Archive for the 'War' Category
U.S. Lawmakers Heavily Invested in Defense
April 4th, 2008One for your Not-News-to-Me file folder. Via: AP: Members of Congress have as much as $196 million collectively invested in companies doing business with the Defense Department, earning millions since the onset of the Iraq war, according to a study by a nonpartisan research group. Not all the companies in which lawmakers invested are typical […]
Military Report: Secretly ‘Recruit or Hire Bloggers’
April 1st, 2008“Hi, Kevin, um, yeah, this is Bob from U.S. Special Operations Command. We’re running an introductory offer over here that might interest you. We know that you’ve fled the U.S. for good and have several thousand pages of, well, unpleasant information on your site, mmkay. But, for a limited time only, the U.S. Government is […]
Attorney General: Piracy Funding Terror
March 30th, 2008Please see: Militant Electronic Piracy: Non-Violent Insurgency Tactics Against the American Corporate State for more context. Via: AP: Attorney General Michael Mukasey warned Friday that the huge profits generated from piracy and counterfeiting are increasingly flowing into the coffers of terrorist groups. In remarks to Silicon Valley executives at the Tech Museum of Innovation, Mukasey […]
The 22-Year-Old with the $300 Million Arms Contract
March 28th, 2008Sheesh! I need to create a Florida category. The strangest aspect of this situation is that Diveroli had the contacts on the black market side. There’s an old spook involved somewhere here. By the looks of it, more than one. Remember that the CIA has had procurement networks for Soviet Bloc weapons in place for […]
MIT Developed Microchip 10X More Energy-Efficient than Present Technology
March 23rd, 2008Sure! Clouds of NSA dust and Homeland Security e-mites. The air will be so thick with the stuff that “the terrorists” won’t be able to find their targets. Via: MIT Energy Initiative: Researchers at MIT and Texas Instruments have designed a new chip for portable electronics that could be up to 10 times more energy-efficient […]
Clean, Green U.S. Prison Camp: The Guantanamo Naval Base Wind Farm
March 23rd, 2008For years, I wanted to believe that Peak Oil could bring this horror show down. My problem, of course, was that I couldn’t ignore simple, observable realities and the fact that evil people have many plans up their sleeves. Some of you view collapse due to Peak Oil as a given. I understand that desire. […]
Tactical Biorefineries: Army to Turn Trash Into Power in Iraq
March 18th, 2008Imagine my shock. I wonder if this machine has a setting that will allow the U.S. Army to use corpses as a feedstock? Hmm. And how double plus good is the name Defense Life Sciences!? HAHA Via: AP: The water bottles, plastic foam plates and other trash discarded by American troops in Iraq’s mess halls […]
U.S. Drops China from List of 10 Worst Rights Violators
March 15th, 2008What’s more absurd, the fact that China isn’t on the list, or that the U.S. issues such a list in the first place? More than a million Iraqis have died since the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003. I wonder if that figures into the report at all… Via: IHT: The announcement that the U.S. […]
New Arrest in SocGen Trading Scandal
March 12th, 2008Kerviel, according to legend, entered fictitious hedge positions that tricked the bank’s risk exposure system into ignoring the real positions!? If the people behind this had bombed the bank’s headquarters into a pile of rubble and killed all the executives, they would have done far less damage than what was accomplished with this hack. Or, […]
Fallon Resigns as Mideast Military Chief
March 12th, 2008Fallon, you’ll remember, is probably the main reason why Bush has not been able to start a war with Iran. Interesting coincidence, how oil broke out higher in the last several days preceding this news. Via: AP: The Navy admiral in charge of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan announced Tuesday that he is resigning […]
