Archive for the 'War' Category
Merck’s Insurers Treat Ransomware Takedown as Act of War
December 4th, 2019Schadenfreude? Maybe a little. Ok, a lot. Via: Bloomberg: Merck did what any of us would do when facing a disaster: It turned to its insurers. After all, through its property policies, the company was covered—after a $150 million deductible—to the tune of $1.75 billion for catastrophic risks including the destruction of computer data, coding, […]
U.S. Navy Buying 9 New Nuclear Submarines for $22 Billion, Largest Warship Building Deal Ever
December 4th, 2019So it goes… Via: Popular Mechanics: The U.S. Navy has just signed the largest warship building deal ever. The service will pay more than 20 billion dollars for nine new Virginia-class attack submarines. The submarines will replace Cold War-era Los Angeles-class boats in America’s submarine fleet, adding new technology and greater firepower. Many of the […]
Trump to Designate Mexican Drug Cartels as Terrorist Groups
December 1st, 2019Wikipedia plot summary from Tom Clancy’s Clear and Present Danger, 1988: The President of the United States, who is running for reelection, finds a fierce opponent in Ohio Governor J. Robert Fowler, who has rallied the American public behind his administration’s failures in the War on Drugs. This provides National Security Advisor James Cutter with […]
Germany Plans Rapid State Intervention to Protect Key Industries – From China
November 29th, 2019Via: Reuters: German Economy Minister Peter Altmaier wants to set up a new government body with powers to decide quickly whether to take stakes in key domestic companies to prevent foreign takeovers. Altmaier presented his new industrial strategy on Friday, including plans to set up a standing committee which, as a last resort, could decide […]
Hundreds of Banks and Government Sites Burned in Iran Unrest
November 27th, 2019Via: Reuters: Approximately 731 banks and 140 government sites were torched in recent unrest in Iran, Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli said in remarks published by the official IRNA news agency on Wednesday. More than 50 bases used by security forces were attacked and approximately 70 gas stations were also burned, he said, without specifying […]
Navy Secretary Fired Over SEAL Controversy
November 24th, 2019Via: ZeroHedge: Secretary of Defense Mark Esper asked Navy Secretary Richard Spencer to resign on Sunday after the Pentagon chief lost confidence in how Spencer handled the case of a Navy SEAL accused of war crimes in Iraq, according to the Pentagon.
Putin: Scientists Died Trying To Create Weapon That ‘Has No Equal In The World’
November 22nd, 2019It’s a missile with a nuclear propulsion system: 9M730 Burevestnik/Skyfall Via: Daily Mail: Russian President Vladimir Putin has told widows of the five scientists who died in a nuclear explosion earlier this year that their husbands were working on ‘the most advanced and unmatched technical’ weaponry. Putin’s comments came during a ceremony of state decorations […]
NATO Intends to Make Space an ‘Operational Domain’
November 20th, 2019Via: Bloomberg: The North Atlantic Treaty Organization plans to widen its remit to include outer space as the alliance anticipates new security threats. NATO intends to make space an “operational domain” along with air, land, sea and cyber, according to Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. The move, to be approved at a meeting of NATO foreign […]
Scientists ‘May Have Crossed Ethical Line’ in Growing Human Brains
November 17th, 2019Oh, really? What could possibly go wrong? *sigh* Anyway, I designate, “Sentient lumps of brain,” as Cryptogon’s Phrase Of The Year. Have a nice day. Via: Guardian: Neuroscientists may have crossed an “ethical rubicon” by growing lumps of human brain in the lab, and in some cases transplanting the tissue into animals, researchers warn. The […]
Amazon Challenges Pentagon’s $10-billion Cloud Award to Microsoft
November 15th, 2019Via: Reuters: Amazon.com Inc on Thursday said it is contesting the Pentagon’s award of an up to $10 billion cloud computing deal to Microsoft Corp, expressing concern that politics got in the way of a fair contracting process. The company filed notice last Friday that it will formally protest the decision on the Joint Enterprise […]
