Archive for the 'War' Category
More Americans Killed in Mexico Since 2004 Than in Any Other Country (Outside Military Combat Zones)
February 9th, 2009Via: AP: More than 200 American citizens have been killed since 2004 in Mexico’s escalating wave of violence, amounting to the highest number of unnatural deaths in any foreign country outside military combat zones, according to the U.S. State Department. … The State Department tracks most American homicides abroad but releases few details about the […]
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Cheney Warns of New Attacks
February 4th, 2009Yesterday, Cryptogon reader offthereservation suggested that I look at a list of U.S. State Department notices on the U.S. Embassy site for Japan. This person said to look at the notices dated 09/07/01 and 09/10/01. Obviously, those were just before The Big Day. Offthereservation noted that a brand new Worldwide Caution was just released on […]
Big Pharma’s Drugs to be Weaponized to Fight “Mind Wars” on Future Battlefields
February 4th, 2009Via: Natural News: Pharmaceutical products could be employed to boost the performance of one army’s soldiers while undermining the minds of those on the other, according to a National Research Council report drafted for the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency. The report, “Emerging Cognitive Neuroscience and Related Technologies,” addresses the question of how emerging neuroscience technologies […]
The Army’s Remote-Controlled Beetle
February 4th, 2009The Singularity is here somewhere… It’ll be great. Really. Via: MIT Technology Review: A giant flower beetle with implanted electrodes and a radio receiver on its back can be wirelessly controlled, according to research presented this week. Scientists at the University of California developed a tiny rig that receives control signals from a nearby computer. […]
“Fishy” Supernotes from Taiwan
February 4th, 2009Via: Taipei Times: When a customs agent at San Francisco International Airport examined a package from Taiwan that was supposed to contain a birthday gift of candy and books, he thought it smelled “fishy.” Thinking it might contain food that had been imported illegally, the agent opened the parcel. Inside, he found US$380,000 in counterfeit […]
Obama Requested $40 Billion in Additional “Defense” Spending for 2010
February 3rd, 2009Making the world safe for Hopenosis? Via: Salon: Obama’s 2010 fiscal year budget calls for $527 billion in defense spending (not including the costs of Iraq and Afghanistan). That is more than the U.S. allocated for defense in 2009 and equals what the Bush administration budgeted for 2010: The Obama administration has given the Pentagon […]
Every Military Net Accessed at Once, Thanks to ‘OB1’
January 31st, 2009Machines that are physically connected to the public internet are going to share physical connections with classified networks. * grin * What could possibly go wrong? If the hacker owns the hypervisor, he/she owns all data traversing the hypervisor and is in a position to sample, redirect, or spoof anything. Without some form of fail-safe, […]
Defense Department Announces Civilian Expeditionary Workforce
January 30th, 2009Via: Infowars: The Defense Department has established a “civilian expeditionary workforce” that will see American civilians trained and equipped to deploy overseas in support of worldwide military missions. The move is seen by some as an initial step towards fulfilling president Obama’s promise to form a civilian national security force as powerful as the U.S. […]
Fannie Mae Logic Bomb Would Have Caused Weeklong Shutdown
January 30th, 2009Via: Wired: A logic bomb allegedly planted by a former engineer at mortgage finance company Fannie Mae last fall would have decimated all 4,000 servers at the company, causing millions of dollars in damage and shutting down Fannie Mae for a least a week, prosecutors say. Unix engineer Rajendrasinh Babubha Makwana, 35, was indicted (.pdf) […]
