- Boing Boing: Amazing "Mad Max" vehicles in Iraq
"There's a soldier in Iraq who's been posting some crazy pictures of American SUVs and pickup trucks that have been modified by civilian security contractors for use as gun trucks. They're insane, in a 'Mad Max at the Wal-Mart parking lot' kind of way."
in Public bookmarks - gladwell dot com - the pima paradox
The Pima are famous now--famous for being fatter than any other group in the world, with the exception only of the Nauru islanders of the West Pacific. Among those over thirty- five on the reservation, the rate of diabetes, the disease most closely associated with obesity, is fifty per cent, eight times the national average and a figure unmatched in medical history. It is not unheard of in Sacaton for adults to weigh five hundred pounds, for teen-agers to be suffering from diabetes, or for relatively young men and women to be already disabled by the disease--to be blind, to have lost a limb, to be confined to a wheelchair, or to be dependent on kidney dialysis.
in Public bookmarks - Heliocentrism is an Atheist Doctrine « Blogs 4 Brownback
What’s even worse than the debate raging in American schools about the teaching of the soulless doctrine of evolution, is the non-debate over an issue that rational Americans have foolishly conceded to the secular among us: the issue of Heliocentrism, or the idea that the Earth revolves around the Sun.
in Public bookmarks - John Paul Vann as a Metaphor for U.S. Involvement in Vietnam, p. 2 of 7
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Harry Kreisler interviews Neil Sheehan on covering the Vietnam War; November 1988
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in Public bookmarks - Bringing Down the House - Evan Philipson University of Pennsylvania
The Causes and Effects of the Decline of Personal Relationships in the U.S. House of Representatives - viewcontent.cgi
in Public bookmarks - Britain and the US are poor societies with some very rich people When it comes to average household incomes, the UK may soon ne
Please use the sharing tools found via the share button at the top or side of articles. Copying articles to share with others is a breach of FT.com T&Cs and Copyright Policy. Email licensing@ft.com to buy additional rights. Subscribers may share up to 10 or 20 articles per month using the gift article service. More information can be found at https://www.ft.com/tour. https://www.ft.com/content/ef265420-45e8-497b-b308-c951baa68945 Where would you rather live? A society where the rich are extraordinarily rich and the poor are very poor, or one where the rich are merely very well off but even those on the lowest incomes also enjoy a decent standard of living?
in Public bookmarks - Casualties Due to the Blast, Heat, and Radioactive Fallout from Various Hypothetical Nuclear Attacks on the United States
The Medical Implications of Nuclear War - NCBI Bookshelf We have developed the tools for calculating the deaths and injuries due to blast, thermal effects, and local fallout from hypothetical nuclear attacks on the United States. This is the first time that the capability to do such consequence calculations has existed outside the (mostly classified) government domain. We have used this capability to explore the sensitivities of the consequences of a nuclear attack to various assumptions. The first was the sensitivity to the types of targets involved. We examined three different hypothetical ''limited" nuclear attacks on the United States, each involving a 1-megaton (Mt) airburst over approximately 100 targets of three different types: The city centers
in Public bookmarks - CNASReport-CarrierAirWing-151016.pdf RETREAT FROM RANGE The Rise and Fall of Carrier Aviation By Dr. Jerry Hendrix
Over the past 20 years naval aviation in the United States has undergone a dramatic change in focus and capabilities, and not for the better. Its historical and traditional focus on long-range capabilities and the deep strike mission has been overtaken by a concentration on lower maintenance costs and higher aircraft sortie generation rates. American power and permissive environments were assumed following the end of the Cold War, but the rise of new powers, including China and its pursuit of anti-access/area-denial (A2/AD) strategies and capabilities to include the carrier-killing 1,000 nautical mile (nm) range Dong Feng-21 anti-ship ballistic missile, now threatens to push the Navy back beyond the range of its carrier air wings.
in Public bookmarks - Leo Szilard Online | ATOMIC BOMB DECISION (Hiroshima-Nagasaki)
Documents on the decision to use the atomic bomb are reproduced here in full-text form (transcribed by Gene Dannen), and also as images. In most cases, the originals are in the U.S. National Archives. Other aspects of the decision are shown from accounts by the participants.
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Note: foreignpolicy.com/2013/05/30/the-bomb-didnt-beat-japan-stalin-did thediplomat.com/2015/08/was-nuclear-weapon-use-in-hiroshima-really-a-turning-point-in-world-war-ii foreignpolicy.com/2015/08/05/stalin_japan_hiroshima_occupation_hokkaido thediplomat.com/2014/08/how-hiroshima-and-nagasaki-saved-mil ...morelions-of-lives foreignpolicy.com/2015/08/06/magical-thinking-and-the-real-power-of-hiroshima-nuclear-weapons-japan thediplomat.com/2016/05/what-if-the-united-states-had-told-the-soviet-union-about-the-bomb - pollkatz: polls
in Public bookmarks - Smedley Butler on Interventionism
Excerpt from a speech delivered in 1933, by Major General Smedley Butler, USMC: War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses. I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. If a nation comes over here to fight, then we'll fight. The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100 percent. Then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag. I wouldn't go to war again as I have done to protect some lousy investment of the bankers.
in Public bookmarks - Steve Bannon: This Man Is the Most Dangerous Political Operative in America
It’s nearing midnight as Steve Bannon pushes past the bluegrass band in his living room and through a crowd of Republican congressmen, political operatives, and a few stray Duck Dynasty cast members. He’s trying to make his way back to the SiriusXM Patriot radio show, broadcasting live from a cramped corner of the 14-room townhouse he occupies a stone’s throw from the Supreme Court. It’s late February, the annual Conservative Political Action Conference is in full swing, and Bannon, as usual, is the whirlwind at the center of the action.
in Public bookmarks - the National Security Archive: The Robert Gates File: The Iran-Contra Scandal, 1991 Confirmation Hearings, and Excerpts
Washington D.C., November 10, 2006 - Bush administration nominee for Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates had a long career in government which showed a notable combination of ambition and caution, according to a new book by Archive senior analyst John Prados [Safe for Democracy: The Secret Wars of the CIA (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2006)] which deals with Gates among its much wider coverage of the agency since its inception. As Director of Central Intelligence in the immediate aftermath of the Cold War, Gates faced criticism for moving slowly with reforming the agency for the new era, and thus missing a moment of extraordinary opportunity that occurred at that time. In earlier posts at top levels of the CIA, Gates figured in the Iran-Contra affair, in which he
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