Archive for the 'War' Category
South Africa Begins Seizing White-Owned Farms
August 20th, 2018Via: news.com.au: THE South African government has begun the process of seizing land from white farmers. Local newspaper City Press reports two game farms in the northern province of Limpopo are the first to be targeted for unilateral seizure after negotiations with the owners to purchase the properties stalled. While the government says it intends […]
Jeff Bezos Is Gobbling Up The Swamp
August 17th, 2018Via: Vanity Fair: The controversy involves a plan to move all of the Defense Department’s data—classified and unclassified—on to the cloud. The information is currently strewn across some 400 centers, and the Pentagon’s top brass believes that consolidating it into one cloud-based system, the way the CIA did in 2013, will make it more secure […]
Turkey’s Lira Weakens More than 6 Percent on Threat of More U.S. Sanctions
August 17th, 2018Via: Reuters: Turkey’s battered lira weakened more than 6 percent against the dollar on Friday, after a U.S. warning that Ankara should expect more economic sanctions unless it hands over the detained American evangelical pastor Andrew Brunson. It has lost nearly 40 percent of its value against the dollar this year, hit by both the […]
The One About a Russian Satellite “Raising Alarm” with U.S.
August 16th, 2018Just a few stories for context about this Russian satellite situation: Mystery Russian Satellite’s Behaviour Raises Alarm in U.S.: A mysterious Russian satellite displaying “very abnormal behaviour” has raised alarm in the US, according to a State Department official. “We don’t know for certain what it is and there is no way to verify it,” […]
Cost to Dismantle First Nuclear Powered Aircraft Carrier: “Up to $1.5 Billion”
August 12th, 2018Via: Popular Mechanics: Six years after decommissioning USS Enterprise, the world’s first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, the U.S. Navy is still figuring out how to safely dismantle the ship. The General Accounting Office estimates the cost of taking apart the vessel and sending the reactors to a nuclear waste storage facility at up to $1.5 billion, […]
Nicaragua in ‘Undeclared State of Siege’ as Hooded Gunmen Rule the Streets
July 26th, 2018Via: McClatchy: They ride in the back of Toyota double-cabin pickup trucks, assault rifles slung over their shoulders. No one knows their identities. They always wear black ski masks or hoods. The gunmen — between 1,000 and 1,500 of them, according to some estimates — are part of a recently formed paramilitary force protecting the […]
U.S. Special Forces: 133 Countries Down, 17 to Go?
July 19th, 2018Via: Tom Dispatch: None of this should be surprising, since in Africa and across the rest of the planet America’s Special Operations forces (SOF) are regularly engaged in a wide-ranging set of missions including special reconnaissance and small-scale offensive actions, unconventional warfare, counterterrorism, hostage rescue, and security force assistance (that is, organizing, training, equipping, and […]
Pentagon Sees Quantum Computing as Key Weapon for War in Space
July 19th, 2018Disclosure: I am long Quantum Resistant Ledger (QRL). — I had not heard of quantum technologies being applied to inertial navigation systems before. Check out this 2014 piece from New Scientist: IN 2016 a British submarine will slip its moorings and set sail under the guidance of the quantum world. The navigation system it will […]
The United States of Arms
July 19th, 2018Via: Will Geary: The United States of Arms from Will Geary on Vimeo. U.S. weapons exports from 1950 to 2017. Data from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute's Arms Transfers Database. Units are expressed in trend indicator values (TIV). Each dot on the map = one TIV. Visualization by Will Geary.
Pentagon Working on Neural Interface
July 18th, 2018Via: NextGov: The idea of humans controlling machines with their minds has spun off sci-fi blockbusters like “Pacific Rim” and entire subgenres of foreign film, but while today skyscraper-sized fighting robots exist only on the big screen, the Pentagon is building technology that could one day make them a reality. Today, the Defense Advanced Research […]
