Tag: Military
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miltech: crashes, viruses, future combat & body language
global warming rocket with nasa satellite crashesfrom ap: A rocket carrying a NASA satellite crashed into the ocean near Antarctica after a failed launch early Tuesday, ending a $280 million mission to track global warming from space. The Taurus XL rocket carrying the Orbiting Carbon Observatory blasted off just before 2 a.m. from California’s Vandenberg…
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mock disaster, real lessons: exercise solid curtain feb23-27
from virginian-pilot: The Navy is conducting a massive anti-terrorism exercise this week in Hampton Roads – as well as at every base and installation in the continental United States. Fifteen months in the planning, Operation Solid Curtain/Citadel Shield is the largest force-protection exercise in the nation, said Capt. Sam McCormick, the director of fleet anti-terrorism…
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obamessiah gives team america a pep talk
here’s a couple of telling takes on the big speech: first a sports analogy, as if it’s all a big game…from time: Rarely has a pep talk come with so much pomp. The setting, for starters, was no high school locker room at halftime, with sweaty teenagers scratching their gym socks. Robed Supreme Court justices…
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investigation shows army charity hoards millions
from ap: The biggest charity inside the U.S. military has been hoarding tens of millions of dollars meant to help put fighters returning from Iraq and Afghanistan back on their feet. An Associated Press investigation shows that between 2003 and 2007, the Army Emergency Relief grew into a $345 million behemoth. During those years, the…
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police state int’l: skype, shop, cyber katrina & operation arcadia
eu agency supports wiretapping skype conversationsfrom eu observer: EU’s judicial cooperation agency Eurojust will take the lead in finding ways to help police and prosecutors across Europe to wiretap computer-to-computer phone conversations enabled by programs such as Skype. “We will sit together with all member states to see how this can be done technically and…
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lusitania truth: another war provocation exposed!
from archaeology.org: The nearly century-old debate about whether the passenger liner Lusitania was transporting British war munitions when torpedoed by a German U-boat is over. Physical evidence of just such a cargo has been recovered from the wreck, which rests 12 miles off the Irish coast in 300 feet of murky, turbulent water. Lusitania was…
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Geronimo’s Kin Still Suing Skull & Bones Over Remains
from ap: Geronimo’s descendants have sued Skull and Bones — the secret society at Yale University linked to presidents and other powerful figures — claiming that its members stole the remains of the legendary Apache leader decades ago and have kept them ever since. The federal lawsuit filed in Washington on Tuesday — the 100th…
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miltech: crashing subs, cameras, guns, computers & internet2
french & uk officials confirm nuclear subs collided in atlanticfrom washington post: Nuclear submarines from Britain and France collided deep in the Atlantic Ocean this month, authorities said Monday in the first acknowledgment of a highly unusual accident. Officials said the low-speed crash did not damage the vessels’ nuclear reactors or missiles or cause radiation…
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debris falling in texas could be from satellite collision
from ap: The Federal Aviation Administration has received numerous reports of falling debris across Texas, which could be related to a recent satellite collision. Some of the callers around midmorning Sunday reported what looked like a fireball in the sky. FAA spokesman Roland Herwig says officials suspect the debris could be related to the collision,…
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US military will offer path to citizenship for immigrants
from nytimes: Stretched thin in Afghanistan and Iraq, the American military will begin recruiting skilled immigrants who are living in this country with temporary visas, offering them the chance to become United States citizens in as little as six months. Immigrants who are permanent residents, with documents commonly known as green cards, have long been…
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miltech: biolabs, spysats, germs & cern
cern atom-smasher relaunch delayed to septemberfrom afp: Researchers announced Monday a new delay for the restart of Europe’s Big Bang atom-smasher, saying the faulty multi-billion dollar machine would now be turned back on in late September. The European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) had planned to relaunch the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) this spring before…
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daily show investigates ‘adorable’ killer robots
from raw replay: iRobot was awarded a $286 million contract from the U.S. military to create combat robots. The Daily Show’s Samantha Bee visits the company to talk about their progress. This video is from Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, broadcast Feb 10, 2009. flashbacks: robots will hunt ‘non-cooperative humans’ in army plan & will…
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police state int’l: propaganda, danger, threats & lists
pentagon clashes with media over control of information 27,000 work in pentagon pr & recruitingfrom danger room: Forget the drone stuff. Here is your eye-popping statistic of the day: “This year, the Pentagon will employ 27,000 people just for recruitment, advertising and public relations – almost as many as the total 30,000-person work force in…
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navy unleashes tug of war off oregon coast
from oregonian: You may not realize it, but the Navy has been conducting warfare training exercises off the coast of Oregon, Washington and Northern California for decades, firing missiles and machine guns, dropping bombs and practicing crucial sonar detection of submarines. Now, the Navy’s Northwest region wants to expand those operations, including adding a dummy…
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geopolitiks: closing bases & launching satellites
kyrgyzstan closing US base key to afghan conflictfrom ap: Kyrgyzstan’s president said Tuesday his country is ending U.S. use of an air base key to military operations in Afghanistan – a decision with potentially grave consequences for U.S. efforts to put down surging Taliban and al-Qaida violence. A U.S. military official in Afghanistan called President…