Topic: W A R - on February 27, 2008 at 10:00:00 AM CET
The Torture Playlist
Music has been used in American military prisons and on bases to induce sleep deprivation, "prolong capture shock," disorient detainees during interrogations—and also drown out screams. Based on a leaked interrogation log, news reports, and the accounts of soldiers and detainees, here are some of the songs that guards and interrogators chose.
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Topic: W A R - on February 18, 2008 at 12:41:00 PM CET
Awesome Or Off-Putting: Britain’s Invisible Tanks
Awesome or Off-Putting is a weekly delve into cryptozoology, ufology, aliens, medical marvels, scientific wonders, secret societies, government conspiracies, cults, ghosts, EVPs, myths, ancient artifacts, religion, strange facts, odd sightings or just the plain unexplainable.
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Topic: W A R - on December 14, 2007 at 1:59:00 PM CET
Laser Gunship Revealed
During a phoner press conference, Boeing officials mentioned in passing they were working on another system that could engage ground targets. To me, this seems far more logical for such a weapon than one that's designed to knock out missiles...that mission strikes me as redundant.
Well, now it seems Boeing has taken the first step in making the laser gunship a reality by installing the weapon on a C-130H...
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Topic: W A R - on December 2, 2007 at 12:05:00 PM CET
Enigma machine in flash
The Enigma was an electro-mechanical cipher machine used by the German Military during WW II. The following links show my Enigma Simulation (done in Adobe Flash 8).
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Topic: W A R - on November 22, 2007 at 12:42:00 PM CET
Afghanistan 'falling into Taliban hands'
The Taliban has a permanent presence in 54% of Afghanistan and the country is in serious danger of falling into the group's hands, according to a report by an independent thinktank with long experience in the area.
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Topic: W A R - on November 18, 2007 at 11:49:00 AM CET
New jet fighter helmet 'sees' through floors
This ain't your papa's flight helmet. Designed for pilots of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the helm you see above will allow pilots to virtually see through the aircraft around them, giving them a wide field of view ahead and superimposing an Infrared image of the world below onto their visors at night.
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Topic: W A R - on November 18, 2007 at 11:43:00 AM CET
Metal Storm reaches Navy test range
After years of development, a new class of weapon that uses computer-controlled electronic ignition instead of primers to fire projectiles may be finally taking its much coveted place in the U.S. military inventory.
Brisbane, Australia-based Metal Storm has delivered a four-barrel weapon to the Naval Surface Warfare Center for testing that uses a small electrical current instead a conventional firing pin to deliver stacked rounds at an astounding rate.
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Topic: W A R - on November 1, 2007 at 12:49:00 PM CET
Army tests James Bond style tank that is 'invisible'
New technology that can make tanks invisible has been unveiled by the Ministry of Defence.
In secret trials last week, the Army said it had made a vehicle completely disappear and predicted that an invisible tank would be ready for service by 2012.
The new technology uses cameras and projectors to beam images of the surrounding landscape onto a tank.
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Topic: W A R - on November 1, 2007 at 12:41:00 PM CET
Environmentalists alarmed by 'mass dolphin suicide'
The mysterious "mass suicide" of 152 dolphins washed up on Iran's coast over the past month has alarmed environmentalists, with the blame pointed at regional fishing practices.
At the end of September, 79 Striped Dolphins were found washed up off the southern port of Jask in southern Iran, and last week another 73 dolphins were found dead in the same area.
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Topic: W A R - on November 1, 2007 at 12:02:00 PM CET
How We Won the War on Thai Chili Sauce
We've opened up a new front on the war on terror. It's an attack on the unique, the unorthodox, the unexpected. It's a war on different. If you act different, you might find yourself investigated, questioned and even arrested -- even if you did nothing wrong, and had no intention of doing anything wrong.
The problem is a combination of citizen informants and a CYA attitude among police that results in a knee-jerk escalation of reported threats.
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Topic: W A R - on October 28, 2007 at 1:47:00 PM CET
Pentagon: Electromagnetic pulse bombs from 2012
A presentation given by a US Air Force official may have - temporarily, at least - laid to rest one of the wilder and wackier secret superweapon conspiracy theories of recent times.
The superweapon in question is the dreaded "E-bomb", aka "Electromagnetic pulse weapon (EMP)" "High Power Microwave (HPM)" and so on, depending on the exact details.
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Topic: W A R - on October 19, 2007 at 12:59:00 PM CEST
Cyberwar: China Declares War On Western Search Sites
Further to our earlier story on visitors to Google Blogsearch being redirected to Baidu in China, new reports have surfaced that would indicate that China has unilaterally blocked all three major search engines in China and is redirecting all requests to Baidu.
Digital Marketing Blog posts that all requests to Yahoo.com and sub-sites are being redirected to Baidu. Google Blogscoped forums indicate that Live.com is also being re-directed to Baidu, as well as confirming the Yahoo story and our earlier Google post. The re-direct would also appear to apply to YouTube.com.
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