Archive for the 'War' Category
Russia Boosts Mediterranean Force as U.S. Mulls Syria Strike
September 7th, 2013Via: Bloomberg: Russia is sending three more ships to the eastern Mediterranean to bolster its fleet there as a U.S. Senate panel will consider President Barack Obama’s request for authority to conduct a military strike on Syria. Russia is sending two destroyers, including the Nastoichivy, the flagship of the Baltic Fleet, and the Moskva missile […]
Russia Has Compiled 100-Page Report Blaming Syrian Rebels for a Chemical Weapons Attack
September 5th, 2013Via: McClatchy: Russia says it has compiled a 100-page report detailing what it says is evidence that Syrian rebels, not forces loyal to President Bashar Assad, were behind a deadly sarin gas attack in an Aleppo suburb earlier this year. In a statement posted on the Russian Foreign Ministry’s website late Wednesday. Russia said the […]
USDA: Rural Population Needed Not For Farming But For Cannon Fodder
September 5th, 2013Update: Quote from Compromised: Clinton, Bush and the CIA by Terry Reed Joel Salatin’s telling of the story below sounded somehow familiar to me. I just remembered why. I’d read the following in, Compromised: Clinton, Bush and the CIA by Terry Reed way back in the 1990s: Terry was the quintessential product of Middle America. […]
U.S. Senate Committee Backs Use of Force in Syria
September 4th, 2013I’m baffled by this situation. There is a very long and sickening history of the Executive doing whatever it wants when it comes to the use of military force (see: Presidential War Power by Louis Fisher). I don’t know why Mr. Nobel Peace Prize winner Obomb-ya is bothering with Congress to get America’s next war […]
NSA Laughs at PCs, Prefers Hacking Routers and Switches
September 4th, 2013“No one updates their routers” ??? I always updated the routers, switches and firewalls that I was responsible for. Ah well, these kids today… Via: Wired: The NSA’s focus on routers highlights an often-overlooked attack vector with huge advantages for the intruder, says Marc Maiffret, chief technology officer at security firm Beyond Trust. Hacking routers […]
Israel Confirms Missile Test in Mediterranean
September 3rd, 2013Interesting time and place for a “missile test.” So, what was this, really? Via: Al Jazeera: Russia has announced that its missile early warning system detected the launch of two missiles from the central part of the Mediterranean Sea fired towards the sea’s eastern coastline, and later confirmed in an Israel statement by Reuters news […]
Britain: First Time a British Prime Minister Lost a Vote on War Since 1782
September 2nd, 2013Whoops. Via: Reuters: Prime Minister David Cameron’s plans to join a potential military strike on Syria were thwarted on Thursday night when Britain’s parliament narrowly voted against a government motion to authorize such action in principle. In a humiliating defeat for the British leader likely to damage Cameron’s hopes of being re-elected in 2015 and […]
U.S. Spy Agencies Mounted 231 Offensive Cyber-Operations in 2011
September 1st, 2013Via: Washington Post: U.S. intelligence services carried out 231 offensive cyber-operations in 2011, the leading edge of a clandestine campaign that embraces the Internet as a theater of spying, sabotage and war, according to top-secret documents obtained by The Washington Post. That disclosure, in a classified intelligence budget provided by NSA leaker Edward Snowden, provides […]
Black Budget: $52.6 Billion
August 30th, 2013Via: Washington Post: The $52.6 billion “black budget” for fiscal 2013, obtained by The Washington Post from former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, maps a bureaucratic and operational landscape that has never been subject to public scrutiny. Although the government has annually released its overall level of intelligence spending since 2007, it has not divulged how […]
Shocker: Israel One of the Top Spying Threats Facing U.S. Intelligence Services
August 30th, 2013The U.S. will probably punish Israel by giving it another $115 billion. Via: The Hill: The Obama administration views Israel as one of the top spying threats facing its intelligence services, leaked documents reveal. A secret budget request obtained by The Washington Post from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden lumps Israel alongside U.S. foes Iran […]
