Archive for the 'War' Category
U.S. Navy Will Run Drone Missions 24/7 Out of Point Mugu
March 2nd, 2013Via: Gizmodo: I talked to the U.S. Fleet Forces Command, which had plenty to say about the upcoming drone playground, which is just one of “several bases throughout the world” the Navy wants. Each will host Tritons, with Point Mugu boasting four, conducting around five missions every single day. That’s over 1,800 takeoffs or landings […]
Mayor Bloomberg On National Debt: ‘People Do Seem Willing To Lend Us An Infinite Amount Of Money’
March 2nd, 2013What could possibly go wrong? Via: Politicker: Furthermore, while saying the federal deficit does indeed need to be curtailed, Mr. Bloomberg argued the United States could owe “an infinite amount of money” and there is no specific amount that would cause the country to default. “We are spending money we don’t have,” Mr. Bloomberg explained. […]
Fat Finger: ‘Data-Entry Error’ Led Military to Falsely Claim Taliban Attacks Are Down
March 2nd, 2013Via: Wired: The U.S. military proudly touted a 7 percent drop in Taliban violence in 2012 as a measure of progress in America’s longest war. Only one problem: The drop never happened. Its explanation: a data-entry error. The Associated Press’ Robert Burns discovered the mistake, which undercut a January claim by the International Security Assistance […]
Defense Distributed 3D Printed AR-15 Lower Survives 600+ Rounds
March 2nd, 2013Via: Defense Distributed:
Arm Added to Big Dog Robot
March 1st, 2013😯 Via: YouTube / Boston Dynamics:
Manning Admits Providing Classified Data to WikiLeaks
March 1st, 2013Via: Wired: Wearing his Army dress uniform, a composed, intense and articulate Pfc. Bradley Manning took “full responsibility” Thursday for providing the anti-secrecy organization WikiLeaks with a trove of classified and sensitive military, diplomatic and intelligence cables, videos and documents. In the lengthiest statement to a military tribunal Manning has provided since his nearly three-year […]
Kerry Announces More Support for Syrian Rebels
February 28th, 2013Here’s an excerpt from a previous post on this claim of not supplying weapons: If you want to read detailed, voluminous accounts of how the U.S. covertly and illegally provides weapons to any state or group it pleases, see, Spider’s Web: The Secret History of How the White House Illegally Armed Iraq by Alan Friedman […]
Advanced Persistent Threats Subverting Encryption Systems
February 27th, 2013The fact that the underlying systems represent weaker links than the encryption schemes has been there since the beginning. However, with states and other organizations allocating increasing resources to offensive information warfare, these weak links are increasingly being exploited to do end runs around otherwise strong encryption. Via: ThreatPost: In the current climate of continuous […]
PBS NOVA Rise of the Drones
February 24th, 2013Via: PBS: Related: Drone ‘Nightmare Scenario’ Now Has A Name: ARGUS
6 Tanks at Hanford Nuclear Site Leaking Radioactive Waste
February 23rd, 2013Via: Reuters: Six underground storage tanks at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation along the Columbia River in Washington state were recently found to be leaking radioactive waste, but there is no immediate risk to human health, state and federal officials said on Friday. The seeping waste adds to decades of soil contamination caused by leaking storage […]
