Category Archives: War and not War

To war or not to war – that is the question

Changing Seats at the White House

Posted on April 27, 2011 by Fred Stiening

NY Times reporting DoD Gates is leaving (announced previously) Leon Panetta is moving from CIA to head the Department of Wars. General Petraeus (known as General Betray US in the Democratic Caucus) will head the CIA.

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WSJ: Sony informing customers of data loss

Posted on April 26, 2011 by Fred Stiening

Sony’s Play Station network has 75 million accounts. They indicate a unauthorized person may have acquired the names, addresses. Credit card numbers and expiration date of it’s customers. When the people in the media read that, they think “hacked”, the … Continue reading →

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Did the Belarus Government bomb itself?

Posted on April 26, 2011 by Fred Stiening

If you’ve read for a while, you know one of my “missions” is to go back and follow up on news stories that have exceeded the attention span of the American Media Machine, which is when you often find out … Continue reading →

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Call of Duty / Black ops

Posted on April 26, 2011 by Fred Stiening

If a picture is worth 1,000 words, then a video is worth…

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War in Asia – Open Thread

Posted on April 25, 2011 by Fred Stiening

Your turn. If you’ve spotted a new war breaking out that doesn’t have it’s own thread or category, this is the place to let us know.

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War in Europe – Open Thread

Posted on April 25, 2011 by Fred Stiening

Of course, this is no war in Europe.

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Millions of teenage boys ready for war

Posted on April 25, 2011 by Fred Stiening

Sony has announced that the Play Station Network will be shutdown indefinitely. The cause of the shutdown is currently vague, but generally described as an intrusion that compromised the integrity of the network, including access to developer’s systems. Some fingers … Continue reading →

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Italy and France call for reinstating Borders within EU

Posted on April 25, 2011 by Fred Stiening

Events are moving very fast now. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/25/sarkozy-berlusconi-border-controls-europe This is signalling the defacto end of the E.U.    Once people who are inside the E.U. have to get permission to leave their country, it is no longer the E.U. This is exactly … Continue reading →

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Sanctions for Syria! Cease Fire or else! Don’t you know who I am???

Posted on April 25, 2011 by Fred Stiening

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2011/04/president-obama-considering-new-sanctions-against-syria.html Good thing President Reagan never took apart the Selective Service. We’ll see how quickly our migrant immigrants from South of the Border suddenly don’t want to be subject to the U.S. Military draft and return home.

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Proportionate Response

Posted on April 25, 2011 by Fred Stiening

The doctrine of Proportionate Response goes something like this:  You hit me, I hit you back.   You hit me harder, I hit you harder.   You impose a cost for attacking, but don’t escalate.    Ronald Reagan was a big advocate of … Continue reading →

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