Archive for the 'War' Category
SpaceX Wins Contract to Launch Secret Air Force Space Plane
June 7th, 2017Via: CNN: A major shift in power is underway in the commercial space industry. SpaceX has won an Air Force contract to launch a secretive, unmanned X-37B space plane later this year. The upstart rocket outfit edged out United Launch Alliance — a joint venture between Boeing (BA) and Lockheed Martin (LMT) — that until […]
Zbigniew Brzezinski Dies at 89
May 26th, 2017Via: Bloomberg: Zbigniew Brzezinski, who as national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter advocated a hard line toward the Soviet Union and helped develop the unsuccessful military mission to rescue American hostages in Iran, has died. He was 89.
Gunmen Kill 26 in Attack on Christians in Egypt
May 26th, 2017Via: Reuters: Gunmen attacked buses and a truck taking a group of Coptic Christians to a monastery in southern Egypt on Friday, killing 26 people and wounding 25 others, witnesses and the Health Ministry said. An Interior Ministry spokesman said the unidentified gunmen had arrived in three four-wheel-drive vehicles. Eyewitnesses said masked men stopped the […]
DARPA and Boeing Team Up to Build a Hypersonic Spaceplane
May 25th, 2017Via: Popular Mechanics: DARPA announced today that it has selected Boeing to design and build a new reusable, hypersonic spaceplane called the Phantom Express that would fly into high suborbital altitudes to launch satellites into orbit before coming back down to land horizontally like an airplane. The unmanned craft, part of the Experimental Spaceplane (XS-1) […]
UK to Deploy Troops After Attack
May 23rd, 2017Via: Reuters: Britain’s armed forces will be deployed to boost security, Prime Minister Theresa May said on Tuesday, as the country raised its terror threat to the highest level of “critical” after a suicide attack in Manchester that killed 22 people, including children. May said members of the armed forces would be positioned at key […]
U.S.-Saudi Arabia Weapons Deal Worth $350 billion Over 10 Years
May 21st, 2017Update: Ivanka Trump’s Women Entrepreneurs Fund Takes $100 Million from Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates From BAE to Settle Bribery Cases for More Than $400 Million: This is right out of Yes, Minister – The Moral Dimension. Here’s an audio clip from that episode. Note that the name of the “fictional” company is BES, […]
U.S. Special Forces Expanding Shadow War in Africa
May 20th, 2017Via: Vice: Six years ago, a deputy commanding general for U.S. Army Special Operations Command gave a conservative estimate of 116 missions being carried out at any one time by Navy SEALs, Army Green Berets, and other special operations forces across the globe. Today, according to U.S. military documents obtained by VICE News, special operators […]
Microsoft Releases WannaCry Patch for PCs Running Old Operating Systems
May 14th, 2017I’m responsible for protecting some organizations from stuff like this. Here’s what I do: #1 If Windows is used, only operating systems currently supported by Microsoft are allowed. Even though I personally don’t use Macs, I encourage companies to use them and welcome those users who do use Macs. If you don’t know anything about […]
An NSA-Derived Ransomware Worm Is Shutting Down Computers Worldwide
May 12th, 2017I don’t know what it’s going to take to convince people to stop using abandoned versions of Windows, but if this doesn’t do it, nothing will. Via: Ars Technica: A highly virulent new strain of self-replicating ransomware shut down computers all over the world, in part by appropriating a National Security Agency exploit that was […]
Tunnel Collapse at Hanford Nuclear Waste Site
May 11th, 2017Via: CBC: When workers at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in southeastern Washington state suddenly found a hole in the ground on Tuesday morning, there was cause for concern. Nowhere in the United States is there more nuclear waste and radioactive contamination than at Hanford, which has been the focus of a massive, complex cleanup effort […]
