Topic: War and Peace - on September 26, 2007 at 10:26:00 AM CEST
Burma monks march as police act
Several thousand Burmese monks and other protesters have begun a new march in Rangoon despite a baton charge by police at the city's holiest shrine.
Police charged the crowd outside the Shwedagon Pagoda as demonstrators met for a ninth day of marching and warning shots were fired at another site.
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Topic: War and Peace - on June 19, 2007 at 3:17:00 PM CEST
US Army funds hydrogen-fuelled drone aircraft
Fuelled by a seemingly inexhaustible stream of federal military/security research cash, the US flying-robot industry seems to produce fresh wonders every day.
We've seen Terminator-esque Flying HKs, droid gunships, and self-piloting special-forces whisper-copters.
Today's robot-related news reveals yet another new twist: the US Army Space and Missile Defense Command has put $6.2m into the "Orion" High Altitude, Long Loiter (HALL) aircraft. The Orion's special sauce is its hydrogen-powered engine, which gives it the ability to operate at 65,000 feet - some 12 miles up - and stay there for better than four days.
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Topic: War and Peace - on May 26, 2007 at 10:41:00 AM CEST
Stop the Clash of Civilizations
Avaaz.org (Avaaz means "voice" or "song" in Hindi, Urdu, Farsi, and other langauges) is a community of global citizens who take action on major issues around the world. We have members in every country on earth, and operate in twelve languages. Our aim is to ensure that the views and values of the world's people--and not just political elites and unaccountable corporations--shape global decisions.
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Topic: War and Peace - on May 5, 2007 at 5:11:00 PM CEST
Saved by the bomb
Satirical opinion piece from ex-Python Terry Jones. Worth reading for the reader's comments.
Not safe for Americans.
"Campaigning in Oklahoma the other day, the Republican senator John McCain was asked what should be done about Iran. He responded by singing, "Bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb Iran", to the tune of the Beach Boys' Barbara Ann. (Join the hilarity and see for yourself on YouTube.) How can any thinking person disagree? I mean, any country with a president who doesn't shave properly and never wears a tie deserves what's coming to it - a lot of American bombs, with a few British ones thrown in to ensure we don't miss out on the ensuing upsurge in terrorism."
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Topic: War and Peace - on May 2, 2007 at 11:43:00 AM CEST
Who Killed Cryptome.org?
It's the one secret radical open information activist John Young can't crack: what drove his ISP, Verio/NTT, to finally pull the plug on his website, Cryptome.org, where for years he's posted every sensitive document, photo or map he could get his hands on.
Young -- a 72-year-old architect in New York -- has hosted countless government documents with the "For Official Use Only" markings intact; exposed the names of long-ago CIA collaborators; the alleged identities of current British intelligence agents; compiled a travelogue-style guide to the Pennsylvania mountain believed to be the vice president's "undisclosed location"; and even put up a map showing where major Manhattan gas pipelines are buried, which he posted ahead of the Republican National Convention in New York.
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Topic: War and Peace - on March 21, 2007 at 5:11:00 PM CET
Posters of Black Panther Newspaper Covers
Bobby Seale has made available 50 posters of the Black Panther Newspaper covers. The size of the posters is 11 1/2" x 17".
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Topic: War and Peace - on September 14, 2004 at 6:25:00 PM CEST
NATO-Kommandantur "vergisst" polnische Soldaten
Polnische Soldaten hatten es in den vergangenen Tagen nicht leicht. Die NATO-Kommandantur hatte nämlich den Armeeangehörigen vergessen mitzuteilen, dass die geplante Truppenübung in Aserbaidschan abgesagt worden war.
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Topic: War and Peace - on April 25, 2004 at 6:08:00 PM CEST
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Topic: War and Peace - on April 24, 2004 at 3:57:00 PM CEST
Engineers develop Liquid Body Armor
Liquid armor for Kevlar vests is one of the newest technologies being developed at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory to save Soldiers' lives.
This type of body armor is light and flexible, which allows soldiers to be more mobile and won't hinder an individual from running or aiming his or her weapon.
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Topic: War and Peace - on April 24, 2004 at 2:28:00 PM CEST
361 photos released under the Freedom of Information Act
Dover AFB gallery
A website has published dozens of photographs of American war dead arriving at the country's largest military mortuary, leading the Pentagon to order an information crackdown.
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Topic: War and Peace - on April 24, 2004 at 2:26:00 PM CEST
Woman fired by military contractor for published photograph of flag-draped U.S. coffins
A military contractor fired two cargo workers responsible for a photograph of flag-draped coffins of U.S. soldiers that appeared on a newspaper's front page.
Maytag Aircraft Corp. fired Tami Silicio, 50, and her husband, David Landry, because they ''violated Department of Defense and company policies by working together'' to take and publish the photograph, company president William Silva said in a news release Thursday.
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Topic: War and Peace - on November 20, 2003 at 2:16:00 PM CET
100,000 to march against Bush
Tens of thousands of anti-Bush protesters were converging on London today in a show of anti-American and anti-war feeling. Hundreds of coaches from across the country set off for the capital from first light, carrying a broad spectrum of people yet to be convinced the US President can bring peace to Iraq.
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