Archive for the 'War' Category
Japan Believes North Korea Capable of Building Nuclear Weapons Small Enough to Fit on Missiles
August 21st, 2019Via: Guardian: Japan’s government will reportedly state that North Korea is capable of miniaturising nuclear warheads in a forthcoming defence report, it has emerged. Tokyo will upgrade its estimate of the regime’s nuclear capability, having said last year only that the technical feat was a possibility, the conservative Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper said on Wednesday, without […]
CEO Compensation Increases vs. Average Worker Compensation Increases
August 20th, 2019Via: CBS: The chasm between what the country’s corporate leaders and their workers earn is widening to Grand Canyon-like proportions, according to new research that shows CEO compensation surged 940% between 1978 to 2018 while the average worker saw a meager 12% pay hike over the same 40-year period. … Last year chief execs got […]
Trump Administration Shutting Down JASON Advisory Group
August 17th, 2019Despite relatively prosaic disclosures about the JASON group’s activities, most of their work is classified. I’ve always wondered if the main, and unspoken, purpose of the JASON group was related to the UFO situation. After World War 2, the U.S. government was definitely struggling to understand the nature of UFOs; their flight characteristics and their […]
Sperm Sorting Method Could Reduce Chances of Girls Being Born, Scientists Warn
August 16th, 2019“Like most Asian nations, China has a traditional bias for sons.” Via: New Scientist: The finding that some chemicals slow down sperm that carry the X chromosome could lead to gels for home use that make a couple less likely to conceive a girl, scientists have warned. “I am concerned about the social impact of […]
Fort Detrick Researchers Banned from Working with Anthrax, Ebola and Smallpox, “Over Fears Contaminated Waste Could Leak Out of the Facility”
August 11th, 2019Via: Independent: America’s main biological warfare lab has been ordered to stop all research into the deadliest viruses and pathogens over fears contaminated waste could leak out of the facility. Fort Detrick, in Maryland, has been the epicentre of the US Army’s bioweapons research since the beginning of the Cold War. But last month the […]
DARPA: OFFensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics (OFFSET) Program
August 9th, 2019Coming to a favela near you! Via: The Verge: The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is experimenting with using a swarm of autonomous drones and ground robots to assist with military missions. In a video of a recent test, DARPA showed how its robots analyzed two city blocks to find, surround, and secure a […]
Severodvinsk, Russia: “Drink Iodine, 44 Drops Per Glass of Water”
August 8th, 2019Update: Is Putin Covering Up a Nuclear Disaster? Via: Daily Mail: Suspicions are growing today that Russia has suffered another nuclear accident after ambulances covered in protective film were seen transporting six people with serious radiation poisoning in a mystery explosion at a military base. Alarming footage also shows men in protective clothing loading casualties […]
Air Force Set To Deploy Drone Killing Laser Weapon On Military Dune Buggies
August 7th, 2019Via: ZeroHedge: Raytheon published a company press release last week that detailed how it “will deploy two prototype high energy laser weapon systems” to the Air Force for a 12-month in-field operation against enemy drones. The $23 million contract for two of Raytheon’s High Energy Laser Weapons Systems (HELWS) will be used by the Air […]
China Allows Devaluation of Yuan as Trade War Worsens
August 5th, 2019Via: Reuters: China let the yuan breach the key 7-per-dollar level on Monday for the first time in more than a decade, in a sign Beijing might be willing to tolerate more currency weakness that could further inflame a trade conflict with the United States. The sharp 1.4% drop in the yuan comes days after […]
The Military-Style Surveillance Technology Being Tested in American Cities
August 4th, 2019Via: The Atlantic: In the eyes of the law, there’s no difference between a photo taken by a smartphone through an airplane window and one taken by an ultrapowerful camera in a helicopter hovering over your backyard. … Capitalizing on this gap, as some might call it, in standing privacy law, wide-area-camera manufacturers and users […]
