Archive for the 'War' Category
ShadowGate
August 15th, 2020Under normal circumstances, before posting this, I probably would have sifted through it for a couple of days to try to verify the main points. But… Millie Weaver, the independent reporter who produced and directed the film, has just been indicted and arrested in Ohio: According to the information I obtained through my investigative inquiries […]
U.S. Confirms Seizure of Iranian Fuel on Venezuela-Bound Ships
August 14th, 2020Via: AFP: The US Justice Department on Friday confirmed it had seized the fuel cargo aboard four tankers sent by Iran to crisis-wracked Venezuela, tying the shipments to Tehran’s Revolutionary Guards and stepping up the pressure on its foe. “With the assistance of foreign partners, this seized property is now in US custody,” the Justice […]
U.S. Special Forces Active in 22 African Countries
August 14th, 2020Via: Mint Press News: A new report published in South African newspaper The Mail and Guardian has shed light on the opaque world of the American military presence in Africa. Last year, elite U.S. Special Operations forces were active in 22 African countries. This accounts for 14 percent of all American commandos deployed overseas, the […]
“Bomb Carbon” Has Been Found in Deep-Ocean Creatures
August 12th, 2020Via: Scientific American: Until now, it has been unclear whether bomb carbon has managed to spread into the farthest crevices of the world, especially the deepest seas. It would have taken natural oceanic circulation about 1,000 years to carry it to the depths of the Mariana Trench. And in fact, testing for the new study […]
Shipments of Nearly 20,000 Fake Driver’s Licenses Seized at Chicago Airport
August 10th, 2020Via: Fox: Advances in technology may have made counterfeiting more difficult but crooks keep finding a way to stay in business. In fact, federal customs officers have seized 1,513 shipments from overseas containing fraudulent documents—19,888 counterfeit U.S. driver’s licenses—just at Chicago O’Hare International Airport this year through the end of June. Most of the shipments […]
Pentagon Picks SpaceX and ULA to Remain Its Primary Launch Providers
August 7th, 2020Via: Space News: The Department of the Air Force announced Aug. 7 that incumbents United Launch Alliance and SpaceX have been selected to receive five-year contracts totaling $653 million to launch national security satellites for the U.S. military and intelligence agencies. The companies beat Blue Origin and Northrop Grumman in the four-way competition known as […]
China Helped Saudis Build Secret Nuclear Site For Extracting Yellowcake
August 6th, 2020Via: ZeroHedge: When it comes to America’s allies in the Middle East, Washington has long “looked the other way” while they recklessly pursue questionable weapons technology. Think Pakistan’s nuclear program at a time when the Reagan administration prioritized fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan, or Israel’s estimated 100 to possibly 200 undeclared nukes. This has more […]
How Congress Maintains Endless War
August 3rd, 2020The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can ‘throw the rascals out’ at any election […]
Nimbus Data ExaDrive: 100TB Capacity in 3.5 Inch Form Factor, Costs $40,000
July 31st, 2020Send a few trucksloads over. And keep’em coming. Utah Data Center: The Utah Data Center (UDC), also known as the Intelligence Community Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative Data Center, is a data storage facility for the United States Intelligence Community that is designed to store data estimated to be on the order of exabytes or larger. […]
U.S. to Pull 12,000 Troops Out of Germany
July 29th, 2020Via: Guardian: The US is planning to pull nearly 12,000 troops out of Germany in a move the Pentagon insisted was about long-term strategy, but which Donald Trump said was to punish Berlin for low defence spending. Of a total of 11,900 personnel that will be leaving Germany under the proposal, 6,400 will be returning […]
