Archive for the 'War' Category
‘DARPA Is Building a $10 Million, Open Source, Secure Voting System’
March 14th, 2019Mmm hmm. If this system relies on elliptic curve cryptography, an attacker with a large quantum computer will be able to crack it. Via: Vice: For years security professionals and election integrity activists have been pushing voting machine vendors to build more secure and verifiable election systems, so voters and candidates can be assured election […]
How Nuclear Bombs Work
March 9th, 2019Part 1 Part 2
Trump Cancels U.S. Report on Civilian Deaths in Drone Strikes
March 7th, 2019Via: Fortune: President Donald Trump revoked a requirement that U.S. intelligence officials publicly report the number of civilians killed in drone strikes and other attacks on terrorist targets outside of war zones. Trump formally ended the requirement with an executive order on Wednesday, months after signaling such a move. The administration last year ignored a […]
Backflipping MIT Mini Cheetah
March 5th, 2019Via: Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT’S new mini cheetah robot is the first four-legged robot to do a backflip. At only 20 pounds the limber quadruped can bend and swing its legs wide, enabling it to walk either right side up or upside down. The robot can also trot over uneven terrain about twice as […]
The Next Mandatory Vaccine Battleground: Homeschool Children
February 28th, 2019Via: Vaccine Impact: As we have frequently reported here at Health Impact News, legislative efforts are underway in many states to remove parental choice for childhood vaccines, with new proposed bills removing religious and philosophical exemptions to childhood vaccines which are mandated as a requirement for school attendance. More: FDA Threatens to Demand Nationwide Vaccine […]
Dr. Martin Pall: “The 5G Rollout Is Absolutely Insane.”
February 25th, 2019Via: Nick Pineault: More: 5G: Great risk for EU, U.S. and International Health! Compelling Evidence for Eight Distinct Types of Great Harm Caused by Electromagnetic Field (EMF) Exposures and the Mechanism that Causes Them by Martin L. Pall, PhD
U.S. Navy Buying Autonomous Submarines
February 24th, 2019Via: U.S. Naval Institute: The Navy awarded Boeing a $43-million contract to build four Orca Extra Large Unmanned Undersea Vehicles (XLUUVs) that will become multi-mission for the service, according to a Wednesday Pentagon contract announcement. Boeing based its winning Orca XLUUV design on its Echo Voyager unmanned diesel-electric submersible. The 51-foot-long submersible is launched from […]
Warning Issued Over Attacks on Internet Infrastructure
February 23rd, 2019Keep this in mind: Russia to Disconnect from Internet to Test Cyber Defenses. Via: AFP: Key parts of the internet infrastructure face large-scale attacks that threaten the global system of web traffic, the internet’s address keeper warned Friday. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) declared after an emergency meeting “an ongoing and […]
Heavily Armed Foreigners Arrested in Haiti Sent to United States
February 21st, 2019Via: Reuters: A heavily armed group of foreign nationals, who were arrested in Haiti on Sunday after days of massive anti-government protests, were handed over to U.S. authorities on Wednesday, Haitian and U.S. authorities said. It was unclear if all the members of the group, which reportedly included five Americans, a Serb and a Russian, […]
U.S. Steps Up Winter-Warfare Training
February 20th, 2019‘Cause I was looking for war in all the cold places Lookin’ for war in too many places Via: AP: After 17 years of war against Taliban and al-Qaida-linked insurgents, Marines are going through advanced cold-weather training to prepare for future wars against foes such as Russian and North Korea.
