USAID Squandered The First $50 Million Of A $200 Million Infrastructure...
USAID, an enormous component of the U.S. mission in Afghanistan, is squandering its budget for a key stability program, this according to a new report from the special inspector general for Afghan...
View ArticleHear The Control Tower Audio From Last Year's Virginia Beach F/A-18 Hornet...
On Apr. 6, 2012, a U.S. Navy F/A-18D Hornet crashed into Mayfair Mews Apartments off of Fleming Drive, Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA.Both pilots ejected safely and, fortunately, no one was killed in...
View ArticleHere's A Quick Breakdown Of Russia's Massive Military Exercise
A week ago, the Russian military completed the largest spot check exercise it has conducted since 1991. The MOD has put out some information on the scale and units involved. The slides were helpfully...
View ArticleHackers Have Already Cracked The UK Porn Filter
United Kingdom Prime Minister David Cameron's orders regarding a hardcore porn filter had hardly finished echoing through mass media when hackers released a way around the filter."It’s called...
View ArticleExperts Warn Of Disastrous Consequences To Huge Iraqi Jail Break
Counterterrorism and intelligence professionals are having difficulty coming to terms with the significance of the Al Qaeda jailbreak in Iraq that occurred early last week, reports Eli Lake of The...
View ArticleSoldier's Son Recounts The Horrors And Heroism Of The Korean War
Saturday marked the 60th anniversary of the armistice that ended America’s “forgotten war,” the 3½ years of fighting on the Korean Peninsula that for many Americans is remembered as a few pages in...
View ArticleRead The Late Bud Day's Incredible Medal Of Honor Citation
Col. George "Bud" Day, a veteran of three wars and a recipient for the highest award for military gallantry, passed away over the weekend, his wife confirmed to CBS News. He was 88 years of age.Day...
View ArticleUS Spends $24 Million On Totally Ineffective Cuban ‘Propaganda Plane'
It's difficult to find a more wasteful government program.For the last six years, the U.S. government has spent more than $24 million to fly a plane around Cuba and beam American-sponsored TV...
View ArticleThe Bradley Manning Verdict Will Be Revealed Tomorrow, Here's What Happened...
Bradley Manning, the Army private first class who's accused of leaking hundreds of thousands of classified documents, is expected to receive his fate Tuesday.Manning allegedly perpetrated the greatest...
View ArticleRussian Business To Trademark Snowden's Image
Russian businessmen have decided to register the image of former CIA officer Edward Snowden for patent. Experts believe this is an attempt to make a quick profit on a face that has been much-touted in...
View ArticleA Pakistan Prison Holding Hundreds Of Militants Is Under Attack
A Pakistani prison holding hundreds of militants is now under attack in Dera Ismail Khan, Reuters reports.The Associated Press has two sources on the ground— an intelligence official and a local...
View ArticleHackers Could Use GPS Technology To Hijack Ships And Airplanes Worldwide
The global positioning system, or GPS, that people use every day for navigation, may actually provide an easy avenue for a terrorist attack. GPS jamming is becoming an increasing problem; GPS expert...
View ArticleSenate Confirms Obama's FBI Pick After Rand Paul Drops Fight About Drones
The US Senate on Monday confirmed President Barack Obama's pick to head the FBI at a time of heightened scrutiny of US intelligence operations.James Comey, a respected former deputy attorney general,...
View ArticleTaliban Disguised As Policemen Broke 250 Prisoners Out Of A Pakistani Jail
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (Reuters) - Taliban fighters disguised as police and armed with bombs and grenades broke 250 prisoners out of a Pakistan jail in a brazen overnight attack that undermined the...
View ArticleLocal Anti-Drone Activism Begins: 'If They Fly In Town, We Will Shoot Them Down'
The pundit Charles Krauthammer once predicted that the first American to shoot down a domestic drone will be a folk hero. Phillip Steele, a resident of Deer Trail, Colorado, wants to enable that hero....
View ArticleThree 'Hot Shot' Firefighters Had One Of The Most Moving Military Funerals We...
On July 11, family, friends, and colleagues gathered to say their final goodbyes to three firefighters who were part of the 19 Granite Mountain Hotshots who died in Arizona wildfires .Those three...
View ArticleTake A Ride On The Navy's Badass Hovercraft And Its Landing Craft Workhorse...
When the U.S. Navy wants to haul a few hundred tons of troops, material, or gear from ship to shore sailors use the Landing Craft Utility (LCU) or the Landing Craft Air Cushioned (LCAC) vehicle, a...
View ArticleThe 'Big Sandy Shoot' Is Like A Hippie Festival For Right-Wing Gun Lovers
This year's Big Sandy Shoot in Arizona, the largest organized gun shoot in the United States, featured giant mortars, 50 caliber machine guns, World War II rifles, and America's top semi-automatic...
View ArticleBradley Manning Acquitted Of 'Aiding The Enemy,' Convicted Of 19 Counts...
Bradley Manning, who orchestrated the largest leak of classified information in U.S. history, has been acquitted of the most serious charge of aiding the enemy, which carried a possible sentence of...
View ArticleRecent Prison Breaks Are Fueling Al Qaeda's Global Comeback
The recent series of prison breaks is not coincidental.In less than a week, we have 500 senior Al Qaeda leaders escape during two assaults on prisons in Iraq, more than 1,000 in a prison assault in...
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