Archive for the 'War' Category
Trucks Carrying Nuclear Weapons Around The Country Revealed
September 4th, 2009I was nearly killed by U.S. Marines when I worked for FedEx in the 1990s. I was attempting to make a delivery to the part of a Marine Corps Air Station that, I later found out, housed nuclear weapons. Hint: If you’re ever trying to deliver a package on a military base and you see […]
Hitmen Kill 17 in Mexico Clinic on U.S. Border, Deputy Police Chief
September 4th, 2009Via: Reuters: About a dozen hooded gunmen burst into a Mexican rehabilitation clinic near the U.S. border on Wednesday, lining up patients before killing 17 of them. Drug gangs have targeted rehab clinics in the manufacturing city of Ciudad Juarez across from El Paso, Texas, accusing them of protecting dealers from rival gangs. The attack […]
USAID Probes the Possibility That Contractors Give a Cut to the Taliban
September 3rd, 2009Via: Global Post: The United States Agency for International Development has opened an investigation into allegations that its funds for road and bridge construction in Afghanistan are ending up in the hands of the Taliban, through a protection racket for contractors. And House Foreign Affairs Committee member, Rep. Bill Delahunt (D-Mass.) vowed to hold hearings […]
Bush’s Third Term? You’re Living It
September 3rd, 2009Please understand: THERE ARE NO POLITICAL SOLUTIONS TO THE PROBLEMS THE U.S. IS FACING. The outcome of this election is meaningless, one way or the other. The more you keep grasping for glimmers of hope within the political system, the worse off you will be. … Will a big Democratic win calm people down? Maybe […]
Mercenaries in Afghanistan: “Lord of the Flies Environment”
September 2nd, 2009Via: New York Daily News: Secretary of State Clinton ordered an investigation on Tuesday into the Animal House revels of private guards at the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan – including booze, hookers and other “deviant behavior.” “These are very serious allegations, and we are treating them that way,” State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said of […]
Exposed: The Swine Flu Hoax
August 27th, 2009There’s no link on this because the author, Andrew Bosworth, Ph.D., emailed it to me. — Exposed: The Swine Flu Hoax Andrew Bosworth, Ph.D. The alarm has been sounded. Politicians, pharmaceutical executives and media conglomerates would have us believe that a 1918-style pandemic is a real threat. The 1918 pandemic, however, evolved out of conditions […]
U.S. Military Hires Public Relations Firm to Screen Prospective Embedded Journalists
August 26th, 2009Via: Stars and Stripes: As more journalists seek permission to accompany U.S. forces engaged in escalating military operations in Afghanistan, many of them could be screened by a controversial Washington-based public relations firm contracted by the Pentagon to determine whether their past coverage has portrayed the U.S. military in a positive light. U.S. public affairs […]
The Continuing Militarization of Biological Sciences
August 24th, 2009Don’t miss the last sentence. Via: Nature: In 2003, military analysts from the Counterproliferation and Technology Office of the Defense Intelligence Agency in Washington DC predicted that emerging biotechnologies were likely to lead to a “paradigm shift” in the development of biological warfare agents. They warned that it would soon become possible to engineer agents […]
Abkhazia Warns Georgia Over Vessel Seizures
August 21st, 2009Here we go again. Via: Reuters / New York Times: Georgia’s breakaway Abkhazia accused Tbilisi on Thursday of trying to suffocate the Black Sea territory and threatened a “proportionate response” to a Georgian blockade in which two ships have been seized this week. Georgia has stepped up efforts to isolate Abkhazia and another breakaway region, […]
Your Tax Dollars at Work for Michael Bay
August 19th, 2009Via: David Bordwell: Back in July, when I was watching films at Il Cinema Ritrovato in Bologna, I managed to catch several of the films in the Frank Capra retrospective. Two of them, Dirigible (above and left) and Submarine, were surprisingly spectacular, given that at the time Columbia was still a relatively minor studio. It […]
