Archive for the 'War' Category
Air Force Quietly Building Iraq Presence
July 15th, 2007B1-B (long range, supersonic) strategic bombers and F-16C fighters are being used against dusty insurgents and their assault rifles… Incredible. Uncle $cam is going to have to borrow another couple of hundred billion dollars from the Chinese to keep this circus going. Of course, the word Iran doesn’t appear anywhere in this story. Not once. […]
Mexico: Rebels Say Attack on Mexican Pipeline is Just the Beginning
July 12th, 2007Undefended, critical infrastructure… Via: Dallas Morning News: A shadowy leftist rebel group took responsibility Tuesday for a gas pipeline blast that shut down some industry in central Mexico, including two car assembly plants. The Popular Revolutionary Army, or EPR for its initials in Spanish, said Tuesday’s explosion and two similar attacks on Pemex pipelines in […]
U.S. Navy Sends Third Carrier to 5th Fleet Region
July 10th, 2007This information broke a couple of weeks ago on some sites that I wouldn’t admit to reading. I couldn’t confirm it back then, so I didn’t post it. Well… Via: Reuters / Yahoo: The U.S. navy has sent a third aircraft carrier to its Fifth Fleet area of operations, which includes Gulf waters close to […]
War Costs Soar by a Third; Total Could Top $1.4 Trillion
July 8th, 2007Mission accomplished. Via: Wired: It’s not just the troops that are surging. War costs are up for American operations in Iraq and Afghanistan* — way up, more than a third higher than last year. In the first half of this fiscal year, the Defense Department’s “average monthly obligations for contracts and pay is running about […]
Mercenaries Outnumber U.S. Troops in Iraq
July 5th, 2007“The coalition of the billing.” Via: Los Angeles Times: The number of U.S.-paid private contractors in Iraq now exceeds that of American combat troops, newly released figures show, raising fresh questions about the privatization of the war effort and the government’s capacity to carry out military and rebuilding campaigns. More than 180,000 civilians — including […]
Geostrategy via Economics: China Providing the U.S. with Enough Rope to Hang Itself
July 2nd, 2007For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill. —Sun Tzu, The Art of War As good as this article is, it doesn’t mention a certain, former superpower that was also bogged down in a futile war […]
Synthetic Environments for Analysis and Simulation
June 30th, 2007Simulex Inc.’s Synthetic Environments for Analysis and Simulation system is almost certainly how the priests of the technocracy are now maintaining “normal” operations. The system allows for terra scale datasets with granularity of results down to one node (individual). It has a physics engine for tracking any number of people (or other elements) in virtual […]
Blood Money and More Blood Money
June 28th, 2007On the one hand, you’ve got a reporter talking about Cheney and his privatized genocide and ripoffs. Then you’ve got a story about how the U.S. Army has just awarded $150 BILLION worth of contracts for more of the same, except with three corporations, instead of one. It’s just a nonstop meat grinder of doom […]
What Did $19 Billion Buy?
June 28th, 2007Guess who’s training and arming the Iraqi insurgents… That’s right. Via: Washington Post: The United States has invested $19 billion to train and equip nearly 350,000 Iraqi soldiers and police since toppling Saddam Hussein, but the ability of those forces to provide security remains in doubt, according to the findings of a bipartisan congressional investigation […]
The ‘Most Severely Wounded’ American Soldier
June 25th, 2007After a couple of paragraphs, I started thinking about fates worse than death and how those are some of the only things still made in America. One wonders what the man would say to his parents if he could communicate… I know what I’d say. The incredible thing about Americans is that they almost never […]
