Tag: weapons
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only users lose guns (& laptops): dea plagued by loss
from washington times: More than 90 weapons and 230 laptop computers belonging to the Drug Enforcement Administration have turned up missing over the past five years and, despite efforts by the agency to address weaknesses in tracking the items, “significant deficiencies” remain, a report said yesterday. The lost and stolen weapons include pistols, rifles, shotguns…
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Pilot’s Gun Goes Off On Flight From ‘New World Airport’
from danger room: For those who always thought that arming pilots on commercial flights was a bad idea, today’s incident will hardly come as a surprise: a gun accidentally went off in the cockpit of a U.S. Airways flight. ABC News reports: “The pilot, who both the TSA and US Airways declined to identify, was…
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election?, stagflation, cs gas, thermobaric & bali bomb
the election that might not happenfrom common dreams: It’s springtime in American politics. It’s only early March, but there’s a giddy, hopeful feeling to this election season, a sense that new leadership is blossoming. We could have a Democrat in the White House next year. But winter isn’t over yet and we need to balance…
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recruiting, russia, nuke site, ptsd, budget & ‘condor’
US military recruiting illegal aliensfrom press tv: Mexican citizen groups claim the US army is recruiting illegal immigrants from Mexico to send them to the war in Iraq. According to Prensa Latina on Friday in Culiacan, the capital of the northern state Sinaloa, civil activist Ildefonso Ortiz Cabrera told reporters that US military officers use…
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tasers: the next generation
alarmed by recent incidents? wait’ll you see what the company is planning for 2008…from toronto star: The Taser is going wireless. Until now, the electric-shock gun consisted of two barbed darts attached to wires that shoot out and strike the victim, immobilizing the person with 50,000 volts of electricity, causing severe pain and intense muscle…
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poland has 2nd thoughts about US missile defence
from canadian press: Poland is reconsidering it’s participation in Washington’s European-based missile defence system. Defence Minister Bogdan Klich says he wants to ensure the missile system serves Poland’s interests. Klich’s comments underlined the shift in thinking under the new pro-business government that took office Friday. There is anxiety in Poland that Warsaw could further strain…
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blackwater’s new weapon: laser dazzlers
from danger room: The State Department has a high-tech solution to keeping its security contractors from killing any more Iraqi civilians unnecessarily: Give the mercs laser dazzlers and helmet cameras. U.S. officials also tell ABC News that “the State Department plans to double the number of its diplomatic security agents to 90 so that one…
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russia says it may deploy missiles to belarus
from msnbc: Russia may deploy its newest Iskander tactical missiles in neighboring Belarus in response to U.S. plans for a missile shield in eastern Europe, Russian media quoteda senior general as saying on Wednesday. Asked if the missiles could be deployed in response to the U.S. shield, Major-General Vladimir Zaritsky, head of Russia’s artillery and…
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space defense program gets extra funding
from washington post: While wrestling with wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Pentagon is preparing weapons to fight the next battle from space, according to information in the 621-page, House-Senate conference report on the fiscal 2008 defense appropriations bill. The $459 billion bill, which awaits President Bush’s signature, provides $100 million for a new “prompt…
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don’t microwave me, bro!
from wired/blacklisted news: Seven months after an airman was burned in a test of the nonlethal heat beam, the Air Force has released a heavily redacted version of the mishap report (2.28mb PDF) that reveals few details about what happened. The military has bent over backwards to demonstrate to the public that the Active Denial…
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our new robot army will be controlled by malware
from register: A US defence department advisory board has warned of the danger that American war robots scheduled for delivery within a decade might be riddled with malicious code. The kill machines will use software largely written overseas, and it is feared that sinister forces might meddle with it in production, thus gaining control of…
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arms makers are the only ones winning war of terror
from sydney morning herald: Arms manufacturers are making record profits from the war on terrorism and unprecedented spending on weapons programs. The massive earnings have drawn condemnation from Australian defence experts, who say expensive weapons such as jet fighters, warships & satellites are not the way to combat terrorism. The world’s biggest arms maker, Lockheed…
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china testing space weapons
from ap: A Chinese submarine will send test signals that could change the course of a satellite when China launches its first moon orbiter, as part of the country’s effort to develop space war technology, a human rights watchdog said Tuesday. The Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy said two survey ships are deployed…
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pain compliance. coming soon to a protest near you?
from kurt nimmo: Last September, Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne indicated the military would use “nonlethal weapons” against “fellow citizens” before they use them in “a wartime situation.” In other words, the American people are considered little more than guinea pigs, especially dissenting Americans in need of “crowd control.” Before zapping antiwar demonstrators with an…
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iran & israel face off over nuclear weapons
from spacewar: Iran called for UN inspectors to be dispatched to verify whether Israel has nuclear weapons, in a heated showdown with the Jewish state at a meeting of the UN atomic agency Friday. The face-off between the two nations came as Arab states condemned Israel for hiding an atomic arsenal, at a general conference…