Archive for the 'War' Category
Witnesses Say Australian SAS Soldiers Killed Unarmed Afghan Civilians in Potential War Crimes
March 19th, 2020Via: Four Corners: A Four Corners investigation has uncovered new allegations that unarmed civilians were unlawfully killed by Australian special forces in Afghanistan. The revelations, to be detailed on tonight’s Four Corners program, involve multiple incidents in which Afghans were killed after surrendering or while they were detained by the Special Air Service Regiment (SAS). […]
GM’s CEO Offers to Make Ventilators in WWII-Style Mobilization
March 18th, 2020Mmm hmm. GM’s other WWII mobilization: Hitler’s Carmaker: The Inside Story of How General Motors Helped Mobilize the Third Reich Via: Bloomberg: General Motors Co.’s Mary Barra offered to manufacture hospital ventilators in auto factories shuttered by the coronavirus outbreak, an effort that would echo Detroit’s contribution to Allied powers during World War II.
Trump Invokes Wartime Authority of Defense Production Act
March 18th, 2020Via: USA Today: President Trump on Tuesday invoked the Defense Production Act, a wartime authority that allows him to direct industry to produce critical equipment, to confront the spiraling crisis over coronavirus pandemic. The act was established in 1950 during the Korean War following war powers legislation used during World War II to direct private […]
U.S. Navy Robot Submarine Would Be Able to Kill Without Human Control
March 9th, 2020Via: New Scientist: The US Navy is quietly developing armed robot submarines controlled by onboard artificial intelligence. The vessels could potentially kill without explicit human control. The Office of Naval Research is carrying out the project, known as CLAWS, which it describes in budget documents as an autonomous undersea weapon system for clandestine use. CLAWS […]
OIL DOWN 31%, S&P 500 LIMIT DOWN 5%
March 8th, 2020Holy shit. Via: Yahoo Finance: The world’s faltering effort to contain the coronavirus outbreak hammered stocks and crude oil on Sunday, as new cases surfacing across the U.S. amplified fears of a global downturn. Brent crude (BZ=F) prices collapsed, falling by as much as 31% on Sunday evening in what was the largest single-day drop […]
Canada’s National Microbiology Lab in Winnipeg
March 6th, 2020Dr. Frank Plummer, a scientist who received $8.3 million in grant money from the Gates Foundation, and was the director of Canada’s National Microbiology Lab when it received coronavirus samples, died in Kenya weeks after the official start of the 2019 coronavirus outbreak… Which happened weeks after a Gates Foundation simulation of a coronavirus outbreak. […]
Did ISS Live-Feed Accidentally Capture “Top Secret” Hypersonic Vehicle Test?
March 5th, 2020Via: ZeroHedge: Scott C. Waring, the founder of UFO Sightings Daily, claims he has come across a strange video recorded from the International Space Station’s (ISS) NASA Space Cam that shows the moment an unidentified flying object rockets into orbit.
SpaceX Aims to Launch 70 Missions a Year from Florida’s Space Coast by 2023
March 4th, 2020Via: Space.com: SpaceX is planning a huge boost to the number of rocket launches from its Florida launch sites in the next few years as the company builds its Starlink satellite megaconstellation while meeting flight demands from its customers, according to a federal environmental report. The missions for SpaceX’s Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets […]
United Launch Alliance Factory Tour
March 2nd, 2020Via: Smarter Every Day:
U.S. NAVY PACIFIC FLEET ORDERS AT LEAST 14 DAY UNDERWAYS FOR SHIPS VISITING NATIONS IN 7TH FLEET AOR
February 28th, 2020Via: Navy Times: U.S. Pacific Fleet commander Adm. John C. “Lung” Aquilino has directed all vessels visiting nations in the 7th Fleet area of operations “to remain at sea for at least 14 days before pulling into another port in order to monitor sailors for any symptoms” of COVID-19, a new and deadly strain of […]
