Archive for the 'War' Category
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.
Life Imitates Akira: The NSA’s Fear of Psychic Nukes
February 18th, 2019Via: Muckrock: Agency wondered if ten psychics could cause a chain reaction that would cause a city to become lost in time and space.
Trump Declares U.S.-Mexico Emergency for Border Wall
February 15th, 2019Via: Reuters: President Donald Trump on Friday declared a national emergency in a bid to fund his promised wall at the U.S.-Mexico border without congressional approval, an action Democrats vowed to challenge as a violation of the U.S. Constitution. The Republican president’s move to circumvent Congress represented an escalation in his efforts to make good […]
Trump to Sign Border Security Bill, Declare National Emergency for Wall Funds
February 14th, 2019Pelosi: Next President Could Declare National Emergency on Guns Via: New York Post: The White House announced Thursday that President Trump would sign the bipartisan border security bill — and then declare a national emergency to find the money for his long-promised border wall that Congress wouldn’t give him. “President Trump will sign the government […]
Florida School Arms Up; Hires Two Former Combat Veterans To Prevent Mass Shootings
February 12th, 2019Via: ZeroHedge: Just south of Tampa, Fla., students at the Manatee School for the Arts (MSA) roam the hallways past an armed combat veteran who is constantly looking out for threats. By the end of February, another one will be manning a guard shack at at the school’s entrance. 39-year-old Harold Verdecia, a former infantryman […]
Smartphones Will Monitor How Workers Walk, Type And “Spend Their Free Time”
February 12th, 2019Via: ZeroHedge: Forget Face ID: a collaboration between the Defense Department and a NY-based company called TWOSENSE.AI, has birthed an artificial intelligence algorithm that could be embedded in smartphones and will be able to identify the device owner by the way they talk, type, walk and even by how “they spend their free time”. TWOSENSE.AI […]
Jeff Bezos Protests the Invasion of His Privacy, as Amazon Builds a Sprawling Surveillance State for Everyone Else
February 12th, 2019Via: The Intercept: If Bezos were the political victim of surveillance state abuses, it would be scandalous and dangerous. It would also be deeply ironic. That’s because Amazon, the company that has made Bezos the planet’s richest human being, is a critical partner for the U.S. Government in building an ever-more invasive, militarized and sprawling […]
