If Damascus falls, Israel and its gas fields feared threatened

Syrian military forces were gathered in Tuesday, July 17, to save Damascus. Tanks and armored vehicles were positioned in strength in the capital’s center and around government buildings. However, the noise and fury of battle in the Syrian capital Tuesday, July 17, were produced, debkafile’s military sources report, by six battalions of Bashar Assad’s loyal […]

Historic drought to bring higher food prices

The historic drought baking the nation’s breadbasket is about to hit American consumers where it hurts most — the supermarket checkout.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/07/17/historic-drought-conditions-can-lead-to-higher-food-prices-experts-say/#ixzz20trkt07B

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Iran thinks the drought in the southern part of the country is cause by west…

Worst drought since 1950s in continental U.S. Epic drought covers widest area since […]

Saudis are buying nuclear-capable missiles from China

 

debkafile’s military sources report that Saudi Arabia has set its feet on the path to a nuclear weapon capability and is negotiating in Beijng the purchase of Chinese nuclear-capable Dong-Fen 21 ((NATO-codenamed CSS-5) ballistic missile.

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US, France, UK, Turkey, Italy prepare for military intervention in Syria

Despite public denials, military preparations for intervention in the horrendous Syrian crisis are quietly afoot in Washington, Paris, Rome, London and Ankara. President Barack Obama is poised for a final decision after the Pentagon submits operational plans for protecting Syrian rebels and beleaguered populations from the brutal assaults of Bashar Assad’s army, debkafile’s Washington sources […]

Would a Cold Fusion device from Italy change the world?

"Today, Wired.co.uk is running a story, ‘Cold fusion rears its head as "E-Cat" research promises to change the world.’ It gives an overview of the technology that claims to fuse hydrogen and nickel into copper, with no radioactive by-products, to produce copious amounts of heat, inexpensively, with a 1 megawatt plant scheduled to come […]

U-Turn: PA going through with app to UN Sept. 23 for statehood

Thursday, Sept. 15, Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas went back on his assurance 24 hours earlier to Saudi, European and Egyptian officials and decided to go through with his application to the UN Security Council on Sept. 23 for the admission of a Palestinian state to the world body.

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US, Saudi Arabia smuggle satellite phones to Syrian rebels

Iranian intelligence experts in Damascus have been disrupting the Syrian opposition movement’s telephone and Internet links with the outside world and among fellow-protesters in the country. To bridge the communications gap, the US and Saudi Arabia have in the last two weeks smuggled thousands of satellite phones into Syria and put them in the hands […]

Is U.S. West Coast next? Some experts warn it’s the next area for earthquake in pacific’s Ring of Fire

The U.S. West Coast could be the next area shaken by a big earthquake, experts warned today.

The earthquakes last Friday in Japan, last month in New Zealand and last year in Chile all happened along the ‘Ring of Fire’ that encircles much of the Pacific Ocean.

Scientists believe the West Coast could be hit […]

Japan’s most powerful ever recorded 8.9 earthquake

Total chaos is the best way I could describe it. Even the aftershocks are very powerful and caused a 33 foot wave of water that slams Japan’s coast.  Scientists said the quake ranked as the fifth-largest earthquake in the world since 1900 and was nearly 8,000 times stronger than the one which devastated Christchurch, New […]

UN alarmed at huge decline in bee numbers

Honey bee colony declines in recent years have reached 10 to 30 percent in Europe, 30 percent in the United States, up to 85 percent in Middle East, said scientist Peter Neumann, one of the authors of the first ever UN report on the issue.

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