Archive for the 'War' Category
Pentagon Explores ‘Human Fear’ Chemicals; Scare-Sensors, ‘Contagious’ Stress
January 23rd, 2008Via: Wired: …the US Army is trying to track down and harness people’s smell of fear. The military has backed a study on the “Identification and Isolation of Human Alarm Pheromones,” which “focused on the Preliminary Identification of Steroids of Interest in Human Fear Sweat.” The so-called “skydiving protocol” was the researchers’ method of choice.
George Bush and White House Issued 935 False Statements About Iraq Following 9/11
January 23rd, 2008Via: news.com.au: US President George W Bush and other top officials issued almost one thousand false statements about the national security threat from Iraq following the September 11 attacks, according to a study by two not-for-profit organisations. The Associated Press reports the study, published on the website of the Centre for Public Integrity, concluded the […]
Benazir Bhutto Assassinated
December 27th, 2007UPDATE #7: U.S. Special Forces Standing By to “Seize or Disable” Pakistan’s Nuclear Weapons Via: The Herald: US special forces snatch squads are on standby to seize or disable Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal in the event of a collapse of government authority or the outbreak of civil war following the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. The troops, […]
Co-Founder of Carlyle Group Buys Only Privately Held Copy of Magna Carta
December 20th, 2007Did the executive washroom run out of toilet paper? Via: Telegraph: The co-founder of The Carlyle Group finalised yet another deal late on Tuesday, but this time the private equity titan had his eyes on a rather different target. Instead of eyeing up an undervalued company or distressed asset, David Rubenstein snapped up a 13th […]
Mobile Labs to Target Iraqis for Death Using Biometric Data
December 18th, 2007Years ago, when the news broke that U.S. Forces were collecting biometric data from Iraqis, I was so shocked by the program that I made an effort to archive audio from an NBC news piece about it. Now we know that the data is being used, in part, to draw up execution lists. Remember that […]
U.S. Paid $32 Million for Iraqi Base that Wasn’t Built
December 15th, 2007I wouldn’t automatically assume corruption. This could easily be a black ops shell game. The cutout didn’t build the base, but maybe it did something else… See Daniel Hopsicker’s ongoing investigations into CIA cutouts. Via: USA Today: The U.S. military paid a Florida company nearly $32 million to build barracks and offices for Iraqi army […]
Gang-Rape Cover-Up by U.S. Government, Halliburton/KBR
December 11th, 2007Via: ABC News: A Houston, Texas woman says she was gang-raped by Halliburton/KBR coworkers in Baghdad, and the company and the U.S. government are covering up the incident. Jamie Leigh Jones, now 22, says that after she was raped by multiple men at a KBR camp in the Green Zone, the company put her under […]
U.S. Marines Request Airborne Death Ray; Seek ‘Psychological’ Edge by Roasting Foes with Laser
December 6th, 2007Via: Wired: Exactly one year ago today, the First Marine Expeditionary Force in Iraq signed off on an “urgent operational need” for an airborne tactical laser that could, in the words of the formal request, create “instantaneous burst-combustion of insurgent clothing, a rapid death through violent trauma, and more probably a morbid combination of both.” […]
U.S. National Intelligence Estimate: Iran Halted Nuclear Weapons Program in 2003
December 4th, 2007“Brzezinski’s testimony indicates to me that the expansion of the conflict into Iran might not be allowed to happen. Don’t ask me how it will be stopped, but he is the mouthpiece of the people who run this show, not in appearance, but in fact.” —Cryptogon: Zbigniew Brzezinski Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee That […]
Forget the Green Technology – The Hot Money Is in Guns
December 1st, 2007Naomi Klein gets close, but misses the mark. For those of us who understand clean, green fascism, it’s not a question of clean energy technology OR armaments and surveillance; it’s both. You won’t have viable clean technology without a total, fascist lockdown. I’ve said it from the beginning, and I’m saying it now. The technology […]
