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...Lieberman's Homeland Security Committee warned of the dangers of a homegrown jihadist trend in a report it issued last year. "Radicalization is no longer confined to training camps in Afghanistan or other locations far from our shores; it is also occurring right here in the United States," largely via the Internet, the report said. "The emergence of these self-generated violent Islamist extremists who are radicalized online presents a challenge for law enforcement because lone wolves are less likely to come to the attention of law enforcement." At least, not until they start shooting...
...fewer clues to collect and less chatter to hear, even as information about means and methods is so much more widely dispersed. It is more like spontaneous combustion than someone from the outside lighting a match. Senator Joe Lieberman's Homeland Security Committee warned of this threat in a report last year. "The emergence of these self-generated violent Islamist extremists who are radicalized online presents a challenge," the report concluded, "because lone wolves are less likely to come to the attention of law enforcement." At least until they start shooting...
...which operates under the auspices of the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development, crunches numbers on energy supplies and demand on behalf of the world's richest countries, including the U.S., the European Union and Japan, which also finance the agency. Birol said the organization's annual report is discussed with all member governments and reviewed by 200 energy experts before being released. (Read "The Real Impact of America's Oil Crisis...
...report doesn't sugarcoat the future when it comes to climate change, saying the world faces a looming disaster if its leaders drag their feet in Copenhagen. Among the predictions likely to alarm the big energy consumers...
...global recession has brought the first significant yearly drop in energy demand since 1981, giving the planet a rare breather from carbon emissions. But this is a "unique" moment, the report says, whose gains will be quickly obliterated without a significant move toward alternative energies. The impending energy crisis is "far greater than many people realize," it says. (Read "Russia and China: An Old Alliance Hinges on Energy...