Archive for the 'War' Category
DARPA: Dream Research
February 26th, 2014Via: Medium: Today, Onur Varol and Filippo Menczer at Indiana University in Bloomington, use network science to study the similarities between dreams reported in English, Chinese and Arabic—research that is funded in part by the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency or DARPA. They say their results provide a new window into the cultural links between […]
New Jet-Powered Drone Can Kill 1,800 Miles From Home Base
February 22nd, 2014Via: Wired: The Avenger (formerly Predator C), whose prototype flew its first flight in 2009, is operationally ready after a new round of tests completed last month, according to its maker, General Atomics. Based on the company’s more well-known MQ-9 Reaper drone, Avenger is designed to perform high-speed, long-endurance surveillance or strike missions, flying up […]
Ukraine: President’s Kiev Offices Abandoned
February 22nd, 2014Via: BBC: Ukrainian protesters have been able to enter the president’s official and residential buildings in Kiev, after they were abandoned by police. They have stationed guards outside the entrances to offices, while the interior ministry has said in a statement that it supports the people. President Viktor Yanukovych’s aides say he is in Kharkhiv, […]
Greece Intercepts Israeli Arms Shipments to Iran
February 21st, 2014Your what hurts? Via: Telegraph: Israeli arms dealers twice tried to send spare parts for fighter planes to Iran, The Telegraph has established, flouting an international arms embargo and openly contradicting the bitter enmity between the Jewish state and the Islamic regime. The illegal shipments are now being investigated by the US Homeland Security Department […]
Ukraine: APC vs. Lots of Pissed People with Molotov Cocktails
February 21st, 2014Via: YouTube:
Chief of the Korea Division of the National Security Agency Charged with Murder of Adopted Son
February 19th, 2014The person who heads the “Korea Division” of the NSA is only thirty six years old? Via: NBC: A Maryland man has been charged with the murder of his adopted 3-year-old son, Montgomery County police said Tuesday. Brian Patrick O’Callaghan, 36, of Damascus has been charged with first degree murder and child abuse. In court, […]
‘Star Wars’ at Sea: Navy Ready to Deploy Laser System This Summer
February 17th, 2014Via: AP: Some of the Navy’s futuristic weapons sound like something out of “Star Wars,” with lasers designed to shoot down aerial drones and electric guns that fire projectiles at hypersonic speeds. That future is now. The Navy plans to deploy its first laser on a ship later this year, and it intends to test […]
U.S. Special Forces Trained to Use Backpack Nukes
February 17th, 2014Via: Russia Today: Skiing down a mountain and into a battlefield with a nuclear bomb strapped to your back seems like something you’d see only in a James Bond movie, but that’s just one of the things the US elite military personnel were trained to do during the Cold War. In a detailed report by […]
U.S. Army Built a $96 Million Fake City for Combat Training Exercises
February 17th, 2014Maybe some of the tens of thousands of thousands of homeless veterans can live there. No? Via: Telegraph: The US army has built a fake city designed to be used during combat training exercises. The 300 acre ‘town’ includes a five story embassy, a bank, a school, an underground subway and train station, a mosque, […]
Push for Legal Pot Worldwide
February 15th, 2014Via: AP: In a former colonial mansion in Jamaica, politicians huddle to discuss trying to ease marijuana laws in the land of the late reggae musician and cannabis evangelist Bob Marley. In Morocco, one of the world’s top producers of the concentrated pot known as hashish, two leading political parties want to legalize its cultivation, […]
