Archive for the 'War' Category
Egypt’s Army Given Power to Arrest Civilians
December 10th, 2012Via: AFP: President Mohamed Morsi has ordered Egypt’s army from Monday to take on police powers — including the right to arrest civilians — in the run-up to a divisive constitutional referendum that has triggered mass street protests. The decree, published in the government gazette, takes effect on the eve of mass rival protests on […]
Israeli Airstrike on Home ‘Was a Clear Violation of the Laws of War’
December 9th, 2012“International law is that law which the wicked do not obey and the righteous do not enforce.” —Abba Eban, Israeli diplomat and politician Via: Human Rights Watch: An Israeli airstrike that killed 12 civilians – the largest number of civilians killed in a single attack during the Gaza fighting in November – was a clear […]
Newly Released Drone Records Reveal Extensive Military Flights in U.S.
December 8th, 2012Via: Electronic Frontier Foundation: Today EFF posted several thousand pages of new drone license records and a new map that tracks the location of drone flights across the United States. These records, received as a result of EFF’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), come from state and local […]
‘Clinton Vows to Thwart New Soviet Union’
December 7th, 2012Wow, Clinton vows to thwart new Soviet Union: The US is trying to prevent Russia from recreating a new version of the Soviet Union under the ruse of economic integration, Hillary Clinton warned on Thursday. “There is a move to re-Sovietise the region,” the US secretary of state told a news conference in Dublin hours […]
Germany Sending Troops to Turkey-Syria Border
December 6th, 2012Via: Deutsche Welle: The German government has decided to send up to 400 troops to Turkey’s border with Syria as part of a NATO mission. The troops are to accompany Patriot missile systems requested by Turkey. The government confirmed in an early morning cabinet session what had emerged in media reports on Thursday. Germany is […]
U.S. Army Demonstrates Black Hawk with Autonomous Flight and Landing Capabilities
December 6th, 2012Via: al.com: A specially equipped Black Hawk was recently used to demonstrate the helicopter’s ability to operate on its own. In the first such test of its type, the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Research’s Development and Engineering Center, based at Redstone Arsenal, flew the Black Hawk over Diablo Mountain Range in San Jose, Calif. […]
Russian State Media Reports USS Eisenhower Near Syria
December 6th, 2012Fox Reporting Syria’s Sarin Weapons in Ready State If this is true, I don’t see how the U.S. can attack these weapons; to do so would release the sarin. Right? Maybe someone from .mil can confirm: Will the U.S. attack binary sarin weapons that are in a ready state? Who the hell knows what’s actually […]
U.S. Special Operations Unit Based at Blackwater Mercenary Camp in Afghanistan
December 6th, 2012Via: Wired: U.S. Special Operations Forces have a brand new home in Afghanistan. It’s owned and operated by the security company formerly known as Blackwater, thanks to a no-bid deal worth $22 million. You might think that Blackwater, now called Academi, was banished into some bureaucratic exile after its operatives in Afghanistan stole guns from […]
CyPhy Works Reveals Tethered UAV
December 5th, 2012It’s, “Impervious to weather, tracking and interception.” Hmm. How about scissors or 00-Buckshot? Via: Engadget: A new venture from an iRobot co-founder called CyPhy Works has borne fruit in the form of two flying drones dedicated to surveillance duty. The first, called Ease, is a mere foot in diameter by 16-inches tall and can fly […]
Attack of the Drones
December 4th, 2012Via: Journeyman Pictures: More: Robot Wars ‘Do we really want robots that can lie to us?’
