Archive for the 'War' Category
Helicopters Flying Over Dallas Part of Special Operations Training
December 17th, 2014Via: Dallas Morning News: Curious about the helicopters flying over Dallas on Monday night? Many people took to social media posting about the helicopters saying they were flying low to the ground and close together. That was part of preparedness training for U.S. Special Operations Forces so they can get a feel for “realistic urban […]
Massacre: Taliban Storms Pakistan School, Killing 126, Mostly Children
December 16th, 2014Via: USA Today: Taliban gunmen stormed a school in Pakistan on Tuesday, killing at least 126 people, mostly children, that country’s government said. Hours after the attack, it was still not clear if hostages were being held or whether the militants were killed by Pakistan’s military. The attack began in the early morning, with the […]
Iraq War Veteran Suspected in 6 Fatal Pennsylvania Shootings Still at Large
December 15th, 2014Via: Los Angeles Times: An Iraq war veteran suspected in a shooting rampage that left six of his estranged family members dead remained at large late Monday as the manhunt continued north of Philadelphia. The victims included his ex-wife, her mother, her grandmother, her sister, her brother-in-law and a niece. A nephew was wounded. Former […]
Afghanistan War: One Trillion Dollars
December 14th, 2014Hope + Change we can believe in = Priceless Via: Financial Times: The Afghanistan war, the longest overseas conflict in American history, has cost the US taxpayer nearly $1tn and will require spending several hundred billion dollars more after it officially ends this month, according to FT calculations and independent researchers. Around 80 per cent […]
Sony Suspends Filming After Hackers Hit Payments
December 12th, 2014Via: The Times: The Hollywood studio that made the James Bond and Spider-Man films has abandoned shoots after hackers crippled its computer network, and leaked four films and thousands of documents. Agencies filming for Sony Pictures have cancelled shoots because the problems have left it unable to process payments, a source told The Times.
A Pacific Isle, Radioactive and Forgotten
December 9th, 2014Via: New York Times: THERE is no consistent air service to the coral atoll of Enewetak in the Marshall Islands, where the United States tested 67 nuclear weapons between 1946 and 1958. On my first trip to the capital, Majuro, in 2010, to study the danger posed there by the rising ocean, I managed to […]
China’s Sub Launched Nuclear Missile Capability
December 9th, 2014Via: Bloomberg: China is preparing to arm its stealthiest submarines with nuclear missiles that could reach the U.S., cloaking its arsenal with the invisibility needed to retaliate in the event of an enemy strike. Fifty years after China carried out its first nuclear test, patrols by the almost impossible-to-detect JIN class submarines armed with nuclear […]
Afghanistan: The Making of a Narco State
December 6th, 2014Oh yes, the big “mystery” as to why the Taliban cut off opium production baffles Rolling Stone. 9/11 scratches more itches than anyone in the corporate media could possibly imagine. I’d say that one of main purposes of 9/11 was to restart the flow of hundreds of billions of dollars of heroin money into the […]
UK to Establish £15m Permanent Mid East Military Base
December 6th, 2014Via: BBC: Britain is to establish its first permanent military base in the Middle East since it formally withdrew from the region in 1971. The base, at the Mina Salman Port in Bahrain, will host ships including destroyers and aircraft carriers. The UK said it was an “expansion of the Royal Navy’s footprint” and would […]
Camp Pendleton Marines To Conduct Training In Downtown Los Angeles
December 6th, 2014Via: CBS: Residents in and around downtown Los Angeles could hear helicopters or other military aircraft over the coming days as Marines and sailors from Camp Pendleton train in preparation for a deployment. The training is part of a two-week military exercise that starts Friday and extends through Dec. 16 and involves about 2,400 members […]
