Archive for the 'War' Category
Nuclear ‘Doomsday Clock’ Ticks Closest to Midnight in 64 Years
January 26th, 2017Via: Reuters: Atomic scientists reset their symbolic “Doomsday Clock” to its closest time to midnight in 64 years on Thursday, saying the world was closer to catastrophe due to threats such as nuclear weapons, climate change and Donald Trump’s election as U.S. president. The timepiece, devised by the Chicago-based Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and […]
Trump Calls for 20% Tax on Mexican Imports to Pay for Border Wall
January 26th, 2017Update: Trump, Mexican President Agree to Not Debate Wall in Public *phew* Via: The Hill: President Trump agreed not to publicly discuss payment of the border wall during an hourlong call with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto Friday. “With regards to the payment of the border wall, both Presidents recognized their clear and very public […]
Trump Open to CIA Using Torture
January 25th, 2017Cut off funding to ISIS. Stop giving them weapons. Stop training them. Use special forces, and work with the Russians, to kill ISIS leaders. You know, do the opposite of what the Obama regime did. Via: ABC: In an exclusive interview with ABC News, President Donald Trump said he “absolutely” thinks waterboarding works and would […]
F-16 and SU-27P in Mock Dogfight Over Area 51
January 17th, 2017The idiotic Daily Mail is trying to make a mountain out of a molehill. In fact, there is nothing unusual about what was photographed. Assessing foreign military hardware is one of the normal things that happens at Area 51, and is nothing new. See, Foreign Technology Evaluation: During the Cold War, one of the missions […]
‘Liberal Preppers Stock Up On Guns, Food As Trumpocalypse Looms’
January 17th, 2017Via: Vocativ: Colin Waugh bought a shotgun four weeks before November’s election. An unapologetic liberal, he was no fan of firearms. He had never owned one before. But Waugh, a 31-year-old from Independence, Missouri, couldn’t shake his fears of a Donald Trump presidency — and all of the chaos it could bring. He imagined hate […]
Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning’s Sentence
January 17th, 2017Via: New York Times: President Obama on Tuesday largely commuted the remaining prison sentence of Chelsea Manning, the army intelligence analyst convicted of an enormous 2010 leak that revealed American military and diplomatic activities across the world, disrupted the administration and made WikiLeaks, the recipient of those disclosures, famous. The decision by Mr. Obama rescued […]
Air Force Tests IBM’s Brain-Inspired Chip as an Aerial Tank Spotter
January 17th, 2017Nope, there aren’t any SkyNet jokes in the article. Via: MIT Technology Review: Satellites, aircraft, and growing numbers of drones—the U.S. Air Force has a lot of electronic eyes in the sky. Now it’s exploring whether brain-inspired computer chips could give those systems the smarts to do things like automatically identify vehicles such as tanks […]
Facebook: Building 8
January 12th, 2017Wikipedia: Transcranial Pulsed Ultrasound: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is undergoing research to develop a helmet that could control the minds of soldiers through the use of TPU. It would have the potential to control a soldier’s stress and anxiety levels with the click of a remote controlled button.[5] Sound waves would target specific […]
Taiwan Scrambles Jets, Navy as China Aircraft Carrier Enters Taiwan Strait
January 11th, 2017Via: Reuters: Taiwan scrambled jets and navy ships on Wednesday as a group of Chinese warships, led by its sole aircraft carrier, sailed through the Taiwan Strait, the latest sign of heightened tension between Beijing and the self-ruled island. China’s Soviet-built Liaoning aircraft carrier, returning from exercises in the South China Sea, was not encroaching […]
‘Shadow Brokers’ Selling NSA Cyberweapons Targeting Windows
January 10th, 2017Via: Cyberscoop: A mysterious group that claims to have stolen tools once used by the NSA published material Sunday to show it is in possession of Microsoft Windows software exploits. Screenshots of the alleged exploits in use, along with a comprehensive list of filenames and directories were all shared by the enigmatic group the “Shadow […]
