Jan 31, 2012 | Black Technology, Video, WAR: By Design
Whenever the military rolls out a new robot program, folks like to joke about SkyNet or the Rise of the Machines. But this time, the military really is starting to venture into robot-apocalypse territory: swarms of little semi-autonomous machines that can team up to...
Jan 31, 2012 | WAR: By Design
Saudi Arabia’s $130 Billion Strategy to Prevent an Arab Spring Uprising As governments fell across the Arab world in 2011, Saudi Arabia deployed its most powerful weapon against domestic unrest: oil wealth. King Abdullah launched a $130 billion spending program...
Jan 31, 2012 | Satire, WAR: By Design
Feudalism: You have two cows. Your lord takes some of the milk. Pure Socialism: You have two cows. The government takes them and puts them in a barn with everyone else’s You have to take care of all the cows. The government gives you all the milk you need....
Jan 31, 2012 | WAR: By Design
The Deepwater Horizon disaster of April 2010 remains one of the most devastating environmental catastrophes in American history. Beyond the immediate ecological destruction, the event exposed deep structural problems in the relationship between government regulators...
Jan 31, 2012 | Video, WAR: By Design
132 BIN LADEN NEVER MENTIONED IN McCHRYSTAL REPORT OR OBAMA SPEECH “HUNT FOR BIN LADEN” A NATIONAL SHAME By Gordon Duff/STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Conservative commentator, former Marine Colonel Bob Pappas has been saying for years that bin Laden died at Tora Bora and...
Jan 31, 2012 | WAR: By Design
The Global Terrorism Database (GTD) is an open-source database including information on terrorist events around the world from 1970 through 2010 (with annual updates planned for the future). Unlike many other event databases, the GTD includes systematic data on...
Jan 31, 2012 | Video, WAR: By Design
Joe Quinn Sott.net Sun, 08 May 2011 04:31 CDT Where’s wally? I’m sure we’re all very tired by now of the Osama bin Laden nonsense, I know I am, and I really wish it would just go away. Sadly, that seems an unlikely prospect in the near future....
Jan 31, 2012 | Leaks, WAR: By Design
Morgan O. Reynolds was a professor emeritus at Texas A&M University and former director of the Criminal Justice Center at the National Center for Policy Analysis headquartered in Dallas, TX. He served as chief economist for the United States Department of Labor...
Jan 31, 2012 | WAR: By Design
Undercover British Soldiers Detained by Iraqi Police In September 2005, two undercover British soldiers were detained by Iraqi police at a roadblock in Basra, the largest city in southern Iraq and the heart of the British-controlled sector. The soldiers, reportedly...
Jan 31, 2012 | WAR: By Design
From Blackwater to Abu Dhabi After selling Blackwater — the private military company he had built into one of the largest security contractors in the world — Erik Prince relocated to Abu Dhabi in 2010 as legal scrutiny and government investigations into...
Jan 31, 2012 | WAR: By Design
17 February 2011 by David Hambling Magazine issue 2799. Subscribe and save For similar stories, visit the Weapons Technology Topic Guide THE US army is planning to field “rubber bullets” for machine guns. Military officials claim the ammunition will allow...
Jan 31, 2012 | WAR: By Design
HONOLULU (AP) — The Army on Thursday conducted its first flight test of a new weapon capable of traveling five times the speed of sound. The Army launched the Advanced Hypersonic Weapon from the military’s Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai at about 1:30...
Jan 31, 2012 | Events & Assassinations, Video
Jan 31, 2012 | Black Technology, WAR: By Design
Military Psychological Operations Turned on U.S. Lawmakers In 2011, investigative reporting revealed that the U.S. Army had ordered a team of soldiers trained in psychological operations to manipulate visiting American senators into supporting increased troop levels...
Jan 31, 2012 | WAR: By Design
The Unraveling Official Story Within days of President Obama’s dramatic announcement that U.S. Navy SEALs had killed Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan, a mountain of contradictions and suspicious circumstances began piling up. The speed at which the...
Jan 27, 2012 | Government Agenda
Meeting the new couple next door can be an anxious business for even the most relaxed home owner. Will they be international drug traffickers? Have they got noisy kids with a penchant for electronic music? As worries go, however, having the US president move in next...
Jan 27, 2012 | WAR: By Design
The following introductory paragraph was not included in the copy I received from my source… I include it here now at the request of Dimitri Khalezov who has also informed me that it was part of the original interview conducted by Daniel Estulin. [Dimitri...
Jan 27, 2012 | Abuses of Power
Written by Joe Wolverton, II Friday, 15 April 2011 10:35 On March 30, Senator Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y., picture, left) and 15 co-sponsors (including Republican leaders) introduced S. 679, the “Presidential Appointment Efficiency and Streamlining Act.” The measure would...
Jan 27, 2012 | Abuses of Power, Video
Posted on | September 26, 2011 | 12 Comments Up close shot of Deputy Inspector Anthony Bologna’s badge Newer Fresher Update: Pepper Spray happy NYPD Deputy Inspector Anthony Bologna Is punished…not really Update: Correction he’s not a Captain he’s Deputy...
Jan 27, 2012 | Government Agenda
By Tribune Washington bureau and The New York Times Other rulings “Extraordinary rendition”:The court refused to revive a lawsuit challenging a controversial post-Sept. 11 CIA program that flew terrorism suspects to secret prisons. The case involved five...
Jan 27, 2012 | Abuses of Power, Video
By VC | April 20th, 2011 | CelleBrite Michigan state police (or should we say police state?) have been using a handheld mobile forensics device to steal information from cell phones belonging to motorists stopped for minor traffic violations. The high-tech device...
Jan 27, 2012 | Abuses of Power, News
EFF activist Eva Galperin interviews EFF criminal defense attorney, Hanni Fakhoury, on the newest edition of Line Noise, the EFF podcast. Whether law enforcement wants to search your home computer, tries to browse through your smart phone at a traffic stop, or seeks...
Jan 27, 2012 | Abuses of Power
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton exits a limousine. AP State Department dominates the limo count, says purchases reflect need to protect diplomats and foreign visitors in a dangerous world By Joe Eaton 2:00 am, May 31, 2011 Updated: 1:03 pm, August 29, 2011...
Jan 27, 2012 | Video, WAR: By Design
Jan 27, 2012 | Events & Assassinations, Video
The Official Account of the Fukushima Disaster On March 11, 2011, a massive earthquake struck off the Pacific coast of Japan, followed by a devastating tsunami that overwhelmed the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The event was rated a magnitude 9.0 by the...
