Archive for the 'War' Category
France Tries to Censor Article on Military Communications Facility—Hilarity Ensues
April 7th, 2013Via: Wikipedia: The military radio station of Pierre-sur-Haute is a 30 ha (0.3 square kilometre) site used for French military communications. It is located on the Sauvain and Job communes, with the boundary between the Rhône-Alpes and Auvergne regions passing through the site. … In April 2013, the radio station attracted attention after the French […]
U.S. Apparently Amassing B-1 Bombers on Guam [Update: Or Not]
April 6th, 2013U.S. Air Force says B-1s were not deployed to Guam. So, where did five big bombers go last night? — As you may have noticed, I don’t post much about North Korea’s hissy fits. But… If up to seven B-1 bombers were moved to Guam together, that’s finally got my attention. Via: The Aviationist: It […]
Price Increases for U.S. Military Gear Dwarf Most Nations’ Defense Budgets
April 5th, 2013Madness. Via: Wired: Here’s an example of what Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel was talking about in his Wednesday speech on reforming the way the Pentagon buys gear. If you look at just the increases in how much defense gear costs, the bloat dwarfs what nearly every other nation on earth spends on defense annually. I […]
$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 […]
