Archive for the 'War' Category
1981: ‘Notes On NSA ESP Concerns/Guidelines’
July 15th, 2018URL of source at CIA: https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/document/nsa-rdp96x00790r000100030037-5 Local copy on Cryptogon (avoids a visit to CIA, in case you care). Via: U.S. Central Intelligence Agency Electronic Reading Room: The number of NSA persons with operating ESP capabilities should be isolated by type and quality.
Engine Tests Underway for DARPA ‘Phantom Express’ Spaceplane Program
July 9th, 2018Via: Space News: A space shuttle-era main engine is undergoing a series of daily test firings to demonstrate its suitability for use on a reusable spaceplane under development. The Aerojet Rocketdyne AR-22 engine is in the midst of a series of 10 100-second engine firings over the course of 10 days at NASA’s Stennis Space […]
U.S.-China Trade War Underway
July 6th, 2018Via: Guardian: A long-threatened trade war between the US and China has got under way after the world’s two largest economies imposed tariffs on each other. The US implemented tariffs on $34bn in Chinese goods, to which Beijing responded with levies on a similar quantity of US imports. Minutes after the US tariffs went into […]
DARPA Backing Development of ‘Silicon Compiler’
June 29th, 2018Via: EETimes: The U.S. will pour $100 million into two research programs over the next four years to create the equivalent of a silicon compiler aimed at significantly lowering the barriers to design chips. The programs, involving 15 companies and more than 200 researchers, were described for the first time in a talk at the […]
Pentagon Intelligence Chief: Russia And China Will Have Weapons in Space ‘In the Near Future’
June 28th, 2018Just wait. You haven’t seen anything yet. Via: DefenseOne: The Defense Intelligence Agency’s director says the U.S. lead in space is diminishing and tomorrow’s skies will be filled with enemy robot satellites. Russia and China are developing new space-based weapons and they’ll be ready “in the near future,” Lt. Gen. Robert Ashley, the head of […]
An Extraordinarily Expensive Way to Fight ISIS
June 28th, 2018Mmm hmm. Via: The Atlantic: The tale of a bombing raid in the Libyan desert, pitting stealth bombers and 500-pound bombs against 70 ragtag fighters.
Mini Neanderthal Brains Will Be Connected To Robots
June 28th, 2018Via: Live Science: Neanderthals went extinct about 40,000 years ago, but thanks to cutting-edge science, there is now a lab in California that has petri dishes filled with pea-size versions of the cavemen’s brains. Why are researchers cultivating and studying these mini brains? The reason, they say, is that these small neural lumps may reveal […]
Richard Dolan Interviews Catherine Austin Fitts: Missing Trillions and The Secret Space Program
June 26th, 2018Via: Richard Dolan:
Pentagon Prepares to Create Temporary Camps for Illegal Immigrants at Two Bases
June 24th, 2018Via: Reuters: The U.S. military is preparing to build temporary camps at two military bases to house immigrants, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Sunday, in the latest sign of a growing U.S. military support role for President Donald Trump’s politically charged immigration policies. Mattis, speaking to reporters during a flight to Alaska, did not […]
Flying Dragon Robot Transforms Itself to Squeeze Through Gaps
June 23rd, 2018Via: IEEE: It’s a modular flying robot powered by ducted fans that can transform literally on the fly, from a square to a snake to anything in between, allowing it to stretch out to pass through small holes and then make whatever other shape you want once it’s on the other side.
