Posts filed under 'Weapons Systems'
Not content with dominion over the human species, the U.S. will now employ and lord over sharks in gruesome experiments that will no doubt have environmental groups up in arms.
They want to remotely control the sharks by implanting electrodes in their brains, The New Scientist says.
It says the aim is “to exploit sharks’ natural ability [...]
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March 3rd, 2006
Björn Hallberg
More information on the resignation of Veterans Affairs Secretary Anthony Principi and the relationship to the over-up of the effects of depleted uranium.
In the article Arthur Bernklau, executive director of Veterans for Constitutional Law, reportedly wrote that “thousands of our military have suffered and died from, [and depleted uranium] has finally been identified as the [...]
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February 27th, 2006
Björn Hallberg
Shocking new revelations about the consequences of the widespread use of Depleted Uranium. Part of the “smog of war” as it were.
SFBayView - “Military men are just dumb stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.” - Henry Kissinger, quoted in “Kiss the Boys Goodbye: How the United States Betrayed Its Own POW’s [...]
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January 24th, 2006
Björn Hallberg
Apparently Pentagon used to refer to WP as a chemical weapon, as long as Saddam was thought to have deployed the weapon. Funny how things are twisted and turned.
Thinkprogress - To downplay the political impact of revelations that U.S. forces used deadly white phosphorus rounds against Iraqi insurgents in Falluja last year, Pentagon officials have [...]
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November 25th, 2005
Björn Hallberg
Well, the U.S. continues to deploy questionable weapons under questionable circumstances. Essentially making Iraq a scene for the arms industry to test their latest products and for depraved people to have good jingoistic laugh about it. Not to mention falling over themselves to justify the slaughter. The comments to the Defense Tech story is a [...]
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November 16th, 2005
Björn Hallberg
Would have posted this yesterday because of its urgency but there was a server glitch. Anyway. Also reported by BBC and Daily KOS. As far as I can tell though this is going virtually unreported on the US mainland. Something for next year’s Project Censored perhaps?
Independent - Powerful new evidence emerged yesterday that the United [...]
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November 9th, 2005
Björn Hallberg
One of the most heinous acts of all time.
Hiroshima today marked the 60th anniversary of the world’s first atomic bomb attack.
Vowing to never allow a repeat of his city’s tragedy, Hiroshima’s mayor called on the nuclear powers to abandon their arsenals and stop “jeopardising human survival.”
One should also remember that the suffering is still going [...]
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August 6th, 2005
Björn Hallberg
Or so says World Net Daily, your new favourite right-wing rag.
The Washington Post is running today an “undisclosed sources” article designed to surface a supposedly new “National Intelligence Estimate” that says Iran is 10 years away from having an atomic bomb. Here we go again. The leftist mainstream media has launched its own pre-emptive attack [...]
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August 3rd, 2005
Björn Hallberg
Too explosive for US television, that is one way to describe the new UN campaign against landmines. Well explosive and too graphical or not people need to pay attention. Landmines are among the most cowardly and dishonourable scourges that have ever been added to the military arsenal. And these types of ads have proven very [...]
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March 8th, 2005
Björn Hallberg
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