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None So Brave – “De Oppresso Liber”

“De Oppresso Liber”

(To Liberate the Oppressed) ~~Motto of the U.S. Army Special Forces

A poignant Afghan proverb declares,

“Cowards cause harm to brave men.”

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International Day of Non-Violence at UN organised by INDIA, who has ISRAEL as major arms supplier…the irony

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (third from right) shares a moment with Subrahmanyam Jaishankar (second from right), Foreign Secretary of India, during the International Day of Non-Violence, organized by the Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations. Also pictured, Mogens Lykketoft (right), President of the seventieth session of the General Assembly, and Abul Maal Abdul Muhith, Minister of Finance of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh.
02 October 2015
United Nations, New York
Photo # 647956

Source: United Nations Photo


Ironically, while India is promoting “International Day of Non-Violence”, Israel-India’s arms supplier- continues to ignore the United Nations Security Council’s request Continue reading International Day of Non-Violence at UN organised by INDIA, who has ISRAEL as major arms supplier…the irony

Vanishing Acts: A Call for Disappearing Delivery Vehicles

Program aims to develop systems that deliver the goods, then poof out of existence

outreach@darpa.mil 10/9/2015 ICARUS

It sounds like an engineering fantasy, or maybe an episode from Mission Impossible: A flock of small, single-use, unpowered delivery vehicles dropped from an aircraft, each of which literally vanishes after landing and delivering food or medical supplies to an isolated village during an epidemic or disaster.  And it would be nothing more than a fantasy, were it not that the principle behind disappearing materials has already been proven. Continue reading Vanishing Acts: A Call for Disappearing Delivery Vehicles

‘Israel is a terrorist state’

In addition to mass arrests at demonstrations, Israeli police made a series of unlawful “preventive arrests” of political activists [Reuters]

Palestinian citizens of Israel are angered by Israel’s restrictions on access to al-Aqsa and Palestinian casualties.

Jonathan Cook | 12 Oct 2015 09:57 GMT |

Nazareth –  The violence rocking the occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem and now Gaza is on the verge of spilling into Israel, Palestinian leaders in Israel warned.

A wave of unrest has swept Palestinian towns in Israel over recent days, with repeated clashes with Israeli police in Nazareth, Jaffa, Lod, Ramle, Taibeh, Sakhnin, Rahat, Kfar Qassem and elsewhere. Dozens of protesters have been arrested. Continue reading ‘Israel is a terrorist state’

NATO – deploys. What’s the real story here!

Jens Stoltenberg
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg speaks at a joint news conference during a defense minister meeting at NATO headquarters in Brussels. (John Thys / AFP/Getty Images)

8/10/15

But what is going on in the background.  Continue reading NATO – deploys. What’s the real story here!

Neutron Bomb – (Nuclear) bunker buster back in May 2015

An American, mini Nuclear, bomb used by Israel on a non nuclear country, Yemen?

Continue reading Neutron Bomb – (Nuclear) bunker buster back in May 2015

Did Israel just use new Bunker Buster to bomb Iranian Missile Base in Yemen?

April 25, 2015

Editor’s Note…One of the Internet’s best independent analysts, Thomas Wictor, who specializes in Open Source Battle damage assessment, believes this may be the case: The Israelis and\or their Saudi allies have managed to come up with a roughly comparable substitute to the American MOAB Bunker Buster and have managed to convert a Boeing 707 tanker to a weaponized platform to carry such bombs. Continue reading Did Israel just use new Bunker Buster to bomb Iranian Missile Base in Yemen?

Triton unmanned aircraft deploys 2017

Navy's Triton unmanned aircraft completes 1st cross-country flight

(U.S. Navy photo by Kelly Schindler/Released)

The MQ-4C Triton unmanned aircraft system approaches the runway at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md., after completing its inaugural cross-country flight from California. The Navy will conduct Triton flight tests at Patuxent River in preparation for an operational deployment in 2017.

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F/A-18F Super Hornet prepares to launch

'Jolly Rogers' Super Hornet prepares to launch from USS Harry S. Truman
(U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman B. Siens/Released)

150923-N-DZ642-036 ATLANTIC OCEAN (Sept. 23, 2015)

An F/A-18F Super Hornet, assigned to the “Jolly Rogers” of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 103, Continue reading F/A-18F Super Hornet prepares to launch

F-16 Fighting Falcon takes off

Operation Inherent Resolve
(U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Krystal Ardrey /Released)

An F-16 Fighting Falcon takes off from Incirlik Air Base, Turkey, in support of Operation Inherent Resolve Aug. 12, 2015. Continue reading F-16 Fighting Falcon takes off

US Army hosts largest-ever Network Integration Evaluation

Army hosts largest-ever, joint-combined network exercise

US Army hosts largest-ever, joint-combined network exercise by  David Vergun

The Network Integration Evaluation, or NIE 16.1, which takes place, Sept. 25 through Oct. 8, 2015, will be the largest NIE ever, since the exercises started in 2011.  Joint partners as well as more than a dozen NATO countries will participate, along with Australia and New Zealand. Continue reading US Army hosts largest-ever Network Integration Evaluation