Archive for the 'War' Category
Sarkozy: “Britain and France have pooled their sovereignty.”
November 2nd, 2010Via: Guardian: Britain and France today signed a landmark 50-year treaty on defence and security that envisages the joint use of aircraft carriers, a 10,000-strong joint expeditionary force and unprecedented new levels of co-operation over nuclear missiles. … Cameron disclosed that the two treaties would: * Create a joint expeditionary task force in which around […]
The BBC’s Nuclear Bunker
November 1st, 2010Via: Independent: It all makes sense, once you know what you’re looking at. The 200 acres of thickly wooded hillside, inaccessible by public footpath; the radio mast strategically poking out on top; the hidden entrance, just off the A44 near Evesham, in Worcestershire, surrounded by CCTV cameras and a high-security barrier. But to the passing […]
3D Building Projection
November 1st, 2010This will definitely be old news to many of you, but I just randomly stumbled across this tonight. 3D animated scenes are projected onto building exteriors. The computer generated imagery incorporates the building’s architecture. The effect can be pretty astonishing. Here are several clips of work done by a company called NuFormer. I’ll include one […]
Afghanistan: Russia Steps in to Help NATO
October 28th, 2010Rare earth minerals for everyone who helps NATO steal them. In other news: Coalition Win Impossible: Gorbachev. Via: Independent: Russia has agreed to return to the war in Afghanistan at the request of the Western states which helped the mujahedin to drive its forces out of the country 21 years ago. The Independent has learnt […]
World’s Fastest Supercomputer… Is In China
October 28th, 2010Via: Nvidia Press Release: Tianhe-1A, a new supercomputer revealed today at HPC 2010 China, has set a new performance record of 2.507 petaflops, as measured by the LINPACK benchmark, making it the fastest system in China and in the world today. … Tianhe-1A was designed by the National University of Defense Technology (NUDT) in China. […]
Humiliate, Strip, Threaten: UK Military Interrogation Manuals Discovered
October 27th, 2010Via: Guardian: The British military has been training interrogators in techniques that include threats, sensory deprivation and enforced nakedness in an apparent breach of the Geneva conventions, the Guardian has discovered. Training materials drawn up secretly in recent years tell interrogators they should aim to provoke humiliation, insecurity, disorientation, exhaustion, anxiety and fear in the […]
Failure Shuts Down Squadron of Nuclear Missiles
October 27th, 2010This is an extremely curious situation. I’m not even going to say which previous event this reminds me of. Via: The Atlantic: President Obama was briefed this morning on an engineering power failure at F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming that took 50 nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), one-ninth of the U.S. missile stockpile, […]
Sickening Boondoggle: The New and Improved Marine One Chopper
October 26th, 2010Via: Wired: In this, the first in an occasional series examining tech influence in politics using MAPLight’s nonpartisan political-finance–analysis tools, the trail leads to a mind boggling, 10-year campaign in which three key defense contractors have funneled more than $18 million to the pockets of federal lawmakers, to win various military contracts, including one for […]
U.S. Superbase on Guam
October 26th, 2010Via: Telegraph: The US is building an £8 billion super military base on the Pacific island of Guam in an attempt to contain China’s military build-up. The expansion will include a dock for a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, a missile defence system, live-fire training sites and the expansion of the island’s airbase. It will be the […]
Chinese Investment Soars in Brazil; Mainly Related to Oil
October 26th, 2010Via: AFP: Chinese investment in Brazil is expected to reach 30 billion dollars this year, according to observers — a sum aimed at securing access to the Latin American nation’s oil and other resources. The inflow has been sudden, and dramatic. “Up to the end of last year, the amount of Chinese investment in Brazil […]
