we strike the dead guy and all of pakistan now?lol DARPA seeks self-aware AI robot mega-tankshttp://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/18/darpa_self_aware_tanks/ BOE Unanimously Asks For Authority to Create Money Bank of England policy makers unanimously agreed to ask the government for authority to create money in an effort to kick start the economy, saying further interest rate cuts may hurt the profitability of bankshttp://www.roguegovernment.com/BOE_Unanimously_Asks_For_Authority_to_Create_Money_/14377/0/8/8/Y/M.html U.S. Intel Predicts Israel-Iran War In 2009 The US intelligence chief reportedly expects Israel and Iran to engage in a major military confrontation before the end of the yearhttp://www.roguegovernment.com/U.S._Intel_Predicts_Israel-Iran_War_In_2009/14375/0/15/15/Y/M.html Egypt Holds Exercise To Prepare For Israeli Invasion http://www.menewsline.com/article-1150,2761-Egypt-Holds-Exercise-To-Prepare-F.aspx Pubs Must Install Big Brother CCTV Cameras Or Risk Losing Licenses 02-18-2009: Blueprint For EU Army To Be Agreed The plan, which has influential support in Germany and France, proposes to set up a "Synchronised Armed Forces Europe", or Safe, as a first step towards a true European military force. Hollywood's New Censors: John Pilger Pakistan 'Privately' Backing US Drone Attacks Pakistan Takes Risk Letting Islamists Have Their Law US Wants Syria to Help Disarm Hezbollah: Sen. Kerryhttp://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090218/pl_afp/midestuslebanondiplomacy Rumsfeld prosecution could set precedent Manfred Nowak, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Torture saiad of German television there is now enough evidence to try former U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld for war crimeshttp://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/eo20090217cc.html The stores of seeds in a "doomsday" vault in the Norwegian Arctic are growing as researchers rush to preserve 100,000 crop varieties from potential extinction. The imperiled seeds are going to be critical for protecting the global food supply against devastating crop losses as a result of climate changehttp://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5garMQgDTXY_X6B7cUx7pW7a51uoA Is Israel assassinating Iran nuclear scientists? Israel is assassinating Iranian nuclear scientists as part of a covert war against the Islamic Republic's illicit weapons daily said Israel's Mossad espionage agency was rumored to be behind the death of Ardeshire Hassanpour, a top nuclear scientist at Iran's Isfahan uranium plant, who died in mysterious circumstances from reported "gas poisoning" in 2007.Other recent deaths of important figures in the procurement and enrichment process in Iran and Europe have been the result of Israeli "hits", intended to deprive Tehran of key technical skills at the head of the program, according to the analysts. TEXAS CALLS FOR SOVEREIGNTY! - The Tenth AmendmentTexas Rep. Creighton filed a resolution stating: That the 81st Legislature of the State of Texas claimed sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States . Texas served notice and demand to the federal government, to cease and desist, effective immediately,over all powers not otherwise enumerated and granted to the federal government by theConstitutionhttp://adap2k.blogspot.com/2009/02/texas-calls-for-sovereignty-tenth.html Guantanamo Bay Uighur prisoner release overturned An American federal appeals court on Wednesday refused to release 17 ethnic Uighurs detained at Guantanamo Bay into the United States. This continues the legal limbo for the men cleared by Washington of "war on terror" allegations.The 17 were captured by American forces in Afghanistan and fear torture if they return home. Beijing regards the men as "Chinese terrorists". http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/4693120/Guantanamo-Bay-Uighur-prisoner-release-overturned.html