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See the immense area destroyed by a nuclear firestorm

BOOM. http://www.nucleardarkness.org/nuclear/nuclearexplosionsimulator/... more

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Bomb Material Cache Uncovered in Afghanistan

With fertilizer bombs now the most lethal weapons used against American and NATO... more

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Badass of The Day; Dojo of the Four Winds

"In the absence of the warrior-protector, the only way that a government can protect a... more

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Are Violent Video Games Preparing Kids For The Apocalypse?

You can never be too prepared! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTbYUd1jUc4

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Iran tested advanced nuclear warhead design – secret report

Looks like the US wasn't so wrong about Iran developing nuclear weapons...now multiple... more

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720 grenades in 60 secs

War weapons are taken seriously and the MetalStorm 3GL grenade launcher proves this.... more

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Israelis 'seize Iran arms ship'

Israel's navy has intercepted a ship carrying hundreds of tonnes of weapons 160km (100... more

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Weapons technology: Top 10 articles from 2008

It's the stuff of science fiction: robots that can hunt down and kill humans, powerful... more

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Thief stuffs "special weapon" ferret down trousers

A thief stole a ferret from a pet shop in Florida by stuffing the live animal down his... more

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STARSHIP DIMENSIONS

Interactive and Comparative Starship Sizes From Multiple Sources

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Chinese War Games: Raw Video

China says its army is ready for upcoming joint military exercises with Russia, aimed... more

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SUV The Russian Way; Cult of The SUV

We had once a story about a Russian guy who has turned the military vehicle into a... more

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Lil Wayne Goes to Jail

YO!Blogger discusses the news of Lil Wayne going to prison after being found guilty of... more

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Fuel-Thirsty U.S. Navy Pledges 50% Cut in Oil Use by 2020, and More

The United States Navy is taking a big leap forward in "greening" its 50,000-strong,... more

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Are We the Martians of the Twenty-First Century?

War of the worlds hits Kabul.

An unremarkable paragraph in a piece in my hometown paper recently caught my eye. It was headlined "White House Believes Karzai Will Be Re-elected," but in mid-report Helene Cooper and Mark Landler of the New York Times turned to Afghan War commander General Stanley McChrystal's "redeployment option." Here's the humdrum paragraph in question: "The redeployment option calls for moving troops from sparsely populated and lawless areas of the countryside to urban areas, including Kandahar and Kabul. Many rural areas 'would be better left to Predators,' said an administration official, referring to drone aircraft."

In other words, the United States may now be represented in the Afghan countryside, as it already is in the tribal areas on the Pakistani side of the border, mainly by Predators and their even more powerful cousins, Reapers, unmanned aerial vehicles with names straight out of a sci-fi film about implacable aliens. If you happen to be an Afghan villager in some underpopulated part of that country where the U.S. has set up small bases—two of which were almost overrun recently—they will be gone and "America" will instead be soaring overhead. We're talking about planes without human beings in them tirelessly scanning the ground with their cameras for up to 22 hours at a stretch. Launched from Afghanistan but flown by pilots thousands of miles away in the American West, they are armed with two to four Hellfire missiles or the equivalent in 500-pound bombs.

To see Earth from the heavens, that's the classic viewpoint of the superior being or god with the ultimate power of life and death. Zeus, that Greek god of gods, used lightning bolts to strike down humans who offended him. We use missiles and bombs. Zeus had the knowledge of a god. We have "intelligence," often fallible (or score-settling). His weapon of choice destroyed one individual. Ours take out anyone in the vicinity.

He made his decisions from Mount Olympus; we make ours from places like Creech Air Force Base outside Las Vegas, and Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona. Those about whom we make life-and-death decisions, as they scurry below or carry on as best they can, have—like any beings faced with the gods—no recourse or appeal. Seen on screens, they are, to us, distant, grainy figures, hardly larger than ants. This is what implacable means.

Continued at link . . .War of the worlds hits Kabul. An unremarkable paragraph in a piece in my hometown... more

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Israel's nukes and Iran

Beneath the hype Pt.3: McGovern & Thielmann on consequences of US silence on Israel's... more

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6-year-old with weapon suspended for 45 days

Zachary Christie is a six-year old student in Newark, Delaware who is facing 45 days... more

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Former marine becomes face of new Vieques battle

The headaches began just after Hermogenes Marrero arrived on Vieques, the small Puerto Rican island where the young U.S. Marine guarded stores of Cold War-era chemical weapons.

The retired sergeant, now 57 and terminally ill with cancer and other ailments, blames exposure to toxins released while he was stationed there from 1970 to 1972. By coming forward to support similar claims by island residents, he has become the public face of a new and bitter battle over Vieques, the Navy bombing range-turned-tourist destination off the U.S. territory's east coast.

"I've been sick since I left Vieques," said the wheelchair-bound Marrero, who now lives in an apartment cramped with life-support equipment in this small town in northwestern Puerto Rico.

Marrero is a key witness in a lawsuit seeking billions of dollars in compensation for illnesses that past and current Vieques residents have linked to the bombing range, where the U.S. and its allies trained for conflicts from Vietnam to Iraq.

The range closed in 2003 after years of protests over the environmental risks and the death of a Puerto Rican civilian guard who was killed in 1999 by an errant bomb. Many had long complained about clouds of smoke and dust wafting toward populated areas and explosions echoing across the hilly, 18-mile-long island of less than 10,000 people.

The U.S. has denied any link between illnesses and weapons that rained down on the island for six decades. With independent studies suggesting otherwise, however, a federal health agency recently began a new analysis of the situation.

Marrero, who was born in Puerto Rico and grew up in New York City, has had colon cancer twice. He is losing his vision and suffers from more than dozen other illnesses, including Lou Gehrig's disease, that he believes are lingering effects of his 18 months at Camp Garcia. He said he was recently diagnosed with a new bout of cancer that is inoperable in part because of a lung disease that requires him to stay on oxygen around the clock.

He is not party to the lawsuit because it is limited to Vieques residents, and involves more than 7,000 of them. But he has been fighting his own battle to have his ailments recognized as service casualties.

The chemicals he handled included canisters labeled "112" — a reference, he later surmised, to the secret Project 112 program that tested chemical and biological agents and was declassified by the Pentagon earlier this decade.

During some of the tests, he said, the military assessed how long it took an aerosol spray of chemicals to kill animals such as tethered goats. Though superiors said he was a safe distance from the tests, he was overwhelmed by a smell like roach spray every time he opened the door to the chemical warehouses. He said he vomited constantly.

"I asked 'How dangerous is that stuff? I'm watching animals drop dead,'" Marrero said. "They told me I'd be fine."

The military also experimented with napalm, depleted uranium and agent orange, besides the millions of pounds of ordnance that Navy aircraft and ships dropped annually on Vieques. A cleanup began in 2005 to clear thousands of unexploded munitions from the former training range site that is now a Fish and Wildlife Service refuge, and the island has placed new emphasis on tourism.

The Mississippi attorney for the plaintiffs in the Vieques lawsuit, John Eaves Jr., said Marrero's account is crucial to understanding the legacy of contamination.The headaches began just after Hermogenes Marrero arrived on Vieques, the small Puerto... more

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Beneath the hype: Is Iran close to nukes? Pt.2

Iraq whistle-blower Greg Thielmann: Military threats may push Iran to restart... more

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See the immense area destroyed by a nuclear firestorm

Bomb Material Cache Uncovered in Afghanistan

Badass of The Day; Dojo of the Four Winds

Are Violent Video Games Preparing Kids For The Apocalypse?

Iran tested advanced nuclear warhead design – secret report

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Israelis 'seize Iran arms ship'

Weapons technology: Top 10 articles from 2008

Thief stuffs "special weapon" ferret down trousers

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Fuel-Thirsty U.S. Navy Pledges 50% Cut in Oil Use by 2020, and More

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6-year-old with weapon suspended for 45 days

Former marine becomes face of new Vieques battle

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