Archive for the 'War' Category
India: Chartered U.S. Aircraft Forced to Land at Mumbai Airport; “Confusion About Its Call Sign”; 205 Marines Aboard
October 18th, 2009Via: Times of India: A US aircraft with 205 American marine commandos on board was on Sunday made to land at Mumbai airport for allegedly violating the Indian airspace. The chartered plane was on its way from Fujiriah in UAE to Bangkok, an airport official said. The aircraft was using a civilian call sign, officials […]
U.S. Spends $400 Per Gallon of Gas in Afghanistan
October 17th, 2009Via: The Hill: The Pentagon pays an average of $400 to put a gallon of fuel into a combat vehicle or aircraft in Afghanistan. The statistic is likely to play into the escalating debate in Congress over the cost of a war that entered its ninth year last week. Pentagon officials have told the House […]
U.S. to Send Up to 45,000 More troops to Afghanistan
October 15th, 2009Via: Telegraph: President Barack Obama’s administration is understood to have told the British government that it could announce, as early as next week, the substantial increase to its 65,000 troops already serving there. The decision from Mr Obama comes after he considered a request from General Stanley McChrystal, the US commander in Afghanistan, to send […]
Benito Mussolini Was British Intelligence Asset
October 14th, 2009Via: Guardian: History remembers Benito Mussolini as a founder member of the original Axis of Evil, the Italian dictator who ruled his country with fear and forged a disastrous alliance with Nazi Germany. But a previously unknown area of Il Duce’s CV has come to light: his brief career as a British agent. Archived documents […]
Bleak U.S. Job Market Boosts Military Recruitment; All Recruitment Goals Met for First Time
October 14th, 2009Economic conscription. Via: Reuters: Aided by a bleak job market, the U.S. military met all of its recruitment goals in the past year for the first time since it became an all-volunteer force in 1973, the Pentagon said on Tuesday. Military services have been stretched thin by conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, giving added weight […]
Russian Mafia/Government Crooks vs. Hedge Fund Crooks
October 13th, 2009Via: Guardian: Thousands of Russians are watching a YouTube video that accuses their government and officials of high corruption. A Russian version of a video by Hermitage Capital, the London-based hedge fund claiming to be victim of a $230m (£146m) scam, has attracted over 12,000 hits, and is the most viewed news clip on YouTube […]
An “Embarrassing Affair”: German Ship Transporting Arms for Iran
October 12th, 2009Via: Spiegel: US troops boarded a German-owned freighter in early October and found eight containers full of ammunition, allegedly headed to Syria from Iran. The shipment is in violation of a UN weapons embargo and has become a source of chagrin in Berlin. An “embarrassing affair,” is how one German diplomat described it. The official […]
Why Obama Doesn’t Deserve the Nobel Peace Prize: An Unabridged List
October 11th, 2009Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize! Hell freezes over!
China Detects Sarin Gas Along Border with North Korea
October 10th, 2009Via: AFP: China has detected deadly nerve gas at its border with North Korea and suspects an accidental release inside the secretive state, a Japanese news report said Friday. The Chinese military is strengthening its surveillance activities after detecting the highly virulent sarin gas in November last year and in February in Liaoning province, the […]
Obama Awarded 2009 Nobel Peace Prize
October 9th, 2009I thought that this was a hoax, and that, if I left it alone for an hour, all the media will have to admit that they got punked by 4chan or something similar… Nope. It’s real. And, well, why not? Obama is only perpetuating two illegal wars and a global network of 737 military bases. […]
