Archive for the 'War' Category
Male Breast Cancer Patients Blame Water at Marine Base
September 25th, 2009Via: CNN: The sick men are Marines, or sons of Marines. All 20 of them were based at or lived at Camp Lejeune, the U.S. Marine Corps’ training base in North Carolina, between the 1960s and the 1980s. They all have had breast cancer — a disease that strikes fewer than 2,000 men in the […]
G20 Protesters Blasted by Sonic Cannon
September 25th, 2009Via: Guardian: Only a few hundreds protesters took to the streets of Pittsburgh to mark the opening day of the G20 summit of world leaders, but the police were taking no chances. Sonic weapons or long-range acoustic devices have been used by the US military overseas, notably against Somali pirates and Iraqi insurgents. But US […]
U.S. Army Wants to Send 250 Foot Long Surveillance Airship to Afghanistan
September 24th, 2009Via: Aviation Week: The plan to deploy an autonomous, free-flying, surveillance airship to Afghanistan is gaining, er, buoyancy. A consortium led by the US Army’s Space & Missile Defense Command is scheduled to be established by October 1 and a contract awarded for the Long Endurance Multi-intelligence Vehicle (LEMV) demonstration by the end of December.
Census Worker Found Hanged, “Fed” Scrawled Across His Chest
September 24th, 2009Via: Washington Post: A part-time Census Bureau field worker was found hanged in Kentucky Sept. 12 with the word “fed” scrawled across his chest, according to a law enforcement source. Bill Sparkman, 51 was found in a remote patch of the Daniel Boone National Forest in rural southeast Kentucky, the Associated Press first reported Wednesday […]
Mexico: Army Raid Finds Cash Addressed to Police
September 23rd, 2009Via: AP: Soldiers raiding a drug gang safehouse in northern Mexico found money-stuffed envelopes earmarked for various police forces and one marked for “press,” authorities said Tuesday. Four people were arrested and $5 million in U.S. and Mexican currency was seized during the raid Monday in the industrial city of Monterrey, according to an army […]
Mind Training for Modern American Warriors
September 23rd, 2009Via: Time: Not long ago at Fort Bragg, N.C., the country’s largest military base, seven soldiers sat in a semi-circle, lights dimmed, eyes closed, two fingertips lightly pressed beneath their belly buttons to activate their “core.” Electronic music thumped as the soldiers tried to silence their thoughts, the key to Warrior Mind Training, a form […]
The U.S. Trains Forces In Afghanistan That Then Go To Work For The Taliban
September 23rd, 2009Via: Salon: The big Afghanistan debate in Washington is not over whether more troops are needed, but just who they should be: Americans or Afghans — Us or Them. Having just spent time in Afghanistan seeing how things stand, I wouldn’t bet on Them. Frankly, I wouldn’t bet on Us either. In eight years, American […]
Inside the Apocalyptic Soviet Doomsday Machine
September 22nd, 2009Via: Wired: Valery Yarynich glances nervously over his shoulder. Clad in a brown leather jacket, the 72-year-old former Soviet colonel is hunkered in the back of the dimly lit Iron Gate restaurant in Washington, DC. It’s March 2009—the Berlin Wall came down two decades ago—but the lean and fit Yarynich is as jumpy as an […]
USAF Shoots Down Out-of-Control Drone Over Northern Afghanistan
September 22nd, 2009The manned fighter jets are still good for something! Via: Security Management: The United States Air Force (USAF) shot down an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) on Sunday morning after it lost control of the aircraft over a remote area in Northern Afghanistan. The USAF does not know how or why operators lost control of the […]
Problem with Pirates? Remote Control Speedboat with Machine Gun Turret to the Rescue
September 21st, 2009Via: New York Times: In recent years, maritime shipping companies, private security firms and navies around the globe have pondered the problem of high-seas piracy off Africa’s east coast, where more than 150 merchant ships have been attacked by small craft in 2009 alone. What to do? How to thwart a menace that can resemble […]
