Archive for the 'War' Category
Misinformation Campaign Targets USA TODAY Reporter, Editor
April 21st, 2012Via: USA Today: A USA TODAY reporter and editor investigating Pentagon propaganda contractors have themselves been subjected to a propaganda campaign of sorts, waged on the Internet through a series of bogus websites. Fake Twitter and Facebook accounts have been created in their names, along with a Wikipedia entry and dozens of message board postings […]
U.S. Marines: Infantry Now Open to Women
April 19th, 2012Anybody’s Son Will Do. Or daughter. Via: Marine Corps Times: The Marine Corps school that produces infantry combat officers will enroll its first-ever female students this year, Marine Corps Times has learned. As part of the service’s extensive research campaign to determine what additional jobs could be opened to women, an undetermined number of volunteers […]
Blackhawk Choppers Buzz Chicago Skyscrapers
April 17th, 2012Via: NBC: Workers in Chicago’s Loop business district were distracted from their work as Blackhawk helicopters rattled windows as they flew among the city’s skyscrapers. The city’s Office of Emergency Management and Communications on Monday announced that Chicago is the site of a military training exercise this week involving personnel and at least three helicopters. […]
Photos of Daily Life in the U.S. Government’s Secret Atomic City
April 17th, 2012What does this sign mean? Via: io9: In 1942, the US government acquired the town of Oak Ridge in eastern Tennessee. From then on, Oak Ridge was just like any other town — except for the fences, the guards, and the top-secret uranium separating facility. Related: DOE-Oakridge’s Photostream Flashback: The U.S. Nuclear Weapons Cost Study […]
Dual-Focus Contact Lens Prototypes Ordered by Pentagon
April 15th, 2012Via: BBC: The Pentagon has put in an order for prototype contact lenses that give users a much wider field of vision. The lenses are designed to be paired with compact heads up display (HUD) units – glasses that allow images to be projected onto their lenses. Much bulkier HUDs are already deployed by the […]
DARPA’s Robotics Challenge
April 11th, 2012Via: IEEE Spectrum: IEEE Spectrum got an early look at the Broad Agency Announcement, known as BAA, the solicitation document that DARPA is making public today. Here are the most relevant bits: • GOAL: The goal of the new program is to “develop ground robotic capabilities to execute complex tasks in dangerous, degraded, human-engineered environments.” […]
North Korea Fueling Rocket
April 11th, 2012Via: CNN: North Korea has started fueling a long-range rocket it plans to launch in the coming days, a senior national space official said Wednesday. Fueling of the rocket, which North Korea says will put a satellite in orbit, is under way and will be completed at the “appropriate time,” said Paek Chang Ho, head […]
Videos of Blackwater Rampages in Iraq
April 9th, 2012Via: Harper’s Magazine: The April 2012 issue of Harper’s Magazine includes “The Warrior Class,” a feature by Charles Glass on the rise of private-security contractors since 9/11. The conclusion to the piece describes a series of videos shown to Glass by a source who had worked for the private-security company Blackwater (now Academi, formerly also […]
Japan Deploys Missile Defenses Ahead of North Korea Launch
April 9th, 2012Via: AFP: Japan has deployed missile batteries in Tokyo and dispatched destroyers as North Korea makes final preparations for a rocket launch that could take place this week despite fierce condemnation from across the globe. Pyongyang says it will launch a satellite for peaceful scientific research between April 12 and 16 to mark the 100th […]
A Fog of Drugs and War
April 9th, 2012Via: Los Angeles Times: More than 110,000 active-duty Army troops last year took antidepressants, sedatives and other prescription medications. Some see a link to aberrant behavior. … In a small but growing number of cases across the nation, lawyers are blaming the U.S. military’s heavy use of psychotropic drugs for their clients’ aberrant behavior and […]
