Archive for the 'War' Category
Pakistan Army Is Said to Be Linked to Many Killings in Swat
September 15th, 2009Via: New York Times: Two months after the Pakistani Army wrested control of the Swat Valley from Taliban militants, a new campaign of fear has taken hold, with scores, perhaps hundreds, of bodies dumped on the streets in what human rights advocates and local residents say is the work of the military. In some cases, […]
Brzezinski: Western Powers Going Down Same Road as Soviet Union in Afghanistan
September 15th, 2009Via: Herald Tribune: Western powers now in Afghanistan run the risk of suffering the fate of the Soviet Union there if they cannot halt the growing insurgency and an Afghan perception that they are foreign invaders, according to Zbigniew Brzezinski, the former U.S. national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter. In a speech opening a […]
NASA Rocket to Create Clouds
September 15th, 2009Possibly Related: HAARP Via: Live Science: A rocket experiment set to launch Tuesday aims to create artificial clouds at the outermost layers of Earth’s atmosphere. The project, called the Charged Aerosol Release Experiment (CARE), plans to trigger cloud formation around the rocket’s exhaust particles. The clouds are intended to simulate naturally-occurring phenomena called noctilucent clouds, […]
Danish Government Stops Publication of Book Written by Special Forces Soldier
September 14th, 2009Via: Copenhagen Post: A 42-year-old Special Forces soldier may be jailed for revealing sensitive information in a book about the elite force’s missions in Afghanistan. Sgt First Class Thomas Rathsack’s book ‘Jæger – i krig med eliten’ (‘Hunter – at war with the elite’) was due out on 25 September. But the Defence Command has […]
Sonic Crowd Control Weapons at Congressional Townhall Meetings in San Diego County
September 12th, 2009Listen closely around 1:40: Via: East County Magazine: “Long-range acoustic devices [LRADs] for crowd control can be extremely dangerous. These are used in Iraq to control insurgents. They can cause serious and lasting harm to humans…We want to know WHY our Sheriff Dept has this weapon,” Sal Magallanez of San Diego-based Liberty One Radio said […]
Brazil’s Armored Car Culture
September 11th, 2009This is absurd on many levels, but I couldn’t look away. Interestingly, the Brazilian government doesn’t allow vehicles to be outfitted with Level 3 and Level 4 armor. In other words, any assault rifle would cut through the armor on these vehicles like a hot knife through butter. Via: Wall Street Journal: Everywhere 19-year-old Kareen […]
‘E-Bomb’ Doomsday Conference
September 10th, 2009Via: Wired: It’ll fry pace makers, destroy iPhones, and turn laptops into useless paperweights. It’s the scariest thing most people outside the Washington Beltway have never heard of: electromagnetic pulse weapons. And you can learn all about it starting today at the EMPACT conference in Niagara Falls, New York. Electromagnetic pulse, or EMP, is a […]
U.S. Alone Responsible 68.4% of Global Arms Sales
September 8th, 2009Green shoots… a missile? Via: New York Times: Despite a recession that knocked down global arms sales last year, the United States expanded its role as the world’s leading weapons supplier, increasing its share to more than two-thirds of all foreign armaments deals, according to a new Congressional study. The United States signed weapons agreements […]
The Rise of Israel’s Military Rabbis
September 8th, 2009This reminds me of the Cleric character class in Dungeons & Dragons. Via: BBC: Israel’s army is changing. Once proudly secular, its combat units are now filling with those who believe Israel’s wars are “God’s wars”. Military rabbis are becoming more powerful. Trained in warfare as well as religion, new army regulations mean they are […]
Earth Liberation Front Topples Radio Towers in Washington State
September 6th, 2009ELF members pick really stupid targets—considering that decades to life in prison is what they’ll get if they’re caught. The same methods used to carry out the operation below could have been applied in other areas to cause extremely serious disruptions to the system that they are allegedly trying to topple. I see three possibilities […]
