Archive for the 'War' Category
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 […]
Bletchley Park Saved for Posterity
November 7th, 2008Via: Guardian: Bletchley Park – the code breaking centre made famous for its role in cracking the Enigma code during the second world war – looks set to be saved from extinction after a £330,000 grant from English Heritage. Bletchley made its name by playing host to a team of mathematicians who used an early […]
U.S. Strike Kills Afghan Wedding Party Goers
November 5th, 2008Via: Reuters: A U.S. air strike killed a number of Afghan civilians, officials said on Wednesday, as President Hamid Karzai called on newly elected Barack Obama to make it his priority to stop the killing of innocents. Scores of civilians have been killed in U.S. air strikes this year leading to seething resentment against the […]
Dutch Parliament Considering Forced Birth Control for “Unfit” Mothers
November 5th, 2008The shit-for-brains Malthusian mini-Hitlers love this stuff. The shrill “peak everything” people are some of the most deranged statists that I’ve ever come across. They sound like flaky greenies at first, but mention centralized government plans to implement orderly kill off/population reduction programs and pay close attention to their responses. These fascists can’t help it. […]
Pentagon Allocates More Troops to Homeland Combat Units
November 5th, 2008This might be enough troops to lock down a few square miles of ghetto southeast of the University of Southern California campus. But not much more than that. Via: Prison Planet: Northcom has announced that two more U.S. military units will be assigned for domestic homeland security missions, bringing the total number of combat ready […]
Pentagon Ready to Brief Incoming Administration Immediately
November 5th, 2008The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can “throw the rascals out” at any election […]
Clancy’s End War
November 4th, 2008Here’s a fun one for the kids this holiday season; from the Tom Clancy Propaganda Industrial Complex: Video games must be considered as a key social engineering influence now. Take your pick on what your little Stanley is supposed to internalize as a result of “playing” this.
Iran Opens New Naval Base at Mouth of Persian Gulf
October 30th, 2008Via: Guardian: Iran yesterday signalled its intention to extend its military presence in the world’s most important oil conduit, opening a new naval base at the mouth of the Persian Gulf and adding weight to its threats to choke off oil supplies, if the Islamic Republic came under attack. The inauguration of the new base […]
