Archive for the 'War' Category
ATLAS Humanoid Robot
July 12th, 2013Via: DARPA / Boston Dynamics: Say hello to ATLAS, one of the most advanced humanoid robots ever built! ATLAS was developed for DARPA by Boston Dynamics. Software-focused teams from Tracks B and C of the DARPA Robotics Challenge will use the robot to compete in the first physical competition of the Challenge in December 2013 […]
U.S. Navy Makes History by Landing Unmanned Drone on Aircraft Carrier
July 11th, 2013This is what passes for industrial policy in the U.S. Air transportation companies would like nothing more than to replace human pilots with machines. This X-47B effort is essentially public funding toward that goal. Anyway, someone should Photoshop out the meatsacks on the deck of the aircraft carrier and replace them with T-1000s. Via: Guardian: […]
Egypt: Clashes Between Army, Protesters Kill 54
July 8th, 2013Via: CBC: Egyptian soldiers and police clashed with Islamists protesting the military’s ouster of the president in bloodshed that left at least 51 protesters and three members of the security forces dead, officials and witnesses said, and plunged the divided country deeper into crisis with calls by the Muslim Brotherhood’s political party for all-out rebellion […]
The New Warrior Cop Is Out of Control
July 8th, 2013Via: Salon: SWAT teams raiding poker games and trying to stop underage drinking? Overwhelming paramilitary force is on the rise. Book: Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Forces by Radley Balko
Dozens Killed in Egypt as Gunfire and Running Battles Erupted in Several Cities
July 6th, 2013Via: AP: Egyptian officials say the country’s interim president has held talks with the army chief and interior minister following a deadly day of clashes across the country that killed at least 30 people. Adly Mansour met with army chief Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, who is also the defense minister, as well as Interior Minister Mohammed […]
North Carolina National Guard Rapid Reaction Force Civil Unrest Training Photos
July 6th, 2013Via: Public Intelligence: The following photos depict soldiers from the 252nd Combined Arms Battalion training in June for their role as a “rapid reaction force” capable of responding anywhere in the state of North Carolina within “four to eight hours with additional forces arriving within 24 to 36 hours.” The same unit trained in March […]
Standoff Between Egypt’s Army Commander and Islamist President Mohamed Mursi
July 3rd, 2013Update: Egyptian Military Ousts Morsi, Suspends Constitution Via: Washington Post: A year after coming to office, Egypt’s first democratically elected president was swept aside by the military leaders who long presided over this country and proved Wednesday in a series of extraordinary maneuvers that they never really left. President Mohamed Morsi’s dramatic fall from power […]
Genetically Engineered Sugar Beets Destroyed in Southern Oregon
June 27th, 2013Via: Oregon Live: Federal investigators are asking the public to help solve middle-of-the-night crimes that left ruined fields of genetically engineered sugar beets in rural Jackson County. The crop destruction took place over the course of two separate nights in early June, when an unknown individual or group destroyed about 6,500 sugar beet plants genetically […]
Africa: U.S. Spreads Blowback Nightmare
June 25th, 2013Via: Asia Times: A careful examination of the security situation in Africa suggests that it is in the process of becoming Ground Zero for a veritable terror diaspora set in motion in the wake of 9/11 that has only accelerated in the Obama years. Recent history indicates that as US “stability” operations in Africa have […]
Nuclear Waste May Be Leaking Into Soil from Hanford Site
June 23rd, 2013Via: AP: An underground tank holding some of the worst radioactive waste at the nation’s most contaminated nuclear site might be leaking into the soil. The U.S. Energy Department said workers at Washington state’s Hanford Nuclear Reservation detected higher radioactivity levels under tank AY-102 during a routine inspection Thursday. Spokeswoman Lori Gamache said the department […]
