http://www.netvouz.com/emmineb/tag/usa?feed=rss emmineb's bookmarks tagged "usa" on Netvouz http://home.hamptonroads.com/stories/story.cfm?story=108115&ran=53748 <<mercenary>> <<war crime>> <<fallujah>> emmineb Fri, 28 Jul 2006 13:57:53 GMT http://www.sftt.us/HTML/article07072005a.html emmineb Sun, 20 Aug 2006 14:44:21 GMT http://thrillingwonder.blogspot.com/2007/05/supersonic-commercial-aircraft.html It all started in 1952 with small-scale studies of SST designs by Boeing, but things heated up significantly when in 1962 the governments of Britain and France decided to join efforts in the creation of a supersonic "Concorde" airplane. The intrepid Russians also came up with the Tu-144 (no less capable, but plagued by accidents). The American government nearly panicked and responded with its own program SCAT (Supersonic Commercial Air Transport) in 1963, which got endorsement from President Kennedy himself. The race for dominating supersonic airways was on. (At that time it was believed that all future commercial aircraft would be supersonic). The goal was to produce a commercial aircraft capable of carrying 250 passengers (twice as many as the Concorde) a emmineb Fri, 25 May 2007 07:29:46 GMT http://www.archive.org/details/ptc1978-11-18.flac16 An audio recording made on November 18, 1978, at the Peoples Temple compound in Jonestown, Guyana immediately preceding and during the mass suicide or murder of over 900 members of the cult. emmineb Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:07:57 GMT http://www.obleek.com/iraq/index.html Iraq War Coalition Fatalities is a chart of the US and coalition military fatalities that have occurred in Iraq since the onset, mapped across the dimensions of time and space. It is an ongoing project that is updated regularly, and will continue to go on as long as the war does. The animation runs at ten frames per second -one frame for each day- and a black dot indicates the geographic location that a coalition military fatality occurred. Each dot starts as a white flash and a larger red dot which fades to black over the span of 30 frames/day, and then slowly fades to grey over the span of the entire war. Accompanying the visual representation is a soft 'tic' sound for each fatality, the volume of which increases relative to the number of fatalities that emmineb Mon, 11 Dec 2006 08:09:11 GMT http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2005/01/glenn_reynolds_.html Glenn Reynolds laments that he's been wiki'ed with a truly bizarre Wikipedia entry on Instapundit. "WIKIPEDIA, and its trustworthiness, has become a topic of considerable discussion," he writes. Indeed, it should be -- this whole Wiki-thang has been a bit Arthur 2 (i.e., "on the rocks") for a while. Eugene Volokh and Orin Kerr have been quite right in their criticisms (even though it seems that Volokh's Wikipedia entry is at least tentatively grounded in fact.) Moreover, adding to the confusion and potential for bias is the fact that you're able to write your own entry. The entry on LGF, for instance, was written by LGF's own Charles Johnson. [see Seigenthaler] emmineb Fri, 02 Nov 2007 08:57:13 GMT http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/04/gaza200804?printable=true&currentPage=all After failing to anticipate Hamas’s victory over Fatah in the 2006 Palestinian election, the White House cooked up yet another scandalously covert and self-defeating Middle East debacle: part Iran-contra, part Bay of Pigs. With confidential documents, corroborated by outraged former and current U.S. officials, David Rose reveals how President Bush, Condoleezza Rice, and Deputy National-Security Adviser Elliott Abrams backed an armed force under Fatah strongman Muhammad Dahlan, touching off a bloody civil war in Gaza and leaving Hamas stronger than ever. emmineb Fri, 07 Mar 2008 10:19:39 GMT http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=142383 In the ruined city of Fallujah, its pale tan buildings pulverized by Marine artillery in the two great assaults of this long war (the aborted attack of March 2004 and then the bloody, triumphant al-Fajr (The Dawn) campaign of the following November), behind the lines of giant sandbags and concrete T-walls and barbed wire that surrounded the tiny beleaguered American outpost there, I sat in my body armor and Kevlar helmet and thought of George F. Kennan. Not the grand old man of American diplomacy, the ninety-eight-year-old Father of Containment who, listening to the war drums beat from a Washington nursing home in the fall of 2002, had uttered the prophetic words above. I was thinking of an earlier Kennan, the brilliant and ambitious young diplomat who duri emmineb Fri, 15 Dec 2006 20:31:29 GMT http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=87452 emmineb Sun, 11 Jun 2006 09:05:09 GMT http://www.d-n-i.net/fcs/pdf/kilcullen_28_articles.pdf emmineb Fri, 02 Jun 2006 07:41:42 GMT