Archive for October, 2010
Humiliate, Strip, Threaten: UK Military Interrogation Manuals Discovered
October 27th, 2010Via: Guardian: The British military has been training interrogators in techniques that include threats, sensory deprivation and enforced nakedness in an apparent breach of the Geneva conventions, the Guardian has discovered. Training materials drawn up secretly in recent years tell interrogators they should aim to provoke humiliation, insecurity, disorientation, exhaustion, anxiety and fear in the […]
Large Number of 9/11 Reference Videos Going Up on YouTube
October 27th, 2010Update: New Video of Building 7 Demolition I’m not absolutely sure that this hasn’t been out all along, but I’ve lost track of how many 9/11 documentaries I’ve seen, and I don’t recall ever seeing this clip. Wow. Along with this one: —End Update— I think that these are from the NIST dump the happened […]
Janitors With Ph.D.s
October 27th, 2010Via: AlterNet: For politicians, boosting college graduation rates has always been a fairly uncontroversial goal to support. The Obama administration is doing so, rather relentlessly, through a number of initiatives designed to better prepare students for college and support them once they get there. The assumptions are 1) that students who graduate from college have […]
Cryptogon Readers Sign Up for Hosting with BlueHost
October 27th, 2010Thanks to the owners of streetsick.com and 202elmstreet.com for signing up for hosting with BlueHost. Cryptogon received $180.
Introduction to Permaculture Design DVD
October 27th, 2010Via: Permaculture Research Institute of Australia: Based on the 72-hour Permaculture Design Certificate Course as devised by Bill Mollison, join Geoff Lawton as he takes you into the world of Permaculture Design and introduces you to a new way of looking at the world. Learn how to apply your design skills by observing, analyzing and […]
Glaxo to Pay $750 Million in Adulterated Drugs Case
October 27th, 2010Via: Reuters: GlaxoSmithKline Plc has agreed to pay $750 million and plead guilty to manufacturing and distributing adulterated drugs from a now closed plant in Puerto Rico, the U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday.
Failure Shuts Down Squadron of Nuclear Missiles
October 27th, 2010This is an extremely curious situation. I’m not even going to say which previous event this reminds me of. Via: The Atlantic: President Obama was briefed this morning on an engineering power failure at F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming that took 50 nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), one-ninth of the U.S. missile stockpile, […]
Sickening Boondoggle: The New and Improved Marine One Chopper
October 26th, 2010Via: Wired: In this, the first in an occasional series examining tech influence in politics using MAPLight’s nonpartisan political-finance–analysis tools, the trail leads to a mind boggling, 10-year campaign in which three key defense contractors have funneled more than $18 million to the pockets of federal lawmakers, to win various military contracts, including one for […]
U.S. Superbase on Guam
October 26th, 2010Via: Telegraph: The US is building an £8 billion super military base on the Pacific island of Guam in an attempt to contain China’s military build-up. The expansion will include a dock for a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, a missile defence system, live-fire training sites and the expansion of the island’s airbase. It will be the […]
Decommissioned Military Jets to Serve as Satellite Launchers
October 26th, 2010Via: Space.com: Jets under consideration for the NanoLauncher game plan include the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter and the McDonnell Douglas F-15D Eagle, among others. These fighters will take the payload – slung underneath the fuselage on a rocket – several miles up and then fire the rocket to send the stowed satellites to their intended destination […]
