Archive for the 'War' Category
Steve Jobs Had Top Secret Security Clearance Between from 1988 to 1990
February 14th, 2012Via: Z6Mag: A Top Secret Security Clearance was brought up in Steve Job’s FBI report detailing when it was and when it was terminated. The top secret clearance for Mr. Jobs started in 1988 and was canceled in 1990. Steve Jobs was working at Pixar in the same time as the top secret clearance and […]
U.S. Soldier Writes Report on the Disaster in Afghanistan
February 12th, 2012Via: Rolling Stone: Earlier this week, the New York Times’ Scott Shane published a bombshell piece about Lt. Colonel Daniel Davis, a 17-year Army veteran recently returned from a second tour in Afghanistan. According to the Times, the 48-year-old Davis had written an 84-page unclassified report, as well as a classified report, offering his assessment […]
U.S. Marines Posed with Banner of Nazi SS
February 10th, 2012Via: Telegraph: A US Marine sniper team posed with a flag emblazoned with the symbol of the Nazi SS while on duty in Afghanistan, the Pentagon has admitted. A photograph leaked onto the internet showed the heavily-armed troops crouching in front of the banner as it hung below the American flag. The lightning symbol, once […]
Britain: Royal Society Report Discusses Development Neural Interface for Weapons Systems
February 7th, 2012…and much, much more. Via: Royal Society: Neural interfaces can be broadly separated into devices that input into neural systems and interfaces that record activity from brains to predict motor intentions. The most common method of establishing an interface is through the external recording of EEG signals although more invasive methods, such as implanting microelectrodes […]
Chris Hedges “Brace Yourself! The American Empire Is Over & The Descent Is Going To Be Horrifying!”
February 5th, 2012Via: CSPAN:
‘Act of Valor’: Top to Bottom U.S. Navy Propaganda Film, Uses Active Duty SEALs as Actors, Raw Footage Kept for ‘Training and Other Purposes’
February 4th, 2012Via: Wikipedia: Act of Valor began as a recruitment video for the U.S. military’s Naval Special Warfare Command. In 2007, Mike McCoy and Scott Waugh of Bandido Brothers Production filmed a video for the Special Warfare Combatant-craft Crewmen SWCC which led the Navy to allow them to use SEALs for Act of Valor. None of […]
Inattention to Civilian Deaths in America’s Wars
February 4th, 2012Via: Washington Post: The major wars the United States has fought since the surrender of Japan in 1945 — in Korea, Indochina, Iraq and Afghanistan — have produced colossal carnage. For most of them, we do not have an accurate sense of how many people died, but a conservative estimate is at least 6 million […]
North Korea Might Have Experimented with a Fusion Boost to Its Fission Weapons
February 4th, 2012Via: Nature: North Korea may have conducted two covert nuclear weapons tests in 2010, according to a fresh analysis of radioisotope data. The claim has drawn scepticism from some nuclear-weapons experts. But if confirmed, the analysis would double the number of tests the country is known to have conducted and suggest that North Korea is […]
Syria: Hundreds Dead After Government Unleashes Artillery Barrage on Homs
February 4th, 2012Via: Guardian: More than 200 people were reported to have been killed yesterday in the Syrian city of Homs as security forces continued their efforts to take back opposition-held areas on the eve of a vote by the UN security council on a much-disputed resolution on the country. Hundreds more were killed in shelling of […]
2010 Attack on VeriSign Just Recently Disclosed
February 2nd, 2012Via: Reuters: VeriSign Inc, the company in charge of delivering people safely to more than half the world’s websites, has been hacked repeatedly by outsiders who stole undisclosed information from the leading Internet infrastructure company. The previously unreported breaches occurred in 2010 at the Reston, Virginia-based company, which is ultimately responsible for the integrity of […]
