CASH is accelerating down the path to extinction as new technologies threaten to mark the end of loose change within a decade.
Bank and credit union bosses say cash won’t be alone, with wallets and credit cards also likely to disappear too.
They told The Advertiser’s round table forum that cash and cards will be replaced by [...]
June 16, 2009
Cash to become extinct as chips take off…
June 16, 2009
Iraq unveils foreign oil contract shortlist…
Three British companies have been shortlisted to bid for contracts to work on Iraq’s oil and gas fields, pitting themselves against 32 other non-Iraqi companies in a televised, two-day bidding procedure revealed at Baghdad’s Oil Ministry.
BP, which provided technical assistance to the Iraqi state oil company in 2004-2006, BG International and Premier Oil were among [...]
June 16, 2009
New York drill for possible nuke war…
US security authorities have conducted a semi-clandestine nuclear fallout drill in the City of New York in order to be prepared “for the worst.”
The NYC Police Department (NYPD) in unison with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) carried out a massive almost-covert anti-nuclear exercise codenamed ‘New York, you have a problem’ in order to gauge [...]
June 16, 2009
Military accepting neo-Nazis, white supremacists, probe finds…
The US military has effectively adopted a “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy concerning white supremacists and neo-Nazis in an effort to bolster recruiting and retention, an article published Monday says.
Numerous articles have detailed the Army’s recruiting woes in the wake of two ongoing US wars abroad. Soldiers are less likely to enlist — or re-enlist [...]
June 16, 2009
March of the killer robots…
The development of mechanical soldiers and remote-controlled tanks and planes is changing war for ever – but the moral consequences have often been overlooked…
by Noel Sharkey
Source: telegraph.co.uk
It’s the most realistic shoot-’em-up game ever. The player has a choice of two planes: a Predator with two Hellfire missiles, or a Reaper with 14. The action takes [...]
June 16, 2009
Baghdad bombings kill two civilians…
Baghdad – A man and a woman were killed in two bombings in the Iraqi capital on Monday, police said.
The blasts, both from bombs attached to ‘civilian vehicles’ in the Baghdad district of al-Shaab, together wounded six other people, police told Baghdad’s Voices of Iraq news agency.
Police said a public bus was targeted in the [...]
June 16, 2009
Israel jails journalists for Gaza invasion report…
JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – An Israeli court has jailed two journalists for two months for reporting troop movements in Israel in the hour before Israeli forces entered the Gaza Strip at the start of an invasion in January.
The two men, both Palestinian residents of Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem, were convicted on Sunday of breaching military censorship regulations [...]
June 16, 2009
23 militants die in Afghanistan…
KABUL: The US military, along with the Afghan security forces, backed by warplanes killed nearly two dozens militants in a clash in southern Afghanistan at the weekend, the US side said on Monday.
The troops called in air support after the militants attacked their patrol in Uruzgan province on Sunday, US military spokeswoman Captain Elizabeth Mathias [...]
June 16, 2009
Israeli Police and Military Brutalize Peaceful Protesters at Netanyahu’s Speech…
While Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was making a major foreign policy speech at Tel Aviv University Sunday, Israeli police outside the university attacked international protesters of Israel’s invasion of Gaza, illegal settlements and the apartheid wall.
Heavy-handed police treatment of the unarmed, peaceful members of the CODEPINK delegation there began immediately after they unfurled several [...]
June 16, 2009
Agent Orange continues to poison Vietnam…
From 1961 to 1971, the U.S. military sprayed Vietnam with Agent Orange, which contained large quantities of Dioxin, in order to defoliate the trees for military objectives. Dioxin is one of the most dangerous chemicals known to man. It has been recognized by the World Health Organization as a carcinogen (causes cancer) and by the [...]
