Archive for the 'War' Category
Homeland Security: The Decade’s Biggest Scam
September 2nd, 2011Via: Salon: The Los Angeles Times examines the staggering sums of money expended on patently absurd domestic “homeland security” projects: $75 billion per year for things such as a Zodiac boat with side-scan sonar to respond to a potential attack on a lake in tiny Keith County, Nebraska, and hundreds of “9-ton BearCat armored vehicles, […]
WikiLeaks: Iraqi Children in U.S. Raid Handcuffed, Shot In Head, U.N. Says
September 2nd, 2011Via: McClatchy: A U.S. diplomatic cable made public by WikiLeaks provides evidence that U.S. troops executed at least 10 Iraqi civilians, including a woman in her 70s and a 5-month-old infant, then called in an airstrike to destroy the evidence, during a controversial 2006 incident in the central Iraqi town of Ishaqi. The unclassified cable, […]
U.S. BACKED FORCES ROUND UP BLACK AFRICANS IN LIBYA
September 2nd, 2011*wink* *blink* *nod* at the part in bold below. Via: AP: Rebel forces and armed civilians are rounding up thousands of black Libyans and migrants from sub-Sahara Africa, accusing them of fighting for ousted strongman Moammar Gadhafi and holding them in makeshift jails across the capital. Virtually all of the detainees say they are innocent […]
Nicky Hager: Other People’s Wars
September 1st, 2011“This is…by far the largest leak of military and intelligence documents in the history of New Zealand.” —Nicky Hager (Audio from press conference linked below) Via: Scoop: Nicky Hager’s new book Other People’s Wars: New Zealand in Afghanistan, Iraq and the war on terror was released today at 9am by Craig Potton Publishing. A press […]
Al Qaeda Commander of NATO’s Bloody Reign of Terror in Tripoli is the Monster Abdel Hakim Belhadj, aka Abdel Hakim al-Hasadi, Friend of Osama Bin Laden, former US POW, and Infamous Killer of US Soldiers in Afghanistan
September 1st, 2011Via: Tarpley: According to the London Daily Telegraph of March 26, Darna (also transliterated as Derna or Darnah), a key city in the rebel heartland between Benghazi in Tobruk, is commanded by al-Hasidi, an al Qaeda terrorist controller who trained and hobnobbed with Osama bin Laden at the Khost terrorist training camp in Afghanistan. Hasidi […]
Lasers Could Be Used to Start or Stop Rainfall
September 1st, 2011Via: Guardian: Ever since ancient farmers called on the gods to send rain to save their harvests, humans have longed to have the weather at their command. That dream has now received a boost after researchers used a powerful laser to produce water droplets in the air, a step that could ultimately help trigger rainfall. […]
AI vs. AI. Two Chatbots Talking to Each Other
August 31st, 2011HAHA. Isn’t it reassuring to know that these types of systems are trading stocks, bonds, currencies, commodities and derivatives millions of times per second? Never mind the killer robot applications… Have a nice day! Via: Cornell University / YouTube: Research Credit: jakdmsy
America’s Secret Libya War
August 31st, 2011Via: Daily Beast: The U.S. military has spent about $1 billion so far and played a far larger role in Libya than it has acknowledged, quietly implementing an emerging “covert intervention” strategy that the Obama administration hopes will let America fight small wars with a barely detectable footprint. Officially, President Obama handed the lead role […]
The Yearly Bill for The Pentagon’s No-Bid Contracts: $140 Billion
August 29th, 2011Mission Accomplished. Via: Wired: The bomb fighting contract is a small example of a problem that’s been exacerbated by ten years of war: awarding contracts without competition. While Pentagon statistics say the overall level of competition has remained steady during the past decade, publicly available data show that Defense Department dollars flowing into non-competitive contracts […]
Pentagon Has Paid $720 Million in Late Fees for Storage Containers Since 2001
August 29th, 2011Via: USA Today: The Pentagon has spent more than $720million since 2001 on fees for shipping containers that it fails to return on time, according to data and contracts obtained by USA TODAY. The containers — large metal boxes stowed on ships and moved from port on trucks — are familiar sights on bases in […]
