Archive for the 'War' Category
Nobel Peace Prize Winner: Obama Spoke at Boeing Retreat After Firm Gave Millions to Library Fund
January 28th, 2019Via: Bloomberg: Boeing Co. lined up a surprise motivational speaker for an executive retreat in Arizona this month: former U.S. President Barack Obama. He was the second former U.S. president in two years to offer up leadership tips to managers gathered for Boeing’s annual desert planning session. George W. Bush addressed the group last year, […]
U.S. Military Eyes Tiny Nuclear Reactors for Deployed Troops
January 28th, 2019Via: DefenseOne: Getting fuel to remote operating bases is a big problem for the U.S. military. In 2008, during the height of combat in Iraq, the Government Accountability Office estimated that more than 900,000 gallons of fuel went to bases for basic power needs like lighting and refrigeration (on top of the 6.7 million gallons […]
Army’s Long-Awaited Iraq War Study Finds Iran Was the Only Winner
January 27th, 2019The arms industry and the mercs did ok, too. Via: ArmyTimes: A two-volume Army study of the Iraq war is a deep examination of the mistakes and success of the war effort that also takes aim at critics who would slough off the conflict as they shift to near-peer threats. The study, commissioned by former […]
EU Adds Saudi Arabia to Draft Terrorism Financing List
January 25th, 2019Via: Reuters: The European Commission has added Saudi Arabia to an EU draft list of countries that pose a threat to the bloc because of lax controls against terrorism financing and money laundering, two sources told Reuters on Friday.
Possible U.S. Backed Coup Underway in Venezuela
January 23rd, 2019Via: Reuters: Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido declared himself interim president on Wednesday, winning the backing of Washington and many Latin American nations and prompting socialist Nicolas Maduro, who has led the oil-rich nation since 2013, to break relations with the United States. U.S. President Donald Trump formally recognized Guaido shortly after his announcement and […]
Murders in Mexico New Record High
January 22nd, 2019Via: Reuters: Murders in Mexico rose by 33 percent in 2018, breaking the record for a second year running, official data showed, underlining the task facing the new president who has pledged to reduce violence in the cartel-ravaged country. Investigators opened to 33,341 murder probes compared with the previous year’s record of 25,036, according to […]
How Electric Therapy Is Curing Navy SEALs of PTSD
January 22nd, 2019Via: DefenseOne: What Tony and several other former U.S. Special Operations Forces personnel received Newport Brain Research Laboratory, located at the Center, was a new treatment for brain disorders, one that might just revolutionize brain-based medicine. Though the FDA clinical trials to judge its efficacy and risks are ongoing, the technique could help humanity deal […]
Large Releases of Chaff Over Several States Seen on Radar
January 16th, 2019Saturation chaff? Motors feed chaff from rolls of about 40 pounds through cutters carried on some aircraft to produce either bursts or a continuous stream. The continuous stream technique, called saturation chaff, may be used by aircraft to cover a large area. By 2005 or 2006, the Army also planned to use saturation chaff to […]
Tulsi Gabbard Says U.S. Government Arming, Funding ISIS and Al Qaeda
January 13th, 2019Via: CNN:
Dr. Kelly Didn’t Commit Suicide
January 13th, 2019Via: Daily Mail: I have updated my book after being contacted by John Scurr, a world-renowned consultant surgeon specialising in vascular surgery – surgery on veins and arteries. He does not believe it possible that Dr Kelly died in the manner officially found. Scurr told me that Dr Kelly’s half-sister, Sarah Pape OBE – a […]
