Archive for the 'War' Category
IBM: Use AI to Identify Vaccine-Hesitant Parents
May 8th, 2019Mmm hmm. IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America’s Most Powerful Corporation by Edwin Black Via: IEEE: Growing skepticism toward vaccines has sparked a flareup of measles outbreaks affecting New York City neighborhoods, cruise ships, international airports and even Google’s Mountain View headquarters. To help family physicians reach out to […]
U.S. Military Stops Releasing Afghanistan War Information
May 1st, 2019Via: AP: Amid a battlefield stalemate in Afghanistan , the U.S. military has stopped releasing information often cited to measure progress in America’s longest war, calling it of little value in fighting the Taliban insurgency. The move fits a trend of less information being released about the war in recent years, often at the insistence […]
With Trump’s Assistance, Oswald’s CIA Files Remain Classified
May 1st, 2019Agent Oswald. Dark Journalist: “He was, without a doubt, an intelligence asset for the CIA.” Must Read: JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters by James W. Douglass Via: Just Security: I awaited the promise of the JFK Records Act of 1992: full disclosure. The law, passed unanimously by Congress, mandated […]
Norway: Whale Possibly Trained by Russian Military
April 30th, 2019The U.S. has been doing this sort of thing for many decades: United States Navy Marine Mammal Program. Via: Guardian: Marine experts in Norway believe they have stumbled upon a white whale that was trained by the Russian navy as part of a programme to use underwater mammals as a special ops force. Fishermen in […]
Venezuela: U.S. Backed Coup Attempt Underway
April 30th, 2019Via: Daily Mail: Heavy gunfire crackled through the Venezuelan capital of Caracas on Tuesday after opposition leader Juan Guaido called for a military uprising to oust President Nicolas Maduro. Guaido urged protesters and members of the military to join what he called the ‘final phase of Operation Liberty’ in a video taken at La Carlota […]
U.S. Responsible for 36 Percent of Total Global Military Expenditure
April 29th, 2019Via: Reuters: Global military expenditure reached its highest level last year since the end of the Cold War, fueled by increased spending in the United States and China, the world’s two biggest economies, a leading defence think-tank said on Monday. In its annual report, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) said overall global military […]
Tulsi Gabbard on Being Attacked by the Democratic Party, the Mainstream Media, the Foreign Policy Establishment and “People Who Represent the Interests of the Military Industrial Complex”
April 28th, 2019Via: Tulsi Gabbard:
“Easter Worshippers”
April 26th, 2019Via: New Zealand Herald: John L Allen Jr is the author of The Global War on Christians. Referencing Angela Merkel’s response to the Sri Lanka bombings, “It is shocking that the people who gather to celebrate Easter together were consciously targeted in this malicious attack”. Except, he writes, “the shocking thing about the carnage is […]
The Pentagon Is Investing in Space Robots to Repair Satellites
April 24th, 2019Via: Nextgov: The Pentagon’s research office wants to send robots into space to inspect and repair the nation’s satellites. Today the U.S. has more than 400 military, government and commercial satellites circling the globe in geosynchronous Earth orbit, or GEO, a celestial path about 22,000 miles above the ground. These high-altitude satellites are ideal for […]
U.S. Navy Drafting New Guidelines for Reporting UFOs
April 24th, 2019Via: Politico: The U.S. Navy is drafting new guidelines for pilots and other personnel to report encounters with “unidentified aircraft,” a significant new step in creating a formal process to collect and analyze the unexplained sightings — and destigmatize them. The previously unreported move is in response to a series of sightings of unknown, highly […]
