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“Any war at the turning point of technological epochs ( and we are just in a state of such transition) is burdened by a lack of understanding of the principles of operation of new weapons and tactics of their use, as well as the overall strategy of the entire complex of military and political actions.” There’s been an increasing realization and acknowledgement from all sides, that the current conflict has shaken the foundations of a lot of doctrinal military theory, and the very understandings of how strategy and tactics are employed in a modern ISR-dense (C4ISR) and observation/integration/network-centric-dominated battlefield. This...

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is set to head to Asia next week. One of the topics she will be promoting is a potential cap on Russian oil prices. The Russian oil price cap was one of the main items on the G7 agenda during last month’s meeting of the world’s biggest economies... Yellen will participate in the G20 meeting of finance ministers in Indonesia and also travel to Tokyo and Seoul to make a case for an oil price cap. China is not on her itinerary... The Prime Minister of Japan, Fumio Kishida, suggested earlier this month that the...

Fly me to the Moon, let me swim among the starsWater molecules have been detected in soil in one of the Moon's largest sunlit craters, NASA announced on Monday, which means permanent bases on the natural satellite may be potentially a lot easier to support. The discovery was made using a telescope onboard NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) – a modified Boeing 747 capable of flying 45,000 feet above our planet. The airborne 'scope spied what may well be water in the Clavius crater, which is visible from Earth, located in the southern hemisphere, and, coincidentally, the site...

Video at URL. Lots more hotspots occurred yesterday along the New Madrid fault zone, stretching down into Louisiana. I believe he first noticed hot spots occurring on the New Madrid on 10/4. Also hot spots occurring at the Washibngton Idaho border. Dutchsinse believes that hot spots appearing on the Short Infra Red spectrum is an indication of seismic stress could be an early indicator of earthquakes.

Video at URL.. Swarm of Hotspots popping up on New Madrid seismic zone. Also hot spots on Wabash seismic zone. DEW (directed energy weapon) pointed at the New Madrid zone. Also examines some hot spots in NY and IL. Issued a watch for the New Madrid for the next 7 days. Says the DEW signature can either be a HOAX in the official government data, or a mistake or the real thing. Says a mistake is kind of ruled out by the presense of the hot spots in the same location. Leaving hoax or the real thing.

Most people assume that the fourteenth-century Black Death that quickly ravaged the western world was a bacterial bubonic plague epidemic caused by flea bites and spread by rats. But the Black Death killed a high proportion of Scandinavians where it was too cold for fleas to survive. Biology of Plagues. Evidence from Historical Populations published by Cambridge University Press, analyzed 2,500 years of plagues and concluded that the Black Death was caused by a viral hemorrhagic fever pandemic similar to Ebola. If this is correct, the future medical and economic impacts from Ebola have been vastly underestimated.  Authors Dr. Susan Scott, a demographer,...

I am no Ron Paul nut case, but I do come across a bunch of people that believe the TSA running checkpoints is un-Constitutional under the 4th amendment. Even if I could be convinced that is the case, I certainly wouldn't want to do away with airport security. Is there any case where the government should do something un-Constitutional without the Supreme Court stepping? Is airport screening that case or would it be considered reasonable search and seizure?