Monday, November 4, 2013

bits of news

Bits of news:
**--- Doctors and nurses working under US military orders have been complicit in the abuse of terrorism suspects, a new independent US report says.
Sorta like military chaplains, I imagine.

**--- The White House and top US lawmakers have rejected clemency for the fugitive intelligence analyst Edward Snowden.
"Mr Snowden violated US law. He should return to the US and face justice," said White House adviser Dan Pfeiffer.
Mr Snowden asked for international help to persuade the US to drop spying charges against him in a letter given to a German politician.
I guess it would be too bitter a pill to admit that Snowden or Bradley/Chelsea Manning had opened a serious conversation in defense of the nation.
**--- Lockheed Martin has begun work on a successor to the supersonic Blackbird SR-71 spy plane.
The unmanned SR-72 will use an engine that combines a turbine and a ramjet to reach its top speed of Mach 6 - about 3,600mph (5,800km/h).
The SR-71 cost about $34 million per plane. How many schools is that? Or should the question be laid aside as pussy liberalism in the terrorist pursuit of terrorist defenses?

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Liu Bolin, a Chinese artist, blends himself into the background in front of a shelf lined with comic books as part of a series of performances in Caracas, November 2, 2013. Liu, known as "the invisible man" for using painted-on camouflage to blend into the backdrops of his photographs, will be performing in Caracas till November 6.
REUTERS/Jorge Silva

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