December 2018 archive

The Future Is Now: AI For Evil Vs AI For Good Authored by Brian Wallace via Hackernoon.com, The explosive growth in artificial intelligence capabilities is thanks to the ingenuity of human beings. Building machines to take over positions in service industries from construction to retail is a big step for technology and an even bigger …

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Europe Losing Appetite On Russia Sanctions As Banks Remain Skittish Nearly five years after the Crimean crisis and subsequent western sanctions on Russia, Europe is increasingly “losing the appetite for punishing actions against Moscow,” writes Bloomberg in a new report suggesting investors are impatiently waiting for clarity on Russia as its economy enters bunker mode. …

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US Navy Contractors Hacked by China "More Than A Handful Of Times" Over the last 18 months, Chinese hackers breached several unidentified Navy contractors, stealing large amounts of data related to undersea warfare, including top-secret programs to develop supersonic anti-ship missiles for submarines, officials and experts said, triggering top-to-bottom review of cyber vulnerabilities for the Navy. Navy Secretary Richard Spencer …

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Russia Continues Military Build-Up On Disputed Islands Claimed By Japan Ahead Of PM's Visit Russia has signaled it will continue its controversial build-up of defensive fortifications on a disputed chain of islands near Japan at a time when the United States is increasingly active in the region and has maintained a stance in recent years …

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Visualizing The West's Domination Of The Global Arms Market Overall, arms sales increased in 2017, with total global sales nearing 400 billion dollars, marking a 2.5 percent increase from last year and the third year of continued growth for the industry. But, as Statista’s Sarah Feldman points out, U.S. arms companies still produce the most weapons worldwide. …

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Escobar: How The New Silk Roads Are Merging Into Greater Eurasia Authored by Pepe Escobar via The Asia Times, Russia is keen to push economic integration with parts of Asia and this fits in with China’s Belt and Road Initiative… The concept of Greater Eurasia has been discussed at the highest levels of Russian academia …

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The War Against Globalism Authored by Philip Giraldi via The Strategic Culture Foundation, We are the Little Folk—we! Too little to love or to hate. Leave us alone and you’ll see How we can drag down the State! A Pict Song, Rudyard Kipling Belgium has joined the list of countries that are rebelling against their …

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US Army Tests New Robotic Assistant Pack-Mule For Combat Zones The 10th Mountain Division (light infantry) based at Fort Drum, New York, is a mountain warfare unit testing a new a robotic pack-mule that can haul more than 1,000 pounds of equipment, weapons, fuel, and or ammunition, tremendously lightening the load for soldiers. “These guys go through pretty rough …

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Meet The New Merkel, Same As The Old Merkel Authored by Tom Luongo, So Angela Merkel is out as leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).  In comes Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, Merkel’s close ally who won the party’s support with a very narrow victory over more conservative Friedrich Merz. The goal , as always in Europe, was …

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"Stronghold Of Evil" – Russia Slams America's Illegal Syrian Occupation On Tuesday a top Russian military official slammed the United States for “illegally occupying” a massive zone in southwest Syria surrounding the American garrison of al-Tanf, effectively protecting some 6,000 armed militants that Russia has designated terrorists.  The Head of Russia’s National Defense Control Center, …

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