Archive for the 'War' Category
$100-Million Brain-Mapping Project
April 2nd, 2013Via: io9: President Obama announced plans this morning for a long-term research project to improve our understanding of the brain. Comparing it to the Human Genome Project, Obama said the brain-mapping initiative could lead to cures for diseases like Alzheimer’s and autism, while fueling economic growth and job creation. … BRAIN stands for “Brain Research […]
Air Force Wants New Energy Weapons to Cause Non-Lethal ‘Bioeffects’
April 1st, 2013To be clear… Via: Danger Room: The Air Force is preparing to spend millions researching how unknown “bioeffects” happen when the human body is blasted by radiowaves and high-powered microwaves — which the Air Force hopes could lead to exotic new energy weapons. Recently, the Air Force Bioeffects Division announced it’s exploring how radiation from […]
Gladio, NATO’s Dagger at the Heart of Europe: The Pentagon-Nazi-Mafia Terror Axis by Richard Cottrell
April 1st, 2013Disclosure: The publisher sent me a copy of this book for review. This is a very richly detailed and terrifying account of Operation Gladio. There are many more tentacles than I had previously known about. While the imbroglios set in motion after World War II may seem like ancient history to the uninitiated, Gladio actually […]
Texas District Attorney, Wife Found Dead
March 31st, 2013Via: Dallas Morning News: Kaufman County’s district attorney and his wife were found slain Saturday, raising fears that their deaths may be part of a plot that included the death of one of the county’s assistant district attorneys in January. Kaufman Police Chief Chris Aulbaugh and other officials confirmed that Mike McLelland and his wife, […]
U.S. Army Veteran Charged with Fighting with Al-Qaida in Syria
March 30th, 2013Harroun’s father: “I know he was doing some work for the CIA over there… I know for a fact that he was passing information on to the CIA.” Via: Washington Post: A U.S. Army veteran, who boasted on Facebook of his military adventures with Syrian rebels, was charged Thursday with firing rocket propelled grenades as […]
Egypt: Divers Caught Cutting Internet Cable
March 29th, 2013Via: Global Post: Egypt’s naval forces caught three scuba divers officials say were trying to cut an undersea internet cable in the Mediterranean on Wednesday. In a statement on his official Facebook page, Col. Ahmed Mohammed Ali said divers were arrested while “cutting the undersea cable” of Egypt’s main communications company, Telecom Egypt. “The armed […]
Navy Wants Lasers on Marines’ Trucks to Shoot Down Drones
March 29th, 2013Via: Wired: If there was any doubt that the military has new confidence in its forthcoming laser arsenal, the Navy’s top geeks want to outfit Marines with a laser cannon to shoot small drones out of the sky. Specifically, the Office of Naval Research thinks that Marine air-ground task forces are too vulnerable to adversaries […]
Mexican Vigilantes Seize Town, Arrest Police
March 28th, 2013Via: AP: Hundreds of armed vigilantes have taken control of a town on a major highway in the Pacific coast state of Guerrero, arresting local police officers and searching homes after a vigilante leader was killed. Several opened fire on a car of Mexican tourists headed to the beach for Easter week. Members of the […]
Drones Visualization: Every U.S. Drone Strike In Pakistan Since 2004
March 27th, 2013Via: Huffington Post: Pitch Interactive, a Berkeley-based data visualization unit, has created a graphic tracking every drone strike the United States has carried out in Pakistan since 2004. … The visualization, seen below, tracks the victims of the strikes using data from the Bureau for Investigative Journalism, specifically noting children and civilian collateral damage. Note […]
‘Kerry, Karzai Bury Hatchet in Kabul Meeting’
March 26th, 2013Sequence of events: 1) 10 March 2013, Karzai Says Taliban ‘In Service to America’: “My guess is that Karzai probably perceives that he’s not getting a big enough cut of the opium pie.” 2) 12 March 2013, Over 20 Tons of Heroin Seized in Afghanistan: “Can you hear me now?” 3) 25 March 2013: John […]
