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Tag Archives: West
Armies of the Obsolete
Light and infrared targeting devices for games. (Photo by Rob Stradling | website) Al Qaeda technicians have apparently pioneered the use of electronics in old SEGA game cartridges for bomb detonators. A smaller precedent than the use of the airliner … Continue reading
Posted in Lee's Page, Military Matters, Technology
Tagged 1990s, al Qaeda, cartridge games, CDR, compact discs, Culture, Earth, electronics, energy, engineering, engines, environmental, extraterrestrial civilizations, games, geology, Greeks, human civilization, infrared targeting, laser guided munitions, light guns, media storage, military technology, modernity, oil, petroleum, physics, post-vietnam, resources, Rob Stradling, science, security threats, SEGA, slave labor, Stephen Hawking, Technology, technology transfer, Terrorism, Transportation, West, Yemen
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Black Signs at the Exhibition
The IMF has come through for Georgia in an enormous way, approving a $750 million credit line for the beleaguered republic. Beyond the much needed aid, it’s a powerful political reminder for Russia of the gargantuan economic advantage the West … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign affairs, Lee's Page, Media
Tagged Atrocity Exhibition, Ballard, Ballardian, competitive advantage, complex interdependence, credit, Domestic Politics, English, Georgia, IMF, industry, JG Ballard, Johanna Neuman, markets, Media, mercantile, military, power, productivity, Russia, sensationalism, SOS Georgia, Wall Street Journal, West
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Blameless are the Bellicose?
(photo: Pavel Trebukov | blog) From the gang who brought you the “because Georgia has invaded its own country we had to attack” rationale for the South Ossetian War, Poland has now apparently “made itself a target” for Russian nuclear … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign affairs
Tagged advocacy, attack, ballistic, ballistic missiles, borders, Boris Yeltsin, frontier war, Georgia, ICBM, international relations, invasion, Iran, militarism, missile defense, nmd, nuclear, nuclear strike, Pavel Trebukov, Poland, propaganda, republics, salvo, security policy, South Ossetia, strike, target, targets, vanity, West
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Estonia: Get Georgia and Ukraine in NATO Now
Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves says the West must act fast: “They should take Ukraine immediately into NATO, and what is left of Georgia,” he told Reuters by telephone, adding that a decision this year not to give the two … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign affairs, Lee's Page
Tagged Black Sea, Estonia, fleet, Georgia, NATO, Sevastopol, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, Ukraine, Victor Yushchenko, war, West
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Purely a Mission of Peace
Expanding their economic target list in defiance of their own stated strategic rationales, Russia bombs the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline, the Caspian oil artery to the West.
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan, Caspian, economic, pipeline, Russia, West
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