Archive for the 'War' Category
Chavez Orders Expropriation of Cargill Rice Plant
March 5th, 2009Via: AP: President Hugo Chavez ordered the expropriation of a rice-processing plant in Venezuela owned by American food giant Cargill Inc. on Wednesday because the company allegedly was not distributing rice at prices imposed by the government. The socialist leader also threatened to nationalize Venezuela’s largest food producer, Empresas Polar, amid rising tension between his […]
The International
March 5th, 2009The International – Official Site Via: Wikipedia: Plot Interpol agent Louis Salinger (Clive Owen) and Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Eleanor Whitman (Naomi Watts) are determined to bring to justice one of the world’s most powerful banks, the International Bank of Business and Credit. Uncovering illegal activities including money laundering, arms trading, and the destabilization of […]
Unopened Claims Letters Hidden at VA Offices
March 5th, 2009Via: Army Times: A new report about Veterans Affairs Department employees squirreling away tens of thousands of unopened letters related to benefits claims is sparking fresh concerns that veterans and their survivors are being cheated out of money. VA officials acknowledge further credibility problems based on a new report of a previously undisclosed 2007 incident […]
Russian General Says U.S. May Have Planned Satellite Collision
March 4th, 2009Via: RIA Novosti: A collision between U.S. and Russian satellites in early February may have been a test of new U.S. technology to intercept and destroy satellites rather than an accident, a Russian military expert has said. According to official reports, one of 66 satellites owned by Iridium, a U.S. telecoms company, and the Russian […]
Russian Scholar Says U.S. Will Be Under Martial Law in 2009
March 4th, 2009I was going to ignore this, like I did the last time it came up, but the emails are already rolling in… I just don’t think that it’s going to go down this way. Why? Because Americans are like mushrooms. In general, they like being kept in the dark and fed bullshit. They’re absolutely content […]
Wikileaks Cracks NATO’s Master Narrative for Afghanistan
February 27th, 2009It appears that Wikileaks is distributing NATO classified documents that some imbecile at CENTCOM left on an open webshare. The Wikileaks people ran a dictionary attack on the files and found the password on them was progress. Via: Wikileaks: Wikileaks has cracked the encryption to a key document relating to the war in Afghanistan. The […]
We’re on the Brink of Disaster
February 27th, 2009Via: Salon: Violent protests and riots are breaking out everywhere as economies collapse and governments fail. War is bound to follow. The global economic meltdown has already caused bank failures, bankruptcies, plant closings and foreclosures and will, in the coming year, leave many tens of millions unemployed across the planet. But another perilous consequence of […]
Mexico Sending 5,000 Troops to Juarez
February 26th, 2009Via: Reuters: Mexico is sending up to 5,000 new troops and federal police to the country’s most violent city, where law and order is on the brink of collapse in a brutal war between drug gangs aided by corrupt police. The army said on Thursday the new deployment could take the number of soldiers and […]
Obama to Seek New Assault Weapons Ban… To Stop Violence in Mexico?
February 26th, 2009Well, I said, “Don’t dawdle.” And here we are. Via: ABC News: The Obama administration will seek to reinstate the assault weapons ban that expired in 2004 during the Bush administration, Attorney General Eric Holder said today. “As President Obama indicated during the campaign, there are just a few gun-related changes that we would like […]
Mexico Is in Free Fall
February 26th, 2009Via: Guardian: Shortly before the US elections last November, then vice-presidential candidate Joe Biden was widely criticised for predicting that an Obama administration would almost certainly be tested by what he called a “generated” international crisis, in much the way that the Soviet Union “tested” John F Kennedy shortly after he assumed office. Biden did […]
