Archive for the 'War' Category
Ministry of Defence Blocks Wikileaks
June 25th, 2009Via: Guardian: The Ministry of Defence is trying to block all internet access to the whistleblowing site Wikileaks from thousands of its own computers after discovering that dissidents have been using it to leak copies of British military manuals. Newly obtained MoD emails reveal alarm over the discovery that Wikileaks is freely publishing manuals that […]
China Buys Addax for £4.4bn to Tap Iraqi Oil
June 24th, 2009WARNING: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument. Who provided the credit for the U.S. to go to war in Iraq? Mmm hmm. See the part in bold below for a hint on where oil prices are headed. Via: Telegraph: China has made its first big foray into Iraq […]
Whistleblower Who Linked “Taliban” Leader to U.S. Intelligence is Assassinated
June 24th, 2009Via: Prison Planet: A whistleblower who defected from the Pakistani Taliban has been assassinated just days after he claimed that the group was working with US intelligence to destabilize the country. Qari Zainuddin, a tribal leader of the South Waziristan region in Pakistan was shot dead on Tuesday by a gunman said to be loyal […]
Dick Cheney Working on Grimoire
June 24th, 2009Working title: “It Rubs the Lotion on Its Skin or Else It Gets the Hose Again.” Via: AP: Former Vice President Dick Cheney has signed a book deal with a conservative imprint of Simon & Schuster and said he hopes readers of all ideologies will be interested in his story. The memoir by Cheney, widely […]
Australia: Anti-Fluoride Extremists ‘Threaten to Kill MP’
June 22nd, 2009Via: The Age: Anti-fluoride extremists have threatened to kill a Victorian government minister and blow up a regional water authority. As anger over fluoridating Geelong’s water supply mounted today, Labor minister Lisa Neville has been targeted along with water and health officials. A death threat was left with a bottle of water on the verandah […]
U.S. State Department Speaks to Twitter Over Iran
June 17th, 2009The Internet has been playing an increasingly important role in international politics. One highly significant effect of Internet use overseas has been to circumvent the informational controls imposed by authoritarian regimes on their citizens… Predictions… The Internet will be used as a tool of statecraft by national governments… The Internet will play an increasingly significant […]
Defense Department Sees Protests as Terrorism
June 16th, 2009Allow me to distribute a clue to the ACLU. This is from my 2005 essay, Militant Electronic Piracy: Non-Violent Insurgency Tactics Against the American Corporate State: The U.S. military classifies political activism as “low intensity conflict.” The scale of warfare (in terms of intensity) begins with individuals distributing anti-government handbills and public gatherings with anti-government/anti-corporate […]
The Navy’s New 100 KiloWatt Laser Weapons
June 15th, 2009Don’t miss the picture of the high voltage power supply. That reminds me of my favorite English-Russia post; satellite image, machine translation. Bzzzzzt, bzzzzzt, ZAP! Via: Popular Mechanics: The Office of Naval Research has awarded Raytheon a year-long contract to develop the preliminary design of a 100 kilowatt experimental Free Electron Laser (FEL) for naval […]
U.S. Rejects Victory Claim by Iran’s Ahmadinejad
June 14th, 2009Via: AP: The U.S. on Saturday refused to accept hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s claim of a landslide re-election victory in Iran and said it was looking into allegations of election fraud. Any hopes by the Obama administration of gaining a result similar to Lebanon’s recent election, won by a Western-backed moderate coalition, appeared to be […]
Global Military Spending Sets New Record
June 8th, 2009Via: BBC: Global military spending rose 4% in 2008 to a record $1,464bn (£914bn) – up 45% since 1999, according to the Stockholm-based peace institute Sipri. In contrast with civilian aerospace and airlines, the defence industry remains healthy. “The global financial crisis has yet to have an impact on major arms companies’ revenues, profits and […]
