Archive for the 'War' Category
Three Out of Four Undersea Cables Connecting Internet Traffic Between the Middle East and Europe Have Been Cut
December 20th, 2008Via: PC Magazine: European telecommunications providers reported Friday that three out of the four telecommunication cables connecting Internet traffic between the Middle East and Europe had been cut. In a statement, France Telecom reported that the “Sea Me We 4” cable was cut at 7:28 AM local time, the “Sea Me We3” was severed at […]
Mediterranean Fiber Optic Cables Cut, Disrupting Middle East Communications
December 19th, 2008Here we go again. Via: Bloomberg: Internet and telephone communications between the Middle East and Europe were disrupted by submarine cable failures between Italy and Egypt in the Mediterranean Sea. The failures cut the flow of “data of various kinds” between Europe and the Middle East, and there’s no timeframe for when communications will be […]
Army Wages iPod Warfare in Baghdad
December 17th, 2008Via: Wired: During a humanitarian aid distribution in Baghdad’s Sadr City, Staff Sgt. Kent Crandall brought along a nifty iPod accessory: an Army psychological operations loudspeaker. Crandall had loaded the iPod with Iraqi pop music, which he cranked during the halal food handout in this war-torn neighborhood. This is only one of the tools in […]
The Leaky Ship of Human Terrain Systems
December 15th, 2008In summary, the U.S. military is aware that “American Culture” is a strategic weapon that is capable of defeating an enemy, or entire populations, without necessarily having to kill them. The U.S. military, however, must and will kill in order to allow “American Culture” into a society in order to repurpose it. Military failures will […]
Officer Killed, Police Chief Injured in Oregon Bank Explosion
December 14th, 2008Where else but America would the cops be so stupid that they would bring a suspected bomb INSIDE the premises of the intended target!? This is Darwin Award Hall of Fame material right here. It will also be an excuse for cops to shakedown lots of clueless hippies who had absolutely nothing to do with […]
AFRICOM China and Congo Resource Wars
December 2nd, 2008Via: Engdahl: If France was the covert target of US ‘surrogate warfare’ in 1994, today it is clearly China, which is the real threat to US control of Central Africa’s vast mineral riches. The Democratic Republic of Congo was renamed from the Republic of Zaire in 1997 when the forces of Laurent Désiré Kabila brought […]
India: Coordinated Terrorist Attacks
November 27th, 2008See, this is why the U.S. needs to attack Pakistan… *wink* *wink* Get it? Of course, it’s possible that this is some sort of organic insurgency. (Anything is possible, right?) I doubt it, though, because no critical economic infrastructure was hit. When the attackers start popping Internet and electrical infrastructure, shutting down the operations of […]
Pirates Hijack Saudi Oil Tanker Off African Coast
November 18th, 2008Via: AFP: Pirates have seized control of the Saudi-owned oil super tanker Sirius Star off the east coast of Africa and are taking it towards a Somali port, the US Navy and the ship’s operator said. The 318,000 deadweight tonnes Very Large Crude Carrier is the largest vessel to be seized in an epidemic of […]
Dunwoody Becomes First Female Four-Star General
November 15th, 2008I’m not the one to deliver a message to General Dunwoody, but some of you can. (Especially you Army people reading Cryptogon from the Pentagon.) She should be reminded of these stories ASAP: American Female Soldiers More Likely to Be Raped than Killed in Action The “Suicide” of U.S. Army Private LaVena Lynn Johnson Via: […]
Hiroshima: The Lost Photographs
November 11th, 2008Via: Design Observer: One rainy night eight years ago, in Watertown, Massachusetts, a man was taking his dog for a walk. On the curb, in front of a neighbor’s house, he spotted a pile of trash: old mattresses, cardboard boxes, a few broken lamps. Amidst the garbage he caught sight of a battered suitcase. He […]
