Archive for the 'War' Category
Russian and Chinese Representatives to the UN Walk Out on Mrs. Cognitive Inflitration
August 29th, 2013Samantha Power is Cass Sunstein’s wife. Via: ITAR-TASS: The Russian and Chinese officials walked out of the U.N. Security Council meeting in New York on Wednesday, August 28, after U.S. Permanent Representative Samantha Power had called for an immediate action in Syria. The permanent members of the U.N. Security Council – Russia, Britain, China, the […]
And Now… ‘Israeli Intelligence Intercepted Syrian Regime Talk About Chemical Attack’
August 28th, 2013Oh sure. Via: Guardian: The bulk of evidence proving the Assad regime’s deployment of chemical weapons – which would provide legal grounds essential to justify any western military action – has been provided by Israeli military intelligence, the German magazine Focus has reported. The 8200 unit of the Israeli Defence Forces, which specialises in electronic […]
Syrian Rebels Told to Expect Western-Led Strike in Days
August 27th, 2013I don’t know, so I’ll ask you guys. Read about the Britam Defence hack that occurred back in January and then vote below. My guess is that there’s just about zero chance that such a conversation would be stored anywhere in cleartext. But then again… Here we are. Via: CBC: Syrian opposition leaders have been […]
GCHQ Intercepts Data on Middle East Fiber Optic Cables
August 23rd, 2013“It’s a definite WTF moment.” —Problems with Five Undersea Fiber Optic Cables, 2008 See: 2008 submarine cable disruption: 2008 submarine cable disruption refers to three separate incidents of major damage to submarine optical cables. The first incident caused damage involving up to five high-speed Internet submarine communications cables in the Mediterranean Sea and Middle East […]
DARPA Wants a Synthetic Neocortex
August 23rd, 2013Via: Network World: The military’s advanced research group recently put out a call, or Request For information, on how it could develop systems that go beyond machine learning, Bayesian techniques, and graphical technology to solve “extraordinarily difficult recognition problems in real-time.” Current systems offer partial solutions to this problem, but are limited in their ability […]
United States Military Interest in New Zealand Cable
August 22nd, 2013Via: Stuff: The United States Defence Department could help pay for a new cable linking New Zealand, Australia, the United States and several Pacific Islands, an Auckland source says. He said the department had an interest in spending about US$100 million (NZ$120m) to directly or indirectly acquire a pair of optical fibres between the US, […]
Hundreds Dead in Apparent Chemical Weapons Attack in Syria
August 21st, 2013Via: BBC: Chemical weapons attacks have killed hundreds on the outskirts of Damascus, Syrian opposition activists say. Rockets with toxic agents were launched at the suburbs of the Ghouta region early on Wednesday as part of a major bombardment on rebel forces, they say. State-run news agency Sana said the claims were “baseless” and an […]
Militants Execute at Least 25 Policemen in Northern Sinai
August 19th, 2013Via: Independent: Bloody violence has continued today as Egyptian security officials say suspected militants have ambushed two police minibuses in northern Sinai, firing rocket-propelled grenades at the vehicles. The attack is believed to have been carried out as the two vehicles were driving through a village near the border town of Rafah in the volatile […]
Egyptian Government Admits Killing Islamists in Custody
August 19th, 2013Via: Globe and Mail: The Egyptian government acknowledged that its security forces killed 36 Islamists in its custody Sunday, as the military leaders and the country’s Islamists vowed to keep up their fight over Egypt’s future. The news of the deaths came on a day in which there appeared to be a pause in the […]
Area 51: Nothing to See Here, Move Along
August 16th, 2013Swamp gas, weather balloons, U2 spy planes… Via: BBC: The CIA has officially acknowledged the secret US test site known as Area 51, in a newly unclassified internal history of the U-2 spy plane programme. The document obtained by a US university describes the 1955 acquisition of the Nevada site for testing of the secret […]
