Archive for the 'War' Category
The Homegrown Terrorists Are Coming
September 11th, 2010In other news: Mossad Impersonating U.S. Intelligence Operatives and Trying to Recruit Arab Americans. Via: McClatchy: The United States faces a more homegrown, hard-to-predict terrorist threat today than it did nine years ago, and the U.S. government isn’t well-equipped to understand it, an expert panel said Friday. Terrorism today is more likely to come as […]
Effingham Deputies Call Feds After Arresting Russians with Shovel, Wire Cutters Outside Georgia Power Plant
September 10th, 2010They were released because they, “Are supposed to be leaving the country soon”??? Via: Savannah Morning News: Effingham County sheriff deputies have reported the early Sunday morning arrest of three men to the federal Joint Terrorism Task Force. The men, two from Russia and one from Kazakhstan, were found near Georgia Power’s Plant McIntosh on […]
Pentagon Plans to Buy and Destroy All 10,000 Copies of Army Reservist’s Book About the War in Afghanistan
September 10th, 2010Update: To Protect State Secrets, Pentagon Buys and Destroys Book Via: ABC News: The Pentagon has purchased and arranged for the destruction of 9,500 copies of a book so it can protect classified information it contains. Lt. Colonel Anthony Shaffer’s memoir “Operation Dark Heart” had become a headache for the Defense Department which determined after […]
Use of Psychiatric Medications Soaring In Military
September 9th, 2010Via: Navy Times: Use of psychiatric medications among people ages 18 to 34 — mostly active-duty troops and their spouses — is rising at a significantly higher rate than other age groups in the military health care system, according to data newly released to Military Times. Overall, the number of prescriptions filled for psychiatric medications […]
DARPA Antics: ‘Remote Control of Brain Activity Using Ultrasound’
September 9th, 2010Via: U.S. Department of Defense: …my laboratory has engineered a novel technology which implements transcranial pulsed ultrasound to remotely and directly stimulate brain circuits without requiring surgery. Further, we have shown this ultrasonic neuromodulation approach confers a spatial resolution approximately five times greater than TMS and can exert its effects upon subcortical brain circuits deep […]
U.S. Soldiers Killed Afghan Civilians for Sport and Collected Fingers as Trophies
September 9th, 2010Obama is out with some Quran-burning-will-help-the-terrorists blather today. In other news… Via: Guardian: Twelve American soldiers face charges over a secret “kill team” that allegedly blew up and shot Afghan civilians at random and collected their fingers as trophies. Five of the soldiers are charged with murdering three Afghan men who were allegedly killed for […]
Afghan Security Forces Beat Angry Customers to Prevent Run on Kabul Bank
September 8th, 2010Via: Guardian: Afghan security forces used batons on unruly customers scrambling to withdraw their savings today from the country’s biggest bank, which is mired in a scandal of corruption and mismanagement. Kabul Bank’s troubles have threatened to add a financial crisis to Afghanistan’s other woes, with military and civilian casualties at record levels as a […]
John Le Carre on Russia, Banking and the Deep State
September 8th, 2010Via: BBC: “I was laughed at, in a way, when the Cold War ended and the wall came down,” he told Today presenter Justin Webb. “‘Poor old Le Carre, what will become of him? Nobody’s spying anymore.’ “The reality is, the budgets have never been bigger, the recruitment has never been more wholesale.” Today’s Russian […]
Combat Over in Iraq: Iraqi Soldier Kills 2 U.S. Soldiers
September 8th, 2010Via: CNN: An Iraqi soldier opened fire Tuesday on a group of U.S. soldiers in northern Iraq, killing two and wounding nine others, the U.S. military and the Iraqi military said. They are the first American deaths in Iraq since the U.S. combat mission officially ended last week. The attack occurred inside an Iraqi army […]
The True Cost of the Iraq War: $3 Trillion and Beyond
September 7th, 2010Via: Washington Post: Writing in these pages in early 2008, we put the total cost to the United States of the Iraq war at $3 trillion. This price tag dwarfed previous estimates, including the Bush administration’s 2003 projections of a $50 billion to $60 billion war. But today, as the United States ends combat in […]
